YEH MERA INDIA
Son acts & mother pays
Hyderabad: Upset with RTI queries seeking information on its funding, a city school terminated the services of a teacher whose son had filed the applications. KN Saikumar, a 20-year-old BSc student of Osmania University had sought information using RTI from the district education officer (DEP) about the school where his mother was working for the past one and a half years. The two queries filed with the department, however, angered the management that asked the teacher to leave.
Saikumar had filed two RTI applications on July 15 and October 10, 2011 regarding Bharatha Abhyudaya High School, Jiyaguda, a government aided school run by Bharatha Abhyudaya Siksha Samithi Trust. In his queries, he sought details about the functioning of the school, which included funds utilized and received, number of teaching and non-teaching staff, their salaries, student strength, number of sanctioned and unsanctioned posts among others. The school management first warned Saikumar and his mother, K Rukminibhai to stop insisting on these details. Finally, on January 2, 2012, she was dismissed from service. No notice or reason was given. "What I have done is legal under the RTI Act," said Saikumar. Currently, the case is pending at the AP Information Commission as the school had failed to give any information on the two RTIs filed.
According to Saikumar, trouble started soon after he had filed the RTI application with the deputy educational officer, Golconda zone. "Soon after the school management realized that it was me who was seeking details, they started harassing my mother. I was called to the office and warned against filing such queries. After my mother was dismissed, I went to the school management to ask the reason and they said they would take her back if I stopped insisting on details," he said.
Saikumar met the Hyderabad collector on January 9 in this regard and is now planning to move the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) soon.
The school authorities refused to comment. "It is none of your concern to know about this issue and we do not want to disclose or talk about it," said a member of the management of the school.
M Somi Reddy, DEO, Hyderabad district, said that he was aware of the incident and would probe the matter soon and take necessary action on it.
Kashmiri children soak in the Idea of India
Hyderabad: Born and raised amid the sound of bullets, a bunch of children from Jammu and Kashmir are living the time of their life more than 2,000 km away from home.
Breathing in the balmy winter air here, Jaanu Choudhary, from Kalal, the last village in Naushera sector of Rajouri district along the LoC was awestruck on discovering a world beyond the fields of his villages and his government school.
Mohd. Zannaidh, from Dabbar Potha village in Rajouri, was short of breath, though not running short of words, as he tried describing the maiden train journey in his 14-year life.
The Deccan Chronicle interacted with the batch of 25 children from different villages in the militancy-hit Naushera sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
Making the first ever trip outside their small terror-haunted world, these children visited Delhi Public School, Secunderabad, besides taking a tour of other places in the city. All courtesy 33 Rashtriya Rifles in Rajouri, which undertook this initiative to acquaint these children with the rest of India, while dispelling some myths.
That the Army has earned respect is seen in Class XI students Riaz Ahmed and Altaf. Both coming from Chak Zarda and eldest in the group, they are now gunning for admission in the NDA.
The kids were exited by the train journey.
Rajesh Choudhary, the physical training teacher from Kalal is accompanying the group. Major Rakesh Khatkar of 33 RR accompanying these kids from Rajouri expressed the need for exposure of the young generation to the feeling of patriotism and camaraderie of the nation.
Cops terrorise RTI activist
Hyderabad: Days after chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy wished to see every police station in the state work like a corporate office and the complainant received warmly, a Right to Information (RTI) activist was nearly subjected to the third degree treatment by inspector K Srinivas Rao after he walked into Kukatpally police station, and only timely intervention by higher-ups saved him from being arrested and slapped with false cases.
Human Rights and Consumer Protection cell (HRCP) activist Thakur Raj Kumar Singh said he had lodged a complaint with the Kukatpally police on Dec 5, 2011, regarding the encroachment of a piece of land in Kukatpally by land grabbers. When he went to the police station to enquire about the status of the complaint, Thakur said, he was told by inspector Srinivas that it had been thrown into the dustbin. In response, Thakur presented an RTI application to the inspector seeking to know what action the police had taken on the complaint given by him. Srinivas, however, refused to accept the RTI application.
Thakur was then taken into the inspector’s chamber where three persons in civil clothes were present. According to him, one of the three linked him to an encounter in Dhoolpet area and charged him with being a member of a criminal gang that carried out the killing. However, Thakur had alerted his activist colleagues, who in turn contacted the ACP of Balanagar. The ACP called up Srinivas upon which Thakur was let off.
HRCP activists suspect that the unknown persons, who claimed to be retired policemen, were actually land grabbers and that Srinivas was in collusion with them to protect their interests. Thakur lodged complaints with the Cyberabad police commissioner, State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) and chief information commissioner against the high-handed behavior of the Kulkatpally inspector and demanded action against him. `
However, until evening, no action was forthcoming. When contacted, Cyberabad police commissioner Ch Dwaraka Tirumala Rao told STOI that the complaint lodged by Thakur in his office had still not been brought to his notice and suggested that Madhapur DCP T Yoganand be contacted. However, the DCP too feigned ignorance about the complaint.
The RTI activists charged that atrocities and excesses by the police in the city and surrounding areas had been increasing by the day. "No wonder the common man dreads to enter a police station. The chief minister’s call to the cops to become people-and-complainant-friendly is a farce and nothing is likely to be accomplished by his directive to the cops," said one activist.
Rs 30 crore recovered from clerk’s residence in MP
Bhopal: The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of the Madhya Pradesh Police conducted raids on three properties belonging to a government clerk and unearthed assets of more than Rs 30 crore, officials said.
During the raids in Indore, the police team recovered documents of several properties of the clerk, Raman Dhuldhoye, including 49 acres of land on the Indore-Kandwa Road, four plots in the Sagar district, eight cars, gold and silver ornaments, several bank accounts and lockers.
The clerk, who works in the Road Transport Office (RTO) has a personal assistant named Rupesh Kaushal, reports IANS. The police team also raided Kaushal’s house and found documents related to Raman’s properties there.
"The farmhouse land, which also comprises a huge bungalow, was purchased at the cost of Rs 12 crore a few years back. It is situated in one of Indore’s prime locations.
Hence now, its cost would have multiplied several times," said Superintendent of Police, Manoj Singh from the EOW team.
Hyderabad: Upset with RTI queries seeking information on its funding, a city school terminated the services of a teacher whose son had filed the applications. KN Saikumar, a 20-year-old BSc student of Osmania University had sought information using RTI from the district education officer (DEP) about the school where his mother was working for the past one and a half years. The two queries filed with the department, however, angered the management that asked the teacher to leave.
Saikumar had filed two RTI applications on July 15 and October 10, 2011 regarding Bharatha Abhyudaya High School, Jiyaguda, a government aided school run by Bharatha Abhyudaya Siksha Samithi Trust. In his queries, he sought details about the functioning of the school, which included funds utilized and received, number of teaching and non-teaching staff, their salaries, student strength, number of sanctioned and unsanctioned posts among others. The school management first warned Saikumar and his mother, K Rukminibhai to stop insisting on these details. Finally, on January 2, 2012, she was dismissed from service. No notice or reason was given. "What I have done is legal under the RTI Act," said Saikumar. Currently, the case is pending at the AP Information Commission as the school had failed to give any information on the two RTIs filed.
According to Saikumar, trouble started soon after he had filed the RTI application with the deputy educational officer, Golconda zone. "Soon after the school management realized that it was me who was seeking details, they started harassing my mother. I was called to the office and warned against filing such queries. After my mother was dismissed, I went to the school management to ask the reason and they said they would take her back if I stopped insisting on details," he said.
Saikumar met the Hyderabad collector on January 9 in this regard and is now planning to move the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) soon.
The school authorities refused to comment. "It is none of your concern to know about this issue and we do not want to disclose or talk about it," said a member of the management of the school.
M Somi Reddy, DEO, Hyderabad district, said that he was aware of the incident and would probe the matter soon and take necessary action on it.
Kashmiri children soak in the Idea of India
Hyderabad: Born and raised amid the sound of bullets, a bunch of children from Jammu and Kashmir are living the time of their life more than 2,000 km away from home.
Breathing in the balmy winter air here, Jaanu Choudhary, from Kalal, the last village in Naushera sector of Rajouri district along the LoC was awestruck on discovering a world beyond the fields of his villages and his government school.
Mohd. Zannaidh, from Dabbar Potha village in Rajouri, was short of breath, though not running short of words, as he tried describing the maiden train journey in his 14-year life.
The Deccan Chronicle interacted with the batch of 25 children from different villages in the militancy-hit Naushera sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
Making the first ever trip outside their small terror-haunted world, these children visited Delhi Public School, Secunderabad, besides taking a tour of other places in the city. All courtesy 33 Rashtriya Rifles in Rajouri, which undertook this initiative to acquaint these children with the rest of India, while dispelling some myths.
That the Army has earned respect is seen in Class XI students Riaz Ahmed and Altaf. Both coming from Chak Zarda and eldest in the group, they are now gunning for admission in the NDA.
The kids were exited by the train journey.
Rajesh Choudhary, the physical training teacher from Kalal is accompanying the group. Major Rakesh Khatkar of 33 RR accompanying these kids from Rajouri expressed the need for exposure of the young generation to the feeling of patriotism and camaraderie of the nation.
Cops terrorise RTI activist
Hyderabad: Days after chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy wished to see every police station in the state work like a corporate office and the complainant received warmly, a Right to Information (RTI) activist was nearly subjected to the third degree treatment by inspector K Srinivas Rao after he walked into Kukatpally police station, and only timely intervention by higher-ups saved him from being arrested and slapped with false cases.
Human Rights and Consumer Protection cell (HRCP) activist Thakur Raj Kumar Singh said he had lodged a complaint with the Kukatpally police on Dec 5, 2011, regarding the encroachment of a piece of land in Kukatpally by land grabbers. When he went to the police station to enquire about the status of the complaint, Thakur said, he was told by inspector Srinivas that it had been thrown into the dustbin. In response, Thakur presented an RTI application to the inspector seeking to know what action the police had taken on the complaint given by him. Srinivas, however, refused to accept the RTI application.
Thakur was then taken into the inspector’s chamber where three persons in civil clothes were present. According to him, one of the three linked him to an encounter in Dhoolpet area and charged him with being a member of a criminal gang that carried out the killing. However, Thakur had alerted his activist colleagues, who in turn contacted the ACP of Balanagar. The ACP called up Srinivas upon which Thakur was let off.
HRCP activists suspect that the unknown persons, who claimed to be retired policemen, were actually land grabbers and that Srinivas was in collusion with them to protect their interests. Thakur lodged complaints with the Cyberabad police commissioner, State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) and chief information commissioner against the high-handed behavior of the Kulkatpally inspector and demanded action against him. `
However, until evening, no action was forthcoming. When contacted, Cyberabad police commissioner Ch Dwaraka Tirumala Rao told STOI that the complaint lodged by Thakur in his office had still not been brought to his notice and suggested that Madhapur DCP T Yoganand be contacted. However, the DCP too feigned ignorance about the complaint.
The RTI activists charged that atrocities and excesses by the police in the city and surrounding areas had been increasing by the day. "No wonder the common man dreads to enter a police station. The chief minister’s call to the cops to become people-and-complainant-friendly is a farce and nothing is likely to be accomplished by his directive to the cops," said one activist.
Rs 30 crore recovered from clerk’s residence in MP
Bhopal: The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of the Madhya Pradesh Police conducted raids on three properties belonging to a government clerk and unearthed assets of more than Rs 30 crore, officials said.
During the raids in Indore, the police team recovered documents of several properties of the clerk, Raman Dhuldhoye, including 49 acres of land on the Indore-Kandwa Road, four plots in the Sagar district, eight cars, gold and silver ornaments, several bank accounts and lockers.
The clerk, who works in the Road Transport Office (RTO) has a personal assistant named Rupesh Kaushal, reports IANS. The police team also raided Kaushal’s house and found documents related to Raman’s properties there.
"The farmhouse land, which also comprises a huge bungalow, was purchased at the cost of Rs 12 crore a few years back. It is situated in one of Indore’s prime locations.
Hence now, its cost would have multiplied several times," said Superintendent of Police, Manoj Singh from the EOW team.
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