The SECRET BLACK MONEY IN SWISS BANKS
1. The occasion was the 60th anniversary of Indo-Swiss Friendship Treaty. Admitting that Indian black money gets hoarded in his country, he added that the new law in Switzerland would, not stop it, but control it “up to a certain limit”.
2. Swiss banks are not the only secret destination. There are 37 such shelters in the world, says US Inland Revenue. The secret owners of the secreted monies operate in secrecy — venal businessmen, corrupt politicians, public servants, drug lords, and criminal gangs like the D-company. The slush monies are the financial RDX for terror, besides weapons of mass destruction of national and global finance. That there is secret money is no more a secret. Only the amounts and persons are secret.
3. the late 1980s, at the behest of The Indian Express, while investigating the Reliance scam, I had attempted to trail the Indian monies secreted abroad. In the course of the probe, I had contacted Fairfax, a US investigative firm, to uncover the Indian wealth stashed abroad. Impressed by their skills, I persuaded the Government of India to engage the firm for the task. Fairfax agreed to work for a slice of the black wealth uncovered by them as fee.
4. It is undisputed that the Nehruvian socialist model forced huge sums out of India. So the amount of Indian black wealth secreted away in the last 60 years — estimated at from $500 billion (Rs 25 lakh crore) to $1400 billion (Rs 70 lakh crore) — does not seem to be wide off the mark. Economists call it flight of capital. This is the people’s money stolen from them.
5. See the consequence even if part of it is brought back. A portion of it would make India free from all external debts which is now over $220 billion; India will transform into an economic superpower; some 10 or 15 Indian rupees could buy a US dollar which today 50 Indian rupees cannot; a litre of petrol on our roadside would cost Rs 15 or even less, against today’s 50 plus; the cost of imports in rupee terms would be down to a third or half; India’s entire infrastructure needs can be funded; India will become so energy efficient and costcompetitive that exporters may need no sops at all; India will lend to — not, as it does now, borrow from — the world; Indian housing can be funded at affordable cost; rural poverty can be wiped out... The list is endless
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7. Advani rounded off asking the prime minister to take up the issue of Indian monies stashed away in secret Swiss banks and in other tax havens at the G20 meet at London slated for April 2, 2009. Yet, at the London meet, Dr Manmohan Singh would not utter a word
8. “Why this now, at the time of the elections?” asked the Congress spokesman Manish Tiwari, not knowing that Advani had written to the prime minister long before, in April 2008 itself, on the LGT bank issue. Then entered Abhishek Singhvi, the more articulate spokesman of the party. He asked what did Advani do when NDA was in power. Obviously he has not even read Advani’s statement. Advani has only questioned why the Manmohan government is not acting now [in March 2008] in tandem with the West which has begun crusading again.
9. More. Singhvi said that “G20 is not the forum for the issue” of Indian black wealth in Swiss banks. Obviously, running between courtrooms and newsrooms, he had no time to follow the media abroad which were full of news about how the main agenda of G20 was about secret banking. He was all at sea
10. Like Sehwag deploying offence for defence, he wrote a harsh letter to L K Advani saying, “to tell bluntly — Mr Advani, you are lying”. Advani, he charged, was lying on his maths about the estimate of the Indian black wealth at between $500 billion and $1400 billion. These numbers, he said, were drawn from questionable Internet sources
11. The Congress campaign manager cites a well-known economist Bibek Debroy who has questioned Advani’s estimate of Indian black wealth at a minimum of $500 billion. Debroy, usually an agile and meticulous analyst, has erred in this case. He has looked at the wrong version of the right report and reached incorrect conclusions. Both Advani and Debroy have relied on the Global Financial Integrity (GFI) study that has estimated the global black wealth stashed away in tax havens including India’s. There are two versions of the GFI study — one a layman’s version and the other, the economists’ version. Debroy, an economist, seems to have relied on the layman’s version. And L K Advani, not an economist, has relied on the economists’ version. The economists’ version of the GFI study (at pages 29 and 30 supported by charts, specifically chart 18) estimates, in specific numbers the amount of black wealth stashed away from India between 2002-06 at $137.5 billion. If, in five years, the amount could be $137.5 billion (Rs 6.88 lakh crore), the Advani
estimate of $500 billion (Rs 25 lakh crore) to $1400 billion (Rs 70 lakh crore) f
12. List of 50 revealed.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
बीज बिल के कुछ तथ्य
बीज बिल के जानने योग्य कुछ तथ्य
Fact SHEET OF SEED BILL EET
1. The controversial Seeds Bill is lying in Parliament. It is anti-farmer, pro-industry and needs a drastic rewrite OF SEED BILL
2. IF DISRUPTIONS over phone tapping and the India Premier League controversy had not taken Parliament sessions hostage, the Rajya Sabha may have passed the controversial Seeds Bill in the week of April 26, when it was slated to come up for discussion
3. The government was keen to give this Bill the force of law as soon as possible because the seed industry wants it. The Seeds Bill originally proposed in 2004 was met by resistance almost immediately. Just months after it was proposed, Gene Campaign organised a stakeholder consultation to critically analyse the Bill and suggest amendments. The pressure was kept up to have the Bill re-examined and it was referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture in 2005. The Committee called for evidence and submissions from a number of agencies, including government departments, civil society groups and seed industries
4. The Standing Committee accepted many of the amendments proposed by civil society groups and the amended draft Seeds Bill that was proposed to Parliament was vastly improved over the original. It made the playing field more level and while giving the seed industry a fair chance to profit from the seed trade, it incorporated safeguards for farmers. The Bill in that shape was however not accepted. Since then several other amendments have been proposed, some of which have been accepted in principle, others not
5. The new Seeds Bill will replace the old Seed Act of 1966, which was meant to govern trading in seed. A law regulating the seed trade is necessary to ensure that farmers are protected against spurious seeds and that seed producers are obliged to put into the market only seeds of good and reliable quality. Such a seed law must encourage competitiveness to ensure good quality and low prices and not encourage monopolies
6. The genesis of the current shape of the Seeds Bill is to be seen in the ire of the seed industry over the pro-farmer provisions of the Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Rights Act (PPVFR), 2001. This IPR law that India enacted instead of accepting a patent law for seeds, gives intellectual property protection to the plant varieties of farmers as well as those of breeders. India is the only country in the world that has given legal rights to its farmers over seed, and the industry has been furious since.
7. The seed industry wants monopolies over seed production and giving rights to farmers over their seeds spoils their plans. They retaliated by influencing the proposed Seeds Bill in a way that overrules the provisions of the PPVFR and Farmers Rights and had provisions written in that would allow seed sector monopolies with as little accountability as possible In the PPVFR, the breeder applies for registration for a Plant Breeders Right. This right is valid for a period of 15 years for crop varieties and 18 years for trees. The Seed Bill allows the period of protection to be doubled so that the seed varieties can be protected by the seed producer for 30 years and 36 years respectively. This extension of the seed owner’s right will allow monopolies to be established.
8. . A KEY OBJECTION to the Seeds Bill is that despite several submissions for amendment, it still does not require the seed industry (plant breeders) to declare the parentage of the new seed that they have developed. This is bad science and bad ethics. Scientists always keep a record of the maternal and paternal parents of the new seed that they are developing. Resistance to submitting these records and keeping this provision out of the Bill means only one thing. The seed industry breeders will use the seed varieties developed by farmers and public sector scientists and pass this off as their own. if someone is caught This amounts to theft. The penalties for violation have been kept ridiculously low — Rs 5,000 — so that even stealing public sector material or that belonging to farmers, the punishment is a laughably small sum of money.
9. . Law making in many parts of the world, including our own, particularly when rights are granted, as in IPR, allows an opportunity to the public to record its objections to the grant of such a right.Many activists had wanted such a provision in the Seeds Bill as well so that if a seed company wanted to register a seed, which had used material from other, unauthorised sources, objections could be raised. But the government, anxious to please the seed industry refuses to include a provision for pre-grant opposition.
1. The controversial Seeds Bill is lying in Parliament. It is anti-farmer, pro-industry and needs a drastic rewrite OF SEED BILL
2. IF DISRUPTIONS over phone tapping and the India Premier League controversy had not taken Parliament sessions hostage, the Rajya Sabha may have passed the controversial Seeds Bill in the week of April 26, when it was slated to come up for discussion
3. The government was keen to give this Bill the force of law as soon as possible because the seed industry wants it. The Seeds Bill originally proposed in 2004 was met by resistance almost immediately. Just months after it was proposed, Gene Campaign organised a stakeholder consultation to critically analyse the Bill and suggest amendments. The pressure was kept up to have the Bill re-examined and it was referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture in 2005. The Committee called for evidence and submissions from a number of agencies, including government departments, civil society groups and seed industries
4. The Standing Committee accepted many of the amendments proposed by civil society groups and the amended draft Seeds Bill that was proposed to Parliament was vastly improved over the original. It made the playing field more level and while giving the seed industry a fair chance to profit from the seed trade, it incorporated safeguards for farmers. The Bill in that shape was however not accepted. Since then several other amendments have been proposed, some of which have been accepted in principle, others not
5. The new Seeds Bill will replace the old Seed Act of 1966, which was meant to govern trading in seed. A law regulating the seed trade is necessary to ensure that farmers are protected against spurious seeds and that seed producers are obliged to put into the market only seeds of good and reliable quality. Such a seed law must encourage competitiveness to ensure good quality and low prices and not encourage monopolies
6. The genesis of the current shape of the Seeds Bill is to be seen in the ire of the seed industry over the pro-farmer provisions of the Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Rights Act (PPVFR), 2001. This IPR law that India enacted instead of accepting a patent law for seeds, gives intellectual property protection to the plant varieties of farmers as well as those of breeders. India is the only country in the world that has given legal rights to its farmers over seed, and the industry has been furious since.
7. The seed industry wants monopolies over seed production and giving rights to farmers over their seeds spoils their plans. They retaliated by influencing the proposed Seeds Bill in a way that overrules the provisions of the PPVFR and Farmers Rights and had provisions written in that would allow seed sector monopolies with as little accountability as possible In the PPVFR, the breeder applies for registration for a Plant Breeders Right. This right is valid for a period of 15 years for crop varieties and 18 years for trees. The Seed Bill allows the period of protection to be doubled so that the seed varieties can be protected by the seed producer for 30 years and 36 years respectively. This extension of the seed owner’s right will allow monopolies to be established.
8. . A KEY OBJECTION to the Seeds Bill is that despite several submissions for amendment, it still does not require the seed industry (plant breeders) to declare the parentage of the new seed that they have developed. This is bad science and bad ethics. Scientists always keep a record of the maternal and paternal parents of the new seed that they are developing. Resistance to submitting these records and keeping this provision out of the Bill means only one thing. The seed industry breeders will use the seed varieties developed by farmers and public sector scientists and pass this off as their own. if someone is caught This amounts to theft. The penalties for violation have been kept ridiculously low — Rs 5,000 — so that even stealing public sector material or that belonging to farmers, the punishment is a laughably small sum of money.
9. . Law making in many parts of the world, including our own, particularly when rights are granted, as in IPR, allows an opportunity to the public to record its objections to the grant of such a right.Many activists had wanted such a provision in the Seeds Bill as well so that if a seed company wanted to register a seed, which had used material from other, unauthorised sources, objections could be raised. But the government, anxious to please the seed industry refuses to include a provision for pre-grant opposition.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
स्वदेशी मेले
Swadeshi Melas
Recently I visited three Swadeshi Melas in the लास्ट month and I was overjoyed to see the participation of common masses in these Melas. First of all I went to the Jamshedpur Mela held in Mazdoor Grounds. Vandeshanker ji with his team of workers was full of enthusiasm to see the rush of people participated, purchasing, and giving the positive reactions regarding it. About 150 kiosks were spread over in the ground and on the final day several dignitaries were on the dais to discuss the plight of Swadeshi movement and its necessity in the period of globalization. Some seven to eight kiosks belonged to garments and say khadi garments. Two or three big shops were there which I have never seen anywhere in Swadeshi Melas and these belonged to furniture prepared of marble. After the popularization of herbal products by Baba Ramdev and other preachers, there was a mushroom growth of stalls having such indigenous medicinal stuffs. Oh, I shouldn’t forget to mention the stall where plants of ayurvedic herbs were sold in earthen pots alongwith supporting literature, in order to popularize the indigenous medicines. About 5000 persons visited the mela on that particular day. Anyhow, in all this din and cry of kiosks, the organizers were not forgetting the distribution of Swadeshi/Videshi products’ list to all the visitors.
Second Mela I visited also belongs to Jharkhand and it was held at Bokaro Steel City, and though comparatively slender in kiosks and visitors compared to the above mentioned Mela, has several strong points to its credit. The number of volunteers or activists of SJM who were conducting all the activities surpasses any other Mela, to the best of knowledge and belief. The stalls of eatables have a specialty of its own and there is always seen good rush at the kiosk of litti-chokha there. The public programme where Deputy Commissioner, local MP, Pashupatinath Singh and one of the highest official of the Steel plant, all sat on the dias and spoke well about the Swadeshi Mela and appreciated this effort of popularizing local products and swadeshi thinking. The young DC Satyendra Singh was much lauded when he lambasted the Chinese policy of flooding and dumping our market with their products and appealed people to boycott such products. It amused everybody when Prant Sanghchalak Jagannath Shahi while giving his presidential remarks said that he had neither visited any fair in his childhood nor in youth, and it is at this fag end of life that I have visited this Swadeshi Fair and the credit goes for it to SJM. Anyhow I appreciated the efforts of organizers, especially Sachindra Badiar and Deepak shuklaji, in the sense that such public dignitaries are called at one stage to ponder over the ill effects of globalization and how to inculcate the indigenous spirit among the masses. I was especially attracted towards one kiosks where locally prepared swords and knives were sold.
And the third Mela I visited on 10th Jan was Raipur Mela of Chhatisgarh. It topped the all in number of participants and visitors and kiosks. On Sunday we could not muster the courage to visit it alongwith Rajendra Dube because of messages coming to him that all roads leading to Mela were blocked by people’s rush. Everyday they invite some particular community to organize the cultural stage show and happily that day belonged to punjabi Sabha. I got a flavour of Punjab in their exhibition of swords, lathi demonstration and other activities and a jubliant crowd was giving a big hand in clapping over every event presented. Really a mega event it was to bring different sections of people at one vantage point of Mela. I was particularly impressed to see two big canopies where one Slam Bhai’s stalls exhibited and it was really a big attraction in the Mela. One stall of eatables run by local Jail inmates was also attracting people. One surprising factor was that wherever we went in the Mela, but one of the enthusiastic organizer Parveen Jain was found there, he was really, say, omnipresent. What created jubilation in me was one other incident. One organizer was announcing on the mike that owner of one particular stall has been caught selling some Chinese products and so all his paraphernalia has been confiscated. The spirit of Swadeshi was at its height among the audience.
Arvind Singh, senior office bearer of CBMD proudly said that with this Raipur Mela, the charming number of 150 melas in the country had been achieved, and this number is excluding a dozen or more Swadeshi Mela which have directly arranged by independent local SJM activists and Bokaro’s Mela you know is one of them The spirit with which Lokmanya Balgangdhar Tilak started this concept of Ganesh Chaturthi procession is reverberating clearly in these Swadeshi Melas.
Recently I visited three Swadeshi Melas in the लास्ट month and I was overjoyed to see the participation of common masses in these Melas. First of all I went to the Jamshedpur Mela held in Mazdoor Grounds. Vandeshanker ji with his team of workers was full of enthusiasm to see the rush of people participated, purchasing, and giving the positive reactions regarding it. About 150 kiosks were spread over in the ground and on the final day several dignitaries were on the dais to discuss the plight of Swadeshi movement and its necessity in the period of globalization. Some seven to eight kiosks belonged to garments and say khadi garments. Two or three big shops were there which I have never seen anywhere in Swadeshi Melas and these belonged to furniture prepared of marble. After the popularization of herbal products by Baba Ramdev and other preachers, there was a mushroom growth of stalls having such indigenous medicinal stuffs. Oh, I shouldn’t forget to mention the stall where plants of ayurvedic herbs were sold in earthen pots alongwith supporting literature, in order to popularize the indigenous medicines. About 5000 persons visited the mela on that particular day. Anyhow, in all this din and cry of kiosks, the organizers were not forgetting the distribution of Swadeshi/Videshi products’ list to all the visitors.
Second Mela I visited also belongs to Jharkhand and it was held at Bokaro Steel City, and though comparatively slender in kiosks and visitors compared to the above mentioned Mela, has several strong points to its credit. The number of volunteers or activists of SJM who were conducting all the activities surpasses any other Mela, to the best of knowledge and belief. The stalls of eatables have a specialty of its own and there is always seen good rush at the kiosk of litti-chokha there. The public programme where Deputy Commissioner, local MP, Pashupatinath Singh and one of the highest official of the Steel plant, all sat on the dias and spoke well about the Swadeshi Mela and appreciated this effort of popularizing local products and swadeshi thinking. The young DC Satyendra Singh was much lauded when he lambasted the Chinese policy of flooding and dumping our market with their products and appealed people to boycott such products. It amused everybody when Prant Sanghchalak Jagannath Shahi while giving his presidential remarks said that he had neither visited any fair in his childhood nor in youth, and it is at this fag end of life that I have visited this Swadeshi Fair and the credit goes for it to SJM. Anyhow I appreciated the efforts of organizers, especially Sachindra Badiar and Deepak shuklaji, in the sense that such public dignitaries are called at one stage to ponder over the ill effects of globalization and how to inculcate the indigenous spirit among the masses. I was especially attracted towards one kiosks where locally prepared swords and knives were sold.
And the third Mela I visited on 10th Jan was Raipur Mela of Chhatisgarh. It topped the all in number of participants and visitors and kiosks. On Sunday we could not muster the courage to visit it alongwith Rajendra Dube because of messages coming to him that all roads leading to Mela were blocked by people’s rush. Everyday they invite some particular community to organize the cultural stage show and happily that day belonged to punjabi Sabha. I got a flavour of Punjab in their exhibition of swords, lathi demonstration and other activities and a jubliant crowd was giving a big hand in clapping over every event presented. Really a mega event it was to bring different sections of people at one vantage point of Mela. I was particularly impressed to see two big canopies where one Slam Bhai’s stalls exhibited and it was really a big attraction in the Mela. One stall of eatables run by local Jail inmates was also attracting people. One surprising factor was that wherever we went in the Mela, but one of the enthusiastic organizer Parveen Jain was found there, he was really, say, omnipresent. What created jubilation in me was one other incident. One organizer was announcing on the mike that owner of one particular stall has been caught selling some Chinese products and so all his paraphernalia has been confiscated. The spirit of Swadeshi was at its height among the audience.
Arvind Singh, senior office bearer of CBMD proudly said that with this Raipur Mela, the charming number of 150 melas in the country had been achieved, and this number is excluding a dozen or more Swadeshi Mela which have directly arranged by independent local SJM activists and Bokaro’s Mela you know is one of them The spirit with which Lokmanya Balgangdhar Tilak started this concept of Ganesh Chaturthi procession is reverberating clearly in these Swadeshi Melas.
Friday, September 3, 2010
डॉ. एम् जी बोकारे की स्मृति में
Remembering Dr.Bokare by his associates
Last week I was in Nagpur to sit in a get-together of close associates of Dr. MG Bokare, the author of epoch-making book Hindu Economics and also the first All India Convenor of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch. They were sharing their rare insights about their association with that giant economist, grass-root activists of agrarian issues, and red-changed-saffron mass leader, all summed up in one – Dr.MG Bokare. I found that though there were so many books and research papers written by Bokare, but there was whole-sale shortage of material on Bokre’s life and activities from which a common activist can get inspiration. Hence this group meeting was organized with arduous efforts of Dr. Yoganand Kale and Prof. Ajay Patki.
Philosopher Bokare: First to divulge his mind was Prof. N B Vaidya and accepted that he adored him like his spiritual Guru. Dr Vaiya, an octogenarian, discussed his journey from Gandhism to leftism, and ultimately to Swadeshi. According to him Bokre had an unusual knack of going to the roots of a problem and he used to present a clear picture of the issue under discussion without any bias. Though he wrote extensively about the inadequacies and contradictions in the ideology of Marx, but not the integrity of Marx and admired his profound knowledge, tenacity of purpose and hard systematic pursuit of knowledge. He added that he had a profound knowledge of Hindu religious scriptures also and ancient thinkers like Shukracharya and Chanakya were extensively quoted in his writings. Even in his busy days of holding the post of Vice Chancellor of Nagpur University he was busy reading and writing. Moreover few people know that besides Hindu Economics, Prof. Bokre had written Islamic Economics also when he noted injunction against usury in Islam and Christianity.
Guide Bokare: Retd. Principal Ajay Shrivastava, in brief, was stating his role as a guide and leader of masses. Starting from organizing Nagpur University Teachers’ Association (NUTA) to organizing farmers of Vidarbha and particularly establishing Cotton Growers’ Association, he was always busy in practical problems of the masses. He was particularly instrumental in initiating Monopoly Cotton Procurement Scheme of State Government. He pushed forward the movement of making available to the people the cost audit reports of industries despite strong opposition from traders and mill owners. Perhaps we know the Dr. Bokare was twice jailed for leading farmers’ agitations. It is difficult to match these two qualities of erudition and agitation in one man. But Principal Panda had strong belief that had Dr. Bokare living at this time this vicious circle of farmers’ suicides in Vidarbha would never had happened, and this he repeated many times in his exposition.
Friend Bokare: Third quality of Dr. Bokare that he was a friend of all those in need. Prof. Narender Laghve, who is living a retired but untired life, has several stories of emotional and friendly aspect of Dr. Bokare. “Can you imagine”, he was putting a question to me, “that a professor of his stature can go to slums to knock at dilapidated doors of a jhuggi to inform him for an interview of lecturer post, and this happened with me also!” He used to help the poor but intelligent students to any extent, even distributing everything in his pocket and then finding all of sudden that no money is left for retuning home by bus, and then borrowed it from others. The way he encouraged and developed young students was marvelous, he was explaining in emotional tone.
Father Bokare: Last person in this series was the younger son of Dr. Bokare himself that is Nitin Bokare, a leading and promising chartered accountant of Nagpur. His son had very few experiences to share and smilingly added that he was always busy reading, writing and talking with men of Shetkari organization. The only man in the family to whom he talked most, was his uncle Diwakar, but the talk was never about family affairs and always on economic and social issues exclusively, he added. We always held him in respectful awe and learned from his studious and sturdy life style and the whole family imbibed it. So there were good instances collected if a Bokare as a Guide, Friend, Philosopher and also a few instances about a Father.
All the time with me there was two persons Dr। Kale and Ajay Pataki. All these personalities affirmed that Dr. Kale knows better than us that great man as he was closely associated with his, pen and penchant and personality. All the time Dr.Kale remained silent on the topic and promised to write an article on this topic and Ajay Patki ji will look into the task of getting all these experiences jotted down in the form of a book. Let us wait for that inspiring book on Dr. Bokare.
(जानकारी के लिए बताना जरूरी है की यह पुस्तक छप चुकी है, और स्वदेशी जागरण मंच की साईट पर उपलब्ध है.)
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Last week I was in Nagpur to sit in a get-together of close associates of Dr. MG Bokare, the author of epoch-making book Hindu Economics and also the first All India Convenor of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch. They were sharing their rare insights about their association with that giant economist, grass-root activists of agrarian issues, and red-changed-saffron mass leader, all summed up in one – Dr.MG Bokare. I found that though there were so many books and research papers written by Bokare, but there was whole-sale shortage of material on Bokre’s life and activities from which a common activist can get inspiration. Hence this group meeting was organized with arduous efforts of Dr. Yoganand Kale and Prof. Ajay Patki.
Philosopher Bokare: First to divulge his mind was Prof. N B Vaidya and accepted that he adored him like his spiritual Guru. Dr Vaiya, an octogenarian, discussed his journey from Gandhism to leftism, and ultimately to Swadeshi. According to him Bokre had an unusual knack of going to the roots of a problem and he used to present a clear picture of the issue under discussion without any bias. Though he wrote extensively about the inadequacies and contradictions in the ideology of Marx, but not the integrity of Marx and admired his profound knowledge, tenacity of purpose and hard systematic pursuit of knowledge. He added that he had a profound knowledge of Hindu religious scriptures also and ancient thinkers like Shukracharya and Chanakya were extensively quoted in his writings. Even in his busy days of holding the post of Vice Chancellor of Nagpur University he was busy reading and writing. Moreover few people know that besides Hindu Economics, Prof. Bokre had written Islamic Economics also when he noted injunction against usury in Islam and Christianity.
Guide Bokare: Retd. Principal Ajay Shrivastava, in brief, was stating his role as a guide and leader of masses. Starting from organizing Nagpur University Teachers’ Association (NUTA) to organizing farmers of Vidarbha and particularly establishing Cotton Growers’ Association, he was always busy in practical problems of the masses. He was particularly instrumental in initiating Monopoly Cotton Procurement Scheme of State Government. He pushed forward the movement of making available to the people the cost audit reports of industries despite strong opposition from traders and mill owners. Perhaps we know the Dr. Bokare was twice jailed for leading farmers’ agitations. It is difficult to match these two qualities of erudition and agitation in one man. But Principal Panda had strong belief that had Dr. Bokare living at this time this vicious circle of farmers’ suicides in Vidarbha would never had happened, and this he repeated many times in his exposition.
Friend Bokare: Third quality of Dr. Bokare that he was a friend of all those in need. Prof. Narender Laghve, who is living a retired but untired life, has several stories of emotional and friendly aspect of Dr. Bokare. “Can you imagine”, he was putting a question to me, “that a professor of his stature can go to slums to knock at dilapidated doors of a jhuggi to inform him for an interview of lecturer post, and this happened with me also!” He used to help the poor but intelligent students to any extent, even distributing everything in his pocket and then finding all of sudden that no money is left for retuning home by bus, and then borrowed it from others. The way he encouraged and developed young students was marvelous, he was explaining in emotional tone.
Father Bokare: Last person in this series was the younger son of Dr. Bokare himself that is Nitin Bokare, a leading and promising chartered accountant of Nagpur. His son had very few experiences to share and smilingly added that he was always busy reading, writing and talking with men of Shetkari organization. The only man in the family to whom he talked most, was his uncle Diwakar, but the talk was never about family affairs and always on economic and social issues exclusively, he added. We always held him in respectful awe and learned from his studious and sturdy life style and the whole family imbibed it. So there were good instances collected if a Bokare as a Guide, Friend, Philosopher and also a few instances about a Father.
All the time with me there was two persons Dr। Kale and Ajay Pataki. All these personalities affirmed that Dr. Kale knows better than us that great man as he was closely associated with his, pen and penchant and personality. All the time Dr.Kale remained silent on the topic and promised to write an article on this topic and Ajay Patki ji will look into the task of getting all these experiences jotted down in the form of a book. Let us wait for that inspiring book on Dr. Bokare.
(जानकारी के लिए बताना जरूरी है की यह पुस्तक छप चुकी है, और स्वदेशी जागरण मंच की साईट पर उपलब्ध है.)
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swadeshi blog: म.फिल स्वदेशी में: "M Phil in Swadeshi by a Pune Researcher For the first time I met a teacher who has done his MPhil on the topic of use of Swadeshi products b..."
म.फिल स्वदेशी में
M Phil in Swadeshi by a Pune Researcher
For the first time I met a teacher who has done his MPhil on the topic of use of Swadeshi products by students. The researcher, Girish Yelarpurkar, a commerce lecturer of Pune is otherwise also an activist of Swadeshi movement and has done the research with an idea of serving a mission. What are his fiinds: in general very encouraging and persuasive. 86% students on which he based his survey possess the knowledge of swadeshi movement, 50% cast their vote for a reasonable quality of Swadeshi products and 78% also think that Swadeshi is not an exaggerated but a correct national concept. Moreover 89% think that increasing consumption of Swadeshi goods would leave an impact on economic development of our country. On practical aspect 61% prefer a swadeshi brand so for as food items are concerned. This is the encouraging part of this story or his research. Let us now turn to the gloomy aspect.
81% students prefer non-swadeshi brands so for as toiletries items are concerned and in general items too they generally prefer the foreign goods. Answering the question that when you are purchasing an article, do you think whether it is Swadeshi or not, 78% simply do not think. Moreover 56% tell that Swadeshi is irrelevant and outdated concept in the era of economic reforms. So the conclusion drawn is though there is an inner pull for swadeshi in their minds, on the conceptual part but in practical aspect they are adopting the MNC's products. Hence, there is need for more efforts to acquaint them with different aspects of Swadeshi movement.
Let me tell you that the random survey was conducted 550 students of 10 colleges of Pune and faculty was commerce somewhere in the year 2006-7. The complete topic was: "A study of awareness about Swadeshi goods in the context of liberalization, privatization and globalization among the higher secondary students in the prominent city colleges in Pune city." Girish is thinking of doing PhD on the same subject and is also a trend setter for others to invigorate the swadeshi movement by this way also, that is, by choosing such subjects for research work. And secondly, such type of survey can be conducted in any locality or group of people in general also by our activists.
For the first time I met a teacher who has done his MPhil on the topic of use of Swadeshi products by students. The researcher, Girish Yelarpurkar, a commerce lecturer of Pune is otherwise also an activist of Swadeshi movement and has done the research with an idea of serving a mission. What are his fiinds: in general very encouraging and persuasive. 86% students on which he based his survey possess the knowledge of swadeshi movement, 50% cast their vote for a reasonable quality of Swadeshi products and 78% also think that Swadeshi is not an exaggerated but a correct national concept. Moreover 89% think that increasing consumption of Swadeshi goods would leave an impact on economic development of our country. On practical aspect 61% prefer a swadeshi brand so for as food items are concerned. This is the encouraging part of this story or his research. Let us now turn to the gloomy aspect.
81% students prefer non-swadeshi brands so for as toiletries items are concerned and in general items too they generally prefer the foreign goods. Answering the question that when you are purchasing an article, do you think whether it is Swadeshi or not, 78% simply do not think. Moreover 56% tell that Swadeshi is irrelevant and outdated concept in the era of economic reforms. So the conclusion drawn is though there is an inner pull for swadeshi in their minds, on the conceptual part but in practical aspect they are adopting the MNC's products. Hence, there is need for more efforts to acquaint them with different aspects of Swadeshi movement.
Let me tell you that the random survey was conducted 550 students of 10 colleges of Pune and faculty was commerce somewhere in the year 2006-7. The complete topic was: "A study of awareness about Swadeshi goods in the context of liberalization, privatization and globalization among the higher secondary students in the prominent city colleges in Pune city." Girish is thinking of doing PhD on the same subject and is also a trend setter for others to invigorate the swadeshi movement by this way also, that is, by choosing such subjects for research work. And secondly, such type of survey can be conducted in any locality or group of people in general also by our activists.
Monday, August 30, 2010
नागपुर विचार वर्ग १९-२१ AUGUST
swadeshi
Sunday, August 29, 2010नागपुर विचार वर्ग
NAGPUR VICHAR VARGA 19.10.2010 to 21
Jain Bhavan, Gandhi Bagh, Nagpur, wherein Swadeshi Vichar Varga of four central states was held, remained fully imbued in Swadeshi colours for three days from 19 to 21 August. Dr. Sharad Nimbalkar, Ex VC of P A University, Nagpur spoke on the topic of Save Farm, Save Country. He criticized the policy of urbanization at the cost of villages. The money spent for farmers in the form of 75,ooo crores of rupees has not reached the real sufferers, he lamented. When there is rise in the price of petrol, vehicles and other industrial products, there is no hue and cry, but a rise by a single rupees per kg on milk or foodgrains creates uproar in the whole of country, he went on.That is one , and there are other various reasons, that farmers are leaving farming, and some leaving the world also! He added in utter disgust. While answering on the issue of connecting the rivers, he said he was also a member of the apex committee and whole-heartedly supported that issue and affirmed that it should be taken up even now. If asked to name the number one problem of the Vidarbha, he claimed that he would like to name - the paucity of water.
While speaking on the topic of genetically modified seeds and products, Arati Pankhraj of Hamara Beej Abhiyan, detailed several examples of fraudulent practice adopted by companies like Monsento, which certainly is one of the most corrupt and hated company in America. The climax of the programmes of first day was certainly the Memorial Day Celebration of Dr. MG Bokare wherein Diwakar Bokare, younger brother of DR. MG Bokare was the inaugural speaker. A booklet written by him profiling the biographical sketch of DR.MG Bokare, was released. Similarly a rare book of Dr. Bokare “Taxless Economy” was also released on this occasion. Sh. Arun Ojha recalled Dr.Bokare as the supreme advocate of Arsha economic heritage, a renowned economist, sensitive activist and a visionary social worker. Dr. Yoganand Kale, retired Pro Vice Chancellor narrated several inspiring anecdotes of Dr. Bokare of times when he remained his student and colleague. Sh. Ajay Patki, Varga Pramukh also recalled several incidents of Dr. Bokare’s life. On this occasion members of Bokare family were also present.
Six teams from various schools displayed exquisite Street plays on various topics of Swadeshi themes. A large number of participants and teachers of various schools were also present in this programme. Bachhraj Vyas school won the first prize . Sh Anand Sohani, a social activist engaged in philanthropic activities in the field of Vidarbha farmers’ suicides also gave a brief introduction of his actitivities and was honoured by Dr Apte.
Sh. Balkrishan Bhartiya, former chairman of All India Retail traders Association and a leading CA, gave a presentation on the topic of direct foreign investment in retail sector. Dr. Madhukar Apte described the contribution of Indian scientists to the world and especially of Dr. PC Ray, whose 150 Birth anniversary is to be celebrated this year. Sh. Dhananjay Bhide gave a very vivid description on Bamboo Vikas Kendra.
The prime attraction of the programme remained two speeches of Sh. Arun Ojha, wherein he described the journey, concept and development of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch and WTO and its vicious designs. At a time when even so called developed countries are resorting to restrictions on outsourcing and other restrictive measures, the concept of Swadeshi has become acceptable throughout the world, he added. Sh. Ashwani Mahajan while detailing the Free Trade Agreements . added that 9 FTAs had been concluded and around twenty were in the pipeline.He lambasted that when WTO has ceasted to be the source of exploitation for the developed countries, they have resorted to FTAs. Dr. Vinayak Deshpande’s HOD of MBA deptt. Of Nagpur University presentation of Indian perceptive in Management Science was full of brilliant examples from Chanakya and other Indian luminaries, exhibiting indigenous management systems. He urged the need for further research on these lines. Sh. Kashmirilal described the latest threats from China in the form of financial, spying and strategic issues and recent planting of high range missiles on Indian boarders should not be taken lightly. Sh. Avinash Sakle and Shrish Tare warned about the environmental hazards and plastic menace. About 130 participants from Maharashtra, Chhattisgrh, Gujarat and MP took part in it very enthusiastically. At the end, let us know the encouraging number of ladies in the programme: 34.
D
Dr. Sharad Nimbalkar , Vice Chancellor (Retd) of Punjabrao Krishi Vidyapeeth, stressing his
point on the topic SAVE FARM SAVE THE COUNTRY. Dinkar Bhakre and Ajay Patki look on.
Releasing the books Taxless Economy and Biography of Dr. Bokare
Schoolboys staging a streetplay on Swadeshi
Top prize winning School children of Bachhraj Vyas school, Nagpur in streetplay parodying Bharoda folklore styile on Swadeshi theme.
the climax
Sh. Ajay Patki introducing the topic and speakers at Dr. M G Bokare Memorial Lecture, besides Dr. Diwakar Bokare, Arun Ojha, Dr. Yoganand Kale and Nitin Bokare
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Sunday, August 29, 2010नागपुर विचार वर्ग
NAGPUR VICHAR VARGA 19.10.2010 to 21
Jain Bhavan, Gandhi Bagh, Nagpur, wherein Swadeshi Vichar Varga of four central states was held, remained fully imbued in Swadeshi colours for three days from 19 to 21 August. Dr. Sharad Nimbalkar, Ex VC of P A University, Nagpur spoke on the topic of Save Farm, Save Country. He criticized the policy of urbanization at the cost of villages. The money spent for farmers in the form of 75,ooo crores of rupees has not reached the real sufferers, he lamented. When there is rise in the price of petrol, vehicles and other industrial products, there is no hue and cry, but a rise by a single rupees per kg on milk or foodgrains creates uproar in the whole of country, he went on.That is one , and there are other various reasons, that farmers are leaving farming, and some leaving the world also! He added in utter disgust. While answering on the issue of connecting the rivers, he said he was also a member of the apex committee and whole-heartedly supported that issue and affirmed that it should be taken up even now. If asked to name the number one problem of the Vidarbha, he claimed that he would like to name - the paucity of water.
While speaking on the topic of genetically modified seeds and products, Arati Pankhraj of Hamara Beej Abhiyan, detailed several examples of fraudulent practice adopted by companies like Monsento, which certainly is one of the most corrupt and hated company in America. The climax of the programmes of first day was certainly the Memorial Day Celebration of Dr. MG Bokare wherein Diwakar Bokare, younger brother of DR. MG Bokare was the inaugural speaker. A booklet written by him profiling the biographical sketch of DR.MG Bokare, was released. Similarly a rare book of Dr. Bokare “Taxless Economy” was also released on this occasion. Sh. Arun Ojha recalled Dr.Bokare as the supreme advocate of Arsha economic heritage, a renowned economist, sensitive activist and a visionary social worker. Dr. Yoganand Kale, retired Pro Vice Chancellor narrated several inspiring anecdotes of Dr. Bokare of times when he remained his student and colleague. Sh. Ajay Patki, Varga Pramukh also recalled several incidents of Dr. Bokare’s life. On this occasion members of Bokare family were also present.
Six teams from various schools displayed exquisite Street plays on various topics of Swadeshi themes. A large number of participants and teachers of various schools were also present in this programme. Bachhraj Vyas school won the first prize . Sh Anand Sohani, a social activist engaged in philanthropic activities in the field of Vidarbha farmers’ suicides also gave a brief introduction of his actitivities and was honoured by Dr Apte.
Sh. Balkrishan Bhartiya, former chairman of All India Retail traders Association and a leading CA, gave a presentation on the topic of direct foreign investment in retail sector. Dr. Madhukar Apte described the contribution of Indian scientists to the world and especially of Dr. PC Ray, whose 150 Birth anniversary is to be celebrated this year. Sh. Dhananjay Bhide gave a very vivid description on Bamboo Vikas Kendra.
The prime attraction of the programme remained two speeches of Sh. Arun Ojha, wherein he described the journey, concept and development of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch and WTO and its vicious designs. At a time when even so called developed countries are resorting to restrictions on outsourcing and other restrictive measures, the concept of Swadeshi has become acceptable throughout the world, he added. Sh. Ashwani Mahajan while detailing the Free Trade Agreements . added that 9 FTAs had been concluded and around twenty were in the pipeline.He lambasted that when WTO has ceasted to be the source of exploitation for the developed countries, they have resorted to FTAs. Dr. Vinayak Deshpande’s HOD of MBA deptt. Of Nagpur University presentation of Indian perceptive in Management Science was full of brilliant examples from Chanakya and other Indian luminaries, exhibiting indigenous management systems. He urged the need for further research on these lines. Sh. Kashmirilal described the latest threats from China in the form of financial, spying and strategic issues and recent planting of high range missiles on Indian boarders should not be taken lightly. Sh. Avinash Sakle and Shrish Tare warned about the environmental hazards and plastic menace. About 130 participants from Maharashtra, Chhattisgrh, Gujarat and MP took part in it very enthusiastically. At the end, let us know the encouraging number of ladies in the programme: 34.
D
Dr. Sharad Nimbalkar , Vice Chancellor (Retd) of Punjabrao Krishi Vidyapeeth, stressing his
point on the topic SAVE FARM SAVE THE COUNTRY. Dinkar Bhakre and Ajay Patki look on.
Releasing the books Taxless Economy and Biography of Dr. Bokare
Schoolboys staging a streetplay on Swadeshi
Top prize winning School children of Bachhraj Vyas school, Nagpur in streetplay parodying Bharoda folklore styile on Swadeshi theme.
the climax
Sh. Ajay Patki introducing the topic and speakers at Dr. M G Bokare Memorial Lecture, besides Dr. Diwakar Bokare, Arun Ojha, Dr. Yoganand Kale and Nitin Bokare
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