50,000 youth in 24 naxal affected districts to get jobs under ROSHNI-Jairam
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Friday, June 7, 2013
A new skill development scheme called Roshni
07-June-2013 16:46 IST
50,000 youth in 24 naxal affected districts to get jobs under ROSHNI-Jairam
The Minister for Rural Development Shri Jairam Ramesh has launched a new skill development scheme called Roshni for rural youth from 24 most critical left-wing extremism affected districts in the country. Briefing the media here, Sh Ramesh said that the initiative aims at skilling and placement of fifty thousand youth from these districts. Six districts each from Jharkhand and Odisha, five from Chhattisgarh, two from Bihar and one each from Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra have been chosen for the scheme, which will be implemented at a cost of Rs 100 crore over the next three years. The Minister said, the projects shall be funded jointly by the central and state governments in the ratio of 75:25 and the national level agencies shall be designated to act as monitoring and coordinating agencies for Roshni. Shri Ramesh said that at least 50 percent of the candidates covered under the scheme shall be women and special efforts will be made to proactively cover Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups on a priority basis. He said, beneficiaries aged between 18-35 years with requisite aptitude depending upon the trade or job requirements are to be selected as per the Participatory Identification of Poor. Training will be imparted through public-private and public-public partnerships. Educational institutions, corporate entities, entities that train and place for improved public service delivery, commercial and not for profit training providers will be roped in for implementing this scheme. Sh Ramesh said that four training models with duration ranging from 3 months to one year shall be taken up to meet the diverse needs of youth depending on their entry level qualifications. (PIB)
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Landmine blast triggered by Maoist rebels
Feb 23, 2013 14:32 Moscow Time
Rebel attack in India: 8 police officers killed
At least eight people, including seven policemen, were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoist rebels in India's eastern state of Bihar, officials said Saturday.
The insurgents targeted a convoy on patrol in the district of Gaya, some 130 kilometres south of state capital Patna, on Friday. The district is a known rebel stronghold.
"Seven policemen and a village elder travelling in the jeep were killed in the attack," Mohammed Akhtar Hussain, district deputy police chief, said.
The rebels then looted the weapons of the slain policemen, while security forces launched search operations to track them down.
Maoist militants, who claim to be fighting for the rural poor, tribal people and the landless, operate in 13 of India's 29 states.
They usually target police and government installations. Indian leaders have described the left-wing insurgency as the greatest internal threat facing India.
Rebel attack in India: 8 police officers killed
Rebel attack in India: 8 police officers killed
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| Photo: EPA |
The insurgents targeted a convoy on patrol in the district of Gaya, some 130 kilometres south of state capital Patna, on Friday. The district is a known rebel stronghold.
"Seven policemen and a village elder travelling in the jeep were killed in the attack," Mohammed Akhtar Hussain, district deputy police chief, said.
The rebels then looted the weapons of the slain policemen, while security forces launched search operations to track them down.
Maoist militants, who claim to be fighting for the rural poor, tribal people and the landless, operate in 13 of India's 29 states.
They usually target police and government installations. Indian leaders have described the left-wing insurgency as the greatest internal threat facing India.
Rebel attack in India: 8 police officers killed
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Leftist author Dipankar Chakraborty passed away
His loss would be sorely felt in the movemental
Dipankar Chakraborty (1941-2013)//From Sanhati
January 29, 2013
Dipankar Chakraborty, leftist author and activist, and editor of the Bengali political magazine ‘Aneek’, passed away at 10.05 PM on 27th January, at his Teghoria residence in Kolkata following a cardiac arrest. He was one of the founder members of APDR (Association for Protection of Democratic Rights). At the time of death he was one of the Vice Presidents of APDR. Aneek was launched in 1964 and has been published uninterruptedly since; except for the 19 months when Chakraborty was in jail during the Emergency. He had been a dedicated supporter of and participant in peoples’ movements in West Bengal, while not holding back from criticizing what he felt were failings of these movements. His loss would be sorely felt in the movemental and intellectual space in Bengal.
Press Release from Aneek
Dipankar Chakroborty (71), the founder-editor of the independent Left journal, ANEEK, passed away on Sunday night. A cardiac patient, he had suffered respiratory problem last evening and died on the way to hospital. He is survived by his wife, son and daughter and grandchildren.
He was born in Dhaka in 1941 and grew up in Murshidabad after the partition. Educated in Baharampur and Kolkata, Chakroborty taught economics at Krishnanath college at Baharampur. he later settled in Kolkata.
A veteran of the Left movement since the sixties, he began publishing and editing ANEEK since 1964 when ruptures in the CPI on ideo-political issues led to first split and birth of the CPI(M).
In the wake of the Naxalbari uprising three years later that had triggered the second split and birth of the CPI(ML), Chakroborty did not join the new party. But he made ANEEK an independent forum for debates on contemporary communist movement, both national and international.
Under his stewardship, ANEEK has become one of the leading left periodical in Bengal and among the few ‘little magazines’ which have survived five decades against all odds. He himself was an accomplished political commentator and had several books to his credit. Chakroborty was jailed by the S.S Roy government during the Emergency. A life-long defender of human rights, he was also one of the founders of Association for Protection of Democratic Rights and its vice-president.
He was always active in the campaigns of release of political prisoners irrespective of the creed of the ruling parties and governments since the seventies. He stood by peoples’ movements and joined protests in their support despite his failng health– from Maruti to Nonadanga.
He was also one of the founders of Peoples’ Books Society, a major publication house and a enthusiast of Little Magazine movement in Bengal.
Noted novelist and activist Mahasveta Devi who knew Chakroborty closely expressed her ‘profound shock’. ” I am deeply grieved. It’s an irreplaceable loss for the human rights movement as well as for me,” the octogenarian writer said. Poet Sankhaya Ghosh, also mourned Chakroborty’s death. ” I feel like losing a near and dear one,” he said. (Courtesy:Sanhati)
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| In the photo above - Dipankar Chakrabarty (seated on the right) at a peoples’ hearing in Singur |
January 29, 2013
Dipankar Chakraborty, leftist author and activist, and editor of the Bengali political magazine ‘Aneek’, passed away at 10.05 PM on 27th January, at his Teghoria residence in Kolkata following a cardiac arrest. He was one of the founder members of APDR (Association for Protection of Democratic Rights). At the time of death he was one of the Vice Presidents of APDR. Aneek was launched in 1964 and has been published uninterruptedly since; except for the 19 months when Chakraborty was in jail during the Emergency. He had been a dedicated supporter of and participant in peoples’ movements in West Bengal, while not holding back from criticizing what he felt were failings of these movements. His loss would be sorely felt in the movemental and intellectual space in Bengal.
Press Release from Aneek
Dipankar Chakroborty (71), the founder-editor of the independent Left journal, ANEEK, passed away on Sunday night. A cardiac patient, he had suffered respiratory problem last evening and died on the way to hospital. He is survived by his wife, son and daughter and grandchildren.
He was born in Dhaka in 1941 and grew up in Murshidabad after the partition. Educated in Baharampur and Kolkata, Chakroborty taught economics at Krishnanath college at Baharampur. he later settled in Kolkata.
A veteran of the Left movement since the sixties, he began publishing and editing ANEEK since 1964 when ruptures in the CPI on ideo-political issues led to first split and birth of the CPI(M).
In the wake of the Naxalbari uprising three years later that had triggered the second split and birth of the CPI(ML), Chakroborty did not join the new party. But he made ANEEK an independent forum for debates on contemporary communist movement, both national and international.
Under his stewardship, ANEEK has become one of the leading left periodical in Bengal and among the few ‘little magazines’ which have survived five decades against all odds. He himself was an accomplished political commentator and had several books to his credit. Chakroborty was jailed by the S.S Roy government during the Emergency. A life-long defender of human rights, he was also one of the founders of Association for Protection of Democratic Rights and its vice-president.
He was always active in the campaigns of release of political prisoners irrespective of the creed of the ruling parties and governments since the seventies. He stood by peoples’ movements and joined protests in their support despite his failng health– from Maruti to Nonadanga.
He was also one of the founders of Peoples’ Books Society, a major publication house and a enthusiast of Little Magazine movement in Bengal.
Noted novelist and activist Mahasveta Devi who knew Chakroborty closely expressed her ‘profound shock’. ” I am deeply grieved. It’s an irreplaceable loss for the human rights movement as well as for me,” the octogenarian writer said. Poet Sankhaya Ghosh, also mourned Chakroborty’s death. ” I feel like losing a near and dear one,” he said. (Courtesy:Sanhati)
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Growing connection between two outlawed groups
Banned Islamic group and Maoists said to form allianceThey may be strange ideological bedfellows, but SIMI extremists and Maoist insurgents appear to be working together, according to Indian officials.
By Chandan Das for Khabar South Asia in Jamshedpur
January 05, 2013
The banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Maoist rebels have formed an alliance in the past four years, with SIMI financially aiding the Naxalite insurrection and even helping the rebels elude capture by government forces in 2012, West Bengal Director General of Police Naparajit Mukherjee said in an interview.
By Chandan Das for Khabar South Asia in Jamshedpur
January 05, 2013
The banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Maoist rebels have formed an alliance in the past four years, with SIMI financially aiding the Naxalite insurrection and even helping the rebels elude capture by government forces in 2012, West Bengal Director General of Police Naparajit Mukherjee said in an interview.
At a November meeting in New Delhi between Union Home Secretary R. K. Singh and chief secretaries and directors general of police from nine Indian states affected by the Maoist insurgency, Mukherjee became the first senior security official to bring the SIMI-Maoist connection out into the open and document it.
For four years, he told Khabar South Asia, Indian security services have been tracking and trying to foil a growing connection between the two outlawed groups, which have starkly different ideologies. Islamist extremists oppose secularism and wish to impose a strict interpretation of sharia law, while Maoism is atheistic and regards religion as a reactionary force.
"I have told the Union Home Secretary that several above-board groups owing allegiance to the Maoists have teamed up with certain elements of (SIMI) and are prompting the common people to revolt against the government," Mukherjee said.
He informed Singh and other officials who attended the meeting that SIMI was aiding the Maoists in at least three of West Bengal’s districts that border Bangladesh.
"Investigations by the police and intelligence agencies have revealed that while the SIMI has been successful in establishing a strong link with the Maoists in a number of states, the nexus is the strongest in West Bengal," Singh told Khabar. “As West Bengal shares a 4,095km-long border with Bangladesh, the logistics work fine for both banned outfits in this state."
SIMI and the Maoists (CPI) -- which formed in 2004 through the merger of two ultra-leftist groups, the People’s War Group and the Maoist Communist Centre – have been working together since 2008. Indian authorities first learned about the connection following the 2010 arrest in Karnataka state of a Dubai-based operative suspected of circulating counterfeit money in Karnataka and the neighboring state of Kerala, Mukherjee said.
In 2010, according to to R. K. Meena, Director of Naxal Management for the Ministry of Home Affairs, police in New Delhi arrested a suspected Kashmir-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative for allegedly trying to arrange alliance-building meetings between SIMI and leaders of the Maoist rebel group.
"During interrogation, [he] revealed that he was sent to India to try and pass on funds to the Maoists through the SIMI," Meena told Khabar.
"A HuJI (Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami) operative … who was also arrested by the police in the same year, also pled guilty that he had come from Kashmir to hold talks with the Maoists," he added.
Around that time, Indian police and paramilitary forces launched multiple operations aimed at crushing the Maoist movement, officials said. By early 2012, security forces had cornered the Naxalites, by cutting off their supplies of food, armaments and cash and forcing them to starve in their tropical forest hideaways.
But then SIMI intervened.
"It was at this crucial juncture that the SIMI activists stepped into the picture," Meena said. "As all the dedicated routes of the Maoists were blocked by the forces, stopping the arms and even food supplies to the rebels, the SIMI activists … extended a helping hand to the Naxalites by offering their international routes to smuggle in arms and ammunition from foreign sources." (Courtesy:Khabar South Asia)
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