Tuesday, December 1, 2009

[ZESTCaste] Eminent Ambedkarite Poet Hon. B. Kashinand honoured by Jeewak Special Award (LOK-KAVI) on November 24, 2009

Eminent Ambedkarite Poet Hon. B. Kashinand honoured by Jeewak Special
Award (LOK-KAVI) on November 24, 2009
                     Eminent poet & Singer Hon. B Kashinand, who has given many
Ambedkarite & Budha's songs to our society. B Kashinand is really dedicated
person & running near about 70 yrs. Due to his poor condition, nobody is taking
the importance of his literatures. When i came to know about him from Mr Amar
Ramteke ( AIR Officer), i was called the emergency meeting of Selection Committee
and honoured him by " Jeewak Special Award (Puaskar)" on November 24, 2009.
On that ocassion, Hon. B Kashinand found us very happy. Those, who are interested
to meet or co-operate him, they directly contact to him. His address is...
Pandharabodhi, Hingna Road, Nagpur.
                      With best compliments from :
Dr. Milind Jiwane


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[ZESTCaste] Speech on Constitutional Day of Dr Milind Jiwane on November 26, 2009 (India)

Constitutional Day celebrated at St. Paul Highschool & Jr. College, Nagpur
on November 26, 2009
                         The School Management of St Paul Highschool & Jr College has
organized  " Constitutional Day " on November 26, 2009. Because Dr B R Ambedkar
has handed over the " Constitution Of India " to the President of Free India on
November 26, 1949 and it was implemented from January 26, 1950 and the said
day is known as " Republic Day." Taking the importance of that day, the management
Committee has invited to Dr Milind Jiwane, Chairman of Civil Rights Protection Cell
& Mr Ashok Kolhatkar ( President of Labour Organization.)
                       With Best compliments From :
Rajabhau Tanksale
President of Management Committee


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[ZESTCaste] Buddha Dhamma Conference held at Sewagram, Wardha (India) on November 29, 2009

Buddha Dhamma Conference held at Sewagram, Wardha (India) on
November 29, 2009
                 Under control of Ven. Rajratna, The organizing Committee of Sewagram,
Wardha, wellknown Mahatma Gandhi district has organized " Buddha Dhamma
Conference" at Indutai Wankhede B Ed College, Wardha on November 29, 2009.
On that ocassion, following dignitaries were present.
Inauguration    : Ven. Sadanand Mahathero ( National President of Bhikku Sangh)
Chairperson    : Ven. Satyanand Thero (Amaravati)
Chief Guests  : Hon. E Z Khobragade, IAS
                       Dr. Milind Jiwane ( President of Ashwaghosh Buddhist Foundation)
                       Amar Ramteke ( Ambedkarite Drama Writer & Director)
                       Prof. Harish Kamble ( Thinker)
                       Rajratan Kumbhare ( Thinker)
                       Hon. Prakash Tagade ( Editor, Daily Yuwa Rashtra)
                       Prof. Pradip Agalawe ( Ambedkar Thoughts Dept) 


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[ZESTCaste] The march of English yields surprising losers

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7d02da88-dde6-11de-b8e2-00144feabdc0.html?catid=181&SID=google&nclick_check=1

The march of English yields surprising losers
By Michael Skapinker

Published: November 30 2009 19:52 | Last updated: November 30 2009 19:52

Anthony Bolton, veteran star stock-picker at Fidelity International,
is moving to Hong Kong to set up a China fund. He is following Michael
Geoghegan, HSBC's chief executive, who has already announced he is
moving from London to Hong Kong. "The centre of gravity is clearly
shifting," Mr Bolton says.

It certainly looks that way, although it is worth recalling that it
was not that long ago that Japan was tipped to be the new number one.
Economies have their ups and downs – look at Dubai.

What we can forecast with some confidence is that English will remain
the world's leading language for as long as anyone reading these words
is alive. Economies can tip into crisis, fund managers can switch
their investments at the click of a button and executives can relocate
to the other side of the world, but it takes a lot more to topple the
global language.

If Mandarin – or Spanish, or Arabic – is to replace English as the
world's lingua franca, children in São Paulo, St Petersburg and
Auckland had better start learning it now. Forget all those
advertisements promising you can learn a language in three months. You
can't. You may be able to summon up a few phrases. Perhaps you could
engage a taxi driver in a minute of conversation before you seize up.

There are many ways to learn a language, but they all require years of
graft, getting new words to stick, mastering grammatical forms and
endlessly watching television and films until the indistinguishable
babble separates itself into the odd word you recognise. It takes much
of a lifetime to master a language and the world's pilots, seafarers,
traders and academics have already devoted their best years to
learning English. They would not relish the prospect of starting out
again in, say, Portuguese or Hindi.

English will endure, but its predominance is throwing up some
surprising winners and losers. A British Council report, English Next
India (I hope the Council can find a way of punctuating that before it
comes out), says India may now have fewer English speakers than China.

This is an extraordinary outcome, given India's colonial past, the
fluent English of its cricketers and its profusion of call centres
providing train times and computer support to the English-speaking
world.

The report points to various reasons why India's English has fallen
behind China's. First, India's colonial heritage has left it with an
ambivalent attitude to English, along with a desire to preserve local
languages. Second, much Indian schooling is poor and the teaching of
English is often inadequate.

This year, the government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu asked the
British Council to test the English-speaking skills of a group of
primary teachers. The teachers had Bachelor of Arts degrees in
English, which meant they were above the average. Yet, while most were
able to make themselves understood, they made the sort of mistakes
that cause misunderstandings. Very few had reached the level of
English that would have allowed them to play an active role in a
business meeting or academic seminar.

No one is sure how many Indians speak English. In one survey, over a
third claimed to be able to. The consensus figure of those who really
do is 5 per cent, although the Indian National Knowledge Commission
this year put the proportion who speak it well at 1 per cent.

This is troubling because, the British Council report says, it is not
only technology and outsourcing workers who will need English. If
Indian tourism is to develop, taxi drivers and waiters will need it
too.

The suggestion that the number of English speakers in China is higher
than in India is an estimate, but it does indicate how much effort the
Chinese are putting into learning English and how serious China is
about becoming the world's leading economy. The report says that
China's government schools are better-equipped than India's.

The key for any country that wants its children to learn English, the
report says, is to start teaching them in the first years of primary
school, to teach at least part of the secondary school curriculum in
English and to provide some university courses in English or ensure
that students can read English-language text books.

As English continues to sweep the world, there could be another set of
losers: native English speakers. The rest of the world is not just
learning English. It is becoming multilingual. International companies
are already full of senior executives who manage in English, but speak
Italian or Spanish or Urdu too. Even if only 1 per cent of Indians
speak English well, that is still millions of bilingual or
multilingual people for native English speakers to compete with.

Mr Bolton is a talented stock-picker, but he does not speak Chinese.
Good luck to him.

Send your comments to michael.skapinker@ft.com


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[ZESTCaste] Fact-finding team seeks high level probe

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Fact-finding+team+seeks+high+level+probe&artid=e7JPwglCQUo=&SectionID=vBlkz7JCFvA=&MainSectionID=fyV9T2jIa4A=&SectionName=EL7znOtxBM3qzgMyXZKtxw==&SEO=

By M Rafi Ahmed
01 Dec 2009 03:01:00 AM IST

Fact-finding team seeks high level probe

COIMBATORE: Dalits continue to be the target of attack in different
forms from different sides. Here, a Dalit youth had to face the
onslaught of police personnel, who thrashed him at Mahalingapuram
police station in Pollachi causing injuries to him.
Detailing the sequence of events to `Express', A Kathir, executive
director of Madurai-based Evidence, an NGO championing the cause of
Dalits, said Rajamanickam (24), a painter by profession, was returning
home along with his friend Vadivel after their daily chores. Near
Mahalingapuram, one of them accidentally touched a two-wheeler parked
on the roadside which fell to the ground. While Vadivelu was trying to
lift it, a group of people nearby assaulted him. Scared, Rajamanickam
started to flee. But, a beat constable caught him after giving him a
chase.
The youth was later taken to Mahalingapuram police station where he
was allegedly beaten up by four police personnel, including inspector
Pitchaimuthu, using lathis. They also took the finger prints of the
youth besides calling him by his caste name. Rajamanickam was let off
after some of his friends intervened. Later, he was admitted to the
Pollachi government hospital and later to the Coimbatore Medical
College Hospital CMCH and then discharged.
Meanwhile, a fact-finding team from Evidence came to Pollachi and
conducted a study of the whole episode. Petitions were sent to
Director General of Police, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court and
District SP seeking action against the police personnel for their
violent act.
Following this, Mahalingapuram woman SI registered a case under
Section 323 IPC and Prevention of SC/ST Atrocities Act,1989 vide
Sections 3110 against four police personnel including the inspector.
However, the police filed a counter FIR against the victim under
non-bailable sections.
In its findings, the team wanted an high-ranking police official from
another district to conduct a detailed probe instead of Pollachi DSP,
who is now enquiring into the incident.


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[ZESTCaste] SC says no to Maya for memorial's maintenance work

 

http://www.ptinews.com/news/401732_SC-says-no-to-Maya-for-memorial-s-maintenance-work

SC says no to Maya for memorial's maintenance work

STAFF WRITER 12:2 HRS IST
New Delhi, Dec 1 (PTI) The Supreme Court today declined to grant any
relief to UP Chief Minister Mayawati for carrying out maintenance and
cleaning work at the Rs 2600 crore Ambedkar site in Lucknow.

Justice H S Bedi, who was heading the Bench, also at one stage
threatened to recuse from the matter after senior counsel Abhishek
Manu Singhvi pleaded that the matter be heard by a three-judge bench
that included Justice Aftab Alam.

The Bench also comprising Justice P S Thakur said the UP government's
plea for carrying out maintenance and cleaning work at the site to
mark Ambedkar's anniversary on December six cannot be entertained as
the petitioner Mithilesh Kumar Singh has not filed his response.

The apex court said that since the matter is being posted for hearing
to January 20, the UP government's plea cannot be entertained at this
stage and hence, has become infructuous.

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[ZESTCaste] CJI concerned over implementation of welfare schemes

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/CJI-concerned-over-implementation-of-welfare-schemes/articleshow/5285716.cms

CJI concerned over implementation of welfare schemes

TNN 1 December 2009, 04:54am IST

NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan on Monday expressed
concern over the implementation of welfare schemes for the unorganised
sector, saying that identification of beneficiaries was a big problem
in their implementation.

The CJI said the Unorganised Social Security Act, 2008, is an attempt
at governmental intervention for benefit of the vast workforce but
added that ensuring its good implementation would be a challenge. He
said the problem in government schemes was disbursal of funds as seen
in NREGS where wages meant for workers have been siphoned off by
intermediaries and corrupt officials.

He suggested that conferring benefits in cashless form and reliance of
UID would help curb corruption in government welfare schemes.

The CJI was speaking at the BR Ambedkar Foundation Lecture on
"constitutionalvalues and promotion of labour welfare". He lauded the
constitution framed by Ambedkar which he said had stood the test of
time, dwelling on the provisions for labour welfare in it.

The lecture was attended by union social justice minister Mukul Wasnik
and his deputy D Napoleon.

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[ZESTCaste] Panel pulls up Govt for withdrawing SC/ST, OBC Bill

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article57910.ece

Panel pulls up Govt for withdrawing SC/ST, OBC Bill

PTI

Criticising the Government for withdrawing the Scheduled Caste,
Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Class Bill 2004, a Parliamentary
panel has asked it to come up with a fresh bill on the subject.

The committee on the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes,
which submitted its report 'Situation arising out of the employment
secured on the basis of false caste certificates' to Lok Sabha on
Moday, has sought to know from the Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances and Pensions the reasons for the withdrawal of the bill.

"The committee has urged the government to withdraw the Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes Bill 2008, which replaced the earlier 2004
Bill and passed in Rajya Sabha in December 2008 without discussion,
keeping in view the anti-reservation provisions incorporated therein.

"The committee has recommended that the Government should come forward
with a fresh bill on the subject after consulting the committee,
National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Commission for STs."

In another observation regarding evolving a mechanism to monitor the
extent of benefits reaching the SC/ST population, it said, "The
ministry being the nodal ministry, should not limit its responsibility
only up to formulation of reservation policy at the Central level.

"But it should obtain information on the progress made in the
implementation of reservation policy in states in order to get a
reality check in the matter throughout the country."

The panel has also recommended the ministry to instruct all government
offices to bridge the time gap between the occurrence of vacancies and
filling them up by forward planning so that all the vacancies are
filled up as soon as they became due.

Further, the committee has said while undertaking special recruitment
drives, it should be strictly ensured that only genuine SC and ST
candidates are recruited.


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