Hello BDD YOUTH,

Today i am going to put a serious question before you giving out some of the deatils so be decisive in answering this one.

It was JUNE 17.
"It is the first time I heard of the Lashkar-e-Taiba," said Shamima(June 17,2004), mother of the 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan Shamim Raza, who was gunned down, along with three others, by the Ahmedabad police for allegedly as the suspect for plotting the murder of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

At her home in her tiny apartment in Rashid compound in this crowded town in Thane district, Shamima was told of the death of her daughter, a second-year science student at Mumbai's Gurunanak Khalsa College, by reporters on Tuesday evening.

"My daughter used to leave at eight in the morning and come home at four and then take tuitions. She also helped me with running the house. She had no time for herself and was my main support," said Shamima (June 17,2004).

Friends, neighbours and well-wishers were standing around the three-storeyed apartment in anger and silence. No one could believe that Ishrat was not among them any more. All her neighbours and friends said that Ishrat was an innocent girl. In college, Ishrat, a B.Sc. student, was popular.

"She left on Saturday but I did not know where she had gone. Later, my children told me she had taken some clothes with her. It was a good thing her ID-card was with her, otherwise we would have never known," her mother said in a silent voice.

Then after that day Ishrat Jahan's family appealed to the metropolitan magistrate court for justice and recently ,Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said The killing of Mumbai student Ishrat Jahan by Gujarat Police four years ago was "inhuman" and all those responsible for her death should be punished, he said this a day after a metropolitan magistrate's report proved that it was a "fake encounter".

Moily even told that ,"This is inhuman, if a proper investigation is done then many more skeletons will come out,."

The Gujarat police had claimed that Ishrat Jahan was a member of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and that she and her three friends were on a mission to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi when they were gunned down on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in June 2004.

However, according to the 240 page report by metropolitan magistrate SP Tamang, the four -- Ishrat Jahan, Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, Amjad Ali alias Rajkumar Akbar Ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul Gani -- were not linked with any terror group and were killed in a "fake encounter".

Now Govt.of Gujarat has asked not to get attached with this decision and they will now appeal in Higher Court for justice.

If Higher Court lso thinks that the decision given by the lower court was absolutely right than the case cannot be even filed in neither the High Court nor the Supreme Court,and in such conditions the Chief Minister of Gujarat Mr.Narendra Modi will be in a great trouble.

Problems for Mr.Narendra Modi(CM of GUJARAT)

- He can be asked to resign from the post.
- Currently Elections are going on in Gujarat on some of the vacant seats.
- He can be put behind bars.
- End of his political career.
- End of BJP in the State.
- This can lead to the opening of many other cases against him from the civil war in Gujarat.

Now What do you think Was Ishrat Jahan's Encounter TRUE or FAKE?

In Loving Memory Of Ishrat Jahan,Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, Amjad Ali alias Rajkumar Akbar Ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul Gani

Writer,
Manish Jain
Gujju

TRANSPARENCY IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

SOME POINTS IN FAVOUR OF TRANSPARENCY IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

1.) There are Different types of political interference in the bureaucracy. These interference

results in growing political and bureaucracy curruption. If there comes transperency in public

administration then the link between the politics and bureauracy will be exposed and thus

curruption can be reduced.

2.) Criminalisation of politics, increasingly inrecent years, has resulted in great deal of

curruption in the bureaucracy with the entry of criminal elements in politics more and more

of the administrative personal have fallen for the baits of power and money. Due to

non-transparent working of goverment, the public is unaware about these practices

in a democratic country like india transparency is essential for the proper functioning of the

system.

3.) In a democratic country the real power exists in the hands of the general public and

bureaucrats are public servants. Therefore public has the power get the information about

the process if administration. This requires transparency.

4.) Sometimes promotion of an officer is made not on the basis of his contacts with the

political leaders. These kind of incidents ultimately degrade the values those are

enshrined in our holy constitution. If there is transparency then it will not be possible to

promote anyone without any performance.

5.) The money earned by the goverment and the money spent should be known to the public

so that the general people so that the general people could be satisfied that no

extravaganzas are going on. After all the money earned by the goverment is the money

given by the public to them. In democracy everbody have full rights to know about his/her

hard earned money taken by the goverment as taxes. This also needs Transparency in

Public Administration.

6.)“Increased transparency, anti-corruption and good administrative practices in the

public sector are decisive parameters in the Government of Vietnam’s efforts to

create a service minded public sector that can truly serve the people. Denmark is

pleased to support Vietnam in these efforts and in building capacity of academic

institutions in human rights research and human rights law at academic institutions.

Increased Transparency

Academia can play an important role in generating knowledge on, but also

demystifying, human rights, which I am certain will add value to Vietnam’s

effort to move towards a democratic society based on the rule of law ”, Danish

Ambassador Peter Lysholt Hansen noted in connection with the signing of the

funding agreement.

SOME POINTS IN AGAINST OF TRANSPARENCY IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

1.) There is a widespread illiteracy among the people of India. Very few of us know how the

administration works. Therefore explaining only to few literates makes no meaning So at

present no need of transparency.

2.) There is right of Information granted by the Constitution Of India to the people of India. But

this right has seldom been exercised. Very few people desire to know the process of

administration regarding a particular issue. so there is no need tomake hue and cry about the

tranparency in public admisntration.

3.) In place of providing transperancy in public administration what is required to change the

bureaucracy's attitude and approach towards the needs and concerns of our nation and its

people.

4.) Transperancy will not be helpful because even if there is a curruption charge filed against

a bureaucrat by a citizen of India, judicial procedure will last for so long that the accused will

complete his job tenure. So we should try to speed up the judicial proceedings because if it is

there then the currupt bureaucrats can be caught and punished.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is the one of the most influential political Philosophers.He went on to became well known as a literary figure with perceptive ideas.He wrote several essays on the political economy,which formed the basis of the French Revolution later on.

He was born in 1712 in Geneva,Switzerland,Rousseau lost his mother soon after she gave birth to him.His father was not very attentive and never bothered about his education.When he was a mere 10 years old,his father deserted him and ran away to avoid imprisonment over a petty crime he had committed.Rousseau was left in the care of relatives.

At any early age,he developed a passion for reading.When he was 12,he was sent to work with a notary,but was soon fired,as he was found incapable.An apprenticeship with an engraver led to a similar fate,but with him running away this time.He didn't like the strict discipline expected of him in these jobs.After wandering around aimlessly,he took shelter with a Roman Catholic Priest at Consignon in Savoy.The priest in turn entrusted him to a lady named Baronne de Warens.She went him to study the Catholic religion at Turin.It took him just nine days to convert from being Protestant to Catholic.During this time,he worked as a shopkeeper's assistant,a footman and a secretary to support himself.

He soon left and went back tp live with Madame de Warens,where he spent the next 8 years.and he now tried to find a means of livelihood.After attempting to be a priest he gave up and learnt music for a while.But this too was not his force.He spent a lot of time studying the science and arts and learning about 17th century philosophers,the Latin Poets,History,Theology,Mathematics,Astronomy,Antamoy and Chemistry.he spent his spare time admiring nature and visiting the theatre.

Madame de Warens soon got tried of his wandering around aimlessly.He left her house and went to Paris,after a brief stint as a private tutor at Lyons.In Paris,he was unable to find unemployment and was soon in financial trouble.But soon,with the help of some upper class influence he got a job as secretary to the French ambassador in Venice.

In 1745,he was back in Paris,supporting himself by copying music.He soon wrote a piece on music that was published in the Encyclopedia.He also wrote an opera that was staged but failed.This was turning point in his life.as it was here that he met the famous philosophers Voltaire and Diderot.In 1749 he signed up for an essay competition conducted by the academy of Dijon.The subject was "Has the progress of the arts and sciences contributed more to the corruption or purification of morals?" His essay the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts,was published the next year and won the first prize.The esasay proclaimed that art and science did not really benefit mankind.As it was this kind of knowledge that made governements powerful enough to crush individual freedom.He wrote another opera "Devin du Village" or "The Village Sorcerer" and it was a great hit.

Diderot then requested him to write a political article for the Encyclopedia and Rousseau wrote the Discourse of Political Economy.Rousseau soon wrote another essay "Discourse on the Origin of Inequality" for the next Dijon contest and it was published in 1755.He decided to live the simple,rustic life that he himself preached about.In 1756,he moved to Hermitage,a retreat in the woods of Montmorency near Paris.An admirer had furnished it.Here he wrote "The New Heloise",but in less than two years he had a disagreement with thw admirer as well as with Diderot and went to Montlouis,where he wrote his masterpiece "Emile" and "The Social Contract".

In "The social contract",he advocated a system wherein;every man gives up his rights and possessions to the 'general will'.He coined the slogan Liberty,Equality,Fraternity and it became the mantra of the French Revolution.His other great work,"Emile" was about the Educational system.When it was published in 1762,there was a huge outcry over Rousseau's views on monarchy and government institutions.His ideas on natural religion scandalized both Protestants and Cathloics.Then,he settle in England,where he worked on his autobiography,Confessions.He made a few friends here and became popular.

But shortly thereafter,he had a falling out with his friends,thanks to a practical joke.Someone published a forged letter that made it seem like the British Government was out to kill Rousseau.He returned to Paris in 1770 and started working as a copyist again and continued writing.He came up with the Rousseau,"juge de jean jacques" and "Reveries" a continuation to the Confessions.He slowly started losing his mind and was admitted in a hospital.In 1778,he died from a sudden attack of thrombosis,which many believed to be a suicide.He buried in Ermenonville until 1794,after which his remains were placed with Voltaire's in the Pantheon in Paris.

This article is veryful to everyone,to know the full details of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Indian politician Shashi Tharoor is in the news and as is in the case of politicians he is in the news for wrong reasons. The reason is he has referred to people travelling in economy class as cattle. Our inconsistent media for a change has shown consistency by critizing the politician.

The question is can he be blamed for his comments? I would say no, because that is the way politicians have treated us all these years. These politicians are voted by us. At the time of casting our vote, we know our politicians very well and their misdeeds very well and yet we vote them. In India, honest people do not contest in elections, and if they contest, we do not elect them and still if they get elected we tend to create innumerable hurdles for them.

These days thanks to information technologies like electronic and print medias and various websites all of us are kept updated of information with regard to politicians and their misdeeds. Citing lack of knowledge or information is nothing but a very avoidable excuse. It is time for us to show little more maturity and chuck out arrogant politicians. If we fail to do that , then we have to bear the consequences.

Dear friends, please understand the choice is ours and let us make choose the right person as our representative.

Satish

In India once a cricketer is over 30 years of age, he is asked to retire, however well his performances are. The 30 plus cricketer could be very fit & playing better than any other international cricketer but he has to retire for the simple reason is that he has to make way for a youngster.

Similarly an employee has to retire once he attains the stipulated age of 55 or 60 years. Fitness or efficiency does not count, because the rule says he has to retire. Even if he is the sole bread winner and the entire family is dependent on him, still he has to retire, because there are certain rules which have to be followed.

Unofficial rules applicable to our cricketers and official ones applicable to our employees are not applicable to our dear politicians. They may be more than 80 years of age, but need not retire. They may be carrying all the diseases in the world, yet they need not retire. They may be the most inefficient, that does not count. They might not have had the basic education and still that does not count. They could be corrupt but still they are licenced to rule the country as long as they like.

Dear Friends, it is high time that we stop giving VIP treatment to politicians. Rules applicable to us should be applicable to them also.

Satish

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