Telengana , the land of contrasts (10-09-15)

Telengana registered 1694 cases of crimes against Dalits in 2014.

Dalits face social boycott by the upper caste villagers denying daily manual labour to some 100 families of Dalit community in Yellaram village of Medak district in Telengana. Their crime: some persons of their community had recently been in the vicinity of two temples in the village.

Where is district administration headed by an IAS officer and what is it doing towards this issue?

Manoharabad, a village of Jakranpally mandal in Nizamabad district is a perfect example of a model village in the same state of Telengana. With a population of 1100 it has 98% literacy, safe drinking water supply to every household, no child labour and no school dropouts with street lights with automatic on and off switches. This tiny panchayat gives top priority to sanitation and cleanliness. So it looks spick and span. Every eligible person gets social security pension and there is absolutely no crime reported. The villagers are happy with 1000 acres of cultivation. About 76 persons from this village are in the Gulf and one in USA.  The credit goes to the young Sarpanch Patakuri Tirupathi Reddy. If I were the CM of the state I would have appointed him straightaway as the Hon. Director of Panchayat Department in the state.

(Source: The Hindu August 29, 2015)

Medals for commission of thefts?

The uniformed forces in State Police, Fire Protection and the Prison departments of the Government of Tamil Nadu are blessed with 1686 medals for their excellence in performance of their duties, thanks to the benevolence of the Chief Minister who announced on the occasion of Tamil Festival Pongal on January 15, 2016. 

We congratulate all those individuals who were found worthy of such medals.

As a common citizen of this state I am disappointed with the police force because they are unable to stop the daring thefts of jewellery from the hapless homes in different centres of the state by unidentified thieves almost on daily basis. People have lost faith and confidence in such a force!

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Judge secures future of orphaned boys after sentencing father to life

• Place: Mahila Court, Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu. (Friday, January 8, 2016
• Case: Murder of his wife by an alcoholic husband being sentenced to life imprisonment 
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• Effect: Three sons (aged between 11& 7) of the couple being orphaned with no relatives prepared to take care.
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• Action of the judge Ms J.Flora: 
• She talked to the kids, learnt their helplessness, summoned the maternal uncle of the children with lot of difficulty, convinced him for a few days of custody and left the court room only after ensuring their protection in a home run by Roman Catholic Missionaries. She left the office only at 7.30 PM to reach her house where  her son was waiting for the mother.
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• Hats off to such a judge in our midst. India is in safe hands. I wrote a letter and thanked her for such a gesture.
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• I also salute the Christian Missionaries for their selfless and silent service to humanity in India where I find Hindu Mutts having no inclination to engage in such humanitarian work.
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Is it a sin to be born a woman?

- and be the wife of a male who couldn't protect the honour of the family ? 

A 30 year-old Syrian mother of four fled the war with her family early last year . When her husband ran out of money to pay their smuggler in Bulgaria, he offered his wife as payment instead. For three months she was raped almost daily to earn her family's onward journey. Soon her own husband was abusing her too. Susanne Hohne, the lead psychotherapist at a centre in West Berlin said, "A twisted logic, what her husband made her do ended up tainting his honour. She became the guilty party" ( The Hindu: dt January 4, 2016)

What a pity! I think females are being treated as slaves, animals or commodities!!

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Heavy Sums of Public Money Gone Down the drain

"Govt. opacity leaves Rs. 8000 crore expenditure unaccounted for" (the Hindu December 28, 2015 by TCA Sharad Raghavan) 

With a view to simplifying and streamlining the heads of accounts the government might have resorted to merging of different minor heads of accounts and it is not that the entire money would have been spent illegally or misappropriated for self gains as allegedly unaccounted for by the departments in the analysis of Union Government Finance Accounts for the year 2014-15 by the Hindu. On a closer scrutiny the lazy and inefficient babus might have failed to give full details in the in the first place in appropriate columns. However, it is true, a portion of this amount would have been possibly  misused like in the case of "Cattle Feed Scandal" indulged by Lalu Prasad Yadav & his officials in Bihar a decade or two ago.

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Politics & Bureaucracy

"Politics says we should waste public exchequer, distribute it and receive public praise. This politics has destroyed this country" - Narendra Modi [ they said it - Times of India, Monday, April 20, 2015]

I would like to supplement the above statement with : "Indian bureaucracy - esp. at the apex level - has mortgaged its conscience, compromised its principles, downgraded its position vis a vis its political executives and failed in its commitment to the Constitution of India due to its selfishness and sheer self interest"

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