The EBHLE Community project has been in the works for sometime now. We started acquiring land in January 2020. But COVID came in March 2020 and put a delay. Now finally, the project will take off this year. EBHLE Community project is about creating an Eco-sustainable space, in a rural setting, of like minded people with its 3 pillars of Learning, Livelihood and Governance. It can accommodate 80 families and 300 Learners in the age group of 4 to 16. By 16 years of age we expect the kids to be self-sufficient in learning with creative problem solving skills and thereafter be able to pursue further learning of their interest (not our interest) on their own. For families it's going to be an experience of living a self-sustainable lifestyle in Nature, with Nature for the betterment of humanity and our progeny. This might sound audacious and a fantasy.
The project has a 100 year vision.

Usually the Community Meets were only open to people who have lived at Sapna Ranch for the minimum of a week, have realized that going forward, this is how they want to live and made a commitment to be a part of the project.

However with the post COVID Era people's priorities have changed and more want to move out of the urban setting and pursue their interests in a healthy, nature friendly, rural setting with work from home capabilities. Sapna Ranch has 100 Mbps fiber connectivity for internet.

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At the recent police conference attended by PM Modi, Gadchiroli DIGP Sandip B. Patil claimed in a paper that 15 cultural and rights organisations are actually “active frontal organisations of Naxals." Behind this claim is little evidence. https://thewire.in/rights/maharashtra-top-cop-accuses-decades-old-cultural-rights-orgs-of-working-as-naxal-fronts 

In 2017, the artiste couple Shital Sathe and Sachin Mali publicly announced their decision to split from the cultural outfit, Kabir Kala Manch (KKM) after 15 years of association.

The artistes had claimed that they no longer wanted to be associated with an organisation that had “left-leaning politics”. Subsequently, the two started their own cultural group – Navayana Mahajalsa – aligning themselves with the visions of Ambedkar, Phule, and Shahu Maharaj. 

Five years later, despite their work and critical take on the Left movement, the Maharashtra state has classified Navayana Mahajalsa to be an “active Naxal frontal organisation”.

Meanwhile, B.D. Sharma, a retired IAS officer, and one of the key architects of the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act or PESA had worked among the Adivasis of Bastar until his death in 2015. Bharat Jan Andolan, an organisation founded by Sharma, has often been lauded for bringing the Fifth Schedule back on the national agenda and highlighting it as a vital instrument for the very survival of tribal people. 

Despite the work that Sharma and his organisation have done over several decades in the central India region, the Gadchiroli police have now termed the Bharat Jan Andolan an “active Naxal frontal organisation”.

The 15 organisations, including Bharat Jan Aandolan and Navyana Mahajalsa, are:

1. Samata Kala Manch,
2. Vidrohi Sanskrutik Chalval,
3. Republican Panthers Jatiantachi Chalwal,
4. Indian Association of Peoples Lawyers (IAPL),
5. Deshbhakti Yuva Manch,
6. Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR),
7. Chhatra Bharati Vidyarthi Sanghatana,
8. Stri Chetna Manch,
9. Jatiy Atyachar Virodhi Kruti Samiti,
10. Dandkaranya Adivasi Kisan Majdour Sangh (DAKMS),
11. Dandkaranya Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangh (DKAMS),
12. Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression, and
13. Committee for Relief of Political Prisoners.                                                 

       by Sukanya Shanta

       03/02/2023

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https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/extra-judicial-commissions-creating-false-narratives-around-2020-delhi-riots-central-government-to-delhi-high-court The affidavit dated September 19, 2022 was filed by the Centre in support of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking quashing of different reports prepared by the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Citizens and Lawyers Initiative on the Delhi Riots of 2020.

In the plea,  one Dharmesh Sharma  has stated that his family used to run a school in Delhi's Mustafabad area, which was burned down during the riots. He said that the reports published by the DMC as well as other organisations are biased and impede the due process of law. In its response, the Centre has said that the DMC report is not only without jurisdiction, but also 'fake', and has been engineered by people with 'oblique and extraneous motives'. With regard to other reports, the government said that they abrogate fair trial and should be declared non-est so that they are not relied upon by any judicial forum, including courts.

Comment on Whatsapp: I suppose we will be discussing this today. We have to plea that in the age of whats app and Instagram, and fake news, one of the democratic duties of the people, is to learn "how to read" all such reports and understand them. It is unbecoming of "state" to say that since abc is influencing people, and somebody is "motivated" that either this motivation is illegitimate or that people who get follow these reports are "sheep". In fact it is the duty of State to ensure that in a regime of public news production, State should enable persons to get all points of view, and that all arms of the State should take cognizance of these reports, and when they are serious allegations which deal with Fundamental rights and Human Rights, the agencies concerned enquiry into each such allegation and present their findings before the executive and file FIRS before the courts, instead of declaring them "non-est"

All reports of inquiry should be seen (much like the rhetoric of advocate saying that they seek to "assist the Court:, ) that they are infact "assisting" the law enforcement machinery. This also relates to the please taken by govt on "public Order".. Does not public order mean just order? There must be several texts on this.

https://republicanjanta.com/special-congrats-to-the-government-for-discovering-the-padma-shri-such-diamonds/ 

Amayi Mahalinga Naik
Kepu A small village near Adyanadaka in Karnataka. A man was working in a betel nut and coconut plantation there. Own neither house nor land. But seeing his dedication and honesty, Mahabala Bhat, the owner of that garden, gave him 2 acres of land as a reward in 1978. The land was on top of a hill. Totally barren and barren. There is no trace of water. If there was someone like us, we would have left the sound of the land.
But the man dreamed of a betel nut garden on this land; And so begins a quest - of adventures that take on struggles, paths of questioning, journeys of answers and survival...

Then started building a hut for the family at the foot of the hill. The hill was leveled. A wall was built for it. When it comes to water. There was no money to dig a well. Then she decided to dig it herself and started working. Being at the base of the hill, they started digging a horizontal narrow tunnel as per the ancient method of water storage.

Why should everyone struggle so much to know the price of water?, I think sometimes. Not a single drop of water is wasted in Naik's farm. is recycled. Today, Naik's farm has more than 300 betel trees, 75 coconut trees, 150 cashew trees, 200 banana and chilli trees. Totally organic farming, and zero energy consumption.

Even though he is over seventy today, Naik does all the farm work and hard work himself. Yesterday he was awarded the Padma Shri in agriculture.

In two consecutive recruitment cycles, 2015 and 2018, the Union government has left thousands of seats vacant without stating why. Meanwhile, thousands of qualified candidates remain unemployed.

https://thewire.in/government/the-true-test-for-candidates-for-paramilitary-gd-posts-comes-after-the-exams-are-cleared 

First of all, unlike recruitment for most other Central government jobs, the recruitment of paramilitary forces is based on state quotas, allocated based on overall population. So even if the youth in a particular state have a greater affinity towards jobs in the paramilitary, an artificial cap restricts the numbers that will get the job. Meanwhile, in another state where the youth perhaps do not gravitate towards such jobs, the allotted job quota remains vacant year after year.

Next, the process is further layered with a complex marking and assessment system that can vary from district to district even within a state.

Candidates first have to give a written exam. Those who pass are then called for document verification, followed by a physical test, and finally, the medical exam. Those who clear all these tests are declared qualified. At this point, they wait for the cut-off marks for their respective castes and district categories, based on which those from the pool of qualified candidates will make it to the final merit list.

Now comes the twist.

In any government recruitment, the cut-off varies and has a caste-based recruitment process. However, the SSC GD recruitment for constables, which is usually thronged by socially and financially marginalised students from rural belts of the country, has layers of complicated criteria which often confuse applicants.

First, each state is allotted a certain share of the total seats based on the state’s population. Next, within each state, there is a district-wise seat allocation by which students are divided into categories based on the nature of the district they come from: border, general or Naxal. Further, within these districts, their cut-off varies as per their caste.

For example, a student from the Dalit community in a Naxal district and a student from the Dalit community in a border district will have different cut-off marks. Based on this cut-off, even if seats in a Naxal district remain vacant, qualified students from the border district will not be selected. On a larger scale, if a state doesn’t have enough qualified candidates, the vacant seats do not go to waitlisted qualified candidates from other states.

by Hrishi Raj Anand

30/01/2023

Gauhar Raza’s new poem    https://twitter.com/i/status/1619355627826061312

Not a Ban says.. https://youtu.be/YFxaEb69IYA?t=375  If the govt. issues a ban, then we

क्या अडानी के फायदे के लिए गूगल को सताया गया ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5amQy2BGZVA Knocking News
Jan 25, 2023

Was Google persecuted for the benefit of Adani?

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) had imposed a total fine of over Rs 2,200 crore on Google. Google said that this would harm digitization in India and increase prices.  On failing to get interim relief on this, the American tech company has written in a blog. It wrote how the CCI order would harm the digital environment in the country. It states that India is at a juncture where access barriers should be lowered and secure smartphones should be made available to all.

Google further said that companies make their own versions of the Android operating system, which are not the same as the development version from Google. In such a situation, it is not possible for Google to give better security to those versions. Smartphone manufacturers will have to take the responsibility of ensuring the security of those devices. It was further written that due to this the price of the device could be expensive for Indian users.

The apex court said that at the colloquial stage it would be sufficient to say that the findings of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against Google were neither without jurisdiction nor suffered from any manifest error, so as to warrant the court's intervention. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala gave the US company seven days to deposit 10 per cent of the penalty amount imposed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI).

The apex court asked the NCLAT to decide Google's appeal against the order of the competition regulator by March 31 this year. The US company was asked to approach the NCLAT within three working days from Thursday, seeking adjudication of its appeal against the CCI decision. The NCLAT had on January 4 refused to grant an interim stay on the order of the competition regulator and asked Google to deposit 10 per cent of the penalty amount.
Appearing for CCI, Additional Solicitor General N. Venkataraman said that Google is following similar directives passed by the European Commission in the year 2018, but it does not have any problem. Venkataraman said look at his conduct here, it is different. After making the necessary changes in Europe, they are doing the opposite in India. He said that they (Google) are talking about security, but when you do this in Europe, there is no threat to your security. But in India you are in danger. It is a symbol of slavery to the persistent market. It is feudal.
Bhutani said at an event on Saturday, “We are building a 1,000 MW data center. At present the size of the industry is 550 MW. Our business plan is to build 1,000 MW of data centers in the next decade. ”The capacity of data centers is assessed on the basis of the power they consume. According to market research company Ericsson, the market for data centers in India in 2021 was 447 MW. It sits at $10.9 billion by value.

'No Manifest Error In CCI Findings Against Google' : Supreme Court Affirms NCLAT Order Refusing To Stay CCI Order In Android Dominance Matter https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/no-manifest-error-in-cci-findings-against-google-supreme-court-affirms-nclat-order-refusing-to-stay-219404

https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/google-v-competition-commision-nclat-delhi-directs-google-to-deposit-10-of-rs-133776-crores-penalty-as-interim-measure-218226

Maharashtra: 152 complaints before interfaith marriage committee, says Mangal Prabhat Lodha
The 152 cases have come to light through the members of the committee. Work is going on or will begin on the cases, he said.  https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/152-complaints-before-interfaith-marriage-committee-says-mangal-prabhat-lodha-8408704/  The committee was tasked with gathering information about couples in interfaith marriages and to oversee initiatives undertaken at district levels regarding women who are in interfaith and intercaste marriages, and who may be estranged from their maternal families. It would also gather information about their families, so that they may be helped if needed.

Giving a postive twist to teh Committee work She said.. She came to me and said ‘my family is no longer talking to me and I would like to connect with them again’. She is in fact married happily. So, all we will do… the committee will help her get in touch with her family… will mediate this,”