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I wanted to write this but didn’t get time so am writing this now ,the auto meter has been implemented in mira road successfully since past 6 moths now.The story starts from Anna andolan,after the andolan we had a big team of IAC members ,we got into habit of going for candle march in the evenings,after annaji ended his Anshan we no more had the reason to gather in public places and make the people aware of the injustice in the society.All of us ,we were around fifty then,some of them eminent and established social workers stayed at home for 2-3 days. But it turned out to be harder than we thought,we were in a habit,no matter how hard we tried we kept feeling something missing in life.Finally we had a ,meeting on the foot over bridge of mira road station and decided we have to keep on fighting,maybe for local issues now.Someone suggested us the  issue of autorickshaw running on meter,imtiyaz the only member that time with a lot of legal knowledge  told us that the issue wa...

I have seen a lot of courageous women in my life,maybe more than i have seen courageous men,but women due to their responsibilities and roles seldom come out of their homes and fight on the streets.But this courageous 18 year old has changed my perception on brave women who take on the world head on. Deepti ghoshal is an 18 year old college student,she has her exams next month but her life changed when her home where she has been living for the past 15 years was suddenly demolished.Unlike the most residents who thought they were  helpless against the Politician and builder nexus this girl refused to go down without a fight. She filed various RTI's on the name of her mother,we suggested her that since we thought that will keep her safe.It turned out the redevelopment project was a scam,the documents given to these people were not even registered and the area was considered as congested zone hence there was no plan what so ever to redevelop their building.Also it came out to light...

I have been active on Facebook since the start of anna movement, before that I was just a woman who was frustrated with the rotten system and who would occasionally beat up eve teasers like most of the girls of my city,my social service was limited to that. But as the event of 16 th Aug 2011 unfolded I found a lot of people who were now connected on social media and all of them were frustrated with the corrupt and rotten system the way I was. We all became friends, shared ideas on social media ,all of us wanted to change the corrupt system. But lately things have changed on social media,people are now talking about religion and communal tension. The corrupt system against we came together seems to be lost now. I have  a big question…..What is religion ,for which so many people are willing to kill each other, even kill innocent children. What is this religion? People who were friends, neighbors and countrymen are now thirsty for each other’s blood. I am not a communist, I don’t ...

When I was a kid there were not many nursing homes we were always sent to government hospitals ,though there was one near our home.My granddad always told me that it was painted with the blood of poor people,it was actually painted pink so i used to take him literally as  always.I came to knoe that it was not actually the blood of poor people when I turned 13,still used to wonder why would a man I considered equivalent to god would ever lie to me. He literally believed that,he was a socialist,he always believed that our public facilites should so good that people would not have to go to private schools or nursing homes.He died twenty years ago ,there were not many nursing homes then,the trend was just starting but now I understand why he was so much against the concept of private medial facilities. I dont know how many of you go to government hospitals now,but we mira bhaynder team fought to get our Mira Road Municipal Hospital started,managed to get the OPD started too and n...

‘If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population’ Henry Kissinger declared in the 1970’s,  Farmers face unique risks unlike those in other professions. Weather and market conditions outside a producer’s control can have a devastating effect on producers. Agriculture is not a profitable business, it can be clearly understood from the fact that the amount of money involved in growing one kg of wheat is more than the cost.To grow wheat we need seeds,fertilizers ,water,electricity ,insecticides and manpower.No wonder so many farmers commit suicide every year due to the failure of crops and loan sharks.Every twelve minutes a farmer in india tries to commit suicide. Its not difficult to understand the importance of farmers and farming sans any figures.We need food to survive and they are the ones who give their lives to serve us.As our late prime minister said  “Jai Jawan ,Jai Kisan” ,the weight in these words are more than o...

I first met this sixty two year old when we were protesting against the arrest of Aseem in Allahabad,a day after his arrest.A lot of people had backed out from the event which I ,along with a few youngsters had organized against the arrest, stating that they too might be tried for sedition if they stood with Aaseem.Anyhow Urmilaji convinced her husband to support the cause and both of them came to the venue to protest along with us,they were the only responsible people in the crowd of youngsters we had gathered. That was the first time I saw something different in her, where most of the elders has backed out she was there and brought her husband too. When she got to know that my mother was battling cancer,she came to visit her,that was the first time she told me that she too was a cancer survivor,she got some chemos but rejected it later for alternative therapy. The idea itself sounded brave to me, but as I knew her more and more, I saw a woman who beat all odds with her courage ev...

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”  ―  Napoleon Bonaparte I met suresh Kesarwani when we were distributing pamphlets against the financial bungling going on in the regional cancer center at A llahabad.He along with his ten year old daughter and a social worker was going to meet the District Magistrate to seek some sort of support for his daughter who was a blood cancer patient.Suresh is a gas delivery hawker,he feels shy ,barely speaks to us the social worker who is a housewife told us how they were running from pillar to post to get some financial aid so that they could save the life of that little girl. As days passed and we frequently visited government offices for help I saw this man's courage,his pain and his love for his little daughter.He sold everything he had to get his daughter treated, knocked every door.He never cared if he will get any help,he just kept trying. We were presently surprised to see his...

AAP Mira Bhaynder will like to bring to your notice the following illegal activity in the are.The residents of chandresh terrace co-op hsg soc Mira road (east) are suffering due to the redevelopment decision taken by the committee members of the society ,without their consent. The committee members (secretary, chairman and treasurer) already signed an agreement with the builder (shree Krishna builders). The only builder named in the agreement was akshay Mehta . the topic of redevelopment was once told to the society members but the agreement was signed & agreed upon without the consent of all the members (still many members have not agreed & signed the agreement till date ). No legal procedure was followed before indulging in the agreement. As a procedure of redevelopment , firstly consent of the society members were not taken. Entire procedure all the meetings were conducted in the absence of any legal authority or registrar. No advertisement was published in any of the...

इलाहाबाद का माहोल उत्तर प्रदेश की जादा तर शहरों की तरह पिछले एक हफ्ते से तनाव ग्रस्त था। जिस शहर में पिछले कई महीनों से आरक्षण की आग थी वहां अब धरम के नाम पे तनाव था। जादा तर लोगों को इस मुद्दे से कुछ लेना देना नहीं था। लोगों को उत्सुकता थी की आखिर यह है क्या। प्रदेश के जादातर जिले इस समय बाड़ से ग्रस्त हैं ,हाहाकार मची है ,जहाँ पिछले २ दशक से बाड़ नहीं आयी थी इस साल वहां भी बाड़ है। लोगों का सबकुछ खतम हो गया है ,पर एक फिक्स्ड मैच के तेहत सपा और भाजपा  यात्रा -यात्रा खेल रहे है। अब अगर संप्रादियक दंगे होंगे तभी तो वोट बटेंगे। इलाहाबाद शहर में कुंभ मेले के नाम पे ना जाने कितन पैसा खर्च किया गया निकास के नाम पे ,पर सारा पानी शहर के अन्दर घुस गया। पता नहीं किस चीज़ का निकास हुआ।  बहरहाल एक चीज़ जान के तस्सली हुई की आज लोगों को धरम और जाती के नाम पे बाटना उतना आसान नहीं रह गया। येही शहर है जहाँ पहले सम्पर्दियिक दंगे आम थे। लेकिन आज के युवक जागरूक है ,उसे सही गलत का पता है। उसे अपने हित के लिए इस्तमाल करना अब इन नेताओं के लिए इतना आसान नहीं है। आज का यूवा अपना हक जनता है और उ...

I would like to share a curiuos case of missing BPL cards in mira road,because of our agitation against the funds meant for handicapped gone missing, we came across a group of around fifty families  of handicapped people who were living in a basti. As anyone can guess these people were barely able to make their ends meet,they did not have clean water,sanitation or even electricity in their basti. This basti was made by the Municipal corporation to accommodate them till the time they found an alternative.This was a part of government land which was meant for open space,on numerous occasions their huntments were burn in mysterious fires that gutted the whole area.These people claimed that it was done on purpose since they ruin the picture perfect view of the locality which has a lot of skyscrapers and since some brand new projects are coming up,the builders dont want this basti in the vicinity. Anyhow since we had taken up the cause to get justice to them including sanitation,emplo...

What started as an  inquiry  into the facilities provided by regional cancer center Allahabad ,Kamla Nehru memorial Hospital ended up in an almost never ending search for a 500 bed super specialty Hospital, incomplete structure  still haunts the residents of Allahabad since 1989. History Of Hospital :The hospital had its beginnings in 1931 as a dispensary founded by   Kamala Nehru   in her ancestral house. Foundation stone was laid down by gandhiji in 1939,he himself collected  donations from the people of Allahabad for the purpose.This was formally converted into a hospital on February 28, 1941. Inaugurated on 28 Feb. 1941 by Mahatma Gandhi. Started as a centre for mother and child health care.there are around 27 RCC according to the health ministry’s website and two of them are in Uttar Pradesh. It is run by Kamla Nehru memorial trust,The trust is currently headed by Mrs Sonia Gandhi and also claimed by her to be her private family run Trust and ...

People are giving their views on the reopening of dance bars in absolutes.But I think absolutes are a luxury which we cannot afford in this particular decision.it is far too complicated for giving absolute judgement. Two days ago a friend from a local mira road paper called me,”did you hear about the S.C. decision on dance bars,tell me your party’s stance I am doing a piece on that”,I honestly hadn’t put any thought on that.I told him that I will check with the senior party member and tell him.I felt a bit embarrassed actually, that  I had actually not put any thought on that, It’s a big burning issue of the area where we work “Mira Road’ as we have a lot of “Live Orchestras “ there inspite of a ban. I knew that a lot of illegal activities including human traffic goes on under the name of dance bars,we ourselves have on a few occasions rescued minor girls who were being sold off  in the area.But suddenly I remember a girl,a 25 year old ,former bar dancer.This girl used to...