Greetings from Uttrakhand Aandolankari

[Uttrakhand Aandolankari]

I want, what they want, and every other Aandolankari who gave away his life, and gave everything he had....wants. For our state to love us as much as we love it.....

Dear All 

Greetings 

I am an Uttarakhand Aandolankari… a faceless unknown entity, one amongst the thousands and thousands of Uttarakhand Aandolankaris who gave away their youth, their happiness and their dreams for chasing the elusive mirage of Our Own Uttarakhand – a place which my fellow people and the future generation would call it as their own – which will be the sunshine country, which will provide dignity of life and where peace and prosperity will prevail and which will remove the misery and darkness suffered for ages by the hills people…. I suffered, and so did countless many, at the prime of my youth.. at an age and time, when many of today’s Uttarakhandi bureaucrats/ politicians were either preparing for their Civil Service Examinations or remaining cocooned in their plush homes. ..Yes, of course, many of them do have a link with the Uttarakhand Aandolan, their ‘PARENTS’ were on the other side, ‘QUELLING’ the Aandolan with police excesses, ‘LATHICHARGING’ our mothers and sisters..

There is no one to blame for my involvement in the Uttarakhand Aandolan, for sacrificing my youth, for spilling my blood, for giving away my future;

I took part in “my” Aandolan on my own, for the love of my land, for the honour of my people…

 

I am the one who fought against the ‘FOREST CONTRACTORS’ to safeguard my forests - my “Maika” (in the words of GAURA DEVI); today, I am again fighting in my land, the land of CHIPKO AANDOLAN against my own Uttarakhand Government to secure my own rights.  

I am the one who took part in the anti-liquor movement led by TINCHRI BAI, I am the one, who took part in the movement against Liquor against Jobs (SHARAB NAHEE NAUKREE DO).

I gave the invaluable time of my life (my youth) in the Anti-Tehri Dam movement to safe guard my rivers, I am the one who is fighting again for safeguarding my rivers, my water, against the present Government’s selling off my land and water to the “Bhu Mafia” in the name of 56 dams….. 

Hope, now you may remember me…I am the same person, who was molested, stripped, raped, and then shot dead at RAM PUR TIRAHA (Muzzaffarpur).  

I am Ravinder Rawat, I am Ghanna, I am Munna, Gayatri, Rameshwari, Tinchri Bai, Girdha and many others who died a nameless and faceless death fighting for our own land… 

Today, after 10 years of the creation of my own state – the state of Uttarakhand.., I am at the crossroads, I stand confused… wondering whether it was this state for which I and countless others gave away our youth…after a decade of our own governance, we are still in the ranks of the most underdeveloped “BIMARU” states; with our government betraying the youth and our own people on every possible front.. I amunable to understand- ‘why I gave my life for this statehood movement’…………………… 

Friends …. I am trying to develop this open forum to share my frustration with my fellow ‘AANDOLANKARIS’, who shared the barracks with me in the JAILS of DEHRADUN , BARELLI, UNNAO, TIHAR and many others……..in the hope that our own state, its government, or bureaucrats will safeguard my interest, safeguard my rights over JAL, ZAMEEN and JUNGLE, will provide jobs to my children, will safeguard the modesty of women. I still can’t understand, why the government is selling our rivers to one liquor baron (sharab mafia) for constructing the so called 56 dams..…,why 50 acres of precious land by the beach at Mother Ganga belonging to the people of the state has been sold, why fertile tracts of land are being forcibly acquired for making a power plant for which there is not even a policy as yet…

 

In this open forum, I am not going to make any revolutionary contribution more than what others cannot do or are not doing already. Many of my friends are contributing to the best of their intellectual capacity…….I am only going to post you my agony, my tears for my motherland… please respond… 

foreword this to your friend   

[pr...@acadjoshi.com]

Dear Rawat ji,
Namaskar

Execuse me please.

Your write up is excellent, expressions are touching, reflects you are
educated person, you have critical thinking approach, you have concerns
for the development of the state, you have sacrifices, you have issues
on which you can lead the masses etc. You say that Uttarakhand is a
Bimaru state.

However, my question to you is very simple. Where were you hiding for so
many years? Why did you not join any political party and should have
become a political leader to lead this state and would have prepared
articulated developmental plans which could have been sincerely and
effectively implemented. In that way, masses would have been benefitted
greatly.

Alternatively, you would have been a king maker in the state's politics
in selecting a clean, sagacious, and committed leaders. Why were you
sleeping for a decade. Are you one of the Mahatama Gandhi of Uttarakhand?

Please note that whosoever has become the CM and Ministers of
Uttarakhand, by and large, they have been involved in running the
administration like Babus and were not the lack as leaders in
developmental planning. Even than, Uttarakhand is better off several
states in India in terms of some parameters.

Mafia , Mafia, they rule Indian system. Corruption has become an
integrated part of the system. Why don't you join the Baba Ramdev's forum
to effectively fight with these issues you mentioned?
Check the attached paper on Indian bureacracy

Good wishes in your endveaor.
Dr Joshi

*I want, what they want, and every other Aandolankari who gave away his

> life, and gave everything he had....wants. For our state to love us as
> much

> as we love it.....*

> *(SHARAB
> NAHEE NAUKREE DO). *

[Uttrakhand Aandolankari]

Dear Dr. Joshi
Thank you for your reply.
I am not a Mahatma Gandhi, He was Greatest world leader I am a common man, and straggling earning a bread to save my life
I am not politician or any other personality
I am not man or woman
I am specking for my children
now there is no way in state
even Baba Raamdev is also an accuse of  Repeater of Uttrakhand people. We cann't Stand with him.  we are not standing against anyone But finding a way for our State.
I and my friends will read your article. and Reply in Detail Because I believe your article can enlighten us. 

Thnking You
With Warm regards

[Uttrakhand Aandolankari]

Dear Sh. Joshi ji,

At the outset I wud like to extend my gratitude to you for becoming a
member and sharing ur views with this group..
As ur salutation suggests, u wud be either in medicine or wud have
earned ur doctorate in academics..
In any case, I am sure the group wud benefit by ur words of wisdom...

U have desired to know certain things about the creator ...
Kindly allow me the liberty to respond to ur post on behalf of all the
faceless aandolankaris who suffered and who are not the members of any
political party (as u have suggested).. (and I am taking the onus of
replying on me)...

The answer is very simple... had I been a member of any political
party, I would not started this group at all !!!
I would have basking in the reflected glory of political power and
throwing my weight in a red beacon fitted official car...

The presumption that I was in hiding is amusing.... I WAS NOT IN
HIDING....
When we fought for our state, we didnt do it for becoming politicians
or king makers... That we could have become even without toiling for
the creation of our state..
We fought not for self glory but for the glory of Uttarakhand and
Uttarakhandis... That is the reason why me and many others remained
faceless....
I was not sleeping for a decade.. I will explain how...
dear sir... after we got our state , the first govt was formed out of
existing MLAs of combined UP... they were not the true representatives
of the Uttarakhand..
So we waited , let the new govt be formed... let the UKD do
something.....
after the debacle of the then govt., a new govt. was formed with N D
Tiwari.. a man of good administrative capabilities and our state
witnessed a spate of development in the initial years..
I was happy and waited for the work to continue...
However, NDT lost his administrative greatness to his personal
deviations !! (i wud not like to comment on this - the court will
decide).. and so did the pace of development of our state...
I was sad but helpless and waited...
Then B C Khanduri came in.. the road network developed, and is still
here for people to see.. I was happy and waited .. to see if the roads
wud lead to other progress also...Unfortunately, the army discipline
done him in and he fell to the machinations within his party....
I was again sad and waited.... and then came the present day
dispensation under the poet CM.... this is where the development ends
and the plunder of the state resources starts...
I am still sad but now I will not wait... though now I am having
additional responsibility of my family , but my love for my state will
not allow me to wait...
The daily reports that I read leave me in deep anguish.. what is
happening? is there any control left..? is there no check on a CM..
after all he is an elected representative and not an autocratic king
looting a kingdom got in inheritance.... my friend.. elections are
still a year away.. whether the people can allow everything to be sold
off before then... No .. NO... NO.. It is my state and I am still here
to protect it...
sir..uttarakhand is better than other states.. but we have to compare
with the best ones.. not the laggards.. see the development index of
NCAER and Planning Commission...
I am surprised at ur mention of Baba Ramdev... with due respect to
his yoga .. I have also benefited out of the pranayam.. But what is
his background for politics and administration.. ?? have u seen his
interviews .. he does not know a b c d of anything other than yoga..
He quoted fanciful figures arrived at without any basis.. 400 lakh
crores...!!! he is an uneducated person, indulging in rhetoric...
Sir, I have an economics background.. I will be happy to answer all
matters related to what ramdev is raising...
he is a rank idiot in finance matters.. says recall 500, 1000
denomination notes.. does he know the money valuation and inflationary
pressures and deficit financing...
what people can buy today in 100 rupees .. pretty less.. how much
economic burden small notes cause..?? in high inflation economies,
even notes of 10,000 were printed...
he has the advantage of a huge following of yoga students ...and so
far all his press meets are press briefings .. he has never been
counter questioned... he cannot answer the counter questions.. his
group contains all known congress detractors and he will sooner than
later loose his credibility as a BJP stooge... can he explain giving
donation to BJP party out of the donations received by him or buying
of an island in Scotland ?? or 99 acres in USA?? what he will do
there??

I am waiting for ur response...

> > I am an Uttarakhand Aandolankari� a faceless unknown entity, one amongst

> > the
> > thousands and thousands of Uttarakhand Aandolankaris who gave away their
> > youth, their happiness and their dreams for chasing the elusive mirage of

> > Our Own Uttarakhand � a place which my fellow people and the future
> > generation would call it as their own � which will be the sunshine

> > country,
> > which will provide dignity of life and where peace and prosperity will
> > prevail and which will remove the misery and darkness suffered for ages by

> > the hills people�. I suffered, and so did countless many, at the prime of
> > my
> > youth.. at an age and time, when many of today�s Uttarakhandi bureaucrats/

> > politicians were either preparing for their Civil Service Examinations or
> > remaining cocooned in their plush homes. ..Yes, of course, many of them do

> > have a link with the Uttarakhand Aandolan, their �PARENTS� were on the
> > other
> > side, �QUELLING� the Aandolan with police excesses, �LATHICHARGING� our

> > mothers and sisters..
>
> > There is no one to blame for my involvement in the Uttarakhand Aandolan,
> > for
> > sacrificing my youth, for spilling my blood, for giving away my future;
>

> > I took part in �my� Aandolan on my own, for the love of my land, for the
> > honour of my people�
>
> > I am the one who fought against the �FOREST CONTRACTORS� to safeguard my
> > forests - my �Maika� (in the words of GAURA DEVI); today, I am again

> > fighting in my land, the land of CHIPKO AANDOLAN against my own
> > Uttarakhand
> > Government to secure my own rights.
>
> > I am the one who took part in the anti-liquor movement led by TINCHRI BAI,
> > I
> > am the one, who took part in the movement against Liquor against Jobs
> > *(SHARAB
> > NAHEE NAUKREE DO). *
>
> > I gave the invaluable time of my life (my youth) in the Anti-Tehri Dam
> > movement to safe guard my rivers, I am the one who is fighting again for

> > safeguarding my rivers, my water, against the present Government�s selling
> > off my land and water to the �Bhu Mafia� in the name of 56 dams�..
>
> > Hope, now you may remember me�I am the same person, who was molested,

> > stripped, raped, and then shot dead at RAM PUR TIRAHA (Muzzaffarpur).
>
> > I am Ravinder Rawat, I am Ghanna, I am Munna, Gayatri, Rameshwari, Tinchri
> > Bai, Girdha and many others who died a nameless and faceless death
> > fighting

> > for our own land�
>
> > Today, after 10 years of the creation of my own state � the state of
> > Uttarakhand.., I am at the crossroads, I stand confused� wondering whether

> > it was this state for which I and countless others gave away our

> > youth�after

> > a decade of our own governance, we are still in the ranks of the most

> > underdeveloped �BIMARU� states; with our government betraying the youth
> > and
> > our own people on every possible front.. I amunable to understand- �why I
> > gave my life for this statehood movement���������
>
> > Friends �. I am trying to develop this open forum to share my frustration
> > with my fellow �AANDOLANKARIS�, who shared the barracks with me in the
> > JAILS
> > of DEHRADUN , BARELLI, UNNAO, TIHAR and many others��..in the hope that

> > our
> > own state, its government, or bureaucrats will safeguard my interest,
> > safeguard my rights over JAL, ZAMEEN and JUNGLE, will provide jobs to my

> > children, will safeguard the modesty of women. I still can�t understand,

> > why
> > the government is selling our rivers to one liquor baron (sharab mafia)
> > for

> > constructing the so called 56 dams..�,why 50 acres of precious land by the

> > beach at Mother Ganga belonging to the people of the state has been sold,
> > why fertile tracts of land are being forcibly acquired for making a power

> > plant for which there is not even a policy as yet�

>
> > In this open forum, I am not going to make any revolutionary contribution
> > more than what others cannot do or are not doing already. Many of my
> > friends

> > are contributing to the best of their intellectual capacity��.I am only
> > going to post you my agony, my tears for my motherland� please respond�

>
> > foreword this to your friend
>
>
>

>  Indian-Bureacracy-final-paper.pdf
> 649KViewDownload

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Thanks

My comments:
Whether you have Economics background or not that is not the question for
me. Whether Baba Ramdev is educated or uneducated, or he knows only
Yoga or knows about economic planning or public finance or deficit
planning or economics of black money ( money has no colour remember, it
is the tax law which makes it black and white) or public budgeting , or
he has been accused of creating wealth through whatever means, those
things are not important for me. The important thing is that what are the
developmental issues and administrative reforms a potential leader or
party would like to pursue in the state by grooming right, honest and
efficient leaders so that what we call in India "commonmen" are
benefitted.

If you people are fade up with Mr. Pokhiriyal, present CM, please
write to him. What wrongs he or his party are doing?. If you cannot,
send me your legitimate issues, I will send to him and his party.

From your whole write up, I sense that you people are trying to promote
and bring up UKD in forefront as an alternative to present parties. That
is politics. Yes why not,if your dal has competent and honest people to
stand in elections and attain majority, you have legitimate right to run
the state of Uttarakhand. But for that purpose, don't throw dirt on other
personalities irrespective who are they and what have they done. This
would indicate a deliberate intention of playing political games and
pursuing a myopic thinking to gain political power. Please "Don't become
CHAVANI CUT LEADERS" as I saw most of them in the state.

If your dal ( you label them group of andolankari) had played a key
role in creating the state of Uttarakhand and made great sacrificies,
then come out and participate in its development from second floor to top
floor with an impacable agenda, plans for economc development,
unprecedented changes you intend to bring in the system, how would you
develop Uttarakhand as an industralized belt, how would you develop the
state so that it is known for its specialities ( if you want to develop
quality tourism, can you do it on Swiss planning or can you develop the
state an ideal center for higher education or technical education or IT
center or a state for horticulture or cash crops something like this).

PLEASE READ THIS the article on governance and corruption:

"In 1922, the noted freedom fighter Mr. C. Rajgopalachari wrote in his
prison diary that "elections and corruption, injustice and the power and
tyranny of wealth and inefficiency of administration will make hell of
life as soon as freedom is given to us. Men will look regretfully back to
the old regime of comparative justice, as well as efficient, and more or
less honest administration. The only thing gained from independence will
be that as a race, we will be saved from dishonor and subordination"

http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2005/12/26/political-governance-system-and-corruption-india

Thanks to all.
Dr Joshi

PS. I cannot spare more time in replying to each issue as I am an
extremely buzy academician but whenever, I have time, I will try my best.

Dear Sh. Joshi ji,o

>> > I am an Uttarakhand Aandolankari� a faceless unknown entity, one

>> amongst
>> > the
>> > thousands and thousands of Uttarakhand Aandolankaris who gave away
>> their
>> > youth, their happiness and their dreams for chasing the elusive mirage
>> of

>> > Our Own Uttarakhand � a place which my fellow people and the future
>> > generation would call it as their own � which will be the sunshine

>> > country,
>> > which will provide dignity of life and where peace and prosperity will
>> > prevail and which will remove the misery and darkness suffered for
>> ages by

>> > the hills people�. I suffered, and so did countless many, at the
>> prime of
>> > my
>> > youth.. at an age and time, when many of today�s Uttarakhandi

>> bureaucrats/
>> > politicians were either preparing for their Civil Service Examinations
>> or
>> > remaining cocooned in their plush homes. ..Yes, of course, many of
>> them do

>> > have a link with the Uttarakhand Aandolan, their �PARENTS� were on
>> the
>> > other
>> > side, �QUELLING� the Aandolan with police excesses,
>> �LATHICHARGING� our

>> > mothers and sisters..
>>
>> > There is no one to blame for my involvement in the Uttarakhand
>> Aandolan,
>> > for
>> > sacrificing my youth, for spilling my blood, for giving away my
>> future;
>>

>> > I took part in �my� Aandolan on my own, for the love of my land,
>> for the
>> > honour of my people�
>>
>> > I am the one who fought against the �FOREST CONTRACTORS� to
>> safeguard my
>> > forests - my �Maika� (in the words of GAURA DEVI); today, I am

>> again
>> > fighting in my land, the land of CHIPKO AANDOLAN against my own
>> > Uttarakhand
>> > Government to secure my own rights.
>>
>> > I am the one who took part in the anti-liquor movement led by TINCHRI
>> BAI,
>> > I
>> > am the one, who took part in the movement against Liquor against Jobs
>> > *(SHARAB
>> > NAHEE NAUKREE DO). *
>>
>> > I gave the invaluable time of my life (my youth) in the Anti-Tehri Dam
>> > movement to safe guard my rivers, I am the one who is fighting again
>> for

>> > safeguarding my rivers, my water, against the present Government�s
>> selling
>> > off my land and water to the �Bhu Mafia� in the name of 56
>> dams�..
>>
>> > Hope, now you may remember me�I am the same person, who was

>> molested,
>> > stripped, raped, and then shot dead at RAM PUR TIRAHA (Muzzaffarpur).
>>
>> > I am Ravinder Rawat, I am Ghanna, I am Munna, Gayatri, Rameshwari,
>> Tinchri
>> > Bai, Girdha and many others who died a nameless and faceless death
>> > fighting

>> > for our own land�
>>
>> > Today, after 10 years of the creation of my own state � the state of
>> > Uttarakhand.., I am at the crossroads, I stand confused� wondering

>> whether
>> > it was this state for which I and countless others gave away our

>> > youth�after

>> > a decade of our own governance, we are still in the ranks of the most

>> > underdeveloped �BIMARU� states; with our government betraying the

>> youth
>> > and
>> > our own people on every possible front.. I amunable to understand-

>> �why I
>> > gave my life for this statehood movement���������
>>
>> > Friends �. I am trying to develop this open forum to share my
>> frustration
>> > with my fellow �AANDOLANKARIS�, who shared the barracks with me in
>> the
>> > JAILS
>> > of DEHRADUN , BARELLI, UNNAO, TIHAR and many others��..in the hope

>> that
>> > our
>> > own state, its government, or bureaucrats will safeguard my interest,
>> > safeguard my rights over JAL, ZAMEEN and JUNGLE, will provide jobs to
>> my

>> > children, will safeguard the modesty of women. I still can�t

>> understand,
>> > why
>> > the government is selling our rivers to one liquor baron (sharab
>> mafia)
>> > for

>> > constructing the so called 56 dams..�,why 50 acres of precious land

>> by the
>> > beach at Mother Ganga belonging to the people of the state has been
>> sold,
>> > why fertile tracts of land are being forcibly acquired for making a
>> power

>> > plant for which there is not even a policy as yet�

>>
>> > In this open forum, I am not going to make any revolutionary
>> contribution
>> > more than what others cannot do or are not doing already. Many of my
>> > friends

>> > are contributing to the best of their intellectual capacity��.I am
>> only
>> > going to post you my agony, my tears for my motherland� please
>> respond�

[shekhar.thr...@gmail.com]

To whom so ever it may concern

I am Indian and not from any region or religion.

I have not gone in details of the emails received from u. I also don't know how u got my address.

I would like to only state that, situation is more or less same everywhere, people are deprived from their rights and its not because some one else, but due to lack of education, lack of positive attitude and self centre society.

Even in this case, is that u will fight only for one who is from uttarakhand or for anyone who needs the support irrespective of region or religion.

Don't divide the society, ur cause is novel but apply it to any one who is deprived.

SK
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from Tata Indicom

[Uttrakhand Aandolankari]

Dear Dr. Joshi,

I am gladdened to note that u also belong to the academic fraternity.  Ur views are a source of valuable inspiration and I am sure the readers would appreciate your continued association with our cause. 

I wud like to place my views on the important points raised by you.

I had written about Ramdev because of my past association with the revolution that brought about our Uttarakhand, I still retain my original candour and do not believe in false modesty. Therefore I would like to dismiss his pseudo rhetoric with the contempt that it deserves. My reply was only due to the fact that I was surprised at your suggestion to join his group !! a group of razmatazz sidelined people coming together with the only common thread being hatred for congress. 

First I wud like to dispel the notion that we are a group. I started this group alone and on the first day itself more than 50 distinguished persons had joined. 

As for our poet (or puppet) CM Mr. Pokhriyal, he was never a part of the Uttrakahand movement and I recall an interesting incident which happened at Gola Bazaar, Srinagar. (Sir, here I wud presume that u were also a part of or atleast aware of the Uttarakhand movement).

Initially, the BJP was against our state movement and it was started by CPI cadres. During that period Ramesh Pokhriyal used to be an MLA in the UP assembly. There was pressure on him to resign but power hungry that he is , he was refusing to support the Uttarakhand movement. Though the BJP was also not supporting the movement but their student wing, the ABVP, had turned in. Ramesh Pokhriyal was attending a meeting at Gola bazaar, Srinagar and he was gheraoed by students there. The students included Dr. S P Sati, Ravindra Jugrand, Manik Sharma and Vijay Malla. They hounded Mr. Pokhriyal out of the place and he was harassed to the extent that his dhoti was removed in the melee.. 

Rabindra Jugrand was appointed by B C Khanduri as head of the Uttarakahnd Aandolan Samiti but as soon as Pokhriyal became CM, he dismissed him immediately in the first week. The irony in this situation is that Pokhriyal who was not a supporter of Uttrakhand movement and who was hounded bu his own partymen, is today the CM of Uttarakhand !!!

As for his wrong doings, we had cited three cases.. I am a bit surprised that u have not been able to pick on them.. I do not want to sound immodest but am of the opinion that perhaps u r not living in Uttarakhand, otherwise a man of ur clarity of thought wud have surely picked up the 3 cases mentioned by us..  Ur post says that u can take up these with the CM.. kindly take up on priority ..

1. the Citurgia land scam where the factory land (worth 1200 crores) which rightfully should have been returned back to the people as per the original agreement with the government was allowed to be sold as Real Estate by the CM by using his discretionary power (Vichlan).. moreover the change in land use charges of Rs.120 crores were waived by the CM.. may i ask why?? the case is in Supreme Court at present..

2. the 56 hydel power projects which were awarded to 3 companies including a liquor baron.. these projects were scrapped one day before the case came up in High Court due to fear of a CBI enquiry that may have been ordered.

3. the setting up of a gas based power project.. where the Environment Ministry permitted only 30 acres of land to be acquired but the CM increased the land to 48 acres.. this was done to avoid public hearing which is mandatory in any acquisition of land upto 30 acres..  further there is no policy for gas based power plants in Uttarakhand even today !!! as there is no gas available even for industries..  

there are many facts related to the above cases..

As for we trying to promote UKD, I am surprised.. there was only a fleeting mention of UKD in my post.. No Sir..we are not promoting UKD.. henceforth u will not see even the word UKD...

we are promoting a silent revolution to enlighten the people of our state as to what is happening in there.. how there is a systemic loot... 

Sir.. if our agenda would have been political power, we would have easily joined BJP or Congress.. there is no leader in any of these parties who can look directly into my eyes and say that he has made any sacrifice bigger than me...  or my other friends who bore the atrocities during our struggle.. where were these leaders when we were facing the onslaught of Mulayam's PAC at Rampur Tiraha.. my blood boils at the recollection of that horror night when women were grabbed from the outside windows of buses , their blouses were torn apart ,  they were then dragged out by their hairs and raped on the road sides ... do u know they had to run in the fields and cover themselves with leaves and bushes.. and only the next morning the nearby villages brought cloths for them.... not to mention the assault on us with rifle butts, boots and random shootings...

where was Nishank when scores of youth including his ABVP cadre were stuffed in jails as far as Unnao and Delhi with hardened criminals... have u seen how it feels to be in jail where u have to share a single toilet with 50 other dacoits, pickpockets, robbers, rapists.. where u have to sleep in turns because there is not enought space for everybody to sleep together...where there is a single open air water tank which is used for every purpose from washing cloths to bathing to lavatory and drinking water.. like cattle sheds... we have lived the horror Sir... and are souls bear the marks of inhuman torture till today...   Today I burrow myself in  books and my tears flow in the form of my words ... but the pain never goes.. and increases manifold when I see the likes of today's CM (who had no role in the freedom) selling off my state....

Our fight is with the rot that has set in... not with any political party,....

Sir, the words of rajaji written in 1922 echo today... but can we sit back and say that oh.. it is normal.. atleast we are not slaves.. please remember we were not slaves either in undivided UP... why our Hill state perhaps has the distinction of having the highest percentage of bureaucrats in India... the govt is full of joshis, pants, bhatts, negis, rawats...and we have the distinction of the highest number of army regiments in any state ... this has been there even before Uttarakhand was born.. but these were individual achievements ...and I can say .....  Not "because" of the Government but "Inspite" of the Government .... then why the movement as u wud ask..  the movement was for turning this "inspite" to "because"... where even the remotest village will be connected with road, will have potable water, electricity..where the youth will not rush to Delhi to become courier boys... or security guards... where the state will be developed as a model state and the natural intelligence given to our people by God will be put to the benefit of our own state and people.... we have enough resources... not just tourism.. I have been working on several papers.. and wud put them on slowly depending upon the response)..  

the potential of our state is immense..the need is to harness the will...

Jai Hind... Jai Uttarakhand... 

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>> > I am an Uttarakhand Aandolankari� a faceless unknown entity, one

>> amongst
>> > the
>> > thousands and thousands of Uttarakhand Aandolankaris who gave away
>> their
>> > youth, their happiness and their dreams for chasing the elusive mirage
>> of

>> > Our Own Uttarakhand � a place which my fellow people and the future
>> > generation would call it as their own � which will be the sunshine

>> > country,
>> > which will provide dignity of life and where peace and prosperity will
>> > prevail and which will remove the misery and darkness suffered for
>> ages by

>> > the hills people�. I suffered, and so did countless many, at the
>> prime of
>> > my
>> > youth.. at an age and time, when many of today�s Uttarakhandi

>> bureaucrats/
>> > politicians were either preparing for their Civil Service Examinations
>> or
>> > remaining cocooned in their plush homes. ..Yes, of course, many of
>> them do

>> > have a link with the Uttarakhand Aandolan, their �PARENTS� were on
>> the
>> > other
>> > side, �QUELLING� the Aandolan with police excesses,
>> �LATHICHARGING� our

>> > mothers and sisters..
>>
>> > There is no one to blame for my involvement in the Uttarakhand
>> Aandolan,
>> > for
>> > sacrificing my youth, for spilling my blood, for giving away my
>> future;
>>

>> > I took part in �my� Aandolan on my own, for the love of my land,
>> for the
>> > honour of my people�
>>
>> > I am the one who fought against the �FOREST CONTRACTORS� to
>> safeguard my
>> > forests - my �Maika� (in the words of GAURA DEVI); today, I am

>> again
>> > fighting in my land, the land of CHIPKO AANDOLAN against my own
>> > Uttarakhand
>> > Government to secure my own rights.
>>
>> > I am the one who took part in the anti-liquor movement led by TINCHRI
>> BAI,
>> > I
>> > am the one, who took part in the movement against Liquor against Jobs
>> > *(SHARAB
>> > NAHEE NAUKREE DO). *
>>
>> > I gave the invaluable time of my life (my youth) in the Anti-Tehri Dam
>> > movement to safe guard my rivers, I am the one who is fighting again
>> for

>> > safeguarding my rivers, my water, against the present Government�s
>> selling
>> > off my land and water to the �Bhu Mafia� in the name of 56
>> dams�..
>>
>> > Hope, now you may remember me�I am the same person, who was

>> molested,
>> > stripped, raped, and then shot dead at RAM PUR TIRAHA (Muzzaffarpur).
>>
>> > I am Ravinder Rawat, I am Ghanna, I am Munna, Gayatri, Rameshwari,
>> Tinchri
>> > Bai, Girdha and many others who died a nameless and faceless death
>> > fighting

>> > for our own land�
>>
>> > Today, after 10 years of the creation of my own state � the state of
>> > Uttarakhand.., I am at the crossroads, I stand confused� wondering

>> whether
>> > it was this state for which I and countless others gave away our

>> > youth�after

>> > a decade of our own governance, we are still in the ranks of the most

>> > underdeveloped �BIMARU� states; with our government betraying the

>> youth
>> > and
>> > our own people on every possible front.. I amunable to understand-

>> �why I

>> > gave my life for this statehood movement���������
>>

>> > Friends �. I am trying to develop this open forum to share my
>> frustration
>> > with my fellow �AANDOLANKARIS�, who shared the barracks with me in
>> the
>> > JAILS
>> > of DEHRADUN , BARELLI, UNNAO, TIHAR and many others��..in the hope

>> that
>> > our
>> > own state, its government, or bureaucrats will safeguard my interest,
>> > safeguard my rights over JAL, ZAMEEN and JUNGLE, will provide jobs to
>> my

>> > children, will safeguard the modesty of women. I still can�t

>> understand,
>> > why
>> > the government is selling our rivers to one liquor baron (sharab
>> mafia)
>> > for

>> > constructing the so called 56 dams..�,why 50 acres of precious land

>> by the
>> > beach at Mother Ganga belonging to the people of the state has been
>> sold,
>> > why fertile tracts of land are being forcibly acquired for making a
>> power

>> > plant for which there is not even a policy as yet�

>>
>> > In this open forum, I am not going to make any revolutionary
>> contribution
>> > more than what others cannot do or are not doing already. Many of my
>> > friends

>> > are contributing to the best of their intellectual capacity��.I am
>> only
>> > going to post you my agony, my tears for my motherland� please
>> respond�

>>
>> > foreword this to your friend
>>
>>
>>
>>  Indian-Bureacracy-final-paper.pdf
>> 649KViewDownload
>

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I want, what they want, and every other Aandolankari who gave away his life, and gave everything he had....wants. For our state to love us as much as we love it.....

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Uttrakhand-Aandolankari/118022324939333

[pr...@acadjoshi.com]

Thanks for your reply. However,
Listen please "tum log abhi kachey khilaadi ho".

What revolution are you people talking about? In a demorcracy, public
follows leaders. Leaders should have clean image, a great sense of
commitment, dedication, a clear agenda of development etc. One needs
public support. You people cannot gain public support from a handful of
people by quoting a few cases or irregularities and corruptions of some
ministers or CMs. You forget that Indian public has very short memory,
after sometimes they forget many things because they have to live and
sustain within the same system. It is not that easy to root out the
corrupt and inefficient system in India. What is happening in the
country's parliament? They are discusssing only scams and only scams,
blocking the conduct of parliament. How many days have these Indian
politicians spent in discussing on economic developmental issues or
problems of the public? It is a mockery of democracy made by these
politicians.

In order to gain power and rule the state, you must have the association
with big parties. Of course, there is a trend of regional parties ruling
the states in India but not in all states. To find an alternative to two
exiting national party, you would need to lay down strong foundation for
a new party in every district, block and village levels. If you simply
tell them that you are the andolankaris who sacrificed a lot in creating
the state, hence you people should be supported in elections to come to
power, it would be an immatured strategy and statement. People don't
support by emotionalizing them. Indian voters have become very clever
now. They mean now the business of development even if some of the
politicians do not have good image. People know that once you jump into
politics, maintaining good image is difficult.

One has to come out with a strong agenda for economic development and
reforms. What you people would be talking is simply a replication of
existing and previous development issues raised and worked by these
parties.

In order to bring changes and innovations for a faster development of
the state, you need to have a clear agenda with implementable economic
strategies. Considering the geographical characteristics of the state,
the ruling party CANNOT HAVE A BALANCED STATREGY tO development of all
sectors. In my view point, a BIG PUSH theory of economic development is
highly desirable in which case the key 2-3 sectors of the economy should
be focused and developed on a larger scale. The state will be known for
its specialities.

You need to bring out the issues such as unbalanced growth taking place
between plain areas and hill areas of Uttarakhand. Plain areas are
developing much much faster than hilly areas, why? Analyze what percetange
of state's developmental expeditures are going into these two regions?
Why there is wide disparity taking place in development work and public
facilities among districts? What type of small scale industries may be
started at the village level? What should be the plans for healthcare
faciltiies in these villages? Linking villages to electricity and
drinking water is becoming an old issue now as graudally villages are
getting those faciltiies under various schemes even of the planning
commission.

Politicians talk of starting non-polluted industries in the state, how
many of such industreis have they started so far industries, if not why
not? What is the scope of biotechnology development in the field of
agriculture, animal health care, environment management, process
industries etc. in the state? What are being done to develop forticulture
and horticulture, agro and food processing, handloom, paper industries
etc.

Being a new state, Uttarakhand might have received a lot of developmental
funding from Planning Commission. How are those developmental funds
spent? What are the mission and prioties of the state plan? Can they
prepare a Priority-Based Budgeting system?.
Uttarakhand has an expenditure budget of Over Rs15,000 crores, this is a
huge budget. What percentage of this is spent only on salary and wages?
Can the state conceptualize the establishment of a Hill Area Development
Bank (HADB)? The structure and network branches of this bank may be
prepared in such a way that rural people have easy access in getting
loans and subsidies on easy terms for various developmental scheme.

You had mentioned a few names. They should know me well simply because I
was one of the founding faculty members of Garhwal university at the
time of late BD Bhattji. Many of your Andolankaris were students at that
time. BTW my wife is from Srinagar too.

Please note that I usually do not enter into regional level issues as I
am a global figure and am rated as one of the leading ( among top 25%)
accounting Professors around the world. Since you sent an email
mentioning some issues, I could not resist myself.

[ashok bothra]

In my openion in uttrakhand, people,govt, should invite people from
all over India n abroad to settle there and start different industries
only than uttrakhand will servive.Today what ever money Central
Govt, is providind, tomoro they might stop, so govt, of uttrakhand
should think cottage industries to be open, If govt, provides
facilities than ur state will also stand like Himachal Pradesh, See
the himachal industry and try to follow that, This is my idea.
Ashok Kumar Bothra, Jaipur. Rajasthan,