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Naxals gun down 18 policemen, one police informer beheaded
Times of India - 1 hour ago GADCHIROLI (Maharashtra): Naxals on Thursday struck with impunity killing 18 policemen when they ambushed a police patrol in dense forests in this district ignoring stern warnings by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram asking them to give up violence or ... Naxal attack raises security concern over poll in Gadchiroli
Daily News & Analysis - 1 hour ago PTI Mumbai: The killing of 18 policemen by naxals in Gadchiroli region in Maharashtra , five days ahead of state assembly elections, has raised a question mark over security arrangements during polling in the naxal-hit region. Poll campaign in Armori, ... Maoists 'kill 17 Indian police'
BBC News - 2 hours ago At least 17 policemen including a top commander have been killed in a battle with Maoist insurgents in the Indian state of Maharashtra, officials say. They said the fighting started after a group of Maoists attacked a police station in Gadchiroli ...
"I would like to say frankly that we have not achieved as much success as we would have liked in containing this menace," he told state police chiefs in September. "It is a matter of concern that despite our efforts, the level of violence in the affected states continues to rise." more by Manmohan Singh - 33 minutes ago - CNN International (61 occurrences)
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Zee News - 1 hour ago Oct 8, 2009 : Seventeen policemen killed in an ambush by Maoists at Laheri police station in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. Sep 30: Naxalites set ablaze Gram Panchayat offices at Korchi and Belgaon in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. ... Shootout leaves 17 police dead in India
CNN International - 33 minutes ago NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- At least 17 police officers were killed in what Indian authorities say was a shootout with Maoists Thursday. The shootout occurred in a forest in the western state of Maharashtra, said Srihari Munde, a police official in the ... 17 policemen killed in Naxal attack in Gadchiroli
IBNLive.com - 3 hours ago New Delhi: At least 17 policemen have been killed in a Naxal attack in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district on Thursday. Nearly 100 armed Naxals attacked a police station about a kilometer from Lahiri village police station on Thursday afternoon at around ... Naxals kill 17 cops, behead infomer in Maharashtra
Zee News - 3 hours ago Nagpur: At least 17 policemen were killed in Gadchiroli on Thursday when two hundred Naxals swooped down on a police post in the Lahiri area of Bhamragadh taluka in the district. The dead include one sub-inspector CS Deshmukh and sixteen constables of ... In India, Maoists kill 17 policemen in ambush
PRESS TV - 31 minutes ago In their latest wave of attacks, Maoist rebels in India have killed 17 security personnel in the troubled west of the country. Police sources said at least 150 Maoists attacked the security forces in forests in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra ... Maoists massacre 17 policemen in Maharashtra (Third Lead)
Thaindian.com - 1 hour ago Nagpur, Oct 8 (IANS) In a major attack days before the assembly polls, Maoist guerrillas Thursday ambushed a police patrol and gunned down at least 17 policemen in a jungle stretch of Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district. Suspected Maoists also slit the ... Centre rushes more forces to Maha after naxal attack
Press Trust of India - 2 hours ago New Delhi, Oct 8 (PTI) The Centre today rushed additional paramilitary forces to Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, where 17 policemen were killed in an ambush by the Maoists, to assist the state security forces. "Additional (central) forces are in ... IAF not to take part in anti-Naxal combat operation
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Hindustan Times - 2 hours ago Defence Minister AK Antony said no decision has been taken so far on the IAF's request to fire at the Maoists in self defence. However, if permission is granted, the IAF will mount guns manned by Garud, the IAF's special force, Air Chief Marshal PV ... Indian Air Force turns 77
Hindustan Times - 5 hours ago The Indian Air Force (IAF) turned 77 on Thursday with an elaborate parade and aerobatics display. The event commenced with a hang glider show after which flag bearing sky divers of Akash Ganga team dropped out of an AN-32 transporter. ...
"The IAF will take adequate counter-measures," Home Minister P Chidambaram said when asked about IAF seeking permission from the Defence Ministry to open fire at Naxals if its helicopters or air crew came under attack. more by P Chidambaram - 2 hours ago - Hindustan Times (6 occurrences)
CCS to decide whether IAF can shoot back at naxals in self-defence
Times of India - Oct 6, 2009 NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Thursday is likely to take a decision on whether IAF personnel should be allowed to fire back in "self-defence'' if their helicopters come under attack from naxalites. Sources said since the IAF ... CCS approves anti-Naxal plan, Def Min studying IAF proposal
Press Trust of India - 21 minutes ago New Delhi, Oct 8 (PTI) The Cabinet Committee on Security today approved a new plan to counter Maoists in the backof a Jharkhand police Inspector being beheaded by the Maoists, even as the Defence Ministry said it was studying an IAF proposal to open ... CCS clears anti-naxal plan
Press Trust of India - 54 minutes ago New Delhi, Oct 8 (PTI) With Naxals striking at will, the Cabinet Committee of Security(CCS) today approved the Government's new plan to counter Maoists under which the infested states will have an effective coordination and police taking a lead role. ... IAF turns 77, celebrates in style
Rediff - 1 hour ago The Indian Air Force on Thursday celebrated its 77th anniversary with a breathtaking display of air power by its frontline fighter aircrafts, followed by a thrilling aerobatics performance by its Surya Kiran and Sarang teams. ... IAF enforcement along LAC not against China: Air Chief
Indian Express - Oct 7, 2009 Indian Air Force (IAF) chief PV Naik said on Wednesday that the upgradation of the air-field infrastructure along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China was not "adversary specific". "....I have been trying to address this particular issue that ... PC favours IAF firing on naxals
Press Trust of India - Oct 7, 2009 New Delhi, Oct 7 (PTI) As government contemplates use of air power against Maoists, Home Minister P Chidambaram today favoured the Indian Air Force firing on naxals while the Air Chief PV Naik said the rules of engagement in such situation will be ... ISRO to help IAF and ground forces in against Naxals
Times Now.tv - Oct 7, 2009 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will assist the Indian Air Force in its fight against Naxals. ISRO will be providing technical support to the IAF and ground forces in a major offensive against Naxalites in the jungles of Chattisgarh, ...
Naxals gun down 18 policemen, one police informer beheaded
Naxal attack raises security concern over poll in Gadchiroli
Maoists 'kill 17 Indian police'
| "I would like to say frankly that we have not achieved as much success as we would have liked in containing this menace," he told state police chiefs in September. "It is a matter of concern that despite our efforts, the level of violence in the affected states continues to rise." more by Manmohan Singh - 33 minutes ago - CNN International (61 occurrences) |
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Naxals kill 17 cops, behead infomer in Maharashtra
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Centre rushes more forces to Maha after naxal attack
IAF not to take part in anti-Naxal combat operation
IAF to take adequate steps to counter Naxals: Chidambaram
Indian Air Force turns 77
| "The IAF will take adequate counter-measures," Home Minister P Chidambaram said when asked about IAF seeking permission from the Defence Ministry to open fire at Naxals if its helicopters or air crew came under attack. more by P Chidambaram - 2 hours ago - Hindustan Times (6 occurrences) |
CCS to decide whether IAF can shoot back at naxals in self-defence
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| Jhargram, Oct. 7: A West Midnapore court today turned down a government plea for 18 days' police custody for Chhatradhar Mahato and granted only three days. Explaining the reason, the additional chief judicial magistrate in charge in Jhargram, Bishal Mangrati, said: "I am not convinced that the provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) are applicable to the accused person…. The People's Committee Against Police Atrocities is not a banned organisation under this act." Public prosecutor Suman Das Mahapatra said the government would move the high court to challenge the order. "We will move the high court against the order because we believe we should have got 18-day police custody," he said. Mahapatra had sought 18 days' custody as the act allows police custody up to 90 days. Mahato has already been in 12 days' of police custody. Under the IPC, the police can seek at most 14 days' custody. Mahato's lawyer Kaushik Sinha had argued that the stringent act could not be applied to him as the people's committee that he heads was not a banned organisation. "There is nothing on record saying that my client is a Maoist activist. The police are repeatedly harping on his Maoist links and seeking his remand. But he has been described by the police as a leader of the people's committee that has Maoist links. So, if the committee is not a banned organisation, then why should my client be charged under the UAPA?" he asked. Mahato's lawyer also said according to rules, if the government wanted to implement the UAPA, it has to issue a gazette notification and it has to be published in newspapers. "But the government has done nothing of the sort. Then how is the government using the UAPA?" he asked. Home secretary Ardhendu Sen responded to the order later in the day. "I have heard that Mahato's advocate had said a pre-condition for charging somebody under the UAPA is a gazette notification and its subsequent publication in newspapers. We examined the matter and found that such notification or publication is not required. It is a central act and automatically applies in the state. We will have to explain our stand in court and to the judge about the committee's connection with the Maoists." Three others — Shagun Murmu, Ranjit Murmu and Sambhu Soren — who were also arrested on September 26, the day Mahato was picked up, were also produced in the Jhargram court and remanded in jail custody for two weeks. In Calcutta, Swapan Dasgupta, the publisher of Maoist periodical People's March, and Sadananda Singha, one of the five directors of the press that printed it, arrested last night, were produced in court today and sent to police custody till October 20. |
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New Delhi, Oct. 7: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi may yet be ready to attribute expanding Naxalism to governance failure, but the Centre has put a more blunt analysis on the challenge. Delhi has set its teeth harder against armed Maoists and their sympathisers following the beheading of inspector Francis Indwar in Jharkhand. "They are ruthless criminals bent on defying authority with violence, their tactics have to be firmly met," a senior official said on the eve of a meeting of the cabinet committee on security (CCS), likely tomorrow. The CCS will probably go beyond mere stock-taking of the current surge in Naxalite violence. Sources said a zero-tolerance directive would be sent out to affected states with an assurance that the Centre would provide all possible intelligence and resource assistance to meet the Maoist dare. But the sources cautioned against putting a date or a timeline to the anti-Naxalite offensive, or even calling it one. "Why use words like war and offensive? There is an internal security threat and the government is going to meet it with the power required to neutralise it. That is what governments are meant to do, preserve the safety and security of citizens," an official said. He also put down speculation that the week after Diwali is when operations are likely to gather steam. "There is no specific date on which some big operation is set to be launched, it is a developing situation, the engagement is happening even now wherever required, what may and will happen over time is that the scope of the engagement will become more comprehensive." But the Centre and state governments are beset by substantive resource issues that have shackled the prospects of an effective fight-to-finish operation against the Naxalites, spread over nearly 40 per cent of the country's territory. The police-to-population ratio in none of the states comes even close to the recommended 222 per hundred thousand; the figure for Bengal, for instance, is 98; in Bihar it is as low as 57. Most state forces are poorly armed, ill-trained and underfed. Poor intelligence and real-time information are a huge drawback; that the government has little penetration in Naxalite-dominated areas works as an additional squeeze on inputs. Although exchange of intelligence has improved under Union home minister P. Chidambaram's work ethic, co-operation and co-ordination levels between states and security agencies still don't meet requirements in the reckoning of experts. "Any major deployment or engagement with current capacity would be irrational," said Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Delhi-based Institute of Conflict Management. "Until the government secures saturation in all areas, it would be madness, it would mean throwing our boys to the wolves. We don't even have good information about where they are and aren't, what is mined, what is not." Chidambaram, who recently changed tack to put barrelling into armed Maoists ahead of development imperatives, repeated his resolve to take on the Maoist "war on the republic" today. He told a media conference in Mumbai: "We have no option but to ask the security forces to engage the Maoists, apprehend them. Maoist violence has grown over the last 10-12 years.… As long as Naxalites do not abjure violence the security forces will confront them, engage them." Chidambaram had reacted in grave tones to the brutal end of Jharkhand's Indwar yesterday, calling it "nothing short of cold-blooded murder, that's it, cold-blooded murder." Fresh intelligence inputs — and on-ground activity — suggest that Naxalite cadres are in the process of "melting away" from their known strongholds and may be planning sporadic strikes on unsuspecting targets. "This is their well-practised strategy," a source said. "If they believe a major strike is impending, they will scatter and try to escalate violence in order to keep the forces occupied in skirmishes." Naxalite-related violence has registered a new high this year and already claimed 765 lives compared to 638 dead in 2008 and 650 in 2007. Experts reckon the toll is likely to cross the thousand mark before the year is out. Bengal, which is witnessing a fresh spate of Naxalism after a four-decade lull, has particular reason for concern. From seven deaths in Naxalite-related violence in 2007, the toll leaped to 24 in 2008 and has multiplied four times to 86 so far this year. There has been lingering scepticism in Union home ministry circles about the state government's reluctance to formally ban the CPI (Maoist) — and, indeed, so-called "front groups". But action taken over the past few days appears to have sent out the signal that the state government is "more determined than before to meet the threat". The sense, though, that violence will escalate is shared by the government, Naxalite mouthpieces and experts on the subject. While Naxalite platforms — print propaganda and websites — are abuzz with the clamour of "preparing to meet the war-mongering bourgeois state", the government itself has been articulating a new determination to "meet Red terror" through its internal security face, Chidambaram. "The state is newly clenched-fisted to confront them, and the Maoists are displaying no signs they are going to take things lying down, as their aggressive post-election document suggests. We may witness much more violence and many more deaths in the weeks and months to come," an independent expert on insurgency said. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091008/jsp/frontpage/story_11590285.jsp |
The central forces after the completion of Operation Green Hunt have reached Malkangiri to launch 'Operation Godavari' to flush out the ultras from Orissa.While,the CPI (Maoist) has called a two-day shutdown in Jharkhand and Bihar from October 12 in protest against what it alleged the Centre's effort to put down its campaign using para-military forces.With Indian Air Force helicopters operating in Naxal-dominated areas coming under attack, IAF Chief P V Naik said on Wednesday that they had sought permission from the government to shoot back in self-defence if fired at by Maoist rebels.
The fact remains that No question of giving up arms, says Maoist leader!The security set up of Government of India indulges itself in Intense REPRESSION of aboriginal and indigenous communities as an EXERCISE of ETHNIC Cleansing to ACOMPLISH India Inc agenda of MONOPOLISTIC Aggression to CAPTURE every piece of natural Resource causing EXODUS and DISPLACEMENT specilly in Dandakarnya.
Rather it semms me the INDIA INC and Brahaminical hegemony Projected Maoism to EVACUATE our People. just note the Contrdictions of the statements and stnces of CHIDAMBARAM and Mamata Banerjee. Maoists NEVER DO STRIKE against CORPORATE Interests in their Armed Insurrctions but creates OPPORTUNITIES for the RULING Hegemony for ZERO Tolerance aginst the Black Untouchables. it is happening in Lalgarh as well as everywhere known as MAOIST Dominated area. The MAOIST Menace coinciding with Neo Liberalism and Economic reforms EXPOSE the BRAHAMINICAL Alliance of State Power, Brahaminical Political Parties, India Incs, NGOs and so called Maoists!Thus,a prominent naxal leader today rejected Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's call to Maoists to abjure violence and take the path of democracy, saying there was no question of giving up arms.
Development to fight Naxalism: Rahul
Also on Wednesday, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, on a trip to Kerala, said the Naxalite menace was an offshoot of underdevelopment.
"These states (Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand) need to get development to the people. No one would join Naxalites if people were involved in development activities," he said.
Gandhi said the only difference between the rich and the poor was one of opportunities. "I don't consider whether a person is a Dalit or not. I approach him as a human being," he said when asked about his new-found love for Dalits in Uttar Pradesh.
Government on Wednesday said the Indian Air Force will take adequate counter-measures to protect its choppers and pilots from Naxal attacks.
"The IAF will take adequate counter-measures," Home Minister P Chidambaram said when asked about IAF seeking permission from the Defence Ministry to open fire at Naxals if its helicopters or air crew came under attack.
However, the Home Minister refused to reveal any details.
Chidambaram said an IAF helicopter was fired at by the Maoists a few weeks back in Chhattisgarh.
Air Chief Marshal P V Naik had said the IAF had sought permission from the Defence Ministry to open fire in self-defence if its helicopters or air crew operating in the Maoist-infested areas came under attack.
'Confronting naxal is no war'
A day after Naxals brutally killed intelligence office Francis Indwar in Jharkhand, Home Minister P Chidambaram said today that if Naxals would abjure violence, the government can talk to them.
"The government does not call confronting Naxals a war. We do not wage war against our own people," he said.
It is the Naxals who are holding up to armed struggle, he added.
He clarified that as Naxals claim to be working for poor, the government also is working for the poor people. He said, the government can work togehter with Naxals but for this they would have to leave violence.
The IAF on Thursday said it will deploy its commando units to defend its helicopters and men on board in Naxal-infested areas, but made it clear that they would not carry out any "rambo-style" operation against the Maoists.
IAF chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik told reporters here that the Garud special forces would be present in the helicopters flying in Maoist-hit areas for rescue operations and would defend their personnel and equipment by warding-off attacks by Naxals on them.
"It is not a free for all like 'rambo' that we will go and fire in the countryside. The helicopters operating for casualty evacuation will be mounted with guns and the Garud force will man them," Naik said on the sidelines of the 77th Air Force Day parade here.
Asked about the IAF request to the government to allow opening of fire in self-defence, he said the Cabinet Committee on Security will decide the matter.
"I want to reiterate that I am totally against armed forces -- Army, Navy and Air Force -- being used in internal situations. We are meant to defend threats from across the border," he said.
Naik, however, said, "If the states requires any help we are always there to give it in terms of casualty evacuation and insertion (of security forces)."
Defence Minister A K Antony on Thursday said no decision has been taken so far on the Indian Air Force (IAF) request to fire at the Maoists in self defence.
However, if permission is granted, the IAF will mount guns manned by Garud, the IAF's special force, Air Chief Marshal PV Naik revealed.
"The defence ministry is studying the proposal and we will take the decision (soon)," Antony told reporters in New Delhi.
Earlier in the day, the IAF chief said his force was not contemplating a "Rambo style" offensive against the Maoists.
"The IAF's request for permission to fire in self defence did not mean an all-out 'armed offensive' against the people of India," said Naik on the sidelines of the Air Force Day parade at Hindon air base.
He said the IAF was only seeking to take measures to defend itself against the ground fire from Maoist guerrillas who are increasingly becoming aggressive.
"We have approached the government to fire in self defence to protect ourselves. It is not free for all where you go like Rambo and fire at everybody. There are laid down procedures. You have to ensure minimum use of force, minimum collateral damage, firing has to be permitted by the captain of the helicopter and so on," Naik told reporters.
IAF helicopters providing air support in non-offensive roles in Maoist affected areas have been fired at in the past. The IAF has carried out surveillance, reconnaissance and casualty evacuations during anti-Maoist operations.
On Nov 14 last year, the IAF lost an aircrew when Maoists fired at an Mi-8 helicopter in Pedia in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region.
"We are not indulging in armed offensive. We are trying to protect our men, women and crew who fly these machines," said Naik.
"In the helicopters going for anti-Naxal operations, the measures will be taken for self defence. The first being armour, then body armour for the crew, tactical manoeuvring and sanitisation of place before take off and landing by the local agencies," said Naik.
But when and if the permission is granted, the IAF will mount guns manned by Garud, the IAF's special force, the air chief disclosed.
Defending armed struggle, Kisenji leading the LALGARH Insurection in alliance with a section of Bengali Brahaminical Intelligentsia, Civil Society, Politicians and Media, told PTI over phone from an undisclosed location here, "There will be arms in the hands of the people's liberation army as long as the state uses arms to throttle the voice of the people."
On Chidambaram's contention that Maoists must eschew the path of violence and adopt democracy and dialogue, he said "the polit bureau of the CPI(Maoist) rejects the government's proposal to lay down arms and sit for talks."
He said "the state should stop killing its own people and only then we will lay down arms.
I am in live contact with Refugee leaders and social Activists all along every where in DANDAKARANY. I visited the Refugee Resettlements earlier in the year. I plan to go over there in November or December once again. My father has always been an ACTIVE member of the Greater Black Untouchable family since Indian HOLOCAUST, the Partion of india to ensure Power transfer to Brahmin bania CORPORATE Raj sustaining Manusmriti Rule.
Our people have been INFORMING me how the Maoists have the hold on the Jungle Area! They are always in touch with me and inform that the Security Forces have seized the Refugee Colonies all over Dandakaranya and using the SCheduled caste Humanscape as a HUMAN shield! I had noticed maoist activities during my last visit where we had not been allowed to slow our vehicle anywhere in the Forest area lest the maoist would treat us as foes and shoot down! I am told that the Maoists have bases right in the TOWNS of these FIVE States and use all the infrastructures including Schools and Panchayats. ARMLESS refugees may not oppose them while they are not allowed to do any thing and move any where after the DUSK.
One of our fellow was in mourning as his mother expired. The people gathered. Immediately the SECURITY forces seized entire area. It was a hard time to convince the officer that our people were in Mourning. When they were CONVINCED after all, they warned that the Bengali refugees won`t be allowed to perform Last rights in NIGHT! The Refugees are not allowed for Community Activities also.
Only around MALKANGIRI, the most troubled zone in dandakaranya, bengali refugees have been rehabilitated in Two Hundred and seventeen villages! PAKHANJORE in Kanker district of CHHATTISHGARH locates no less than Hundred and FIFTEEN villages! OMARKOT in Jgat Singh Pur district of ORRISSA has got about Hundred villages more.
Bengali refugees are resettled in the Maoist Dominated areas of CHANDRA PUR and GADCHIROLI in Maharashtra. ADILABAD subdivision of Andhra, specially KAGAZNAGAR has refugee colonies.
Rajnandgaon, Kanker and DANTEVBADA have REFUGEE colonies. A number of bengali refugees are employed in Balledilla. BASTAR has also got Refugee Colonies!
All these ares are MAOIST dominated and Neither the Maoists nor the SECURITY forces have any sympathy with our people.
Mind you, in 2001, bengali refugees in OMARKOT area had been SEIZED by the maoists who favoured the Tribal Politics which went against the BENGALIES following some very local Flare UP!
kalimela area in Malkangiri is a Bengali area already threatened by Polvoram Project is most effected by Maoism. The local bengali leaders requested the Secuity forces deployed under GODAVARI Operation to consider the helpless bengali refugees. Four of them were arrested immediately and they had to be bailed out from the court!
The CIRCUMSTANCES are quite EXPLOSIVE in Operation Godavari conditions. But the BENGALI hegemony, even those who scream against REPRESSION in LALGARH have NO SYPATHY for our people! You know about the ETHNIC Cleansing of Dandakaranya refugees in Marichjhanpi, Bengal, the FIRST GENOCIDE by the Marxist Gestapo. Three decades past, neither the BRAHAMINCAL Intelligentsia nor the CIVIL society which CAMPAIGN so hard for a Change, have not demanded JUSTICE for the VICTIMS till this date!
Now-days the rebel spreading Maoists are found to be in trouble. The tense arised from the operation started by the three consecutive governments; Orissa-Andhra started Operation Godavari and Chattishgar started Operation Garud. To make the operation worthless the Maoists started triggering land mines in different roads. Recently during the visit of Home Minister P. Chidambaram to Koraput debated and discussed how to eradicate the maoist action from these remote areas. Soon after about 70-80 platoons of BSF were deployed at the borders of Orissa, Andhra and Chattishgar to wash out red rebels in these areas. To make the action fruitful COBRA battalion and Police forces from theses three states joined hands. As the operation has speeded up in these Naxal-Hit areas, all the police stations of Un-divided Koraput is being high alerted and the border villages are frequently focused.
Air Chief Marshal Naik said they had now written to the Defence Ministry for permission to fire back at ground-based rebels in case its choppers come under attack. "It's a matter of grave concern as we have lost one air warrior because of unfriendly fire during a rescue operation," Naik said, talking ahead of Air Force Day celebrations on October 8.
However, Naik made it clear that the IAF is not currently planning any offensive operations against Naxals and ruled out the possibility of employing aircraft for attack missions or for bombing Naxal positions.
"Collateral damage is something we have to be very, very vary of. We would require 120 per cent intelligence. It may be noted that air attacks (by any nation) take place outside the country," Naik said.
Apart from seeking permission to fire back, the IAF is taking extra precautions like sending in armoured helicopters and clearing landing zones while operating in Naxal areas.
"We take all normal precautions first. The helicopters are, as far as possible, armoured and we are not sending in light choppers. The crew also wears body armour. Most importantly, we are ensuring 100 per cent sanitisation of particular areas where they land and take off," Naik said
The BANDH announcement was made through a press release by the spokesman of Bihar-Jharkhand-Orissa-Chhatisgarh Special Committee, Gopal.The banned outfit has also been observing a 'protest-week' from October 7 to 13, the release said.
On the other hand, aday after Jharkhand Special Branch Inspector Francis Induwar was beheaded by Naxalites, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram made it clear that security forces would continue to engage them till they laid down arms but said states could open a dialogue with Naxals on "issues of development, neglect, deprivation and composition of governance structures" if they gave up the path of violence. While, Defence Ministry nod likely to arm pilots in Naxal ops!
Gunship Helicopters as well as DRONA Missiles have to be used against the Aboriginal Indigenous People stranded in Rebel Belt, it is learnt. The Record is that Security Forces may not Trace the Maoists who know the Belt better and enjoy the support of the Deprived Local people. Any Retaliary Action thus automatically Kills only INNOCENT Helpless Armless People stranded in cross frie!
The Defence Ministry is all set to give the nod to the Indian Air Force's request to arm its pilots on heli-borne reconnaissance, transportation and medical evacuations in Naxal-hit areas with personal weapons and use them in event of fire from Left rebels for self-defence purposes but will not give permission to arm the choppers with heavy weapons or any offensive capabilities.
Meanwhile, The Centre on Thursday rushed additional paramilitary forces to Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, where 18 policemen were killed in an
"Additional (central) forces are in Maharashtra and they are already on way to assist the state police," Union Home Secretary G K Pillai told PTI.
A police team of 45 personnel was on a patrolling duty in the Laheri police station area of Gadchiroli district when about 150 naxals ambushed them killing 18 of them, including a sub-inspector.
While the South Block is still to take a formal decision on the Air Headquarters' request that was sent across just three days ago, top government sources told The Indian Express that it was not averse to the IAF using armoured Mi-17 and Mi-8 helicopters with pilots and accompanying loaders carrying INSAS or AK rifles for personal protection or self-defence in the Naxal-dominated territory. Except for the choppers operating on high-altitude missions, the IAF Mi-17s and Mi-8 have basic body armour to protect the pilot and the engine.
"We are a civilized country and these are our people we are confronting. Naxalites must take the path of democracy and dialogue, and abjure violence," Chidambaram said in Mumbai.
And in Thiruvananthapuram, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said "the inability of state governments and their developmental initiatives to reach the people" was "the main reason behind the growth of Naxal movements in certain states". He called for strengthening youth organisations to keep the young away from the influence of Naxalism.
However, the Defence Ministry is opposed to the use or mounting of heavy caliber weapons like rocket pods or machine guns on the IAF helicopters till the time the Air Headquarters is assigned any operational role in suppressing the Maoists. "The IAF role in the anti-Naxal operations is limited to causality evacuation or at best reconnaissance or troop deployment... The permission for the IAF to go on an offensive against Naxalites can only be approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security," said a senior official.
The Home Ministry, which is at the forefront of anti-Naxal operations by para-military forces, concurs with the Defence Ministry as it is against the use of excessive force or air power for internal security duties on account of collateral damage and brutal power projection. Despite understanding the magnitude of the Naxal problem, the North Block also sees this as a manifestation of the poor socio-economic development in the area.
The CPI (Maoist) had claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and beheading o Jharkhand Special Branch Inspector Francis Induwar whose mortal remains were laid to rest yesterday.
Meanwhile, former chief minister Babulal Marandi's Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric) will observe a statewide bandh on October 10 against alleged inaction over its charter of demands submitted before the Governor a couple of months ago.
On the same day the JMM is scheduled to hold a rally in the state capital Ranchi.
Operation Godavari to flush out Maoists from Malkangiri!After completing the Operation Green Hunt against the Maoists in Chattisgarh the central forces have reached Malkangiri to launch 'Operation Godavari' to flush out the ultras from Orissa.
According to the sources already Central forces have set up base camps in two places in the Maoist citadel to go after the guerillas, who have spread a reign of terror in the district sharing borders with Andhra Pradesh and Chhatisgarh. It was apprehended that after Operation Green Hunt the guerillas might sneak into the Malkangiri district.
Sources said locals are pinning high hopes on Operation Godavari as the Red brigade dominates large swathes of territory and the writ of rebels is unchallenged in most of the districts. People hope that the Central forces would tame the rampaging guerillas.
Meanwhile,in one of the bloodiest attacks by armed naxalites, 17 policemen were killed when a police station was attacked in Gadhiroli district of Maharashtra Thursday evening. The incident took place in a forest region where the police station is located.
On the other hand,A combined team of the elite anti-Naxal force, the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) and the Chhat-tisgarh police killed around 30 Maoist rebels on Friday in Dantewada district, about 450 km south of state capital Raipur.
Five policemen, including an assistant commandant with COBRA, Manoranjan Singh, were also believed to have been killed. Officially, however, the police confirmed only eight Maoist deaths and that of the assistant commandant.
The much hyped Operation Godavari is nothing but a smoke without fire.
Media is agog with the report of Operation Godavari, which will be taken up in Maoist infested districts of Malkangiri to start with.
And according to media central forces has already arrived and soon they will sanitize the area.
"It is a smoke and without fire", said a top official in the Government of Orissa.
Media is spinning the story and publicizing it again and again to gain currency, said he.
While no central forces has arrived in orissa, how come we start the operations?, asked the top cop.
According to him this is nothing but a 'joke' and it appears to be handiwork of some lazy scribes, who wants to make news out of nothing.
Central Government is yet to locate the CRPF personnel for anti-Maoist operations, revealed he.
He said that movement and mobilization of nearly 7000 personnel will take at least a month.
So in absence of any forces, how can we start operations?
Both print and visual media houses are running stories on Operation Godavari for last few days and officials in the Department of Home are clueless about it.
Recently taking the delay in deploying central forces into consideration, Chief Minister sent a missive to P Chidambaram to depute at least 7 battalions of forces to the state for anti-Maoist operations.
Centre is finding it difficult to deploy CRPF as the paramilitary forces are yet to retrieved from Jammu & Kashmir , said sources.
So they are thinking to deploy BSF for the time being, said an official in MHA.
However it will take some time and after the deployment sanitizing the Red Zone can be planned, admitted the top cop.
Signalling a tough mood in government in the wake of Red ultras beheading Jharkhand cop Francis Induwar, home minister P
Chidambaram on Wednesday delivered an ultimatum to Maoists that they would face the might of the security forces unless they gave up armed struggle.
Speaking in Mumbai, the minister did not mince words as he said, "As long as the CPI (Maoists) believes in armed liberation struggle, we have no option but to ask our security forces to engage them...we will arrest them, we will apprehend them." Keen to indicate its resolve, the Cabinet Committee on Security on Thursday is likely to clear an air force request to be allowed to return fire during anti-naxal operations.
The public revulsion over the killing of Francis Induwar and the reactions of the officer's bereaved family have given the government an opportunity to argue that Maoists were cold-blooded killers and not "people's warriors" looking to settle scores with an oppressive state. Wanting to ride a mood that favours action against the Red ultras, the government is preparing the ground for an all-out operation.
Chidambaram said the IAF will take counter-measures necessary to protect their choppers and pilots. In last month's major anti-naxal operation in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada, a chopper that had been deployed to airlift injured and dead personnel had come under fire. Though no damage was reported, it highlighted the risk being run by chopper crews in densely forested areas which are Red zones.
The change in government's approach which has seen it launch a hard-hitting campaign showing how ordinary, poor persons were often victims of Naxal violence rather than the "class enemy" the extremists spoke of, is quite a shift from when UPA-1 took office. At the time, the government was more prepared to go by the "grassroots" viewpoint that disenchantment with the state was leading to Maoist violence.
The experience of waiting for Andhra Pradesh naxals to come to the negotiating table proved counter-productive. Not only did they recoup, they were successful in relaying mines and coordinating with groups in other states. Now, the view that the development argument will not get off the ground unless Red zones are "liberated" is finding greater resonance even as officials agree that government needed to address the needs of people urgently.
Chidambaram took note of the need to push development in areas inhabited by tribals and small farmers who have often been ruthlessly exploited by local officials, traders and contractors. "Developmental issues, issues of neglect, deprivation, corruption and government structure can be discussed. We can bring the very development they claim to be fighting for," he said. While he did not categorise the anti-Naxal campaign as "war" saying the government would not wage war on its own people, he clearly said the theory of armed struggle was unacceptable.
Officials also point out that stepped up operations against Naxals, expected to get underway after assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana, could hardly be delayed any further. Not only had Naxals consolidated their hold in their base areas, they were now clearly marking a presence in states like Uttrakhand and looking to form cells in cities where they looked to infiltrate labour conflicts. After the Dantewada operation, it was even likely that the ultras could strike in areas outside their zones to boost morale and keep central forces on the backfoot.
Security agencies — paramilitary forces and state police — are now fully geared up to fight Maoists. A plan to deploy nearly 70,000 paramilitary personnel — drawn from CRPF, ITBP, BSF, SSB and CoBRA — has been chalked out for the states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.
"Although the operations against the ultras continue in these states, it will be stepped up once polls in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh are over. Nearly 25,000 of the central forces will be spared by the end of the month, giving us more manpower for operations," said a senior home ministry official.
The plan is to confront ultras simultaneously in all states through joint operations with a focus on two tri-junctions like Bihar-West Bengal-Orissa and Chhattisgarh-Orissa-Andhra Pradesh so that the Maoists do not slip over from one state to other.
The intended operations will be different from earlier ones as the security forces will look to stay on in areas cleared of Naxals till the civil administration fully takes over. As forces have been doing in Lalgarh (West Bengal) since June, they will fight the ultras and remain in naxal-affected zones until local police takes charge.
Even for the poll duties — guarding polling stations, poll materials and poll personnel — in Maharashtra, the Centre has deployed those 4,000 personnel in three affected districts — Gadchiroli, Gondia and Chandrapur — who are well trained in anti-naxal operations.
"They have been asked not only to do area domination before the polls but also to conduct operations on the basis of local intelligence before and after the election on October 13. Huge deployment will give them space to engage the forces in operations even during the polls, if needed," said the official.
As many as 18,000 of the total 25,000 paramilitary personnel on poll duties are being deployed in Maharashtra alone with 4,000 being placed in three naxal-affected districts there.
"It is difficult to give the exact figure. But the casualties among Maoists are much higher than we initially believed," said T J Longkumer, Inspector General of Police, Bastar region, within which Dantewada falls.
On Thursday, the force, comprising around 650 policemen, found and destroyed an arms manufacturing base of the Maoists as part of its Operation Red Hunt in Palachalma forests near the state's border with Andhra Pradesh.
On its way back on Friday, the team found and attacked another Maoist base. Two helicopters were used in the four-hour-long encounter.
Special Director General of the CRPF, Vijay Raman, chosen to lead the big anti-Maoist offensive, Operation Godavari, in Orissa, south Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, also arrived here to direct operations.
Operation Godavari follows Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's admission in different forums that Maoists were the "gravest internal security threat" the country is facing. He even admitted on Tuesday that the government had not had much success in tackling them.
The Maoists, active in around 180 of India's 610 districts across seven states, have killed about 10,500 people in eight years.
According to preliminary reports, about 300 heavily armed naxalites surrounded the police station and opened fire. In the three-hour gun battle that followed, 17 policemen were killed. Sources said that one of them could be a police officer. There is no confirmation of casualties from the naxal side.
The police station is located deep in the forest region and in a highly hostile region, sources said.
The incident comes soon after Maoists beheaded a policeman in Jharkhand a couple of days back and a day after Home Minister P Chidambaram issued a stern warning to the naxalites.
Orissa police have beefed up security to prevent Maoists sneaking into the State, following combing operations being carried out in neighbouring States.
According to senior officials, high vigilance is being maintained in the wake of ongoing operations in neighbouring areas of Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.
The security forces there have intensified patrolling in the border area including Malkangiri district, which is only 40 kms away from the area where operation Green Hunt is being conducted.
"The encounter in Chhattisgarh is 30-40- kilometres away from our border. Though there is little chance of the Maoists crossing over, but nevertheless we are vigilant," said Satya Brat Bhoi, Superintendent of Police in Malkangiri.
A combing operation called 'Green Hunt' has been launched in Chhattisgarh, while a similar operation called 'Operation Godavari' is being carried out in Andhra Pradesh.
Andhra Pradesh police activity creates tension in Orissa's Narayanpatna!
The recent pasting of wall posters by A.P police in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks of Koraput district against the Narayanpatna Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha (CMAS) leaders has created much tension in the area.According to reports,the Vizanagram Poice has pasted posters in both Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon areas warning the CAMS Secretary Nachika Linga and Wadeka Singana & Ramu Padi for not enter inside the A.P boundary.
Media reports has also confirmed pasting of posters by Vizanagaram Police.Describing the A.P police's activity as quite illegal and interference in Orissa's affair,the CMAS Secretary Nachika Linga told to this reporter over phone from an unknown place today,that the A.P police has no right to paste posters in the Orissa territory.The CMAS will organizing a massive rally at Narayanpatna on Friday to protest such activity of the A.P police, Linga said. The A.P govt is targeting the CMAS leaders vindictively as the tribal leaders are opposing the proposed A.P government's Jenjabati Dam bordering Orissa.Once the dam is constructed 12 villages in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon Bloks will be submerged,Linga said.The posters pasted by Vizanagaram police has evoked much criticism across the Koraput district.Talking to this reporter,Koraput Bar Association President Nihar Ranjan Pattnaik said the A.P police has got no right to paste posters in the Orissa territory. Describing the incident as most unfortunate and illegal,Pattnaik said the activity of A.P police will lead to tension in the area.In another incident, the CMAS led by Nachika Linga recently distributed more than 2000 acres of cultivable lands among the landless which was seized by CMAS few months back.The CMAS distributed the land as a part of its "land to landless" programme. The anti-liquor campaign has become successful in the area and not a single drop of liquor is now available in the area,Linga added.
Storage of important reservoirs in the country
Central Water Commission (CWC) under Ministry of Water Resources is monitoring storage position of 81 important reservoirs spread all over the country, of which as many as 36 reservoirs are having significant hydro-power benefits with installed capacities of more than 60 MW each. The combined live storage in these 81 reservoirs at the beginning of monsoon i.e. 1.06.2009 was 11 % of their designed capacity and stood at 59% of the designed capacity as on 24th July 2009. The present storage is 80% of last year's storage and 89% of last 10 years average storage during the same period. Out of these 81 reservoirs there are presently 31 reservoirs where this year's storage is 80 % or less than the average of previous 10 years and in remaining 50 reservoirs the storage is more than 80 % of the average of previous 10 years.
In order to derive the best possible benefits from the available water, Central Water Commission is keeping in touch with the Department of Agriculture and Co-operation and providing information of the weekly storage position to the Crop Weather Watch Group for evolving suitable crop strategies and also appraising the situation to various Departments and Ministries involved in Water Resources Planning.
Basin wise storage position as on 24.09.09 is as follows:
The storage position in Narmada, Mahi, Sabarmati, Krishna, Cauvery and East Flowing Rivers (EFRs) and West Flowing Rivers (WFRs) of South basins are better than average of previous 10 years. Mahanadi and Neighboring East Flowing Rivers, Rivers of Kutch and Tapi basins are flowing close to normal and Ganga, Indus, Godavari, are flowing deficient.
Out of 36 reservoirs with significant hydro potential, 21 reservoirs have storage build up less than the average of last 10 years capacity.
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Kundan Pahan runs Jharkhand Maoist terror-extortion ring
Manoj Prasad
Tags : Kundan Pahan, Jharkhand, Ranchi
Posted: Thursday , Oct 08, 2009 at 0520 hrs
Ranchi:
If we don't get security for our lives and property, we won't work in rural areas. — Ramsarek Ram, president, Special Branch unit, Jharkhand Policemen's Association
All top officers are protected. We work in remote areas without security. This discrimination must end. — Special Branch S-I who declines to be named
Their demands are genuine. We are looking into it sympathetically. — B B Pradhan, IG (Special Branch)
The gruesome beheading of Special Branch Inspector Francis Induwar has magnified the trauma of 3,500-odd policemen working to gather intelligence in a backward, poorly connected state 20 of whose 24 districts are under Maoist influence.
Upon their lives and work is the constant, dark shadow of a man synonymous with Maoist terror in Jharkhand, especially in and around the area where Induwar was murdered. Several years and many alleged killings later, Kundan Pahan remains out of the police's reach, running an unfettered reign of terror and extortion.
"In the six days that they had Induwar in their custody, the Pahan gang must have extracted a lot of information about intelligence personnel, their contacts and their work," said a senior IPS officer who believes that the armed men who abducted and killed Induwar were led by Pahan. "We need to review the plusses and minuses of the police strategy and intelligence network," the officer added.
According to police records, Pahan is based in the green hills and forests of Khunti, carved out of Ranchi to be a separate district in 2007. Khunti is the birthplace of Birsa Munda — the legendary folk hero who fought the Raj and agrarian exploiters, and died in prison at the age of 25 in 1900.
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Maoist held for Orissa leader's murder
Bhubaneswar, Sep 27 (IANS) A Maoist rebel allegedly involved in the murder of an Orissa political party leader was arrested from Malkangiri district Sunday, police said.
"Kotam Joga was arrested from his Togurkota village today during a combing operation by police and Special Operations Group personnel," Superintendent of Police Satyabrata Bhoi told IANS.
According to police, Joga was involved in the killing of Somnath Madakami, a leader of the Sambrudha Odisha party.
Madakami was killed in April when he was contesting assembly elections from Malkangiri constituency.
Joga was also involved in several other crimes including the murder of Aasi Rama, a villager, police said.
Three Maoist rebels held in Orissa
Bhubaneswar, Sep 7 (IANS) Three Maoist rebels were arrested in Orissa Monday in two separate incidents, police said.
"Mala Madakami, who claims to be the area commander of Vansadhara division of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), was arrested during a combing operation by police in the southern district of Malkangiri," a police officer said.
Madakami was involved in several crimes including the murder of a local leader.
In another incident, two other Maoists were arrested inside the Similipal biosphere reserve in Mayurbhanj district.
The two Maoists have been identified as Sushil Sayan and Pawal Hembram. They were involved in dozens of crimes in the district of Jajpur, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj, he said.
Maoists are active in more than half of the state's 30 districts.
Maoists threaten to kill Orissa district police chief
The outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) said in a press release that its rebels would kill some police officials posted in Rayagada district, including the District Superintendent of Police Ashish Kumar Singh.
The four-page release was sent Sunday to mediapersons at the district headquarter of Rayagada, nearly 400 km from here.
The note was allegedly sent by Dona Kesaba Rao alias Azad, who claims to be the Maoist commander of the Vansadhara division that operates in the region.
The police, however, brushed aside the threat as routine.
"They are frustrated after we arrested more than 27 Maoists, including a commander of their division, in the past two months. Besides some Maoists, including a commander, have also surrendered before the police during that period," Deputy Inspector General of Police Sanjeeb Panda told IANS.
Panda said all police officials working in areas where Maoists are active face such threats. Maoists are active in more than half of Orissa's 30 districts.
Three Maoists killed in gunfight with police in Orissa
Bhubaneswar, Aug 12 (IANS) At least three Maoists were killed Wednesday in a gunfight with police in Orissa's Rayagada district, officials said.
A joint team of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh police fatally shot the militants in a forested area under Chandili police station, about 45 km from the district headquarter of Rayagada, Ashish Kumar Singh, district superintendent of police, told IANS.
"Although no policeman was hurt we fear some Maoists may have sustained injuries," he said, adding that three rifles, a few hundred rounds of ammunition and some bags containing Maoist literature were seized from the spot.
Maoists are active in more than half of the state's 30 districts. The district headquarter of Rayagada is located 390 km from state capital Bhubaneswar.
Three women Maoist rebels killed in Orissa
Rayagada (Orissa), Aug 13 (ANI): Three women cadres of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) were killed in a firefight in Orissa, police said on Thursday.
The three were killed during a combing operation jointly launched by crack police teams from Orissa and Andhra Pradesh in the Ramnaguda-Mukundpur forest area in Rayagada district of Orissa on Wednesday.
"During the operation on August 12 in the morning when our party was moving in that area an encounter took place. In that encounter total three cadres of CPI (Maoist) have been killed," said Ashish Kumar Singh, Superintendent of Police, Rayagada district.
"Lot of ammunition, articles and literature were recovered in that encounter and dead bodies were also recovered," he added.
The police have recovered three 9 mm rifles, around 400 rounds of bullets and five kitbags containing subversive literature. (ANI)
Police gun down two top Maoist leaders in Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad, May 24 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh police Sunday gunned down two top Maoist leaders, including one allegedly involved in the assassination attempt on former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Patel Sudhakar Reddy, central committee member and K. Venkataiah, state committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) were killed in a gun battle with police in Tadvai forests in Warangal district, police said.
Sudhakar Reddy was one of the most wanted Maoist leader carrying a reward of Rs.1.2 million on his capture.
On a tip-off about the presence of few guerrillas in the area to attend a meeting, the policemen launched combing operations in the forests. Police said a gun battle ensued Sunday morning and the two guerrillas were killed.
Police recovered an AK 47 rifle, an 8 mm rifle, 1.99 mm pistol and three kitbags from the scene of the battle.
There were no casualties on the police side, which prompted Maoist sympathisers to allege that it was a stage-managed gunbattle. Maoist sympathiser and revolutionary writer Varvara Rao termed it as a "fake encounter" and alleged that the top Maoists were arrested and killed in cold blood.
Sudhakar Reddy's killing has come as a big blow to the Maoist movement, especially in Andhra Pradesh where it is on the wane due to a series of killings of top Maoist leaders and cadres in police operations.
Known as an intelligent leader, who planed attacks with the help of a lap-top, Sudhakar Reddy masterminded the assassination attempt on then chief minister Chandrababu Naidu at Alipiri near Tirupati in 2003.
He was also an accused in the killing of then state minister A. Madhava Reddy in 1999 and senior police officials Vyas and Mahesh Chandra.
Hailing from Mahabubnagar district, he was considered an expert in guerrilla warfare and claymore mine attacks. He was also the mastermind behind several attacks on police stations in the state during the last decade.
He was working as incharge of Maoist movement in Karnataka and is believed to have arrived in Warangal district three days ago from Bangalore. Police suspect that he was planning a major strike in Andhra Pradesh to revive Maoist activities in their former stronghold.
While doing his post graduation at Osmania University here in 1982, he got attracted towards Maoist movement. He later went underground and worked as 'dalam' or armed squad commander, district and state committee member and central military committee member. He also worked to strengthen the outfit in Chhattisgarh.
Sudhakar Reddy, who escaped narrowly during police operations on few occasions in the past, married Durga, also a Maoist. She had surrendered to police six months ago on health grounds.
The CPI (Maoist) has lost over 400 cadres, including several key leaders in the state, since the first-ever direct peace talks with the government collapsed in early 2005.
The police, especially the elite anti-Maoist force Greyhounds, achieved many successes in their operations. Hundreds of Maoists have also been arrested or have surrendered during the last four years.
The police claimed the Maoist violence touched the lowest ebb ever in the state with 30 percent decline in extremist activities during 2008.
More than 6,000 people have been killed in Maoist violence in the state since 1969, when Srikakulam district witnessed the first armed uprising by landless peasants.
The state has been a traditional stronghold of the Maoists, who claim to be fighting for the poor and oppressed in the rural areas.
Rights group claim Maoist leaders killed in 'fake' gun battle
Hyderabad, May 24 (IANS) Human rights groups and Maoist sympathisers Sunday said that police had killed two most wanted rebel leaders in a "fake" and "stage managed" gun battle.
The police Sunday said Patel Sudhakar Reddy, central committee and central military commission member and allegedly involved in an assassination attempt on then chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in 2003, and K. Venkataiah, state committee member of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) were killed in a gun battle with the police in Tadvai forests in Warangal district,
Alleging that the Maoist leaders were killed in cold blood, they demanded that the names of the policemen involved in the gun battle be made public and they be booked for murder.
Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC), Human Rights Forum (HRF) and Revolutionary Writers' Association condemned the killing of Sudhakar Reddy and Venkataiah by the police.
The groups refuted the police claim that the Maoist leaders were killed in a gun fight and suspect that the police arrested them four days ago in neighbouring Maharashtra, brought them to Warangal district and killed them in a "stage managed" gun battle.
APCLC general secretary Seshaiah said his group would be approaching the Andhra Pradesh High Court to demand arrest of the policemen involved and a case of murder against them as the court had recently gave clear directions in this regard.
HRF leader K. Balagopal said the police claims raise serious doubts.
He was not ready to believe that a top leader like Sudhakar Reddy was found in the forests of Warangal district.
Sudhakar Reddy's brother Prabhakar Reddy suspects that the Maoist leaders were arrested in Nashik four days ago. He said had it been a real gun battle, police would have also faced three armed Maoists who always accompany Sudhakar Reddy for his security.
Revolutionary balladeer Gaddar said killing top leaders was the policy of Congress government in the state.
"During Chandrababu Naidu's rule, police used to kill each and every cadre but ever since Rajasekhara Reddy took over he is selectively targeting Maoist leaders," said Gaddar, who had participated in the first ever peace talks between the extremists and Maoists in 2004.
Another Maoist sympathiser Varavara Rao said there was no doubt that it was a "fake" gun battle. He also demanded that the policemen involved in the encounter be booked for murder.
17 Maoists gunned down in Chhattisgarh forest
Raipur/Hyderabad, March 18 (IANS) At least 17 Maoist rebels were killed Tuesday in two gun battles with security forces in southern Chhattisgarh's forested region near the border with Andhra Pradesh. The police forces of the two states killed the Maoists belonging to the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoist) during their joint combing operations.
The Chhattisgarh police and Andhra Pradesh's elite Greyhounds forces surrounded a rebel hideout in Bijapur district's Pamer police station area, close to the Andhra Pradesh border, and opened fire.
"Rebels, about 35 in number, found it tough to handle the flash attack and retaliated with firing to sneak into nearby forests, but we gunned down 17 of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) senior cadres," district superintendent of police Ankit Garg told IANS by phone.
He said 14 bodies lying in a pool of blood with 12 weapons, including AK-47s, were recovered from the site of the gun battle, some 520 km south of capital Raipur, while three bodies were recovered during searches later.
In Andhra Pradesh, Khammam District Superintendent of Police D.S. Chauhan said 14 Maoists were killed in the gun battle with police in the forest under Pamedu police station limits.
Andhra Pradesh Home Minister K. Jana Reddy told reporters that the gun battles occurred in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. He said 14 Maoists were killed in the first gun battle while three were killed in another gunfight in the same area.
"The encounters occurred when police forces of the two states were conducting joint combing operations in the forest area," he said.
According to police officials, the dead include two top leaders and six 'dalam' or armed squads commanders and five women. The police also recovered large cache of arms and ammunition from the scenes of the two gunfights.
Majority of Maoists are believed to be from Andhra Pradesh. There were no reports of any loss of life among the policemen.
The Maoist sympathisers termed the gun battles as 'stage managed' and accused police of deliberately killing the Maoists.
Revolutionary balladeer Gaddar alleged that the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh was brutally suppressing the Maoist movement and warned that people would teach it a lesson in the next elections.
Another Maoist sympathiser and writer Varvara Rao also termed the gunfights as fake. "Had they been real gun battles, police would also have suffered casualties," he said.
He demanded that the policemen involved be booked on charges of murder.
The killings are yet another blow to the Maoist movement that has considerably weakened during last three years in this southern state, which was once their stronghold.
The Maoists claim to be fighting for rights of poor and landless farmers.
Maoists' strike hits life, iron ore movement in Chhattisgarh
Raipur, May 20 (IANS) A two-day strike called by the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in the violence-hit Bastar region of Chhattisgarh hit normal life in the interiors on the first day Wednesday and brought transportation of iron ore to a halt, police said.
Maoists have put heavy wooden logs on National Highway 221 in Dantewada district and National Highway 16 in Bijapur district and various state highways, police added.
The railway authorities have cancelled for three days the goods train that transports iron ore from the National Mineral Development Corporation's (NMDC) Bailadilla mines in Dantewada district to Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The train runs on the Kottavalasa-Kirandul (KK) rail line.
"Security in all vulnerable areas, mostly the government facilities, and police posts in forests have been beefed up," Pawan Deo, deputy inspector general at police headquarters here, told IANS.
"We are taking all precautionary measures to deal with the strike but it has affected life in Bastar and road and rail traffic are the worst-hit," Deo added.
Maoists have been running a parallel administration since late 1980s in the interiors of the state's southern Bastar region. The 40,000 sq km region is spread over five districts - Dantewada, Bijapur, Kanker, Narayanpur and Bastar.
Over 1,500 people have been killed in the state in Maoist violence since Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh in November 2000. Maoist rebels have stepped up violence in the state this month and have killed at least 35 people - mostly security personnel - in separate incidents.
Maoist group's founding day hits life in Chhattisgarh
Raipur, Sep 21 (IANS) Normal life was affected with vehicles remaining off the roads in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region fearing attacks by the Leftist rebels who Monday marked the anniversary of their banned group, the Communist Party of India-Maoist.
The terror outfit was formed Sep 21, 2004, with a merger of the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) and the People's War Group (PWG).
"There was no untoward incident reported from anywhere in Bastar but buses were off the road fearing attacks," T.J. Longkumer, Inspector General of Police (Bastar range), told IANS.
The mineral rich Bastar comprises five districts - Dantewada, Bijapur, Kanker, Narayanpur and Bastar - and is considered to be the nerve centre of Maoist terrorism in the country.
The normal life was most affected in Bijapur and Dantewada districts where the Maoists had put heavy wooden logs on roads to block traffic.
The lone passenger train run on Kottavalasa-Kirandul line from Dantewada district's Kirandul to Andhra Pradesh's port city of Visakhapatnam was restricted to Jagdalpur amid possibility of attacks.
Meanwhile, police said that two guerillas were arrested from a hilly areas in Kanker district during a search operation Monday evening.
Salvage Operations
in the Godavari Delta, India
This is the story of how the inaction of officials in India caused a water crisis of huge magnitude, and how timely, concerted community action averted it. In 2000-2001, a whole season's rice crop was saved, thanks to a unique coming together of both the government and the stakeholders.
Since 1877, the Godavari barrage (a dam with an upstream reservoir) has been providing irrigation water for two rice crops a year for more than 200,000 hectares (500,000 acres) of land in the western Godavari delta of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The mighty Godavari flows horizontally from western India to the south-east.
Known as the rice bowl of India, the Godavari delta assures farmers two crops a year. Here, agricultural workers command relatively high wages when compared to their peers elsewhere in the country.
On August 30, 2000, the Godavari area saw unprecedented floods and the water level at the Godavari barrage at Dowaleswaram in Andhra Pradesh almost reached the danger level of 5.41 meters (17.7 feet). The Rabi rice crop – the second crop that follows the first monsoon crop – was expected to be a bumper one, and the farmers were a happy lot.
But four months later, in December, a red alert was sounded; amazingly, the area was declared to be in the clutches of a drought! Water for irrigation was found to be only half of the normal 640,000 acre-feet.
What went wrong? Believe it or not, the responsible staff were negligent in closing the floodgates of the barrage soon after the water levels receded to safe levels. Thus, no water could be stored in the barrage, and the water flowing in the now-placid river was significantly inadequate.
The Andhra Pradesh chief minister immediately swung into action – he coordinated with the district collector's office to release drought-relief funds. Other state government departments were drawn in as well, including those of revenue, irrigation and command area development, electricity, panchayat raj (local, village-level government), public health, and the police.
Thousands of cultivators came together in water users' associations out of a sense of collective urgency, and joined hands with the government. The entire second crop was saved.
A slew of simple and complex water conservation methods were effectively deployed by the state government, resulting in judicious use of the limited water. First, the inflows from the barrage to the canals were maximized, particularly from an inter-state hydroelectric project in the upstream. This water was used for irrigating the command (storage) area in the most economic manner.
Simultaneously, water from government-owned major, medium and minor irrigation projects within and adjacent to the command area was diverted. Canal water was banned for aquaculture, industrial use, and the irrigation of land not included under the registered command area. Long overdue plugging of holes in water pipes was undertaken on a war footing, and surface water from drains and other water bodies located at lower reaches were pumped for irrigation purposes.
The "turn system" that obstructs water in a canal to raise the water level until gravity takes over and it flows to the fields, was strictly monitored and implemented to democratize irrigation and minimize waste. Once a field is irrigated and the obstruction removed, this system allows water to be blocked at a lower level in the canal in order to irrigate another field. Regulating obstruction time to a minimum lead to considerable water saving.
As part of the salvage-and-save-water operations, other innovative moves were afoot as well. Transplanting of rice seedlings was successfully advanced. Weeds and silt in the channels were removed to facilitate water saving through evapotranspiration, and to increase the storage capacity of the canals.
Since it is optimal rather than excessive water usage that leads to higher yields, the water shortfall in 2000-2001 ironically resulted in increased grain production! The overall gain was a dizzy 580 million rupees (US$12.3 million).
http://proxied.changemakers.net/journal/03july/godavari.cfm
Dry spell hits kharif operations in W. Godavari
G. Nagaraja
Prospects bleak in some 40,000 acres under Kovvada, Tammileru and Yarra Kalva reservoirs
Water wars being witnessed in
tail-end areas
Upland ryots asked to go for less water-intensive crops
Delayed start: Dry spell results in delay in paddy transplantation at Kothuru in West Godavari district. —
ELURU: Signs of drought conditions have started showing up in West Godavari district, which is mainly dependent on agriculture. Delayed monsoon and the resultant dry spell have hit kharif operations hard.
The ideal location of the district between two mighty rivers – the Godavari and the Krishna – fails to insulate itself from water woes. The Kovvada, Tammileru and Yarra Kalva reservoirs are drying up, bringing the kharif prospects in the total ayacut of nearly 40,000 acres under a serious threat.
'Poor management'
Water wars have begun in tail-end areas of the Godavari Western Delta. An angry mob of farmers went berserk in Poduru mandal and detained officials of the Irrigation Department for their alleged failure in doing justice to tail-end farmers in water supply.
"Plenty of water (7,200 cusecs per day) is being released into the canals from the river for agricultural operations. Yet, the conflicts have become inevitable. It's only because of poor water management by irrigation officials," criticises senior peasant leader M.V. Suryanarayana Raju.
Paddy transplantation has not yet taken place in 50 per cent of the total ayacut of 4.4 lakh acres under the Godavari Western Canal system. Similar is the fate of 54,000 acres under the Krishna Eastern Canal.
Late transplantations have taken place in the upland region and in parts of the delta tracts leading to apprehensions among farmers over a sharp decline in yield.
Contingency plan
The district comprises 22 delta and 24 upland mandals. According to Collector A. Vani Prasad, rainfall in 43 mandals is below normal. The district registered 53 per cent of deficit rainfall by the end of July.
Minister for Arogyasri Pitani Satyanarayana unveiled a contingency plan drawn up by the district administration at a media conference here on Saturday, seeking the farmers in the upland tracts to go for less water-intensive crops such as red gram, maize and jowar as a substitute to paddy.
He informed that that a help centre was set up at the Collectorate for regulation of water supply through the canal system and to monitor the dry spell conditions.
http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/02/stories/2009080251880300.htm
"Investing Out of the Crisis and Attaining International Development Goals": Key note address by Shri Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development in the First Ministerial Plenary Forum at the 35th UNESCO General Conference in Paris
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Following is the text of the key note address of Shri Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development, on "Investing Out of the Crisis and Attaining International Development Goals" on 8th October in the First Ministerial Plenary Forum at 35th UNESCO General Conference held in Paris:
1. It is a signal honour for me to be the Keynote Speaker in this august forum. We gather here in the aftermath of the havoc caused by the global economic crisis. Many economies feel that the worst is over; that the signs of revival may soon bring cheer. While there are indications that the global economy is picking up and that the economic downturn may end sooner than later, lives of millions have already been devastated. Those hit hard by the crisis, continue to struggle to lead a life of human dignity and respect. Ironically, those who contributed least to the crisis are the most severely affected. Some warn us of the "lost decades for development" which could have catastrophic consequences for both the rich and the poor.
2. In the wake of the crisis the global economy witnessed unacceptable inflation in food items and commodities. This along with the impact of global warming negatively affected trade. The shrinking demand in the developed world, which continues, has impacted millions dependent on the buoyancy of export markets. Private capital flows to emerging economies are projected this year by the Institute of International Finance, to be down by 82 per cent from the boom year, 2007. The World Bank considered the crisis as a "development emergency", with the developing economies loosing access to $700 billion. The "lost generation," with added deaths of 1.5 to 2.8 million infants by 2015 might be a stark reality. Annually, over a 100 million people are expected to be tipped into extreme poverty for the duration of the crisis. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently warned that the international community, "should not lose sight of the challenges and plight of hundreds and hundreds of million of the poorest people of the developing countries who have been impacted by this crisis." The hardship triggered by the crisis, impacting the least developed, calls for strong public policies and investment programmes.
3. The present economic crisis has further strained the public exchequer in many countries leading to reduced public spending in the social sector adversely effecting on the progress of their development goals. This jeopardizes progress towards the Internationally Agreed Development Goals (IADGs), in particular those adopted at the Copenhagen World Summit for Social Development and the UN Millennium Summit.
4. As we struggle to survive, the stark reality is that today hundreds of thousands of people, particularly women and children, die of malnutrition and lack of basic health care facilities. Almost a billion people around the world are illiterate; more than a billion struggle to survive on less than a dollar a day; one in five children aged between six and eleven are out of school; one in four children drop out before completing the basic education cycle. The uneven and unjust pattern of development in most nations is not conducive for a prosperous, peaceful and sustainable future. It is here that the United Nations' system and UNESCO in particular, can play a significant role in helping to evolve a more peaceful, just and equitable world order where every human being can live with dignity and respect.
5. Despite the crisis we must continue our efforts towards the MDG's. By now we know what works and what does not. The value of public expenditure and international development aid, though critical, are no longer the determinants in reaching our goals. The uneven progress of developing societies towards the MDG's is not only attributed to the size of physical capital, the quality of natural and human resources and the content of available modern technology; of equal importance is the role of enabling institutions and the existing socio-political climate. The nature and quality of institutions and the level of political commitment play a key role to make development inputs, including public expenditure and international assistance, more efficacious.
6. The world economy has undergone many important changes in the last few decades. The following three realities may be noted :- (a) global economies being truly interdependent;
(b) new and more efficient technologies ;
(c) need for action on global warming and climate change.
7. The last few decades have demonstrated that global economies are truly interdependent and are becoming increasingly integrated. This is as exemplified by cross-border manufacturing processes, business process outsourcing and international trade in services. Consequently, the impact of change in a country or region has global ramifications. Global integrated economies require globally integrated societies. The 'demographic dividend' in some regions must not be allowed to turn into a 'demographic nightmare'. A globalized world, will ultimately require the outsourcing of human skills in regions which will witness a 'demographic deficit'. Skilled human capital will have to be imported to certain regions to sustain economic growth. In that sense the developed world has a huge stake in ensuring that the human resource available in large numbers in developing economies is adequately empowered by investing in their education and skill development. Education for All(EFA) must become a reality through collaborative efforts.
8. To meet the requirements of EFA and to provide secondary and vocational training to the youth, we require millions of teachers. The young may be hungry for learning, but we may not have quality teachers to ignite their minds. The social order must respect teachers who all play a pivotal role in building a peaceful and just society. I would like to call upon UNESCO to commence a world-wide campaign to restore the respect of a teacher in society. It would be in the fitness of things if we all take up a "Teachers First Campaign" aimed at restoring respect for this noble profession.
9. New technologies have changed the way we live and work. They present real challenges but have enormous potential. Information and communications technologies have transformed the world in the way information can be accessed. Intellectual inputs and knowledge, are available at the students doorstep. ICT can transform societies if used in the field of education and other social sectors. Technology provides us a neutral platform to bridge inequities. In India, technology has been the harbinger of change. The green revolution lead to improved farm productivity and increase in rural incomes in the late sixties. Subsequently, use of modern and appropriate technologies through our national missions for telecommunications, drinking water supply etc. have brought considerable improvement in the lives of the poor and marginalized sections of society. Our "Science for Equity Empowerment and Development (SEED)" programme seeks to provide opportunities to motivated scientists and field level workers, to take up action oriented and location specific projects aiming at socio-economic upliftment of the poor and disadvantaged sections, through appropriate science and technology interventions especially in the rural areas. I would urge UNESCO to start a similar global campaign leveraging scientific knowledge for societal benefit. I am happy to state that we in India have made major progress in ICT and have also developed e-learning materials. We would be glad to share this knowledge with the world community.
10. Now I came to the third important development which needs urgent attention : global warming and climate change. In my view, education, particularly higher education, must inculcate the values of sustainable development in the minds of our youth. While planet earth has provided an average per capita footprint of 1.76 Hc, developed countries have been using a footprint much beyond the above per capita entitlement. It is ironic that both in the past and currently the developed world, with higher human development indexes, had and have unsustainable lifestyles and consumption patterns. Education instead of becoming an instrument of sustainable development, has become a major cause for unsustainable lifestyles. If developing countries adopt and imitate Western styles of production and consumption, it is estimated that we would need four times the resources planet earth provides by the year 2055 to sustain us. It is, therefore, imperative that developing countries adopt, and adapt to, sustainable lifestyles, as they implement their development strategies. Meanwhile, developed countries will have to reduce their carbon footprint while ushering more sustainable life styles.
11. What we need is a drastic change in the development paradigm. The international community must find ways and means to discourage over consumption in general and wastage in particular. Over exploitation of the resources to sustain current patterns of consumption does violence to nature. The Mahatma's messages of non-violence assume relevance even in the area of sustainable development. He said that the earth provides enough for everyone's need but not for everyone's greed. Considering the significance of his message, I must thank UNESCO and in particular the Director-General, Mr. Matsuura and all his colleagues for their interest in our proposal to set up the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development as a Category – I Institute of UNESCO in India. I hope that this proposal will be approved by the General Conference, for the Institute to spread the message that unsustainable development will breed conflict and that sustainable development is a necessary pre-requisite for peace.
12. The growing recognition of the need for global cooperation to tackle challenges of development and realization of human rights for all, culminated in the conceptualization and adaptation of the UN Millennium Declaration in September 2000 and the Dakar Declaration on Education for All. The global community realized that the challenges of development and the fostering of human rights cannot brook any further delay and that a global commitment was necessary. The Millennium declaration includes eight international development goals that build on agreements made at major UN conferences and represent commitments of both developed and developing countries for promoting the quality of life in our global village. The declaration, endorsed by 189 countries, was then translated into a roadmap setting out goals to be reached by 2015.
13. The first seven goals, as we are aware, focus on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; achieving universal primary education; promoting gender equality and empowering women; reducing child mortality; improving maternal health; combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; and ensuring environmental sustainability. The eighth goal, perhaps the most critical of all (as it envisages translation of political commitments of both developed and developing nations into action for achieving the first seven goals, as endorsed at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002, and again at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in August 2002), calls for the creation of a global partnership for development, with targets for aid, trade, and debt relief. While significant steps have been taken by the international community during the last decade, regions and individual countries have experienced uneven levels of progress towards these goals. What is more disturbing is the fact that some regions and developing countries which began with a large deficit in these goals in 2000 continue to lag far behind others.
14. As we are all aware, at the global level, significant progress has been made towards achieving the millennium development goals, particularly goals related to education (goals 2 & 3). The concern however, is the slow pace of realization in most low-income countries. While most countries in Asia have made headway in reducing extreme poverty and hunger, we see little progress of this in Sub-Saharan Africa. The number of out-of-school children at the primary level fell from 103 million in 1999 to 73 million in 2006. Even in South Asia, nearly 18 million primary school age children are still out-of-school. The Net Enrolment Ratio (NER) at primary level increased from 80% in 2000 to 90% in 2006 in South Asia; 58% to 71% in sub-Saharan Africa and 85% to 88% in Western Asia during the same period. What is interesting to note that while South Asia has been able to address around 50% of the deficit in the NER at the primary level during 2000 and 2006, Western Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa has covered a much smaller proportion of the deficit during the same period, i.e. 20% and 31% respectively.
15. Similarly, during 2000-06, South Asia has made the most progress in gender parity. Sub-Saharan Africa and Western Asia, which have the largest gender gaps in primary enrolment, have also shown slow progress towards promoting gender equity in secondary enrolment. The number of girls per 100 boys enrolled in primary schools increased from 84 in 2000 to 95 in 2006 in South Asia (a reduction of 69% in the gender equity deficit); 88 to 91 in Western Asia (a reduction of a quarter of the deficit); and 85 to 89 in Sub-Saharan Africa (27% reduction in gender equity deficit). Steady progress in participation in primary education across the globe keeps the hope alive for achieving universal primary education, a pre-condition for improving gender equity in secondary education.
16. As mentioned by me earlier, apart from physical capital, natural and human resources and modern technology, the nature of political commitment and the key role good governance plays in achieving the development goals cannot be minimized. I am happy to inform that a significant initiative reflecting the political commitment of the Government of India to universalize 8 years of schooling, has recently been translated into action by making elementary education a fundamental right of every child in our country. With the enactment of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, every child between the ages of 6 to 14 years now has the right to free education. The Act while acknowledging the participation of private education providers seeks to ensure that equity and quality go hand in hand with improved access.
17. Regarding Universal Elementary Education, the Government of India had launched in 2001 its flagship programme Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) which is implemented by the Central Government in partnership with State Governments. The main components of the SSA are : provision of basic minimum conditions- access, physical infrastructure and teachers; training of teachers and strengthening of academic support institutions; defining learning outcomes and assessment/monitoring of students' achievement levels; capacity building for planning, management, monitoring and research/evaluation; education for disadvantaged groups; and social mobilisation and community involvement.
18. Consequent to operationalisation of the Education for All programme named 'Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan' (2001), access has improved significantly. With the opening of more primary and upper primary schools, based on systematic analysis of district level data on access and availability, it has been possible to cover all the hitherto underserved districts with schooling facilities. Consequently, the number of habitations with a primary school within 1 km is 98 per cent at present, and those with an upper primary school within 3 km have increased to 86 per cent. Further, there are a large number of Education Guarantee Centres (EGS) in unserved or underserved areas at primary level. Significant efforts have been made to address the educational aspiration of children with special needs. Resultantly, the enrollment of children with special needs in regular schools is showing a marked upward trend. Home based education is a unique strategy for this group.
19. Some of the major developments in elementary education in our country during the post-Dakar period have been: (a) reduction in the number of out of school children, from about 32 million in 2002-03 to 7.05 million in March 2006; (b) reduction in gender gaps, at the primary stage from 5.5 percentage points in 2002-03 to 4.2 percentage points in 2005-06; and at the upper primary stage, from 10.7 percentage points to 8.8 percentage points. The Gender Parity Index at the primary stage in 2005 was 0.95 while it was 0.88 for the upper primary stage. (c) bridging social disparity - the share of Scheduled Caste students in total enrollment moved up to 20.72 per cent at the primary stage and 19.42 per cent at the upper primary stage. For Scheduled Tribe students, share in total enrollment moved up to 11.75 per cent at the primary stage in 2005-06 and 9.28 per cent at the upper primary stage. (d) drop-out rates at lower primary stage declined from 39.03 per cent in 2001-02 to 28.49 per cent in 2004-05. For girls, it declined from 39.88 per cent to 24.82 per cent – a decline of more than 15 percentage points.
20. India recognizes that the task of nation building, reducing poverty and ensuring education for all, cannot be met without a large stock of human capital equipped with quality knowledge and skills, to foster a knowledge society. Accordingly, universalisation of secondary education and significant expansion of higher education are priority areas for implementation. Plans have been delineated and goals set for growth of high end scientific and technical institutions alongside vocational training to equip our youth meet the challenges of a globally competitive environment.
21. Even with impressive growth in India during the last decade, poverty continues to be concentrated in rural areas and in less developed states. We have targeted to bring down the proportion of population living below the poverty line to 19% by 2015. To address this issue, our Government has enacted the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (NREGA) which provides for legal entitlement for 100 days of employment to adult members of any rural household at the statutory minimum wage. The Central Government outlay for the scheme has been enhanced to Rs. 39,100 crores ($ 8 Billion) during 2009-10. The enhanced outlay from Rs. 11,000 crores in 2006-07 to Rs. 39,100 crores during the current year and expansion of the programme to cover 593 districts in the country, shows our commitment and political will to reduce poverty and to ensure means of livelihood for the rural poor.
22. Similarly, our Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012) proposes a comprehensive approach to individual healthcare, public health, access to clean drinking water and sanitation facilities. There has been increase in budgetary outlays in the critical sector of public health and drinking water. The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) aims to provide universal access to affordable and quality healthcare in the rural areas and seeks to achieve the goals set under the National Health Policy and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) based on health insurance and public-private partnership to provide health services to the urban poor is also proposed under the Eleventh Plan. The Government of India is also taking numerous measures for an estimated 2-3 million people living with HIV/AIDS, in the nature of targeted interventions, promotion of awareness and care and support programmes.
23. India has an intensive programme of "Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)" with the objective to improve health and nutritional status of pre-school children in the age group of 0 to 6 years. The aim is to reduce incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition, school-drop outs and help in enhancing the capacity of the mother and the family to look after the development needs of the child. The components of ICDS are : non-formal pre-school education, supplementary nutrition, immunization, health check-up, referral services, and nutrition & health education.
24. India has incorporated integrated sustainable development into its planning process. It is based on the appreciation of the close links between poverty and environmental degradation and the harmful effects felt by the poor who depend on land as a means for their livelihood. Sustainable development for India is embarking on a development path that includes making the right choices for sustainability. Mahatma Gandhi, had articulated a similar concern much before the discourse on sustainable development assumed its present relevance. In the late 1920s, he warned, "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West…If an entire nation of 300 million took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts".
25. The Constitution of India, enshrines the values of Sustainable Development. Article 48 A clearly mentions that "The State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wild life of the country". Similarly, under the Fundamental Duties enumerated, Article 51A(g) stipulates that it shall be the duty of every citizen "to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers and wild life, and to have compassion for living creatures". The Supreme Court of India has been pro-active and rendered several judgments relating to issues of environmental protection and sustainable development including compulsory Environment Education in schools. The National Curriculum Framework, 2005 and National Environment Policy, 2006 reiterate the national commitment for environment protection and sustainable development. 26. While member states undertake to address the challenges of climate change and sustainable development, it is necessary that adequate efforts are made to find appropriate technology responses to some of these issues. The effective use of science and technology for building a Green society and embracing a Green Economy cannot be realized without collective efforts at the global level for development and transfer of appropriate technologies and skills both through North-South and South-South cooperation. Similarly, as mentioned by me earlier, member states also need to seriously address the issues of unsustainable consumption patterns and habits.
27. A major task for all of us is to further improve capacity development and public service delivery mechanisms, at all levels, in order to implement the internationally agreed development goals. We must also work towards social, economic, and political inclusion and reduction of regional disparities. This requires concerted efforts to promote greater access to vulnerable sections for basic services, opportunities for decent work, and participation in decision-making. Commitment of governments for enhanced public expenditure setting up of transparent, accountable structures and ensuring efficiency of institutions, along with use of modern and appropriate technologies combined with partnerships involving the private sector and "not for profit institutions" will help us translate our vision and strategies for achieving the MDGs. The task is incomplete, the journey unfinished.
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=53085
Maoist arrests made, but Jharkhand yet to notify UAPA
A Jhargram court on Wednesday, therefore, declined to grant another 18-day police remand for Mahato under UAPA. Instead, it remanded him in police custody for just three more days. Three other co-accused — Ranjit Murmu, Sambhu Soren and Sugen Murmu — were remanded in judicial custody till October 21. Mahato, who was arrested on September 26 from Birkanr in Lalgarh, has already spent 12 days in police custody.
Soon after the setback in court, state director-general of police Bhupinder Singh called on advocate-general Balai Ray to end the confusion over the UAPA.
In Kolkata, the police did not book those arrested — Swapan Dasgupta and Sadananda Sinha, editor and publisher of the People's March magazine — under the UAPA. Instead, sedition charges were brought against them under the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The Sealdah Court has remanded them in police custody for 13 days.
Mahato was taken from Kolkata to Jhargram under tight security on Tuesday evening. On Wednesday, PCPA supporters set a trekker and a tractor on fire after dragging out their passengers at Pirrakhuli near Salboni to demanding his release.
On Tuesday evening two members of Bandimukti Committee, a human rights organization were picked up from central Kolkata while they were pasting posters demanding the release of Mahato.
Mahato, 44, spokesperson of Peoples' Committee Against Police Atrocities was arrested in Lalgarh, about 200 kms to the west of Kolkata on 26 September by two policemen posing as journalists o a Singapore-based news organization.
"Two of our members, Bhanu Sarkar and Ramesh were putting up posters demanding the release of Mahato near Student's Hall in central Kolkata. Policemen, in plain clothes picked them up. Two others managed to escape," said Choton Das, secretary of the Bandi Mukti Committee.
Both Sarkar and Ramesh are in their mid-thrities.
"We have picked them up for questioning," said Javed Shamim, deputy commissioner of the detective department of Kolkata police.
Two suspected Maoists have been arrested in Hooghly district, about 35 kms from Kolkata.
A printing press in Maniktala area in north Kolkata was raided and sealed by the police on Tuesday. Police said that the press was used to print maoist posters and leaflets. Six persons have been detained in this connection.
NAXAL MENACE
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Kolkata: For more than four days now Lalgarh tribal leader Chhatradhar Mahato is facing CID interrogation in Kolkata. Mahato faces the charge of waging war against the state with his Maoist links.
Meanwhile, the state government's indication that it could also implicate a section of Kolkata-based cultural personalities for supporting the Lalgarh movement has sparked off a controversy. The list includes Mahato's mentor and author Mahasweta Devi who maintained that her support is for the tribals and never for the Maoists.
"I am waiting for the day… Bengal government can do what it wishes. If they say unlawful activity, I say my weapon is my pen and paper, nothing else. My right is this and if the West Bengal government thinks they can arrest writers, filmmakers, artists then it is sick," Mahasweta Devi said.
With over 70 Maoist killings in the past four months, the Bengal government made it clear that the crackdown will continue. And the ghastly murder of Jharkhand police officer Francis Induwar has strengthened its resolve.
"The Maoists have today beheaded the cop they had kidnapped. Should we rejoice that?" Chief Secretary of West Bengal Ashok Mohan Chakraborty said.
The state's principal Opposition Trinamool Congress has already drawn the political battlelines by expressing solidarity for the intellectuals in question.
"We still feel that the intellectuals are being falsely implicated. The people of Bengal will react sharply if the harassment continues," Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee said.
Questions have been raised on whether Unlawful Activities Prevention Act can be imposed on activists and supporters of the Lalgarh People's Committee which is not a banned organisation. But since the committee worked allegedly under the direct influence of the Maoists, the government may have difficulty in keeping sympathizers out of its net.
This tight rope walk will be Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's latest dilemma before he meets Home Minister P Chidambaram in Delhi to discuss Naxalism early next week.
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Zero tolerance
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Zero tolerance is the concept of compelling persons in positions of authority, who might otherwise exercise their discretion in making subjective judgments regarding the severity of a given offense, to impose a pre-determined punishment regardless of individual culpability or "extenuating circumstances".[citation needed]
Zero tolerance policies are studied in criminology and are common in formal and informal policing systems around the world.[citation needed] The policies also appear in informal situations where there may be sexual harassment or Internet misuse in educational and workplace environments.[citation needed]
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[edit] History and etymology
The term "Zero Tolerance" appeared for the first time in a report in 1994.[1][2] The idea behind this expression can be traced back to the Safe and Clean Neighborhoods Act, approved in New Jersey in 1973,[3][4] of which inherits the same underlying assumptions.[5][6][3] The ideas behind the 1973 New Jersey policy were later popularized in 1982, when a popular magazine published the right-wing 'broken window' theory of crime.
In 1982, conservatives James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, formulated their theory in the article Broken Windows,[4] published in The Atlantic Monthly. The Atlantic Monthly was not a scientific journal of criminology, which would have applied peer review, but instead a cultural magazine of large circulation.
The title of the article comes from the following example:
| " | Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside. Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or breaking into cars. | " |
According to scholars, zero tolerance is the concept of giving carte blanche to the police for the inflexible repression of minor offences, homeless people and the disorders associated with them.[5][6][7] A well known criticism to this approach is that it redefines social problems in terms of security, [8] it considers the poor as criminals, and it reduces crimes to only "street crimes", those committed by lower social classes, excluding white-collar crimes.[9]
On the historical examples of the application of zero tolerance kind of policies, all the scientific studies conclude that it didn't play a leading role in the reduction of crimes, a role which is instead claimed by its advocates.[9] In New York, the decline of crimes rate started well before Rudy Giuliani came to power, in 1993, and none of the decreasing processes had particular inflection under him.[9][10] In the same period of time, the decrease in crime was the same in the other major US cities, even those with an opposite security policy; finally, in the years 1984-7 New York already experienced a policy similar to Giuliani's one, but it faced a crime increase instead.[9]
Two of the best American specialists, Edward Maguire, an Administration of Justice Professor at George Mason University, and John Eck from the University of Cincinnati, rigorously evaluated all the scientific work designed to test the efficiency of the police in the fight against crime. They concluded that "neither the number of policemen engaged in the battle, or internal changes and organizational culture of law enforcement agencies (such as the introduction of community policing) have by themselves impact on the evolution of offenses."[9][11]
The crime decrease was due not the work of the police and judiciary, but to economic and demographic factors. The main ones were an unprecedented economic growth with jobs for millions of young people, and a shift from the use of crack towards other drugs.[9][12]
Since the original 1973 program had a positive impact on the citizens, who were left with the false impression it had improved their safety, the program has been described as a public relation policy instead of a safety one.[3]
[edit] Areas of application
The term is also used in the context of driving under the influence of alcohol, referring to a lower illegal blood alcohol content for drivers under the age of 21.[citation needed] In the U.S., the legal limit in all states is now .08%, but for drivers under 21 the prohibited level in most states is .01% or .02%.
[edit] Zero tolerance and harassment and bullying in the workplace
Various institutions have undertaken zero tolerance policies, for example, in the military, in the workplace, and in schools, in an effort to eliminate various kinds of illegal behavior like harassment. Proponents hope that such policies will underscore the commitment of administrators to prevent such behavior. Others raise a concern about this use of zero tolerance policies, a concern which derives from analysis of errors of omission vs errors of commission. Here is the reasoning. Failure to proscribe unacceptable behavior may lead to errors of omission -- too little will be done. But zero tolerance may be seen as a kind of ruthless management, which may lead to a perception of "too much being done". If people fear that their co-workers or fellow students may be fired or terminated or expelled, they may not come forward at all when they see unacceptable behavior. (This is a classic example of Type One/Type Two errors). The Type Two error, where it occurs with respect to zero tolerance, leads to the situation where too stringent a policy may actually reduce reports of illegal behavior. (See Rowe&Bendersky, 2002).
[edit] Zero tolerance and narcotics
In the United States, zero tolerance as a approach against drugs, was originally designed as a part of the War on Drugs under Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush to curb the transfer of drugs at US borders. Law-enforcement was to target the drug users rather than the transporters or suppliers under the assumptions that harsh sentences and strict enforcement of personal use would reduce demand and therefor strike at root cause of the drug problem. The policy did not require additional laws, instead existing law was enacted with less leniency.[13] Similar concepts in other countries, such as Sweden,[14] Italy,[15] Japan,[16] China, India and Russia[17] have since been labeled zero tolerance.
A consistence of zero tolerance is the absolute dichotomy between the legality of any use and no use, equating all illicit drugs and any form of use as undesirable and harmful to society. This is contrasting to viewpoints of those who stress the disparity in harmfulness among drugs, and who would like to distinguish between occasional drug use and problem drug use. Although harm reductionists also see drug use as undesirable, they hold that the resources would do more good if they were to be allocated towards helping problem drug users instead of combating all drug users.[13][18]
On a more general level, zero tolerance-advocates holds the aim at ridding the society of all illicit drug use and that criminal justice has a important role in that endeavor.[13] The Swedish parliament for example set the vision a drug-free society as the official goal for the drug policy in 1978. This vision where to prompt new practices inspired by Nils Bejerot, practices later labeled as Zero tolerance. In 1980 the Swedish attorney general finally dropped the practice of giving waivers for possession of drugs for personal use after years of lowering the thresholds. The same year police began to prioritize drug users and street-level drug crimes over drug distributors. In 1988 all non medicinally prescribed usage became illegal and in 1993 the enforcement of personal use were eased by permitting the police to take blood or urine samples from suspects. This unrelenting approach towards drug users, together with generous treatment opportunities have won UNODC's approval and is cited by the UN as one the main reason for Sweden's relatively low drug prevalence rates.[14] However, that interpretation of the statistics and the more general success of Sweden's drug policies are highly questioned.[19][20][21]
[edit] Zero tolerance and transportation
In Europe, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany and Sweden have zero-tolerance law for drugs and driving, this as opposed to the other main legal approach where laws forbidding impaired driving is enacted instead. The legislation among countries that practice zero tolerance on drug use for drivers varies. Only a limited set of (common) drugs are included in the zero-tolerance legislation in Germany and Belgium, where in Finland and Sweden all controlled substances fall into the scoop of zero tolerance, if they are not covered by a prescription.[22]
[edit] Law enforcement in the United States
The terminology is most commonly used to describe the allocation of additional resources to combat identified crimes in particular geographical locations or for particular purposes. Hence, extra police patrols are deployed in known hot spots where prostitution and drug dealing are problems for local residents, specialized police units monitor the behavior of repeat offenders on the streets, and on-scene arrests in incidents of domestic violence are all claimed to be effective in reducing crime.
According to Sherman (1997), those that do not work include: neighborhood watch programs organized with police; arrests of juveniles for minor offenses; arrests of unemployed suspects for domestic assault; increased arrests or raids on drug market locations; storefront police offices in high crime locations; and police newsletters with local crime information. Those that appear promising, defined by the authors as "programs for which the level of certainty is too low to make firm conclusions, but for which based on the limited evidence there is some reason to expect some successful reduction in crime," include: proactive drunk driving arrests with breath testing may reduce accident deaths; Community policing with meetings to set priorities may reduce perceptions of crime; police showing greater respect to arrested offenders may reduce repeat offending; polite field interrogations of suspicious persons may reduce street crime; making arrest warrants to domestic violence suspects who leave the scene before police arrive may reduce domestic violence; higher number of police officers in cities may reduce crime; and gang monitoring by community workers and probation and police officers may reduce gang violence. Note that friendly or cordial policing appears to be effective at reducing recidivism risks for some serious crimes.
[edit] Criticism
 | This article's Criticism or Controversy section(s) may mean the article does not present a neutral point of view of the subject. It may be better to integrate the material in such sections into the article as a whole. |
Some critics have argued that "Zero tolerance" policing violates the Law Enforcement Code of Conduct passed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which says in part: "The fundamental duties of a police officer include serving the community, safeguarding lives and property, protecting the innocent, keeping the peace and ensuring the rights of all to liberty, equality and justice" (cited in Robinson, 2002). This code requires that police behave in a courteous and fair manner, that they treat all citizens in a respectable and decent manner, and that they never use unnecessary force. As Robinson (2002: 206) explains:
| " | Zero tolerance policing runs counter to community policing and logical crime prevention efforts. To whatever degree street sweeps are viewed by citizens as brutal, suspect, militaristic, or the biased efforts of 'outsiders,' citizens will be discouraged from taking active roles in community building activities and crime prevention initiatives in conjunction with the police. Perhaps this is why the communities that most need neighborhood watch programs are least likely to be populated by residents who take active roles in them. | " |
It has been argued that zero tolerance policing will fail because its practice is alleged to destroy several important requisites for successful community policing: namely police accountability, openness to the public, and community cooperation (Cox and Wade 1998: 106).
Opponents of Zero Tolerance believe that such a policy neglects investigation on a case-by-case basis and may lead to unreasonably harsh penalties for crimes that may not warrant such penalties in reality. Another criticism of zero tolerance policies is that it gives officers and the legal system little discretion in dealing with offenders.
[edit] See also
- Blue-collar crime
- Bob Kiley
- Community policing
- Crime mapping
- Ray Mallon
- Tolerance
- Fixing Broken Windows
[edit] Notes
- ^ Kelling, G.L., Julian, M. and Miller, S., (1994) Managing 'Squeegeeing': a problem solving exercise, New York: NYPD.
- ^ Dennis and Erdos ( 2005, p. 231 ) say that the 1994 report by Kelling et al., was possibly "the first to use the term 'no tolerance'—soon to become 'zero tolerance'"
- ^ a b c Tonello (2007)
- ^ a b Wilson and Kelling (1982)
- ^ a b Wacquant, Loïc (1999)
- ^ a b Marshall 1999, p.2
- ^ "anti-social behaviours associated with the homeless" as in Kelling's own terminology
- ^ Wacquant, Loïc (1999): "une comparaison méthodique montrerait tout de suite que la prétendue « montée inexorable » des « violences urbaines » est avant tout une thématique politico-médiatique visant à faciliter la redéfinition des problèmes sociaux en termes de sécurité", eng: "A comparison would show immediately that the so-called "inexorable rise" of the "urban violence" is first and foremost a political-media theme aimed at facilitating the redefinition of social problems in terms of security"
- ^ a b c d e f Wacquant, Loïc (2002)
- ^ Fagan et al. (1998)
- ^ Eck and Maguire (2000)
- ^ Bowling (1999)
- ^ a b c "Zero Tolerance"-entry Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco: Learning About Addictive Behavior Rosalyn Carson-Dewitt, et al. MacMillan Reference Books, 2001-2006
- ^ a b UNODC: Sweden's successful drug policy, 2007
- ^ Peter Popham (2003-04-18). "Italy signs up to zero-tolerance drugs crackdown". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-signs-up-to-zerotolerance-drugs-crackdown-594851.html. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
- ^ "Statement to the UN general assembly by Mr. Makoto Hashizume, Delegation of Japan, on Agenda Item 106: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and Agenda Item 107: International Drug Control". Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan. 2005-10-07. http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/speech/un2005/un0510-15.html. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
- ^ Luke Baker (2009-03-10). "Drug policy groups decry fresh UN anti-drug strategy". Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/europeCrisis/idUSL9658002. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
- ^ Tsui, Ming-sum "The harm reduction approach revisited: An international perspective" International Social Work 2000, vol 43, page 243
- ^ Cohen, Peter (2006). Looking at the UN, smelling a rat. Amsterdam: CEDRO.
- ^ Tham, Henrik (September 1998). "Swedish Drug Policy: A Successful Model?". European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research (Springer Netherlands) 6 (3): 395–414. doi:. http://www.springerlink.com/content/xx0525211gh14017/. Retrieved 2009-03-20 -->.
- ^ "[http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13237193 Failed states and failed policies : How to stop the drug wars]". the Economist. 2009-03-05. http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13237193. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- ^ P. Lillsunde, T. Gunnar "Drugs and driving: The Finnish perspective" Bulletin on Narcotics, vol. LVII, Nos. 1 and 2, 2005 page 214]
[edit] References
- Bowling, B. (1999) The rise and fall of New York murder: zero tolerance or crack's decline? vol. 39, no. 4 (1999): 531-554.
- Cox, S. & J. Wade. (1998). The Criminal Justice Network: An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Dennis, Norman; Erdos, George (2005) Cultures and Crimes, cap. 13 Dealing with Diversity: Libertarianism and Multiculturalism pp.169–183 ISBN 1-903 386-38-1
- Eck, John E.; Maguire, Edward R. (2000) Have Changes in Policing Reduced Violent Crime?, pp. 207–265 in The Crime Drop in America, edited by Alfred Blumstein and Joel Wallman. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000.
- Fagan, Jeffrey; Franklin Zimring et June Kim, Declining Homicide in New York City : A Tale of Two Trends, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 88-4, été 1998, pp. 1277–1324.
- Marshall, Jayne (1999) Zero Tolerance Policing. South Australia Office of Crime, Issue 9 March 1999.
- Robinson, M. (2002). Justice Blind? Ideals and Realities of American Criminal Justice. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
- Rowe, Mary and Corinne Bendersky, "Workplace Justice, Zero Tolerance and Zero Barriers: Getting People to Come Forward in Conflict Management Systems," in Negotiations and Change, From the Workplace to Society, Thomas Kochan and Richard Locke (editors), Cornell University Press, 2002
- Sherman, L., D.; Gottfredson, D; MacKenzie, J; Eck, P; Reuter & Bushway, S. (1997). "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising." [1]
- Snider, Laureen. (2004) "Zero Tolerance Reversed: Constituting the Non-Culpable Subject in Walkerton" in What is a Crime? Defining Criminal Conduct in Contemporary Canadian Society. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, and Montreal: Laval University Press (French translation), 2004: 155-84.
- Tonello, Fabrizio (2007) Così negli Usa è fallita la Tolleranza zero [eng.: So Zero Tolerance failed in the US] published by il manifesto 31 August 2007, p.5 [2] [3] [4] (Italian)
- Wacquant, Loïc (1999) Penal 'common sense' comes to Europe - US exports zero tolerance [5] April 1999 Le Monde Diplomatique. (original french version, ita version)
- Wacquant, Loïc (November 1999) Prisons of Poverty
- Wacquant, Loïc (2002) Sur quelques contes sécuritaires venus d'Amérique - Les impasses d'un modèle répressif (French) May 2002 Le Monde Diplomatique. (ita version)
- Wilson, James Q.; Kelling, George L.. "Broken Windows: The police and neighborhood safety" (PDF). The Atlantic Monthly, March 1982. http://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/_atlantic_monthly-broken_windows.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-03. [6]
[edit] External links
- http://www.overcriminalized.com Legislative Update Summeries and case studies covering Zero Tolerance laws and policies.
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