Sir,
I appreciate and extend ward regards for the service that Action 2020 is rending towards the cause. I wish you all the best.
Paul Jayakumar
On 30/08/2011, johnalex_56@yahoo.com <johnalex_56@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Mr Srinivasan
> Amasing follow up work,
> We need to continue this good work,like I always say
> "The corrupt are few thousands but well organised,the good though in
> majority are unorganised"
> so it is people like you who will have to take on this responsibilty,I am
> marking this to all Exnora members across India
> John Alex
> Trustee/Exnora International
> 9840434666
> Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prime Point Srinivasan <prpoint@gmail.com>
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> Subject: [India_Vision_2020] Re: Suyam stages dharna to fight against
> corruption at Taluk office, Ambattur
>
> hi all
>
> This has ref. to my earlier mail. NDTV-Hindu had telecast a news item
> about
> the incident last night. Please watch the news item of NDTV-Hindu.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTP_UdIlzJc
>
> We are also taking up the matter with high level officials. To prevent
> such
> corruptions and harassment to poor people, we need to introduce
> e-Governance, so that the applicants get the receipt and the status
> transparently.
>
> Srinivasan
> 91766 50273
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Prime Point Srinivasan
> <prpoint@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Anna Hazare has given more courage and strength to fight against the
>> corruption. Here is an incident of one of our group members fighting
>> boldly
>> against the corruption of Taluk officials at Ambattur, Chennai.
>>
>> Suyam Charities is one of the partner groups of Action 2020 team under
>> India Vision group. For more than a decade, they have been picking up
>> street
>> children (begging children) and provide them good education. They are
>> taking
>> care of more than 175 such children. Of these nearly 125 children belong
>> to
>> Scheduled caste category. Some of these children are writing 10th and
>> 12th
>> under NIOS. When we met Dr Abdul Kalam, he was highly impressed with
>> their
>> services.
>>
>> Suyam is run by Uma and her husband Muthuraman. They have also won
>> several
>> International awards for their selfless service to street children. Uma
>> and
>> Muthuraman have been trying to get community certificate from Tahsildar's
>> office, Ambattur for the past five years. Every time, when they go
>> there,
>> the officials would not give proper response.
>>
>> It is reported that outside the Tahsildar's office, brokers used to
>> collect
>> Rs.2000/- for original SC certificate and Rs.1000/- for bogus SC
>> certificate. Poor and innocent would people would be cheated by the
>> bogus
>> certificates.
>>
>> Today (29th August 2011), Uma went to Tahsildar's office for getting SC
>> certificate to some students, who had to write NIOS examination. As
>> usual,
>> the officials did not bother about her. As a matter of policy Uma and
>> Muthuram never bribe any Government officials. On many occassions, this
>> has
>> caused lot of problems. Still, braving all the difficulties, they
>> practise
>> 'no bribe' policy and they also teach their students not to give bribe.
>>
>> Since Uma did not get proper response, she immediately arranged a dharna
>> in
>> front of Tahsildar office with more than one hundred children and their
>> parents sitting on Satyagraha. They also informed few of the media.
>> When
>> the TV cameras arrived, Tahsildar was taken aback and he immediately
>> issued
>> two certificates Uma also reported the matter to the District Collector
>> of
>> Thiruvallur Mr Asish Chatterjee. . Originally, District Collector also
>> did
>> not give proper response. Only after getting the information that the
>> media
>> people have arrived, he started giving proper response.
>>
>> Interestingly the name of the Tahsildar is 'Mahatma'.!
>>
>> When I got the information from Suyam, I contacted the District Collector
>> Mr Asish Chatterjee over his mobile. Though, he was little tough with
>> me
>> at the beginning, after my telling him that the matter would be taken up
>> to
>> Chief Minister level, he was polite. Subsequently, he also called me to
>> inform that he would be willing to meet Uma with full details on Tuesday
>> evening at 4 PM. He also spoke to Uma requesting her to meet on Tuesday
>> evening.
>>
>> From the various sources, we understand that though, lot of corruption
>> takes place at Ambattur Taluk Office, none of the Collectors were able to
>> take action. It is also reported that these Tahsildars and Revenue
>> officials threaten the District Collectors and District Collectors are
>> unable to do anything. Though the Collectors have the knowledge of the
>> corruption, they become silent observers.
>>
>> Just now, I spoke to one of the senior Tamil journalists. He said, he
>> would take up with the Revenue Minister on Tuesday morning and run a
>> detailed story exposing the corruption.
>>
>> When Anna Hazare ji was demanding that the corrupt people are to be
>> hanged,
>> I was reluctant to accept his views. After listening to this incident
>> where
>> poor street children that too dalit children are being tortured by these
>> Government officials for non payment of bribe, I started feeling that
>> Anna
>> ji's statement is highly relevant.
>>
>> I am also endorsing the copy of this mail to the District Collector and
>> also to the leaders of India Against Corruption. It is not sufficient
>> that
>> we talk in all forums about the welfare of SC and ST. The revenue
>> department officials who demand bribe should be prosecuted and put behind
>> the bar. We demand such officials are to be arrested immediately.
>>
>> On one side, Suyam is trying hard to bring these children from streets
>> (read begging) and provide them free education. On the other side,
>> Tashsildar office mercilessly want to extract money to provide community
>> certificate, even from these street children. .
>>
>> Now Anna's movement has given us more courage and strength. We also
>> appreciate Uma for her bold initiative of staging a dharna in front of
>> Taluk
>> office with affected children and calling the media to expose these
>> corrupt
>> officials.
>>
>> We will update our members about the development on Tuesday evening. Let
>> us all get united to fight against the corruption.
>>
>> Suyam can be reached at suyam.awake07@gmail.com
>>
>> Srinivasan
>> Moderator
>> India Vision and Action 2020
>> 9176650273
>>
>
>
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