UGC’s flawed perception on scholarships

Ø UGC’s flawed perception on scholarships
Ø Minorities being discriminated in J&K

Highlighting the contradictions in the ‘Maulana Azad National Fellowship for Minority Students “for the year 2009-10, Sangarsh- A movement for Justice, Equality, Peace, Prosperity and Brotherhood organized a press conference which was jointly addressed by Ranjeet Sharma, President, Suresh Kumar, General Secretary and Mahesh Kaul, Organizing secretary of the movement respectively.

Addressing the media persons Mahesh Kaul said that “It is unfortunate that the University Grants Commission while issuing the notification on behalf of the Ministry of Minority Affairs has failed to identify the actual minorities in the state of Jammu and Kashmir while announcing the scholarships for the minorities all over India for the M.Phil, PhD and other equivalent research degrees in universities.”He said that, ’While the UGC has defined the number of seats for the minorities belonging to different communities in the various states but it has earmarked all the 27 fellowships for the majority community of the state neglecting the various ethnic communities of the state .This is a serious anomaly as it appears that UGC and Ministry and Home Affairs are confused about the definition of minority in this demographically changed and conflict ridden state.”

Mahesh Kaul further added that,”UGC should define what as per its guidelines constitutes the minority in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Muslim community constitutes the majority population in this state and cannot be treated as a minority .Article 370 and special status of this state should not prompt the UGC and Ministry of Home affairs to create a paradoxical situation where the minorities of the state are subjected to discrimination and subjugation. It is clear that that UGC is violating the right to equality and justice. It is severe contradiction that can lead to unrest in the State .Sangarsh has taken a serious note of this contradiction and will sensitize the scholars and intelligentsia about this gross injustice of the Ministry of Minority Affairs towards the minorities of J&K. Sangarsh has already taken the counsel of legal luminaries in this connection and will seek the intervention of the honorable courts to settle this issue of injustice towards the minorities of the state of Jammu and Kashmir’.
Among others who were present in the press conference included Nitin Shrama and Bhanu Pratap.

Sangarsh celebrated its 2nd foundation day at Baalniketan

Sangarsh-A movement for Justice, Equality, Peace, Prosperity and Brotherhood celebrated its second foundation day and the festival of Maha Shivratri at Shri Ved Mandir Balniketan Amphalla by organizing the following the events
i) Painting Competition on Environment Pollution
ii) Musical Chair and iii) Balloon Competition
In Painting competition the first three positions were clinched by Mr. Sumit Singh, Mr. Awadh and Mr. Vijay Verma whereas Ms. Sheetal Sharma and Mr. Subash Singh won the consultation prizes. The Musical Chair competition was won by Mr. Paras while in the Balloon Competition the first and 2nd positions were secured by Mr. Tashi and Ms. Vidushi.
Mr. Ajay Sadhotra, Member Legislative Council, Jammu and Kashmir was the Chief Guest on the occasion. In his address Mr. Sadhotra appreciated the efforts of the Sangarsh to work among the children who are the future of the state and nation. He encouraged the students of Balniketan to excel in various fields and bring laurels for them and the nation. He urged the students to equip themselves with the modern technology to face the environment of the great competition in the present era in the field of education.
On this Mr. Sadhotra announced the package for upgrading the system of technological education for the girl students of Balikaniketan for the purchase of the computers.
Also speaking on the occasion Capt. Parshotam Sharma, Secretary Balniketan urged the students to be vigilant and be ready for the sacrifice for the nation. Nation is above everything else.
Also interacting with the audience Mr. Suresh Kumar, General Secretary of the movement presented the report of the past achievements of the movement and showed the commitment of the Sangarshi’s in the establishment of a strong and powerful nation through Justice, Equality, Peace, Prosperity and Brotherhood. Prominent among others who also spoke on the occasion include Mr. Vinay Sharma, former Cultural secretary Jammu University and Mr. Mahesh Kaul, Organizing secretary, Sangarsh.
The Proceedings of the programme were smoothly and beautifully conducted by Mr. Bhanu Partap and Ms. Shagun.
The Vote of thanks was presented by Mr. K.K. Mangi.
Prominent among others who work hard for the success of the program include Ms. Meenakshi Anand, Ms. Monika Sharma, Ms. Poonam Honda, Mr. Nitin Sharma and Mr. Varun Singh.

Sangarsh described Swami Vivekananda as the incranation of world brotherhood

Sangarsh-A movement for Justice, Equality, Peace, Prosperity and Brotherhood observing the 112th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekanda called upon the people of all sections of society particularly to the youth of the nation to follow the teachings of Swami ji whole heartily for restoring equality, peace,prosperity and brotherhood among all the religions.
Terming Swami Ji as the real youth icon, the General Secretary of the Sangarsh movement Suresh Kumar said that it was Swami Vivekananda, who ignited the flame of India nationalism by embracing the whole mankind in the universal religion of vedanta answered all the questions that concerned the national life of India and chalked out the plan of action for the modern India.
Suresh said that Swami Ji never restricted himself as a Hindu monk but he worked for the welfare of whole mankind with true spirit ad showed the path of equality and brotherhood to the universe.Swami Vivekananda was a modern incarnation of the supreme power who came on this earth and showed us the path of love, compassion,brotherhood and awakened us from the long sleep with his world famous quote "Arise, Awake and Stop Not Till The Goal is Achieved."
Citing one of the incident Suresh said that 'Once upon a time Swami Ji was delivering lecture in India, A disciple from America came to him and asked some questions in English and Swami Ji replied him in Hindi. After this when Swami Ji went to America the same person came and this time he asked the question in Hindi but this time Swami Ji replied in English. The person asked about this strange behaviour of Swami Ji, then Swami Ji replied in India you showed your love for your mother tongue and the same i did and here you showed respect for my mother tongue and replyig answers in English i did the same.'
Referring to another quote of Swami Ji "All power is within you and you can do each and everything . Believe in that", Suresh said that such inspiring words of Swami Ji and a lot others are now become the guiding spirit of the youth not only of India but of the whole world, who irrespective of any colour, caste, religion or creed applies the sayings of Swami Ji in his life.
On the occasion all the Sangarshi's pledge to work against any type of injustice and discrimination in the society at any sphere upto the last breath of their lives through he path shown by Swami Vivekananda. They also appealed to the people of all walks of the society particularly to the youth to join the nationalist movement so that we can lead the humanity to its goal of peace and prosperity.
Prominent among others who also spoke on the occasion include Ramit Gupta, Munish Mahajan, Tabish Tanvir, Meenakhsi Ananad, Bhanu Pratap, Nitin Sharma, Waheed Ahmed and many more.

SKEWPY document drafted by ignorant experts of the Kitchen cabinet of Chief Minister

Sangarsh- A movement for Justice, Equality, Peace, Prosperity and Brotherhood today in a press conference at Jammu University has condemned the state government for making mockery of the unemployed youth of the state through its Sher-E-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for Youth (SKEWPY).
Addressing to the media persons General Secretary of the Sangarsh movement Mr. Suresh Kumar informed that after going through the document of 38 pages of employment policy it seems that it is not drafted by any intelligentsia but by the people who are basically seems to be ignorant or pretend to be the persons who are away from the ground. These persons who claim themselves to be the experts of the kitchen cabinet of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah actually have no knowledge of ground realities.
According to Suresh in the document the utmost stress is laid down only on the
I) Construction of the buildings and other infrastructure for the District Employment and Counseling Centers,
ii) Renaming of the District Employment Exchanges as District Employment and Counseling Centers.
iii) Measurement of land in square feet for offices, cost of land, design of building, canteen facility etc. By only renaming the offices and changing their building designs what benefit would the unemployed youth get???
Besides this, some promises are also made such as the availability of the information on all self employment schemes of the state government and the central government, information regarding all government jobs, advertisements issued by the JKPSC, Service Selection Board, JK Police Recruitment Board etc.
Suresh questioned that how these hollow promises of government shall be fruitful for the unemployed youth of the state. He stressed that the youth needs some concrete job package and not the promises which possess no weightage on ground. Such slogans are good in hearing but these cannot fulfill our basic necessities i.e. Roti, Kapaara aur Makkan, he remarked.
Adding, he opined that today the minimum average budget of a family of five members on only food in a day comes around Rs. 150 that comprises breakfast, lunch and dinner. In this proportion it comes out to be Rs. 4500/- per month and so in continuity the annual expenditure of a family only on food comes out to be Rs. 54000/- per annum and if we include other things the graphs rises and rises “Nanga naheya ga kya aur nichore ga kya” and our Chief Minister says that the financial aid shall be given to the families having annual income from all sources less than 50000/-per annum. Will our Hon’ble Chief Minister clarify to the people of the state that under such circumstances when the inflation on the food items is more than 19%, to whom they are going to give benefit through his package?
Is this not merely an eye wash just to carry the vehicle of politics on track, he asked? Ruling out any new scheme in the package, suresh said that all the entrepreneurship schemes of the government are the older one running from the last so many years.
On one way Suresh also hails for the concern behavior of the young Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir state Omar Abdullah for the youth of the state but the document released by the government yet not to be treated on the expectations of Sher- E- Kashmir Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah on whose 104th birth anniversary it was released. Sangarsh appeals to the Chief Minister to make it relevant on the ground realities of at least one million unemployed youth of the state.
Also expressing the views Joint Secretary Mr. Nitin Sharma opined that the document is silent on those youth who belong to the families of refugees from Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kasshmir (POK) who are settled in the state from the last so many decades. The document also observed criminal silence on the youth belonging to the displaced Kashmiri Pandits. Flaying the state government he opined that it is ironical that you can get car loan on lesser interest rate than government‘s employment package loan. He expressed that till the government comes with some concrete package all its policies alre vague in nature.
Prominent among others who were present include Munish Mahajan, Anil Kumar and Ashok Kumar.

Employment Package for Kashmiri Pandits is Emploment Bondage

Ø Employment Package for Kashmiri Pandits is Emploment Bondage
Ø Employment package is like BEGAR
Ø Employment package has trivilised the Kashmiri Pandit exodus

Sangarsh- A movement for justice,equality,peace,prosperity and brotherhood organised a press confrence today to express the opinion on the so called employment package of 3000 jobs for the internally displaced Kashmiri Pandit youth under the Prime Minister’s Package for Return and Rehabilitation.It was jointly addressed by Ranjeet Sharma ,Suresh Kumar and Mahesh Kaul,President,General Secrtetary and the Organasing Secretary of the organisation.
Addressing the media persons ,Mahesh Kaul said that “It is not the employment package but the employment bondage.As per the SRO 412 dated December 29,2009 the appointees applying against these posts will have to execute an agreement with the government that they will serve in the Valley against the posts on which appointed and at a place where posted but in case the appointee migrates from the valley again for any reason ,whatsoever,shall loose the job without any notice and shall stand terminated.What govermnent wants to convey by this condition? Perhaps the ethnic cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits was not forced but they left themselves on their own.That is what the government wants to convey and the Kashmiri Pnadits are themselves responsible for their plight.”
Mahesh Kaul added that “the government has hurt the sentiments of the nationalist Kashmiri Pandits by trivilising their plight and imposing conditions on their employment and treated them in the same way as the Imperial British government used to treat the Indian labrourers sent to the British colonies to work as plantation workers.It reflects the mindset of the policy makers as it reveals on what premise they are treating the problems of the Pandits.It reminds one of the forced labour prevalent in the state known as BEGAR.”
He said that”the Kashmiri Pandits are the victims of ethinic cleansing and genocide that was inflicted on them by the fascist mindset and the jihadist mentality that created the conditions overtly and covertly for their enmass exodus.It seems that the government wants to use the Kashmiri Pandits as the scape goats to show that the social structure of the Kashmir Valley is intact .But the reality is different as the demographic change has taken p[lace in 1990 .Under the present political and social dispensation the outlook of the government is flawed.The so called Apex Committee which is supposed to be the admirer of the this employment package is helping the vested interests to hold the Kashmiri Pandits as hostages of the political class and fascist tendencies who subjected the Kashmiri Pandits to abject misery for their Indian nationalism”
He said that” it has again expoed the unwillingness of the government to get to the root cause of the Kashmiri Pandit genocide.What kind of secularism is this that for investigating the Gujrat riots commisssions are constituted and for the last 20 years nocommission has been constituted to investigate the forces and factors that led to the Kashmiri Pandit exodus from Kashmir valley”.
Prominent among others who were present included Krishan Dev Singh and Waheed Ahmed

Political Reorganization of J&K is the only solution

## Justice Sagir Report is falsification of realities
## Report needs to be rejected in totality
## Political Reorganization of J&K is the only solution

In order to sensitize the society about the intentions and fall out of the fifth Working Group recommendations submitted by Justice Sagir Ahmed Sangarsh- A movement for justice, equality, peace, prosperity and brotherhood held a press conference. The press conference was jointly addressed by Ranjeet Sharma, President, Suresh Kumar, General Secretary and Mahesh Kaul, Organizing Secretary of the Organization .
While addressing the media persons Mahesh Kaul said” the report submitted by Justice Sager Ahmed is a non serious move as far as the aspirations of the 40% minorities of the J&K state are concerned. The report has taken the minorities of the state for granted as every attempt has been made in the report to sideline their nationalist and pro-India voice .The report is an attempt to revitalize the and renew the 1953 status of the state and hence delink the state from the national mainstream and reduce the minorities of the state to the hostages to the majoritarian separatist forces of the Kashmir valley.” He questioned the rationale behind the assertion in the report regarding the restoration and strengthening the autonomy in the context of the article 370, when it was supposed to be temporary in reality. The report has also exposed both the concepts of autonomy and self rule as the two sides of the same coin meant to dilute the Indian sovereignty over J&K.

He expressed serious apprehensions about “the flawed role played by the Indian political establishment and the policy makers first in terms of quiet diplomacy and now the controversial recommendations of the Justice Sagir Report. It brings to the light the political consensus in India to give concessions to the separatists and the so called mainstream parties at the cost of the nationalist aspirations of the minorities of the state.
The communal content and the discrimination content in the report are clear as it is opposed to the delimitation of the constituencies in the Jammu region. The outright rejection of the Union territory status to the Ladakh and trivialization of the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Kashmiri Hindus by reducing their plight to that of only security issue is mockery in itself. The report has also failed to recognize the plight of West Pakistan refugees, who have been reduced to aliens and non entities in their own state.”
Mahesh Kaul further said that,” Report needs to be out rightly rejected as it has not taken into confidence even the members of the Working Group and aptly all the members have disassociated themselves from the Working Group.Moreover, the the Working Group was constituted by the Prime Minister then what is the logic of submitting the report to the Chief minister? All the points of reference are outdated in time and space and thus have no relevance in the present context.Sagarsh is of the firm opinion that political reorganization of the entire state is the only just solution to the communal, social and religious problems of the state.”

Sangarsh raised question mark for inviting application for enrolment to Ph.D. courses for the session 2009-10

SANGARSH-A movement for Justice, Equality, Peace, Prosperity and Brotherhood today in a meeting held at University of Jammu criticized the Dean Academic affairs Jammu University Prof. B.P.S. Sehgal raised question mark for inviting application for enrolment to Ph.D. courses for the session 2009-10 (December Session).
In his press statement Mr. Suresh Kumar, General Secretary of the movement opined that when the students of the final semesters of all the Post Graduate courses are waiting for result than at such a time what is the relevance of such notification? He asserted that on one side the university failed to declare the result of the final semesters and on other hand the Dean Academic Affairs notifies such circular which clearly reveals the lack of coordination between the administration.
He asked to the Dean Academic Affairs to clear his stand for whom the notification has been issued either for the students or there is some hidden agenda.
Sangarsh also appealed to the Vice Chancellor University of Jammu Prof. Varun Sahani to direct the concerned department for the declaration of the final semester results as the delay in the result causing frustration among the students.
Prominent among others who were present include Nitin Sharma, Meenakshi Anand, Monika Sharma, Waheed Ahmed, Ramit Gupta, Munish Mahajan, Akhmat Choudhary, Ashok Kumar, Varun Kumar, Tabish Tanvir, Taniya Akhter and Vinay Sharma.

Sangarsh appealed to Chief Minister to clear his stand on Scholarship

Sangarsh -A movement for Justice, Equality, Peace, Prosperity and Brotherhood today held a press conference at Jammu University in connection to rumors prevailing among the unemployed youth of the state regarding the scholarship/ incentives by the state government as per their qualification.
Addressing the media persons the General Secretary of the Sangarsh movement Mr. Suresh Kumar informed that after the announcement at the official level that from this year onward the state government shall provide scholarship to all unemployed youth of the Jammu and Kashmir irrespective of their social and economic status, we are seeing huge rush at all the district level Employment Exchange Offices where everyday youth from both urban and rural areas reaches to avail this facility. As per the information circulated at government level the unemployed youth upto matriculation level shall get Rs. 500/- per month, undergraduate unemployed youth shall get Rs. 1000/- per month, a youth who is graduate shall get Rs. 1500/- per month, a post graduate and a research scholar shall get Rs.2000/- and 2500/- per month respectively. But last week when contacted to the officials of these offices they claimed that till date no direction has been issued by the government in this regard in writing so to comment on any such scheme would be a pre mature statement. When asked them that why they are advising the youth to fill this form, the higher officials claimed that it the routine exercise, because they have to collect the data of total number of unemployed population.
Criticizing the silence observed by the government Suresh said that no body has any right to make mockery of unemployed youth and by spreading such type of rumors in the society, the present coalition government has done the same. He said that whatever government is doing on their part is OK but after assuring and then observing silence on that, means there is something cooking beyond the curtain just the keep the vehicle of politics on track. He claimed that the youth of state is enough competent to earn for himself but the way the government is trying to befool us shall not be good for the government and this time we shall leave no stone unturned to get justice for the unemployed youth of the state.
He appealed to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah to clear his stand on the controversy as the people of the state particularly the youth has high hopes on him.
Prominent among others who made their presence include Ms. Meenakshi Anand (Joint Secretary, Records), Mr. Nitin Sharma (Joint Secretary, Media) Ms. Monika, Mr. Anil Kumar, and Mr. Waheed, Executive members.

Security Scenario in Jammu University and Impact of handing over the Security of JU to JKP

SANGARSH- A movement for Justice, Equality, Peace, Prosperity and Brotherhood today organised fourth discussion session on the topic "Security Scenario in Jammu University and Impact of handing over the Security of JU to JKP" under its 'Sangarsh Lecture Series'. In the meeting attended by about 25 students and research scholars hailing from different departments unanimously decided to welcome the move of the Vice- Chancellor of University of Jammu Prof. Varun Sahani for handing over the command of security of JU to Jammu and Kasmir police.
Expressing the views Mr. Waheed Ahmed, a student of The Law School opined that keeping in view the past few incidents that took place in the varsity it is necessary that the security of the university be supervised by some trained persons who can tackle the situation in becoming worst as it is observed that local security of the university failed at every aspect.
Another student from the same department Varun Sharma ruling out the misconception an\bout the functioning of JKP that it can create indiscipline said that law and order is same for every one and if some body will indulge in any such activities than he can be treated under law.
Monika Sharma from the department of Home Science favouring the move stated that it is in the interest of the students particularly in the interest of the female students as sometime we watch that outsiders misbehaves with the female students and at that time local security and university authorities pay no concern in this regard.
Also addressing the gathering the General Secretary of the movement Mr. Suresh Kumar assured the university administration that the common student is in favour of establishment of Police Chowki in the campus because it will result in tightening the nose of miscrants. Ruling out the nuisance create by the police he opined that it means that there should not be any force in the country. He asked that how many cases we see or listen that any police man misbehaved with any female in the city?. I think no , he said.
Suresh asserted that JKP is a disciplined force and a force has to work according to certain rules and regulations laid down in the constitution of India and if some one try to violate any such rule than law acts and punish him.
Terming the JKP as for the people and by the people, Suresh opined that the Sangarsh shall make a common consensus among the students and scholars and shall cooperate the Jammu University administration in this regard.
The proceedings of the discussion were carried out by Mr. Nitin Sharma while he was assisted by Ms. Meenakshi Anand.Prominent among others who were present include Akhmat Choudhary, Anil Kumar, Jaswinder Singh, Tabish Tanvir, Ankita Sharma, Bhanu Pratap, Ashok Kumar and Rajan Sharma.