Is It The Operation Maoist Hunt?
By Gladson Dungdung
Jharkhandmirror.org
21 March, 2010
After a long preparation, debate and politics, finally the Indian government launched the ‘Operation Green Hunt’ (OGH) in Jharkhand on March 10 with the objective of cleansing the Maoists from the state. Though P. Chidambaram the CEO of the OGH declines it calling the Operation Green Hunt but his officers are using the term shamelessly. Nearly 10,000 security forces consisting of CRPF, Cobra, Jaguar, STP and other groups have been deployed in the forests, choppers are roaming over the forests, schools are converted into military camps, forests are sealed and the combing operations are being carried out in the forests with the support of local Adivasi youth who are named as the Special Police Officers (SPO) duplicated from the Salwa Judum theory of Chhatisgarh. Read more…
Is Operation Green Hunt the Solution?
By Solomon Kiro
Jharkhandmirror.org
17 March, 2010
Troops have entered the forests. And with this has set in a hot debate—Is ‘Operation Greenhunt’ the solution for the Naxal problem which has infected large areas of well over eight important states of the country—Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharastra and West Bengal.
These states are ‘important’, for they house well over 80 per cent of the mineral resources like iron, coal, bauxite, manganese among others, of India. The future industrial and economic growth of the country depends much upon the ‘peace’ in this region. Naxalism in this region thus, is looked upon as an impediment of future growth of the country. Read more…
Hunting Adivasis in Mineral Corridor
By Gladson Dungdung
Jharkhandmirror.org
7 February, 2010
SPOs of Salwa Judum
“Naxalites are our stray brothers and sisters therefore we will address the issues of Naxalism through dialogues”. These are the holy words of Jharkhand Chief Minister Sibu Soren, who repeatedly told us even after swearing in as the guard of the state for 3rd time. However, the unbearable pressure from the central government and the corporate houses made him completely helpless. Consequently, he took u turn and attended a special meeting with our ‘Corporate Home Minister’ P. Chidambaram in Delhi on January 27th on the issue of so-called ‘Operation Green Hunt’. After his return from Delhi, he started dancing in different tune, saying, operation green hunt will be started if the Maoists do not abjure violence. Read more…
Will Free Compulsory Education Possible In A Maoist Conflict Area?
By Jyoti Sonia Dhan
Jharkhandmirror.org
25 January, 2010
The Child Right to Education Bill 2009 which was passed by Parliament in last August 2009, which speaks about the free and compulsory education to all children between 6 to 14 years. On other hand there was nation wide campaign by Child rights organization CRY for “saman shiksha sabko shiksa”. Both tell about education to all children. In states of Jharkhand, Bihar and few areas of West Bengal and Orissa there are security forces set up their camps in the schools of the Maoist affected area for longer period of time like 10 years or more. This has resulted in blowing up of the school by Maoist, which caused wide spread damaged to school especially in the Palamua and Chatra district of Jharkhand. Read more…
Is Mittal Our God?
By Gladson Dungdung
Jharkhandmirror.org
15 January, 2010
L.N. Mittal
On 8 January, 2010, the media (forth realm of the democracy) reported us that the global steel giant Arcelor Mittal Company is all set to desert the state of Jharkhand and Orissa, where the company is not yet able to acquire land for its proposed mega steel plants because of the Adivasis’ protest against the land acquisition. On the next day, a leading daily of Jharkhand came up with a ‘special page’ on Mittal company apart from the auspicious front page story, which concludes with the final verdict “the God is ready to desert Jharkhand”. Of course, the story is not new as the Jharkhandi media carry out this kind of biased reports for the corporate houses regularly. Read more…
THE STORY OF CHANGE
- Improving the lives of Abandoned ChildrenOUR CORRESPONDENTRanchi, Feb. 19: As many as 30 orphans from Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Gumla, Simdega and Patna had assembled here today to share their experiences on how an organisation is helping them change and improve their lives. The children, studying in schools across Jharkhand and Bihar, owe it to the Navjeevan Foundation, which has been providing financia […]
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