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On our Recent Policy Briefs during April-June
2009
I am very happy to know your views. Wth Regards, Dr.
Fareed Chughtai
It is very useful information for me so keep sending
such extremely important and thought provioking news
allerts for me.Thanks for this.Madhu Sudan Sharma
Thanks for sharing good document on State
Convention of Civil Society Organisations on Health
Sector. Best Pradeep
Many thanks, We acknowledge receipt, grateful for this piece that
encourages advocacy work. Regards
First of all I would like to congratulate you for
the efforts you have taken to address this important
issue and I also thank you for involving XIMB in
this noble venture. Thanks for sharing the outcome
of the workshop. We will be happy to participate in
such events in future. With kind regards, Peppin
Thank you very much for sharing the outcome report
of the State level convention on health budget. I
will go through the report and share my views.
Regards,
Jitendra
Thanks for the report. We will definitely cooperate
the JSA Orissa initiatives whenever necessary. With
Regards, Manoranjan Nayak CMAI Orissa
Hi, thanks ! could you please send me a detailed
report or documentation, I am thinking to write on
it for Daily Hitavada, the largest circulated
English Daily of Central India. with regards Ganesh
Greetings from SPIESR, Doing very good job, you are
free to get any help at any juncture. i have little
bit work on it also.
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“Social
Exclusion in Service Sectors: A Study of SCs in
Indian Banking”, Labour File a
bimonthly journal of labour and economic affairs
Vol. 6 No:1 P.p 20-23 (Jan-Feb 2008) ISSN
0972-673X
www.labourfile.org.
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“Social Exclusion and Poverty in Era of Economic
Reforms: A Case of Scheduled Caste in Rural
India” in (Eds) B.V Murlidhar, G.
Stanley and others, The Dynamics of
Change and Continuity in the era of
Globalisation: Voices from the Margins,
New Delhi: Sunrise Publications (2009) ISBN
81-87365-88-9
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“Political Exclusion in South Asia: India’s Role
as a Model of Inclusive Policy” in Prof. R.G
Dandge, Sivaji University (edit) Social
Exclusion and Inclusive Policies in South Asia
(forth coming 2009).
with regards, Chittabhai
Thank you so much for sharing the outcomes of the discussions. I
am sorry I was not be participate in them. My loss
but … With best wishes and regards, Alka
Your efforts to have a discussion on health issues
of Orissa with an effort to come out with important
recommendations is really praiseworthy. In this
connection, I suggest you to kindly consider the
following points:
1.Revolving fund support to each self help group in
the state to the tune of Rs.500/- for establishment
of Community Based Drug (CBD) Centers
2.Training to the leaders of the self help groups as
community doctors who must have knowledge on the use
of common medicines as well as providing basic
health care services in case of emergency.
3.Organization of regular health camps in the
unserved areas with regular checking of the CBD
centers by the doctors attending the health camps .
I once again extend my sincere thanks for the great
initiative. With sincere regards, K.C.Malick
The only wish is that the government has to fulfill
her promises. Adequate arrangements should be made
to impalement the promises . An awareness should be
created among the rural people with regard to health
aspects. With regards. Arunachalam
I
have seen the manifesto of ruling party included in
your letter and find that it will be an uphill task
to incorporate all these promises into practice.
While I do believe that health is a neglected sector
in many ways but I also believe that it cant be run
by the government alone. There has to be some kind
of public participation as well as accountability if
it has to run efficiently. The cost of services in
health sector has gone up considerably and that is
the reason this sector has not been performing well.
There is still time to consider insurance services
linked to give better health services. These are
major policy initiatives which has to become part of
policy dealing with health sector. Merely opening
hospitals, if those cant be run properly has no
meaning. Now is time to start thinking how to fund
the health sector. This will definitely involve
public participation in terms of payment for the
cost of treatment on real basis.
This will also involve more accountability on part
of health delivery agents/organizations so that they
are held accountable for the negligence in this
area.
I thank you for sending me the mail to express my
views. Regards, Paramjit Singh
On our Response to Union Budget 2009-10
Thanks for sending this mail on General Budget 2009-10,which is very informative. Have u done department wise if yes i am intrested to have look on ur report on Home Affairs. Please send me UR contact numbers,
Rest when we talk n meet. regards, SS Ahluwalia MP, Deputy Leader-Principal Opposition Party in Parliament (RS)
MSS/RM/
20 July 2009
Mr Siba Sankar Mohanty
Email: media@nsa.org.in
My dear Siba sankar Mohanty,
Thank you very much for your kind letter. I am grateful to you for the information you have sent.
With warm personal regards,
Yours sincerely,
M S Swaminathan
PROF M S SWAMINATHAN
Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
Chairman, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Third Cross Street , Taramani Institutional Area
Thank you for sharing this analysis with me.
It is an excellent analysis/study. keep it up.
Regards Devinder Sharma
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Many Many thanks , This is the naked truth of our
economy.
With thanks
K.C.Malick
Chairman Bharat Integrated Social Welfare Agency(BISWA) At:
Danipali, Post: Budharaja, Sambalpur-768004 Orissa, India
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(Regarding Our Policy Brief Issues During Last Week of
October)
Dear NSA team,
I
read article
of N K Singh, Political Editor with ETV
'Paradox
of Indian Economy: Hungry India sells Rs. 30 lakh suit'
While I appreciate the
article of Mr N K Singh for his in-depth knowledge,
research pursuits and to bring out the alarming facets
of our socio-economic status to the lime light my views
are: that Indian society consist of 450 million working
people and their 600 million (approx.) dependents. These
105 crore Indians, about 95 per cent of our population
are the working people and they need social security and
protections against various contingencies and ravages of
market led economic reforms. It is a crucial time and
social protection from state is vary important right of
working people yet the Indian government deny as if our
politicians, riches and upper class community hate
sufferings and rights of working people who live in
deprivation. Mass displacement and exodus from villages,
relentless obliteration of hutments in urban areas for
beautification of cities, banning hawkers and venders,
increasing susceptibility in their livelihood and
employment, harshness of commodity price rise, longer
working hours with low wage rates, near total absence or
inaccessible health care system indicate apathy of
riches and upper class community and the state towards
our working people.
Those
who are poor are working masses and they live in deprivation
resulting in poverty and hunger. Interestingly our 230
million migrant workers are denied ration cards for want of
addresses. They do not have right to food, housing rights
and right to vote. To add to this one writ petition was
filed in Mumbai High Court by 11 intellectuals of Mumbai in
the year 2006 seeking direction to deny voting rights to
people living in hutments in the city and for cancellation
of their voter I-cards.
It is
the state sponsored inequality and state promoted economy
which is responsible for widening gap, poverty, deprivation
and gross injustice. The government is shirking from its
responsibilities of social security and protection of
fundamental rights and economic rights (as in directive
principles) of people.
I
consider social security is a right of our 1050 people of
India , which alone can promote justice, and not charity
type election oriented schemes for unorganised working
people. I believe that unorganised workers have contributed
to the building of the nation; and the nation should now
provide social security to the workers. The market led
global society the social protection is recognized
internationally by the UN, the ILO and by the state.
The
government has now proposed a social security law which
gives only welfare kind of schemes which would provide
only ridiculously low level of protections that too on
contributory basis through private insurance companies.
Despite opposition from organisations of workers, its
own parliamentary standing committee on labour and other
concerned groups and individuals including
parliamentarians the government surreptitiously
introduced the name sake watery-amendments in the
pending bill in Rajya Sabha on October 22, 2008 and
passed it when only 58 members were present in
parliament; thus avoiding through debate.
I am
really happy that through your article on Paradox of Indian
Economy: Hungry india sells Rs.30 lakh suit' you have tried
to project the 'real' image of India. As we all know India
is a complex country in a sense on one hand we have attained
advancement in technology sector like excellence in IT
sector, Nuclear Power, Mission to Moon etc. but at the same
time we have poor and down trodden people who are not able
to get a square meal and what to talk of elementary
education. Our economists and policy makers have been
deciding the priorities in every Plan period. It is also
proved that if policy makers are bent to implement a policy
they are able to do so. There may be innumerable studies
which might have looked into the aspects as to why our
hunger index is so bad compared to some of the less
developed economies than India but the fact is what you have
brought out. There may be sufficient funds in Government
accounts under 'education cess' to provide elementary
education. How can a child think of education without
adequate food. National Rural Health Mission is a welcome
initiative. If financial resources is a constraint, some of
the measures like the following are submitted for
consideration:
Introducing a say 0.5% health/food cess on :all mineral
waters, soft drinks Introducing a cess (depending upon the
grading of Hotels) on the food bills in Hotels
The
list can go on as it is going to be negligble for the person
who will have to bear it but slowly it can make some
difference. But what is more important is the benefit
reaching to the beneficiary. There have been studies which
indicate that for every rupee spent by the Government about
10 to 20 p. reaches to the beneficiary and rest is spent on
the bureaucracy for executing the scheme. NGOs, Panchayati
Raj Institutions can be ropped in. There could be a policy
of matching grant i.e. every rupee generated by any
individual/institution/organistion the government provides
equal funds for the scheme. That is if for example in Madhya
Pradesh a voluntary organistion/individual/panchayat is able
to generate one lakh rupee to provide food to the hungry
children the same amount is provided by the above proposed
Fund. This could be a temporary solution but the real
problem has to be tackled i.e. providing employment
opportunities to the unemployed people so that they are able
to earn at least minimum livelihood to survive. PM's Rozgar
Yojana is a good inititiative but what is important is the
beneficiary should be not on paper but in real and those who
are deserving. At the end I would like to say, unless we as
Indians are concerned about any issue and are really
interested in contributing our bit in any social or economic
problem of the country, the end result of any Government
scheme would not be that fruitful and rewarding.
A.K. Malik, Ph.D.
Joint Registrar
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi-110067
India is a country is a country of
paradoxes and extremes. Media instead of pointing out and
criticising the obvious, try to inculcate love, sympathy and
understanding among people of varied belief, status, origin,
mohanty
Dr. Sureswar Mohanty, MS, M.Ch
Institute of Medical Sciences & SUM Hospital
Kalinga Nagar, Bhubaneswar 751003, Orissa
Respected NSA
Team,
Thanks for
sending report and other policy matters on burning national
issues. We can develop ourselves better than any developed
country, if we shed casteism, religion and regional issues.
Kindly provide me more matters on social and economic
issues.
With regards. Joint
Director State Planning Inst,
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(Regarding our announcement on
NSA to continue publication of
PRAXES)
28 September 2008:
Thanks
for sending me the info on NSA and PRAXES. It is really
interesting. I am interested a lot to read your documents
please add me in your contacts list and do send me your
updated publications.
Bahman Hares Takween, Economic Literacy
and Budget Analysis Project Coordinator, ActionAid
Afghanistan, Tel: +93 (0) 700 223 337, 0797 542 908, Email:
bahman@actionaidafg.org, Website:
www.actionaid.org
28 September 2008:
Dear NSA Team, This is to tell
you that I have found the Policy Briefs of NSA are a very
important and useful means of raising critical
counter-points which can strengthen voices of dissent in a
constructive manner. As an academician, I think it can be
quite inspiring. I would like to promise my full support for
it and be involved with it as a forum. My very best wishes
and thank you very much for including my name in your
mailing address book. More later. With best regards,
Sakti P. Padhi, Professor in Economics
29 Sept 2008:
Greetings from Orissa. Thanks
for your mail. It is a good news for all who are involved in
policy analysis specially for making pro people documents of
budget and common citizen’s intervention. With Best wishes.
Sashiprava Bindhani
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(Regarding Policy Brief on
Of Dalits
and their Money: An Analysis of the Budgetary Allocations
for the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP) in Recent Years)
22 August 2008:
Dear Sirs, I have
seen your email that gives details about the budgetary allocations
for social intervention for the sake of the deprived class of this
country. it sounds great and grand. However, the basic factor that
remains to be attended to is its implementation.
Every one had
laughed at Rajiv Gandhi when he had asserted that only 15 paisa
reach the intended beneficaries out of every rupee sanctioned but it
was a hard reality because of the high salary scales take away
nearly 65 per cent of all allocations on administrative expenses
whether they are directly distributed or through the state
government.
We need to seek
remedy to that situation so that a larger portion of allocations
really reach the intended hands. I would suggest that you invite
ideas for a method that would ensure that administrative expenditure
does not eat away a lion's share out of every fund allocation and
then evolve a strategy from these ideas. i think it would be more
fruitful task and achievement for the sake of intended hands as it
would really help them to receive a larger share.
I have one or two
ideas. One is use of the Gandhian method of social action without
allowing violence to interfere. i can write it down in case you have
any interest in more details of it. Anyway thanks for keeping me
posted as it will be useful for my action plans.
Vijay Sanghvi
Dear Friends
from NSA, Thank you for these updates and your good work in
highlighting key advocacy issues emerging from the
government reports and data. We are currently compiling a
set of questions on Education in light of the upcoming
Parliament Session, and these updates would be a useful
reference. Best regards,
Lysa John,
WNTA
21 August 2008:
Thanks
for this valuable info. Please continue to enlighten with updated
info. Best wishes,
Xavier
I
understand things clearly. But you should address this issue though
seminars and conferences. Madras University, population studies
centre is organizing a National seminar (October 17 and 18) on
Population in India. Why can't you come and present a report related
to this topic in the seminar so that people on the top could
understand things and also for necessary corrections from the policy
makers.
Dr.P.Arunachalam (author of a book on Special Economic
Zones in India)
Dr.P.ARUNACHALAM, M.A.,M.Phil., Ph.D
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(Regarding Policy Brief on
Gross
Enrolment Ratio and Gross Drop out Rates show Adverse Trend
for SC/ST Children in Recent Times.)
July 29 2008 Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for giving reference about the publication on the
enrolment and dropout rates of SC/ST children show adverse
trends. I will print out your message and forward it to the
Registrar, Coordinator Evaluation), Chief Advisor - Equal
Opportunity Office, the Chairperson, Zakir Husain Centre for
Educational Studies, and the Librarian of the University who
would be interested in having a close look at the report and
interaction.
R Venkateswaran, Deputy Registrar & Secretary to
Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi-110067
July 29 2008- It will be very
interesting to go through the report on "Gross enrolement
ratio and Gross drop out rates show adverse trends for SC/ST
children in recent years". Can you send the report prepared
by CAG at the earliest? Thanks and regards,
Prof. M.C. Paul, 167 Uttarakhand, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi-110067
Dear NSA team, Greetings from
Bhavitha, Hyderabad ! Thank you very much for yr policy
brief and report on Dropouts among SCs&STs. It's very
useful report/material for us to assess reflect on the
status of Dalits' literacy rate in national level. Kindly
do mark a copy of such important report/materials to me in
days come too.
V R Syam Prasad, Coordinator, Bhavitha, H Y D E R A B A D
Dear NSA
Team, this information is useful. However I would prefer to
express the issue in concrete terms rather than in per cent
terms that you have done. Only when you pick up concrete
example and then make a dramatic presentation that it can
have an impact on conscience of some people. I have come to
a conclusion that it was not possible to collectively make
an impact on conscience of all. I have been writing human
interest stories for the past twenty five years. I have been
successful in breaking political news with had momentous
impact on politicians but I failed to move the common
reader. But I made impact only with my human interest
stories that were revolved around individuals. if I can be
of any use, I would be willing to try my hand at it. I am
running the Creativity School at Okhla Phase one at the
mouth of biggest slum of Delhi. You can see our experiment.
Thanks -Vijay Sanghvi
Dear Sir, it is painful to read
this data. Even after six decades of independence with Ten
Five Year Plans we are not able to stop drop out rates
amoung SC/STs. It is a problem of the government in
implementing the universalisation of elementary eduction up
to XII std in India . If compulsory education policy is
implemented this type of problem could have been avoided.
Education is considered as the best instrument in mitigating
most of the problems related to SC/STs. That is what
Dr.Ambedkar also tought. Organisations like you can create
awareness among the poor people about the importance of
education. I will support in all your efforts in this
direction. With regards. Dr. P. Arunachalam.
Thanks for
sending me this worrying report and congratulations on
taking this initiative. I will share it with colleagues here
in SCF and Dalit Solidarity Network in the UK. This kind of
information is really useful for advocacy. In solidarity,
Best wishes Sushila
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