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Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj – The Patriot Saint – I
Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj – The Patriot Saint Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj would have been 117 years if he were alive today. He was born on 30th April 1909 in a small village called Yawli in Amravati district of Maharashtra. His parents were Shri. Bandoji alias Namdev Ganeshpant Ingle and Mata Manjuladevi. The family was poor and…
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Applauding Indian Women in Olympics – And a Message for Maharashtra
The women who represented India in the Tokyo Olympics did the country proud. Mirabai Chanu lifted the Silver medal at the start of the game and lifted our spirits as well. P.V. Sindhu, Lovlina Borgohain, Kamalpreet Kaur, Deepika Kumari, and the entire hockey team led by Rani Ramphal – they all deserve a big thank you.…
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Technical Study Group on Human-Wildlife Conflicts: Awaiting Implementation
On 1st September, 2020 the Government of Maharashtra formed an eleven-member Technical Study Group of headed by N.R. Praveen, CCF Chandrapur, to study the problem of human-wildlife conflict in the district. In March 2021 the Study Group submitted its recommendations to the government but since then not much has changed in the lives of the rural…
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Caste Conundrum – Caste Census of OBCs in Maharashtra
Caste Conundrum – Caste Census of OBCs in Maharashtra The Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission prepares for statewide census as Kunbis contest Maratha claims for OBC status. (B.P.Mandal hands over Mandal Commission Report to President Giani Zail Singh) In 1931 the Census data included enumeration of castes but since then such data is collected only…
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Reimagining International Day of World’s Indigenous People
Reimagining International Day of World’s Indigenous People Time to honour the history of Gond rule in Vidarbha Pathanpura Gate of the Chandrapur Fort built by Gond Rulers In the last couple of years there has been welcome increase in the number of programmes on 9th August which has been designated by the UN as the International…
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Adivasi Pursuit of the Elusive ‘Patta’ Navigating the Labyrinthine Procedures of FRA
Adivasi Pursuit of the Elusive ‘Patta’ Navigating the Labyrinthine Procedures of FRA Adivasis Plead with Forest Department Officials The stated objective of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 is to correct the historical injustice committed upon the Adivasis and other forest dwellers. The Act brought…
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Sarkar Fails to Ensure Minimum Wages in Sarkari Departments
Sarkar Fails to Ensure Minimum Wages in Sarkari Departments Thekedars call the shots over wage rates Covid Warriors of GMCH Chandarpur agitate for minimum wages Even before India got its Constitution in 1950, the country’s workers were given a Minimum Wages Act in 1948. But as far as rural labourers are concerned this law could well be…
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अधिकारी आणि आंदोलक | एका आंदोलनाची आठवण
२००८ , ऑगस्ट च्या ३१ तारखेला चंद्रपूर जि.प.मध्ये पुन्हा एकदा एडीशनल सीईओ म्हणून रुजू झालो. कार्यरत असणा-या सीईओनी माझी बरीच माहिती काढून ठेवली होती. भेट झाल्यावर पहिला प्रश्न, “कितने साल है रिटायर को “. बाकी जुजबी बोलण झाल्यावर मी माझ्या कामाला लागलो. माझी एक सवय राहीली होती. कामाशिवाय बाॅस कडे जावून अकारण गप्पा करण्याची…
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Caste-based FRA Provisions Deprive Nontribal Forest Dwellers
Nontribal Communities Deprived of Forest Rights Agitation by farmers for recognition of forest rights “My neighbour has got a patta because he is a tribal, but I cannot get it because I am a gair-adivasi a non-tribal” says Balkrushna Dumane of Navegaon village, Chandrapur whose application for individual forest rights has been rejected. Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest…
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अफगाणिस्तान भारत संबंध: एक दृष्टिक्षेप
मौर्य सम्राट अशोकचा कंदहार शिलालेख. सदर शिलालेख द्वैभाषिक असून ग्रीक व अरमाईक भाषांमध्ये कोरल्या गेला होता अफगाणिस्तान भारत संबंध: एक दृष्टिक्षेप अफगाणिस्तान मध्ये पुन्हा एकदा तालिबानने स्वतः चे वर्चस्व प्रस्थापित केले आहे. जवळपास वीस वर्षांपूर्वी झालेल्या “९/११” दहशतवादी हल्ल्यांनंतर अमेरिका व त्याच्या मित्र देशांच्या आघाडीने केलेल्या सैन्य कारवाई मुळे तालिबानी राजवट अचानक कोसळली होती. जसे…
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