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[1] From: Regi P George <george_regi@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Jul 30, 2005 Subject: Taxi for Sports Minister? SAI pays Rs 98,000 a day Taxi for Sports Minister? SAI pays Rs 98,000 a day All in the name of sports? ??? Taxi vouchers of almost Rs 1 lakh a day for Uma, Vikram Verma ??? Rs 4.36 lakh for carpets and mattresses at Uma??™s house ??? A watch to gift Dhindsa??™s daughter on her wedding Audit reveals SAI??™s bizarre bills for expenses of Sports ministers Uma Bharati, Vikram Verma and Dhindsa: from wedding gift to carpets http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=75345 NEW DELHI, JULY 29: In Parliament yesterday, Minister of State for PMO Prithviraj Chavan said there were no ??????frauds??™??™ exposed in the audit reports of the Sports Authority of India (SAI), but only ??????financial and accounting irregularities.??™??™ What he did not mention was that the audit reports??”now a subject of the PMO??™s scrutiny??”contain a huge embarrassment for three Union sports ministers of the NDA Government. The Indian Express has accessed the reports about which the auditors, N C Mittal, wrote last month to the PMO. For instance, in the 2002-03 SAI audit report (the latest), the auditors objected to the irregular manner in which SAI raised bills for hiring taxi for former ministers, BJP??™s Uma Bharati and Vikram Verma, to the tune of Rs 87,483 for a single day, August 31, 2002. Interestingly, Verma who succeeded Bharati was the minister on that day. The auditors noted: ??????All the bills are verified by Shri Ravinder Singh, PA to the Minister (Uma Bharati). Such expenditure could not be allowed as expenditure of the society as the Ministers of the Government of India do not travel in taxis.??™??™ Members of the auditing team confirmed to The Indian Express that the vouchers of ministerial bills raised by SAI are part of its records. Besides this entry for taxi bills, there are other entries of a ??????similar nature.??™??™ Two other taxi vouchers for Bharati and Verma have been raised by SAI for Rs 98,479 and Rs 98,230??”for October 31, 2002 and January 21, 2003. During the audit, the SAI also produced vouchers for the purchase of ??????furniture and fixtures??™??™ for Bharati. There are three entries for Rs 2,13,735, Rs 2,07,312 and Rs 14,850 (totalling Rs 4,35,897) listed as the price of carpets and mattresses to be used at the residence of the minister, in her capacity as chairperson of SAI. Yet another set of vouchers??”objected to by the auditors??”is for the purchase of furniture for the chairperson??™s house, for Rs 3,29,514. Director General of the SAI, Ratan Watal, said his organisation is examining the contents of the audit reports as part of the on-going ??????systemic??™??™ financial revamp of the SAI. ??????All heads of expenses, including payments apparently made to successive ministers will be looked at. After all, public funds should be utilised for the right purpose in the interest of sports.??™??™ Bharati and Verma were not available for comment. While these entries have been added to the SAI??™s expense statement at their headquarters in New Delhi, expenses under 17 heads have been shown as incurred for another former Minister, Akali Dal??™s S S Dhindsa. They are part of the expense statements of SAI??™s Netaji Subhas Northern Centre, Chandigarh, listed in the audit report for 2001-2002. The auditors pointed out that these ??????were not approved??™??™ by SAI??™s corporate office. The list includes the purchase of a watch worth Rs 3,270 as gift to the Minister??™s daughter at her wedding. When asked, SAI officials told the auditors that the then director general SAI had issued ??????verbal??™??™ orders for purchase of the gifts. Dhindsa, when contacted, said he was ??????completely unaware??™??™ of the expenses. ??????I will find out how these expenses have been listed. There is so much corruption in SAI. It is possible they raised the bills without the knowledge of my office and shared the money,??™??™ he said. BJP spokesman V K Malhotra said that since Minister Chavan had assured Parliament that there was no corruption, he would like to read the reports himself. ??????I am the Chairman of the PAC and will like to carefully examine the reports when they come to me,??™??™ he said. ------------------------------------------ [2] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Jul 30, 2005 Subject: Floods create havoc in Mumbai city: An Appeal and an Update NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE??™S MOVEMENTS National Office: Haji Habab Building, First Floor, 182 Naigaon Cross Road, Dadar (E), Mumbai- 400014 Date: 29.07.05 Floods create havoc in Mumbai city: An Appeal and an Update Today when the torrential rains and blocked drains in Mumbai have caused a havoc in the maxim city with flooding of houses flowing away of humans and cattle, collapsed huts and houses, trees and temples, very few are concerned about what is happening to the poor slum dwellers in and on the periphery of the city, the thousands of these daily wage earners, single woman, the pregnant and lactating mothers who didn??™t lose only their shelter but their livelihood too, are left shattered and shaken. With hands to mouth existence they faced demolition of houses that in turn severely affected their livelihoods, are further destitutionalised with the pouring rains and water in the Mumbai??™s drains and creeks on the boundaries of the city. The communities where our consistent work is on, struggle for the rights and constructive work, building human resources, strengthening local institutions and approaching and impelling the state agencies to provide and improve the services, there is an inbuilt capacity with local leadership to face the natural and man made calamity with some support from outside. While the people can build their own shelter, they urgently need the plastic sheets- tarpaulin to cover with bamboos. Those who had always lived with two pairs of clothes can??™t do it now with same spoiled and water not allowing to dry. The diseases have started spreading slowly, malaria already rampant in the marshy places and children catching respiratory and gastric troubles obviously. Many families whose stored material, including grains got lost, are even hungry, especially since on are hand, they have no source of income, , hawking etc. too is severely affected during these days and public distribution system is almost defunct. For some families, such as that of Baswanram a blind person from Mandala there is no space and support to live on. Rahul Roy from Anna Bhau Sathe Nagar flew away, as the water rose, is still unfound and the Deonar Police Station that was avoiding lodging of FIR, finally had to do it with activists intervention. Amidst this kindling a hope, are the stories of common people??™s brevity and solidarity with each other. In Anna Bhau Sathe Nagar, slum dwellers rehabilitated nearly supported the families who had to take resort to the half constructed, half occupied buildings overnight. Feeding for a few days was also done by the previously slum dwelling families who remembered their woes. In Mandala, women now empowered, were looking after the old, sick single women and people took upon themselves the task of saving children and shifting people. Many had to spend the rainy night on the streets, with water flows underneath. In Rafi Nagar and Sanjay Nagar the damp garbage all around, stinking and the cemetery they were thrown into also got flooded, leaving them with no dry space to step on. The families around, themselves poor were the first helping hands. Ekta Nagar on the western side had the worst flood of its kind. These suburbs where the waters could not be drained, are facing the worst due to blockage of the natural drains which has happened due to ad-hoc planning while digging the roads, reclaiming the lands and building highways and flyovers or closing gutters in the name of beautification of Mumbai. The shocking statement of MMRDA chief Mr. Chandrasekhar and the Minister, Mr. Ajit Pawar declaring slums as the main reason, are indicative of not just callousness or ignorance but also conspiracy. These leading men are certainly all out to promote further eviction of the poor and grab the land and the projects, now in the name of Mumbai Bachao ( Save Mumbai), with no bounds. There are many in governmental and Non-governmental sectors that will surely be all only to extract resources and waste it. We must be committed to work with communities, involve people and undertake relief as a step towards rehabilitation of these poor. It??™s with this approach that a team of 20 students and faculty members from Tata Institute of Social Sciences and the local and trained activists as well as supporters of NAPM and Narmada Bachao Andolan, Nirbhay Bano Andolan, Shahar Vikas Manch involved in Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao struggle of the Mumbai urban poor have taken up the work in these localities. The requirements assessed that can be taken care of within own capacity are as follows. Name of Community Housing Material For Families. (3 Kg. Of Plastic per family@ Rs.50-60/Kg Food Grains @5 Kg.Rice 1 Kg & Dal per family Medicines (through temporary dispensation by Doctors) Anna Bhau Sathe Nagar 40 15 quintal rice 3 quintal pulses Tablets- Didofenac,Paracetomol,Chloroquine,Amoxyclin,Rantac,Cyclopa, Albendazole. Hairwash Cetavlon, Micogel ointment Rafi Nagar 200 10 quintal rice 2 quintal pulses Same as Above Sanjay Nagar 45 2.5 quintal rice 0.5 quintal pulses -do- Mandala 140 20 quintal rice 5 quintal pulses -do- Ekta Nagar 200 20 quintal rice 5 quintal pulses -do- Do respond, Contacting Pervin Jehangir Ph.No. 022-22184779, 22185832, 9820636335 Simpreet Ph. 9323254706 Mohan Chavan Ph. No. 9322512983 Medha Patkar 9869446684 At TISS Contact Vijay Nagraj or Dr. Parasuraman 022-25563289-96. Yours in Solidarity, Medha Patkar Pervin Jehangir Shakeel Ahmed Mohan Chauhan Simpreet ------------------------------------------------ [3] From: "C.K. Vishwanath" <ck_vishwanath2000@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Jul 30, 2005 Subject: Re: [Mahajanapada] The Madrassa Industry ??”Ishtiaq Ahmed the secular and human right education has failed to give a democratic equalitarian world view for the society.the worst kind of identity politics feeds a democratic and modern world view.the hatred politics via madrssa ,sanga parivar schools,ku klux klan type elemnts in schools have been provoking fascist politics and future religious war fighters. madrassa which is questioning any democratic dialogues and it gives a new anti-modern utopia where death and birth for religious purposes and becomes a jihaadi fighter. --- yogi sikand <ysikand@...> wrote: > > COMMENT: The Madrassa industry ??”Ishtiaq Ahmed > > http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_26-7-2005_pg3_2 > > The international jihad recruited idealist young > Muslim men from all over the world for the Afghan > war. Some of them went to the madrassas. This > industry has now gone bust. Those who needed its > products for fighting Communism are now selling off > their shares. The Pakistani investors should watch > out > |
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