Wednesday, September 7, 2011

We would CONTINUE the Protest Rally Mobilisation at STATE, District and Sub Division Level and Continue to MARCH to DELHI, Waman Mehram Has declared.

We would CONTINUE the Protest Rally Mobilisation at STATE, District and Sub Division Level and Continue to MARCH to DELHI, Waman Mehram Has declared.

Yet another Diversion! At least 11 peple died and 91 injured after a high intensity bomb blast outside the Delhi High Court on Wednesday morning!It would Invoke Blind Nationalism to Justify the War against TERROR and would EXPEDIATE Further the US Most Wanted Reforms DRIVE!

Cash-for-vote scam to rock Parliament on last day of monsoon session! 315 CROREPATI and 265 Chargesheeted memebers of Loksabha, What REPRESNTION we Have!

Panel discusses tax sops to manufacturing for attracting FDI

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As I warned that the FDI Fed Brahaminical Media would NOT care to Cover Bharat Mukti Morcha Mulnivasi Rally at Ramlila Ground, the venue of ANNA CIVIL SOCIETY Relaunched Anti Reservation Movement Launching with Brand Equity of Anti Corruption Campaign, it turned out to be Reality. More than TWO Lac activists from excluded communities consisting the Accurate Representation  of Majority Indian People thronged the Ground to Demand OBC Head Count. No less than the Opposition NDA Chairperson Sharad Yadav, Ex Minister and Prominent SC leader Ramvilas Paswan and other dignatories addressed the Rally presided by Mulnivasi Bamcef President Waman Meshram. But the MEDIA did not cover.

We would CONTINUE the Protest Rally Mobilisation at STATE, District and Sub Division Level and Continue to MARCH to DELHI, Waman Mehram Has declared.

My Book on Pranab`s Budget was launched at the Rally and every copy is sold out. even I could NOT get one. I was in Delhi from 1st to 4rth september and could NOT update my blogs meantime!

Panel discusses tax sops to manufacturing for attracting FDI!

Cash-for-vote scam to rock Parliament on last day of monsoon session! 315 CROREPATI and 265 Chargesheeted memebers of Loksabha, What REPRESNTION we Have!


Yet another Diversion! At least 11 peple died and 91 injured after a high intensity bomb blast outside the Delhi High Court on Wednesday morning!It would Invoke Blind Nationalism to Justify the War against TERROR and would EXPEDIATE Further the US Most Wanted Reforms DRIVE!Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee Succeeded to Promote ETHNONATIONALIST Bengali Polarisation for CORPORATE Raj in Bengal simply rejecting TEESTA Treaty with Bangladesh! However, a wave of disappointment and frustration swept across Tripura as the Delhi-Dhaka talks failed to ensure transit facilities for the northeast in general and the state in particular through Bangladesh.RSS also Protested FREE Transit for Bangladesh and the ENCLAVE Treaty!

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The parliamentary forum of OBC MPs is likely to discuss the demand for representation for weaker sections on the multi-member Lokpal being considered by the government.

The forum will meet at the residence of its convenor Congress MP V Hanumantha Rao and although the agenda listed does not deal with the Lokpal bill now being examined by a parliamentary standing committee, it is expected to be discussed.

The forum has articulated OBC issues and has been agitating for the formation of a formal parliamentary committee for backward castes. It also wants constitutional powers for the National Commission for Backward Classes.


LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan today raised questions over Anna Hazare''s insistence on inclusion of lower bureaucracy under Lokpal, expressing fear that such a provision could be used to target Dalits and OBCs who have a "sizable" presence in lower rungs of officialdom.

Addressing the Bharat Mukti Morcha MULNIVASI rally demanding caste-based census, Paswan said certain organisations supporting Hazare''s movement against corruption were "manuvadis" (pro-upper caste people) and demanded reservation for minorities, Dalits and OBCs in the institution of Lokpal.

"The Jan Lokpal bill seeks inclusion of lower bureaucracy under Lokpal. In lower bureaucracy, there is a sizable representation of SC/STs and OBCs.

"If Hazare''s bill becomes law, anyone can file a false complaint against a poor peon or clerk and he or she will have to fight those charges in a high court," Paswan claimed.

The Rajya Sabha MP from Bihar also asked the government not to stoop before anyone who launches a movement like the one led by Hazare, saying, "Tomorrow, if anyone sits on fast and manages to gather thousands of people, will the government accept any of his demands?"

However, JD (U) chief Sharad Yadav, who also addressed the rally said, "Hazare''s movement against corruption is a big help in the fight for the rights of the weaker sections.

Corruption is one of the major reasons for poverty and his movement certainly helped us."

Yadav said he feels bad that instead of politicians launching a movement against corruption, it was a 74-year-old man who took the initiative. He said, "I hope that the Standing Committee will take a rational decision on the inclusion of lower bureaucracy under Lokpal."

A day after Anna Hazare's anti-corruption rally was called-off, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) started the mammoth task of cleaning up the Ramlila Maidan.

Due to incessant rains, water had collected in patches, leaving the ground slushy and uneven. The civic agency said the ground will be ready to host the next event, which will be a protest rally by Bharat Mukti Morcha on September 1.

From September 6, Ramlila performances will be staged here.

However, India Against Corruption, organizer of the Anna rally, was yet to handover the ground to MCD as it had booked it until August 31. that it will level the ground before the next rally.

The ground has been booked by Bharat Mukti Morcha from September 1 followed by Ramilla organizers from September 6.

"We had levelled the ground twice while Anna Hazare's protest was going on: we used 800 tonnes of soft sand and concrete, but rain washed away all our efforts. played spoilsport. We had used close to 800 tonnes of soft sand and concrete to level the ground, but all our efforts were washed away by rain.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has criticised the Jawaharlal Nehru University for failing to fill 1,016 seats in various courses in the past five years. Also, the CAG has also lashed out at the varsity for not utilising funds well.

The CAG blamed the defective admission policy of the varsity according to which only one single list of selected candidates is to be released. The second list was to be taken out only if the intake in any programme fell short by 50 per cent. This condition was not met and the university did not release second cut-off list.

The CAG opined that the varsity could have given admission Indian aspirants against the vacant seats meant for foreign nationals by modifying its admission policy.
The JNU failed to implement OBC policy in admissions and did not fully utilise the OBC grant. The varsity even diverted OBC grant for other purposes.

The CAG came out heavily against JNU for losing interest by parking a huge fund of `1.5 crores in savings bank account and for unfruitful expenditure of `1.77 crores on e-governance.

In addition to it, the varsity did not utilise 31 per cent of the infrastructure grant during the period of report.
The JNU did not implement the recommendations of the Punnayya Committee (1992-93) regarding mobilisation of internal resources. The university could generate 1.49 to 5.91 per cent only of its total recurring expenditure as against 15-25 per cent recommended by the Punnayya committee.

The varsity is facing shortage of teaching staff by 33 per cent of the total sanctioned posts in teaching cadres remained vacant as of March 2010. The CAG also said that over 20 per cent students drop out or fail in the courses.
    

 Amid fears of slowdown, a high- level meeting headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday discussed ways to increase tax benefits to the manufacturing sector to attract more overseas investment.

The Committee, which had its third meeting here today, also gave various suggestions for avoidance of taxation on dividend of Indian companies on investment in global markets, besides reduction in time for settlement of tax disputes.

"The members of CDTAC gave various suggestions... (giving) more tax benefits for manufacturing sector for attracting more FDIs, reduction in time for giving its advance ruling in reduced time frame by the Authority for Advance Ruling," a finance ministry statement said.

Growth in the manufacturing sector dipped to 7.2 per cent in the April-June quarter from 10.6 per cent in the corresponding period of 2010-11.

Also, the overall economic growth in the first quarter this fiscal was at the 18-month low of 7.7 per cent, against 8.8 per cent in the corresponding period last fiscal.

The Government is aiming to increasing manufacturing sector's share in GDP to 25 per cent by 2025, from 16 per cent at present, and and create create 100 million jobs.

The meeting was attended by Minister of State for Finance S S Palanimanickam, members of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and other senior officials of the Finance Ministry.

    

    

    

    

2 SEP, 2011, 09.37PM IST, PTI

Direct Taxes Code may come into force from April next year, says Pranab Mukherjee

NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today hoped that the Direct Taxes Code (DTC), which seeks to replace the Income Tax Act of 1961, would come into force from April 1, 2012.

"If we have it (the report of Standing Committee) in the Winter Session (of Parliament), I will have no problem in effecting it from April 1, 2012," Mukherjee said in an interview.

The DTC is an ambitious tax reform that will replace the half a century old direct tax laws.

On the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Mukherjee said, "We are on track ... there has been some progress".

He said both the Centre and the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers were in talks for implementation of the GST regime.

Besides Parliament, the GST Bill needs to be cleared by half of the state Assemblies. Once implemented, GST would subsume most of the indirect taxes, like excise duty.

On economic prospects this fiscal, Mukherjee said agricultural output is expected to be good. Besides, a better show by the core sector industries would help the country in achieving economic growth in the coming quarters.

"Growth scenario will move upwards from the second quarter or at least from the third quarter onwards," he said.

While the Reserve Bank has pegged the economic growth for 2011-12 at 8 per cent, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council has estimated it at 8.2 per cent.

The Indian economy expanded at the slowest pace in six quarters by 7.7 per cent in the first (April-June) quarter of the current fiscal. It was 8.8 per cent in the corresponding period last fiscal.

The output of eight infrastructure industries rose at its fastest pace in 15 months in July at 7.8 per cent, against 5.7 per cent in the corresponding period last fiscal.

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    The arrest of two former BJP MPs in the cash-for-vote scam is set to rock Parliament tomorrow with the opposition planning to give notices for suspension of Question Hour to discuss this issue and demand a deeper probe into the role of theCongress in the matter.

    BJP sources said NDA Working President L K Advani will give a notice for suspension of Question Hour and a discussion on the new developments in the cash-for-vote scam in the Lok Sabha. A similar notice will be given by party MP Ravi Shankar Prasad in the Rajya Sabha.

    This is likely to disrupt proceedings tomorrow which is the last day of the Monsoon session of Parliament.

    The main opposition is unhappy not only with the arrest of its two former MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora but also over the fact that no Congress MP has been indicted in the cash-for-vote scam despite BJP allegation that legislators were offered bribes to save the UPA government.

    Senior BJP leaders held a meeting yesterday night to discuss the new developments in the cash-for-vote scam. In the late night meeting it was decided that the party will disrupt Parliament over the arrest of Kulaste and Bhagora in the scam.

    However, with the Delhi High Court blast taking place today morning, the plan was shelved at the last moment.

    BJP top brass is angry that though Kulaste and Bhagora, along with fellow MP Ashok Argal, had acted as whistleblowers during the July 2008 Trust Vote, they have been treated at par with Amar Singh, who they allege had paid the bribe to buy their votes to save the Congress-led UPA-I government.

    Amar Singh has also been sent to Tihar jail by the court in the cash-for-vote scam.

    BJP has alleged that Amar Singh was working at the behest of the Congress to save UPA-I.

    7 SEP, 2011, 05.32AM IST, ET BUREAU

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    NEW DELHI: The 2008 cash-for-votes scandal was back in the news, following Amar Singh's arrest on Tuesday, with BJP and CPM alleging Congress was the beneficiary. Opposition parties said it needed to be probed on whose behest Amar Singh acted in 2008.

    "The foremost question arises as to who were the beneficiaries of this (buying votes) actiona¦ Weren't the UPA government and Dr Manmohan Singh the beneficiaries? How come the beneficiaries are not in the picture," BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, after Amar Singh's arrest.

    He said it needed to be clarified by the government and termed it as the scandal of the century. "This is the right time for Amar Singh to say the trutha¦for whom did he work towards saving the government," Rudy said.

    BJP's Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Singh Bhagora, then party MPs who walked into Lok Sabha waving bundles of cash, just before the trust vote, were also arrested with the court rejecting their bail. The BJP has maintained that whistleblowers were being entrapped.

    "I don't have any faith in Delhi Police and this government. Delhi Police took three years, they only worked when court forced them. Even a blind man will know that government is entrapping the whistleblowers," said BJP's Balbir Punj.
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    Jan Lokpal Bill Contents Draconian Clauses

    - Citizens for Social Justice -

    Hyderabad, September 6, 2011,



    Citizens for Social Justice

    P. O. Box 2174,

    Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, 500003


    Jan Lokpal Bill Contents Draconian Clauses

    Team Anna's Civil Society Does Represent the Nation

    Let 2014 General Election Decide on Jan Lokpal Bill


    Citizens for Social Justice consisting of Prof Kancha Ilaiah, Dr. John Dayal – member of National Integration Council, Dr. Joseph D'souza – President of All India Christian Council and many eminent leaders from Muslim, Dalist and OBC address in a press conference held at Hyderabad on Jan Lokpal Bill.


    The Jan Lokpal prepared by the Anna Hazare's Team has such draconian clauses if that institution is established as they suggested, the Indian constitution and the parliamentary democracy will simply get into a crisis."


    We as the representatives of the SC/ST/BC Minority communities are of the firm opinion that only after this constitutional governance is put in place, as it was laboriously institutionalized by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and other nationalist leaders, the representatives of these communities, even in a marginal way, occupied some positions in the state sector. The system has improved the socioeconomic status of the historically oppressed masses in a marginal way. But for the present constitutional system even that would not have been possible.


    Our experience is that normally the best of the upper caste forces hesitate to implement reservations keeping thousands of posts vacant.


    Though very few could occupy the unreserved higher positions, the way in which the upper caste media and officialdom choose and pick Dalits/OBC and Minorities' representatives in the administration and harass them is shocking.


    A Lokpal Bill of such powers (whether of Government or of other groups) should be placed before the people as part of political parties' manifestoes in the general elections. If the BJP and the Team Anna think that the entire nation is with them they should go to election with Jan Lokpal Bill in 2014 and get the approval of the majority."


    Even the Government Bill, in whatever form it could be, has to be debated by the whole nation in the elections of 2014.


    They cannot make us believe that corruption cannot be handled with the existing laws just for two more years. In India's caste culture if a Dalit or Aadivasi comes to position of eating two meal a day and can send one's children to school he/she is branded as corrupt. And if an upper caste person builds a house of 400 crore rupees for a small family living he/she is not treated as corrupt. The definition of corruption differs greatly between Dalit-Bahujan, Minorities and Hindutva Anna Hazare forces. Only a national referendum on this issue protects the constitution and democracy.


    We appeal to all the SC/ST/BC and Minority law makers of the country to oppose this mode of introduction of Lokpal Bill and stop it as they have done in the case of Women's Reservation Bill. We appeal to the ruling UPA not to yield to the Hindutva Hazare's political blackmail. The SC/ST/BC and Minorities cannot be deceived with hunger strikes as they were at the time of the POONA PACT.


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    This PR was webcasted on September 06 2011 .
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    SERVATION

    Injustice undone
    AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA

    Volume 28 - Issue 19 :: Sep. 10-23, 2011
    INDIA'S NATIONAL MAGAZINE
    from the publishers of THE HINDU
    Jawaharlal Nehru University's faulty admission procedure leads to the historic correction by the Supreme Court.

    SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY
    Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University participate in a rally supporting the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in Central educational institutions, at India Gate in New Delhi. A June 2006 photograph.
    USHAM ROJIO from Imphal, Manipur, is a contented man today. After three long years of struggle, he has secured admission to one of the premier universities of India, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi.
    Sitting in his hostel room on the university campus, the student from a humble background recalls how he succeeded in his struggle to pursue a research degree in JNU. When, in 2008, the Union government announced its policy of 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC), he had just passed out from Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi with a postgraduation in English. "OBC reservation in Central educational institutions came as a welcome surprise. I wanted to study more, though I had to finance myself through scholarships. Only JNU, known for its student-friendly policies, could have given me, with my limited resources, a good academic experience. I decided to apply for its M.Phil programme in English in 2008, thinking that the new reservation policy would help me secure admission," Rojio recalls. That year, his name was not on the list of selected candidates. He joined a publishing house to sustain himself in Delhi.
    Since higher studies was his primary goal, he applied in JNU again in 2009 – this time for M.Phil in Theatre and Performance Studies. As in the previous year, he had qualified in the written examination but the viva-voce robbed him of a place on the final list. In 2010, he applied again for the same course, qualified in the written examination again, and waited for the results to come out after his viva-voce, which according to him, had gone well. But yet again, he did not make it to the final list.
    Around the same time, the JNU Students' Union (JNUSU), led by the All India Students' Association (AISA), was leading a struggle against what it thought was an utterly faulty implementation of the OBC reservation policy by the university administration. The students' unions found that this prevented many OBC students from securing admission in JNU. Since 2008, the AISA-led JNUSU had collected useful data, through the Right to Information Act, which suggested that the OBC reservation model followed in JNU had become an indirect way of denying OBC candidates admission and filling the seats meant for them with general candidates.
    It was in 2010 that the JNUSU got in touch with Rojio to tell him that he had scored 61 per cent in his 2009 entrance test (50 out of 70 in the written examination and 11 out of 30 in the viva-voce) and yet had been denied admission. Rojio, along with another such victim, Apurva Yadav, filed a suit in the Delhi High Court against the JNU administration. On September 7, 2010, the High Court gave a judgment in favour of Rojio and Apurva, which the Supreme Court upheld on August 18, 2011.
    Faulty admission
    So, what was the faulty model that JNU was implementing with regard to OBC reservation? When the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in Central educational institutions was announced, it came with two riders. First, that the reservation would be implemented over a period of three years so as to achieve the total of 27 per cent. Thus, in 2008, only 12 per cent of the seats would be reserved for OBC candidates. In 2009, it would be 18 per cent; and in 2010 27 per cent. The second rider was that as seats would be reserved for OBCs, there would be simultaneous, proportional increases in the number of general seats. So, in 2008, there was approximately an 18 per cent increase in the general category seats; in 2009, it was 36 per cent. From 2010 onwards, there was to be a 54 per cent increase in the total number of seats. All Central educational institutions had been given, since 2008, large funds to improve the infrastructural assets in order to meet the requirements of an increased student strength in each classroom.
    Following agitations and petitions before courts by anti-reservation activists, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court tried to resolve the confusion over the issue of "cut-off marks" or "eligibility conditions" for OBC candidates. The Bench suggested that the cut-off marks for OBCs could be 10 per cent below the cut-off marks for general-category applicants.
    JNU, however, took advantage of the usage of the word "cut-off" in the Supreme Court order and interpreted the clause in its own way. JNU fixes the minimum eligibility marks between 40 and 50 per cent for different courses when the admission programme is announced. After the judgment, JNU started to apply the eligibility marks criterion only for general-category candidates. It did not say what the minimum eligibility marks for OBC candidates were but decided the "cut-off marks" for OBC candidates only after all the general-category seats were filled. It fixed a band of marks up to 10 per cent below the marks secured by the last candidate admitted under the general category. As a result, if an OBC candidate secured marks within that band, he would be given admission. Otherwise, even if he secured 70 per cent, as against the minimum of 40 per cent eligibility marks announced in the prospectus, he would not get a seat, if the band of marks was higher or the last general-category student had scored 81 per cent (an 81 per cent for the last general candidate would mean that no OBC candidate scoring below 71 per cent would get a seat).
    Consequently, the admission of OBC candidates became dependent on the performance of general-category students every year and remained a variable component. The Aditya Mukherjee Committee in charge of implementing the OBC reservation in JNU was of the view that OBC reservation done on the basis of minimum eligibility and not by cut-off marks as interpreted by JNU would result in compromising merit. It also said that it would be impossible to handle students from such a varied bandwidth in a single classroom.
    As a result, many OBC seats remained vacant in the last three years. A Right to Information (RTI) application by AISA reveals that in 2008, when there was 12 per cent OBC reservation, 53 OBC seats remained vacant in JNU. In 2009, when there was 18 per cent reservation, 86 seats remained vacant and in 2010 when there was 27 per cent reservation, 277 seats remained vacant. As the Supreme Court had said in its judgment that the vacant seats in the OBC category could be given to the general-category students, vacant OBC seats were duly given to general-category students. This was apart from the proportional seat increase for general-category students.
    V. SUDERSHAN
    Students of Delhi University, IIT Delhi and Indraprastha University march to the Rashtrapati Bhavan to submit a memorandum protesting against the proposed 49.5 per cent reservation for OBCs, in New Delhi in April 2006.
    Said Sucheta De, general secretary of AISA: "In a way, the JNU authorities charted a road map to fill in a larger number of general-category students and deny the OBCs their rightful admission. The meaning of cut-off marks stood changed after the OBC reservation was announced. Such a procedure was arbitrary and discriminatory, apart from being unknown with regard to admissions in educational institutions. The minimum eligibility marks for admission to a course of study is always declared before the commencement of the admission programme for an academic year. And such a procedure completely went against the very idea of reservation – that is, to assist students from deprived backgrounds. Since then, we have been demanding that it should be mentioned in the prospectus that cut-offs and eligibility marks are one and the same. OBC cut-offs cannot be a variable component dependent on the performance of general-category students. Since the eligibility marks for general candidates is 45 per cent for most courses, it should be 35 per cent for OBC candidates as per the original reservation judgment."
    Many other universities, including Delhi University (DU), Allahabad University, and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), followed the JNU model. Among Central universities, only Hyderabad Central University and the All India Institute for Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have followed the correct model since 2008. There were protests in DU to which the university authorities said that they were gradually lowering the cut-off marks for OBC candidates. But as in the case of JNU, the DU authorities never admitted that cut-off marks and eligibility marks were one and the same. The university authorities said that the seats fell vacant every year because there were not enough applications from OBC candidates.
    Initially, the JNUSU did not intend to take the legal route. It was successful in gathering support among students and concerned citizens such as the late human rights activist K. Balagopal and the pro-reservation activist and former Indian Administrative Service officer P.S. Krishnan. The academic council (AC) of JNU relented following campaigns and passed a resolution to implement the correct model in March 2010. But after a legal notice by an anti-reservation group called Youth for Equality (YFE), JNU's then Vice-Chancellor B.B. Bhattacharya stayed the AC resolution. Many OBC candidates were denied admission again.
    It was then that AISA mobilised a few victims of the system to file a suit in the Delhi High Court. On September 7, 2010, the High Court upheld the JNUSU's position. "The cheque of reservation of 27 per cent issued by the legislature to the OBCs in accordance with the Constitution of the country cannot be made to bounce…. The policy adopted by UOI [Union of India] and JNU amounts to the executive taking away what the legislature has given to the OBCs. The same cannot be permitted to happen…. Procedure followed by JNU and the stand of the UOI regarding reservation for OBCs is thus declared to be bad," the High Court verdict said. The Union of India found mention in the judgment because it maintained a strategic silence on the faulty admission policy.
    Rojio and Apurva Yadav were given late admissions when they appealed to the JNU management after the judgment, but the injustice meted out to other OBC candidates who had lost out because of the faulty procedure remains undone. On September 13, 2010, the YFE and former IIT Madras Director P.V. Indiresan filed a special leave petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court challenging the High Court verdict. On August 18, 2011, the apex court, in its historic judgment, vindicated the JNUSU's stand and dismissed Indiresan's appeal. The judgment firmly upheld that "cut-off" and "minimum eligibility" were one. The court ordered that in universities where admissions are still under way, OBC seats must be filled by OBC candidates alone; only in the absence of OBC candidates who fulfil the qualifying/eligibility marks can those seats be converted to general-category ones.
    Therefore, the percentage of OBC candidates in all Central universities has gone up significantly this year. According to an RTI application filed by AISA, in courses where admission is made partly through viva-voce, the number of OBC candidates selected is smaller despite the performance of OBC candidates in the written test being on a par with the general candidates. "Data show that most students who get low marks are students from the OBC, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe categories. Doubts linger that the faculty members could be biased against the reserved category students as viva-voce, unlike the written examination, gives the faculty members a chance to meet the candidate and know his category. We have been demanding that the weightage of viva-voce in admissions should not be more than 15 per cent as against 30 per cent in JNU at present," said Radhika Krishnan, a research scholar in JNU and an AISA activist.
    The struggle of progressive groups to ensure equitable platforms for deprived students continues. There are constant demands from progressive student groups for adequate student representation in the decision-making bodies of Central universities to prevent such mishandling and misinterpretation of policies by the university authorities.
    http://www.frontline.in/stories/20110923281903700.htm

    POORNIMA JOSHI NEW DELHI, AUGUST 25, 2011 | UPDATED 12:09

    Dalits call Anna stir 'upper caste'Dalit protesters block a road in the heart of Delhi to protest against Anna Hazare's campaign.

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    Theanti-politician feelinggenerated by Anna Hazare's agitation, combined with Arvind Kejriwal's association with the Youth for Equality, the organisation that spearheaded the anti-reservation agitation in the AIIMS, has triggered a sense of unease among parliamentarians belonging to Dalit and backward communities.
    Dalit and OBC MPs on Wednesday lamented the "attack on the supremacy of Parliament and the Constitution". From BJP's Hukumdeo Narain Yadav to JD-U president Sharad Yadav and Lok Janshakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan, there was a sharp attack on what the MPs said was an attempt to "undermine the Constitution".
    This happened on a day when Dalit leader Udit Raj of the All India Confederation of SC/ST Organisations led a march of around 500 activists from Jantar Mantar to India Gate againstHazare's agitation. The rally brought peak hour evening traffic to a crawl in central Delhi.
    "Anna must clarify his stand on several issues before he speaks about the Jan Lokpal Bill," Raj said. The protesters said Hazare's protest was as "upper caste movement that has little to do with the oppressed classes of society". Udit Raj's supporters criticised Team Anna's Bill for leaving out of Lokpal's ambit NGOs, media and the corporate sector.
    Like them, the Dalit MPs too felt that the Jan Lokpal Bill assumes supremacy of an unelected panel over legislature, executive and the judiciary. This has instilled a fear among MPs belonging to weaker sections who perceive Hazare's stir as an upper- caste movement.
    Narain Yadav, a Lok Sabha MP from Bihar, expressed his unhappiness at the " exclusion" of weaker sections from the debate at the BJP parliamentary party meeting.
    JD-U president Sharad Yadav received applause from the treasury as well as the Opposition benches when he said corruption in society was linked to the caste system and couldn't be eliminated through a law alone.
    "No law can prevent corruption that is inherent in Indian society because of the caste system. Unless there is social justice, corruption will continue to plague the system. When the drains are flowing with sewage, how will sprinkling a bit of DDT help? You need to clean the drain," Yadav said in the Lok Sabha.


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