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Dabba Sutta: About Dabba Mallaputta (1)
I have
heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Savatthi,
in Jeta’s Grove, Anathapindika’s monastery. Then Ven.
Dabba Mallaputta went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down
to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One:
“Now is the time for my total Unbinding, O One-Well-Gone!”
“Then
do, Dabba, what you think it is now time to do.”
Then Ven.
Dabba Mallaputta, rising from his seat, bowed down to the Blessed One and,
circling him on the right, rose up into the air and sat cross-legged in the
sky, in space. Entering the fire property and emerging from it, he was totally
unbound. Now, when Dabba Mallaputta rose up into the air and, sitting
cross-legged in the sky, in space, entered the fire property and then emerged
from it and was totally unbound, his body burned and was consumed so that
neither ashes nor soot could be discerned. Just as when
ghee or oil is burned and consumed, neither ashes nor soot can be discerned, in
the same way, when Dabba Mallaputta rose up into the air and, sitting
cross-legged in the sky, in space, entered the fire property and then emerged
from it and was totally unbound, his body burned and was consumed so that
neither ashes nor soot could be discerned.
Then, on
realizing the significance of that, the Blessed One on that occasion exclaimed:
The body disintegrated, perception ceased, pain &
rapture were entirely consumed, fabrications were stilled: consciousness has
come to its end.
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753Evaṃ me sutaṃ— ekaṃ samayaṃ
bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. Tatra kho bhagavā
bhikkhū āmantesi— “bhikkhavo”ti. “Bhadante”ti te bhikkhū bhagavato
paccassosuṃ. Bhagavā etadavoca—
754“Dabbassa, bhikkhave,
mallaputtassa vehāsaṃ abbhuggantvā ākāse antalikkhe pallaṅkena nisīditvā
tejodhātuṃ samāpajjitvā vuṭṭhahitvā parinibbutassa sarīrassa jhāyamānassa
ḍayhamānassa neva chārikā paññāyittha na masi. Seyyathāpi nāma sappissa vā
telassa vā jhāyamānassa ḍayhamānassa neva chārikā paññāyati na masi; evamevaṃ
kho, bhikkhave, dabbassa mallaputtassa vehāsaṃ abbhuggantvā ākāse antalikkhe
pallaṅkena nisīditvā tejodhātuṃ samāpajjitvā vuṭṭhahitvā parinibbutassa
sarīrassa jhāyamānassa ḍayhamānassa neva chārikā paññāyittha na masī”ti.
755Atha kho bhagavā etamatthaṃ
viditvā tāyaṃ velāyaṃ imaṃ udānaṃ udānesi—
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756 “Ayoghanahatasseva, |
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jalato jātavedaso; |
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Dahara Sutta: Young
I have
heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Savatthi
in Jeta’s Grove, Anathapindika’s monastery. Then King Pasenadi Kosala went to the Blessed One and, on arrival,
exchanged courteous greetings with him. After this exchange of friendly
greetings & courtesies, he sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said
to the Blessed One: “Now then, does Master Gotama claim, ‘I have awakened
to the unexcelled right self-awakening’?”
“If,
great king, one speaking rightly could say of anyone, ‘He has awakened to the
unexcelled right self-awakening,’ one could rightly say that of me. For I,
great king, have awakened to the unexcelled right self-awakening.”
“But
Master Gotama, those priests & contemplatives each with his group, each
with his community, each the teacher of his group, an honored leader,
well-regarded by people at large — i.e., Purana Kassapa, Makkhali Gosala, Ajita Kesakambalin, Pakudha Kaccayana, Sañjaya Belatthaputta,
and the Nigantha Nathaputta: even they, when I asked them
whether they claimed to have awakened to the unexcelled right self-awakening,
didn’t make that claim. So who is Master Gotama to do so when he is still young
& newly gone-forth?”
“There
are these four things, great king, that shouldn’t be
despised & disparaged for being young. Which four? A noble warrior, great
king, shouldn’t be despised & disparaged for being young. A snake… A
fire… And a monk shouldn’t be despised & disparaged for being young.
These are the four things that shouldn’t be despised & disparaged for being
young.”
That is
what the Blessed One said. Having said that, the One Well-Gone, the Teacher,
said further:
You shouldn’t look down on — for being young — a noble
warrior of consummate birth, a high-born prince of great status. A person
shouldn’t disparage him. For it’s possible that this lord of human beings, this
noble warrior, will gain the throne and, angered at that disparagement, come
down harshly with his royal might. So, guarding your life, avoid him. You
shouldn’t look down on — for being young — a serpent you meet in village or
wilderness: A person shouldn’t disparage it. As that potent snake slithers
along with vibrant colors, it may someday burn the fool, whether woman or man.
So, guarding your life, avoid it. You shouldn’t look down on — for being young
— a blaze that feeds on many things, a flame with its blackened trail: A person
shouldn’t disparage it. For if it gains sustenance, becoming a great mass of
flame, it may someday burn the fool, whether woman or man. So, guarding your
life, avoid it. When a fire burns down a forest — that flame with its blackened
trail — the shoots there take birth once more with the passage of days &
nights. But if a monk, his virtue consummate, burns you with his potency,[1]
you won’t acquire sons or cattle nor will your heirs enjoy wealth. They become
barren, heir-less, like palm tree stumps. So a person who’s wise, out of regard
for his own good, should always show due respect for a serpent, a fire, a noble
warrior with high status, & a monk, his virtue consummate.
When this
was said, King Pasenadi Kosala said to the Blessed One: “Magnificent,
lord! Magnificent! Just as if he were to place upright what was overturned, to
reveal what was hidden, to show the way to one who was lost, or to carry a lamp
into the dark so that those with eyes could see forms, in the same way has the
Blessed One — through many lines of reasoning — made the Dhamma clear. I go to
the Blessed One for refuge, to the Dhamma, and to the Community of monks. May
the Blessed One remember me as a lay follower who has gone to him for refuge,
from this day forward, for life.”
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Dai E Zenji’s Vow for Awakening
Our only prayer is
to be firm in our determination to give ourselves completely to the Buddha’s
Way, so that no doubts arise however long the road seems to be; to be light and
easy in the four parts of the body; to be strong and undismayed in body and in
mind; to be free from illness and drive out both depressed feelings and
distraction; to be free from calamity, misfortune, harmful influences and
obstructions; not to seek the Truth outside of ourselves, so we may instantly
enter the right way; to be unattached to all thoughts that we may reach the
perfectly clear bright mind of Prajna and have immediate enlightenment on the
Great Matter. Thereby we receive the transmission of the deep wisdom of the
Buddhas to save all sentient beings who suffer in the round of birth and death.
In this way we offer our gratitude for the compassion of the Buddhas and the
Patriarchs. Our further prayer is not to be extremely ill or to be suffering at
the time of departure, to know its coming seven days ahead so that we can quiet
the mind to abandon the body and be unattached to all things at the last moment
wherein we return to the Original Mind in the realm of no birth and no death
and merge infinitely into the whole universe to manifest as all things in their
True Nature and with the great wisdom of the Buddhas to awaken all beings to
the Buddha Mind. We offer this to all Buddhas and Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas of
the past, present, and future in the ten quarters and to the Maha Prajna
Paramita.
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2.Development is the 1st casualty under Kar.
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3.Best Governance of
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crore, outlay of 21.21&100%expenditure on development of SC/ST under
special component plan increase in the
rate of post matric
5.Kindled a new ray of bright future among, SC/STs,OBC
& minorities& Upper caste poor
6.BSP pursuing the path shown by great saints gurus & seers
born in backward classes,like Jotiba
Phule, Shahuji Maharaj, Shri Narayana Guru
7.BSP pursuing the path shown by great saints gurus & seers born
in backward classes,like Dr. BR Ambedkar
& Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji
8.in development and public welfare activities BSP government
following the policy of “Sarvajan Hitay – Sarvajan Sukhay”.
————————————————————————————-
9.To honour backward-born leaders magnificent
memorials,museums,parks,etc have been Constructed in less than 1% of the total
govt funds
10.BSP Spent 99% funds on law and order, crime control,
development and public welfare activities.
11.Manuvadis attempt 2 curb land 4 the
world’s tallest Buddha statue in
Kushinara, handed over by BSP to Japan-based Maitreya Foundation.
12. In the last 4 yrs, the central government did not release on
time its
Share payable to the BSP state totalling Rs. 21,385 crore.
13. “special economic package’ of Rs. 80,000 crore sought from the central govt for the total
development of the state,
14. Bundelkhand and
Poorvanchal in poor and pitiable Economic conditions inherited from the
previous governments,
15.No money was received from the central govt at all by BSP
govt for development of Bundelkhand and Poorvanchal
16. Major projects on the PPP-model, like Ganga Express-way,Yamuna Express-way and Upper Ganga canal were prepared to Develop
the state
17. No central investments were involved except a ‘no objection
‘ & the centre did Not cooperate even in this matter with BSP Govt.
18.Correct mobilization of resources and improved financial Managment the BSP state govt
generated an atmosphere of Develpment.
19. Eligibility level of income increased from 1 to Rs.2 lakh,scholarships
for all students (girls and boys) from class 1 to 8 by BSP Govt.
20. ‘bhagidari bhavan’ at Lucknow and Agra, including Training
institutes at Aligarh and Rae Bareli to coach SC/ST youth.
21. SC/ST youth for recruitment to high-level services like
I.A.S and P.C.S; recruitment in
Govt posts through a drive to clear the backlog
22. For the first time Reservation in contracts upto Rs.25 lakh for
SC/ST, so far,contracts worth Rs.1,623 crore allotted By UP BSP Govt.
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25. About 4 lakh S/C
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26.Mahamaya Polytechnics for InformationTechnology set up for
SC/ST students By CM of UP Ms.Mayawati ji’s BSP Govt.
27.Regularisation of Landless SC/ST people in possession of gram
sabah land upto13-05
2007;formal right of possession pattas awarded to 9,431 Persons
28. About 3000 genuine lease-holders benefited by removing
illegal Usurpers from their land By CM of UP Ms.Mayawati ji’s BSP Govt.
29. creation of employment totalling 5,945 lakh man-Days for men
and 2,089 lakh for women belonging to SC/ST Created in rural areas By CM of UP
Ms.Mayawati ji’s BSP Govt.
30. about 8 lakh S/C families benefited by writing-off Debts
amounting to Rs.120.28 crore of Uttar Pradesh SC/ST Development Corporation.
31. electrification on large-scale of SC/ST bustees/majras and
appointment of 23% from these classes only of SOs in police Stations;
32. provision of reservation also in state government-aided
private Enterprises; By CM of UP Ms.Mayawati ji’s BSP Govt.
HIGHLY PROMISING AND THE BEST GOVERNANCE by MS
MAYAWATI JI in 4 YEARS
Four years in office:Chief Minister Mayawati inspects foundation stones
that she “dedicated” to the people of UP on Friday for new projects
worth Rs.2,000 crores on completion of her four years in office in
Lucknow
LESSON
283 284 285POLITICS is SACRED with GOOD
GOVERNANCE
Hon’ble Chief
Minister, Uttar Pradesh
Ms. Mayawati Ji
Led Government’s
four-year term
Has been very
promising
And the best in the
sphere of
“Law & Order and
Crime Control”
Besides
“Development and Public
Welfare”
Important and Historic Steps
pertaining to Development and Public Welfare
·
Hon’ble
Ms. Mayawati Ji-led government formed on 13 May, 2007 in Uttar
Pradesh, after its four-year term, has kindled a new ray of
“bright” future
Among the general public in the State, especially the SC/STs,
backwards,
religious minorities and upper-caste poor in respect of law and
order and
crime control together with development and public welfare
activities.
·
This
very government, by pursuing the path shown by great saints, gurus
and seers born in backward classes, especially Mahtma Jotiba
Phule, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj, Shri Narayana Guru, Baba Saheb
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji in development
and public welfare activities with government following the
policy of
“Sarvajan Hitay – Sarvajan Sukhay”.
·
Besides,
to honour these backward-born great “Saints, Gurus and Seers”,
Various magnificent spots, memorials, museums, parks, etc have
been
Constructed in the state, on which the total budgeted government
amount
Spent is even less than 1%; the remaining funds having spent on
law
control, development and public welfare activities.
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282
Cunda Sutta: About Cunda
On one
occasion the Blessed One was staying near Savatthi in
Jeta’s Grove, Anathapindika’s monastery. Now at that time Ven. Sariputta was staying among the Magadhans
in Nalaka village — diseased, in pain, severely ill. Cunda the novice was his attendant. Then, because of that
illness, Ven. Sariputta attained total Unbinding.
So Cunda
the novice, taking Ven. Sariputta’s bowl & robes, went to Ven.
Ananda in Jeta’s Grove, Anathapindika’s monastery, near Savatthi, and on
arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there he
said to Ven. Ananda: “Venerable sir, Ven. Sariputta has attained total
Unbinding. Here are his bowl & robes.”
“Cunda,
my friend, this news is reason for seeing the Blessed One. Come, let’s go to
the Blessed One and report this matter to him.”
“Yes,
venerable sir,” Cunda the novice replied.
So Ven.
Ananda & Cunda the novice went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having
bowed down to him, sat to one side. As they were sitting there, Ven. Ananda
said to him, “Lord, just now Cunda the novice said to me, ‘Venerable sir,
Ven. Sariputta has attained total Unbinding. Here are his bowl & robes.’ It
was as if my body were drugged, I lost my bearings, things weren’t clear to me,
on hearing that Ven. Sariputta had attained total Unbinding.”
“But,
Ananda, when he attained total Unbinding, did Sariputta take the aggregate of
virtue along with him? Did he take the aggregate of concentration… discernment…
release… the aggregate of knowledge & vision of release along with
him?”
“No,
lord, when he attained total Unbinding, Ven. Sariputta didn’t take the
aggregate of virtue… concentration… discernment… release… the aggregate
of knowledge & vision of release along with him. It’s just that he was my
instructor & counselor, one who exhorted, urged, roused, & encouraged
me. He was tireless in teaching the Dhamma, a help to his companions in the
holy life. We miss the nourishment of his Dhamma, the wealth of his Dhamma, his
help in the Dhamma.”
“But,
Ananda, haven’t I already taught you the state of growing different with regard
to all things dear & appealing, the state of becoming separate, the state
of becoming otherwise? What else is there to expect? It’s impossible that one
could forbid anything born, existent, fabricated, & subject to
disintegration from disintegrating.
“Just as if the largest limb were to fall off of a great tree
composed of heartwood, standing firm; in the same way, Sariputta has attained
total Unbinding from this great community of monks composed of heartwood,
standing firm. What else is there to expect? It’s impossible that one could
forbid anything born, existent, fabricated, & subject to disintegration
from disintegrating.
“Therefore,
Ananda, each of you should remain with your self as an island,
your self as your refuge, without anything else as a refuge. Remain with the
Dhamma as an island, the Dhamma as your refuge, without anything else as a
refuge. And how does a monk remain with his self as an island, his self as his
refuge, without anything else as a refuge? How does he remain with the Dhamma
as an island, the Dhamma as his refuge, without anything else as a refuge?
There is the case where a monk remains focused on the body in & of itself —
ardent, alert, & mindful — putting aside greed & distress with
reference to the world. He remains focused on feelings… mind… mental
qualities in & of themselves — ardent, alert, & mindful — putting aside
greed & distress with reference to the world. This is how a monk remains
with his self as an island, his self as his refuge, without anything else as a
refuge, with the Dhamma as an island, the Dhamma as his refuge, without
anything else as a refuge. For those who — now or after I am gone — remain with
their self as an island, their self as their refuge, without anything else as a
refuge, with the Dhamma as an island, the Dhamma as their refuge, without
anything else as a refuge, they will be the highest of the monks who desire
training.”
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of 21.21&100%expenditure on develop of SC/ST increase in the rate of post matric.
6.BSP pursuing the path shown by great saints gurus & seers born
in backward classes,like Jotiba Phule,
Shahuji Maharaj, Shri Narayana Guru
7.BSP pursuing the path shown by great saints gurus & seers
born in backward classes,like Dr. BR
Ambedkar & Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji
8.in development and public welfare activities BSP government
following the policy of “Sarvajan Hitay – Sarvajan Sukhay”.
————————————————————————————-
9.To honour backward-born leaders magnificent memorials,museums,parks,etc
have been Constructed in less than 1% of the total govt funds
10.BSP Spent 99% funds on law and order, crime control, development
and public welfare activities.
11.Manuvadis attempt 2 curb land 4 the
world’s tallest Buddha statue in
Kushinara, handed over by BSP to Japan-based Maitreya Foundation.
12. In the last four years, the central government did not release
on time its
Share payable to the BSP state totalling Rs. 21,385 crore.
VOICE OF THE SARVAJAN HONEY LEAKSNamo Buddhay Jai bheem
Dear All please read the news below, It was one of the
historical step of Bahen Mayawati ji, however it is stoped systematically by all
Brahminise Parties.
We could just imagine what bahenji could do if she became Prime
Minister of PraBuddha Bharath. It is real shame for the selfish, opportunist, stooges, self
proclaimed leader and their followers in Maharashtra those are claiming
themselves as Buddhist and opposing BSP.
Mayawati abandons the takeover of agricultural land
Lucknow, May 26 (IANS) Stung by
the violent protests in Bhatta-Parsaul village in Greater Noida, the Mayawati
government has decided to abandon the takeover of agricultural land for
installation of the world’s tallest Buddha statue in Kushinagar district, about
250 km from here.
The district administration will
soon denotify some 527 acres of the 697 acres that were proposed to be acquired
for the purpose.
About 273 acres of land has
already been acquired and a large part of it was formally handed over to Japan-based Maitreya Foundation, which was to
undertake the project.
Maitreya Foundation had drawn up
a blueprint to erect a 500-feet-high statue of sitting Buddha – that would be
his tallest in the world.
While the entire estimated cost
of the project of about $195 million was to be borne by the Japanese
foundation, the state government agreed to provide land for it.
The acquisition involved about
2,800 farmers, of whom only about 600 had readily handed over their land.
Encouraged by the farmers
movements against acquisition of land in Noida, Greater Noida and other parts
of western Uttar Pradesh, the
farmers in this part of the state also formed a Bhumi Bachao Sangharsh Samiti
(save the land action committee) to raise their voice against the acquisition
of land for the Maitreya project.
In Mission
Sachin Gholap
(London)
Udupi: Nearly 2,000 Scheduled Castes returned back to Buddhism at a function organised
by the Karnataka Baudha Maha Sabha, and Karnataka DSS (Ambedkar Vada) here on Tuesday.
The initiation of the SCs into Buddhism took place under the
guidance of Buddhist monks Manorakhit Bhanteji, Lobsana, and Tenguru.
The initiation function was held as part of 2,600th birth anniversary
celebrations of Gautama Buddha.
The SCs came in a procession from the Ambedkar Bhavan to Sri
Narayanaguru Sabha Bhavan, where the initiation function was held.
Chief convener of the Samiti Mavalli Shankar told press persons that
Buddhism taught compassionate living. The teachings of Buddha kept
people away from bad desires. It was a known fact that priests
following the Vedic religion had driven out Buddhism from the country.
But the architect of Constitution B.R. Ambedkar was among those
responsible for the revival of Buddhism in the country, he said.
‘Needless statement’
On the comment of Vishwesha Tirtha of Pejawar Math that Buddhism had
little to offer to SC/STs, Mr. Shankar said he did not object to their
thoughts as they were free to express themselves in a democracy. The
swamiji should realize that by giving “Vaishnava Deekshe”, the lot of
SCs could not be improved. There had not been any change in the
lives of SC/STs in 60 years after Independence. Hinduism stood on the
basic premise of caste. The heads of maths did not want to remove
casteism as they feared that this would destroy Hinduism. “If Pejawar
seer wants, let him embrace Buddhism, but we will not accept his
Deekshe”, Mr. Shankar said.
President of Prajna Vedike Krishnappa, eminent persons T. Murugeshi,
Kantappa Alangar, Bellubbi Nandakur, office-bearers of the samiti
Rohitaksha, Byadarahalli Prakash, Sundar Master, Kempanna Kamble,
Ningaraj Mallady, and Hovappa Master were present.
Puttur: SCs Demand Release of Encroached Land
Daijiworld Media Network – Puttur (SP)
Puttur, May 21: SCs from nearby villagers held a protest programme
at Kadaba in the taluk on Friday May 20, in protest against the
failure of the revenue department to drive away encroachers from 20
acres of government land located in Aittoor and Nekkiladi villages,
which have been earmarked for distribution among the SCs. The
revenue department, which swung into action in the evening, announced
that it had wrested back government land from six of the encroachers.
The protest was led by D S S (Ambedkar). The protestors said that six persons
from Aittoor and three from Nekkiladivillage had encroached upon 20 acres of
government land, and theincessant demand for their eviction over the years had
not been met by
the department. They demanded steps against the taluk tahsildar for his failure
to take back the encroached land and hand the same over to the SCs. The
protestors also accused MLA Angara, who got elected from Sullia, a constituency
reserved for scheduled communities, of becoming a puppet in the hands of upper classes
of the society and rich people, and thereby ignoring the interests of the SCs.
When deputy tahsildar, Vishwanath Poojary, approached the protestors
and assured them to convey their grievances to higher officials, the
protestors refused to budge.
India education: Scheduled Caste student suicide
Caste-discrimination is undermining India’s efforts to uplift the
oppressed through quotas in higher education.
Jason OverdorfMay 24, 2011 06:05
India SC suicides02011 05 22
NEW DELHI, India — Jaspreet Singh, a young student from a caste once
considered “untouchable” by other Hindus, was in his last year of
medical school when his life began to fall apart.
A talented student, and his family’s brightest hope for clawing their
way into the middle class, he was stunned to find that he had failed
community medicine, one of his easiest subjects. But he was even more
devastated by the alleged reason: His professor was determined to
flunk him because of his caste.
Like most students from the Scheduled castes, Singh had suffered the sly
digs and subtle slights of his classmates in silence for years at the
Government Medical College (Chandigarh). His professor’s alleged claim
that he would never allow Singh to get there was the last straw.
Singh hung himself from the ceiling fan in the bathroom in the college
library, writing in his suicide note that he could no longer bear the
insults and discrimination he’d endured from two fellow students and
his community medicine professor, Dr. N.K. Goel. (All three have been
charged with abetting Singh’s suicide, which is a crime under the
Indian penal code, but no ruling has been issued and the accused
maintain that they are innocent).
“The college says he couldn’t cope with the coursework, but he did
fine in all his other subjects,” said Jaspreet’s sister, Balwinder
Kaur. “In surgery he got 80 percent marks.”
Watch an interview with Singh’s family:
Sadly, cases like Jaspreet’s are all too common, according to the
Insight Foundation, a group of young SCs who are working to
eliminate discrimination in India’s higher education system.
No official effort has been made to determine how many of the more
than 16,000 school and college students who have killed themselves
over the past four years hail from India’s historically oppressed
castes, and only one study, covering only the All India Institute of
Medical Sciences, has investigated discrimination on campus.
But the Insight Foundation believes that a disproportionate number of
the students committing suicides are SCs, and its members allege
that caste discrimination, a dirty secret, is ubiquitous at India’s
top universities — even as the government works to expand access to
higher education with quotas, or reservations, for historically
oppressed groups.
“The problem which we face in elite institutions is much worse,” said
Anoop Kumar, the Insight Foundation’s national coordinator, and a
SC himself. “These elite institutions are considered to be very
prestigious, and the SC students who enter there are thought to be
intruding into that space through reservations — they don’t deserve to
be there, this is such a competitive place, this is such a meritorious
place, and these guys have come through quota. So the hatred and
hostility is much more.”
Scheduled Castes (SC) allege discrimination
MADURAI: SCs of Karadipatti near Tirupparankundram in Madurai have
alleged that they are not allowed to use the common water tank in the
village cemetery and, if used, they are subjected to verbal abuse and
discrimination.
Jeyaneedhi, Charanraj, Virumaandi of Ambedkar Street in Karadipatti
submitted a petition to the Collector here on Monday on the alleged
practices of discrimination against them by caste Hindus in the
village.
One of the alleged victims, Jayaneedhi, said that there were two
cemeteries in the village for caste Hindus and SCs respectively.
But there was only one water tank located near the cemetery of the
caste Hindus and whenever the SCs tried to use it they were either
prevented or abused.
On May 19, three SC youngsters, who went to take bath, were
intercepted by a group of caste Hindus stating that the tank was meant
for them and not for SCs. However, the SC youth defied them and
took bath. But they were repeatedly abused for two days.
Rahul in Blunderland
Just a few months ago, Rahul Gandhi,
scion of
India’s famed Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, was widely tipped as a
future prime minister — the only question was when he would take over
the job.
Now his appeal appears to be fading amid a stumbling performance in
his campaign to be champion of the nation’s poor and a string of
corruption scandals that have rocked the ruling Congress party to
which he belongs.
Gandhi, 41, drew headlines last week when he accused police in India’s
most populous state Uttar Pradesh of mass killings of farmers who had
been demonstrating for greater compensation for land sales to the
state.
Gandhi, son of Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, described “a large
70-foot (21-metre pile of) ashes with dead bodies inside,” adding,
“We
can give you pictures” following clashes between farmers and state
police.
“There are quite severe atrocities taking place there. People have
been killed,” he said. “People are being murdered.”
Days later, Congress was forced into an embarrassing retreat with
Uttar Pradesh forensic officials calling the allegations nonsense and
saying preliminary tests showed the ashes were made up of “molten
synthetic” and “cowdung ash”.
“Common sense” should have told Gandhi “there is some distance
between
an inflamed accusation made by agitators and reality,” noted veteran
commentator M.J. Akbar.
The incident, along with the poor performances of many of his
handpicked candidates in recent state elections, raised fresh
questions about whether Gandhi is prime ministerial material.
“Rahul in Blunderland,” said The Hindu newspaper in an editorial,
commenting that the “predilection” of Congress’s crown prince
“to
shoot from the hip is proving to be a challenge for the party.”
Since India’s independence from Britain in 1947, power in Congress has
threaded from Gandhi’s great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s
first prime minister, to his grandmother Indira Gandhi, shot dead by
Sikh assassins, and then in dynastic succession to his father Rajiv,
slain by a suicide bomber.
It now rests with his Italian-born mother Sonia, seen as India’s most
influential politician. She has carefully managed her son’s career,
making sure he has had time to carry out his aim of learning politics
“brick by brick”.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 78, a Gandhi loyalist picked by Sonia
to lead the government, is seen as keeping the premier’s seat warm for
Rahul.
But Gandhi’s record has been lacklustre. He is not a natural orator
He has never dealt with such thorny issues as Pakistan or the economy,
preferring to be a grassroots activist embracing populist causes.
“Rahul does not have the fire in the belly… for ruling the nation,”
wrote Aditya Sinha, editor of Mumbai’s DNA newspaper, in a recent
column.
Many pundits are betting that Gandhi will not be running to be prime
minister in 2014 when the next national elections are due, he added.
Corruption scandals, including a telecom scam , S-Band, alleged to have cost
more than $40 billion and last year’s graft-plagued Commonwealth Games,
have taken the sheen off the mother-son duo Sonia and Rahul,
commentators say.
Gandhi, who never has stated outright he wants to lead India, has said
becoming premier is not the only “job” in the world and there
“are
many other jobs a person can do.”
But Congress billboards drill home the message he is the chosen
successor, showing the elderly Singh, proud mother Sonia — and in
front a handsome Rahul, poised to take the reins.
However, “with the gloss wearing out, Rahul Gandhi’s political flight
seems to be sputtering on the tarmac before a take-off.”
Exploited Scheduled Caste (SC) Girls Produce Garments in India for European and US Markets
AMSTERDAM, May 20, 2011
- Companies Have Taken Steps, But Exploitation Remains Widespread
Big garment brands and retailers have their products made under
exploitative and unhealthy conditions by girls in Tamil Nadu, South
India. The girls, mostly younger than 18 and from a SC (’untouchables’)
background are employed under the Sumangali Scheme. In its worst form,
this employment scheme stands for bonded labour, as described in
‘Captured by Cotton’, a report published today by the Centre for
Research on Multinational Corporation (SOMO) and the India Committee
of the Netherlands (ICN). The report features case studies of four
large manufacturers. These enterprises produce for Bestseller (e.g.
Only, Jack & Jones), C&A, GAP, Diesel, Inditex (e.g. Zara), Marks &
Spencer, Primark, Tommy Hilfiger, and many other European and US
garment companies. A number of companies have undertaken steps towards
the elimination of the Sumangali Scheme, but abusive labour practices
remain widespread.
Sumangali girls
The Sumangali girls are recruited with the promise of a decent wage,
comfortable accommodation, and, the biggest attraction, a considerable
sum of money upon completion of their three-year contract. This lump
sum, varying between 400 and 800 euros, may be used to pay for a
dowry. The reality stands in sharp contrast to the alluring promises:
wages below the legally set minimum, excessive overwork , non-payment
of overtime work, restricted freedom of movement, lack of privacy, no
possibility to lodge complaints or get redress, unhealthy and unsafe
working conditions, etc. This situation fits the definition of ‘worst
forms of child labour’ as laid down by the International Labour
Organisation (ILO) for children up to 18 years old. This is a clear
breach of international labour standards and Indian labour law.
The promised sum is not a bonus, but is made up of withheld wages. In
a number of documented cases girls have not received the lump sum they
were entitled to, despite having completed the contractual three year
period.
The girls’ freedom of action is severely restricted with guards
keeping a constant eye on them. They are compulsory accommodated in
basic dormitories, often within the compound of the factory. This also
means workers hardly have a chance to get in touch with trade unions
or advocacy groups.
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281
Chiggala Sutta: The Hole
“Monks,
suppose that this great earth were totally covered with water, and a man were
to toss a yoke with a single hole there. A wind from the east would push it
west, a wind from the west would push it east. A wind from the north would push
it south, a wind from the south would push it north. And suppose a blind
sea-turtle were there. It would come to the surface once every one hundred
years. Now what do you think: would that blind sea-turtle, coming to the
surface once every one hundred years, stick his neck into the yoke with a
single hole?”
“It
would be a sheer coincidence, lord, that the blind sea-turtle, coming to the
surface once every one hundred years, would stick his neck into the yoke with a
single hole.”
“It’s
likewise a sheer coincidence that one obtains the human state. It’s likewise a
sheer coincidence that a Tathagata, worthy & rightly self-awakened, arises
in the world. It’s likewise a sheer coincidence that a doctrine &
discipline expounded by a Tathagata appears in the world. Now, this human state
has been obtained. A Tathagata, worthy & rightly self-awakened, has arisen
in the world. A doctrine & discipline expounded by a Tathagata appears in
the world.
“Therefore
your duty is the contemplation, ‘This is stress… This is the origination of
stress… This is the cessation of stress.’ Your duty is the contemplation,
‘This is the path of practice leading to the cessation of stress.’”
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Chavalata Sutta: The Firebrand
“Monks,
these four types of individuals are to be found existing in the world. Which
four? The one who practices neither for his/her own benefit nor for that of
others. The one who practices for the benefit of others but not for his/her
own. The one who practices for his/her own benefit but not for that of others.
The one who practices for his/her own benefit and for that of others.
“Just as a firebrand from a funeral pyre —
burning at both ends, covered with excrement in the middle — is used as fuel
neither in a village nor in the wilderness: I tell you that this is a simile
for the individual who practices neither for his/her own benefit nor for that
of others. The individual who practices for the benefit of others but not for
his/her own is the higher & more refined of these two. The individual who
practices for his/her own benefit but not for that of others is the highest
& most refined of these three. The individual who practices for his/her own
benefit and for that of others is, of these four, the foremost, the chief, the
most outstanding, the highest, & supreme. Just as
from a cow comes milk; from milk, curds; from curds, butter; from butter, ghee;
from ghee, the skimmings of ghee; and of these, the skimmings of ghee are
reckoned the foremost — in the same way, of these four, the individual who
practices for his/her own benefit and for that of others is the foremost, the
chief, the most outstanding, the highest, & supreme.
“These
are the four types of individuals to be found existing in the world.”
Chavalata Sutta: Wood from a Pyre
translated from the Pali by
Acharya Buddharakkhita
Alternate translation: Thanissaro
“Monks,
these four kinds of persons are to be found existing in the world. Which four?
One who is engaged in promoting neither his own good nor in promoting the good
of another; one who is engaged in promoting another’s good but not in promoting
his own good; one who is engaged in promoting his own good but not in promoting
the good of another; and one who is engaged in promoting his own good and also
in promoting the good of another.
“Just
as, monks, a piece of wood from a pyre, burnt at both ends and in the middle
fouled with dung, serves neither for fuel in the village nor for timber in the
forest, so in the same way, monks, is such a person, I say, who is engaged in
promoting neither his own good nor in promoting the good of another.
“Monks,
there is the person who is engaged in promoting the good of another but not in
promoting his own good. Of these two individuals the latter is superior. Monks,
there is the person who is engaged in promoting his own good but not in
promoting the good of another. Of these three individuals he is superior.
Monks, there is the person who is engaged in promoting his own good and also in
promoting another’s good. Of these four individuals he is the foremost, the
chief, the principal, the best and the supreme.
“Just
as, monks, from a cow comes milk; from milk, curd; from curd, butter; from
butter, ghee; from ghee, the skimmings of ghee, and that is reckoned the best;
even so, monks, among these four individuals the person who is engaged in
promoting his own good and also the good of another is the foremost, the chief,
the principal, the best and the supreme. Monks, these are the four individuals
who are to be found existing in the world.”
Sedaka Sutta: The Bamboo Acrobat
translated from the Pali by
Andrew Olendzki
Alternate translation: Thanissaro
[The
Buddha addressed the monks:]
Once upon a time, monks, a bamboo acrobat, setting
himself upon his bamboo pole, addressed his assistant Medakathalika: “Come
you, my dear Medakathalika, and climbing up the bamboo pole, stand upon my
shoulders.” “Okay, master” the assistant Medakathalika replied
to the bamboo acrobat; and climbing up the bamboo pole she stood on the
master’s shoulders. So then the bamboo acrobat said this to his assistant
Medakathalika: “You look after me, my dear Medakathalika, and I’ll look
after you. Thus with us looking after one another, guarding one another, we’ll
show off our craft, receive some payment, and safely climb down the bamboo
pole.” This being said, the assistant Medakathalika said this to the
bamboo acrobat: “That will not do at all, master! You look after yourself,
master, and I will look after myself. Thus with each of us looking after
ourselves, guarding ourselves, we’ll show off our craft, receive some payment,
and safely climb down from the bamboo pole. That’s the right way to do
it!”
[The
Buddha said:]
Just like the assistant Medakathalika said to her master:
“I will look after myself,” so should you, monks, practice the
establishment of mindfulness. You should (also) practice the establishment of
mindfulness (by saying) “I will look after others.” Looking after
oneself, one looks after others. Looking after others, one looks after oneself.
And how does one look after others by looking after oneself? By practicing
(mindfulness), by developing (it), by doing (it) a lot. And how does one look
after oneself by looking after others? By patience, by non-harming, by loving
kindness, by caring (for others). (Thus) looking after oneself, one looks after
others; and looking after others, one looks after oneself.
Hita Sutta: Benefit
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
“A
monk endowed with five qualities practices both for his own benefit and for
that of others. Which five?
“There
is the case where a monk is himself consummate in virtue and encourages others
to be consummate in virtue. He himself is consummate in concentration and
encourages others to be consummate in concentration. He himself is consummate
in discernment and encourages others to be consummate in discernment. He
himself is consummate in release and encourages others to be consummate in
release. He himself is consummate in the knowledge & vision of release and
encourages others to be consummate in the knowledge & vision of release.
“Endowed
with these five qualities, a monk practices both for his own benefit and for
that of others.
Raga-vinaya Sutta: The Subduing of Passion
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
“Monks,
these four types of individuals are to be found existing in the world. Which
four? The one who practices for his/her own benefit but not for that of others.
The one who practices for the benefit of others but not for his/her own. The
one who practices neither for his/her own benefit nor for that of others. The
one who practices for his/her own benefit and for that of others.
“And
who is the individual who practices for his/her own benefit but not for that of
others? There is the case where a certain individual practices for the subduing
of passion within him/herself but doesn’t encourage others in the subduing of
passion; practices for the subduing of aversion within him/herself but doesn’t
encourage others in the subduing of aversion; practices for the subduing of
delusion within him/herself but doesn’t encourage others in the subduing of
delusion. Such is the individual who practices for his/her own benefit but not
for that of others.
“And
who is the individual who practices for the benefit of others but not for
his/her own? There is the case where a certain individual doesn’t practice for
the subduing of passion within him/herself but encourages others in the
subduing of passion; he/she doesn’t practice for the subduing of aversion
within him/herself but encourages others in the subduing of aversion; he/she
doesn’t practice for the subduing of delusion within him/herself but encourages
others in the subduing of delusion. Such is the individual who practices for
the benefit of others but not for his/her own.
“And
who is the individual who practices neither for his/her own benefit nor for
that of others? There is the case where a certain individual doesn’t practice
for the subduing of passion within him/herself and doesn’t encourage others in
the subduing of passion; he/she doesn’t practice for the subduing of aversion
within him/herself and doesn’t encourage others in the subduing of aversion;
he/she doesn’t practice for the subduing of delusion within him/herself and
doesn’t encourage others in the subduing of delusion. Such is the individual
who practices neither for his/her own benefit nor for that of others.
“And
who is the individual who practices for his/her own benefit and for that of
others? There is the case where a certain individual practices for the subduing
of passion within him/herself and encourages others in the subduing of passion;
practices for the subduing of aversion within him/herself and encourages others
in the subduing of aversion; practices for the subduing of delusion within
him/herself and encourages others in the subduing of delusion. Such is the
individual who practices for his/her own benefit and for that of others.
“These
are the four types of individuals to be found existing in the world.”
Sikkha Sutta: Trainings
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Translator’s note: This sutta is
one of a series explaining AN 4.95, which rates individuals of four
types. The lowest is the one who doesn’t practice for his own benefit or for
the benefit of others. Higher than this is the person who doesn’t practice for
his own benefit, but does practice for the benefit of others. Higher still is
the person who practices for his own benefit, but not for the benefit of
others. Highest of all is the person who practices both for his own benefit and
for the benefit of others. Thus, as explained in this sutta, it is best if you
not only follow the precepts but can also get others to follow them as well.
“Monks,
these four types of individuals are to be found
existing in the world. Which four? The one who practices for his own benefit
but not for that of others. The one who practices for the benefit of others but
not for his own. The one who practices neither for his own benefit nor for that
of others. The one who practices for his own benefit and for that of others.
“And
how is one an individual who practices for his own benefit but not for that of
others? There is the case where a certain individual himself abstains from the
taking of life but doesn’t encourage others in undertaking abstinence from the
taking of life. He himself abstains from stealing but doesn’t encourage others
in undertaking abstinence from stealing. He himself abstains from sexual
misconduct but doesn’t encourage others in undertaking abstinence from sexual
misconduct. He himself abstains from lying but doesn’t encourage others in
undertaking abstinence from lying. He himself abstains from intoxicants that
cause heedlessness but doesn’t encourage others in undertaking abstinence from
intoxicants that cause heedlessness. Such is the individual who practices for
his own benefit but not for that of others.
“And
how is one an individual who practices for the benefit of others but not for
his own? There is the case where a certain individual himself doesn’t abstain
from the taking of life but encourages others in undertaking abstinence from
the taking of life. He himself doesn’t abstain from stealing but encourages
others in undertaking abstinence from stealing. He himself doesn’t abstain from
sexual misconduct but encourages others in undertaking abstinence from sexual
misconduct. He himself doesn’t abstain from lying but encourages others in
undertaking abstinence from lying. He himself doesn’t abstain from intoxicants
that cause heedlessness but encourages others in undertaking abstinence from
intoxicants that cause heedlessness. Such is the individual who practices for
the benefit of others but not for his own.
“And
how is one an individual who practices neither for his own benefit nor for that
of others? There is the case where a certain individual himself doesn’t abstain
from the taking of life and doesn’t encourage others in undertaking abstinence
from the taking of life. He himself doesn’t abstain from stealing and doesn’t
encourage others in undertaking abstinence from stealing. He himself doesn’t
abstain from sexual misconduct and doesn’t encourage others in undertaking
abstinence from sexual misconduct. He himself doesn’t abstain from lying and
doesn’t encourage others in undertaking abstinence from lying. He himself
doesn’t abstain from intoxicants that cause heedlessness and doesn’t encourage
others in undertaking abstinence from intoxicants that cause heedlessness. Such
is the individual who practices neither for his own benefit nor for that of
others.
“And
how is one an individual who practices for his own benefit and for that of
others? There is the case where a certain individual himself abstains from the
taking of life and encourages others in undertaking abstinence from the taking
of life. He himself abstains from stealing and encourages others in undertaking
abstinence from stealing. He himself abstains from sexual misconduct and
encourages others in undertaking abstinence from sexual misconduct. He himself
abstains from lying and encourages others in undertaking abstinence from lying.
He himself abstains from intoxicants that cause heedlessness and encourages
others in undertaking abstinence from intoxicants that cause heedlessness. Such
is the individual who practices for his own benefit and for that of others.
“These
are the four types of individuals to be found existing in the world.”
LESSONS
267 278 279
Cetana Sutta: Intention
Staying
at Savatthi… [the Blessed One said,] “What one intends, what one
arranges, and what one obsesses about:[1]
This is a support for the stationing of consciousness. There being a support,
there is a landing [or: an establishing] of consciousness. When that
consciousness lands and grows, there is the production of renewed becoming in
the future. When there is the production of renewed becoming in the future,
there is future birth, aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress,
& despair. Such is the origination of this entire mass of suffering &
stress.
“If
one doesn’t intend and doesn’t arrange, but one still obsesses [about something],
this is a support for the stationing of consciousness. There being a support,
there is a landing of consciousness. When that consciousness lands and grows,
there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. When there is the
production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth, aging
& death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. Such [too] is
the origination of this entire mass of suffering & stress.
“But
when one doesn’t intend, arrange, or obsess [about anything], there is no
support for the stationing of consciousness. There being no support, there is
no landing of consciousness. When that consciousness doesn’t land & grow,
there is no production of renewed becoming in the future. When there is no
production of renewed becoming in the future, there is no future birth, aging
& death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, or despair. Such is the
cessation of this entire mass of suffering & stress.”
278
Channa Sutta: To Channa
Translator’s note: Passages in
the Vinaya show that Ven. Channa — apparently, Prince Siddhattha’s horseman on
the night of his Great Renunciation — was proud and obdurate. After becoming a
monk, he was unwilling to accept instruction from any of the other monks. (See
the origin stories to Sanghadisesa 12 and Pacittiya 12.) DN 16 tells of how
the Buddha, on the night of his parinibbana, imposed the brahma-punishment on
him: he was to be left to his own ways without anyone to teach or correct him.
According to Cv.XI, news of this punishment so shocked Ven. Channa that he
fainted. He then went off into seclusion and practiced diligently to the point
of attaining arahantship. As Ven. Ananda later told him, his attainment
nullified the punishment. This sutta tells a different version of Channa’s
change of heart.
On one
occasion many elder monks were staying near Varanasi in
the Deer Park at Isipatana. Then in the late afternoon
Ven. Channa left his seclusion and, taking his key, went from dwelling to
dwelling, saying to the elder monks, “May the venerable elders exhort me,
may the venerable elders teach me, may the venerable elders give me a Dhamma
talk so that I might see the Dhamma.”
When this
was said, the elder monks said to Ven. Channa, “Form, friend Channa, is inconstant.
Feeling is inconstant. Perception is inconstant. Fabrications are inconstant.
Consciousness is inconstant. Form is not-self. Feeling is not-self. Perception
is not-self. Fabrications are not-self. Consciousness is not-self. All
fabrications are inconstant. All phenomena are not-self.”
Then the
thought occurred to Ven. Channa, “I, too, think that form is inconstant,
feeling is inconstant, perception is inconstant, fabrications are inconstant,
consciousness is inconstant; form is not-self, feeling is not-self, perception
is not-self, fabrications are not-self, consciousness is not-self; all
fabrications are inconstant; all phenomena are not-self. But still my mind does
not leap up, grow confident, steadfast, & released[1] in the resolution of all fabrications, the
relinquishing of all acquisitions, the ending of craving, dispassion,
cessation, Unbinding. Instead, agitation & clinging arise, and my intellect
pulls back, thinking, ‘But who, then, is my self?’ But this thought doesn’t
occur to one who sees the Dhamma. So who might teach me the Dhamma so that I
might see the Dhamma?”
Then the
thought occurred to Ven. Channa, “This Ven. Ananda is
staying at Kosambi in Ghosita’s Park. He has been praised by the Teacher and is
esteemed by his knowledgeable fellows in the holy life. He is capable of
teaching me the Dhamma so that I might see the Dhamma, and I have sudden trust
in him. Why don’t I go to Ven. Ananda?”
So,
setting his lodgings in order and carrying his robes & bowl, Ven. Channa
went to Kosambi to where Ven. Ananda was staying in Ghosita’s Park. On arrival,
he exchanged courteous greetings with the Ven. Ananda. After an exchange of
friendly greetings & courtesies, he sat to one side. As he was sitting
there, he [told Ven. Ananda what had happened and added], “May Ven. Ananda
exhort me, may Ven. Ananda teach me, may Ven. Ananda give me a Dhamma talk so
that I might see the Dhamma.”
“Even
this much makes me feel gratified & satisfied with Ven. Channa, that he
opens up & breaks down his stubbornness. So lend ear, friend Channa. You
are capable of understanding the Dhamma.”
Then a
sudden great rapture & joy welled up in Ven. Channa at the thought,
“So I am capable of understanding the Dhamma!”
“Face-to-face
with the Blessed One have I heard this, friend Channa. Face-to-face with him
have I learned the exhortation he gave to the bhikkhu Kaccayanagotta:[2]
‘By & large, Kaccayana, this world is supported by[3]
a polarity, that of existence & non-existence. But when one sees the
origination of the world as it actually is with right discernment,
“non-existence” with reference to the world does not occur to one.
When one sees the cessation of the world as it actually is with right
discernment, “existence” with reference to the world does not occur
to one.
“‘By
& large, Kaccayana, this world is in bondage to attachments, clingings
(sustenances), & biases. But one such as this does not get involved with or
cling to these attachments, clingings, fixations of awareness, biases, or
obsessions; nor is he resolved on “my self.” He has no uncertainty or
doubt that, when there is arising, only stress is arising; and that when there
is passing away, stress is passing away. In this, one’s knowledge is
independent of others. It is to this extent, Kaccayana, that there is right
view.
“‘”Everything
exists”: That is one extreme. “Everything doesn’t exist”: That
is a second extreme. Avoiding these two extremes, the Tathagata teaches the
Dhamma via the middle: From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications.
From fabrications as a requisite condition comes consciousness. From
consciousness as a requisite condition comes name-&-form. From
name-&-form as a requisite condition come the six sense media. From the six
sense media as a requisite condition comes contact. From contact as a requisite
condition comes feeling. From feeling as a requisite condition comes craving.
From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenance. From
clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becoming. From becoming as a
requisite condition comes birth. From birth as a requisite condition, then
aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into
play. Such is the origination of this entire mass of stress & suffering.
“‘Now
from the remainderless fading & cessation of that very ignorance comes the
cessation of fabrications. From the cessation of fabrications comes the
cessation of consciousness. From the cessation of consciousness comes the
cessation of name-&-form. From the cessation of name-&-form comes the
cessation of the six sense media. From the cessation of the six sense media
comes the cessation of contact. From the cessation of contact comes the
cessation of feeling. From the cessation of feeling comes the cessation of
craving. From the cessation of craving comes the cessation of
clinging/sustenance. From the cessation of clinging/sustenance comes the
cessation of becoming. From the cessation of becoming comes the cessation of
birth. From the cessation of birth, then aging & death, sorrow,
lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Such is the cessation of
this entire mass of stress & suffering.’
“That’s
how it is, friend Ananda, for those who have friends in the holy life like Ven.
Ananda — sympathetic, helpful, exhorting, & teaching. Just now, for me,
listening to Ven. Ananda’s Dhamma-teaching, has the Dhamma been
penetrated.”
279
Chappana Sutta: The Six Animals
“Suppose that a man, wounded and festering, were to go
into a swampy jungle. Its sharp-bladed grasses would pierce his feet; its
thorns would scratch his festering sores. And so, from that cause, he would
experience an even greater measure of pain and unhappiness. In the same way,
there is the case where a certain monk, having gone to a village or to the
wilderness, meets up with someone who upbraids him: ‘This venerable one, acting
in this way, undertaking practices in this way, is a thorn of impurity in this
village.’ Knowing this person to be a thorn, one should understand restraint
and lack of restraint.
“And
what is lack of restraint? There is the case where a monk, seeing a form with
the eye, is obsessed with pleasing forms, is repelled by unpleasing forms, and
remains with body-mindfulness unestablished, with limited awareness. He does
not discern, as it actually is present, the awareness-release, the
discernment-release where any evil, unskillful mental qualities that have
arisen utterly cease without remainder.
“Hearing
a sound with the ear…
“Smelling
an aroma with the nose…
“Tasting
a flavor with the tongue…
“Touching
a tactile sensation with the body…
“Cognizing
an idea with the intellect, he is obsessed with pleasing ideas, is repelled by
unpleasing ideas, and remains with body-mindfulness unestablished, with limited
awareness. He does not discern, as it actually is present, the
awareness-release, the discernment-release where any evil, unskillful mental
qualities that have arisen utterly cease without remainder.
“Just
as if a person, catching six animals of different ranges, of different
habitats, were to bind them with a strong rope. Catching a snake, he would bind
it with a strong rope. Catching a crocodile… a bird… a dog… a hyena… a
monkey, he would bind it with a strong rope. Binding them all with a strong
rope, and tying a knot in the middle, he would set chase to them.
“Then
those six animals, of different ranges, of different habitats, would each pull
toward its own range & habitat. The snake would pull, thinking, ‘I’ll go
into the anthill.’ The crocodile would pull, thinking, ‘I’ll go into the
water.’ The bird would pull, thinking, ‘I’ll fly up into the air.’ The dog
would pull, thinking, ‘I’ll go into the village.’ The hyena would pull,
thinking, ‘I’ll go into the charnel ground.’ The monkey would pull, thinking,
‘I’ll go into the forest.’ And when these six animals became internally
exhausted, they would submit, they would surrender, they would come under the
sway of whichever among them was the strongest. In the same way, when a monk
whose mindfulness immersed in the body is undeveloped & unpursued, the eye
pulls toward pleasing forms, while unpleasing forms are repellent. The ear
pulls toward pleasing sounds… The nose pulls toward pleasing aromas… The
tongue pulls toward pleasing flavors… The body pulls toward pleasing tactile
sensations… The intellect pulls toward pleasing ideas, while unpleasing ideas
are repellent. This, monks, is lack of restraint.
“And what is restraint? There is the
case where a monk, seeing a form with the eye, is not obsessed with pleasing
forms, is not repelled by unpleasing forms, and remains with body-mindfulness
established, with immeasurable awareness. He discerns, as it actually is
present, the awareness-release, the discernment-release where all evil,
unskillful mental qualities that have arisen utterly cease without remainder.
“Hearing
a sound with the ear…
“Smelling
an aroma with the nose…
“Tasting
a flavor with the tongue…
“Touching
a tactile sensation with the body…
“Cognizing
an idea with the intellect, he is not obsessed with pleasing ideas, is not
repelled by unpleasing ideas, and remains with body-mindfulness established,
with immeasurable awareness. He discerns, as it actually is present, the
awareness-release, the discernment-release where all evil, unskillful mental
qualities that have arisen utterly cease without remainder.
“Just
as if a person, catching six animals of different ranges, of different
habitats, were to bind them with a strong rope. Catching a snake, he would bind
it with a strong rope. Catching a crocodile… a bird… a dog… a hyena… a
monkey, he would bind it with a strong rope. Binding them all with a strong
rope, he would tether them to a strong post or stake.[1]
“Then
those six animals, of different ranges, of different habitats, would each pull
toward its own range & habitat. The snake would pull, thinking, ‘I’ll go
into the anthill.’ The crocodile would pull, thinking, ‘I’ll go into the
water.’ The bird would pull, thinking, ‘I’ll fly up into the air.’ The dog
would pull, thinking, ‘I’ll go into the village.’ The hyena would pull,
thinking, ‘I’ll go into the charnel ground.’ The monkey would pull, thinking,
‘I’ll go into the forest.’ And when these six animals became internally
exhausted, they would stand, sit, or lie down right there next to the post or
stake. In the same way, when a monk whose mindfulness immersed in the body is
developed & pursued, the eye does not pull toward pleasing forms, and
unpleasing forms are not repellent. The ear does not pull toward pleasing
sounds… The nose does not pull toward pleasing aromas… The tongue does not
pull toward pleasing flavors… The body does not pull toward pleasing tactile
sensations… The intellect does not pull toward pleasing ideas, and unpleasing
ideas are not repellent. This, monks, is restraint.
“Thus
you should train yourselves: ‘We will develop mindfulness immersed in the body.
We will pursue it, hand it the reins and take it as a basis, give it a
grounding. We will steady it, consolidate it, and set about it properly.’
That’s how you should train yourselves.”
POLITICS is SACRED with GOOD GOVERNANCE
Ms MAYAWATI JI’s HIGHLY PROMISING AND THE BEST GOVERNANCE CONTINUED
Four years in office:Chief Minister Mayawati inspects foundation stones
that she “dedicated” to the people of UP on Friday for new projects
worth Rs.2,000 crores on completion of her four years in office in
Lucknow.– PHOTO: Subir Roy
Mayawati to strike while
the iron is hot
Chief Minister of Uttar
Pradesh Mayawati, who is also the national president of the Bahujan Samaj
Party, will be visiting Karnataka on June 5 to participate in a convention of
State, district and taluk-level party presidents to guide them towards a better
performance of the party in the next Assembly elections here.
State president of BSP
Marasandra Muniyappa told presspersons that Ms. Mayawati would address the
convention of party functionaries at Gayatri Vihar in the Bangalore Palace.
There will be a major political churning in State politics and many prominent
leaders are likely to join the BSP.
‘Fed up’
“People are fed up with
the maladministration of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the ineffective
Opposition parties. They are looking for an alternative political force to
change the system,” he claimed.
Accusing the BJP of
cheating the people in the name of development, he said development was the
first casualty under the present Government and people, especially the
depressed class, was facing serious insecurity. The Opposition parties have
been unsuccessful in opposing the misdeeds of the governing party, he said.
Corruption is antithesis to the rule of law and good governance.
It has nullified the benefits of development,
BJP government in Karnataka is cheating
people in the name of development.
nothing for the people of this state.
Hon’ble Chief
Minister, Uttar Pradesh
Ms. Mayawati Ji
Led Government’s
four-year term
Has been very
promising
And the best in the
sphere of
“Law & Order and
Crime Control”
Besides
“Development and Public
Welfare”
Important and Historic Steps
pertaining to Development and Public Welfare
·
Hon’ble
Ms. Mayawati Ji-led government formed on 13 May, 2007 in Uttar
Pradesh, after its four-year term, has kindled a new ray of
“bright” future
Among the general public in the State, especially the SC/STs,
backwards,
religious minorities and upper-caste poor in respect of law and
order and
crime control together with development and public welfare
activities.
·
This
very government, by pursuing the path shown by great saints, gurus
and seers born in backward classes, especially Mahtma Jotiba
Phule, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj, Shri Narayana Guru, Baba Saheb
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji in development
and public welfare activities with government following the
policy of
“Sarvajan Hitay – Sarvajan Sukhay”.
·
Besides,
to honour these backward-born great “Saints, Gurus and Seers”,
Various magnificent spots, memorials, museums, parks, etc have
been
Constructed in the state, on which the total budgeted government
amount
Spent is even less than 1%; the remaining funds having spent on
law
And order, crime control, development and public welfare
activities.
·
In the
last four years, the central government did not release on time its
Share payable to the state totalling Rs. 21,385 crore. If this
amount had
Been paid by the centre in time, achievements of the state
government
Could have been far far better.
·
Not
only this, the “special
economic package’ of Rs.
80,000 crore
Sought from the central government for the total development of
the state,
Especially Bundelkhand and Poorvanchal in view of the poor and
pitiable
Economic conditions inherited from the previous governments, no
money
Was received from the central government at all.
·
Thereafter,
under government’s new development strategy several
Major projects /schemes on the PPP-model, like the Ganga Express-way,
Yamuna Express-way and Upper Ganga canal were prepared to spur
Development in the state in which no central investments were
involved
Except a departmental ‘no objection ‘ from them; the centre,
however, did
Not cooperate even in this matter.
·
And
yet, with “ correct
mobilization of resources and improved financial
Management” the
state government generated an atmosphere of
·
Development,
notable achievements of which are enumerated below.
NOTE-1-Since the formation, in 1995 of the first government of
Hon’ble Chief
Minister Ms. Mayawati Ji in Uttar Pradesh, its priority has been the
total
Development of the poor and the backward SC/ST, other backward
classes,
Religious minorities and disables persons-who had remained neglected
for
Centuries and during earlier governments. By separately creating
Uttar
Pradesh Welfare Department and other ministries, there has been
Considerable improvements in their condition at every level and
every sphere.
1. This government in the last four years has
undertaken several activities at
a total cost of Rs. 37,000 crore (Rs. 36,795 crore), outlay of
21.21
and 100% expenditure on the development of “SC/ST” under special
component plan which are chiefly – increase in the rate of post
matric for
(Scheduled Castes), eligibility level of income increased from
1lakh to
Rs.2 lakh,, scholarships fora all students (girls and boys) from
class 1 to 8,
establishment of ‘bhagidari bhavan’ at Lucknow and Agra,
including
Training institutes at Aligarh and Rae Bareli to coach SC/ST
youth for
recruitment to high-level services like I.A.S and P.C.S;
recruitment in
Government posts through a drive to clear the backlog; for the
first time
Reservation in contracts upto Rs.25 lakh for SC/ST, so far,
contracts worth
Rs.1,623 crore allotted; about 4 lakh S/C families allotted more
Than 3,500 hectares of land.; 16 Mahamaya Polytechnics for
Information
Technology set up for these categories of students;
regularisation of
Landless SC/ST people in possession of gram sabah land
upto13May,
2007; formal right of
possession letters (pattas) awarded to 9,431
Persons; about 3000 genuine lease-holders benefited by removing
illegal
Usurpers from their land; creation of employment totalling 5,945
lakh man-
Days for men and 2,089 lakh for women belonging to SC/ST classes
Created in rural areas; about 8 lakh S/C families benefited by
writing-off
Debts amounting to Rs.120.28 crore of Uttar Pradesh SC/ST
Development Corporation; electrification on large-scale of SC/ST
bustees
/majras and appointment of 23% from these classes only of SOs in
police
Stations; provision of reservation also in state
government-aided priveta
Enterprises; allotment of more than 4,000 fair price shops;
together with
The establishment of a Rs.100 crore “leather park and shoe mandi”: in
Agra, exemption from VAT of Agra Footwear Industry.
2. “Other Backward Classes” – in the last four years 2 lakh landless
people
allotted lease of about 50,000 hectares of agricultural land;
effective
implementation of 27% reservation for OBSc in the allotment of
fair price
shops in the urban and rural areas under the public distribution
system;
computerisation of the entire procedure of scholarship unders
the
backward classes Welfare department; more than 50 lakh students
(girls
and boys) benefites by scholarships under the scheme of aid to
the poor
families of backward classes on account of marriage and illness
about
Rs.50 crore spent every year; apart from increasing the “creamy layer”
annual income limit of these classes from Rs.3 lakh Rs.5lakh,
about
Rs.250 crore spent to reimburse the admission fees of students
studying
in post matric classes
3. In the matter of Religious Minorities especially the Muslim
community,
mention may be made of the establishment of Manyawar Shri
Kanshiram
Ji Urdu, Arabic-Persian University; inclusion of 10 new
Arabic-Persian
Madrasas in the grant-in-aid list; as much as 486.73 crore
approx, on
account of scholarships to 1,28,35,824 minority students (girls
and boys);
elegibilty income limit for scholarships increased to Rs.1 lakh
in respect of
minority students; grant of Rs. 3,745 lakh for the marriage of
37,445
daughters from minority BPL families; reimbursement of fees
amounting
to Rs.2,049 lakh of 49,166 post matric students; construction of
well-
equipped “Haj
Houses” at
Ghaziabad and Lucknow for the convenience of
the Hajis; “direct Haj
flight” from Varanasi to Jeddah;
abolition of the
pre-condition of police verification in the appointment of “Mutawallis”;
arrangement of advance coaching to prepare for competitive
recruitment
examinations; the amount of grant for Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy
more
than doubled to Rs.3 crore; establishment of 58 government secondary
schools in
minority-dominated areas of 22 selected districts as well as
formation of a commission to provide the atatus of minority
institution to
‘taleemi idaar’ (educational institutions) besides, the
distribution of
Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji Handloom Weavers awards.
4. “Disabled” – establishment of ‘Uttar Pradeesh Dr. Shakuntala Misra
Rehabilation University’ at a cost of Rs.400 crore to provide quality
education to the differently-abled students; with 1% reservation
for the
visually impaired and 2% other disabled, so far, 677 and
1320fair shops
allotted, respectively; disabled pension rate increased to
Rs.300 per
month from Rs.150- the total number of disabled pensioners
during
2009-10 increased to 708077.
5. Several welfare schemes implemented for
Sarv-Samaj “women” also,
notable being amendment of the zamindari kanoon to ensure
equitable
share of women in patriarchal landed property; the amount of
dole for
destitute women increased to Rs.300 per month from Rs.150 apart
from
construction of shelter homes etc for them in Mathurs and
Vrindavan;
“alertness and sensitivity” on the part of government has resulted in
Considerable “decline” of criminal cases against “women”.
NOTE-II- In addition, many significant and historic steps wre taken
for the
Uplift of the poor and the helpless belonging to sarv-samaj besides,
Farmers, labourers, lawyers, employees, traders and people engaged
in
Other professions, with all government departments also contributing
to the
Development of the people of the state viz.:
1. Uttar Pradesh Mukhyamantri Mahamaya Gharib
Arthik Madad Yojna
benefits about 31 lakh families in Uttar Pradeshwhich have not been able to
avail of the benefits of the BPL list or antyodaya, by providing an assistance
of Rs.400 per month.
2. Savitribai Phule Shiksha Madad Yojna benefitted a total of 6,86,953 girl
students, so far, with Rs.15,000 and a bicycle given to class 10 students and
an additional assistance of Rs.10,000 on promotion to class 12.
3. Mahamaya Gharib Balika Ashirwad Yojna provides for Rs.1lakh to be given to the
girl child immediately on birth, which has benefitted about 3,25,000 girl
children.
4. Dr. Ambedkar Gram Sabha Samagra Vikas Yojna benefitted abount 5,598 gram
sabhas.
5. Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji Sheri Gharib Awas
Yojna provides for free
housing facilities, benefiting about 1lakh families.
6. Sarvjan Hitay Gharib Awas (Slum Area) Maliqana
Haq Yojna
benefited about 7,232 families.
7. BPL card-holders of Sarv-samaj and
beneficiaries of Mahamaya Gharib Arthik Madad Yojna being provided free of charge legal aid
by government lawyers to plead their cases in courts.
8. Under Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji Sheri SC/ST Bssti Samagra Vikas Yojna, 250 bustees selected for development.
9. Lease-hold of 55,000 hectares of
agricultural land for about 2.5 lakh poor and unemployed landless people.
10. About “3.5 lakh families” allotted
residential plots measuring 3,500 hectares.
11. Allotment of 30,000 hectares of land to
about 36,000 agriculturists.
12. 16,000 sites allotted to 19,000 people
engaged in the pottery craft.
13. Allotment of 12,000 hectares of land for
free plantation to 42,000 farmers.
14. Insurance provided to 18,67,835 heads of
families under the General Public Insurance Scheme.
15. Under the enforced Uttar Oradesh Janhit Guarantee Quanoon 13 essential services relating to
revenue, urban development, medical and food and supply guaranteed within a
specified time limit.
16. Brilliant BPL students (girls and boys) of
the newly established Gautam Buddha University belonging to sarv-samaj sent to
Europe for higher studies on state expenses.
17. The maximum sickness allowance increased
from Rs.2,000 to 5,000 in the case of S/S and those eligible from the general
category.
18. The amount of grant-in-aid doubled in the
event of marriage/sickness in Bundelkhand.
19. As many as 897 child development projects
onder operation.
20. Daily wages of “labourers/wage earners” of unorganised sector increased to Rs.100
from Rs.58.
21. More than 18 lakh government employees in
the state provided benefit of the sixth pay commission, causing an additional
financial burden of Rs.21,000 crore.
22. As many as 35,000 daily wage employees,
appointed till 29 June, 1991 regularised.
23. Generation of 10,586 lakh man days in the
rural areas at a cost of Rs. 16,995 crore.
24. Self-employment made available to 13.58
lakh families with a grant of Rs.800 crore.
25. Recruitment of 1.9 lakh ‘safai-workers
(Aroghya Rakshaks)” in the state in one go besides, 88,000 primary school
teachers, 5,000 Urdu teachers and massive recruitment in other departments
together with employment opportunities provided to “lakhs” of people in non-governmental sectors as well.
26. Infrastructural Development: construction of 165 Km long, 6-lane
Yamuna express-way at a cost of Rs. 9,935 crore between Noida and Agra.
27. Rs.30,000
crore –construction project of 1,047 Km long, 8-lane entry controlled
express-way from Greater Noida to Ballia.
28. Costing Rs. 8,911 crore, 148-km long
Sanauta-Purkazi Express-way project along the upper Ganga canal bank.
29. In the Taj city, Agra, construction of a
20.5 km long 6-lane ring road at a cost of Rs.1,100 crore.
30. Delhi-Noida-Greater Noida Metro Rail Link,
first phase, from Delhi to Noida completed.
31. PPP process activated to establish ab
international airport at Kushinagar for the development of Buddhist circuit.
32. Energy development; with an amount of Rs. 28,796 crore
incurred by the government led by the Hon’ble Chief Minister Ms. Mayawati Ji, a
“new trust” born among the general public to meet
its electricity needs, during its four-year term,; the government seriously
engaged at the ground level about its promise to offer 24-hourelectricity by
2014, Begining of about 30,000 MW new projects. Investment of Rs. 1,20,000
crore. In the field of transmission, thye largest ever investment of Rs.10,000
crore through PPP in the country.
33. Road construction – construction/reconstruction of more than
50,000 km long roads with an expenditure of about Rs.9000 crore.
34. About 13,000 km long CC roads and KC
drains constructed in 5,480 gram sabhas/villages at a cost of Rs. 3,569 crore.
35. Construction of 319 bridges at a cost of
Rs.1,369 crore as well as 16 over-bridges, entailinf an expenditure of Rs.363
crore.
36. Irrigation – Strengthening of irrigation works/activities at a cost of
Rs.22,097 crore.
37. Additional irrigation capacity of about 1.5
lakh hectares generated with the construction of 2,975 tube wells.
38. Tail-feeding of more than 9,000 canals ensured.
39. Irrigation arrangement of 32 lakh hectares
of land.
40. Agriculture and Allied services – about Rs. 19,50 crore spent in the last
four years.
41. Drive to bouble the income of the farmers.
42. Weather-based crop insurance scheme
started.
43. Rain water storage project in Bundelkhand.
44. Unprecedented increase in sugarcane price
(SAP).
45. Uttar Pradesh tops the country in milk
production.
46. Dr.Ambedkar Agricultural Improvement
Scheme of feeder separation for uninterrupted power supply to farmers.
47. Establishment of new agricultural
university in Banda.
48. Education and Sports Development – about 65,000 crore (Rs.64,997 Crore) were
spent on account of education in the last four years.
49. As many as 12,160 new senior primary
schools and 4,654 new primary schools established
50. 13 private universities established.
51. Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji Research Chair
established in 6 universities.
52. As many as 41 new government
polytechnics set up.
53. In Gautambuddha Nagar, a second technical
university established under the name of Mahamaya Technical University.
54. Commencement of ‘Manyawar Shri Kanshiram
Ji Kala Samman Puraskar’ and Sant Ravidas Kala Samman Puraskar’.
55. Medical and Health services – About 22,000 crore (Rs 22,190 crore) spent
in the last four years.
56. Decision to operate medical colleges in
Kannauj, Jalaun and Saharanpur districts as wellas a para-medical college in
Jhansi.
57. Decision to open state of the art super
specialty 500-bed hospital with participation of private sector, costing around
140-150 crore each in Lucknow, Agra, Jalaun, Bijnur, Azamgarh, Ambedkar Nagar.
And Saharanpur.
58. For the first time in the country a
separate unani directorate established by Uttar Pradesh.
59. Urban Development – About Rs.13,156 crore spent on account of
housing and urban development as wellas Rs. 4,090 crore spent on hygene and
cleanliness schemes.
60. Projects worth about Rs.8,000 crore
completed in Kanpur, Lucknow, Agra, Varanasi, Meerut, Allahabad and Mathura on
development of urban infrastructural facilities and providing housing to the
poor besides, fulfilling their basic needs.
61. Provision of about Rs.1,000 crore for
drinking water projects in 7 metropolitan towns. Completion of projects of
Rs.400 crore in other 37 towns and plying of 1,310 modern buses started.
62. Implementation of solid waste management
schemes in 26 cities.
In additionto the above, the government has, through other
departments , taken several important and notable decisions, a detailed account
of which is given in a government published listing its achievements of four
years.
In order to see for herself the ground reality of the activities
stated in the booklet, the Hon’ble Chief Minister, Ms Mayawati Ji, from 1st
February, 2011 to 2nd March 2011 i.e., for full one month, made
surprise inspections to take stock of law and order situation and creime
control in all the 72 districts, together with development and public welfare
activities, with strict action taken against authorities, if anything wanting
was detected. Necessary directions and guidance for improvement were also
given.
In a nutshell, the four years of the Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Hon’ble Ms Mayawati Ji led government has been “ highly promising and the best” in the area of “development and public welfare”.
Every policy of Uttar Pradesh
Govt. is based on ‘Sarvajan
Hitay – Sarvajan Sukhay’
Important and Historic Initiative for Law
& Order and Crime Control
1. Since the formation of the present
government in Uttar Pradesh, on 13 May, 2007 till date, an Unprecedented
environment of “peace and order and communal harmony, free from injustice,
crime and fear” has been created by giving “top priority” to “law-order and
crime control” for which several important decisions had to be taken with iron
resolve at the different levels e.g:
2. Rigorous and effective action taken
against more than 1 lakh known notorious criminals/Mafiosi.
3. 1.707 notorious criminals detained under
the most stringent “National Security Act (NSA)”.
4. Strict action taken under th “Gangster
Act” against about 40,000 professional offenders.
5. A total of 8.013 notorious delequents,
carrying reward on their heads, were arrested, including those “carrying on the
head a reward” upto Rs.5 lakh.
6. Another 374 notorious criminals carrying
reward, between Rs.50,000 – Rs. 5,00,000 were “killed” by the police in self
defence.
7. Also, thousands of anti-social elements/goondas
and white-collar criminals were sent to their right place i.e. behind the bars
in the “jail”.
8. For the first in the state, action was
also taken against “ influencial people and those occupying high positions”
found guilty of breaching the law, establishing the motto “all wequal before
the law” under which several ministers, ex-ministers, MPs and legislators were
proceeded against leagally with due strictness.
9. “Historic action” continues, without let
or hinderance, against arrant criminals and Mafiosi to “confisticat their
ill-gotten wealth” in order to break the economic backbone. Property worth more
than Rs. 443 crore forfeited so far.
10. Elimination of fierce dacoits – synonymous
of terror, Rs. 5 lakh rewardee bandit chief Shivakumar alias Dadua, Ambika
Patel i.e. Thokia, Mussafir Yadav, carrying a reward of Rs.2lakh from Bihar
atate and Santosh alias Kittu Gupta with a reward of Rs. 1.5 lakh besides,
several other offenders carrying rewards between Rs. 1 lakh and Rs. 50,000 were
killed by police in encounters inself-defence.
11. In the terrorist attack on CRPF group
centre at Rampur by 4 terrorists of HUJI – Harqat UI Jehad Al Islami as wellas
an active member of Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) together with ISI agents
were also apprehended.
12. Noor Baksh, a shooter belonging to the
gang of international criminal, Dawood Ibrahim was shot daed while trying to
escape from police custody.
13. To secure justice to prosecuted people
under the previous government, 10,000 cases filed through a “special campaign”
and action taken against 31,136 persons. “Legal” action also initiated against
those trying to register “fake” reports.
14. The area of ‘jungle raj’, goonda tax,
‘mafia rule’ and ‘anarchy’ inherited in legacy, ends, entirely due to the
“missionary and struggling” efforts of Hon’ble Chief Ninister Ms. Mayawati JI.
People, coming out of the suffocating “jungle raj”, breathing in, today, the
wiff of fresh air of the “rule of law by law”.
15. The result of such strict action was that
an environment of “ communal harmony” continued to exist and no untoward
incident occurred in the whole of the state, in light of the court decision on
the very sensitive Ram Janmbhoomi/Babri Masjid “case”. The peaceful conditions
prevailed in Uttar Pradesh, there was calm and quiet in other states of the
country as well.
16. So also Common Wealth Games 2010,
three-tier panchayat elections, Mahakumbh fair, Haridwar-2010, Allahabad Magh
Mela-2011 passed off peacefully. Lok Sabha-2009 general elections were also
conducted without violence, with peace and impartiality.
17. In order to ensure “justice” to the
general public and create “trust” towards the law and order system in them,
strict instructions issued to record the First Information Report (FIR) in the
thanas from victimized persons without the slightest difficulties.
18. Instructions to all district, division and
tehsil level authorities to be available to the people, as a must in their
offices from 10 to 12 in thye morning.
19. Observance of “thana divwas” on every 1st
and 3rd Saturdsy of the month with the object of taking effective
action against victimization of poor people of the sarv-samaj.
20. As a result of these special efforts made
by the government, remarkable “decline“ in the rate of all kinds of crime
against “SC/ST” in the state. Eqally notable has been the percentage of
disposal of crime enquiries which stands at 92.
21. Appointment of a special public
prosecutor” for prosecution of cases under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities
Act.
22. “Considerable reduction” in incidence of
all crimes against “women” in the state.
23. The percentage of action was 94.1, last
year against those accused of crime against “women” and 91.9 of cases disposed
of, which is a “record” in itself. Consequently, the rate of crime against
women in Uttar Pradesh is much less than even the national average.
24. The effort to secure “justice” in every
matter and at every level to every
segment of the society and the sarv-samaj, the poor people, farmers, labourers,
businessmen, lawyers, service-class and non-service-class people as also students
in accordance with the policy of “Sarvajan Hitay Sarvajan Sukhay”.
25. Together with the arrest of more than two
dozen hard core naxalites, a strategy of
“tatal development (samagra vikas)” in identified areas adopted in order
to deal with the “naxal” problem so that a feeling of trust towards the
administration in kindled in the public psyche in the affected areas and they
do not go astray. Efforts to provide the various basic amenities under Dr.
Ambedkar gram sabha yojns to the 423 naxal affected villages.
26. Many important and historic decisions
taken to establish “rule of the law by law” in the state in order to “modernize and strengthen to make
the police administration alert and vigilant”.
27. More than double the increase in police
budget with about Rs. 7,740 crore sanctioned. For the first time in Uttar
Pradesh a service manual for different sections of the police force
promulgated.
28. Formation of “Uttar Pradesh Police
Recruitment Board” for transparency in view of complaints of corruption in
police recruitment.
29. In a “historic” decision about 2.04 lakh
new posts for policemen created, in one stroke. Already 35,000 constables
selected in a transparent procedure – a step which has been praised at the
national also.
30. Constitution of two new zones Viz.
“Poorvanchal and western Uttar Pradesh” to further strengthen the “Special Task
Force (STF)”.
31. “National Capital Police Zone” formed for
effective control over law and order and crime control in western Uttar
Pradesh.
32. Establishment of “women police stations
(mahila Thana)” in all districts together with “mahila helpline”, “family
planning Centre” and “mahila sahayta prakoshtha” at the state level.
33. “Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS)” set up in
November, 2007 itself.
34. “SIT” constituted to investigate serious
economic offences.
35. For proper security and up keep of the
newly constructed sites/memorials etc
formation of “Uttar Pradesh Police Special Zone Security Battalian” under which
1,233 new posts created.
36. “state level committee constituted” inder
the chairmanship of Director General, police to prevent circulation of
“counterfeit / fake currency notes”.
37. Sevearl proposals for necessary
cooperation pending with the centre about inclusion of naxal-affected districts
into “focus” districts under the “integrated development plan” for development
of the local surroundings and modernization of the police.
Apart from these, many more important steps were taken, a
detailed account of which is given in a booklet published by the government,
highlighting its achievements during the last four years.
In brief, to get the correct feel of ground realities, the
Hon’ble Chief minisre Ms. Mayawati Ji herself made surprise inspections of
“Law-order and crime control:, for one full month i.e. from 1 February – 2
March, 2011, visiting police stations in all the 72 districts in the state,
taking strong action against authorities found wanting in performance and
issuing guidelines for improvement.
Every policy of Uttar
Pradesh Govt. is based on ‘Sarvajan Hitay – Sarvajan Sukhay’
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Cetana Sutta: Intention
Staying
at Savatthi… [the Blessed One said,] “What one intends, what one
arranges, and what one obsesses about:[1]
This is a support for the stationing of consciousness. There being a support,
there is a landing [or: an establishing] of consciousness. When that
consciousness lands and grows, there is the production of renewed becoming in
the future. When there is the production of renewed becoming in the future,
there is future birth, aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress,
& despair. Such is the origination of this entire mass of suffering &
stress.
“If
one doesn’t intend and doesn’t arrange, but one still obsesses [about
something], this is a support for the stationing of consciousness. There being
a support, there is a landing of consciousness. When that consciousness lands
and grows, there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. When
there is the production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth,
aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. Such
[too] is the origination of this entire mass of suffering & stress.
“But
when one doesn’t intend, arrange, or obsess [about anything], there is no
support for the stationing of consciousness. There being no support, there is
no landing of consciousness. When that consciousness doesn’t land & grow,
there is no production of renewed becoming in the future. When there is no
production of renewed becoming in the future, there is no future birth, aging
& death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, or despair. Such is the
cessation of this entire mass of suffering & stress.”
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Once[1] the Blessed One was living among the Bhaggas in the Deer Park at Bhesakala Grove, near Crocodile Haunt. At that time Ven. Maha Moggallana[2] sat nodding near the village of Kallavalaputta, in Magadha.
The Blessed One, with his purified divine eye, surpassing the human,
saw Ven. Maha Moggallana as he sat nodding near the village of
Kallavalaputta, in Magadha. As soon as he saw this — just as a strong
man might extend his flexed arm or flex his extended arm — he
disappeared from among the Bhaggas in the Deer Park at Bhesakala Grove,
near Crocodile Haunt, and re-appeared near the village of
Kallavalaputta, in Magadha, right in front of Ven. Maha Moggallana.
There he sat down on a prepared seat. As he was sitting there, the
Blessed One said to Ven. Maha Moggallana, “Are you nodding, Moggallana?
Are you nodding?”
“Yes, lord.”
“Well then, Moggallana, whatever perception you have in mind when
drowsiness descends on you, don’t attend to that perception, don’t
pursue it. It’s possible that by doing this you will shake off your
drowsiness.
“But if by doing this you don’t shake off your drowsiness, then
recall to your awareness the Dhamma as you have heard & memorized
it, re-examine it & ponder it over in your mind. It’s possible that
by doing this you will shake off your drowsiness.
“But if by doing this you don’t shake off your drowsiness, then
repeat aloud in detail the Dhamma as you have heard & memorized it.
It’s possible that by doing this you will shake off your drowsiness.
“But if by doing this you don’t shake off your drowsiness, then pull
both your earlobes and rub your limbs with your hands. It’s possible
that by doing this you will shake off your drowsiness.
“But if by doing this you don’t shake off your drowsiness, then get
up from your seat and, after washing your eyes out with water, look
around in all directions and upward to the major stars &
constellations. It’s possible that by doing this you will shake off your
drowsiness.
“But if by doing this you don’t shake off your drowsiness, then
attend to the perception of light, resolve on the perception of daytime,
[dwelling] by night as by day, and by day as by night. By means of an
awareness thus open & unhampered, develop a brightened mind. It’s
possible that by doing this you will shake off your drowsiness.
“But if by doing this you don’t shake off your drowsiness, then —
percipient of what lies in front & behind — set a distance to
meditate walking back & forth, your senses inwardly immersed, your
mind not straying outwards. It’s possible that by doing this you will
shake off your drowsiness.
“But if by doing this you don’t shake off your drowsiness, then —
reclining on your right side — take up the lion’s posture, one foot
placed on top of the other, mindful, alert, with your mind set on
getting up. As soon as you wake up, get up quickly, with the thought, ‘I
won’t stay indulging in the pleasure of lying down, the pleasure of
reclining, the pleasure of drowsiness.’ That is how you should train
yourself.
“Furthermore, Moggallana, should you train yourself: ‘I will not visit families with my pride[3]
lifted high.’ That is how you should train yourself. Among families
there are many jobs that have to be done, so that people don’t pay
attention to a visiting monk. If a monk visits them with his trunk
lifted high, the thought will occur to him, ‘Now who, I wonder, has
caused a split between me and this family? The people seem to have no
liking for me.’ Getting nothing, he becomes abashed. Abashed, he becomes
restless. Restless, he becomes unrestrained. Unrestrained, his mind is
far from concentration.
“Furthermore, Moggallana, should you train yourself: ‘I will speak no
confrontational speech.’ That is how you should train yourself. When
there is confrontational speech, a lot of discussion can be expected.
When there is a lot of discussion, there is restlessness. One who is
restless becomes unrestrained. Unrestrained, his mind is far from
concentration.
“It’s not the case, Moggallana, that I praise association of every
sort. But it’s not the case that I dispraise association of every sort. I
don’t praise association with householders and renunciates. But as for
dwelling places that are free from noise, free from sound, their
atmosphere devoid of people, appropriately secluded for resting
undisturbed by human beings: I praise association with dwelling places
of this sort.”
When this was said, Ven. Moggallana said to the Blessed One:
“Briefly, lord, in what respect is a monk released through the ending of
craving, utterly complete, utterly free from bonds, a follower of the
utterly holy life, utterly consummate: foremost among human &
heavenly beings?”
“There is the case, Moggallana, where a monk has heard, ‘All
phenomena are unworthy of attachment.’ Having heard that all phenomena
are unworthy of attachment, he fully knows all things. Fully knowing all
things, he fully comprehends all things. Fully comprehending all
things, then whatever feeling he experiences — pleasure, pain, neither
pleasure nor pain — he remains focused on inconstancy, focused on
dispassion, focused on cessation, focused on relinquishing with regard
to that feeling. As he remains focused on inconstancy, focused on
dispassion, focused on cessation, focused on relinquishing with regard
to that feeling, he is unsustained by[4]
anything in the world. Unsustained, he is not agitated. Unagitated, he
is unbound right within. He discerns: ‘Birth is ended, the holy life
fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.’
“It is in this respect, Moggallana, that a monk, in brief, is
released through the ending of craving, utterly complete, utterly free
from bonds, a follower of the utterly holy life, utterly consummate:
foremost among human & heavenly beings.”
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Canda The Beggar
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Candala Sutta: The Outcaste
“Endowed
with these five qualities, a lay follower is an outcaste of a lay follower, a
stain of a lay follower, a dregs of a lay follower. Which five? He/she does not
have conviction [in the Buddha’s Awakening]; is unvirtuous; is eager for
protective charms & ceremonies; trusts protective charms & ceremonies,
not kamma; and searches for recipients of his/her offerings outside [of the
Sangha], and gives offerings there first. Endowed with these five qualities, a
lay follower is an outcaste of a lay follower, a stain of a lay follower, a
dregs of a lay follower.
“Endowed
with these five qualities, a lay follower is a jewel of a lay follower, a lotus
of a lay follower, a fine flower of a lay follower. Which five? He/she has
conviction; is virtuous; is not eager for protective charms & ceremonies;
trusts kamma, not protective charms & ceremonies; does not search for
recipients of his/her offerings outside [of the Sangha], and gives offerings
here first. Endowed with these five qualities, a lay follower is a jewel of a
lay follower, a lotus of a lay follower, a fine flower of a lay follower.”
Canda: The Beggar
Before, I had fallen on evil times: no husband, no
children, no relatives, friends, no way to obtain clothing & food. So,
taking a staff & bowl in hand, begging for alms from house to house,
feverish from the cold & heat, I wandered for seven full years. Then seeing
a nun obtaining food & drink, I approached her & said: “Let me go
forth into homelessness.” She, Patacara, from
sympathy, let me go forth; then, exhorting me, urged me on to the highest goal.
Hearing her words, I did her bidding. Her exhortation was not in vain. I’m a
three-knowledge woman, fermentation-free.
POLITICS is SACRED with GOOD GOVERNANCE
BEST PROMISING GOVERNANCE OF Ms. MAYAWATI JI IN FOUR YEARS
Important and Historic Initiative for Law
& Order and Crime Control
1. Since the formation of the present
government in Uttar Pradesh, on 13 May, 2007 till date, an Unprecedented
environment of “peace and order and communal harmony, free from injustice,
crime and fear” has been created by giving “top priority” to “law-order and
crime control” for which several important decisions had to be taken with iron
resolve at the different levels e.g:
2. Rigorous and effective action taken
against more than 1 lakh known notorious criminals/Mafiosi.
3. 1.707 notorious criminals detained under
the most stringent “National Security Act (NSA)”.
4. Strict action taken under th “Gangster
Act” against about 40,000 professional offenders.
5. A total of 8.013 notorious delequents,
carrying reward on their heads, were arrested, including those “carrying on the
head a reward” upto Rs.5 lakh.
6. Another 374 notorious criminals carrying
reward, between Rs.50,000 – Rs. 5,00,000 were “killed” by the police in self
defence.
7. Also, thousands of anti-social elements/goondas
and white-collar criminals were sent to their right place i.e. behind the bars
in the “jail”.
8. For the first in the state, action was
also taken against “ influencial people and those occupying high positions”
found guilty of breaching the law, establishing the motto “all wequal before
the law” under which several ministers, ex-ministers, MPs and legislators were
proceeded against leagally with due strictness.
9. “Historic action” continues, without let
or hinderance, against arrant criminals and Mafiosi to “confisticat their
ill-gotten wealth” in order to break the economic backbone. Property worth more
than Rs. 443 crore forfeited so far.
10. Elimination of fierce dacoits – synonymous
of terror, Rs. 5 lakh rewardee bandit chief Shivakumar alias Dadua, Ambika
Patel i.e. Thokia, Mussafir Yadav, carrying a reward of Rs.2lakh from Bihar
atate and Santosh alias Kittu Gupta with a reward of Rs. 1.5 lakh besides,
several other offenders carrying rewards between Rs. 1 lakh and Rs. 50,000 were
killed by police in encounters inself-defence.
11. In the terrorist attack on CRPF group
centre at Rampur by 4 terrorists of HUJI – Harqat UI Jehad Al Islami as wellas
an active member of Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) together with ISI agents
were also apprehended.
12. Noor Baksh, a shooter belonging to the
gang of international criminal, Dawood Ibrahim was shot daed while trying to
escape from police custody.
13. To secure justice to prosecuted people
under the previous government, 10,000 cases filed through a “special campaign”
and action taken against 31,136 persons. “Legal” action also initiated against
those trying to register “fake” reports.
14. The area of ‘jungle raj’, goonda tax,
‘mafia rule’ and ‘anarchy’ inherited in legacy, ends, entirely due to the
“missionary and struggling” efforts of Hon’ble Chief Ninister Ms. Mayawati JI.
People, coming out of the suffocating “jungle raj”, breathing in, today, the
wiff of fresh air of the “rule of law by law”.
15. The result of such strict action was that
an environment of “ communal harmony” continued to exist and no untoward
incident occurred in the whole of the state, in light of the court decision on
the very sensitive Ram Janmbhoomi/Babri Masjid “case”. The peaceful conditions
prevailed in Uttar Pradesh, there was calm and quiet in other states of the
country as well.
16. So also Common Wealth Games 2010,
three-tier panchayat elections, Mahakumbh fair, Haridwar-2010, Allahabad Magh
Mela-2011 passed off peacefully. Lok Sabha-2009 general elections were also
conducted without violence, with peace and impartiality.
17. In order to ensure “justice” to the
general public and create “trust” towards the law and order system in them,
strict instructions issued to record the First Information Report (FIR) in the
thanas from victimized persons without the slightest difficulties.
18. Instructions to all district, division and
tehsil level authorities to be available to the people, as a must in their
offices from 10 to 12 in thye morning.
19. Observance of “thana divwas” on every 1st
and 3rd Saturdsy of the month with the object of taking effective
action against victimization of poor people of the sarv-samaj.
20. As a result of these special efforts made
by the government, remarkable “decline“ in the rate of all kinds of crime
against “SC/ST” in the state. Eqally notable has been the percentage of
disposal of crime enquiries which stands at 92.
21. Appointment of a special public
prosecutor” for prosecution of cases under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities
Act.
22. “Considerable reduction” in incidence of
all crimes against “women” in the state.
23. The percentage of action was 94.1, last
year against those accused of crime against “women” and 91.9 of cases disposed
of, which is a “record” in itself. Consequently, the rate of crime against
women in Uttar Pradesh is much less than even the national average.
24. The effort to secure “justice” in every
matter and at every level to every
segment of the society and the sarv-samaj, the poor people, farmers, labourers,
businessmen, lawyers, service-class and non-service-class people as also students
in accordance with the policy of “Sarvajan Hitay Sarvajan Sukhay”.
25. Together with the arrest of more than two
dozen hard core naxalites, a strategy of
“tatal development (samagra vikas)” in identified areas adopted in order
to deal with the “naxal” problem so that a feeling of trust towards the
administration in kindled in the public psyche in the affected areas and they
do not go astray. Efforts to provide the various basic amenities under Dr.
Ambedkar gram sabha yojns to the 423 naxal affected villages.
26. Many important and historic decisions
taken to establish “rule of the law by law” in the state in order to “modernize and strengthen to make
the police administration alert and vigilant”.
27. More than double the increase in police
budget with about Rs. 7,740 crore sanctioned. For the first time in Uttar
Pradesh a service manual for different sections of the police force
promulgated.
28. Formation of “Uttar Pradesh Police
Recruitment Board” for transparency in view of complaints of corruption in
police recruitment.
29. In a “historic” decision about 2.04 lakh
new posts for policemen created, in one stroke. Already 35,000 constables
selected in a transparent procedure – a step which has been praised at the
national also.
30. Constitution of two new zones Viz.
“Poorvanchal and western Uttar Pradesh” to further strengthen the “Special Task
Force (STF)”.
31. “National Capital Police Zone” formed for
effective control over law and order and crime control in western Uttar
Pradesh.
32. Establishment of “women police stations
(mahila Thana)” in all districts together with “mahila helpline”, “family
planning Centre” and “mahila sahayta prakoshtha” at the state level.
33. “Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS)” set up in
November, 2007 itself.
34. “SIT” constituted to investigate serious
economic offences.
35. For proper security and up keep of the
newly constructed sites/memorials etc
formation of “Uttar Pradesh Police Special Zone Security Battalian” under which
1,233 new posts created.
36. “state level committee constituted” inder
the chairmanship of Director General, police to prevent circulation of
“counterfeit / fake currency notes”.
37. Sevearl proposals for necessary
cooperation pending with the centre about inclusion of naxal-affected districts
into “focus” districts under the “integrated development plan” for development
of the local surroundings and modernization of the police.
Apart from these, many more important steps were taken, a
detailed account of which is given in a booklet published by the government,
highlighting its achievements during the last four years.
In brief, to get the correct feel of ground realities, the
Hon’ble Chief minisre Ms. Mayawati Ji herself made surprise inspections of
“Law-order and crime control:, for one full month i.e. from 1 February – 2
March, 2011, visiting police stations in all the 72 districts in the state,
taking strong action against authorities found wanting in performance and
issuing guidelines for improvement.
Every policy of Uttar Pradesh
Govt. is based on ‘Sarvajan
Hitay – Sarvajan Sukhay’
Press Information Bureau
(C.M. Information Campus)
Information & Public Relations Department,
U.P.
Hon’ble Chief Minister ji directs officers to
ensure farmers got all facilities within time
Make adequate arrangement of fertilisers and seeds
for Kharif season
Take stringent action against officers/employees
harassing farmers
Ensure quick opening of accounts of 12 lakh new beneficiaries
of Uttar Pradesh Mukhyamantri Mahamaya Garib Arthik Madad Yojana
Ensure repair of roads dug up for laying
sewer/drainage lines
Lucknow: 18 May 2011
The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms.
Mayawati ji has directed all the officers to ensure that the farmers got all
the facilities, being provided to them, in a time bound manner. She said that
the problems of the farmers should be heard seriously at the Kisan seminars and
the same should be solved at the earliest. She said that arrangement of
fertilisers and seeds, needed for the kharif season, should be made in adequate
quantity, so that the farmers did not face any difficulty.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji gave these
directives when the Cabinet Secretary Mr. Shashank Shekhar Singh and Chief
Secretary Mr. Anoop Mishra apprised her of the inferences of the meeting of the
departmental Principal Secretaries/Secretaries held at the Yojana Bhawan here
today.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji, while reviewing the
progress of the facilities and availability of agricultural inputs being
provided to the farmers, said that quick action should be taken to provide crop
loans to the farmers. She directed that the applications for the Kisan Credit
Card should be accepted by the 30 June and it should also be ensured that the
banks accepted them by the end of July. Reviewing the progress of wheat
purchase programme, she said that wheat of every farmer coming to purchase
centres should be purchased compulsorily. She said that all possible steps
should be taken to ensure that the farmers got
remunerative prices of their produce. Directing
the officers to keep the
middlemen away from the process of wheat purchase,
she said that the
purchase centres should be opened in a timely
manner. She cautioned that stringent action would be taken against
officers/employees harassing the farmers unnecessarily.
Keeping the severe hot conditions in view, the
Hon’ble Chief Minister ji directed the Irrigation Department to fill all the
ponds and tanks etc. at the earliest. She said that solid arrangements of
drinking water should be ensured in the rural areas. She said that the work of installation
of hand pumps, repair of defunct hand pumps and re-boring should be
accelerated. She said that all necessary material needed for this purpose and
other arrangements should be made at the earliest.
She also directed the officers to make special
efforts to provide drinking water to the people of Bundelkhand and Vindhyachal
regions. She said that presently the farmers were preparing paddy nurseries.
For that, adequate availability of water was needed in the canals, she pointed
out. Besides, she said that all the government tube wells should remain functional
and repair of defunct tube wells should be done at the earliest.
Reviewing the problems of the officers/employees,
the Hon’ble Chief Minister ji directed all the secretaries/principal
secretaries of all the departments to hold discussions with the leaders of the
employees and ensure that their genuine problems were solved at the earliest. Besides,
she further directed that the meetings of the departmental committees formed
for sanctioning ACP should be held in a timely manner and all the
officers/employees should be given its timely benefits. She directed the
officers to ensure that the GO of the State
Government issued regarding the work charge and
daily wages employees was strictly adhered to. She said that the concerning departments,
after the recommendations of the pay committee and the approval of the Cabinet,
should issue GOs immediately so that the officers/employees did not face
unnecessary difficulties.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji has directed the
Secretaries/Principal Secretaries to make available the report to the
government regarding inspection of districts twice a month. She said that these
officers should review the development and public welfare programmes on format prescribed
by the government on the spot. These officers should also make spot inspections
and communicate with the beneficiaries. Besides, these officers should also
review the works of their respective departments. She reviewed the pension
schemes and directed the officers to verify the beneficiaries and make
available the money in their accounts timely.
Reviewing Uttar Pradesh Mukhyamantri Mahamaya
Garib Arthik
Madad Yojana, Ms. Mayawati ji said that after the
issuance of amended
government order for the selection of
beneficiaries under the scheme,
accounts of the 12 lakh new selected beneficiaries
should be opened
soon, so that they could also get the money along
with the earlier
selected beneficiaries.
3
Reviewing the works of Medical and Health
Department, the Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said this department is directly
related to the people, therefore special attention should be paid on the works
of the department. She directed the officers to recruit finance officers at district
level to ensure the implementation of financial rules. She said that first of
all these finance officers should be posted at some large and problem oriented
districts. She directed the officers to ensure the cleanliness in the
hospitals, availability of medicines and other facilities to patients. She
directed the officers to make available all the information on website
regarding NRHM. She also directed that doctors should remain available at their
places of posting.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji has directed the
officers to get the development works completed in a speedy manner with a view
to accelerate the development at district level. Reviewing the different projects
for flood control, she directed the officers that all the works regarding it,
should be completed by the end of this month. She also apprised herself about
the government works given to SC contractors and said that purchasing and
tender process of construction should be monitored and if anti-social or mafia
elements were found then, stringent action should be taken against them.
Reviewing the works of Education Department, the
Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that necessary steps should be taken to fill the
vacant posts of primary and secondary teachers. She directed the officers to arrange
the same courses for higher education in the state and said that arrangements
should also been done to set up degree colleges in unserved areas.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji directed the
officers to get Saryu and Sharda project for green revolution in East Uttar
Pradesh declared as National Project and immediately get the money released
under various centrally sponsored schemes. She said that the roads which had
been dug up for sewer lines should be repaired before the rainy season, so that
people could not face any difficulty. She directed the Principal Secretary
Urban Development to conduct surprise inspections and remain vigilant. She also
directed the officers to ensure employment to Aall needy persons under MNREGA.
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Canda: The Beggar
Before, I had fallen on evil times: no husband, no
children, no relatives, friends, no way to obtain clothing & food. So,
taking a staff & bowl in hand, begging for alms from house to house,
feverish from the cold & heat, I wandered for seven full years. Then seeing
a nun obtaining food & drink, I approached her & said: “Let me go
forth into homelessness.” She, Patacara, from
sympathy, let me go forth; then, exhorting me, urged me on to the highest goal.
Hearing her words, I did her bidding. Her exhortation was not in vain. I’m a
three-knowledge woman, fermentation-free.
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Hon’ble Chief Minister ji directs officers to
ensure farmers got all facilities within time
Make adequate arrangement of fertilisers and seeds
for Kharif season
Take stringent action against officers/employees
harassing farmers
Ensure quick opening of accounts of 12 lakh new beneficiaries
of Uttar Pradesh Mukhyamantri Mahamaya Garib Arthik Madad Yojana
Ensure repair of roads dug up for laying sewer/drainage
lines
Lucknow: 18 May 2011
The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms.
Mayawati ji has directed all the officers to ensure that the farmers got all
the facilities, being provided to them, in a time bound manner. She said that
the problems of the farmers should be heard seriously at the Kisan seminars and
the same should be solved at the earliest. She said that arrangement of
fertilisers and seeds, needed for the kharif season, should be made in adequate
quantity, so that the farmers did not face any difficulty.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji gave these
directives when the Cabinet Secretary Mr. Shashank Shekhar Singh and Chief
Secretary Mr. Anoop Mishra apprised her of the inferences of the meeting of the
departmental Principal Secretaries/Secretaries held at the Yojana Bhawan here
today.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji, while reviewing the
progress of the facilities and availability of agricultural inputs being
provided to the farmers, said that quick action should be taken to provide crop
loans to the farmers. She directed that the applications for the Kisan Credit
Card should be accepted by the 30 June and it should also be ensured that the
banks accepted them by the end of July. Reviewing the progress of wheat
purchase programme, she said that wheat of every farmer coming to purchase
centres should be purchased compulsorily. She said that all possible steps
should be taken to ensure that the farmers got
remunerative prices of their produce. Directing
the officers to keep the
middlemen away from the process of wheat purchase,
she said that the
purchase centres should be opened in a timely
manner. She cautioned that stringent action would be taken against
officers/employees harassing the farmers unnecessarily.
Keeping the severe hot conditions in view, the
Hon’ble Chief Minister ji directed the Irrigation Department to fill all the
ponds and tanks etc. at the earliest. She said that solid arrangements of
drinking water should be ensured in the rural areas. She said that the work of installation
of hand pumps, repair of defunct hand pumps and re-boring should be
accelerated. She said that all necessary material needed for this purpose and
other arrangements should be made at the earliest.
She also directed the officers to make special
efforts to provide drinking water to the people of Bundelkhand and Vindhyachal
regions. She said that presently the farmers were preparing paddy nurseries.
For that, adequate availability of water was needed in the canals, she pointed
out. Besides, she said that all the government tube wells should remain functional
and repair of defunct tube wells should be done at the earliest.
Reviewing the problems of the officers/employees,
the Hon’ble Chief Minister ji directed all the secretaries/principal
secretaries of all the departments to hold discussions with the leaders of the
employees and ensure that their genuine problems were solved at the earliest. Besides,
she further directed that the meetings of the departmental committees formed
for sanctioning ACP should be held in a timely manner and all the
officers/employees should be given its timely benefits. She directed the
officers to ensure that the GO of the State
Government issued regarding the work charge and
daily wages employees was strictly adhered to. She said that the concerning departments,
after the recommendations of the pay committee and the approval of the Cabinet,
should issue GOs immediately so that the officers/employees did not face
unnecessary difficulties.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji has directed the
Secretaries/Principal Secretaries to make available the report to the
government regarding inspection of districts twice a month. She said that these
officers should review the development and public welfare programmes on format prescribed
by the government on the spot. These officers should also make spot inspections
and communicate with the beneficiaries. Besides, these officers should also
review the works of their respective departments. She reviewed the pension
schemes and directed the officers to verify the beneficiaries and make
available the money in their accounts timely.
Reviewing Uttar Pradesh Mukhyamantri Mahamaya
Garib Arthik
Madad Yojana, Ms. Mayawati ji said that after the
issuance of amended
government order for the selection of
beneficiaries under the scheme,
accounts of the 12 lakh new selected beneficiaries
should be opened
soon, so that they could also get the money along
with the earlier
selected beneficiaries.
3
Reviewing the works of Medical and Health
Department, the Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said this department is directly
related to the people, therefore special attention should be paid on the works
of the department. She directed the officers to recruit finance officers at district
level to ensure the implementation of financial rules. She said that first of
all these finance officers should be posted at some large and problem oriented
districts. She directed the officers to ensure the cleanliness in the hospitals,
availability of medicines and other facilities to patients. She directed the
officers to make available all the information on website regarding NRHM. She
also directed that doctors should remain available at their places of posting.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji has directed the
officers to get the development works completed in a speedy manner with a view
to accelerate the development at district level. Reviewing the different projects
for flood control, she directed the officers that all the works regarding it,
should be completed by the end of this month. She also apprised herself about
the government works given to SC contractors and said that purchasing and
tender process of construction should be monitored and if anti-social or mafia
elements were found then, stringent action should be taken against them.
Reviewing the works of Education Department, the
Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that necessary steps should be taken to fill the
vacant posts of primary and secondary teachers. She directed the officers to arrange
the same courses for higher education in the state and said that arrangements
should also been done to set up degree colleges in unserved areas.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji directed the
officers to get Saryu and Sharda project for green revolution in East Uttar
Pradesh declared as National Project and immediately get the money released
under various centrally sponsored schemes. She said that the roads which had
been dug up for sewer lines should be repaired before the rainy season, so that
people could not face any difficulty. She directed the Principal Secretary
Urban Development to conduct surprise inspections and remain vigilant. She also
directed the officers to ensure employment to Aall needy persons under MNREGA.
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Cakkhu Sutta: The Eye
At
Savatthi. “Monks, the eye is inconstant, changeable, alterable. The ear…
The nose… The tongue… The body… The mind is inconstant, changeable,
alterable.
“One
who has conviction & belief that these phenomena are this way is called a
faith-follower: one who has entered the orderliness of rightness, entered the plane
of people of integrity, transcended the plane of the run-of-the-mill. He is
incapable of doing any deed by which he might be reborn in hell, in the animal
womb, or in the realm of hungry shades. He is incapable of passing away until
he has realized the fruit of stream-entry.
“One
who, after pondering with a modicum of discernment, has accepted that these
phenomena are this way is called a Dhamma-follower: one who has entered the
orderliness of rightness, entered the plane of people of integrity, transcended
the plane of the run-of-the-mill. He is incapable of doing any deed by which he
might be reborn in hell, in the animal womb, or in the realm of hungry shades.
He is incapable of passing away until he has realized the fruit of
stream-entry.
“One
who knows and sees that these phenomena are this way is called a
stream-enterer, steadfast, never again destined for states of woe, headed for
self-awakening.”
Cala Sutta: Sister Cala
At Savatthi. Then, early in the morning, Cala the
nun put on her robes and, taking her bowl & outer robe, went into Savatthi
for alms. When she had gone for alms in Savatthi and had returned from her alms
round, after her meal she went to the Grove of the Blind to spend the day.
Having gone deep into the Grove of the Blind, she sat down at the foot of a
tree for the day’s abiding.
Then Mara the Evil One, wanting to arouse fear, horripilation,
& terror in her, wanting to make her fall away from concentration,
approached her & said, “What is it that you don’t approve of,
nun?”
“I
don’t approve of birth, my friend.”
[Mara:]
Why don’t you approve of birth? One who is born enjoys
sensual pleasures. Who on earth ever persuaded you: ‘Nun, don’t approve of
birth’?
[Sister
Cala:]
For one who is born there’s death. One who is born sees
pain. It’s a binding, a flogging, a torment. That’s why one shouldn’t approve
of birth. The Awakened One taught me the Dhamma — the overcoming of birth — for
the abandoning of all pain, he established me in the truth. But beings who have
come to form & those with a share in the formless, if they don’t discern
cessation, return to becoming-again.
Then Mara
the Evil One — sad & dejected at realizing, “Cala the nun knows
me” — vanished right there.
NOTE-II- In addition, many significant and historic steps wre taken
for the
Uplift of the poor and the helpless belonging to sarv-samaj besides,
Farmers, labourers, lawyers, employees, traders and people engaged
in
Other professions, with all government departments also contributing
to the
Development of the people of the state viz.:
1. Uttar Pradesh Mukhyamantri Mahamaya Gharib
Arthik Madad Yojna
benefits about 31 lakh families in Uttar Pradeshwhich have not been able to
avail of the benefits of the BPL list or antyodaya, by providing an assistance
of Rs.400 per month.
2. Savitribai Phule Shiksha Madad Yojna benefitted a total of 6,86,953 girl students,
so far, with Rs.15,000 and a bicycle given to class 10 students and an
additional assistance of Rs.10,000 on promotion to class 12.
3. Mahamaya Gharib Balika Ashirwad Yojna provides for Rs.1lakh to be given to the
girl child immediately on birth, which has benefitted about 3,25,000 girl
children.
4. Dr. Ambedkar Gram Sabha Samagra Vikas Yojna benefitted abount 5,598 gram
sabhas.
5. Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji Sheri Gharib Awas
Yojna provides for free
housing facilities, benefiting about 1lakh families.
6. Sarvjan Hitay Gharib Awas (Slum Area) Maliqana
Haq Yojna
benefited about 7,232 families.
7. BPL card-holders of Sarv-samaj and
beneficiaries of Mahamaya Gharib Arthik Madad Yojna being provided free of charge legal aid
by government lawyers to plead their cases in courts.
8. Under Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji Sheri SC/ST Bssti Samagra Vikas Yojna, 250 bustees selected for development.
9. Lease-hold of 55,000 hectares of
agricultural land for about 2.5 lakh poor and unemployed landless people.
10. About “3.5 lakh families” allotted
residential plots measuring 3,500 hectares.
11. Allotment of 30,000 hectares of land to
about 36,000 agriculturists.
12. 16,000 sites allotted to 19,000 people
engaged in the pottery craft.
13. Allotment of 12,000 hectares of land for
free plantation to 42,000 farmers.
14. Insurance provided to 18,67,835 heads of
families under the General Public Insurance Scheme.
15. Under the enforced Uttar Oradesh Janhit Guarantee Quanoon 13 essential services relating to
revenue, urban development, medical and food and supply guaranteed within a
specified time limit.
16. Brilliant BPL students (girls and boys) of
the newly established Gautam Buddha University belonging to sarv-samaj sent to
Europe for higher studies on state expenses.
17. The maximum sickness allowance increased
from Rs.2,000 to 5,000 in the case of S/S and those eligible from the general
category.
18. The amount of grant-in-aid doubled in the
event of marriage/sickness in Bundelkhand.
19. As many as 897 child development projects
onder operation.
20. Daily wages of “labourers/wage earners” of unorganised sector increased to Rs.100
from Rs.58.
21. More than 18 lakh government employees in
the state provided benefit of the sixth pay commission, causing an additional
financial burden of Rs.21,000 crore.
22. As many as 35,000 daily wage employees,
appointed till 29 June, 1991 regularised.
23. Generation of 10,586 lakh man days in the
rural areas at a cost of Rs. 16,995 crore.
24. Self-employment made available to 13.58
lakh families with a grant of Rs.800 crore.
25. Recruitment of 1.9 lakh ‘safai-workers
(Aroghya Rakshaks)” in the state in one go besides, 88,000 primary school
teachers, 5,000 Urdu teachers and massive recruitment in other departments
together with employment opportunities provided to “lakhs” of people in non-governmental sectors as well.
26. Infrastructural Development: construction of 165 Km long, 6-lane Yamuna
express-way at a cost of Rs. 9,935 crore between Noida and Agra.
1. Rs.30,000
crore –construction project of 1,047 Km long, 8-lane entry controlled
express-way from Greater Noida to Ballia.
2. Costing Rs. 8,911 crore, 148-km long
Sanauta-Purkazi Express-way project along the upper Ganga canal bank.
3. In the Taj city, Agra, construction of a
20.5 km long 6-lane ring road at a cost of Rs.1,100 crore.
4. Delhi-Noida-Greater Noida Metro Rail Link,
first phase, from Delhi to Noida completed.
5. PPP process activated to establish ab
international airport at Kushinagar for the development of Buddhist circuit.
6. Energy development; with an amount of Rs. 28,796 crore
incurred by the government led by the Hon’ble Chief Minister Ms. Mayawati Ji, a
“new trust” born among the general public to meet
its electricity needs, during its four-year term,; the government seriously
engaged at the ground level about its promise to offer 24-hourelectricity by
2014, Begining of about 30,000 MW new projects. Investment of Rs. 1,20,000
crore. In the field of transmission, thye largest ever investment of Rs.10,000
crore through PPP in the country.
7. Road construction – construction/reconstruction of more than
50,000 km long roads with an expenditure of about Rs.9000 crore.
8. About 13,000 km long CC roads and KC
drains constructed in 5,480 gram sabhas/villages at a cost of Rs. 3,569 crore.
9. Construction of 319 bridges at a cost of
Rs.1,369 crore as well as 16 over-bridges, entailinf an expenditure of Rs.363
crore.
10. Irrigation – Strengthening of irrigation works/activities at a cost of Rs.22,097
crore.
11. Additional irrigation capacity of about
1.5 lakh hectares generated with the construction of 2,975 tube wells.
12. Tail-feeding of more than 9,000 canals ensured.
13. Irrigation arrangement of 32 lakh hectares
of land.
14. Agriculture and Allied services – about Rs. 19,50 crore spent in the last
four years.
15. Drive to bouble the income of the farmers.
16. Weather-based crop insurance scheme
started.
17. Rain water storage project in Bundelkhand.
18. Unprecedented increase in sugarcane price
(SAP).
19. Uttar Pradesh tops the country in milk
production.
20. Dr.Ambedkar Agricultural Improvement
Scheme of feeder separation for uninterrupted power supply to farmers.
21. Establishment of new agricultural
university in Banda.
22. Education and Sports Development – about 65,000 crore (Rs.64,997 Crore) were
spent on account of education in the last four years.
23. As many as 12,160 new senior primary
schools and 4,654 new primary schools established
24. 13 private universities established.
25. Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji Research Chair
established in 6 universities.
26. As many as 41 new government polytechnics set up.
27. In Gautambuddha Nagar, a second technical
university established under the name of Mahamaya Technical University.
28. Commencement of ‘Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji
Kala Samman Puraskar’ and Sant Ravidas Kala Samman Puraskar’.
29. Medical and Health services – About 22,000 crore (Rs 22,190 crore) spent
in the last four years.
30. Decision to operate medical colleges in
Kannauj, Jalaun and Saharanpur districts as wellas a para-medical college in
Jhansi.
31. Decision to open state of the art super
specialty 500-bed hospital with participation of private sector, costing around
140-150 crore each in Lucknow, Agra, Jalaun, Bijnur, Azamgarh, Ambedkar Nagar. And
Saharanpur.
32. For the first time in the country a
separate unani directorate established by Uttar Pradesh.
33. Urban Development – About Rs.13,156 crore spent on account of
housing and urban development as wellas Rs. 4,090 crore spent on hygene and
cleanliness schemes.
34. Projects worth about Rs.8,000 crore
completed in Kanpur, Lucknow, Agra, Varanasi, Meerut, Allahabad and Mathura on
development of urban infrastructural facilities and providing housing to the
poor besides, fulfilling their basic needs.
35. Provision of about Rs.1,000 crore for
drinking water projects in 7 metropolitan towns. Completion of projects of
Rs.400 crore in other 37 towns and plying of 1,310 modern buses started.
36. Implementation of solid waste management
schemes in 26 cities.
In additionto the above, the government has, through other departments
, taken several important and notable decisions, a detailed account of which is
given in a government published listing its achievements of four years.
In order to see for herself the ground reality of the activities
stated in the booklet, the Hon’ble Chief Minister, Ms Mayawati Ji, from 1st
February, 2011 to 2nd March 2011 i.e., for full one month, made
surprise inspections to take stock of law and order situation and creime
control in all the 72 districts, together with development and public welfare
activities, with strict action taken against authorities, if anything wanting
was detected. Necessary directions and guidance for improvement were also
given.
In a nutshell, the four years of the Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Hon’ble Ms Mayawati Ji led government has been “ highly promising and the best” in the area of “development and public welfare”.
Every policy of Uttar Pradesh
Govt. is based on ‘Sarvajan
Hitay – Sarvajan Sukhay’
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re
Cakkhu Sutta: The Eye
At
Savatthi. “Monks, the eye is inconstant, changeable, alterable. The ear…
The nose… The tongue… The body… The mind is inconstant, changeable,
alterable.
“One
who has conviction & belief that these phenomena are this way is called a
faith-follower: one who has entered the orderliness of rightness, entered the plane
of people of integrity, transcended the plane of the run-of-the-mill. He is
incapable of doing any deed by which he might be reborn in hell, in the animal
womb, or in the realm of hungry shades. He is incapable of passing away until
he has realized the fruit of stream-entry.
“One
who, after pondering with a modicum of discernment, has accepted that these
phenomena are this way is called a Dhamma-follower: one who has entered the
orderliness of rightness, entered the plane of people of integrity, transcended
the plane of the run-of-the-mill. He is incapable of doing any deed by which he
might be reborn in hell, in the animal womb, or in the realm of hungry shades.
He is incapable of passing away until he has realized the fruit of
stream-entry.
“One
who knows and sees that these phenomena are this way is called a
stream-enterer, steadfast, never again destined for states of woe, headed for
self-awakening.”
POLITICS is SACRED with GOOD GOVERNANCE
Ms Mayawati Ji’s BEST GOVERNANCE CONTINUED
NOTE-II- In addition, many significant and historic steps wre taken
for the
Uplift of the poor and the helpless belonging to sarv-samaj besides,
Farmers, labourers, lawyers, employees, traders and people engaged
in
Other professions, with all government departments also contributing
to the
Development of the people of the state viz.:
1. Uttar Pradesh Mukhyamantri Mahamaya Gharib
Arthik Madad Yojna
benefits about 31 lakh families in Uttar Pradeshwhich have not been able to
avail of the benefits of the BPL list or antyodaya, by providing an assistance
of Rs.400 per month.
2. Savitribai Phule Shiksha Madad Yojna benefitted a total of 6,86,953 girl students,
so far, with Rs.15,000 and a bicycle given to class 10 students and an
additional assistance of Rs.10,000 on promotion to class 12.
3. Mahamaya Gharib Balika Ashirwad Yojna provides for Rs.1lakh to be given to the
girl child immediately on birth, which has benefitted about 3,25,000 girl
children.
4. Dr. Ambedkar Gram Sabha Samagra Vikas Yojna benefitted abount 5,598 gram
sabhas.
5. Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji Sheri Gharib Awas
Yojna provides for free
housing facilities, benefiting about 1lakh families.
6. Sarvjan Hitay Gharib Awas (Slum Area) Maliqana
Haq Yojna
benefited about 7,232 families.
7. BPL card-holders of Sarv-samaj and
beneficiaries of Mahamaya Gharib Arthik Madad Yojna being provided free of charge legal aid
by government lawyers to plead their cases in courts.
8. Under Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji Sheri SC/ST Bssti Samagra Vikas Yojna, 250 bustees selected for development.
9. Lease-hold of 55,000 hectares of
agricultural land for about 2.5 lakh poor and unemployed landless people.
10. About “3.5 lakh families” allotted
residential plots measuring 3,500 hectares.
11. Allotment of 30,000 hectares of land to
about 36,000 agriculturists.
12. 16,000 sites allotted to 19,000 people
engaged in the pottery craft.
13. Allotment of 12,000 hectares of land for
free plantation to 42,000 farmers.
14. Insurance provided to 18,67,835 heads of
families under the General Public Insurance Scheme.
15. Under the enforced Uttar Oradesh Janhit Guarantee Quanoon 13 essential services relating to
revenue, urban development, medical and food and supply guaranteed within a
specified time limit.
16. Brilliant BPL students (girls and boys) of
the newly established Gautam Buddha University belonging to sarv-samaj sent to
Europe for higher studies on state expenses.
17. The maximum sickness allowance increased
from Rs.2,000 to 5,000 in the case of S/S and those eligible from the general
category.
18. The amount of grant-in-aid doubled in the
event of marriage/sickness in Bundelkhand.
19. As many as 897 child development projects
onder operation.
20. Daily wages of “labourers/wage earners” of unorganised sector increased to Rs.100
from Rs.58.
21. More than 18 lakh government employees in
the state provided benefit of the sixth pay commission, causing an additional
financial burden of Rs.21,000 crore.
22. As many as 35,000 daily wage employees,
appointed till 29 June, 1991 regularised.
23. Generation of 10,586 lakh man days in the
rural areas at a cost of Rs. 16,995 crore.
24. Self-employment made available to 13.58
lakh families with a grant of Rs.800 crore.
25. Recruitment of 1.9 lakh ‘safai-workers
(Aroghya Rakshaks)” in the state in one go besides, 88,000 primary school
teachers, 5,000 Urdu teachers and massive recruitment in other departments
together with employment opportunities provided to “lakhs” of people in non-governmental sectors as well.
26. Infrastructural Development: construction of 165 Km long, 6-lane Yamuna
express-way at a cost of Rs. 9,935 crore between Noida and Agra.
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Cakka Sutta: Wheels
“There
are these four wheels, endowed with which human beings & devas develop a
four-wheeled prosperity; endowed with which human beings & devas in no long
time achieve greatness & abundance in terms of wealth. Which four? Living
in a civilized land, associating with people of integrity, directing oneself
rightly, and having done merit in the past. These are the four wheels, endowed
with which human beings & devas develop a four-wheeled prosperity; endowed
with which human beings & devas in no long time achieve greatness &
abundance in terms of wealth.
“If you dwell in a civilized place, make friends
with the noble ones, rightly direct yourself, and have made merit in the past,
there will roll to you crops, wealth, status, honour, & happiness.”
3. In the matter of Religious Minorities especially the Muslim
community,
mention may be made of the establishment of Manyawar Shri
Kanshiram
Ji Urdu, Arabic-Persian University; inclusion of 10 new
Arabic-Persian
Madrasas in the grant-in-aid list; as much as 486.73 crore
approx, on
account of scholarships to 1,28,35,824 minority students (girls
and boys);
elegibilty income limit for scholarships increased to Rs.1 lakh
in respect of
minority students; grant of Rs. 3,745 lakh for the marriage of
37,445
daughters from minority BPL families; reimbursement of fees
amounting
to Rs.2,049 lakh of 49,166 post matric students; construction of
well-
equipped “Haj
Houses” at
Ghaziabad and Lucknow for the convenience of
the Hajis; “direct Haj
flight” from Varanasi to Jeddah;
abolition of the
pre-condition of police verification in the appointment of “Mutawallis”;
arrangement of advance coaching to prepare for competitive
recruitment
examinations; the amount of grant for Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy
more
than doubled to Rs.3 crore; establishment of 58 government secondary
schools in
minority-dominated areas of 22 selected districts as well as
formation of a commission to provide the atatus of minority
institution to
‘taleemi idaar’ (educational institutions) besides, the
distribution of
Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji Handloom Weavers awards.
4. “Disabled” – establishment of ‘Uttar Pradeesh Dr. Shakuntala Misra
Rehabilation University’ at a cost of Rs.400 crore to provide quality
education to the differently-abled students; with 1% reservation
for the
visually impaired and 2% other disabled, so far, 677 and
1320fair shops
allotted, respectively; disabled pension rate increased to
Rs.300 per
month from Rs.150- the total number of disabled pensioners
during
2009-10 increased to 708077.
5. Several welfare schemes implemented for
Sarv-Samaj “women” also,
notable being amendment of the zamindari kanoon to ensure
equitable
share of women in patriarchal landed property; the amount of
dole for
destitute women increased to Rs.300 per month from Rs.150 apart
from
construction of shelter homes etc for them in Mathurs and
Vrindavan;
“alertness and sensitivity” on the part of government has resulted in
Considerable “decline” of criminal cases against “women”.
NOTE-II- In addition, many significant and historic steps wre taken
for the
Uplift of the poor and the helpless belonging to sarv-samaj besides,
Farmers, labourers, lawyers, employees, traders and people engaged
in
Other professions, with all government departments also contributing
to the
Development of the people of the state viz.:
(To be Contd.)
Press Information Bureau
(C.M. Information Campus)
Information & Public Relations Department,
U.P.
C.M. greets people on occasion of Buddha Purnima
Lucknow: May 16, 2011
The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms. Mayawati
ji has extended her heartiest greetings to the people of the State on the
occasion of Buddha Purnima.
In a greetings message, the Hon’ble Chief Minister
ji said that the message of non-violence, peace and service to the people given
by Lord Buddha had become more relevant today. She said that the atmosphere of
peace and mutual forbearance could be established all over the world
by following
the path shown by Lord Buddha.
U.P. Government paying more compensation to
farmers than the Central Government for acquiring their land for schemes
State’s rehabilitation and resettlement policy better
than Haryana and other States
Land acquisition policy formulated by State
Government is the most progressive and farmer friendly policy of the country
Several anti-social elements having vested
interests trying to mislead farmers against State Government
Lucknow: 16 May 2011
A Spokesman of the State Government said that the
compensation given within Uttar Pradesh, during
the last 4-5 years,
was more than the compensation offered by Central
Government or
their undertakings for the acquisition of land for
their various projects.
Yet certain anti-social elements, having vested
interests, were trying
to mislead farmers against the State Government.
The Spokesman
said that the land acquisition policy, formulated
by the State
Government, is the most progressive and farmer
friendly policy of the
country.
The Spokesman said that the farmers were being
paid Rs. 44
lakh per acre compensation on the acquisition of
the land in Noida, Rs.
36 lakh per acre in Greater Noida, between Rs. 22
lakh to Rs. 35 lakh
per acre for land acquisition under Yamuna
Express-Way Authority (in
various districts). Moreover, the rate of
compensation had also been
properly revised over the years. During 2006-07,
about Rs. 20 lakh
per acre compensation was being paid by Noida
Authority, which had
been revised to Rs. 44 lakh per acre during the
five years. Likewise,
the rate of compensation in Greater Noida had also
been revised
upwards.
The Spokesman said that if these rates were
compared with the
rate of compensation being offered by the Ministry
of Railway,
Government of India to the farmers of Raebareli
for setting up of Rail
Coach Factory there, then the picture would become
much clear. The
land owners of Dalmau tehsil were being paid a
compensation of Rs.
2.9 lakh to Rs. 4.35 lakh per acre only. The rate
of compensation was
even much less in the Lalganj tehsil of Raebareli,
which was between
Rs. 3.37 lakh to Rs. 3.7 lakh per acre only. The
Spokesman said that if
it was compared with the compensation rate given
to the farmers of
district Mahamaya Nagar during year 2008-09, then
it would be clear
that the land owners of Mahamaya Nagar got better
rates. They were
given compensation at the rate of Rs. 15 lakh per acre.
The Spokesman said that the compensation rate for
the
acquisition of land for Yamuna Express-Way in Agra
district was about
Rs. 24 lakh per acre, whereas the compensation
rate being offered by
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for
acquisition of land for
the widening of NH-11 in Agra was between Rs. 9.6
lakh per acre to
Rs. 22 lakh per acre. The Ghaziabad Development
Authority had been
offering a compensation of Rs. 44 lakh per acre in
Ghaziabad district,
while the NHAI had been offering a compensation of
Rs. 32 lakh per
acre only for acquisition of land for the
construction of Eastern
Peripheral Express-Way. Similarly, the State
Government had been
offering better compensation for acquisition of
land than the Central
Government in the same districts.
Following are the attractive provisions
incorporated in the
rehabilitation and resettlement policy of Uttar
Pradesh :-
1. Alternative of taking company’s share upto 25 per cent of the annual
assistance in case the land is acquired for a company.
2. Moreover, 7 per cent of the land for development to be given to farmers
after developing it properly.
3. One member of the family, whose land had been acquired, would be
given job in concessionaire company.
4. 17.5 per cent plots of the housing schemes to be reserved for farmers.
5. Farmers rendered marginal because of acquisition to be given
farm labourer’s daily wages for 500 days, while small farmers to be given the
same for 375 days.
6. Farm labourers related with land to be given wages of 625 days. The
Spokesman said that an amount of Rs. 20,000 per acre per annum was being
provided as annuity for a length of 33 years to the affected farmer whose land
had been acquired. It would be paid in addition to the compensation. It would
be given a fixed increase of Rs.600 every year, which would be payable in every
July. He said that if a farmer did not want to take the annuity, then he would
be paid one time amount of Rs. 2,40,000 per acre as rehabilitation subsidy. If
a company acquired the land, then the farmer would have the option to hold 25
per cent share of the land acquired by the company.
The Spokesman said that the legal process of land
acquisition had been mentioned in the Land Acquisition Act 1894. Under it, the award
of the acquired land is announced. It has also the provision of referring the
case to the courts to increase the compensation. But, under the current policy
of the Uttar Pradesh Government, the land owner is given compensation on the
basis of a contract through mutual
consent. The State Government had acquired land
during the previous years through consent of the land owners on the basis of a
contract. He said that the State Government was against the forcible
acquisition of the lands of the farmers.
The Spokesman said that under the rehabilitation
and resettlement policy, provisions had also been made for the proper development
of rural habitation being affected by the land acquisition, so that they also
got the benefit of modern facilities.
The Spokesman said that owing to various
facilities and the simplified procedure being adopted by the State Government,
the industrial development and investment process had been accelerated during
the last 4-5 years. He said that ample investments had been made in heavy,
small and medium industrial sectors in the State. He said that during the year
2007-08 a capital investment of Rs. 4917
crore was ensured, during 2008-09 it stood at Rs.
5276 crore and
during 2009-10 it increased to Rs. 11195 crore.
The Spokesman said
that the process of industrial development and
capital investment was
going on continuously within the State.
*********
C.M. grieved
Lucknow : 15May 2011
The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms. Mayawati ji has expressed
profound grief over the demise of leader of the Bhartiya Kisan Union, Mahendra Singh
Tikait.
In a condolence message,
Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that Mr. Tikait always worked for the welfare of
farmers. She said that his efforts undertaken for the betterment of the farmers
would be remembered forever.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji
has conveyed heartfelt condolences and deep sympathies to the family members of
the late leader.
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Buddha’s
teachings focuses on personal spiritual development and attainment of deep
insight into the nature of life, rather than relationship between humanity and
god.
The world
is timeless, but undergoes constant change. The mind and the five sensory
organs create the world for each human being.
Meditation
is intended to awaken strength, wisdom and compassion in ourselves rather than
to petition another external being.
Dhukka is
the beginning of spiritual purification, which leads to awaken-ness with awareness, achieved when human beings
transcend their own egos.
Consciousness
continues after death and finds expression in a future life.
Through
meditation mind stabilises in order to achieve wisdom, compassion and,
eventually, eternal bliss.
The Buddha’s essential functioning
Notes: A poem by Tendo Wanshi Zenji, written approx. 1140,
translated by Taizan Maezumi, Roshi and Neal Donner. One hundred years later it
was followed by a similarly structured and worded poem by Eihei Dogen. [Click Here to read Dogen’s poem].
The
Buddha’s essential functioning,
the
patriarch’s functioning essence,
Knows
without relating to things
and
illuminates without reflecting upon objects.
Knowing
without relating to things,
its
knowing is subtle of itself.
Illuminating
without reflecting upon objects,
its
illumination is mysterious of itself.
Its
knowing, subtle of itself,
is the
thought with no discrimination.
Its
illumination, mysterious of itself,
is the
sign without the slightest mark.
The
thought with no discrimination,
its
knowing is completed without other.
The sign
without the slightest mark,
its
illumination is revealed without choice.
The water
is pure and clear to the bottom;
a fish
swims slowly.
The sky
is vast and finds no boundary;
a bird
flies far away.
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!!:00 AM
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Meals for devotees
02:00 to 04:00 PM
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And by
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2. “Other Backward Classes” – in the last
four years 2 lakh landless people
allotted lease of about 50,000 hectares of agricultural land;
effective
implementation of 27% reservation for OBSc in the allotment of
fair price
shops in the urban and rural areas under the public distribution
system;
computerisation of the entire procedure of scholarship unders
the
backward classes Welfare department; more than 50 lakh students
(girls
and boys) benefites by scholarships under the scheme of aid to
the poor
families of backward classes on account of marriage and illness
about
Rs.50 crore spent every year; apart from increasing the “creamy
layer”
annual income limit of these classes from Rs.3 lakh Rs.5lakh,
about
Rs.250 crore spent to reimburse the admission fees of students
studying
in post matric classes
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is SACRED with GOOD GOVERNANCE-Hon’ble Chief
Minister, Uttar PradeshMs. Mayawati Ji Led Government’s
four-year term Has been very
promising And the best in the
sphere of “Law & Order and
Crime Control” Besides“Development and Public
Welfare”
Hon’ble Chief
Minister, Uttar Pradesh
Ms. Mayawati Ji
Led Government’s
four-year term
Has been very
promising
And the best in the
sphere of
“Law & Order and
Crime Control”
Besides
“Development and Public
Welfare”
Important and Historic Steps
pertaining to Development and Public Welfare
·
Hon’ble
Ms. Mayawati Ji-led government formed on 13 May, 2007 in Uttar
Pradesh, after its four-year term, has kindled a new ray of
“bright” future
Among the general public in the State, especially the SC/STs,
backwards,
religious minorities and upper-caste poor in respect of law and
order and
crime control together with development and public welfare
activities.
·
This
very government, by pursuing the path shown by great saints, gurus
and seers born in backward classes, especially Mahtma Jotiba
Phule, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj, Shri Narayana Guru, Baba Saheb
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji in development
and public welfare activities with government following the
policy of
“Sarvajan Hitay – Sarvajan Sukhay”.
·
Besides,
to honour these backward-born great “Saints, Gurus and Seers”,
Various magnificent spots, memorials, museums, parks, etc have
been
Constructed in the state, on which the total budgeted government
amount
Spent is even less than 1%; the remaining funds having spent on
law
And order, crime control, development and public welfare
activities.
·
In the
last four years, the central government did not release on time its
Share payable to the state totalling Rs. 21,385 crore. If this
amount had
Been paid by the centre in time, achievements of the state
government
Could have been far far better.
·
Not
only this, the “special
economic package’ of Rs.
80,000 crore
Sought from the central government for the total development of
the state,
Especially Bundelkhand and Poorvanchal in view of the poor and
pitiable
Economic conditions inherited from the previous governments, no
money
Was received from the central government at all.
·
Thereafter,
under government’s new development strategy several
Major projects /schemes on the PPP-model, like the Ganga Express-way,
Yamuna Express-way and Upper Ganga canal were prepared to spur
Development in the state in which no central investments were
involved
Except a departmental ‘no objection ‘ from them; the centre,
however, did
Not cooperate even in this matter.
·
And
yet, with “ correct
mobilization of resources and improved financial
Management” the
state government generated an atmosphere of
·
Development,
notable achievements of which are enumerated below.
NOTE-1-Since the formation, in 1995 of the first government of
Hon’ble Chief
Minister Ms. Mayawati Ji in Uttar Pradesh, its priority has been the
total
Development of the poor and the backward SC/ST, other backward
classes,
Religious minorities and disables persons-who had remained neglected
for
Centuries and during earlier governments. By separately creating
Uttar
Pradesh Welfare Department and other ministries, there has been
Considerable improvements in their condition at every level and
every sphere.
1. This government in the last four years has
undertaken several activities at
a total cost of Rs. 37,000 crore (Rs. 36,795 crore), outlay of
21.21
and 100% expenditure on the development of “SC/ST” under special
component plan which are chiefly – increase in the rate of post
matric for
(Scheduled Castes), eligibility level of income increased from
1lakh to
Rs.2 lakh,, scholarships fora all students (girls and boys) from
class 1 to 8,
establishment of ‘bhagidari bhavan’ at Lucknow and Agra,
including
Training institutes at Aligarh and Rae Bareli to coach SC/ST
youth for
recruitment to high-level services like I.A.S and P.C.S;
recruitment in
Government posts through a drive to clear the backlog; for the
first time
Reservation in contracts upto Rs.25 lakh for SC/ST, so far,
contracts worth
Rs.1,623 crore allotted; about 4 lakh S/C families allotted more
Than 3,500 hectares of land.; 16 Mahamaya Polytechnics for
Information
Technology set up for these categories of students;
regularisation of
Landless SC/ST people in possession of gram sabah land upto13May,
2007; formal right of
possession letters (pattas) awarded to 9,431
Persons; about 3000 genuine lease-holders benefited by removing
illegal
Usurpers from their land; creation of employment totalling 5,945
lakh man-
Days for men and 2,089 lakh for women belonging to SC/ST classes
Created in rural areas; about 8 lakh S/C families benefited by
writing-off
Debts amounting to Rs.120.28 crore of Uttar Pradesh SC/ST
Development Corporation; electrification on large-scale of SC/ST
bustees
/majras and appointment of 23% from these classes only of SOs in
police
Stations; provision of reservation also in state
government-aided priveta
Enterprises; allotment of more than 4,000 fair price shops;
together with
The establishment of a Rs.100 crore “leather park and shoe mandi”: in
Agra, exemption from VAT of Agra Footwear Industry.
( to be continued)
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Buddha Sutta
The Mahasatipatthana Sutta: A Discourse on Mental
Development. In Buddhism, the discourse on the main principle practice for
mental development is the Mahasatipatthana Sutta. As a compound term,
satipatthana can be broken down in two ways, either as sati-patthana,
foundation of mindfulness; or as sati-upatthana, establishing of mindfulness.
Maha is the prefix that means “great”. So Mahasatipatthana means the great
foundation of mindfulness. This sutta is regarded as the canonical Buddhist text
with the fullest instructions on the system of meditation technique that the
Buddha taught. What the Buddha shows in this discourse is the tremendous power
that can unfold from the mind’s potentials culminating in final deliverance
from unsatisfactoriness.
“This is the direct path for the purification of beings, for the
overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the disappearance of pain and
distress, for the attainment of the right method, and for the realization of
Unbinding”.
(Digha Nikaya 22)
This discourse is a means for generating insight (vipassana) and concentration
(samatha). At the end of discourse, the Buddha strongly states that one who
follows what the discourse says will surely attain the highest truth. The
Mahasatipatthana Sutta is divided into four sections as follows:
Kayanupassana contemplation of the body;
Vedananupassana contemplation of feelings;
Cittanupassana contemplation of the mind;
Dhammanupassana contemplation of Dhammas.
The key to the practise is to combine energy (viriya), mindfulness (sati) and
clear comprehension (sampajanna) to the phenomena of mind and body.
To successfully practise, a student will generally require a sound theoretical
knowledge of the practice along with actual training. The theoretical knowledge
should be based on the Mahasatipatthana Sutta. The actual training
descriptions, which are well known among Thai Buddhists or even aboard and have
been practised for centuries, will be presented in the next chapters. Here is a
brief description of the Mahasatipatthana Sutta that new students can study to
understand the overall picture of the discourse. This information quotes from
the original source of the Buddha’s teachings in the sutta.
One important thing that should be made clear before talking about the sutta is
who is suitable to practise this sutta as taught by the Buddha. As mentioned in
the sutta, the Buddha directly taught this sutta to monks. So, what did the
Buddha say to the monks that had been passed down for over 2500 years and is
suitable for lay people in the modern world? The Buddha’s teachings are never
old because they are the Truth that exists in the universe forever. Sakayamuni
Buddha, the present Buddha, and many Buddhas who were born in the past and will
be born in the future discovered the Truth and delivered it to the people. The
Buddhas did not claim that they created the Dhammas and taught them to people.
The Mahayana Buddhism interestingly explains the Buddha as of two kinds: the
natural Buddha and the actual Buddha. The former refers to the Truth that is
forever inherent in the universe. The latter refers to the human Buddha who
attained the Truth. Therefore, even if the Buddha’s teachings that have been
passed down to us for 2500 years, they are not old teachings that modern people
cannot understand. The Truth is the Truth and that cannot be changed. Whoever
follows the Buddha’s teachings, will attain the same enlightenment as the
Buddha and his Sangha in ancient times. The question is, “Who is suitable to
practise this sutta?” The simple answer is all people because the Buddha’s
teachings are not specific to any group, race, or religion. Even if, as
mentioned in the sutta and many places in the scriptures that the Buddha
directly taught this to monks, it does not mean that those teachings are not
suitable for lay people. The Buddha chose and taught the Dhamma that was right
for his audience. As told in the suttas, after listening to the Buddha’s
sermon, many audiences reached enlightenment. Therefore, the monks in the
Mahasatipatthana Sutta refer to those who are ready to listen to this sutta and
will finally reach enlightenment. Therefore, “monk” in this sense does not only
refer to monks or monastic people, but also refers to lay people who have an
inspiration to dedicate their life to follow the path until they reach
enlightenment.
Kayanupassana: This exercise aims to develop insight- seeing the body as it
truly is. Commonly, we cling to our body as beauty, desirability,
attractiveness, ego, etc. because ignorance and craving dominate our mind.
There are six divisions in this exercise. All quotes come from the
Mahasatipatthana Sutta, Digha Nikaya 22.The
Mahasatipatthana Sutta: A Discourse on Mental Development - Pinayo Prommuang
Translated by: Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu
POLITICS
is SACRED with GOOD GOVERNANCE
Hon’ble Chief
Minister, Uttar Pradesh
Ms. Mayawati Ji
Led Government’s
four-year term
Has been very
promising
And the best in the
sphere of
“Law & Order and
Crime Control”
Besides
“Development and Public
Welfare”
Important and Historic Steps
pertaining to Development and Public Welfare
·
Hon’ble
Ms. Mayawati Ji-led government formed on 13 May, 2007 in Uttar
Pradesh, after its four-year term, has kindled a new ray of
“bright” future
Among the general public in the State, especially the SC/STs,
backwards,
religious minorities and upper-caste poor in respect of law and
order and
crime control together with development and public welfare
activities.
·
This
very government, by pursuing the path shown by great saints, gurus
and seers born in backward classes, especially Mahtma Jotiba
Phule, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj, Shri Narayana Guru, Baba Saheb
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji in development
and public welfare activities with government following the
policy of
“Sarvajan Hitay – Sarvajan Sukhay”.
·
Besides,
to honour these backward-born great “Saints, Gurus and Seers”,
Various magnificent spots, memorials, museums, parks, etc have
been
Constructed in the state, on which the total budgeted government
amount
Spent is even less than 1%; the remaining funds having spent on
law
And order, crime control, development and public welfare
activities.
·
In the
last four years, the central government did not release on time its
Share payable to the state totalling Rs. 21,385 crore. If this
amount had
Been paid by the centre in time, achievements of the state
government
Could have been far far better.
·
Not
only this, the “special
economic package’ of Rs.
80,000 crore
Sought from the central government for the total development of
the state,
Especially Bundelkhand and Poorvanchal in view of the poor and
pitiable
Economic conditions inherited from the previous governments, no
money
Was received from the central government at all.
·
Thereafter,
under government’s new development strategy several
Major projects /schemes on the PPP-model, like the Ganga Express-way,
Yamuna Express-way and Upper Ganga canal were prepared to spur
Development in the state in which no central investments were
involved
Except a departmental ‘no objection ‘ from them; the centre,
however, did
Not cooperate even in this matter.
·
And
yet, with “ correct
mobilization of resources and improved financial
Management” the
state government generated an atmosphere of
·
Development,
notable achievements of which are enumerated below.
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The Amitabha Buddha Sutra
(The
SUKHAVATI-VYUDHA VERSION - (The Short Version)
THUS I have heard,
at one time the Buddha dwelt at Sravasti in the Jeta grove in the garden of the
Benefactor Of Orphans and the Solitary, together with a gathering of great
Bhikshus, 1250 in all, all great Arhats whom the assembly knew and recognised:
Elders Sariputra, Mahamaudgalyayana,
Mahakasyapa, Mahakatyayana, Mahakautsthila, Revata, Suddhipanthaka, Nanada,
Ananada, Rahula, Gavampati, Pindola-bharadvaja. Kalodayin,Mahakaphina,
Vakkula,. Aniruddha and others such as these, all great disciples; together
with all the Bodhisattvas, Mahasattvas: Dharma Prince
Manjushri, Ajita Bodhisattva, Gandhastin, Bodhisattva, Nityodyutka Bodhisattva
and others such as these, all great Bodhisattvas ; together with Sakra, chief
among gods, and the numberless great multitudes from the heavens.
At the time Buddha
told the Elder Sariputra, “Passing from hear though hundreds of thousands
of millions o Buddhalands to the West, there is a world called Ultimate Bliss.
In this land a Buddha called Amitabha right now teaches the Dharma. Sariputra,
for the what reason is this land called Ultimate Bliss ? All living beings of
this country endure none of the sufferings, but enjoy every
bliss. Therefore, it is called ‘Ultimate Bliss’.
Moreover, Sariputra
this land of Ultimate Bliss is everywhere surrounded by seven tiers of
railings, seven layers of netting and seven rows of trees, all formed from the
four treasures and for this reason named ‘Ultimate Bliss’.
Moreover,
Sariputra, the Land Of Ultimate Bliss has pools of seven jewels, filled with
the eight waters of merit and virtue. The bottom of each pool is pure, spread
over with golden sand. On the four sides are stairs of gold, silver, lapis
lazuli, and crystal, mother-of-pearl, red pearls, and carnelian.
In the pools are
lotuses as large as carriage wheels; green coloured of green light, yellow
coloured of yellow light, red coloured of red light; white coloured of white
light, subtly, wonderfully, fragrant and pure.
Sariputra the
realisation of the Land Of Ultimate Bliss is thus meritoriously adorned.
Moreover,
Sariputra, in that Buddhaland there is always heavenly music, and the ground is
yellow gold. In the six periods of the day and night a heavenly rain of
mandarva flowers falls, and throughout the clear morning each living being of
this Land, with sacks full of the myriads of wonderful flowers, makes offerings
to the hundreds of thousands of millions of Buddhas of the other directions. At
mealtime they return to their own country and having eaten they stroll around.
Sariputra, the
realisation of the Land of Ultimate Bliss is meritoriously adorned.
Moreover Sariputra,
in this country there are always rare and wonderful vari-coloured birds; white
cranes; peacocks; parrots and egrets kalvinkas and two-headed birds In the six
periods of the day and night the flocks of birds sing forth harmonious and elegant
sounds. Their clear and joyful sounds
proclaim the five roots, the five powers, the seven Boddhishares, and dharmas
such as these. When living beings of this land hear these sounds. they are
altogether mindful of the Dharma and mindful of the Sangha.
Sariputra, do not
say that these birds are born as retribution for their karmic offences. For
what reason ? In this Buddhaland there are no three evil ways of rebirth
Sariputra. in this Buddhaland not even of the three evil ways exist, how much
the less their actuality ! Desiring that the Dharma sound be widely
proclaimed, Amitabha Buddha by transformation made this multitude of birds.
Sariputra, in that
Buddhaland, when the soft wind blows, the rows of jewelled trees and jewelled
nets give forth subtle and wonderful sounds, like one hundred thousand kinds of
music played at the same time. All those who hear this sound naturally bring in
their hearts mindfulness of the Buddha,
mindfulness of the Dharma and mindfulness of the Sangha.
Sariputra, the
realisation of the Land of Ultimate Bliss is meritoriously adorned.
Sariputra, what do
you think? Why is the Buddha called Amitabha ? Sariputra, the brilliance of
that Buddha’s light is measureless, illumining the lands of the ten directions
everywhere without obstructions, for this reason he is called Amitabha.
Moreover Sariputra,
the life of that Buddha and that of his people extends of measureless limitless
asankhyeya kalpas; for this reason he is called Amityatus.And Sariputra, since
Amitabha realised Buddhahhod, ten kalpas have passed.
Moreover Sariputra,
that Buddha has measureless, limitless “sound-hearer” disciples, all
Arhats, their number incalculable; thus also is the assembly of Bodhisattvas.
Sariputra, the
realisation of the Land of Ultimate Bliss is meritoriously adorned.
Moreover Sariputra,
those living beings born in the Land Of Ultimate Bliss are all avivartika.
Among them are many who in this very life will dwell in Buddhhood. Their number
is extremely many; it is incalculable and only in measureless, limitless
asankheya kalpas could it be spoken.
Sariputra, those
living beings who hear should vow, ‘I wish to be born in that country’. And why
? Those who thus attain are all attain are all superior and good people, all
coming together in one place. Sariputra, one cannot have few good roots,
blessings, virtues and casual connections to attain birth in that Land.
Sariputra, if there
is a good man or good woman who hears spoken ‘Amitabha Buddha’ and holds the
name whether for one day, two days, three, four, five days, six days as long as
seven days with one heart unconfused, when this person approaches the end of
life, before him will appear Amitabha
Buddha and all the assembly of Holy Ones. When the end comes, his heart is
without inversion; in Amitabha Buddha’s Land Of Ultimate Bliss he will attain
rebirth. Sariputra. because I see this benefit. I speak these words; If living
beings hear this spoken they should make the vow ‘I will be reborn in that
land.
Sariputra, as I now
praise the inconceivable benefit from the merit and virtue of Amitabha Buddha,
thus in the East are also Aksobhya Buddha, Sumeru Appearance Buddha, Great
Sumeru Buddha, Summeru Light Buddha, Wonderful Sound Buddha, all Buddhas such
as these, numberless as Ganges’ sands. In his own country each brings forth the
appearance of a vast and long tongue. everywhere covering the three thousand
great thousand worlds, and speaks the sincere and actual words, ‘All you living
beings should believe, praise, and hold in reverence the inconceivable merit
and virtue of this Sutra Of The Mindful One Of Whom All The Buddhas Are
Protective.
Sariputra, in the
Southern world are Sun Moon Lamp Buddha, Well-Known Light Buddha, Great Blazing
Shoulders Buddha, Measureless Vigour Buddha, all Buddhas such as these,
numberless as Ganges’ sands. In his own country each bring forth the appearance
of a vast and long tongue, everywhere covering the three thousand great
thousand worlds, and speaks the sincere and
actual worlds, ‘All you living beings should believe, praise, and hold in
reverence the inconceivable merit and virtue of this Sutra Of The Mindful One
Of Whom All The Buddhas Are Protective.”
Sariputra, in the
Western world are Measureless Life Buddha, Measureless Appearance Buddha, Great
Brightness Buddha, Jewelled Appearance Buddha, Pure Light Buddha, all Buddha’s
such as these, numberless as Ganges sands. In his own country each bring forth
the appearance of a vast and long tongue, everywhere covering the three
thousand great thousand worlds, and speaks
the sincere and actual worlds , ‘All you living beings should believe, praise,
and hold in reverence the inconceivable merit and virtue of this Sutra Of The
Mindful One Of Whom All The Buddhas Are Protective.
Sariputra, in the
Northern world are Blazing Shoulders Buddha, Most Victorious Sound Buddha, Hard
to Injure Buddha, Sun Birth Buddha, Net Brightness Buddha, all Buddhas such as
these. numberless as Ganges sands. In his own country each bring forth the
appearance of a vast and long tongue,
everywhere covering the three thousand great thousand worlds, and speaks the
sincere and actual worlds , ‘All you living beings should believe, praise, and
hold in reverence the inconceivable merit and virtue of this Sutra Of The
Mindful One Of Whom All The Buddhas Are Protective. ”
Sariputra, in the
world below are Lion Buddha, Well-Known Buddha, Famous Light Buddha, Dharma
Buddha, Dharma Curtain Buddha, Dharma Maintaining Buddha, all Buddhas such as
these, numberless as Gange sands.In his own country each bring forth the
appearance of a vast and long tongue, everywhere covering the three thousand
great thousand worlds, and speaks the sincere and actual worlds , ‘All you
living beings should believe, praise, and hold in reverence the inconceivable
merit and virtue of this Sutra Of The Mindful One Of Whom All The Buddhas Are
Protective. ”
Sariputra, in the
world above are Pure Sound Buddha, King of Past Lives Buddha, Great Blazing
Shoulders Buddha, Vari-coloured Jewels and Flower Adornment Body Buddha, Sala
Tree King Buddha, Jewelled Flower Virtue Buddha. Vision Of All Meaning Buddha,
such as Mt. Sumeru Buddha, all Buddhas such as these, numberless as Ganges
sands. In his own country each bring forth the appearance of a vast and long
tongue, everywhere covering the the three thousand great thousand worlds, and
speaks the sincere and actual worlds, ‘All you living beings should believe,
praise, and hold in reverence the inconceivable merit and virtue of this Sutra
Of The Mindful One Of Whom All
The Buddhas Are Protective.”
Sariputra, what do
you think ? Why is it called Sutra Of The Mindful One Of Whom All Buddhas Are
Protective. Sariputra, if a good man or good woman hears this Sutra and holds
to it an hears the names of all these Buddhas, this good man or woman will be
the Mindful One of whom all Buddhas are protective, and will irreversibly
attain to annuttara-samyak-sambodhi. Therefore, Sariputra, all of you should
believe and accept my words, and those which all Buddhas speak.
Sariputra, just as
I am now one who praises the merit and virtue of all Buddhas, all those Buddhas
equally praise, my inconceivable merit and virtue saying these words ‘Sakyamuni
Buddha can be complete extremely rare and difficult deeds. In the Saha Land, in
the evil time of the five turbidities, in the midst of the kalpa turbidity, the
view turbidity, the affliction tupidity and the life turbidity, he can attain annutara-samyak-sambodhi
and for the sake of living beings, speak this Dharma which in the whole world
is hard to believe.’
Sariputra, You
should know, that I, in the evil time of the five turbidities, practice these
difficult deeds, attain annutara-samyak-sambodhi and for all the world speak
this dharma, difficult to believe, extremely difficult!’
After the Buddha
spoke this Sutra, Sariputra and all the Bhikshus, all the gods, men and asuras
and others from all the worlds hearing what the Buddha had said, joyously
welcomed, faithfully accepted, bowed and withdrew.
End of The Buddha
Speaks of Amitabha Sutra
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C.M. inaugurates/lays foundation of public welfare
and development schemes costing Rs. 2000 crore on completion of four years of
her government
Achievements of my Government very encouraging and
excellent in the spheres of law and order, crime control, development and
matters related with public interests —Hon’ble Chief Minister ji
State Government took several important and
historical decisions in the interests of poor, neglected and exploited sections
of society
BJP, Congress and other opposition parties trying
to mislead people
Lucknow: 13 May 2011
The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms.
Mayawati ji, on the
occasion of the completion of four years of her
government today,
inaugurated/laid foundation of various public
welfare and development
schemes amounting to Rs. 2000 crore. She said that
despite the non-cooperative attitude and step motherly treatment handed out by
the
Central Government, her government’s achievements
were excellent in the
field of law and order, development and matters
related with people’s
interests. She said that the State Government
achieved all these factors
through its own limited resources. She said that
these achievements were
encouraging and excellent. She said that the
previous governments could
not complete the tasks related with development
and public interest in the
last 40 years, but her government completed them
in a span of only four
years on the basis of missionary thinking.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji was addressing a
function organised at
the Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Auditorium, Ashiyana here
today to mark the
completion of four years of her government. She
paid floral tributes on the
statue of Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar after
her arrival. She also
met with all the responsible office bearers,
prominent persons and party
workers gathered at there. The C.M. also
inaugurated/laid foundation of
various schemes. These were mainly related with
Energy Department,
Drinking Water and Sewerage, Bridge Corporation
and PWD. She also
unveiled statue of former Union Minister and
Governor late Dr. Rajendra
Kumari Bajpai. Mr. Ashok Bajpai and Mrs. Ranjana
Bajpai were also present
on the occasion.Speaking on the occasion, the
Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that owing to missionary thinking and efforts, the
jungle-raj, mafia-raj and the
phase of anarchy was ended and rule of law by the
law was established all over the State. Several important and historical
decisions were taken
which had far-reaching positive effects on the
poor, neglected and
exploited sections of the society. During the
previous four years, the State
Government adopted the policy of Sarvajan Hitay
and Sarvajan Sukhay
which yielded encouraging results for establishing
a society based on
equality.
Ms. Mayawati ji said that during the regime of the
previous government, an atmosphere of jungle-raj, mafia-raj and anarchy had
been created all over Uttar Pradesh. The process of development had stopped and
corruption was rampant all over the State. She pointed out that after coming to
power she put the State back on the track of development.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that the BJP
and other opposition parties had been levelling false allegations of corruption
against the State Government, which was totally misleading and baseless. She
said that the
BJP had published a book which was based on
useless, false and fake facts.
She said that the book had nothing based on facts,
which could be taken
seriously by the State Government, the matter
could be investigated by it
and the culprit could be punished. She pointed out
that the present
government had detected the police recruitment
scam, Noida land scam
and food grain scam which occurred during the
regime of previous
government and after conducting investigation,
those found guilty had
been punished.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that the State
Government had
demanded a special package of Rs. 80,000 crore
from the Central
Government to remove backwardness of the State
from time to time. But,
the Union Government did not take any positive
decision in this regard.
She said that the Central Government even did not
provide rightful money
to be given to Uttar Pradesh on time. She said
that the Central Government did not provide an amount in the excess of Rs.
21,385 crore to the State Government to be given under various Central Schemes
over the last four years.
Referring to the Prime Minister’s public meeting
held in Banda on 30th
April 2011, Ms. Mayawati ji said that the views
expressed by the Hon’ble
Prime Minister ji regarding the development of
Bundelkhand, were nothing
more than a political farce. She said that the
backwardness of Bundelkhand
was not sudden. Instead, it lagged behind over a
period of time since
independence. She said that considering this, the
State Government
requested the Central Government to provide a
package of Rs. 80,000
crore on 17th July 2007. She pointed out that it included various proposals
for all round development of Bundelkhand costing
Rs. 11,000 crore
approximately. Likewise, to remove backwardness of
Poorvanchal, a
package of Rs. 36,000 crore had been demanded
which was included in the
Rs. 80,000 crore package demanded by the State
from the Centre. The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that the State Government
was in favour of small states for rapid development and effective
administration.
She said that she had been continuously demanding
reorganisation of U.P.
and creation of Poorvanchal, Bundelkhand and
Western U.P. as separate
States. She said that she had requested the
Central Government to find
out permanent solution for the problem of floods
affecting terai and
eastern areas. These floods were being caused by
the rivers originating
from Nepal. Besides, she had also demanded from
the Centre to set up
another bench of Hon’ble Allahabad High Court in
the western U.P., to
amend the list of BPL families and include 16
castes of OBCs in SC list. She
regretted that these demands were still pending
with the Centre.
Ms. Mayawati ji said that the Government was
committed to ensure
State’s development through its own limited
resources and prepared
projects like Ganga Express Way and Upper Ganga
Canal, Jewar
International Airport on the basis of PPP which
did not attract any money
from the Centre. Yet, the Central Government did
not give permission for
these schemes and the same were still pending with
the Centre. She said
that the States were being allocated resources
under the federal system.
She pointed out that earlier the Central Government
was allocating only
30.5 per cent to the States from the Central taxes
and presently it was
allocating only 32 per cent of the same and it
kept 68 per cent with it and
spent this amount on its sweet will on various
schemes. Likewise, the
attitude of the Government of India remained
callous in the allotment of
Central share to the State.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that her
Government had undertaken several steps to improve power sector during the last
four years. She said that if the Central Government did not interfere in it,
then the people of the State would get huge relief by 2014. She said that for
the first time, her Government was spending about Rs. 2176 crore to improve the
basic amenities in the ancient, historical and prominent cities of the State.
She said that her Government had taken an important decision through which the
process of election of mayors, chairpersons of Nagar Palika and Nagar Panchayat
had been amended and their election had been made indirect with an objective to
ensure better understanding between chairpersons and corporators. She said that
this arrangement already existed in several states even today. She said that
all the opposition parties should welcome the steps taken by the BSP Government
in the interest of people, but the opposition parties instead of appreciating
it were indulging in ugly politics.
Ms. Mayawati said that her government had done
significant works to
provide employment to youth instead of giving
unemployment allowance.
She said that the state government had recruited
about 1.9 lakh sanitary
workers, 88,000 primary teachers and 5,000 urdu
teachers. Besides,
recruitment process had been started on 2.25 lakh
posts in police
department after sanctioning of these posts. Lakhs
of people got
employment in non-government sectors. Backlog of
SC/ST posts were filled by launching drive and ban on government jobs for
general category was
lifted, she added.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that her
government had started
Uttar Pradesh Mukhyamantri Mahamaya Garib Arthik
Madad Yojna to
provide financial assistance of Rs. 400 per month
to poor people deprived
from the benefits of BPL list and Antyodaya Yojna.
She said that her
government had also made arrangements to plead the
cases of poor BPL
card holders and beneficiaries of Uttar Pradesh
Mukhyamantri Mahamaya
Garib Arthik Madad Yojna in which government is
not the party.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that her
government had honoured
the great heroes of social change. She said that
these great men were
overlooked during earlier governments owing to
their casteist mentality.
Memorials, museums, garden, parks and other spots
had been established
in the memory of saints, gurus and great men,
especially Mahatma Jyotiba
Phule, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj, Sri Narayana
Guru, Baba Saheb Dr.
Bhimrao Ambedkar and Manyavar Sri Kanshiram Ji.
Expenditure of less
than one percent of the total budget of U.P. had
been done on these works.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that her government
faced strong
challenges on the issues of law & order, crime
control, development and
public welfare. She said that ‘criminalization of
politics’ and ‘politicisation of
criminals’ were protected earlier at every level
and there was complete
jungle raj in the state. Corruption was at the top
and the entire government machinery failed owing to it. It was a difficult and
challenging task to improve the failed system and her government took several
hard decisions on priority basis.
Criticising the statement of BJP National
President Mr. Nitin Gadkari
regarding her and BSP on 26 April 2011 in
Varanasi, she said that the
language used by Mr. Gadkari clearly stated that
he did not belong to a
cultured family. She said that many persons of her
party had suggested
BSP leaders that reply should be given to BJP
National President in the
same language. But, BSP leaders replied that their
National President was
born and brought up in a cultured family,
therefore she could not reply in
the language of Gadkari.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that BJP,
Congress and other
opposition parties were trying to mislead the
people of the state. Scams
worth crores of rupees had been exposed recently
which took place in the
regime of Congress led UPA government and Congress
government in
Delhi. She suggested the people of the state and
her party to remain
cautious towards the tactics of these parties and
said that opposition
parties were putting false allegations of
corruption on her party and
government officers. She said that if her
government had ordered inquiry
into the cases during the regimes of opposition
parties, then maximum
Ministers and Officers had been found involved in
the corruption. She said
that if her government had wished to make inquires
regarding the works
being done during the regimes of opposition
parties, then it would have been exposed before the people, but half of energy
of her government remained engaged in it, which was not proper. She said that
instead of doing it, her government had given the opportunity to those officers
and employees for improvement who had been made corrupt during the regimes of
these parties’ governments.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji said that her party
welcomed the efforts
of those organizations and institutions which raised
their voice against
corruption in any form. She said that so far as
the question of raising the
voice against corruption by Anna Hajare and his
supporters is concerned,
some people considered that they are playing in
the hands of political
parties. It is clear from the fact that several
scams took place in
Maharastra, the home state of Anna Hajare and
other nearby states but
instead of movement against corruption there, Mr.
Hajare launched
movement in Uttar Pradesh, which makes it clear
that these persons are
playing in the hands of political parties having
anti-SC/ST mentality owing to
which no person of SC/ST community was made member
in the civil society
constituted for drafting Lok Pal Bill. She said
that the same attitude was of
the Central Government and if needed, her party
could organize
demonstrations and public meetings in the entire
country to expose this
dual character. She said that owing to entry of
criminal elements in
politics, corruption spread on a large scale in
the country for which
Congress, BJP and other opposition parties are
responsible.
On this occasion, a film was exhibited based on
the achievements of
four years of the government. The Students of CMS
and Artists of Culture
Department presented programme. The Hon’ble Chief
Minister ji announced
prize money of Rs. 10 and 05 lakhs for the CMS
students and Artists of
Culture Department respectively. She also released
a book based on the
achievements of four years of the state
government.
Earlier, the Senior Cabinet Minister Mr.
Nasimuddin Siddiqui,
Chairman of State Advisory Council Mr. Satish
Chandra Mishra, BSP State
President Mr. Swami Prasad Maurya, Social Welfare
Minister Mr. Indrajit
Saroj, Cabinet Secretary Mr. Shashank Shekhar
Singh and Chief Secretary
Mr. Anup Mishra welcomed the Chief Minister. The
Chief Secretary also
welcomed other guests and Additional Cabinet
Secretary Mr. Raveendra
Singh expressed his gratitude towards the guests.
The Commissioner of
Lucknow and Secretary Information Mr. Prashant
Trivedi conducted the
programme.
Hon’ble C.M. greets people on Maharshi Parashuram
Jayanti
Lucknow: 05 May, 2011
The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms.
Mayawati ji has greeted the people of the State on
the
occasion of Maharshi Parashuram Jayanti.
In a greetings message, the Hon’ble Chief
Minister said that Maharshi Parashuram constantly
made efforts to fight against injustice and
atrocity for
the welfare of mankind. She said that the ideals
and
personality of Maharshi Parashuram inspire us to
follow the path of goodness.
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Cong, BJP trying to do away with SC/ST reservation: Maya
Cong, BJP trying to do away with SC/ST
reservation: Maya
Madurai : BSP leader and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has
alleged that both Congress and BJP were trying to do away with
reservation system introduced by B R Ambedkar for the uplilftment of
SCs and STs.
Accusing the two parties of failure to
improve the socio-economic
conditions of SC/STs and other oppressed classes, she claimed BSP was
the only party that followed the footsteps of Ambedkar and fulfilled
his dreams of social transformation in general and SC/ST emancipation
in particular.
Addressing an election meeting in
support of her party candidates in
the April 13 Tamil Nadu Assembly polls, she said her government had
done a lot for economically poor among the upper castes in Uttar
Pradesh besides helping the oppressed classes.
In Uttar Pradesh, there was reservation
for poor people of the upper
caste also. Her party was dependent on not only SC/STs, but poor and
middle class people of all the castes, Mayawati said.
She asked the people of Tamil Nadu to teach a lesson to the Congress,
DMK and AIADMK and make BSP a force in the state.
How Media Distorted Land Scam of RSS Trust?
Though land was allotted on 27.1.06
when as per Supreme Court order Babu Ram Gaur was Chief Minister and had
replaced Uma Bharti earlier than 8.07.2004 but Press reported. The land was
allotted in 2004 to the Kushabhau Thakre Memorial Trust by the then BJP government
of Madhya Pradesh headed by Uma Bharti.
Press also didn’t disclose SC comments
34. The allotment of land by the State or its agencies/instrumentalities to a
body/organization/institution which carry the tag of caste, community or
religion is not only contrary to the idea of Secular Democratic Republic but is
also fraught with grave danger of dividing the society on caste or communal
lines.
RSS BJP manipulates press or corrupts
the press.
Ravinder Singh
April11, 2011
http://www.stpl-india.in/SCJFiles/2011_STPL(Web)_351_SC.pdf
(ii) Although, letter dated 18.6.2004
was addressed to the Principal Secretary, the same was actually handed over to
Shri Babu Lal Gaur, the then Minister, Housing and Environment, Madhya Pradesh.
He forwarded the same to the Principal Secretary for immediate action. The
latter directed that steps be taken for placing the matter before the
reservation committee. Simultaneously, letters were issued to Commissioner-cum-
Director, Town and Country Planning, Bhopal (respondent No.3) and
Collector, Bhopal (respondent No. 4) to send their
respective reports.
(iii) Respondent No.3 submitted report
dated 8.7.2004 indicating therein that as per Bhopal Development Plan, land
comprised in Khasra Nos.83 and 85/1 was reserved for residential and plantation
purposes and Khasra No.85/2 was non government land. After going through the
same, the Principal Secretary, Housing opined that land cannot be reserved for
the Memorial Trust. However, Shri Rajendra Shukla, State Minister, Housing and
Environment recorded a note that he had requested the Coordinator of the trust
to send a revised proposal to the Government and directed that the new proposal
be put up before him.
(v) While the process initiated for
reservation of land was at a preliminary stage, Shri Kailash Joshi submitted an
application dated 31.7.2004 to the Registrar, Public Trust, Bhopal (for short,
`the Registrar’) under the Madhya Pradesh Public Trusts Act, 1951 (for short
`the 1951 Act’) for registration of a trust in the name of respondent No. 5 by
describing himself and S/Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, Lal Krishna Advani, Balwant P.
Apte and Sanjay Joshi as Trustees. In the application, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu
was shown as the first President of the trust and Shri Kailash Joshi as its
Secretary and Managing Trustee.
(xv) For next about seven months, the
matter remained under correspondence between different departments of the State
Government. During the interregnum, Shri Babu Lal Gaur became Chief Minister of
the State. On 24.10.2005, he directed that matter relating to allotment of land
to respondent No.5 be put up in the next meeting of the Cabinet scheduled to be
held on 26.10.2005. On the same day, Secretary, Revenue Department submitted a
detailed note and suggested that keeping in view the limited resources
available with the State Government, land should be auctioned so that the
administration may garner maximum revenue. His suggestion was not accepted by
the Council of Ministers, which decided to allot 20 acres land in the name of
the Memorial Trust at the rate of Rs.40 lakhs per hectare. The decision of the
State Government was communicated to respondent No. 4 vide order dated
27.1.2006.
SC cancels BJP govt’s land largesse to
trust
By Gyanant Singh in New Delhi
Kushabhau Thakre Trust allotted land
in Bhopal even before it was registered
THEBJP was left red- faced on
Wednesday after the Supreme Court quashed the allotment of 20 acres of land in Bhopal
to a trust named after late party leader Kushabhau Thakre.
A bench comprising Justice G. S.
Singhvi and Justice A. K. Ganguly directed the state government to take back
the possession of the land and refund the amount deposited by the trust within
a period of 15 days.
Noting that the land was allotted
without issuing any advertisement inviting applications, the court said:
“What needs to be emphasised is that the State and/ or its agencies/
instrumentalities cannot give largesse to any person according to the sweet
will and whims of the political entities and/ or officers of the State.†The
land was allotted in 2004 to the Kushabhau Thakre Memorial Trust by the then
BJP government of Madhya Pradesh headed by Uma Bharti.
The trust, which wanted to start an
institute, had applied for a plot even though no advertisement had been issued
by the state government.
The court order came on a petition
filed by NGO Akhil Bhartiya Upbhokta Congress, a Bhopal-
based consumer group.
It had challenged the government’s
decision on the grounds that the land at Bavadiya Kalan was given in advance
and at a throwaway price to the trust in violation of the laws. The allotment
was allegedly made even before the trust was registered.
The NGO approached the Supreme Court
in appeal after the Madhya Pradesh High Court refused to interfere with the
allotment.
Allowing the appeal, the Supreme Court
said there cannot be any policy, much less a rational policy, of allotting land
on the basis of applications made by individuals, bodies, organisations or
institutions de hors an invitation or advertisement by the State or its agency/
instrumentality. Justice Singhvi, who wrote the judgment for the bench, said
the state cannot exclude other eligible persons from lodging a competing claim.
The court noted that the objective of
the trust was laudable, but the fact remained that “all its trustees are
members of a particular party and the entire exercise for the reservation and
allotment of land and waiver of major portion of the premium was undertaken
because political functionaries of the state wanted to favour respondent No. 5
(the trust) and the officers of the state at different levels were forced to
toe the line of their political masters. BJP leaders L. K. Advani, Venkaiah
Naidu, Kailash Joshi (Bhopal MP), Balwant P. Aptey (Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra)
and Sanjay Joshi (party general- secretary) are among the members of the trust.
The court said no exception can be
taken to the use of discretion by political functionaries and officers of a
state, but such discretion has to be exercised in a judicious manner without
any discrimination against anyone.
Parties in Madhya Pradesh reacted to
the SC order on predictable lines. While the BJP was circumspect, the Congress
hailed the directive and turned fire- power against the state government.
We will comment on the judgment only
after we get an authorised copy of it,state BJP spokesperson Hitesh Vajpayee
said. Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan adopted a similar line. I will
comment only after going through the copy of the judgment, he said.
BJP sources said the party’s strategy
would be to try and neutralise the issue. However, the Congress is unlikely to
allow its rival to put the issue into cold storage. Party MLA Ajay Singh said: For
too long, the ruling party has been giving prime lands at throwaway prices not
only in Bhopal but all over Madhya Pradesh.
Inputs from Anup Dutta/ Bhopal
THE HINDU
News » National
MUMBAI, February
24, 2011
Alleged urban land scam: BJP defends Raj Purohit
‘No question of his resignation from post or party’
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday backed its Mumbai
president Raj Purohit after his name came up in a land scam and said there was
no question of his resignation from the post or party.
On Tuesday, the Bombay High Court directed the CBI to file FIRs
against Mr. Purohit, a former Minister of State for Urban Development in the
Shiv Sena-BJP government, and other revenue officers.
Welcoming the CBI probe into the scam, BJP State president Eknath
Khadse told journalists that Mr. Purohit, when he was Minister, could not have
passed any orders as alleged by the State.
“No Minister ever signed orders issued by the State government,”
Mr. Khadse clarified. “If Mr. Purohit is guilty, investigate the case and
punish him; but if there is no proof, then he has to be cleared.”
Mr. Purohit’s name figured in a scam in Pune, allegedly in
violation of the Urban Land Ceiling and Regulation Act (ULCRA). It will now be
investigated by the CBI instead of the CID.
A Division Bench of the court issued the order based on a report
submitted by former IAS officer Sudhakar Joshi, who was appointed to probe the
scam by the government in 2009. A copy of the report is with the court.
Mr. Khadse said Mr. Purohit could seek relief from the Supreme
Court since he was not summoned by the Joshi Committee to explain his stand.
He added that the principles of natural justice were denied to
Mr. Purohit and he could approach the Supreme Court.
Mr. Khadse alleged that Mr. Purohit’s name was being dragged into
the case to divert attention from the real culprits, and that the government
was shielding an officer close to the State Home Minister and a former Deputy
Chief Minister.
Mr. Khadse said he and BJP leader Gopinath Munde had raised the
land scam in the legislature in 2007 and 2008, and there was no mention then of
Mr. Purohit.
The High Court, while hearing the public interest litigation
filed by BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari, stated that the land scam was bigger
than the 2G spectrum scandal.
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KanimozhiVS Nitin Gadkari – The Most Crooked & Corrupt
We all condemn corruption of Kanimozhi for Rs. 200 crores transferred in to her
TV channel swiftly but there is not yet a line about Nitin Gadkari corruption since
1999 that is ten times larger than her –
- There was NO open bidding for ‘Distillery’ and Sugar Mill projects that was
initially a cooperative but converted in to Private, acquiring 250 acres of
farm land, along side installed 22 MW cogen plant even as there was no Sugar
Cane for his plant, he ran it on Coal not procured from Coal India but from
Smugglers, he also got clearances for 540MW thermal project, acquired two Sugar
Mills and other projects.
Gadkari corrupted every institution.
Ravinder Singh
April26, 2011
First thing Nitin Gadkari did when BJP came to power was to acquire
‘Distillery’ license that would ensure Rs.2 crores per day profits though it
was under the pretensions of helping Sugar Farmers to earn more and setting up
of a Sugar Mill.
This case study is crucial as this Purti Sugar Mill was the first major venture
undertaken by Nitin Gadkari – for an ex Minister and close to RSS BJP NDA every
rule was broken to promote him.
There was no sugar cane cultivation area in the normal operating range of the
Project Site yet he was allowed to set up a Sugar Factory.
Sugar mill required just 25 acres of land but Nitin Gadkari was allowed 250
acres for 22 MW Cogen power project – even Maruti Car factory had 100 acres
land.
When we in UP were opposed to 2500 acres for 10,000 MW project in Dadri, he
silently grabbed 250 acres for 22MW cogen plant with eye on 500MW coal based
project.
In addition he also managed to get license for ‘Distillery Complex Also’ and
Ethanol project as well with capacity of 45,000 & 120,000 Liters Per Day.
Distillery and Ethanol plants are identical.
As I said earlier like a pig he looks left but runs right, though in original
plan he wanted Purti Cooperative Sugar Mill – he turned a Cooperative to private
company.
165,000 proof liters per day is 412500 liters per day or 5,50,000 bottles per
day of alcoholic drinks. Even Rs.50 per bottle profit is Rs.2.7 crores per day
income or Rs. 2 crores per day profits.
Ravinder Singh
February18, 2011
http://www.sinetinfo.com/pdf/casestudies_sugar.pdf
PURTI CO-OPERATIVE SUGAR MILL LTD.:
M/s Purti sugar mill is situated at Khursapar (Bela) village near about 60 KM
from Nagpur at national highway (Nagpur-Chandrapur) in Umred Taluka. This
complex has been started within the leadership of Shri. Nitinji Gadkari,
Chairman, who had laid the foundation stone of this multiproduct complex, which
in the years to come would be the ideal example for whole Indian sugar industry
sector.
This multiproduct complex is spread over 250 Acres and consist of the
Following
• Sugar complex -capacity 2500 TPD/day (tons per day)
• Distillery complex- capacity Sprit– 45,000 KLPD (kilo liters per day)
Ethanol– 1,20,000 KLPD
• Co-generation complex( capacity 22 MW)
• Bio-disel complex capacity (3000 liters/day)
• Bio-composting unit
Sugar Complex
The sugar industry began its crushing operation in 2002 with a capacity of 2500
TPD. of cane per day. But eventually operating a sugar factory in an area where
small number of farmers are planting sugar cane which is insufficient to assure
the operation of the sugar factory would not have been commercially viable.
This year the restriction of the command area has been removed by the
government which in turns helps the industry to procure the sugarcane from
outside the command area.
In this region water table is very low therefore water scarcity problem is very
high as compare to other sugarcane growing region. This sugar factory has an
enormous importance for the surrounding community.
Being located in the rural area, it provides employment opportunity and
increases secondary business in the area. During the harvesting season, the
cane is taken to the mill mostly by tractors (single & doubled trolley),
bullock cart, and trucks. This year, most of the sugar cane came from the
nearby areas like Wardha , Nanded, Selu, which approximately takes 6 to 8 hrs,
while in case of Madhya Pradesh it takes more than 12 to 15 hrs.
Harvesting is done by hand. Sugarcane cutting is a hard and dirty job, but
provides employment to people in nearby areas where jobs are scarce. Sugarcane
is cut at about ground level, the top green leaves are chopped off and then the
stalk is bundled. Once a complete bundle has been assembled, it is removed from
the field with the help of labourers and transferred to a larger vehicle for
transport to the mill. The harvested sugar cane should be crushed within 24
hrs. to get a good recovery of sugar. Therefore every sugar mill has provided
transportation and harvesting facility to the farmers on nominal charges, which
ultimately provides secondary employment to the nearby communities.
In general, almost all sugar mills depend for their supplies of sugar cane on
large number of independent farmers, producing the crop for profits. If the
yield per hectare is improved, the benefit goes to the growers while if the
cane is rich enough in sugar content; it becomes profitable to the mills.
Therefore cane
growing and milling are essentially a joint enterprise what helps the grower
helps the miller and vice- versa.
Sugarcane considered as a alternative crop in this area, most of the farmers go
for the cotton, some of them cultivating orange, which in this area, gives a
good income to the farmers. As this mill has started operating only recently,
the mill at present does not have an agriculture development department but
through traditional channels, they are in touch with the farmers and purchase
sugar cane from nearby areas. The harvesters which are deployed by the mill are
mostly from the area where the sugarcane growing and harvesting is a
traditional
business like western Maharashtra, Maratwada & Andhra Pradesh. They are
largely migrated workers who live nearby to the factory in small tents
(Zopadi).
They harvest the crop and then load it on to the vehicle in presence of the
crop owner (Farmer). Each group of harvester consists of 8-10 members. The
transporting agent gets the slip signed by the farmer and goes to the weighing
and crushing center. Weighing is located near to the crushing center. Once the
weighing has being carried out, mill officials will note down the entry of the
crop weight, name of crop owner and the vehicle number, for further procedure.
The payment of the crop will directly be deposited in the account of each
farmer or can be paid directly. The sugarcane vehicles is then unloaded at the
crushing centre with the help of lifters, the lifted bundle of sugarcane is
then conveyed
to the cane leveler where it is cut and chipped. The cut cane blanket is then
fed to tandem of mill, wherein it is crushed and the juice is extracted. The
manager needs to process the cane as soon as possible if sucrose losses are to
be avoided. Typically, cane is processed within 24 hours after harvesting.
Following
are the steps, which are involved in the manufacturing of sugar.
Extraction of juice: The extraction is actually conducted as a counter-current
process using fresh hot water being pumped at one end in the opposite direction
to the cane. The more the water is used, the more is the sugar extracted but
the more dilute the mixed juice, hence more energy will be required to
evaporate the juice. In many factories, the cane is crushed in a series of large
roller mills similar to a mangle [wringer] and the sweet juice extracted.
Generally juice looks pretty dirty, because of contamination with soil
particles from the fields, small
fibers and the green extracts from the plant. There are several important aspects
to extraction which involve the energy balance of the mill, the efficiency of
extraction and therefore ultimately the profitability of operations. The
fibrous cane material after the extraction of juice is called the bagasse
Clarification: -The extracted juices are then heated to 60-65o c in juice
heater and passed to reaction tank where the liming and sulphitation takes
place. This limed and sulphited juice is pumped back to a ‘clarifier’ after
heating to 100o c. which remains there for about 3 hr. During this stage in the
clarifier, the heavy insoluble impurities, mostly soil and mud are precipitates
which are then pumped to a vacuum filter, which remove the liquid portion from
the mud, while the solid muddy portion is taken out of the mill building. This
is used as manure or can serve as raw material for the extraction of crude wax.
Boiling: -The raw juice is now clarified and is called the clarified juice. It
is then passed through a set of evaporator which boils the excess water under
vacuum
concentrating it gradually, as it passes from one evaporator to another.
Finally concentrated juice called the sugar syrup is sent to the pan floor
wherein the final
crystallization takes place, under vacuum. The evaporation is carried out under
vacuum.
Crystallization: - A viscous solid mass consisting of sugar crystals and mother
liquor is dropped in the crystallizer and it then passes through the pug mills
to centrifugal machines. Due to very high gravity factor, the viscous mother
liquor passes through the opening in the liner and the sugar is retained on the
screen and the sugar is then dropped in hopper.
Grading & Packaging:-
The sugar is then passed on to a unit called grader, which grades the sugar in
different grades and in different sizes as per the Indian sugar standards. At
present, Purti is producing S-30 which is around Rs. 30– 100 less than M-30
grade of sugar. The sugar is bagged in the pre-stamped gunny bags, weighed; the
grades and number marked on the bags and these bags are stored in godowns and
are finally sold. The transportation of sugar from mill to market is mostly
carried out by road. Though the Indian sugar industry is more concentrated in
rural part of India but the area is well connected with most of the
metropolitan cities in India.
Distillery Complex
The by-product generated from the production of sugar is sent to the down
stream industry. Molasses, generated from sugar manufacturing finds its way to
the distillery industry which is adjacent to the sugar complex, where it is
used as a raw material to produce various industrial chemicals, alcohol, and
power biofuels. Presently M/s Purti Co-operative Sugar Mill has a well equipped
distillery complex for production of Sprit and Ethanol with installed capacity
of 45,000 KLPD of sprit and 1,20,000 KLPD of ethanol which is an important
basic feed stock for manufacture of various chemicals. These chemicals are good
substitutes for petrochemicals and petrol based chemicals in India. The waste
water produced is treated in the effluent treatment plant and then treated
water is recycled for on-site use, sent back to the river or used to irrigate
the cane-farms.
Molasses stream.
The fibrous cane material left after the extraction of juice, called bagasse
goes to the boiler, wherein the same is burnt producing steam and electricity.
At present M/s Purti Co-operative Sugar Mill is producing 2 MW electricity that
powers the mill to process sugar from cane juice and alcohol in distillery
industry.
M/s Reliance Industries has recently signed an electricity purchase
agreement of 22 MW with Purti. The bagasse is being stored into a open ground.
The construction of full fledge co-generation plant is ongoing. Very soon it
will start working to its full capacity. the two multi fuel boiler has been
constructed with installed capacity i.e. working pressure 22 KG and 67 KG
respectively
Bio-Disel Complex
Purti Sakhar Karkhana is one of its kind which has a bio-diesel plant. This
plant was started to cope up with the power shortage and fuel problem. When the
sugar complex was in the preliminary stage there was a lot of vehicles and
generator use to work for 24 hr. which consume huge amount of fuel and
accounted for the extra cost to the mill, which prompted Mr. Gadkari chairman
of this mill and he had started the bio-disel plant with an installed capacity
of 3000 liters as a solution to the problem. This complex has started to make
biodisel from cotton seed oil and Jatropa (local name karanji) cotton seed
which is locally available in good quantity and quality. Presently all the
vehicles ,generators and other instruments which need petroleum fuel are
running on biodisel produced by M/s Purti Co-operative Sugar Mill.
Bio-composting unit
Spent wash generated from the distillery, sludge from ETP and excess of bagasse
is used as a filler material for bio-composting, The produced compost is then
supplied to the farmers at nominal cost.
Recommendations:
1) Mill should take up a sort of programme to encourage the nearby farmers for
sugarcane plantation.
2) There are very few water irrigation schemes in this area therefore mill can
think to develop water reservoirs and provide irrigation facility on subsidized
rate.
3) As practiced in the western Maharashtra mill can think for the bio-gas
generation plant.
4) Mill have to undertake few rain water, rooftop rain water and ground water
recharging projects in the area.
5) It is highly recommended that mill should established agriculture
development department.
Acknowledgement
Mr. Nitinji Gadkari, Chairman
Mr. Sudhir Diwe, Managing Director
Mr. D. R. Jadhav, Works Manager (Sugar)
Mr. Sandeep Mendjoge, Sr. Executive Admin.
M/s Purti Sakhar Karkhana Ltd.
2nd floor, Khadi Gramodyog Bhavan, Gandhisagar,
Mahal, Nagpur-440 002
Maharashtra, India
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Half Pants Nazis, BJP and RSS Bid for ‘Fourth Reich’ - Exclusive
Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:39 PM
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Half Pants Nazis, BJP and RSS Bid for ‘Fourth Reich’ - Exclusive
Half Pants in a recent meet disclosed for the first time its agenda of hiring
10,000 RTI and PIL activists all over India to destabilize Government of India,
that I already knew except that it is ten times larger than my estimation.
I always maintain RSS BJP have communal agenda from founding days 86 years ago
as a strategy to protect upper caste, Bania Traders in particular.
But its two successive Losses that meant it shall be out of power for 2×365
days when it could enjoy one full term after winning highest number of seats in
the Lok Sabha with chances of its win next elections and forming ‘Fourth Reich’
becoming a distant possibility with so many ‘Unemployable Leaders’ who can
shout but do nothing was difficult to sustain.
There are some election or other every no and then at Center and in 35 states
from Panchayat to President, all requiring funds when it had yet to return
Loans and Advances taken for 2004 and 2009 elections and therefore lost
credibility to get more in 2013 so it adopted low cost approach to defame
Government of India.
Rules and Regulations for all sectors including Telecom and 2G were framed by
BJP Half Pants that are being abused first by its own Promod Mahajan, Khanduri,
Shourie, Ram Naik, Suresh Prabhu in Telecom, NHAI, Petroleum & Gas, Power
& Rivers etc.
Half Pants had not done anything to Plug The Holes in Governance that they
created to facilitate Looters in seven years and they actually want to ‘Persist
With Loot Program on Return to Power’.
Ravinder Singh
Inventor & Engineer
April05, 2011
Desperate Nazis planned to kill Allied leaders with spiked whisky
London: Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s henchmen got so desperate in the dying
months of World War II that they planned to use poisoned chocolate, coffee and
whisky to assassinate Allied leaders, de-classified documents reveal.
The Nazi henchmen also planned to create a “Fourth Reich” by sending secret
agents to start unrest and promote fascism all over the globe, according to the
files.
Both schemes were concocted in the dying months of the war, when Hitler was
certain to lose and the Allies were poised to take control of Europe. They were
revealed by Nazi agents, captured by British intelligence in 1945.
Details have now been made public for the first time in British spy agency MI5
files published at the National Archives in Kew, London.
One memo says the poison plot was the subject of a Berlin conference in October
1944. Assassins were told they could put lethal substances in whisky, schnapps
and wine, or inject killer chemicals into sausages.
But Allied soldiers were warned not to eat German food and chocolate and coffee
samples were sent back to London for analysis, the documents have revealed.
Other secret weapons included cigarette lighters that gave off lethal fumes and
poison pills disguised as aspirins. PTI
Jewish extremist plotted to kill Churchill during World War II, reveal MI5
papers
AJewish extremist, who killed a UK minister during World War II, also plotted
to assassinate the then PM Winston Churchill in a bid to shatter the nation’s
morale, declassified documents reveal. Eliyahu Bet-Zuri suggested sending
agents of the Stern Gang, a Zionist paramilitary group devoted to forcing the
British out of Palestine, to UK to kill the wartime PM, according to the
British spy agency MI5 files. In fact, Bet-Zuri suggested that Churchill should
be a target in November 1944. However, the MI5 did not learn of the idea until
the following year when a member of the group was arrested. PTI
NGO writes to Prez for inquiry against ex-CJI
TIMES NEWS NETWORK April05, 2011
New Delhi: An NGO, Committee on Judicial Accountability and Reforms (COJAR), on
Monday wrote to the President and the Prime Minister to initiate inquiry into
alleged corruption charges against National Human Rights Commission chairman
and former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan.
In a letter signed by the organization’s working committee member and advocate
Prashant Bhushan, COJAR requested them to send a “reference to the Supreme Court
for inquiry into misbehaviour of Justice K G Balakrishnan under Section 5(1) of
the NHRC Act” to commence the process of his removal as head of the apex human
rights body.
Listing out allegations against him in connection with alleged disproportionate
assets amassed by his relatives during his tenure as the Chief Justice of India
from 2007 to 2010, the NGO said the accusations had cast a shadow on Justice
Balakrishnan’s integrity.
Land scam: RSS questions K’taka CM’s role
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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LESSON 257
Brahmavihara Sutta: The Sublime Attitudes
“Monks,
I don’t speak of the wiping out of intentional acts that have been done &
accumulated without [their results] having been experienced, either in the here
& now or in a further state hereafter. Nor do I speak of the act of putting
an end to suffering and stress without having experienced [the results of]
intentional acts that have been done & accumulated.[1]
“That
disciple of the noble ones — thus devoid of covetousness, devoid of ill will,
unbewildered, alert, mindful — keeps pervading the first direction[2]
with an awareness imbued with good will, likewise the second, likewise the
third, likewise the fourth. Thus above, below, & all around, everywhere, in
its entirety, he keeps pervading the all-encompassing cosmos with an awareness
imbued with good will — abundant, expansive, immeasurable, without hostility,
without ill will. He discerns, ‘Before, this mind of mine was limited &
undeveloped. But now this mind of mine is immeasurable & well developed.
And whatever action that was done in a measurable way does not remain there,
does not linger there.’
“What
do you think, monks: If that youth, from childhood, were to develop the
awareness-release through good will, would he do any evil action?”
“No,
lord.”
“Not
doing any evil action, would he touch suffering?”
“No,
lord, for when one does no evil action, from where would he touch
suffering?”
“This
awareness-release through good will should be developed whether one is a woman
or a man. Neither a woman nor a man can go taking this body along. Death,
monks, is but a gap of a thought away. One [who practices this
awareness-release] discerns, ‘Whatever evil action has been done by this body
born of action, that will all be experienced here [in this life]. It will not
come to be hereafter.’ Thus developed, the awareness-release through good will
leads to non-returning for the monk who has gained gnosis here and has
penetrated to no higher release.
“That
disciple of the noble ones — thus devoid of covetousness, devoid of ill will,
unbewildered, alert, mindful — keeps pervading the first direction with an awareness
imbued with compassion…
“That
disciple of the noble ones — thus devoid of covetousness, devoid of ill will,
unbewildered, alert, mindful — keeps pervading the first direction with an
awareness imbued with appreciation…
“That
disciple of the noble ones — thus devoid of covetousness, devoid of ill will,
unbewildered, alert, mindful — keeps pervading the first direction with an
awareness imbued with equanimity, likewise the second, likewise the third,
likewise the fourth. Thus above, below, & all around, everywhere, in its
entirety, he keeps pervading the all-encompassing cosmos with an awareness
imbued with equanimity — abundant, expansive, immeasurable, without hostility,
without ill will. He discerns, ‘Before, this mind of mine was limited &
undeveloped. But now this mind of mine is immeasurable & well developed.
And whatever action that was done in a measurable way does not remain there,
does not linger there.’
“What
do you think, monks: If that youth, from childhood, were to develop the
awareness-release through equanimity, would he do any evil action?”
“No,
lord.”
“Not
doing any evil action, would he touch suffering?”
“No,
lord, for when one does no evil action, from where would he touch
suffering?”
“This
awareness-release through equanimity should be developed whether one is a woman
or a man. Neither a woman nor a man can go taking this body along. Death,
monks, is but a gap of a thought away. One [who practices this
awareness-release] discerns, ‘Whatever evil action has been done by this body born
of action, that will all be experienced here [in this life]. It will not come
to be hereafter.’ Thus developed, the awareness-release through equanimity
leads to non-returning for the monk who has gained gnosis here and has
penetrated to no higher release.”
POLITICS is SACRED with GOOD GOVERNANCE
No change in list of candidates: Mayawati
Four years in office:Chief Minister Mayawati inspects foundation stones
that she “dedicated” to the people of UP on Friday for new projects
worth Rs.2,000 crores on completion of her four years in office in
Lucknow.– PHOTO: Subir Roy
With the Tamil Nadu and West Bengal election results
raising the spectre of the “anti-incumbency” factor, Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Mayawati assured her Bahujan Samaj Party workers on Friday
that there would be no change in the list of candidates announced for
the UP Assembly elections due next year. “Those who have been denied
ticket and others would be accommodated as MLCs, Rajya Sabha members and
elected MPs,” she said at a function here to mark the completion of her
four years in office.
Ms. Mayawati cautioned the
workers against “machinations” of the Opposition parties which were
“creating confusion over the distribution of tickets by the BSP”. She
spoke of “step-motherly treatment and hostility” of the Congress-led UPA
government to the BSP regime and the Opposition-sponsored “political
conspiracy” to drive home her point that they must ensure that the BSP
returns to power in 2012.
Highlighting her
government’s achievements, she said the State “turned over a new leaf on
the law and order and development fronts and on the welfare of the poor
and deprived sections… The BSP government’s record in four years was
better than the combined 40-year record of the other party governments
in the State.” To propagate the government’s achievements, a film on the
government’s performance would be aired by TV channels from Saturday.
In
the past four years, Ms. Mayawati said, the State’s share in the
Centre’s allocation of funds had not been given on time. She pointed to
schemes for which the Centre’s allocation or approval had been withheld
or delayed.
Dubbing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s
announcement of schemes for Bundelkhand at a rally in Banda on April 30 a
“political drama”, she said it was an open secret that Bundelkhand’s
backwardness was not a recent phenomenon; it had remained backward since
independence. She condemned the Centre’s silence over the
Rs.80,000-crore special incentive package her government had sought for
the development of Bundelkhand and Purvanchal.
Ms.
Mayawati blamed Uttar Pradesh’s backwardness on the “political
conspiracy” hatched by the Opposition parties for “political gains”.
Rubbishing
social activist Anna Hazare’s campaign against corruption, Ms. Mayawati
alleged that some civil society members were being backed by certain
political parties with a distinct anti-Dalit slant. The BSP would stage a
dharna nationwide to expose them.
Referring to the
Bharatiya Janata Party’s booklet on the alleged 100 scams of the BSP
government, she said it was a fake and malicious publication containing
just lies. “But then, the BJP excels in spreading lies and canards.”
Referring
to the objectionable language BJP president Nitin Gadkari allegedly
used against her at a rally in Varanasi recently, Ms. Mayawati said it
did not behove her to react to it, as she and BSP workers came from a
cultured background.
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Brahmana Sutta: To Unnabha the Brahman
I have
heard that on one occasion Ven. Ananda was staying in Kosambi, at Ghosita’s Park. Then the Brahman Unnabha went to where Ven. Ananda was staying and on
arrival greeted him courteously. After an exchange of friendly greetings &
courtesies, he sat to one side. As he was sitting there, he said to Ven.
Ananda: “Master Ananda, what is the aim of this holy life lived under
Gotama the contemplative?”
“Brahman,
the holy life is lived under the Blessed One with the aim of abandoning
desire.”
“Is
there a path, is there a practice, for the abandoning of that desire?”
“Yes,
there is a path, there is a practice, for the abandoning of that desire.”
“What
is the path, the practice, for the abandoning of that desire?”
“Brahman,
there is the case where a monk develops the base of power endowed with
concentration founded on desire & the fabrications of exertion. He develops
the base of power endowed with concentration founded on persistence…
concentration founded on intent… concentration founded on discrimination
& the fabrications of exertion. This, Brahman, is the path, this is the
practice for the abandoning of that desire.”
“If
that’s so, Master Ananda, then it’s an endless path, and not one with an end,
for it’s impossible that one could abandon desire by means of desire.”
“In
that case, brahman, let me question you on this matter. Answer as you see fit.
What do you think: Didn’t you first have desire, thinking, ‘I’ll go to the
park,’ and then when you reached the park, wasn’t that particular desire
allayed?”
“Yes,
sir.”
“Didn’t
you first have persistence, thinking, ‘I’ll go to the park,’ and then when you
reached the park, wasn’t that particular persistence allayed?”
“Yes,
sir.”
“Didn’t
you first have the intent, thinking, ‘I’ll go to the park,’ and then when you
reached the park, wasn’t that particular intent allayed?”
“Yes,
sir.”
“Didn’t
you first have [an act of] discrimination, thinking, ‘I’ll go to the park,’ and
then when you reached the park, wasn’t that particular act of discrimination
allayed?”
“Yes,
sir.”
“So
it is with an arahant whose mental effluents are ended, who has reached fulfillment,
done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed
the fetter of becoming, and who is released through right gnosis. Whatever
desire he first had for the attainment of arahantship, on attaining arahantship
that particular desire is allayed. Whatever persistence he first had for the
attainment of arahantship, on attaining arahantship that particular persistence
is allayed. Whatever intent he first had for the attainment of arahantship, on
attaining arahantship that particular intent is allayed. Whatever
discrimination he first had for the attainment of arahantship, on attaining
arahantship that particular discrimination is allayed. So what do you think,
brahman? Is this an endless path, or one with an end?”
“You’re
right, Master Ananda. This is a path with an end, and not an endless one. Magnificent, Master Ananda! Magnificent! Just as if he were to
place upright what was overturned, to reveal what was hidden, to show the way
to one who was lost, or to carry a lamp into the dark so that those with eyes
could see forms, in the same way has Master Ananda — through many lines of
reasoning — made the Dhamma clear. I go to Master Gotama for refuge, to the
Dhamma, and to the Sangha of monks. May Master Ananda remember me as a lay follower
who has gone for refuge, from this day forward, for life.”
POLITICS is SACRED with GOOD GOVERNANCE
The Ruling Caste is making all
efforts to rig the Internet. It will totally fail. They attempted to rig
elections. And even now they are at it. Now it is for a few media here who must
prevent this rigging. Then the blogs which are for freedom of speech and
expression to put an end to this rigging. One political party the BSP is
genuinely for freedom as enshrines in the Constitution. They are capable of
curbing this rigging by the ruling caste through their wonderful network.Therefore
all media who have concern for this freedom must expose those who are
attempting to rig the Internet.
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Bodhi Sutta: The Bodhi Tree (1)
Thus have
I heard. At one time the Lord was staying at Uruvela, beside the river
Nerañjara at the foot of the Bodhi Tree, having just realized full awakenment.
At that time the Lord sat cross-legged for seven days experiencing the bliss of
liberation. Then, at the end of those seven days, the Lord emerged from that
concentration and gave well-reasoned attention during the first watch of the
night to dependent arising in forward order, thus:
This
being, that is;
from the arising of this, that arises.
That is:
with
ignorance as condition, volitional activities come to be;
with volitional activities as condition, consciousness comes to be;
with consciousness as condition, name-and-form comes to be;
with name-and-form as condition, the sixfold base comes to be;
with the sixfold base as condition, contact comes to be;
with contact as condition, feeling comes to be;
with feeling as condition, craving comes to be;
with craving as condition, grasping comes to be;
with grasping as condition, being comes to be;
with being as condition, birth comes to be;
with birth as condition, aging-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and
despair come to be.
This is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.
Then, on
realizing its significance, the Lord uttered on that occasion this inspired
utterance:
When things become manifest To the ardent meditating
brahman, All his doubts then vanish since he understands Each thing along with
its cause.
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LESSON 254
Bija Sutta: Means of Propagation
At Savatthi. There the Blessed One addressed the monks:
“Monks.”
“Yes,
lord,” the monks responded.
The
Blessed One said: “Monks, there are these five means of propagation. Which
five? Root-propagation, stem-propagation, joint-propagation,
cutting-propagation, & seed-propagation as the fifth. And if these five
means of propagation are not broken, not rotten, not damaged by wind & sun,
mature, and well-buried, but there is no earth and no water, would they exhibit
growth, increase, & proliferation?”
“No,
lord.”
“And
if these five means of propagation are broken, rotten, damaged by wind &
sun, immature, and poorly-buried, but there is earth & water, would they
exhibit growth, increase, & proliferation?”
“No,
lord.”
“And
if these five means of propagation are not broken, not rotten, not damaged by
wind & sun, mature, and well-buried, and there is earth & water, would
they exhibit growth, increase, & proliferation?”
“Yes,
lord.”
“Like
the earth property, monks, is how the four standing-spots for consciousness
should be seen. Like the liquid property is how delight & passion should be
seen. Like the five means of propagation is how consciousness together with its
nutriment should be seen.
“Should
consciousness, when taking a stance, stand attached to (a physical) form,
supported by form,[1]
established on form, watered with delight, it would exhibit growth, increase,
& proliferation.
“Should
consciousness, when taking a stance, stand attached to feeling, supported by
feeling, established on feeling, watered with delight, it would exhibit growth,
increase, & proliferation.
“Should
consciousness, when taking a stance, stand attached to perception, supported by
perception, established on perception, watered with delight, it would exhibit
growth, increase, & proliferation.
“Should
consciousness, when taking a stance, stand attached to fabrications, supported
by fabrications, established on fabrications, watered with delight, it would
exhibit growth, increase, & proliferation.
“Were
someone to say, ‘I will describe a coming, a going, a passing away, an arising,
a growth, an increase, or a proliferation of consciousness apart from form,
from feeling, from perception, from fabrications,’ that would be impossible.
“If
a monk abandons passion for the property of form…
“If
a monk abandons passion for the property of feeling…
“If
a monk abandons passion for the property of perception…
“If
a monk abandons passion for the property of fabrications…
“If
a monk abandons passion for the property of consciousness, then owing to the
abandonment of passion, the support is cut off, and there is no base for
consciousness. Consciousness, thus unestablished, not proliferating, not
performing any function, is released. Owing to its release, it is steady. Owing
to its steadiness, it is contented. Owing to its contentment, it is not
agitated. Not agitated, he (the monk) is totally unbound right within. He
discerns that ‘Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is
nothing further for this world.’”
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“These
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“Though
there is no dispute on content monitoring, there are grey areas in the rules”
NEW
DELHI: Cyber activists, bloggers and legal experts are crying foul over the new
rules and guidelines under the Information Technology Amendment Act 2008, that
lay additional focus on content regulation and information security, besides
dealing with cyber terrorism and data protection.
They have
termed it an attempt to gag free speech by giving intermediaries like Internet
Service Providers, web hosting companies, search engines and cyber cafes the
right to control content. The new rules require hosts or owners of websites to
take action against “objectionable content” that is considered “disparaging,”
“harassing,” “blasphemous” or “hateful.”
Also
included is anything that “threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or
sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign countries, or public
order.”
And if an
intermediary fails to act on a complaint within 36 hours of receiving it, the
firm’s top management is liable to face civil or criminal proceedings that
could involve huge penalties and even imprisonment.
Denying
any move to restrict free speech, the government claims “canards” are being
spread by “vested interests” that thrive on misuse of the Internet.
But
Nikhil Pahwa, Editor and Publisher of the news and analysis website, MediaNama,
is not convinced.
“These
rules give the Indian government the ability to gag free speech, and block any
website it deems fit, without publicly disclosing why sites have been blocked,
who took the decision to block it, and, just as importantly, providing adequate
recourse to blogs, sites and online and mobile businesses, for getting the
block removed. These rules are applicable to intermediaries, through whom
access to content will be controlled,” Mr. Pahwa points out.
Similarly,
Pavan Duggal, a Supreme Court lawyer and expert on cyber laws, says the
government’s entire approach is flawed.
“Though
there is no dispute on the proposition of content monitoring, there are huge
grey areas in the rules. For instance, there are various categories of
intermediaries where a one-size-fits-all approach cannot be applied… We need to
frame separate guidelines for separate categories or there will be huge
practical problems while implementing the rules,” Mr. Duggal says.
On his
part, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot says all valid
views and suggestions of the stakeholders were incorporated in the new rules.
“There is
no question of gagging free speech… the government is all for freedom of
expression. India is an open society and it also has one of the world’s best
systems of jurisprudence. If anybody thinks he has been wronged, he has all the
right to take legal recourse,” Mr. Pilot told TheHindu.
The
Department of IT insists that critics’ fears about this new rule — and another
which allows an individual’s sensitive personal information to be handed over
to government agencies — are unfounded.
Pointing
out that a fair open house discussion was held by the IT department before
framing the rules, Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers’
Association of India (ISPAI), says that with broadband penetration growing
fast, it is all the more important to regulate and monitor content.
“It is in
everybody’s interest. Whosoever is putting content on the Internet needs to
exercise self-control and self-restriction. Bloggers and celebrities who have a
huge online following have a responsibility to ensure that their comments do
not hurt anybody’s sentiments,” Mr. Chharia says.
Mr.
Duggal, however, disagrees, insisting that the new rules will adversely affect
legitimate free speech and also press freedom. “The sufferer will be the
content generator as he will not be heard, while intermediaries will take no
chance while dealing with complaints, be they legitimate or illegitimate,” he
says.
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“These manners give supervision the aptitude to silence giveaway debate and
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NEW DELHI: Cyber activists, bloggers and authorised experts are in tears
tainted over the new manners and discipline beneath the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008, that lay extra concentration on calm law and data security,
on top of traffic with cyber terrorism and data protection.
They have termed it an endeavor to silence giveaway debate by giving
intermediaries similar to Internet Service Providers, web hosting companies,
finding engines and cyber cafes the correct to manage content. The new manners
require hosts or owners of websites to take action against “objectionable
content” that is deliberate “disparaging,” “harassing,” “blasphemous” or
“hateful.”
Also enclosed is anything that “threatens the unity, integrity, defence,
safety or sovereignty of India, kind family with unfamiliar countries, or open
order.”
And if an surrogate fails to deed on a censure inside of 36 hours of
reception it, the firm’s top administration is probable to face polite or crook
trial that could engage outrageous penalties and even imprisonment.
Denying any pierce to limit giveaway speech, the supervision claims
“canards” are being expansion by “vested interests” that flourish on injustice
of the Internet.
But Nikhil Pahwa, Editor and Publisher of the headlines and review website,
MediaNama, is not convinced.
“These manners give the Indian supervision the aptitude to silence giveaway
speech, and inhibit any website it deems fit, without publicly disclosing
because sites have been blocked, who took the preference to inhibit it, and,
only as importantly, providing competent chance to blogs, sites and online and
mobile businesses, for getting the inhibit removed. These manners are germane
to intermediaries, by whom access to calm will be controlled,” Mr. Pahwa points
out.
Similarly, Pavan Duggal, a Supreme Court counsel and consultant on cyber
laws, says the government’s whole draw close is flawed.
“Though there is no disagreement on the tender of calm monitoring, there are
outrageous dull areas in the rules. For instance, there are assorted categories
of intermediaries where a one-size-fits-all draw close cannot be applied… We
must be support well-defined discipline for well-defined categories or there
will be outrageous functional problems whilst implementing the rules,” Mr.
Duggal says.
On his part, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot says
all current views and suggestions of the stakeholders were incorporated in the
new rules.
“There is no subject of gagging giveaway speech… the supervision is all for
liberty of expression. India is an open the public and it moreover has a of the
world’s most appropriate systems of jurisprudence. If any person thinks he has
been wronged, he has all the correct to take authorised recourse,” Mr. Pilot
told TheHindu.
The Department of IT insists that critics’ fears about this new order – and
other that allows an individual’s sensitive personal data to be handed over to
supervision agencies – are unfounded.
Pointing out that a satisfactory open residence deliberation was hold by the
IT subdepartment before framing the rules, Rajesh Chharia, boss of the Internet
Service Providers’ Association of India (ISPAI), says that with broadband
invasion flourishing fast, it is all the more critical to systematize and guard
content.
“It is in everybody’s interest. Whosoever is putting calm on the Internet
needs to exercise stoicism and self-restriction. Bloggers and celebrities who
have a outrageous online subsequent to have a shortcoming to make sure that
their explanation do not harm anybody’s sentiments,” Mr. Chharia says.
Mr. Duggal, however, disagrees, insisting that the new manners will
adversely start bona fide giveaway debate and moreover press freedom. “The case
will be the calm generator of electric power as he will not be heard, whilst
intermediaries will take no chance whilst traffic with complaints, be they bona
fide or illegitimate,” he says.
NEW DELHI: Cyber
activists, bloggers and legal experts are crying foul over the new rules and
guidelines under the Information Technology Amendment Act 2008, that lay
additional focus on content regulation and information security, besides
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Concern over impact of Internet control rules on
free speech
Cyber
activists, bloggers and legal experts are crying foul over the new rules and
guidelines under the Information Technology Amendment Act 2008, that lay additional
focus on content regulation and information security, besides dealing with
cyber terrorism and data protection.
They have termed it an attempt to gag free speech by giving intermediaries like
Internet Service Providers, web hosting companies, search engines and cyber
cafes the right to control content. The new rules require hosts or owners of
websites to take action against “objectionable content” that is considered
“disparaging,” “harassing,” “blasphemous” or “hateful.”
Also included is anything that “threatens the unity, integrity, defence,
security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign countries, or
public order.”
And if an intermediary fails to act on a complaint within 36 hours of receiving
it, the firm’s top management is liable to face civil or criminal proceedings
that could involve huge penalties and even imprisonment.
Denying any move to restrict free speech, the government claims “canards” are
being spread by “vested interests” that thrive on misuse of the Internet.
But Nikhil Pahwa, Editor and Publisher of the news and analysis website,
MediaNama, is not convinced.
“These rules give the Indian government the ability to gag free speech, and
block any website it deems fit, without publicly disclosing why sites have been
blocked, who took the decision to block it, and, just as importantly, providing
adequate recourse to blogs, sites and online and mobile businesses, for getting
the block removed. These rules are applicable to intermediaries, through whom
access to content will be controlled,” Mr. Pahwa points out.
Similarly, Pavan Duggal, a Supreme Court lawyer and expert on cyber laws, says
the government’s entire approach is flawed.
“Though there is no dispute on the proposition of content monitoring, there are
huge grey areas in the rules. For instance, there are various categories of
intermediaries where a one-size-fits-all approach cannot be applied… We need to
frame separate guidelines for separate categories or there will be huge
practical problems while implementing the rules,” Mr. Duggal says.
On his part, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot says all
valid views and suggestions of the stakeholders were incorporated in the new
rules.
“There is no question of gagging free speech… the government is all for freedom
of expression. India is an open society and it also has one of the world’s best
systems of jurisprudence. If anybody thinks he has been wronged, he has all the
right to take legal recourse,” Mr. Pilot told TheHindu.
The Department of IT insists that critics’ fears about this new rule — and
another which allows an individual’s sensitive personal information to be
handed over to government agencies — are unfounded.
Pointing out that a fair open house discussion was held by the IT department
before framing the rules, Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service
Providers’ Association of India (ISPAI), says that with broadband penetration
growing fast, it is all the more important to regulate and monitor content.
“It is in everybody’s interest. Whosoever is putting content on the Internet
needs to exercise self-control and self-restriction. Bloggers and celebrities
who have a huge online following have a responsibility to ensure that their
comments do not hurt anybody’s sentiments,” Mr. Chharia says.
Mr. Duggal, however, disagrees, insisting that the new rules will adversely
affect legitimate free speech and also press freedom. “The sufferer will be the
content generator as he will not be heard, while intermediaries will take no chance
while dealing with complaints, be they legitimate or illegitimate,” he says.
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An try to give intermediaries a right to control content”
Cyber activists, bloggers and authorised experts are great
tainted over a new manners and discipline underneath a Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008, that lay additional concentration on calm law and
information security, besides traffic with cyber terrorism and information
protection.
They have termed it an try to wisecrack giveaway debate by giving
intermediaries like Internet Service Providers, web hosting companies, hunt
engines and cyber cafes a right to control content. The new manners need hosts
or owners of websites to take movement opposite “objectionable content” that is
deliberate “disparaging,” “harassing,” “blasphemous” or “hateful.”
Also enclosed is anything that “threatens a unity, integrity,
defence, confidence or supervision of India, accessible family with unfamiliar
countries, or open order.”
And if an surrogate fails to act on a censure within 36 hours of
receiving it, a firm’s tip supervision is probable to face polite or rapist
record that could engage outrageous penalties and even imprisonment.
Denying any pierce to shorten giveaway speech, a supervision
claims “canards” are being widespread by “vested interests” that flower on
injustice of a Internet.
But Nikhil Pahwa, Editor and Publisher of a news and research
website, MediaNama, is not convinced.
“These manners give a Indian supervision a ability to wisecrack
giveaway speech, and retard any website it deems fit, but publicly disclosing
because sites have been blocked, who took a preference to retard it, and, only
as importantly, providing adequate possibility to blogs, sites and online and
mobile businesses, for removing a retard removed. These manners are germane to
intermediaries, by whom entrance to calm will be controlled,” Mr. Pahwa points
out.
Similarly, Pavan Duggal, a Supreme Court counsel and consultant
on cyber laws, says a government’s whole proceed is flawed.
“Though there is no brawl on a tender of calm monitoring, there
are outrageous grey areas in a rules. For instance, there are several categories
of intermediaries where a one-size-fits-all proceed can’t be applied… We need
to support apart discipline for apart categories or there will be outrageous
unsentimental problems while implementing a rules,” Mr. Duggal says.
On his part, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin
Pilot says all current views and suggestions of a stakeholders were
incorporated in a new rules.
“There is no doubt of gagging giveaway speech… a supervision is
all for leisure of expression. India is an open multitude and it also has one
of a world’s best systems of jurisprudence. If anybody thinks he has been
wronged, he has all a right to take authorised recourse,” Mr. Pilot told TheHindu.
The Department of IT insists that critics’ fears about this new
order — and another that allows an individual’s supportive personal information
to be handed over to supervision agencies — are unfounded.
Pointing out that a satisfactory open residence contention was
hold by a IT dialect before framing a rules, Rajesh Chharia, boss of a Internet
Service Providers’ Association of India (ISPAI), says that with broadband
invasion flourishing fast, it is all a some-more critical to umpire and guard
content.
“It is in everybody’s interest. Whosoever is putting calm on a
Internet needs to practice stoicism and self-restriction. Bloggers and
celebrities who have a outrageous online following have a shortcoming to
safeguard that their comments do not harm anybody’s sentiments,” Mr. Chharia
says.
Mr. Duggal, however, disagrees, insisting that a new manners will
adversely impact legitimate giveaway debate and also press freedom. “The case
will be a calm generator as he will not be heard, while intermediaries will
take no possibility while traffic with complaints, be they legitimate or
illegitimate,” he says.
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Concern over impact of Internet control rules on free speech
Sandeep Joshi “An attempt to give intermediaries the right to control
content”
“These rules give government the capability to gag free speech and block any
website it deems fit”
“Though there is no dispute on content monitoring, there are grey areas in
the rules”
NEW DELHI: Cyber activists, bloggers and legal
experts are crying foul over the new rules and guidelines under the Information
Technology Amendment Act 2008, that lay additional focus on content regulation
and information security, besides dealing with cyber terrorism and data protection.
They have termed it an attempt to gag free speech by giving intermediaries
like Internet Service Providers, web hosting companies, search engines and
cyber cafes the right to control content. The new rules require hosts or owners
of websites to take action against “objectionable content” that is considered
“disparaging,” “harassing,” “blasphemous” or “hateful.”
Also included is anything that “threatens the unity, integrity, defence,
security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign countries, or
public order.”
And if an intermediary fails to act on a complaint within 36 hours of
receiving it, the firm’s top management is liable to face civil or criminal
proceedings that could involve large penalties and even imprisonment.
Denying any move to restrict free speech, the government claims “canards”
are being spread by “vested interests” that thrive on misuse of the Internet.
But Nikhil Pahwa, Editor and Publisher of the news and analysis website,
MediaNama, is not convinced.
“These rules give the Indian government the capability to gag free speech,
and block any website it deems fit, without publicly disclosing why sites have
been blocked, who took the decision to block it, and, just as importantly,
providing adequate recourse to blogs, sites and on-line and mobile businesses,
for getting the block removed. These rules are applicable to intermediaries,
through whom access to content will be controlled,” Mr. Pahwa points out.
Similarly, Pavan Duggal, a Supreme Court lawyer and expert on cyber laws,
states the government’s entire approach is flawed.
“Though there is no dispute on the proposition of content monitoring, there
are large grey areas in the rules. For instance, there are various categories
of intermediaries where a one-size-fits-all approach can’t be applied… We need
to frame separate guidelines for separate categories or there will be large
practical problems while implementing the rules,” Mr. Duggal says.
On his part, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot states
all valid views and suggestions of the stakeholders were incorporated in the
new rules.
“There is no question of gagging free speech… the government is all for
freedom of expression. India is an open society and it also has one of the
world’s ideal systems of jurisprudence. If anybody thinks he has been wronged,
he has all the right to take legal recourse,” Mr. Pilot told TheHindu.
The Department of IT insists that critics’ fears about this new rule — and
another which grants an individual’s sensitive personal information to be
handed over to government agencies — are unfounded.
Pointing out that a fair open house discussion was held by the IT department
before framing the rules, Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service
Providers’ Association of India (ISPAI), states that with broadband penetration
growing fast, it is all the more important to regulate and monitor content.
“It is in everybody’s interest. Whosoever is putting content on the Internet
needs to exercise self-control and self-restriction. Bloggers and celebrities
who have a large on-line following have a responsibility to ensure that their
comments do not hurt anybody’s sentiments,” Mr. Chharia says.
Mr. Duggal, however, disagrees, insisting that the new rules will adversely
affect legitimate free speech and also press freedom. “The sufferer will be the
content generator as he will not be heard, while intermediaries will take no
chance while dealing with complaints, be they legitimate or illegitimate,” he
says.
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Bhuta Thera: No Greater Contentment
Translator’s note
Three
entirely different moods are portrayed so sensitively in the first three
stanzas of this poem by the monk Bhuta — the first wild and clamorous, the
second bright and benevolent, the third dark and mysterious. Constant among
these dramatic changes of nature is the meditating monk, content in any
setting.
Mindful
awareness allows all things to be just what they are, undisturbed by the
reconstructions of the petty ego. Like the tiny figure in a Chinese landscape
painting, the monk blends into phenomena because of his transparency of self.
The
original tristubh meter is an alteration of 12 and 13 syllables per line,
reproduced here in a 12 and 11 syllable translation that seems to work better
in English. The Pali images are so richly textured in this poem, one could
easily use twice as many English words and still not capture the nuances.
The
second line alone, for example, evokes the image of twisted streams of water
cascading down the steep streambeds of a mountain gorge, and then transfers the
image to the heavens, where the plunging rivulets now course down the invisible
tracks left everywhere in the sky by the passage of birds. That’s a lot to fit
into eleven syllables!
When the thundering storm cloud roars out in the mist,
And torrents of rain fill the paths of the birds, Nestled in a mountain cave,
the monk meditates. — No greater contentment than this can be found. When along
the rivers the tumbling flowers bloom In winding wreaths adorned with verdant
color, Seated on the bank, glad-minded, he meditates. — No greater contentment
than this can be found. When in the depths of night, in a lonely forest, The
rain-deva drizzles and the fanged beasts cry, Nestled in a mountain cave, the
monk meditates. — No greater contentment than this can be found. When restraining
himself and his discursive thoughts, (Dwelling in a hollow in the mountains’
midst), Devoid of fear and barrenness, he meditates. — No greater contentment
than this can be found. When he is happy — expunged of stain, waste and grief,
Unobstructed, unencumbered, unassailed — Having ended all defilements, he
meditates. — No greater