PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2007 ID-8086
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AISA Strengthen the Struggle for Struggle for Workers' Rights in JNU Extends to KC.
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02.02.07 Social Justice, Democracy On the night of 30 January, a young boy working in Lala's fruit shop.
and Transparency in JNU Ad- of the Kamal Complex was thrashed by the shop owner. The shop.
owner thrashed the worker on his head and face with helmet leading.
Join JNUSU's missions! to injury and bleeding on the shameful pretext that the young boy.
was overeating in his dinner. AISA representatives in JNUSU had.
PROTEST DEMO. taken up the matter immediately. It also came to light that the boy.
was being underpaid..
Ad Block 03.02.07 2.00pm.
As a follow up yesterday, JNUSU General Secretary as well as several.
Implement 27% Reservation and 54% seat In- activists and common students went to Kamal Complex to question.
crease in JNU without delay the shop-owner, and to ensure that the boy was paid an amount of.
Rs. 20, 000 (the arrears of his salary for the past nine months at the.
Accept Alimiat and Fazeelat and other Madarsa minimum wage rate). Subsequently, in a spirited move, students did.
certificates in BA 1st year admissions an impromptu survey of all the shops at KC, and unearthed evidence.
of an abysmal violation of the minimum wage rate in all the shops..
Uphold Sachar Committee Recommendations The wage rate actually being paid was obtained in writing with the.
signature of the workers..
Ensure Transparency in Admission Processes.
the display of break-up of Written/Viva marks, Ever since the AISA Office Bearers in JNUSU initiated the movement.
fixing of minimum/maximum marks for viva, in mid-November, a large number of common students have joined the.
struggle to ensure workers' rights in various parts of the campus. We.
make provisions for vivas in different languages, warn the Administration that the gross violation of labour rights that is.
BA entrance exam to be offered in Hindi as well,.
and do away with caste identification in viva forms.
.
Unmask SFI' s Pretension Of `Open Debate' : WORDS Vs DEEDS Of.
SFI's SEZ Policy.
.
After forcibly evicting peasants from fertile multi-crop land at Singur, with the DEEDS and DOCUMENTS of the West Bengal Govt. ?.
fencing off the land and handing it over to the Tatas, after raping and.
killing Tapasi Malik, after killing six peasants in Nandigram, after avoiding Why did the West Bengal SEZ Act 2003, passed two years before.
all democratic debate in people's panchayats of the respective areas, after the Central Act, include the same anti-worker provisions that the SFI.
lying about the Haldia Development Authority Notification of land acquisi- claims to oppose in its booklet?.
tion in Nandigram.....And after shamelessly defending each of these.
crimes, SFI has suddenly woken up to the need for an `Open Debate' We will look at many more such facts pertaining to SFI's proposed.
on its corporate land grab project in West Bengal. The fact remains: why `amendments' in the days to come..
has the SFI NOT answered the key questions in the ONGOING debate:.
"Welcome To See Website" But Barred to Verify.
Is productive industrialisation impossible without SEZs which At Groundsite !.
are `foreign territory' on Indian soil, giving corporates `Special' rights.
to Evade taxes and even laws of the land, Evict peasants, and Exploit SFI boasts of its perfect `rehabilitation package' and `list of consenting.
labour? farmers' on the West Bengal Government's website. Will SFI DENY that.
according to the figures quoted in that same website, the average.
SFI moots various "amendments" in the SEZ Act 2005. In the days to amount of `compensation' given to each displaced person is a mer.
come, we'll look at the Claim and Reality of some of their proposed e Rs. 83, 000? Will they tell us how an individual.
'amendments'. Let us sample just one Claim today: is supposed to survive on such an amount once displaced from their land,.
home and livelihood?.
Claim : Workers' Rights.
But why is SFI so scared to allow people to check the claims of.
SFI's booklet demands: `Amend those rules which enables State its website at the ground-site? Why are Medha Patkar arrested, and AISA.
Governments to delegate its powers under Industrial Disputes Act to and CPI(ML) members of a fact-finding team put behind bars with false.
Development Commissioner and to declare SEZs as Public Utility Service'. cases continuing till now? Isn't field-trip and ground survey an integral.
part of any investigation and `open debate'?.
(This is because in Public Utility Services, workers are denied the right to.
strike, and the `Special' Development Commissioner of SEZ is, in a way, Many say that the Sardar Sarovar Dam (Narmada) Rehabilitation.
the Viceroy of the `foreign territory' called SEZ. His job is to benefit the Package is the very best package - but only ON PAPER! The shameful.
corporate `ruler' of the SEZ, not to ensure workers' rights). reality of rehabilitation and resettlement on the ground in the Narmada.
Valley was revealed by the NBA's Pol Khol Yatra in which AISA leader.
Reality Awadhesh from JNU as well as the AISA National President, took part..
.
West Bengal SEZ Act 2003, passed long before the Central Act of Will SFI agree to allow a similar Pol Khol Yatra of JNU students.
2005, declares SEZs to be Public Utility and delegates powers to and senior academics in Singur and Nandigram?.
Development Commissioner. Not only that, a Brochure distributed by.
the WB Government among industrialists, titled "Doing Business in West The Issue at Stake.
Bengal", (Section 6.2.2, page 98) proudly promises:.
The `debate' is not a petty quarrel between AISA and SFI. It is a ques-.
"CERTAIN KEY BENEFITS IN WEST BENGAL FOR SEZ UNITS: tion of taking sides in the raging battle between evicted peasants and.
terrorised poor struggling for survival on one side, and corporates.
All units in SEZ declared as public utility services grabbing land backed by the might of State on the other. It is a battle.
between the rights of aam aadmi and `special' `foreign' enclaves of preferred.
Development Commissioner to be the Reconciliation Officer people on the other. SFI and CPI(M) have shown that they stand for the.
for all Labour Disputes in SEZ..." privileges and profit of corporates, not the struggles of the poor. SFI already.
showed this in its defence of the Nestle Outlet in JNU - and once again.
Will SFI tell us why the CLAIMS of its booklet in JNU do not match.
sd/-Rajesh Ranjan,V.P., AISA, JNU.
sd/-Awadhesh, Gen.Secy., AISA, JNU.
..
PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2007 ID-8086
.
AISA Strengthen the Struggle for Struggle for Workers' Rights in JNU Extends to KC.
.
02.02.07 Social Justice, Democracy On the night of 30 January, a young boy working in Lala's fruit shop.
and Transparency in JNU Ad- of the Kamal Complex was thrashed by the shop owner. The shop.
owner thrashed the worker on his head and face with helmet leading.
Join JNUSU's missions! to injury and bleeding on the shameful pretext that the young boy.
was overeating in his dinner. AISA representatives in JNUSU had.
PROTEST DEMO. taken up the matter immediately. It also came to light that the boy.
was being underpaid..
Ad Block 03.02.07 2.00pm.
As a follow up yesterday, JNUSU General Secretary as well as several.
Implement 27% Reservation and 54% seat In- activists and common students went to Kamal Complex to question.
crease in JNU without delay the shop-owner, and to ensure that the boy was paid an amount of.
Rs. 20, 000 (the arrears of his salary for the past nine months at the.
Accept Alimiat and Fazeelat and other Madarsa minimum wage rate). Subsequently, in a spirited move, students did.
certificates in BA 1st year admissions an impromptu survey of all the shops at KC, and unearthed evidence.
of an abysmal violation of the minimum wage rate in all the shops..
Uphold Sachar Committee Recommendations The wage rate actually being paid was obtained in writing with the.
signature of the workers..
Ensure Transparency in Admission Processes.
the display of break-up of Written/Viva marks, Ever since the AISA Office Bearers in JNUSU initiated the movement.
fixing of minimum/maximum marks for viva, in mid-November, a large number of common students have joined the.
struggle to ensure workers' rights in various parts of the campus. We.
make provisions for vivas in different languages, warn the Administration that the gross violation of labour rights that is.
BA entrance exam to be offered in Hindi as well,.
and do away with caste identification in viva forms.
.
Unmask SFI' s Pretension Of `Open Debate' : WORDS Vs DEEDS Of.
SFI's SEZ Policy.
.
After forcibly evicting peasants from fertile multi-crop land at Singur, with the DEEDS and DOCUMENTS of the West Bengal Govt. ?.
fencing off the land and handing it over to the Tatas, after raping and.
killing Tapasi Malik, after killing six peasants in Nandigram, after avoiding Why did the West Bengal SEZ Act 2003, passed two years before.
all democratic debate in people's panchayats of the respective areas, after the Central Act, include the same anti-worker provisions that the SFI.
lying about the Haldia Development Authority Notification of land acquisi- claims to oppose in its booklet?.
tion in Nandigram.....And after shamelessly defending each of these.
crimes, SFI has suddenly woken up to the need for an `Open Debate' We will look at many more such facts pertaining to SFI's proposed.
on its corporate land grab project in West Bengal. The fact remains: why `amendments' in the days to come..
has the SFI NOT answered the key questions in the ONGOING debate:.
"Welcome To See Website" But Barred to Verify.
Is productive industrialisation impossible without SEZs which At Groundsite !.
are `foreign territory' on Indian soil, giving corporates `Special' rights.
to Evade taxes and even laws of the land, Evict peasants, and Exploit SFI boasts of its perfect `rehabilitation package' and `list of consenting.
labour? farmers' on the West Bengal Government's website. Will SFI DENY that.
according to the figures quoted in that same website, the average.
SFI moots various "amendments" in the SEZ Act 2005. In the days to amount of `compensation' given to each displaced person is a mer.
come, we'll look at the Claim and Reality of some of their proposed e Rs. 83, 000? Will they tell us how an individual.
'amendments'. Let us sample just one Claim today: is supposed to survive on such an amount once displaced from their land,.
home and livelihood?.
Claim : Workers' Rights.
But why is SFI so scared to allow people to check the claims of.
SFI's booklet demands: `Amend those rules which enables State its website at the ground-site? Why are Medha Patkar arrested, and AISA.
Governments to delegate its powers under Industrial Disputes Act to and CPI(ML) members of a fact-finding team put behind bars with false.
Development Commissioner and to declare SEZs as Public Utility Service'. cases continuing till now? Isn't field-trip and ground survey an integral.
part of any investigation and `open debate'?.
(This is because in Public Utility Services, workers are denied the right to.
strike, and the `Special' Development Commissioner of SEZ is, in a way, Many say that the Sardar Sarovar Dam (Narmada) Rehabilitation.
the Viceroy of the `foreign territory' called SEZ. His job is to benefit the Package is the very best package - but only ON PAPER! The shameful.
corporate `ruler' of the SEZ, not to ensure workers' rights). reality of rehabilitation and resettlement on the ground in the Narmada.
Valley was revealed by the NBA's Pol Khol Yatra in which AISA leader.
Reality Awadhesh from JNU as well as the AISA National President, took part..
.
West Bengal SEZ Act 2003, passed long before the Central Act of Will SFI agree to allow a similar Pol Khol Yatra of JNU students.
2005, declares SEZs to be Public Utility and delegates powers to and senior academics in Singur and Nandigram?.
Development Commissioner. Not only that, a Brochure distributed by.
the WB Government among industrialists, titled "Doing Business in West The Issue at Stake.
Bengal", (Section 6.2.2, page 98) proudly promises:.
The `debate' is not a petty quarrel between AISA and SFI. It is a ques-.
"CERTAIN KEY BENEFITS IN WEST BENGAL FOR SEZ UNITS: tion of taking sides in the raging battle between evicted peasants and.
terrorised poor struggling for survival on one side, and corporates.
All units in SEZ declared as public utility services grabbing land backed by the might of State on the other. It is a battle.
between the rights of aam aadmi and `special' `foreign' enclaves of preferred.
Development Commissioner to be the Reconciliation Officer people on the other. SFI and CPI(M) have shown that they stand for the.
for all Labour Disputes in SEZ..." privileges and profit of corporates, not the struggles of the poor. SFI already.
showed this in its defence of the Nestle Outlet in JNU - and once again.
Will SFI tell us why the CLAIMS of its booklet in JNU do not match.
sd/-Rajesh Ranjan,V.P., AISA, JNU.
sd/-Awadhesh, Gen.Secy., AISA, JNU.
..