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#236 From: shahbaz ansari <bollywoodforu@...>
Date:: Tue Nov 1, 2005 1:12 pm
Subject:: HAPPY DEEWALI
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#235 From: Rajesh Jha <kjrajesh@...>
Date:: Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:05 pm
Subject:: VERDICT ON BIHAR By Rajinder Puri
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VERDICT ON BIHAR By Rajinder Puri
Statesman, October 19,2005

The Supreme Court ruling on the Bihar assembly dissolution is of such momentous import as to lay the foundation for an Indian revolution. Revolution does not mean of course extolling Mao and killing small landlords or ill-paid policemen in remote villages. Nor does revolution mean dreaming of a Hindu-dominated world while killing defenceless Muslims. India's revolution will come when laws are not broken but observed. When the State does not unleash violence but curbs it. When our Constitution is not flouted but respected. And when by bringing in such changes, the corrupt, callow and cruel elite that rules us is either reformed beyond recognition or removed from power. The recent Supreme Court judgment gives promise of precisely such a revolution. The Constitution has at last tripped the liars and deceivers who for half a century habitually distorted it.

Initial reaction
The initial reactions of opposition leaders and media pundits to the Supreme Court judgment were pathetic. Mr George Fernandes sought a court case against Governor Buta Singh. Mr LK Advani by some esoteric logic considered home minister Shivraj Patil singularly responsible for the dissolution. Doubtless Mr Patil was flattered by being vested with such heavy responsibility. Mr Vajpayee's customary wisdom punctuated by pregnant pauses was replaced by a barren silence.
Only belatedly did NDA leaders make muffled demands for the PM's resignation. But most critics focused on Mr Buta Singh. As a Dalit not famed for probity and with sons Lovely and Sweetie flanking him, he makes a comfortable target to flay. He is quite unlike Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who has impeccable Oxford credentials. Dr Singh thought nothing of accepting appointment as Prime Minister by the Dynasty's current incumbent instead of insisting on a prior electoral endorsement by the Congress parliamentary party.
But then he was the same gentleman who thought nothing of making a false affidavit claiming he was a permanent resident of Assam in order to get elected to the Rajya Sabha, wasn't he? When icons of middle class morality expose their hypocrisy it's our tradition to look the other way.
Media pundits and legal luminaries all solemnly affirm that the President can return an advice by the cabinet for reconsideration. But if it comes back to him after reconsideration he must act by it. They never clarify whether the President should honour his oath to preserve and protect the Constitution if offered unconstitutional advice by the cabinet. Even a distinguished legal luminary like Soli Sorabji seemed to indicate on TV that the President eventually is bound by the cabinet's advice. If so, the President must resign to honour his oath, shouldn't he? Is that what our legal luminaries believe? As this column indicated on an earlier occasion, one can dump the so-called wisdom of experts in the trash can. The Indian Constitution is written and explicit. Ignore the debates of the Constituent Assembly or which legal expert said what and where. Only Supreme Court judgments, however flawed and mediocre, remain relevant. Like bad decisions by cricket umpires, the flawed judgments by judges must be accepted till reversed or overtaken by subsequent rulings of the courts themselves. Fortunately this does happen sometimes.

Full judgment
The government seeks time till the full judgment is made available. It is obviously attempting to brazen through the crisis. The diversion caused by the earthquake and the uncommonly kind media reactions help it. Indira Gandhi in her day also sought time to study the Allahabad High Court judgment. She ended up by imposing a cowardly, fraudulent Emergency. This time a repeat performance seems unlikely. The judgment cannot be brushed under the carpet. And its implications are so unique as to create an unimagined situation. That's why there is potential for revolution.
One columnist has demanded that the President should resign for signing an unconstitutional order. Others think that the Prime Minister should resign because the President is bound by the advice of the cabinet. Most people of course think that Buta Singh should resign. His eventual transfer from Bihar would satisfy them. The truth is, and this is what makes the situation unique, Buta Singh should be sacked because of a partisan and fraudulent Governor's report. The PM and cabinet should be sacked for endorsing that report and hustling it through in circumstances suggesting conspiracy and malafide intent. And the President should resign because he failed to apply his mind and safeguard the Constitution which he is under oath to protect. But how can all this come about? By a simple process which if followed would convert our present political system into a presidential form of government without violating any norm of the Constitution.
There are two alternative scenarios that could be enacted. First, President Kalam could sack the cabinet. Then on the reasonable plea that ideological diversity gives promise only of a government based on an opportunistic alliance without stability, he could dissolve Parliament and order a fresh poll. Then, and only then, might he accept his moral responsibility of not applying his mind and resign from his post. The alternative and easier course would be for the President to brief the Vice President, Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, before accepting his responsibility and tendering his resignation. Mr Shekhawat as the acting President would be fully empowered to do the rest. Mr Shekhawat as a veteran political warhorse is more than capable of bold action.
The result of these exertions would be that a new President would have to be elected when there is no House. Clearly, the new President would be elected by the new MPs. In that event ideally the election of MPs and the President should be simultaneous. But even if that does not happen, the President's election would come on the heels of the mid-term parliamentary poll. That would allow presidential candidates to throw their hats in the ring. Since their electoral fortunes would hinge on the parliamentary poll, these candidates could not only forge alliances with parties for future support but could actually travel across the country to campaign for their future supporters. In that event people when voting for the MP would also know which presidential candidate they vote for.

Basic structure
Abracadabra! Without violating the basic structure of the Constitution, the President would have been elected directly by the people. Subsequently Parliament could amend the law to give fixed terms to legislatures and make polls to parliament, assemblies and the Presidency simultaneous. Already a sizable section of opinion within parliament favours fixed terms. And till 1967 parliamentary and assembly elections were indeed held simultaneously.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court judgment and with the President assuming responsibility, a fresh look at his powers would become imperative. Indeed a fresh look at the Constitution might be undertaken. The President upon resigning after the Supreme Court judgment would already be perceived as the one assuming ultimate responsibility for protecting the Constitution. If elected in the manner suggested he would also be seen as the heaviest and most legitimate political authority by the people. There are more than enough powers for the President in the Constitution even as it exists to convert the present system into a Presidential form of government if the President was to exercise those powers.
Constitutions are not scraps of dry text. They contain the law and practice by which societies are ruled. They evolve with history and experience. If India seeks good governance it must inevitably adopt a presidential system to acquire national coherence. At the same time, it must introduce much deeper devolution of power to make democracy and self-rule meaningful for the people. As a multi-lingual, multi-ethnic, multi-religious subcontinent only a genuinely federal democracy can keep India united and strong.
The recent Supreme Court judgment provides an opportunity for such change. Will the nation seize it?


#234 From: Rajesh Jha <kjrajesh@...>
Date:: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:06 pm
Subject:: Bihar most corrupt state, Kerala least, shows study
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Bihar most corrupt state, Kerala least, shows study
Posted online: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at 0019 hours IST
 
NEW DELHI, OCT 18:  The composite ranking of states in petty corruption cases involving common citizens and in the 11 public services, Kerala stands as the least corrupt state while Bihar tops the list, according to global organisation Transparency International's annual 'corruption perceptions' index released on Tuesday,.
 
Jammu and Kashmir has been ranked the second most corrupt state while Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Assam are also badly afflicted with the problem. Delhi stands 10th in the list.

The study said all services in Bihar are ranked as the most corrupt in the country. Except hospitals, all services in Jammu and Kashmir are also corrupt while in Madhya Pradesh, municipal services are ranked relatively better.

In Karnataka services like income-tax, judiciary, municipalities figure among the top corrupt services in the country while in Rajasthan judiciary (lower) ranks among the less corrupt services.

In Assam, police and electricity figure as the most corrupt services.

In Himachal Pradesh, most services are ranked as relatively less corrupt.

Gujarat is ranked as less corrupt in comparison to others .

In Tamil Nadu, schools, hospitals, income-tax and municipalities rank among the most corrupt department.

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#233 From: vagish Jha <vagishkj@...>
Date:: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:22 am
Subject:: Bar girls returning home to Biharfrom Mumbai.
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Bar girls returning home to Bihar from Mumbai
Supriya Sharma
(NDTV News)
Saturday, October 15, 2005 (Sasaram):


Even as Sasaram in Bihar gears up for the polls and the festive
season, the latest buzz seems to be that of the bar girls who are
returning home from Mumbai.

The young girls, who had moved to Mumbai in search of a living, have
been forced to return home after the dance bars shut down.

Survival has clearly become a struggle for these girls, with one of
them telling NDTV she was forced to switch to doing mujras.

"I could earn barely Rs 30 a day with the mujras. It was not enough to
pay the rent, bear the other expenses and send money home. So I had to
come back," she said.

The girl added that back in their home state, some of them were
invited for dance shows during Dusshera and Diwali celebration. But
that too helped them earn as little as Rs 1500 a night, to be shared
by the entire group.

Some of the girls say they are more concerned about the loss of their
freedom, than the fall in their income.

"In Bihar we live under pressure and fear. One cannot refuse dance
shows, there could be repercussions. But in Mumbai noone could force
us to work," a bar girl said.

The bar girls are just a more visible face of Bihar's migrant labour,
lakhs of whom are forced to leave their homes in search for work. But
while they may have had to return home for want of an alternative,
they seem happy at the prospect of being able to cast their votes in
the upcoming elections.

#232 From: "mais" <fly_to_dreams@...>
Date:: Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:41 pm
Subject:: What Is Ramadan..
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I send you today a good article. It could be new and adds to your knowledge.

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What Is Ramadan

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Every day during
this month, Muslims around the world spend the daylight hours in a complete
fast.
During the blessed month of Ramadan, Muslims all over the world abstain
from food, drink, and other physical needs during the daylight hours. As a
time to purify the soul, refocus attention on God, and practice
self-sacrifice, Ramadan is much more than just not eating and drinking.

Muslims are called upon to use this month to re-evaluate their lives in
light of Islamic guidance. We are to make peace with those who have wronged
us, strengthen ties with family and friends, do away with bad habits --
essentially to clean up our lives, our thoughts, and our feelings. The
Arabic word for "fasting" (sawm)literally means "to refrain" - and it means
not only refraining from food and drink, but from evil actions, thoughts,
and words.

During Ramadan, every part of the body must be restrained. The tongue must
be restrained from backbiting and gossip. The eyes must restrain themselves
from looking at unlawful things. The hand must not touch or take anything
that does not belong to it. The ears must refrain from listening to idle
talk or obscene words. The feet must refrain from going to sinful places.
In such a way, every part of the body observes the fast.

Therefore, fasting is not merely physical, but is rather the total
commitment of the person's body and soul to the spirit of the fast. Ramadan
is a time to practice self-restraint; a time to cleanse the body and soul
from impurities and re-focus one's self on the worship of God.

More Ramadan FAQs

http://islam.about.com/od/ramadan/f/ramadan_faq.htm


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#231 From: vagish Jha <vagishkj@...>
Date:: Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:09 am
Subject:: Andhi Gali mein masiha kee Khoj by Arun K Tripathy, Hindustan 13th Oct.2005
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A perceptive article by Arun Kumar Tripathy on Bihar carried in Hindustan, 13th October 2005.
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#229 From: vagish Jha <vagishkj@...>
Date:: Sat Oct 8, 2005 2:02 pm
Subject:: Indian 'child genius' beats the odds
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Indian 'child genius' beats the odds  
By Amarnath Tewary
BBC correspondent in Patna  


A 12-year-old boy from India's poorest and most lawless state, Bihar, is celebrating being named India smartest kid after winning a nationally televised quiz.
 
Poor download times and power cuts did not deter Shubham Subham Prakhar won the title of "India's Child Genius" after several rounds of stiff competition between some 16,000 schoolchildren.

Both of his parents are currently unemployed and Subham had to depend on generous relatives and the internet to gain access to the books he needed to prepare for the competition.

Besides a glass trophy, an Encyclopaedia Britannica CD-rom and a pair of gold and silver pens, Shubham won a cash prize of one million rupees ($22,200).

Murders and kidnaps
Shubham Prakhar lives in the northern district of Muzaffarpur in Bihar - a state where police estimate that a murder takes place every four hours, a woman is raped every six hours, and kidnappings
are a daily occurrence.  Muzaffarpur is considered to be the crime capital of the state.

He is an eighth-grade student in an area where kidnappings of schoolchildren for ransom is routine.

"We wish to send our only child to some other schools in Delhi as the situation here is frightening and not conducive," say his parents, Kumar Nawin and Archana Kumari.

  It was a 10-month-long process running in 27 episodes to choose India's first child genius Siddhartha Basu Quiz show host  "But we can't do it as money has always been a problem."

The couple started a computer institute but were forced to wind it up in 1998 "as it failed to bring profit". Rent provided by tenants has allowed them to keep living in the ancestral home in Muzaffarpur while they devote their time to their only son.
They got him his first computer when he was in the first grade and "since then he has been operating it like a true professional", says his mother, who trained as a computer engineer in Ukraine.

Beating the odds Shubham had won every competition he entered before applying to take part in India's most prestigious and popular brain game show. He struggled hard to download the application form in a town in which the internet connection trips every few minutes and there are frequent power cuts.  
Despite being unemployed his parents have stood by him "I've never stood second in life and that's how I wanted to be," he says.

But he faced an uphill task in his latest challenge.

Contestants were required to be in the age group of 10-13, with an overall average of at least 80% in school tests and examinations over the past two academic years. The top percentile of applicants from four regional zones were invited for a written entry test. Among 16,000 students Shubham topped the written test by "a substantial margin", says competition host Siddhartha Basu.

Telephone interviews and more tests helped organisers whittle the 320 contestants down to 60.

Just 18 contestants took part in the final, which was televised nationally on the Star World television channel last week. "It was a 10-month-long process running in 27 episodes to choose India's first child genius," says Mr Basu.

Family support

Shubham's family say living in a small town like Muzaffarpur has its limitations. "But we managed through somehow with all our family effort," says his grandmother, Jayanti Devi, an economics professor.

Shubham prepared for up to 12 hours a day during his holidays, and five or six hours while at school.

"I read 70 books, including classics, between April and August - but not a single question was asked on them in the final," he says.
 
 I'm just proud of my home state which of course has recently earned bad name for some wrong reasons
Shubham Prakhar  
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the Charles Dickens classics, A Tale of two cities and David Copperfield, were among his favourite reads.

"I like stories written in [the classical style], but these days
good classics are difficult to find."

Shubham's teachers say he is an extraordinary talent who is the pride of their school. "Shubham is just an amazing blend of genius and talent. If everything goes right in future he will be a real treasure for India," says Manish Kumar, who has been teaching him for the past three years.

A fan of Bollywood stars Shahrukh Khan and Preity Zinta, Shubham also loves to play and watch cricket along with other boys his age. He dreams of becoming a professor of computer or mechanical
engineering to "serve his state and country". "I'm just proud of my home state - which of course has recently earned a bad name for some wrong reasons - but I'd love to do something for it," promises Shubham.

#228 From: Rajesh Jha <kjrajesh@...>
Date:: Thu Oct 6, 2005 5:15 pm
Subject:: UPA unveils Common Minimum Programme for Bihar
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UPA unveils Common Minimum Programme for Bihar

October 05, 2005 03:59 IST

Promising a slew of sops for the minorities, including jobs for dalit Muslims, Rashtriya Janata Dal-led United Progressive Alliance's Common Minimum Programme for Bihar elections laid stress on infrastructure and social sector development and pledged to check corruption in high places.

The CMP, released jointly by RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Congress in-charge of Bihar Digvijay Singh and Nationalist Congress Party General Secretary Tariq Anwar, focused on social engineering, the hallmark of RJD supremo, as it promised to work for job reservations for dalit Muslims, quotas for them in government, non-government and government-aided technical institutions and even favoured job quotas for poor among the upper castes.

The document vowed to check corruption in high places.

It said the chief minister, ministers and legislators will disclose their assets, which would be tabled on the floor of the House. The members will be asked to furnish revised statements on their assets at the beginning of every year.

The CMP assured to take effective steps for getting approval of the Centre to Bihar government's proposal to include backward Kahar, Karmkar, Nonia, Bind, Mallah, Rajbhar, Turha, Barhai and Kamar castes in the scheduled caste category and also to work for designating Tanti, Nai and Kanu castes as schedule castes.

Following the inclusion of these castes in the scheduled castes bracket, the job quota for SC would be enhanced so that those already getting benefits are not deprived of these, it said.

The CMP promised to enact suitable laws for prompt payment of compensation to victims of communal riots and their rehabilitation, besides raising an anti-riot police force.

It assured appointment of teachers of Arabic and Persian in all schools, colleges and universities and Urdu translators and typists in block, sub-divisional and district offices. A sub-inspector having knowledge of the language will be posted at every police station.

The CMP promised salaries and other benefits to madarsa and Sanskrit school teachers on par with state government employee and provision of loans upto Rs five lakh to the youth belonging to the minorities through the minorities financial corporation.

It vowed to maintain communal harmony and warned of action against those who tried to disturb it.

Pledging to work for infrastructure development, the UPA's document promised total rural electrification by year 2009 and free electricity to SC/ST households living below poverty line.

Stating that the power plants at Nabinagar, Barh and Biht would become operational by year 2010, it said Kanti and Barauni thermal power stations would be modernised and expanded by 2008.

It said the work on 250 km of roads under golden quadrilateral project and 550 km under East-West corridor project would be completed in a year.

All villages having a population of 1000 would be connected with all-weather roads by 2009 and those with population of 50 by 2011.

Top priority would be accorded to tackling flood for which the negotiations were continuing between the UPA government at the Centre and the government of Nepal, it said.


#227 From: Rajesh Jha <kjrajesh@...>
Date:: Thu Oct 6, 2005 1:40 am
Subject:: Rs 20,000-cr road plan for Bihar
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Rs 20,000-cr road plan for Bihar
MAHENDRA KUMAR SINGH

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, OCTOBER 03, 2005 01:02:39 AM ]
 
 
NEW DELHI: In a move to give a push to infrastructure in the backward state of Bihar, the Centre has initiated an ambitious Rs 20,000-crore road development project.

To be implemented under the aegis of the Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojna, the project involves repair and construction of more than 2000 km of two-lane state highways. The precarious condition of state highways has brought economic activity in the state to a virtual halt.

According to sources in CPWD, which is handling the project, the project will be jointly implemented by the Union road and surface transport ministry and the Bihar government. However, it will be fully funded by the Central government. Total estimated cost of the project, to be completed simultaneously in 20 packages, is Rs 20,000 crore.

In the proposal, the major beneficiary districts will be Rohtas (303 km), West Champaran (154 km), East Champaran (98 km) and Purnia (91 km). Other districts to be covered are Siwan and Jahanabad (54 km each), Bhagalpur (48 km), Nawada (45 km) and Saharsa (43 km). Yet, there are other backward districts which have been left out.

"CPWD consultancy services has already started work on the project. Detailed project report will be ready within six to eight months. If things move as per schedule, tenders will be floated by May-June 2006 and actual work will start by September-October next year," said an official

#226 From: vagish Jha <vagishkj@...>
Date:: Wed Oct 5, 2005 10:51 am
Subject:: Most illiterates in UP, Bihar
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Most illiterates in UP, Bihar
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 05, 2005 12:08:12 AM  ]

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are in close  contest to be the most illiterate state of the country. Together the two states  account for 61 (40%) of the 150 low literacy districts in the country.UP with 31  districts and Bihar with 30 districts top the chart.

The rest of the  low literacy districts are spread over Jharkhand (13), Rajasthan (11), Orissa  (10), Madhya Pradesh (9), Andhra Pradesh and J&K (8 each), Arunachal Pradesh  (7), Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and West Bengal (4 each), Assam and Meghalaya (3  each), Gujarat and Nagaland (2 each), and Punjab (1).

These districts have become the focus of a special drive  by the HRD ministry. To begin with the ministry has sanctioned projects in  Rajasthan, Orissa, and Jharkhand. In the next two months, officials say, it  would sanction projects for 75% of the districts. "The remaining districts would  be taken up next year," one official said.

One of the measures to deal with rising illiteracy in  these districts is to share best practices in states which have been successful.  For instance, during the recent meeting of state education secretaries,  Karnataka made a presentation of its literacy programme called 'Kalika-Galika (Learn While You Earn)'.

The programme covered eight lakh illiterate women who were members of self-help groups. As a result of this programme, these women have started maintaining accounts and reading government notices.

The example from Rajasthan, says the HRD official, has been more successful. Last year, the state organised 10,786 female literacy camps of 15 days' duration. In these camps, women of a locality learnt primers.

"Since they were staying together, motivation was high and learning became easier. During these camps, a doctor was called to teach them about hygiene among women and children, a veterinary doctor taught them about animal husbandry," says the official.

In this programme, 2.68 lakh illiterate women were covered. So much so that in the next 'examination' conducted to gauge how much the people covered had learnt, out of the 93,130 candidates, 62,387 were women.  

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Date:: Sat Oct 1, 2005 12:01 pm
Subject:: memorendom by childrwn
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    Dear  Friends                  
  A Child leadership Training Camp was organized by Kissan Vikas Trust on 29th Sep,05 at Khagaria in which 114 children(boys & girls aged between 8-16yrs) participated and shared and vented out their plights and grief and out of the deliberations , a representation was handed over to  Mr.Satya Nararyan Madan ,Hon’ Vice-president Child Labour Commission Govt. of Bihar Patna.
Yours sincearly 
 Prabhat Kumar
 
 To,
 The Vice-President ,
 Child Labour Commission,
 Govt. of Bihar,
 Patna.    

   
Sub: Regarding liberation of children from child labour and other problems.
 
     Sir,
            We welcome you to the Child Leadership Training Camp. We children reside in villages. Our parents are poor. They earn by way of labour . The district of Khagaria is quite often affected by flood . Several blocks were flooded even this year.
    We learn that our country has the highest no. of child labourers. Only at the age of five children start working.
   Child labour is to be found in different hotels of Khagaria. They are found at the tea-stalls and in the bungalows of officers. We children are made to work from down to dusk. We are not allowed to sleep . Getting tired of work, when we are sloe at work , we are beaten up. You could find them in Motor Garages , Brick Factories, making cows and goats gaze. Carrying bricks and sand and also pulling rickshaws.
   You could also find children polishing and mending shoes as rag-pickers . They could be found collecting polythenes and plastics.
    On occasions of marriage or other functions childen could be seen eating the residual stuffs that are thrown away. This in include such children who have lost their near and dear ones, on account of devastations caused by flood and fire and are rendered orphans. Such children during their stay at Railway platforms pick up the habit of smoking and drinking alcohol . Some become addicts. You could find such children at Khagaria railway station and bus stand . If the orphan is a girl , she is sexually exploited by the truck drivers and others in the areas adjoining the National Highway.
   Last year the children of Primary schools appeared in the exams without books. This year too ,only two books are available .The government is unable to provide free of cost books.
              Although lunch is being provided in schools,there  are no books to read. The Annual exams would be held in December and we would be passed but would not acquire any knowledge.
 
            We reside at high places during floods. Schools are closed for complete three months. School buildings are damaged. Our condition during the crisis becomes acute and pathetic. Our studies are stopped. Infants scream for milk. In dearth of Cooking facilities , cereals soaked in water is fed to children . Scarcity of pure drinking water causes diarrhea . Diarrhea even leads to death of several children .
  A large no. of handicapped children are also their in Khagaria . Their condition is worst. There is no arrangement for their studies. They face immense difficulty in moving. We should take some initiatives for providing relief to such children .
              We are grief-stricken and dejected but have to bear everything. Our parents don’t get work. We are make both ends meet for our survival and so we are forced to work. Although we love to play and live with our family, but unable to afford.
  Could there be a way out, where girl children are stopped from being sexually exploited?
Could you pass on the message to the Bihar govt. so that children are provided books free of cost in the primary and middle schools?
Could the govt. keep in view the interest of children while framing relief-policies.
 We have been told during the Leadership Training the Child Labour is an offence and is prohibited by law, but it still exists. Who is to be blamed? Children….? Our parents….?officers……? Society…..? 
 
 Our Demands
1. Steps should be taken to put an end to the child labour prevalent in Khagaria .After liberating them their fooding and education must be guaranteed.
2. Minor girls being sexually exploited in areas adjoining National Highway should be stopped and their rehabilitation be initated forthwith.
3. Physically assault of children in school be stopped .
4. All books be made available in schools.
5. Child migration out of Khagaria for domestic works  of elite class be stopped .
6. Children residing at Railway Station, bus stand and orphan children be rehabilitated.
7. Children engaged in shoe making , bag stitching and tyre-tube repair be trained and arrangements of their education be made. As a grow adult they be given to choose their livelihood.
8. Institutions may be opened for the education and employment of handicapped .
9. Elders be provided employment opportunities so that children may not be forced to child labour on account of financial crisis.

 We children too want to contribute to the development of our country and society. We intend to become worth something. But this can only happen when we too are given the opportunities.
 s/d -Representatives of the Bal-Panchayat ,Khagaria Bihar   
 
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#224 From: "arvind koshal" <arvindkoshal@...>
Date:: Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:53 am
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Dear friends,
Sorry I forgot to attach the programme. I am forwarding info on a seminar.
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>Dear Mr. Koshal,
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>As advised Mr. Raveendranathan, President,
>Jansanskriti, I am forwarding herewith a programme
>notice on National Seminar to be held on Saturday, the
>1st October from 10.30 a.m. onwards at Dy. Speaker's
>Hall, Constitution Club.
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>You may like to attend the same along with as many as
>of your friends.
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>With regards,
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>Note: forwarded message attached.
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#223 From: "arvind koshal" <arvindkoshal@...>
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Dear friends,
I am forwarding info on a seminar.
Arvind Koshal



>From: Balan Damodaran <balan_peedee@...>
>To: arvindkoshal@...
>Subject: Fwd: Seminar - 01st October 2005
>Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:58:20 -0700 (PDT)
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Dear Mr. Koshal,

As advised Mr. Raveendranathan, President,
Jansanskriti, I am forwarding herewith a programme
notice on National Seminar to be held on Saturday, the
1st October from 10.30 a.m. onwards at Dy. Speaker's
Hall, Constitution Club.

You may like to attend the same along with as many as
of your friends.

With regards,
P.D. Balan

Note: forwarded message attached.

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Of poor Gujarat and rich Bihar
CHANDRA SHEKHAR
Posted online: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 0003 hours IST
(Financial Express)

NEW DELHI, SEPT 19:  India's poorest district is neither in Orissa nor in Bihar. It is Dangs in rich Gujarat. The state has two more districts that figure in the list of the 20 poorest districts of the country.

Contrary to general perception, no district from Bihar finds a mention in the list. The list of twenty poorest districts includes six from Orissa, five from Jharkhand, three from Gujarat and Chhattisgarh each, two from Madhya Pradesh and one from Rajasthan.

According to a ranking of 447 districts based on the index of backwardness prepared by the Planning Commission, the second poorest district is Banswara (Rajasthan) followed by Jhabua (Madhya Pradesh). The index of backwardness incorporates the percentage of scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) population, agricultural wages and output per farm worker.

The ranking of districts assumes significance since it will help the government in identifying districts for implementing the rural employment guarantee scheme. The government proposes to implement the scheme in 200 districts in the first phase. The scheme, which seeks to provide 100 days of guaranteed employment to a family in a year, will gradually be extended to other districts.

#219 From: Rajesh Jha <kjrajesh@...>
Date:: Fri Sep 9, 2005 6:02 pm
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Representation and Empowerment, A field view on 2005 Bihar Assembly Elections, Rahul Ramagundam, Charkha Development Communication Network, New Delhi, May 2005, Price Rs. 50

#218 From: Rajesh Jha <kjrajesh@...>
Date:: Wed Sep 7, 2005 6:37 pm
Subject:: From robber barons to sugar barons
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From robber barons to sugar barons

SWAMINATHAN S ANKLESARIA AIYAR

[ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 03, 2005 11:08:11 PM ]


Bihar is among the poorest, most misgoverned states. More Plan funds or public sector projects are not re-medies. The st-ate was India's industrial heartland in the 1950s, boasting of the giant Tata complex at Jamshedpur and Dalmia-Jain complex at Rohtas. Bihar enjoyed massive public sector investment (Bokaro steel, Barauni refinery, Sindri and Barauni fertiliser plants, Heavy Engineering Corporation, Mining and Allied Machinery Corporation, coal mines).
Yet, it became mired in poverty and stagnation because of deplorable governance and weak institutions. No businessman invests in Bihar today because the investment climate is lousy. Public infrastructure does not work. Any successful businessman faces mafia extortion and kidnapping threats. The police cannot help, partly because the mafia are woven into the political fabric. There are criminals galore in the state legislature and cabinet.
Why do Bihari's elect mafia dons? Because the police-judicial system is useless, and offers no protection or redress. By contrast, the mafia system functions. Mafia bosses hold court and give verdicts that are obeyed instantly, since they are enforced with mafia guns. I was told during a visit to Bihar that even supposedly good politicians needed guns and militia for protection. Being law-abiding was not an option.
Life in Bihar is not rule-based: it depends on the whim of the powerful and moneyed, with caste-based armies prowling the land. Lalu Prasad did not create this misgovernance: it was created by countless upper-caste predecessors. Lalu's alternative was not good governance, but giving the spoils of misgovernance to Yadavs and Muslims. That formula has enabled him to win several elections.
He sneers that development does not win votes, caste does. Plan funds are routinely returned unspent to Delhi. Bureaucrats and teachers do not get paid, and so focus on ways to make money on the side. How can such a state be reformed? Additional Plan funds will not work. In theory, the Centre could impose a financial emergency, but this is unthinkable in an era of coalition governments dependent for survival on regional parties.
I see no easy way out. Harnessing rural communities for participatory development is a way forward, but the robber-barons of Bihar are uninterested. How, then, can we improve governance and institutions in a polity based on the spoils of misgovernance? One answer: make legitimate business politically and financially rewarding for the mafia than extortion.


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Date:: Thu Sep 1, 2005 10:34 pm
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good news but why these people don't give the name of the official who told this thing.

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>World Bank to invest $500 million in Bihar
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>Patna, August 31
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>The World Bank would invest $500 million in two years in Bihar on
>projects to improve livelihood opportunities for the poor, a
>government official said on Wednesday.
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>He said the bank would invest $100 million within one year and another
>$400 million in the next year on this project.
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>"This decision was finalised at a high-level meeting between top
>officials of the bank and state government here," the official said.
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>He said the decision was finalised after a series of meetings held
>over the past week.
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World Bank to invest $500 million in Bihar

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Patna, August 31

The World Bank would invest $500 million in two years in Bihar on
projects to improve livelihood opportunities for the poor, a
government official said on Wednesday.

He said the bank would invest $100 million within one year and another
$400 million in the next year on this project.

"This decision was finalised at a high-level meeting between top
officials of the bank and state government here," the official said.

He said the decision was finalised after a series of meetings held
over the past week.

"The Bihar government gave its nod for the bank's investment in the
state on Tuesday," the official said.

The project aims to build livelihood support organisations. It will
also finance livelihood business opportunities.

#215 From: Rajesh Jha <kjrajesh@...>
Date:: Thu Sep 1, 2005 4:09 am
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This is a list of articles/editorials appearing in EPW relating to Bihar from 1999 upto current date. It is available on the EPW website and the link to these articles is http://www.epw.org.in/bin/Search.php?sestart=10&seend=20&Search=BIHAR&tableName=1.
Rajesh



Bihar: More Turmoil  (EDITORIALS)

.......[2001-03-17]

BIHAR:New Panchayats and Subaltern Resurgence  (COMMENTARY)

The panchayat elections have seen the decisive emergence of the lower backward castes. Their presence in the power structure as mukhias and zilla parishad chairmen indicates that new social and political equations are emerging at the local level........[2001-07-21]

   --Shaibal Gupta

Bihar: Unpromising Unity  (EDITORIALS)

.......[2004-01-10]

Bihar Elections: Laloo against Who?  (COMMENTARY)

Although elections in Bihar are due shortly, not a single opponent seems capable of deconstructing the political game of Laloo Prasad Yadav. But if one of the most inefficient regimes that Bihar has ever known simply refuses to end, it is because no one really believes that other parties would make a difference........[2004-12-18]

   --Cyril Robin

BIHAR: Politics from Below  (COMMENTARY)

The 2004 Lok Sabha elections in Bihar replayed some earlier electoral patterns characteristic of the state. Thus, the contest was mainly between two social coalitions  the RJD alliance versus the JD(U) alliance  dominated by the more powerful backward castes of the state, while the upper caste parties, Congress and BJP, were reduced to playing the role of marginal allies. Moreover, these elections, like others in the last decade, were also decided largely by the Laloo factor, that is, the degree of support or opposition the RJD leader aroused in his state. However, the anti-Laloo vote could pose little challenge to the formidable alliance of castes (upper caste-yadav-Muslim) that Laloo Prasad was able to shape during the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections........[2004-12-18]

   --Muneshwar Yadav

Bihar Assembly Elections: RJD Needs an Alliance for Victory  (COMMENTARY)

Will the 2005 assembly elections in Bihar end the 15 years of Rashtriya Janata Dal misrule, or can the party win a fourth consecutive election? If the RJD manages to win next month, it will create history by winning four times in a row, a record next only to the Left Front in West Bengal........[2005-01-15]

   --Sanjay Kumar

Naxalbari: Between Past and Future  (COMMENTARY)

Naxalbari was a watershed in the recent history of India in more than one sense. Most of the progressive trends in social activism today can be traced indirectly to the issues raised by or associated with the Naxalite movement in 1960s. But a deep ideological crisis has overtaken the old strategy and tactics of the leadership and the crucial condition for the survival of the Naxalites is a new broad-based socialist movement with new organisational strategies, which would carry them forward into a wider political arena........[2002-06-01]

   --Sumanta Banerjee

Breaking the Deadlock: Land Reform Revisited  (COMMENTARY)

The regions with continuing peasant insurgencies are those with continuing land reform questions  Andhra Pradesh and Bihar in India, Nepal and the Philippines, for instance. While there may not be an overall coalition in favour of compulsory land redistribution, there is nonetheless a substantial opinion that something needs to be done about the inequities of existing landownership in these regions. The issues involved and a possible way to break the deadlock........[2002-06-29]

   --DN

Education: Tough Lessons  (EDITORIALS)

.......[2002-08-03]

Bihar: All-Round Chaos  (EDITORIALS)

.......[2003-01-11]

State Finances: Case for 'Financial Emergency'?  (EDITORIALS)

.......[2003-04-26]

Everyday Life of the Subaltern  (REVIEWS)

.......[2003-05-10]

   --Manish Kumar Thakur

Revisiting Agrarian Bihar  (REVIEWS)

.......[2003-06-07]

   --Surinder S Jodhka

Making Social Science Matter  I: How the Local State Works in Rural Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal  (SPECIAL ARTICLES)

Based on fieldwork in the rural areas of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, an attempt to probe the states efforts at improving the lot of the poor as well as aspects of participation, governance and political society. What is revealed is the complexity and divergence of state action  conflicts within and between different agencies of the state  as also the challenges posed to these agencies by civil and political society groups........[2003-06-14]

   --Stuart Corbridge

   --Glyn Williams

   --Manoj Srivastava

   --Rene Veron

Making Social Science Matter  II: How the Rural Poor See the State in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal  (SPECIAL ARTICLES)

The many challenges thrown up by the large inflow of foreign currency assets and the rapid build-up of foreign exchange reserves are not being faced frontally........[2003-06-21]

   --Manoj Srivastava

   --Stuart Corbridge

   --Glyn Williams

   --Rene Veron

Bihar: Class War Spreads to New Areas  (COMMENTARY)

A semi-feudal society like Bihar gives rise to ruthless oppression,violent revolts and resistance.Private senas flourish in the atmosphere of lawlessness.The cycle of violence and counterviolence continues........[2000-06-24]

   --Prakash Louis

Jharkhand: Numbers Game  (EDITORIALS)

.......[2000-09-23]

Bihar after Bifurcation: A Challenging Future  (COMMENTARY)

The bifurcation of Bihar has understandably added to the already widespread concern and anxiety over the future of the state.Bifurcation may provide a convenient news peg on which one can hang the whole question of Bihars future,but an informed discuss.......[2000-10-28]

   --Dipankar Bhattacharya

Caste and Agrarian Class: A View from Bihar  (SPECIAL ARTICLES)

The nexus that exists between class power and the state compounds the continuing oppression of the underclass in Bihar.State operations further perpetuate the connections between caste and class.Thus land reforms ostensibly designed to benefit the dis.......[2001-04-28]

   --Anand Chakravarti

Rural Income Distribution and Poverty in Bihar: Insights from Village Studies  (SPECIAL ARTICLES)

Rural poverty and income distribution were critically analysed based on an intensive survey (1996-97) in eight villages representing all agro-ecological regions of Bihar.Results indicated that income distribution was less unequal in technologically `deve.......[2000-12-30]

   --A Janaiah

   --Jawahar Thakur

   --Manikl Bose

   --Mahabub Hossain

Bihar: Shifting Alliances  (EDITORIALS)

.......[2000-01-22]

Jharkhand Movement and Parliamentary Elections  (COMMENTARY)

The increasing inroads that the BJP has made in south Bihar electorally is of grave significance,especially given that the idea of a separate state of Vananchal,the BJP`s election promise,is so removed from the tribals` concept of Jharkhand........[2000-01-29]

   --Alexius Ekka

Bihar: Making of a Panchayat Election  (COMMENTARY)

Apart from organising the electoral process,the state government has done little to facilitate broader democratic goals through the panchayat elections in the state.The political parties are equally apathetic towards promoting this objective.But the in.......[2001-05-12]

   --Mukul Sharma

Bihar: Panchayat Elections: Overcoming State`s Resistance  (COMMENTARY)

The panchayat elections,held after 20 years and a long court battle,may not immediately make a difference to the quality or nature of governance in the rural areas of the state.But in the interim there has been a change in the way people perceive devel.......[2001-05-19]

   --Girish Kumar

Sonmanki 'Mela': Preventing Erosion  (COMMENTARY)

Along the Kosi a village has decided to celebrate its vital links with the river through a newly organised 'mela'. This, the local people hope, will go some way towards controlling the increasing land erosion and the river's seasonal change of course........[2001-06-23]

   --Mukul Sharma

Small Cultivators in Bihar and New Technology: Choice or Compulsion?  (REVIEW OF AGRICULTURE)

In a scenario of unequal distribution of land and resources, the embrace of new technology by small cultivators deepens their dependence on those with economic, social and political power........[2002-03-30]

   --Kalpana Wilson

Election 1999: Bihar: Change of Course Indicated for RJD  (COMMENTARY)

The voters of Bihar expressed themselves against the political arrogance afflicting the state.Yet Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Laloo Prasad Yadav can still regain the confidence of the people of the state if he does some deep introspection and corrects him.......[1999-12-04]

   --Indu Sinha

Everyday Life of Musahars in North Bihar  (SPECIAL ARTICLES)

The musahars belong to the scheduled castes and populate several districts of north Bihar.How is this untouchable caste coping with the social and economic changes being forced on them? How are their own institutions engaging with the dominant discourse.......[1999-12-04]

   --Mukul

Electing Another People in Bihar  (COMMENTARY)

Bihars voters have annulled the obituaries that political commentators had written about Laloo Prasad Yadav.They have done so for several good reasons........[2000-02-26]

   --Arvind N Das

Bihar : Torn Red Flag  (COMMENTARY)

The CPI(M) has forsaken its old allies,the CPI,the RSP and the Forward Bloc,and spurned the company of the CPI(ML-Liberation).Thus it is a torn Red Flag that has been raised as the standard of the Left in the election in Bihar........[2000-02-12]

   --Arvind N Das

Shankarbigha Revisited  (COMMENTARY)

With the sharpening of the agrarian crisis,conventional caste relations are being assailed by the younger generation who are aserting themselves against oppression and exploitation.This has prompted systematic attempts by the upper castes to curb the em.......[2000-02-12]

   --Prakash Louis

Politics: Picking the Leader  (EDITORIALS)

.......[2000-03-04]

Fractured Mandate for Social Change in Bihar  (COMMENTARY)

Though politicians continued with caste equations and commentators relied on exit polls and such,the voters of Bihar let it be known that they wanted change.In the recent assembly elections they have not given any party a majority........[2000-03-18]

   --Prakash Louis

Fighting the Dhanbad Mafia: Life and Death of Gurudas Chatterjee  (COMMENTARY)

Frustrated with the ineffectiveness,and worse,of government agencies,Gurudas Chatterjee started intervening directly in the affairs of the mafia by rousing the people against them.He stopped illegal coal trading and got two top mafia leaders arrested........[2000-05-13]

   --AK Roy

Bihar: Beyond Caste  (EDITORIALS)

.......[2000-06-17]

Bihar : Wages of Vote-Bank Politics  (COMMENTARY)

Rule of law can be established only when laws are seen to be strictly enforced and the guilty brought to book expeditiously.This will not happen so long as vote-bank politics continues to rule the roost.There can be no better proof of this than Bihar wi.......[2000-07-01]

   --JV Deshpande

Bihar:Fratricidal Politics  (EDITORIALS)

.......[1999-02-06]

Bihar: Opportunist Politics  (EDITORIALS)

.......[1999-02-13]

Bihar: Unrealistic Solutions  (EDITORIALS)

.......[1999-03-27]

Bihar: Emerging Forces  (LETTERS)

.......[1999-04-03]

   --Vasant Kale

Populist Slogans and Manipulative Politics  (EDITORIALS)

.......[1999-04-17]

Flood Protection That Never Was: Case of Mahananda Basin of North Bihar  (SPECIAL ARTICLES)

The Mahananda Flood Control Scheme (MFCS) is a case of a solution being worse than the problem it is designed to solve.Embankments under the MFCS have created a problem of waterlogging which damages crops, and the residents have no option but to breach t.......[1999-07-17]

   --DineshKumar Mishra

Bihar: Lok Sabha Election:: Playing the Semi-Finals  (COMMENTARY)

This election in Bihar is unique in more ways than one.The rapidly changing political equations have finally given way to the bipolar contests between the two main coalitions: the Congress, the CPI(M) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal as one pole and the BJP.......[1999-09-17]

   --Indu Sinha

Bihar: Churning without Change  (EDITORIALS)

.......[1999-09-25]

The Election: To Vote or Not: At Gunpoint  (EDITORIALS)

.......[1999-10-09]

Elections 1999: Bihar: Too Hasty a Requiem for Laloo Yadav  (COMMENTARY)

A closer scrutiny of election results in Bihar reveals that RJD`s defeat was prompted more by alliance arithmetic forged by the BJP-Samata-JD(U) combine than by dynamics of politics.Small and marginal shifts on the ground and a higher degree of `unity` a.......[1999-10-30]

   --Uttam Sengupta



#214 From: Rajesh Jha <kjrajesh@...>
Date:: Wed Aug 31, 2005 6:39 pm
Subject:: Bihar Farm trebles its Yield
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Turning a new leaf


Bihar Farm Trebles its Yield
Indian Express, 31 Aug. 2005



 
 
Posted online: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 at 0210 hours IST

PALIGANJ (PATNA), AUGUST 30: When members of the Technology Information Forecasting Assessment Council (TIFAC) asked Deolila Singh (50) to adopt a new method of cultivating paddy, the traditional farmer was apprehensive.

In 2003, Singh was not ready to experiment with his only source of income—a modest tract of land in this central Bihar hamlet. A year later, he had mustered the courage to try the new way on a small portion of his 20 acres. The results left him dazed.



''I couldn't believe it. The yield was almost double my expectation,'' he said. This year Singh has adopted the new method on his entire holding.

Farming has been revolutionised in at least 56 villages in and around Paliganj where this scientific method is being implemented.The food grain yield here was low despite the region being well-irrigated by the Sone river. But after the new method was adopted, production has more than doubled, from 2 tonnes per hectare to 5.8 tonnes.

In 1999, TIFAC launched a project to improve productivity of cereals, pulses, oilseeds and even encourage farmers in Bihar to grow fruits and vegetables. Even President A P J Abdul Kalam has visited twice to urge farmers to adopt the new techniques.

Traditionally, farmers would use 25 kg to 30 kg of paddy seeds to obtain saplings for transplanting in a one-acre area. In the new method, saplings from 3 to 5 kg of seeds are enough to cover an acre.
Field assistant Shyam Sundar Sinha explains that farmers are now using a maximum of two paddy plants instead of the previous five to seven plants during transplantation.

 
How revolution
was achieved
   
''After 10-15 days, one or two saplings tailor out into 30-35 saplings as they receive good air, water and sunlight. As a bonus, farmers save not only on seeds but also on fertilisers. So the use of fertilisers has also been drastically reduced,'' he says.

''The higher yield is also due to better quality seeds,'' adds B.P.Sinha, a resource person for the organisation.

For both paddy and wheat, good quality seeds are arranged by the organisation from Indian Agricultural Research Institute at Karnal on a cost-to-cost basis.

A group of farmers from Paliganj has even been trained at Karnal to produce quality seeds. A cooperative has been formed and a seed processing machine installed. The cooperative buys seeds from the local farmers and processes them to get quality seeds. ''We want the farmers to be fully independent so that we can move into newer areas,'' says Sinha.

The experiment does not end here. A more advanced system, which will further multiply production of paddy, has also been put into use from 2004.


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Date:: Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:12 am
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Rivers threaten to seal longest bridge fate


Ruchir Kumar And Vijay Swaroop

Patna, August 29, 2005
(Hindustan Times, August 30, 2005)
Asia's longest road bridge, the Mahatma Gandhi Setu, is under threat from the Ganga and Gandak rivers.

Scientists say the two rivers have radically altered their course over the years and now meet near the Setu, exerting pressure on the pillars. The pressure is so great and sudden that the 7.5-km bridge — the main artery that connects north and south Bihar — could be knocked down any time, they say.

The Hindustan Times has satellite images of 2001 and 2004 that show the altered course of both the rivers (see graphic). The Gandak has moved eastwards and the Ganga further north. As is evident from the images, Ganga's two streams — the main south stream near Patna and the north stream near Hajipur — have shifted drastically.

A research scientist with the Bihar Remote Sensing Application Centre says, "In 2001, the gap between the two streams was 1,242 metres. This decreased to 497 metres in 2003. Satellite images of 2004 now show the two streams as one."

The two streams of the Ganga have exerted pressure on the Gandak. "The meeting point of the Ganga and Gandak has now shifted 2,700 metres downstream," he says.

The threat to the Setu is for real, say experts. "The Gandak has become thrice as strong and is now exerting tremendous pressure on the northern pillars of the Setu," says a scientist.

It doesn't end at that. "The northern pillars of the Setu, which now stand on land, will turn into river pillars and will be submerged during floods."


#211 From: vagish Jha <vagishkj@...>
Date:: Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:16 pm
Subject:: Resource Directory for Bihar
vagishkjha
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 Many thanks to Dinesh Mishrajee for supplying the list of books which indeed is invaluable for any one who wants to work on Bihar. Here, I add a few more  references  to add to the  resoruce  directory  for Bihar.
Vagish K Jha

List of Books related to Bihar

  1. Anand, Mulk Raj (1984) Madhubani Painting, Publications Division, New Delhi

  2. Benipuri, Rambriksh, Vidyapati ki Padawali, Pustak Bhandar, Patna

  3. Chaudhary, VCP (1964) The creation of modern Bihar, Yugeshwar Prakashan, Patna

  4. Chaudhary, R. (1976) The Mithila in the age of Vidyapati, Chaukhambha Orientalia

  5. Chaudhary, R. (1976) A survey of Maithili Literature

  6. Chaudhury, P.C. Roy (1964) Darbhanga District Gazetteer, Secretariat Press, Patna.

  7. The comprehensive History of Bihar, Vol-I, (1974), KP Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna

  8. The comprehensive History of Bihar, Vol-III,(1976), KP Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna

  9. Diwakar, RR (ed) (2001) Bihar through the ages, Orient Longman

  10. Grierson, George (1975), Bihar Peasant Life, Cosmo Publications

  11. Grierson, George (1903), Linguistic Survey of India, Vol-V, Motilal Banarsidas.

  12. Henningham, Stephen (1982) Peasant Movements in Colonial India, North Bihar 1917-1942, Australian National University Printing, Canberra

  13. Jha, Hetukar (1997), A land called Mithila, Seminar, No. 450, February 1997

  14. Jha, Hetukar (2003), Bihari Deshbhavna, Kitna Sach, in Bihar Ki Virasat Edited by Shivdayal, Sarokar, Patna.

  15. Jha, JC, (1991) Migration and Achievements of Mithila Panditas (800-1947 AD), Janaki Prakashan, Patna

  16. Kumar, N. (1971), Journalism in Bihar, Govt. of Bihar

  17. Mishra, Jayakanta (1976), History of Maithili Literature, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi

  18. Narayan, Shovna (1999), Dance Legacy of Patliputra, Publications Division

  19. Pandey, Mithila Sharan, The Historical Geography and Topography of Bihar, Motilal Banarsidas

  20. Pandey, SN, (1975) Education and Social Changes in Bihar, Motilal Banarsidas

  21. Perspective Plan of Industrial development of Bihar 1979-80 to 1988-89, National Council of Applied Economic Research, (NCAER), New Delhi

  22. Sahay Shivpujan and Bajrang Verma (ed) (1963) Hindi Sahitya aur Bihar, Part-I-II, Bihar Rashtra Bhasha Parishad

  23. Sahay, Shivpujan (1996) Hindi Bhasha aur Sahitya, Acharya Shivpujan Sahay Memorial Trust.

  24. Singh, Dhirendranath (1986), Adhunik Hindi ke vikas mein Khadgavilas Press Ki Bhumika, Bihar Rashtra Bhasha Parishad, Patna

  25. Singh, KS (2003), People of India, Oxford, New Delhi

  26. Singh, KS and Manoharan S (1997), Languge and Scripts, Oxford, New Delhi

  27. Singh, Shankardayal (ed.) (1995) Bihar: Ek Sanskritik Vaibhav, Diamond Pocket Books, New Delhi

  28. Sinha, Mahesh Kumar (2001) Bihar ki Natkiya Lokvidhayen, Bihar Hindi Granth Akademi, Patna

  29. Sinha, Sachchidananda (1944), Some eminent Bihar Contemporaries, Himalaya Publications, Patna

  30. Thakur, Upendra (1988), Histroy of Mithila ( from the Earliest times to 1556 AD), Mithila Institute, Darbhanga

  31. Tiwari, Hanskumar and Verma, Bajrang (ed.) (1976) Hindi Sahitya aur Bihar, Part-III, 1851-1900, Bihar Rashtra Bhasha Parishad, Patna

Select Angika Literature

  1. Chakor, Naresh Pandey (1999), Angika Andolan Ka Itihas, Shekhar Prakashan, Patna

  2. Chaudhary, Abhay Kant and Chakor, Naresh Pandey (1977, 2002) Angika Sahitya Ka Itihas, Shekhar Prakashan, Patna

  3. Chaudhary, Abhay Kant and Chakor, Naresh Pandey (1981) Angika Mein Alankar, Shekhar Prakashan, Patna

  4. Kushwaha, Tejnarayan (1994) Angika, Sampoorna Bhasha, Sampoorna Sahitya, Shekhar Prakashan, Patna

  5. Kushwaha, Tejnarayan (1997) Angika, Bhasha ka Itihas, Hindi Akademi, Hyderabad.

  6. Mahesh, Maheshwari Singh, (1960) Angika Bhasha aur Sahitya, in Panchadas Lokbhasha Nibandhawali, Bihar Rashtra Bhasha Parishad, Patna.

  7. Pandey, Vaidya Nath and Radhavallabh Sharma (1969) Angika Sanskar Geet, Bihar Rashtra Bhasha Parishad, Patna.

  8. Samir, Doman Sahu, Kushwaha, Tejnarayan and Amarendra (1998), Angika Sahitya kero Itihas, Hindi Akademi, Hyderabad.

  9. Samir, Doman Sahu (1997), Angika Hindi Shabdakosh, Hindi Akademi, Hyderabad.

  10. Samir, Doman Sahu (1998) Angika Vyakaran, Hindi Akademi, Hyderabad.


( This list has been taken from the book Bihar In Messianic Times, Abhay Singh, (2005), Arnav Books, Bhagalpur)


#210 From: Manoj Mishra <manoj.oshine@...>
Date:: Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:08 am
Subject:: Re: Resource Directory for Bihar-Books
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Thanx Dinesh,for nice informations.I am doing my PhD at National Brain Research Centre and always keen to know more about Bihar nad eager to do something on that front too. 

Janmastmi ki hardik subhkamnayen!!!!!

May Lord Krishna,the blue boy of Vrindaban!shower all his blessing to you;that will certainly bring peace,happiness,courage and all scintillating qualities to go ahead with pace in your life.
 Hare Krishna



#209 From: "Dinesh Kumar Mishra" <dineshkmishra@...>
Date:: Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:25 pm
Subject:: Re: Resource Directory for Bihar-Books
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Dear All,

As suggested, I am enclosing a list of my books and articles for the Resource Directory.

Dinesh Kumar Mishra
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#208 From: "Kumar, Dalip" <dkumar@...>
Date:: Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:08 am
Subject:: Annual Conference of Economic Association of Bihar
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Dear Friends,
	  We hereby inform  you that the Annual Conference of  Economic
Association
	 of Bihar is scheduled in the last week of November  at Women's
College
	 ,Jamshedpur ,Jharkhand.
	  On behalf of the Economic Association  of Bihar , I would like to
request
	 you to provide us a paper  for the attachment themes. Details of the
	 conference attached.
	  <<Bihar-Folder-2005.doc>>
	  With kind Regards
	  Dalip Kumar
	  Managing Editor
	  Economic Journal of Bihar.

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Date:: Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:40 am
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