Unreasonable demand for Special category status

Eligibility set by  Planning Commission for special category status
1. hilly and difficult terrain,
2. low population density, 
3.sizeable share of the population as tribals,
4. strategic location along borders,
5. economic and infrastructural backwardness,
6. and non-viable nature of state finances.

While the first and third are geographic factors, others are socio-economic factors. 
-Governance failure,corruption, social inequalities etc cant be reasons to claim special category status.
-Granting tax breaks and more funds when the structural problems are not addressed will accentuate these problems instead of solving them.
-Also this will be a blot on federalism as other well performing states will be denied their share of central revenues.
-While there is no doubt that governance is getting better in Bihar since 2006, and the effects of 50 years for mal-governance has to be remedied, Bihar should get help from centre and other well performing states(eg-health sector of tn,PDS of chattisgarh) to reform its administration
-Finally asking people to observe bandh will result in economic loss to the state rather than bettering the economy of the state.

Why we blame only the government and police??

#About the video shared as "delhi police brutaity"

I wish to begin by mentioning that i m n no way justifying the brutality..but lets think a moment..Sex determination and selective abortion of female foetus cannot be done without the connivance of doctors..yet we dont say "doctors brutality", There are lot of teachers who mistreat and misbehave their students, yet we dont say "teachers brutality", There are lot of  corporate companies which evade taxes, follow unethical business practices, compromise the quality of even life saving drugs(pharma company ranbaxy) yet we dont say "corporate brutality".I can add engineers, lawyers and every damn profession in this list. But when it comes to blaming the politicians are bueuracracy we use words like "dirty politics", "corrupt bueraucracy" etc as if every single person in this profession is corrupt...

There are corrupt people in every profession..each one of us is corrupt to a particular extent.Lets remember that we are able to sleep peacefully because there are honest police men who patrol in the streets round the clock sacrificing their sleeps.

I try my best to ignore AAP but couldnt..because the "delhi police brutality" video ended with a small propaganda for AAP.. When I was in delhi during 2011 Delhi high court blast, i received a message from team anna that "bomb blasts happen because of the apathy and connivance of corrupt police officers"..after the delhi december 17 gang rape incident, the AAP poster said "keep voting for the corrupt, women will keep getting raped"..Ending corruption may be a sensible goal but this absurdity has gone to the extent of linking each and every problem to corruption..

The example of height of this absurdity is -to blame only every politicians and government as corrupt as if we are ultra clean..

The brutality done by 2 men in uniform,if true, must be condemned. Further, its serious because the protectors of people themselves have become perpetrators of a crime.
 While blaming them on one side, I wish the same people to also remember hundreds of honest police officers and every men-in-uniform in the armed forces and paramilitary forces on Republic Day...

Please read the link below to know more
http://nitinagokhale.blogspot.in/2014/01/iaf-indian-army-bravehearts-awarded.html

Jai Hind

Police-under State or Centre?

The debate whether the centre should control the police or state should control the police is ridiculous...only if the police force is insulated from the unwarranted influences of the government in power, they can work better. The supreme court has laid down this guideline far back in 2006.

The judgment had said, "Security Commission in every state to ensure that the state government does not exercise unwarranted influence or pressure on the state police and for laying down the broad policy guidelines so that the state police always acts according to the laws of the land and the Constitution of the country."

In total SC laid down 7 guidelines to ensure the effective functioning of police..(the PIL was put by Mr.Prakash Singh a retired IPS officer)

Noone other than a few rallied behing MR.Prakash singh, noone cared for 6 years why SC guidelines were not implemented(which implies contempt of court), even during the december 16 gangrape incident, noone talked abt police reforms, even at that time the Delhi police was under the control of centre..now suddenly everybody has woken up from slumber..

Police can function better only if the governments in power dont use it as their private army..it doesnt matter whether centre controls it or the state..

##if you need a reform demand it holistically and selflessly, not because your lawminister's batman avatar failed miserably. I hope Christopher Nolan forgives you....
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The 7 SC guidelines are as follows
Directive One
Constitute a State Security Commission (SSC) to:
(i) Ensure that the state government does not exercise unwarranted influence or pressure on
the police
(ii) Lay down broad policy guideline and
(iii) Evaluate the performance of the state police

Directive Two
Ensure that the DGP is appointed through merit based transparent process and secure a
minimum tenure of two years

Directive Three
Ensure that other police officers on operational duties (including Superintendents of Police
in-charge of a district and Station House Officers in-charge of a police station) are also
provided a minimum tenure of two years

Directive Four
Separate the investigation and law and order functions of the police..

Directive Five
Set up a Police Establishment Board (PEB) to decide transfers, postings, promotions and other
service related matters of police officers of and below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of
Police and make recommendations on postings and transfers above the rank of Deputy
Superintendent of Police

Directive Six
Set up a Police Complaints Authority (PCA) at  state level to inquire into public complaints
against police officers of and above the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police in cases of
serious misconduct, including custodial death, grievous hurt, or rape in police custody and at
district levels to inquire into public complaints against the police personnel below the rank of
Deputy Superintendent of Police in cases of serious misconduct 

Directive Seven
Set up a National Security Commission (NSC)  at the union level to prepare a panel for
selection and placement of Chiefs of the Central Police Organisations (CPO) with a minimum
tenure of two years.

What Ambedkar would have felt on Lokpal Bill

In his last speech to the Constituent Assembly—delivered on November 25, 1949—Ambedkar issued three warnings that are compellingly relevant to the predicament that the nation finds itself in today. In the First warning, he urged his compatriots to “abandon the bloody methods of revolution”. In the circumstances of colonial rule, there were grounds for taking to the streets to protest, and even perhaps to use violence. But with the coming of a free, sovereign and democratic republic, wrote Ambedkar, “there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us”

‪#‎Lokpal‬ bill was passed today after street protests led by Kisan Baburao Hazare....

Cleansing our Streets

Removing caste names from the streets is not going to remove caste, then why should we remove caste names? the logic sounds good. Rationally nothing is going to remove casteism from our brains unless we remove it. but does it mean we should allow caste to flow in our streets?
I could only remember the CBI director's statement about Rape.." it is like you can't prevent rape, enjoy it. It's better to legalize it and earn revenue" 
There is still a regressive practice in our society where a lower caste person cannot wear slippers while entering the streets of upper caste hindus. by identifying a particular street with a caste name, it is only reinforcing this practice in a modern form.True, even education institutions and marraige halls which are named after persons have their caste name tagged to it.even that should be removed. Cleansing our streets is the first step for that. 

But still Pasumpon muthuramalinga (thevar) street stands out as an exception.Demands to wipe off the caste name unfortunately has taken a caste angle.If every other leader were deprived of their caste name from the streets why should muthuramalinga street given an exception? Is it not the arrogance of this particular caste group which is preventing a positive step? Why do people look at this issue as anti-thevar or pro-dalit issue instead of looking it as anti-caste issue?

Yes, by removing caste name, caste is not going to be removed from society..
by changing your name as monkey wont convert a human to monkey..so why dont we name your child as monkey??any takers??? 

வில்லு தான... போயிட்டு போது...என்னமோ விக்கெட் போன மாதிரி பீல் பண்றீங்க

வறுமை காரணமாக , வில்வித்தை வீராங்கனை நிஷா ராணி தத்தா, உலகத்தரம் வாய்ந்த தனது "வில்லை' விற்ற சம்பவம் அதிர்ச்சியை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளது. இது துரதிருஷ்டவசமானது என, விளையாட்டு அமைச்சர் அஜய் மேகன் தெரிவித்தார்.
ஜார்க்கண்டின் ஜாம்ஷெட்பூர் மாவட்டத்தின், பத்மடா கிராமத்தை சேர்ந்தவர் நிஷா ராணி தத்தா, 21. டாடா வில்வித்தை அகாடமியில் பயிற்சி பெற்ற இவர், பாங்காங்க் கிராண்ட் பிரிக்சில் நடந்த சர்வதேச வில்வித்தை போட்டியில், இந்தியா சார்பில் தங்கம் வென்றுள்ளார். வறுமை காரணமாக போதிய பண வசதி இல்லாததால், வில்வித்தையில் இருந்து ஒதுங்கி, இயல்பு வாழ்க்கைக்கு திரும்பினார்.
இதனிடையே, நிஷா ராணியின் வீட்டினை பழுது பார்க்க பணம் தேவைப்பட்டது. இதற்காக, வில்வித்தை போட்டிக்கு பயன்படுத்தப்படும், உலகத்தரம் வாய்ந்த ரூ. 4 லட்சம் மதிப்புள்ள, தனது வில் மற்றும் அம்புகளை இவர் விற்ற செய்தி இப்போது தெரிய வந்துள்ளது.
இதுகுறித்து மத்திய விளையாட்டு அமைச்சர் அஜய் மேகன் கூறியது:
வறுமையால் இப்படி நடந்ததுள்ளது என்பது மிகவும் துரதிருஷ்டவசமானது. இந்திய விளையாட்டு ஆணையம் (எஸ்.ஏ.ஐ.,) மூலமாகத்தான் இந்த செய்தி தெரியவந்தது. அவருக்கு தேவையான அனைத்து உதவிகளையும் செய்யத்தயராக உள்ளோம். மாநில அரசுகள் இவ்விஷயத்தில் அக்கறை எடுத்துக் கொண்டு செயல்பட வேண்டும்.
வீரர், வீராங்கனைக்குத் தேவையான நிதி ஆதாரங்களுக்கு போதிய வேலை வாய்ப்புகள் தரவேண்டும். ஏதோ ஒரு காரணத்துக்காக தேசிய அல்லது சர்வதேச அளவிலான போட்டிகளில் பங்கேற்க முடியவில்லை என்றாலும், வாழ்க்கை நடத்த உத்தரவாதம் கொடுக்க வேண்டும். இவர்களை புறக்கணிக்கக் கூடாது.
இவ்வாறு அஜய் மேகன் கூறினார்.


Succumbing to abject poverty, the Bangkok Grand Prix medallist Dutta sold her archery equipment that costs Rs 4 lakh.

"It's an unfortunate incident. The incident has come to my knowledge through the Sports Authority of India. We would extend all kind of help to the athlete," Maken told reporters on the sidelines of the closing ceremony of the 60th All India Police Games (Wrestling Cluster) in New Delhi.

"The state governments should make efforts to give employment to such athletes who need financial help. The players who, for some reasons, have failed to make it to the national or international level, the state governments should ensure that they also get the employment and don't feel neglected," Maken added.

A world-class bow cost more than Rs one lakh and Rs 20,000 for a quiver of 20 arrows.
The 21-year-old from Pathmada village in the Jamshedpur district of Jharkhand had been trained by Tata Archery Academy and won gold medal at international archery championships, but discontinued the sport because of poverty.

Asked about the two Indian wrestlers qualifying for the London Olympics, Maken said, "I am confident that we would win more medals this time than the Beijing Olympics."

"The way our athletes are qualifying for the Olympics, we are hopeful of performing well in the London Games. It was always our aim to qualify for the London Games in maximum numbers than the Beijing Olympics.

"Last Olympics, around 56 athletes had qualified for the Beijing Games and this time, with our Hockey team already qualifying for the London Games that consists of 16 players, we are confident that at least 80 athletes will qualify for the London Games," he said.

gnani's 16 questions

16 questions to Jayalalitha posed by tamil writer Gnani Sankaran -

1. from 31% the contribution of electricity production in Japan by Nuclear Power Units is down to 2%, because he government of Japan had shut down 52 nuclear power plants and the remaining 2 are may be shut down in May. do you know the reasons for the same?
2. are you aware that there have been 200 accidents in the Kalpakkam atomic power plant and one of them was very nearly catastrophic
3. the former Russian President Gorbachev has stated more than 2000 people died of the Chernobyl disaster, however our former President Kalam claims that only 57 people died in this accident (in his bid to promote the Atomic power plant in Koodankulam), do you know what is true
4. while the Adayar Cancer Institute in Chennai has listed ‘radiation’ as one of the causes for cancer, the director of this institution, Dr. Shantha, appears on television advertisements placed by Atomic Energy Commission to claim that radiation doesn’t cause cancer, do you know what is the truth behind this
5. the former head of atomic energy commission India, M.R.Srinivasan claims that at the time of choosing the Koodankulam site for the atomic power plant, the place looked like a desert and there was no habitation around, if this were true, the thousands of people who have been living there and who have been leading the protest must be a mirage of some kind, do you if they are for true
6. the atomic energy commission of India has been revising its claims of electricity generation every five years but has never been able to deliver the promised amount of electricity in the last forty years. they have produced less than 5% of the promised electricity thus far. are you aware of this?
7. no atomic power plant in India can claim to be producing more than 50% of its capacity and the 30 year old Kalpakkam achieved this landmark only in the last years, are you aware of this?
8. if Koodankulam goes operational immediately also, it cannot generate electricity till August and even then it can only generate 40% of its promised 1000 MW and of this 400MW, about 48 MW will be consumed by the plant itself and of the remaining 352 MW, 70 MW will go in transmission losses and of the remaining 282 MW even if Narayanaswami (the Minister of State at the PMs office from Pondicherry who has been leading the government’s tirade against the anti-Nuclear plant activists) prevails, Tamilnadu may get only about 140 MW (against the current shortfall of over 1000MW for the state), are you aware of this?
9. Kalpakkam atomic power plant was affected not just during the tsunami, but, also during the recent Thane cyclone. are you aware of it? there is a recent publication of an volcano near Kalpakkam and the atomic energy commission is unaware of this, do you know about this?
10. do you know that the atomic energy commission made claims that no tsunami or cyclone can affect Kudankulam and Kalpakkam and after the occurrence of the tsunami (2004) it has revised this claim to ‘no tsunami over 9 mts will occur’, are you aware of such revised prediction?
11. the Russian company that has built the atomic power plant in Koodankulam has enquiries being carried out against it in that country for poor quality work and corruption. are you aware of this?
12. if there is a major accident in Kalpakkam, it could potentially destroy Poes Garden (where the residence of Jayalalitha is based in Chennai), Gopalapuram (where Karunanidhi, the ex-CM lives) and Pondicherry. similarly, if any accident takes place in Kudankulam, much of southern Tamilnadu and parts of Kerala too can be completely wiped out. are you aware of this?
13. are you aware that no where in the world insurance companies provide insurance cover for atomic power plant accidents though they provide cover for all kinds of man-made and natural calamities from air plane crash to natural death, why do you think they don’t?
14. the former head of the atomic regulation authority of India and an atomic scientist Gopalakrishnan has stated that the regulation authority has less power and influence than the atomic energy commission and it is unable to get the information required for doing its duty, do you know this?
15. though your government placed in the floor of the assembly a suggestion that ‘if more than a crore filament bulbs across the state were to be replaced by CFL bulbs, about 500MW electricity can be saved’, so far this has not been executed by your govt. authorities. do you know why it has not been executed till now?
16. the two ‘expert’ committees set-up by the central government and your state government respectively, have refused to meet with the scientists who are protesting against the atomic power plant, do you know why this is so?