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--------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Thinkers Zinester.com has been pleased to let us use their services to operate our list serve India Thinkers Net . This new list has been created so as to ensure an un-interrupted and free service for you. Our entire mailing list has been imported to the new ezine. We have been careful to add only the names of those whose name appear in the yahoogroup.Please use the unsubscribe option to remove your name if you feel there has been an error. Thanks to zinester and all our members . the.moderator india thinkers net ------------------------------------------------------------- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=204485 The Times of India, September 27, 2003 RSS holds key to 'tribal treasury' AKSHAYA MUKUL TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2003 03:15:31 AM ] NEW DELHI: The tribal ministry has devised a novel method of disbursing the nearly Rs 40 crore it provides to NGOs annually. Last year, in an unprecedented move, it created a project clearance committee consisting of a majority of RSS members to dole out lakhs of rupees to NGOs working among tribals. The tribals are seen as a 'growth area' by the RSS with a number of Sangh-affiliated NGOs active in 'Hinduising' adivasis around the country. But to give the screening committee legitimacy, it is headed by a ministry official who is forced to put his stamp of approval to grants cleared by the non-official members. Result: complaints of high-handedness in selecting NGOs are mounting. First, the non-official but powerful members. Santosh Paranjape of Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, Chunnilal Ghurasia, BJP leader and former tribal minister, Rajasthan, Wing Commander Vijay Kumar Prusty of Bhubaneswar, Vishnu Kumar of Bhopal and Anil Holsamudarkar, one time pracharak-in-charge of Madhya Pradesh who now runs Gram Bharati in Pune. Ghurasia explained the importance of the committee: ''The minister has given us all the power to select NGOs. We visit areas where NGOs work and then decide on the grant.'' But who gives the final approval? ''After five members sign, it is almost final to which the official, a joint-secretary level officer merely concurs,'' Ghurasia explains. Proud of his 40-year association with the Sangh and BJP, Ghurasia feels there is nothing wrong with the new system. ''From our experience with tribals, we know who is doing genuine work which officials would not be able to judge,'' he explains. Paranjape agrees and says it is a ''good system'' though he regrets that no meeting has taken place in this financial year so far. A member also explained how committee members please each other while selecting NGOs. ''Before the meeting, members know who is batting for which NGOs and accordingly grants are decided,'' the member said. But so big is the pie that cracks have now started showing, leading to the ouster of Holsamudarkar from the reconstituted committee. Though Holsamudarkar refuses to comment on why he was asked to leave, one committee member reveals, ''He was not happy with the way NGOs were being selected and repeatedly raised objections.'' Tribal minister Jual Oram has another theory: ''We received a lot of complaints against him and had to leave him out.'' --------------------------------------------------- Courtesy:Harsh Kapoor/SACW |
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