ROLE OF MEDIA, MEASURES FOR PREVENTING POLITICAL PARTIES CAUSING
INCONVENIENCE TO COMMON PUBLIC due to their visits to hospitals, place of
victims in
the event of any disaster/atrocity on victims, aiming at pure political gains,
for photo-opportunity aiming at to be in circulation in public, to gain
public simply en-cashing the emotions in
the hour of crises, to target the government of the day by non ruing parties
and by ruling parties turning it as opportunity to promote government programme, either way only to gain brownie points over others aiming to
gain publicity in media aiming future electoral gains; which can be overcome by
complete ban of
political party leaders/ elected representatives visiting the victims/ their
family members in hospitals, in addition restricting only elected
representatives belonging to that territory of incidence/place of victim only
should be allowed to visit the victim/ family of victim, with complete
ban on airing views in media by the political class, media showing the visits
of political party leaders to the place of victims; media allowed only to interview the
victims or their kin only at the place of victims/ diseased, even media should
be barred from entering the hospital premises to follow victim getting
admitted/ undergoing treatment t or following leaders/elected
representatives visiting hospital, however media should be allowed to have video calling, face
time, skype from the hospital to air the views of the victim/ their relatives
if they wish to give interview to media, for this all hospitals should
have video conference facility, also enactment of law banning entry to all hospitals for
any individuals not more than two attendants with any in-patients or
out-patients inside the building/ compound wall of the hospital premises
to ensure hygienic atmosphere prevails, less pollution inside hospital
premises, all a must for speedy recovery of victim, all other patients getting
treatment in that hospital.
MEASURES TO PREVENT SUICIDES BY FARMERS by making mandatory formation of Village Agriculture
Cooperative Associations (VACA’s) for combined farming of joining 5 to 10
agriculture holdings of small and marginal farmers to cultivate it as a
single unit for better yield through better management, with ¼ of the total combined unit
should be mandatory to rise horticulture/ vegetable crops for getting daily/
weekly income for all farmers in VACA and also mandatorily all VACA’s to
maintain animal husbandry to raise milking cows and poultry for providing
nutrition to farmers family and strict maintenance of quality checks for seeds,
fertilizers, and pesticides and also mandatory crop insurance and fixing
liability on the producer/seller of spurious/ adulterated farm inputs and uniform compensation
for all farmers of same crop with same quantum of damage to the crop throughout
the country, delivery of compensation within 15 working days of natural
calamity, financial counselling for stressed farmers/ VACA’s to boost
confidence in them towards life.
MEASURES FOR BETTER RESCUE & RELIEF OPERATIONS BY SUPPORT FROM POLITICAL
PARTIES IN THE EVENT OF NATURAL CALAMITIES FOR MINIMIZING DAMAGE TO HUMAN
BEINGS AND PROPERTIES
Complete
ban of political parties/ top leaders of political parties doing so called Road
shows, So called Pada Yatras in the pretext of so called consoling of diseased
in any tragedy / natural calamity, in order to save millions of man-hours of
productive time, saving lives of people in that vicinity for reaching emergency
medical care, reducing that territory from pollution/ turning into un-hygienic,
only local political leaders in fixed number can be allowed to perform the road
shows, padyatars, only on any weekends and holidays in that territory/ region.
Measures for better disaster relief through training of volunteers in disaster
rescue in each mandal.
NEED FOR CREATION OF A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY (FIA) comprising of
officers from all states, exclusively, specialised in investigation of rape, murder &
suicide cases, the agency be headed by a Judicial authority (SITTING JUDGE)
to deliver time bound justice to the victims, removing perils for a biased
probe due to political/external pressures in case of regular investigation
agency probing the case; Also making it mandatory only victim/ their immediate
family members have authority to demand for FIA / CBI probe, all others,
political parties should be barred to do so
NEED FOR REGULATION OF MEDIA DURING DISASTER RESCUE Also media regulations for
ensuing media organisation provide space to all political parties as per
percentage of vote share in general elections, also for providing media space for
dalits, adivasis and backward class people and as for all sections in
the country as per percentage of income group and genders in the states /
country, also
mandatory maintenance of social
equality and social justice by all media organisation proving opportunity
for dalits, adivasis and OBC in their organisation in every rank especially in
the editorial team, fixed tenure for positions in media organisations, else
government enact law for constitutional
reservations in media organisations, retirement at 60 years of age, also
complete ban of private media providing awards for civil servants and elected
representatives, for ensuring media do not be biased towards any section of
people for ensuring inclusive growth of
all sections of society
PRADEEP KUMAR KUNCHE
[1] INTRODUCTION
[2] NEED FOR RESTRICTING
POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS VISITING PLACE OF CRIME, HOSPITALS, VICTIMS PLACES IN
THE EVENT OF OCCURRENCE OF ANY TRAGEDY. MEASURES FOR ENSURING HYGIENIC HEALTH
CONDITIONS IN HOSPITALS, VICTIMS PLACE. MANDATORY MAINTENANCE OF WEBSITE BY ALL
HOSPITALS IN STANDARD FORMAT AND MANDATORY MAINTENANCE OF VIDEO CONFERENCING
FACILITY, WEB CASTING OF IN-PATENTS TO THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS TO RESTRICT THE
NUMBER OF NON PATIENT VISITORS TO THE HOSPITAL.
[3] UNIFORM COMPENSATION
FOR VICTIMS OF SAME TYPE/NATURE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, STANDARD MEASURES FOR
ADOPTION OF VICTIMS FAMILY AS PART OF PHILANTHROPIC MEANS. NEED FOR 100%
EXEMPTION OF TAX FOR FINANCIAL HELPING TO FAMILIES OF DISEASED
[4] MEASURES FOR
IMMEDIATE PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION TO THE VICTIMS FAMILY IN AL CASES WHERE SOME
TRAGEDY OCCURRED
[5] MEASURES TO CONTAIN
HAPPENING OF SUICIDES BY FARMERS
[6] NEED FOR CONTAINING/
COMPLETE BAN OF VISITING THE VICTIMS FAMILY IN ANY TRAGEDY BY THE POLITICAL
PARTY LEADERS IN THE NAME OF SO CALLED “CONSOLING YATARS”
[7] MEASURES FOR
PREVENTING POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS/ ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES (OTHER THAN
CONCERNED LOCAL ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES, GOVERNMENT) VISITING THE SITES IN ANY
NATURAL CALAMITY DURING RESCUE AND RELIEF OPERATIONS; NEED FOR MAKING TO
MANDATORY FOR ALL POLITICAL PARTIES TO PROVIDE TRAINING FOR THEIR PARTY MEMBERS
IN DISASTER RESCUE & RELIEF MANAGEMENT AS PART OF PUBLIC SERVICE, SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY.
[8] NEED FOR FIXING
TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION FOR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES AND BARRING POLITICAL
PARTY LEADERS WHO DO NOT HAVE JURISDICTION OVER THE TERRITORY FROM VISITING
SUCH PLACES OF ANY TRAGEDY/ CRIME/ NATURAL CALAMITY/ DISASTER OR ANY OTHER
ISSUES OF FARMERS OR ANY OTHER ISSUES OF REGIONAL/TERRITORIAL IMPORTANCE, HOW
EVER ONLY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES CAN RAISE THE ISSUES OF COMMON IMPORTANCE IN
THEIR RESPECTIVE HOUSE THEY REPRESENT;
ONLY LEADERS OF OPPOSITION IN THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT/ STATE GOVERNMENTS
OR OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS HAVE FULL AUTHORITY TO VISIT ANY PLACE IN THEIR
RESPECTIVE JURISDICTION.
[9] NEED FOR EXCLUSIVE
INVESTIGATION AUTHORITY WORKING UNDER JUDICIAL AUTHORITY FOR PROBING THE CASES
OF ANY TRAGEDY LIKE RAPE CASES, ACCIDENTAL DEATH CASES, SUICIDE CASES, NAMELY
FEDERAL INVESTIGATION AUTHORITY (FIA) COMPRISING OF OFFICIALS FROM ALL STATES,
IN ORDER TO PREVENT PEOPLE / POLITICAL PARTIES DEMAND FOR JUSTICE THROUGH CBI
OR JUDICIAL PROBE
[10] NEED FOR PROPER
DISASTER MANAGEMENT SERVICES IN EVERY DISTRICT, MANDATORY PERIODIC AUDIT AND
TESTING OF EQUIPMENT, ALSO NEED FOR TRAINING OF POLITICAL PARTY YOUTH AND OTHER
COMMON YOUTH WHO ARE INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING IN DISASTER RESCUE AND RELIEF
OPERATIONS, THE TRAINING BASED ON THE NATURE OF DISASTER SUCH AS CYCLONE, (IN
CYCLONE PRONE AREAS), FLOODS, EARTH QUAKES (SEISMIC 3 AND ABOVE ZONES), FIRE,
COLLAPSE OF BUILDINGS, ETC FOR MINIMIZING THE DAMAGE TO LOSS OF HUMANS AND
PROPERTY. AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY BASED DEVICES LIKE DRONE CAMERAS, DRONE
OPERATED INFRARED THERMAL CAMERAS TO IDENTIFY HUMANS STRUCK IN THE DEBRIS ETC
IN THE EVENT OF DISASTERS BY BOTH DISASTER RELIEF TEAMS AND BY THE PRIVATE
MEDIA ORGANISATIONS.
[11] NEED FOR
RESTRICTING/ SENSITIZING MEDIA FOR NOT TO HAMPER THE RESCUE AND RELIEF
OPERATIONS IN THE EVENT OF ANY NATURAL CALAMITY OR INVESTIGATION IN CASE OF ANY
TRAGEDY OF CRIME. NEED FOR REGULATION MEDIA FOR ENSURING MEDIA PROVIDE SPACE
PROPORTIONATE TO PERCENTAGE OF VOTE SHARES IN GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR POLITICAL
PARTIES, ALSO PROPORTIONATE TO PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION OF CASTE, RELIGION,
GENDER AND INCOME GROUP IN THEIR PANEL DISCUSSIONS, ALSO MEDIA ORGANISATION TO
MAINTAIN SOCIAL JUSTICE, SOCIAL EQUALITY IN THEIR ORGANISATION, WITH
PROPORTIONATE REPRESENTATION DALITS ,
ADIVASIS AND BACK WARD CASTES IN THEIR EDITORIAL BOARDS MAINTAINING CONSTITUTIONAL
RESERVATIONS IN MEDIA ORGANISATIONS; FIXED TENURE FOR EACH POSITION IN MEDIA
ORGANISATIONS AND MANDATORY RETIREMENT AFTER ATTAINING 60 YEARS IN MEDIA
ORGANISATIONS TO ENSURE COUNTRY PROGRESS
DUE TO EQUAL VOICE FOR ALL SECTIONS IN THE COUNTRY.
[12] CONCLUSION
1) INTRODUCTION
It
is a fact that due to lack of systems in place for protecting the interest of
common people, especially the victims in any calamity or tragedy/ crime, most
of the political parties are using this pathetic situation of the innocent
common people for getting political mileage, in that process they are knowingly
or un knowingly causing huge damage to
the victim as well as the common people both health wise and also mental
stress, due to their attitude of non serious intention of doing real justice to
the common people/ victim, but only to their self centred selfish gains, as it
is a fact that when many people visit the crime site the evidences at the crime
site gets tarnished as such the culprits are not getting proper punishment as
per constitution, and also victims need to wait for decades for justice, (even
the sensational case of NIRBIYA the victims did not feel justice delivered to
them even till date, even after almost all political parties in the country
wished speedy justice and even when government promised?), also it is fact that
due to prevailing of unhygienic conditions, due to visits of hundreds of people
to the hospitals, especially by political class, the victim patents as well as
other fellow patients in hospitals are prone for infections due to visits of
several people to the victims/patients, also due to air pollution in the
vicinity of the hospitals getting completely polluted due to several people coming and visiting the
patents the patients recovery is hampered, in fact even normal people are becoming
patients to respiratory diseases, so
there is acute need for controlling the number of people visiting the
hospitals. Also it is a fact that most of the political parties try to
capitalise the rape/ death cases of which the farmers suicides/ death are major
fodder for the political parties, also it is our primary responsibility as a
citizen of this country to to prevent the happening suicides of the farmers, as
it is a fact that farming sector is prone to various hindrances, in fact the
stress in the farmers is due to accumulated debts due to crop failures in the
event of natural calamity or due to bad seeds/ pesticides/ sub standard
fertilizers etc, also it is fact that there is no regular source of income to
the farmers and addition the cultivation of good yield is possible only if the
farm size is standard (maximum percentage of farmers in India are small
holdings and the maximum farmers committing suicide are small and marginal
farmers), this situation can be overcome by ensuring that farmers get good
yield on their land, and right price for the farm produce, in addition the
farmer gets regular source of income i.e daily/ weekly through sale of
vegetables etc in addition farmers family get nutritious food, which is our
primary responsibility as these few percentage of farmers are providing food
for billions plus people in the country but till date majority are farmers
family are languishing in debts and their women and girl child are anaemic and
their children are malnourished, ITS A SHAME ON OUR PART TO ALLOW THIS TO
HAPPEN??? Also it is a fact that many political parties try to capitalise on
the innocence of people by conducting so
called road shows, padayatras all in the name of consoling families of few
diseased persons, or victims of rape cases only to gain political mileage and
sympathy, in fact in doing so they are literally causing utter inconvenience to
the common people in that territory, in addition in the process of so called
consoling the diseased family, they are causing serious threats to common
people who are having health disorders, in th event of emergency to visit a
hospital the so called road shows, padayatrs are blocking the way to reach out
to the hospital and this few hours of delay may lead to death of the person in
the event of some accident or heart diseases or any other medical emergencies?
So there should be fixed uniform norms for this kind of activities, completely
banning national leaders/ celebrities / so called star leaders in the political
party organisations indirectly becoming a or can Also it is a fact that many
people of the country do not have faith in the local police, state police for
being believed that state police will report to the government of the day and
there is every possibility that they will be biased in investigation in case
the rape, murder, suicide effects directly or indirectly related to political
party people, and it is a fact that many
political parties are capitalising on the deaths by demanding for so called CBI
enquiry when it is fact that Supreme court of India expressed CBI is a caged
part, and also it is a fact that many cases which are monitored by courts are
getting into logical end of the case and it is fact that many common people
have faith in judicial probe and demand for judicial probe, also many political
parties demand many times judicial probe, in order to ensure people have
confidence in constitutional justice and also to reduce the so called drams,
hungamas of the political parties, preventing political parties from wasting
their energies on only demands for justice to victims just for getting the
probe done by some trusted agency, also restore confidence in the local police,
there is acute need for an agency only to investigate rape, murder, suicide
cases under the headship of a sitting judge,
as such there should be some agency that can create a trust in the
people As such Government should Enact law to fix the above issues. Also since
lack of voice/ space in media for dalits, adivasis and other back ward castes ,
also since lack of representation of dalits and adivasis and other back ward
class people in media organisations especially in decision making authorities
in media organisations the media is biased towards upper echelons and upper
caste, also since lack of systems preventing the possibility of nexus between
political class- bureaucratic class and media is also a deterrent to the growth
of all sections as media is biased towards some sections of society, also since lack of systems in place section
of media s biased towards some political class . All these lacunas should be
fixed for ensuring inclusive growth of all sections of society.
2) NEED FOR
RESTRICTING POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS VISITING PLACE OF CRIME, HOSPITALS, VICTIMS
PLACES IN THE EVENT OF OCCURRENCE OF ANY TRAGEDY. MEASURES FOR ENSURING
HYGIENIC HEALTH CONDITIONS IN HOSPITALS, VICTIMS PLACE. MANDATORY MAINTENANCE
OF WEBSITE BY ALL HOSPITALS IN STANDARD FORMAT AND MANDATORY MAINTENANCE OF
VIDEO CONFERENCING FACILITY, WEB CASTING OF IN-PATENTS TO THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS
TO RESTRICT THE NUMBER OF NON PATIENT VISITORS TO THE HOSPITAL.
It
is indeed a very heinous act on the part of the most of the political parties /
leaders, elected representatives, to rush to the place of crime/victims place, for
so called consoling the family/ relatives of the diseased/victims, also in case
the victims are hospitalised, died in hospital succumbing to wounds they just
want to capitalise on this kind of visits for media publicity, in fact it
appears that are eagerly waiting for such opportunity?? In this process the
crucial evidence regarding the crime is getting destroyed knowingly/
unknowingly, which will seriously hamper the investigation in arriving
conclusion of who committed crime or fixing the responsibility on the culprits.
Also
most sad part of this process of visiting hospitals by the political class especially due to so called VIP, top leaders
of the political parties visit to console the victim, their family members where
the victim was undergoing treatment, they are literally causing utter
inconvenience to other in-patients, their attendants, out patents who are
getting treatment in that hospital, in addition they are causing a serious
threat of possible infections to the victim patients and all other patients in
the hospital; It is nothing but pure self centred selfish act of these
political class, in fact it causes serious health hazards for not only the
victim who is undergoing treatment, but also all the in-patents in that
hospitals, as the visit of so many hundreds/thousands of people in a short span
of time causing the hospital environment very un-hygienic, prone for spread of
any bacteria inside the hospital premises, in addition, the quality of air
surrounding the hospitals will get polluted due to vehicular pollution in the
vicinity of the hospital due to the
visit of several hundreds of vehicles in a short span of time, also inside the
hospital building where the patients are getting treatment or all tests are
conducted the area is also the hospital buildings are severely exposed to dust
pollution due to several hundreds of foot prints inside the building premises
carrying all sorts of bacteria with them; So in the first place the political
parties should restrain themselves from visiting the hospitals in any incidents;
in the larger interest of not only the victim but also all other patients who
are getting treatment in the hospital. It is most ideal and need of the hour
that all political parties should ensure government will enact law making it
mandatory that all hospitals to put the details of all in-patients, on the
website of the hospital, also on the internet you-tube, so that any individual
wish to see the patient’s condition, they can, also the hospital website should
update the condition of the health of the person joined in the hospital on
hourly bases. Being born as a human being, it is our minimum responsibility to
safe guarded the interest of fellow sick people, especially the inpatients in
the hospitals???? (Ref: my document 2012 Aug, HEALTH CARE FOR ALL).
Also
all political parties should take a stand in this regard and ensure that
government implement this measure. The first step in this regard is making it
mandatory that all government/ private hospitals need to maintain website in
standard format and each hospitals should have qualified videographers and
qualified computer operators to take the videos and the content should be
passed on to commuter department to post
the videos of the in-patients, which can be made available to viewed within the
family, relative of the victims/ person undergoing the treatment based on the
permission of the victim relatives; also the computer department of hospital
should post the information on hourly bases the health report received from
doctors in such cases and post it on the hospital website on hourly bases. Also
it should be made mandatory that no individual other than one attendant, at at
max two persons with the patent in any hospital premises itself to restrict the
number of persons in the hospital premises, these measures certainly reduces
lot of visitors to the patients in the hospitals, as they can view the patent
and their condition periodically on the website of the hospital, or within the
closed group of the family and relatives, if the family shares among their
relatives, friends. Also in this process all hospitals should introduce video
conferencing of the patents relatives/ patients/ patients attendants, if any
media, political parties or their own relatives / kin kith wish to speak to the
attendants of the patents, via video call/ Skype/ face time. This measure reduces lot of happening of
health hazards happening due to political visits to hospitals, also it reduces so
called sensation news/ breaking news that media claiming the first time in our
media the photograph of the victim inside the ICU/ hospital etc, as all media
will get the same info from the hospital website, in addition the other patents
in the hospital will get lot of peace of mind, also their recovery is faster
due to reduced risk of unhygienic conditions in the hospitals.
3) UNIFORM
COMPENSATION FOR VICTIMS OF SAME TYPE/NATURE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, STANDARD
MEASURES FOR ADOPTION OF VICTIMS FAMILY AS PART OF PHILANTHROPIC MEANS. NEED
FOR 100% EXEMPTION OF TAX FOR FINANCIAL HELPING TO FAMILIES OF DISEASED
Also
it is a fact that most of the political parties with only motive of gaining so
called political mileage are visiting the place of residence at city/Village of
the victim/their family like a bee line one after the other political party,
only to grab the attention of people via media publicity all in the name of
consoling/ expression of so called sympathy/solidarity to the victims. SHAME,
SHAME, its like more or less like vulture-istic tactics, where vultures get
their stomach filled on the dead cuprous of the animals, where the political
parties/ leaders are visiting the places of diseased to get mileage for their
party/ for individual image by visiting the diseased / victim home/, all in the
name of consoling the victim/ their family members, in the process they just
put demands on the government of the day that they should provide this much
compensation, that much compensation, or the government could have done like
this, like that???? SHAME SHAME without any real concrete measures to help the victim’s
family for either speedy justice or speedy relief for the family from the
financial crunch/stress on account of death of a bread winner of the family or
any preventive measures ensuring such sad incidents will not occur in future??
As such there should be uniform law/ norms that all victims of same type should
get same amount of compensation from the government of the day this is in
addition to insurance compensation that the individual family entitled on
account of compulsory insurance from the government while opening of the bank
account (Jan-dhan), and the awarding of compensation should not be at the
discretion of the state government, government entity/ private entity.
Also
there should be law that if any bread winner of the family dies, then the if
any individual whether they are elite/ upper echelon from any part of the
country whether they are elected representative or political party leader, wish
to adopt the family of the diseased and take care of the minimum needs, such as
all expenditure incurred on the family of diseased should get 100% tax
exemption, (there should be a government account, on which they should deposit
the amount and the designated persons account to be transferred from that
government account) also there should be a standard procedure for this, only
the victim family can receive such compensation only from one person/ entity
for one set of relief, there should be various kind of support to the victims
family. Also it should be made mandatory that if any political leader/ elected
representative provides compensation as a part of their philanthropy, they
should be completely barred from claiming such helps to victims in distress in
the elections/ publicity in any medium in the media/ social media or during any
election campaigns that so and so party/ leader helped so and so in the
village; only thing is that there should be a government website, where all
such activities can be mentioned, recorded and kept as evidence that the family
receiving such compensation month after month from so and so.
In
order to ensure such adoption of families of the victims by the leaders/
political class/ elite, and such compensation received by them, those who wish
to help should be genuine, all such people should provide an undertaking on
affidavit (a separate law should be enacted), that they are willing to help the
victim as a part of philanthropy and the amount of monthly compensation, one
time shelter, education etc should be for this much, period of time and such amounts
should be deposited in the government account, and government will
automatically forward such amount to the such designated people. Those who gave
the promise on affidavit will be legally valid and either they should pay what
they promised or get punishment for deliberately cheating the victims with
empty promises. This measure will certainly ensure that no empty promises are made
to the victims, also all people who wish to help such victims, especially the
political class will have opportunity to sponsor one if the events like
providing shelter in case the victim do not have shelter, or the monthly house
hold expenses, or the education of the children or health care of the family,
etc if these political parties are really interested in the welfare of the
farmers who are committed suicide due to debts after all each elected
representative is super rich and several ultra rich persons are political
office bearers at each level in almost all political parties in the country????
They should exhibit their real commitment towards at leas these distressed
families, as it is a fact most of these professional elected representatives
earned that much of wealth mostly using their position of political party or
elected representative in one or other way, each wealthy political class person
should be answerable to their inner conscious, if at all they have?????, all
this in addition to the standard/ uniform compensation by the government, the
compensation should be uniform throughout the country. It is very need of the hour, as in the absence
of mandatory uniform compensation pay,
some regional state governments mostly ruled by regional political parties are
paying exceptionally high amounts and claiming in the media for publicity that
they have paid such huge & high
compensation to the victims, after all they are forgetting its not their “
fathers money”/ “unke bapp ka pisa thodi hi?”, but its tax paid money of
millions of common downtrodden people so it should be utilised judiciously and
equal treatment for all victims; as it is a fact that at the same time some
state governments due to their callous attitude, they pay a merger
compensation, for the sake of paying compensation, taking it granted they can
do anything, stoop to any level to do mockery of the misery of the family of
the victim; so there is acute need for uniform compensation norms throughout
the country.
4) MEASURES FOR
IMMEDIATE PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION TO THE VICTIMS FAMILY IN AL CASES WHERE SOME
TRAGEDY OCCURRED
Also
it is need of the hour to enact a law that government must pay compensation within
couple of hours , part of the compensation amount (say 10%) to immediate needs
of the family of the victim/ deceased and within a stipulated time of less than
5 working days, (also there should be mandatory law for immediate compensation
for family to take care of the needs of family of the farmers victim in case
they admitted in hospitals) the remaining compensation that the victim/ their
family entitled for, the district collector / office should be authorised to do
so, that too the government officers should visit the home of the victim/ their
family and do all necessary formalities and pay the compensation, and they
should not make the victim/ their family to Rome around the government offices/
officers for decades to get compensation otherwise it is a sham????. Without
out which there is no meaning for paying compensation, as the victim/ their
family is already in pain/stressed/ grief and making them to roaming around the
government offices is in human/ barbaric, also there is every possibility of
corrupt officials demanding cut in the compensation pay for speedy process from
the already stressed family, which is a common thing prevailing in most parts
of the country.
Also
since all political parties are showing extra affection towards farming
community, they should unsure a law is enacted in this regard for paying uniform compensation for all
farmers in the country, cutting across states/ regions for loss of crop for any
reason of natural calamity, other than this the
crop failure due to spurious seeds, spurious pesticides, adulterated
fertilizers , the responsibility of compensation should be fixed on the agency
which supplied such sub standard/un standard farm inputs, also the manufacturer
of the company be penalised to pay such amounts. In case government failed to
provide water, electricity to lift water, and if on account of this the crop
got failed, then government must pay for this loss; all types of loss of crops/
extent of crop damages should have uniform compensation as per different
categories, and the compensation should be at least equal to the cost of inputs
such as labour cost for tilting the land, cost of seeds, cost for sowing seeds,
fertilizer, pesticides and bank interest till that period of occurrence of
loss, all loss amounts should be adjusted towards bank loans and the remaining
loans if any should be waved off; this measures ensures that farmers are debt
free from the bank loans, at least, in the case of loss of crop they may manage
to get their basic living through income
from other sources; Also there should be a mandatory crop insurance for all
crops in the country, by all farmers in the country, without which the farmers
are not eligible to obtain loan from either banking / financial institutions or
from any individual. Also it should be made mandatory that the person obtaining
loan should reveal the profession and purpose of use and methods of repayment
either obtaining bank loans or private individual loans in an affidavit form
and the affidavit should be registered and a copy should be preserved in the
government revenue department. This
measure saves lot of families from getting into deep financial crunch in the
event of crop loss due reason, and the insurance compensation to the farmers
should be settled within / made within 15 working days after the farmer
complains of loss of crop; the insurance companies can take back the money from
the seed companies, fertilizer companies, pesticide companies if the loss is
due to the sub standard seed/ fertilizer/ pesticide. There should be a
mechanism in this regard. The minimum
compensation by the government is in addition to the crop insurance amount, and
the crop insurance amount to be adjusted as against bank loans the formers availed
for rising the crop, which is otherwise get damaged in the natural calamity/
Also government must create a separate corpus fund for payment of compensation
to the famers who lost the crop by sharing 50: 50 by the state government and
central government; the corpus fund should be adjusted from the state share of
taxes from the central.
5) MEASURES TO CONTAIN
HAPPENING OF SUICIDES BY FARMERS
Also
all the political parties who are otherwise showing so much concern for famers,
who are committing suicide, they
should ensure that government enact law
making it mandatory that cultivation/
farming can be performed by farmers only
in a cooperative manner, by creation/formation of cooperative associations among the
neighbouring/ adjoining farmers to farm a large farm land of say minimum
15 acers of land (Village Agriculture
Cooperative associations VACA, as suggested in my document in 2012, Sep, “FOOD
FOR ALL”), as it is a fact that many of the farmers who are committing suicide
are small and marginal farmers with less than 5 acres of land; and such small
holding are literally making them them get earning that are just sufficient /
short of en their day to day living?? in this circumstances if any such damage
to crop making them to be under severe stress and they are taking extreme step as they do not have concrete hope/ help
from any quarter to come out of their
debts??? So it is very need of the hour solution to promote VACA, so
that at least 5 to 10 famers join as a cooperative association to do cultivation,
in this process one person can manage the farm
or they can share among themselves and the rest of the time they can
devote for other means of earning income mostly through entrepreneurship in
MSME related to food processing industry or any other activity related to
farming like making of compost manure, making of natural pesticides from need
or etc, making of food for cattle, etc or any other interest of rural
artisanship to earn some extra income/ regular source of income all in the name
of VACA like SHG of different SHG in that village, also in this VACA, (I have
suggested in my FOOD FOR ALL document for) making it mandatory that minimum of
¼ of the total VACA land for horticulture/ cash crops for ensuring the all the
members of VACA get daily income, also the VACA should mandatorily rise do
animal husbandry/ poultry / sericulture, etc cattle/ chicken for the milk/ eggs
for the family members and also for a source of income; this measure will ensure farm management is
more professional/viable as the discussion making is collective, also the banks
can recover the loans easily as the farmers get additional revenues due to
horticulture and cattle, also the health of the
farmers family will be good due to regular consumption of fresh vegetables
in quantities with more nutritional values, and protein from milk/ egg and,
also in case of crop damage due to
natural calamity the authorities can easily assess the correct damage, also the
farmers get fair compensation and also this VACA enables farmers to a good
price for their commodity produced and the farmers family will be economically
developed over a period of time, at the same time due to viability of farming /
cultivation, and guaranteed income in or or other manner attracts many youth of
the country to take cultivation as a profession and become farmers, this
measure not only reduces un employment, and but also de-congestion of urban areas and reduced traffic/ pollution in urban areas and reduced
health risks of half of the population of the country as more youth will remain
in rural areas by taking farming as their profession and also the rate of un
employment will get reduced drastically and there is every possibility of
inclusive growth of all sections of country, in addition this measure ensure
more Acers of cultivation of land in the country and as a result more food
grains are available in the country, and cost of the food grains are
affordable, and also reduced import of food grains and reduced current account
deficient in the country. Always the food inflation is under control making the
common public live comfortably with their earnings. This measure also reduces
the insurgency in the country, ad youth do not attracts towards such anti
social/ national organisations/ events. This establishes peace in the country.
Also
if the political parties are really committed for the welfare of the farmers,
also really intended for right compensation for the farmers, all political
parties must train their party workers in assessment of crop failure, also must
maintain a website village wise/ ward wise and must instruct their political
party cadre to take the pictures/ video of the crop damage due to natural calamity and also the
assessment of the quality of the farm produce through an app of mobile,
(alternatively even every farmer should be provided with a smart phone/tablet
pc and government must provide all farming information related to farm
management of the crops that the farmers raises based on the advice of experts
after conducting soil testing and the farmers use the app to up load the
pictures of crop damage occurred and at the same time the village filed
officers of agriculture department must visit the villages and collect the
samples of crop damaged based on the pictures to assess the quantity of damage,
in case the crop is in final stage or already harvested and lying in open,
transmit the same in the website, so that the government authorities should not
do mockery of the loss to the farmers by paying abysmal amounts to the farmers
adding insult to the already stressed farmers). For this each political party
should get trained at least 100 people in each mandal to do basic knowledge
about various crops, their stages of growth, their valuation, as in the
standard format that the government officers do so in the event of buying the
agriculture produce procurement by FCI or for paying compensation by arriving
at loss occurred to the farmer. The methods of arriving the loss should be
uniform for all political parties/ government; also it should be mandatory on
the part of the government to make it public each farmer wise crop damage and
method of arriving of compensation each farmer wise (customised data as per
farmer) on the website of the government each village wise, so that the
political partis can compare with the government data for whether all farmers
are included or no, if included whether the data is accurately reported or not
comparing with their website data of crop loss; this method reduces that
government officers excluding some farmers or reducing compensation either due
to political pressures if the farmers or their village is an ruling party supporting
village or not voted for the elected representative of the territory or due to
non-payment of bribes if demanded by the agriculture officer who is assessing
the loss or for any reason, all such anti farmer activities can be nullified if the political
parties maintain a parallel data of all victim farmers of natural calamity or
crop loss due to any other issue. Its like political parties maintaining voters
list in the event of any election. if any devotions found These measures are
game changer for entire episode of crop loss assessment mockery.
6) NEED FOR
CONTAINING/ COMPLETE BAN OF VISITING THE VICTIMS FAMILY IN ANY TRAGEDY BY THE
POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS IN THE NAME OF SO CALLED “CONSOLING YATARS”
Also
it is really a discussing and demeaning the democratic values and ethics of the
society the way of trying to capitalisation on the death of the farmers or any
victims of accidents by the political party organisations and political party
leaders/ elected representatives, by going in so called “consoling yatras“, by
reaching out to the place of victims village in a caval cede of vehicles and
spend huge money of rupees to gather public for the so called “road shows”
enroot the consoling yatras to the farmers; all just for visiting the one or
few diseased family/ victim, victim family, for personal consoling all in full
media glare for the photo opportunity/ video opportunity to sent to people across
the state/ country so that they get publicity and remain in the peoples mind;
also in this process they may pay a name sake compensation from their personal
end or their political party end, which is a peanut compensation, compared to
the amount spend on the security arrangements for such visits by these kind of TOP
POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS / political parties, elected representatives, also the
expenditure on the distance travelled
from the mostly capital cities to the remote place of village (air travel,
road travel, the number of vehicles), also the amount of time wasted/
inconvenience caused to the local public enroot to the victims house due the
visit of such high profile political party leaders? also the millions of man
hours wasted by the common public due to delay of traffic movement in that
vicinity of the road show, also the amount of pollution caused in the vicinity
of the road show, also the amount of business lost in the vicinity of the visit
area due to restrictions on traffic, stagnation of traffic due to crowd; if one
calculated all this economic losses it
is CRIMINAL WASTE ON THE PART OF THESE ELITE/ UPPER ECHELON/ POLITICAL
PARTY LEADERS/ ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES VISITING THE VICTIMS PLACE FOR SO CALLED
CONSOLING?????
Also
it is fact that these types of visits of so called high profile political
leaders through road sows, so called padayatras are putting the life of any
sick persons, any medical emergency person in full danger/ high risk of such
sick people living in the vicinity of such road shows/ padayatars???? as any
individual with minimum common sense and basic wisdom can understand loss
caused due to the visits of so called VIP’s to the victims place????; SO all
political parties if have real concern for poor families / farmers in the
country they should unite to bring a law banning political parties / leaders/
elected representatives visiting the victims place in the event of any
atrocity/ accident, only exception is that the local elected representatives of
the concerned territory such as the sarpanch of the gram panchayat, the
MPTC/ZPTC member, MLA, MP having territorial jurisdiction over the place of
incidence can visit the victim (both Elected representatives of where the place
of crime occurred and the Elected representatives where the victim working/
belonging to) can visit the place of the victim to consol and no media should
be allowed to cover such event of Elected representatives visiting the victims,
however the individual elected representatives / their political parties can
post the pictures/ videos of such visits of their local leaders in the website
of their party or social media accounts of the individuals, and any media
either print or electronic media can take a note of political party websites,
social media sites of local leaders and mat air in their media as news.
Also
there should not be any restriction on media (print and electronic) visiting
the victim/diseased family as a part of investigative journalism to bring the
truth to the entire common public of the territory/state/ country, the media
can air the interviews/bites of the victims/victims family, but they should be
barred from airing the pictures or videos of the political parties/ elected
representatives visit to the family of the victims/ diseased; however they can
take the opinion/ interview of such political parties/ elected representatives
in the place of the party office of such political party/ elected
representative residence in the vicinity of the victims place and they can air
such interviews/ bites in their respective media; this measure will ensure that
political parties do not take it granted that they can fool the people of the
country/ state/ territory with their ulterior motives of visiting the victims,
not in the interest of the victims and their family members of victims, but
only for publicity for political gains, Also more heinous is that these so
called elected representatives / political party leaders uses the government
security for visiting the places of victims, which is the expenses for security
of such leaders are paid from the tax paid money of downtrodden people and
common people, as such it is nothing but
CRIMINAL WASTE on the part of the political parties/ elected
representatives wasting the public money, causing utter inconvenience, causing
loss of millions of man-hours of
productive time, also causing health hazards to several people due to creating
polluted surrounding during the visits and indirectly causing severe damage to
other common public. Alternatively if the victims/ their family members wish to
see these political class top leaders, the political parties can sponsor for
such visits to through payment from the political party official account. Also
the top leadership should have faith/trust in the regional/ local leadership
and they should delegate the authority to oversee the victims/ relief measures
rather than they jump into to get media publicity, otherwise it appears that
either the regional/ territorial political party leaders are in effective or
not capable of handling such pressure situations, then it also amounts to
failure of top leadership to create effective grass root leaders to handle day
to day affairs\/crises management ???? As such all political parties should
come together in ensuring government enact law in this regard preventing
political leaders/ elected representatives visiting the victims places.
7) MEASURES FOR
PREVENTING POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS/ ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES (OTHER THAN
CONCERNED LOCAL ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES, GOVERNMENT) VISITING THE SITES IN ANY
NATURAL CALAMITY DURING RESCUE AND RELIEF OPERATIONS; NEED FOR MAKING TO
MANDATORY FOR ALL POLITICAL PARTIES TO PROVIDE TRAINING FOR THEIR PARTY MEMBERS
IN DISASTER RESCUE & RELIEF MANAGEMENT AS PART OF PUBLIC SERVICE, SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY.
Also
it is very unruly/ un-professional, completely disguising on the part of the political parties, elected
representatives (other than local elected representatives pertaining to that
territory) to rush to the spot of any accident / natural devastation like
collapse of a building, fire accident or damage due to heavy rains, cyclone or
earth quack etc, for the photo opportunity for giving impression to the common
public that their political party is there to help the people, in fact such
rush of such top political party leaders/ elected representatives not belonging
to that territory are visiting one after other political party in bee line are
literally hampering the rescue and relief operations.
In
fact if really political parties are interested in helping people in distress
situation, they should make sure that each political party mandatory get
trained at last 10 people in each mandal/ block with minimum of 100- 1000
people in each district depending up on the population of the district, to get training
of fist hand help of rescue and before the government disaster management teams
reaches such places and afterwards they extend their supportive hand to the
government disaster tram in the relief operations, these people should be
always in be locally available in the particular mandal/ block, all these
people should be youngsters between 21 to 35 years of age, should get almost
same training as National Disaster management rescue team members gets, also
these youngsters should get training in all sorts of disaster rescue, also the
first aid teams should be made to do the fist aid before the medical teams reaches
the spot or the people taken to the nearby hospitals; in the devastation is
large, the people from nearby mandals/ districts should be called to do rescue
operations. This is called real service to common people, by the political
class people at least to help people in need of the hour. Later on the
political parties / elected representatives can is it the places of devastation
after few days of the incident so that there will not be any effect on the
rescue & relief operations. In helping people the political parties should
not compete each other or favour so called VIP’s from their political party or
favour elite/upper echelons struck in such devastations, they should exhibit
equality/humanity at least in the hour of crises?????, all political parties should
do cooperation among themselves to rescue people under humanitarian grounds,
rather than try to get media attention to score brownie points by telling to
people of the country that we are the first to reach we did so much help etc;
Also if the political parties are interested to show that who are participated
in disaster relief among the trained people from that political party, each political
party should have some dress code for the relief operations, but they can
display on the back of the over cost the party symbol to get identification.
All political parties should in fact ensure there should be electoral reform in
this regard to make it mandatory that all political parties to maintain minimum
number of people to get trained in disaster relief management services. In fact it is ridiculous on the part of the
political parties to think that disaster relief should be the sole responsibility
of the government of the day, but it is the collective responsibility of all
citizens, especially the political parties in that territory, after all
political parties are or the service of the people and not just to get into
power? So they should exhibit their real service to the people when in very
much needed.
8) NEED FOR FIXING
TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION FOR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES AND BARRING POLITICAL
PARTY LEADERS WHO DO NOT HAVE JURISDICTION OVER THE TERRITORY FROM VISITING
SUCH PLACES OF ANY TRAGEDY/ CRIME/ NATURAL CALAMITY/ DISASTER OR ANY OTHER
ISSUES OF FARMERS OR ANY OTHER ISSUES OF REGIONAL/TERRITORIAL IMPORTANCE, HOW
EVER ONLY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES CAN RAISE THE ISSUES OF COMMON IMPORTANCE IN
THEIR RESPECTIVE HOUSE THEY REPRESENT; ONLY
LEADERS OF OPPOSITION IN THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT/ STATE GOVERNMENTS OR OTHER
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS HAVE FULL AUTHORITY TO VISIT ANY PLACE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE
JURISDICTION.
It
is the need of the hour to save the people of the country getting taken by
granted by the political parties cutting across party lines, making mockery of
democracy, completely indulging in such an activities only to get political
gains by just making flying visits to various parts of the country whenever
there is some tragedy/ disaster with only aim at making their presence in the
media and give impression to the people of the state/ country that they are
only champions of downtrodden people / common people,; completely denigrating
the elected representative position of that territory and also completely
denigrating the leaders of opposition position in the country/ state/ local
body, making these leader of opposition party position virtually reduced to a
titular heads by the top leaders of all political parties for their self
publicity in media is paramount than the real issues/ position/ role of leaders
of opposition???? Also such type of political party’s completely lacks faith in
the regional party leaders and they wish that their central leadership/ top
leadership whether in regional parties or national parties only should be in
circulation in media in people and all others as just dummies and should not
get any kind of media attention????, if the central leadership of the political
parties feel that only top leaders can create impact, then they should be
responsible for failure of regional/ territorial leadership????; So government
must enact law barring all political party leaders whether regional or national
from visiting the place of calamity for consoling the victims, or for that
matter any issue of regional importance, only elected representatives belonging
to that territory or having territorial jurisdiction should mandatorily visit
the place of victim/ tragedy and in addition only the leader of the opposition
party/parties in the state assembly, zilla parishad, mandal parishad, (leader
of opposition in parliament can visit
any place in the country) can visit the site of the tragedy/devastation with
maximum of two people accompanying only at a designated time after getting
clearance from the police/government disaster teams for completely cordoned off
certain area of crime place, to find out from the victims of the
tragedy/devastation about the relief operations, and there should not be any
kind of media byts near the place of tragedy during the visits to victims b y
the elected representatives or civil servants or rescue teams, after all they
are visiting the site to know the extent of damage, and also only to consol the
victims/ their families and in case they wish to reveal to the media about
their findings, they can do so by providing press brief in their respective
residence sights, already media is putting on their websites/ exposing in their
media about the reality of ground situation, so the press note from such
leaders is enough, only these leaders of opposition can raise such issues of
callousness attitude of relief operations on the floor of the house if at all
they noticed in their respective house, and not in the media. This measure will
be a game changer and people of the country/state are not fooled by the
political party leaders with their political visits; all political party top
leaders can visit any place in the state/ country for their party activity or
personal activity and not for rising the issues of public importance in any
territory in INDIA, their party elected representatives having jurisdiction can
do so in their respective house they represent.
Also
it is ideal to fix the jurisdiction for upper house members of state
legislative council or Rajya sabha members; while nominating for them should be
asked to clearly specify what are their contribution for society, how their
contribution served the society, either through social service or through arts,
or sports or medical service or legal services etc which way people are
benefited due to their contribution. Only those who served the people through
their contribution should be nominated to upper house by the political parties,
also the upper house members in parliament have INDIA as their jurisdiction of
territory, but only thing they should raise the subjects of sate/ national
importance of only pertaining to their expertise field, also they may rise
issues regarding the state/district which they got elected. This measure
ensures upper house elected representatives behaves more responsibility in
their expertise area and the country can progress well similarly the upper
house members of state assembly can do for all districts/ profession which they
represent.
9) NEED FOR EXCLUSIVE
INVESTIGATION AUTHORITY WORKING UNDER JUDICIAL AUTHORITY FOR PROBING THE CASES
OF ANY TRAGEDY LIKE RAPE CASES, ACCIDENTAL DEATH CASES, SUICIDE CASES, NAMELY
FEDERAL INVESTIGATION AUTHORITY (FIA) COMPRISING OF OFFICIALS FROM ALL STATES,
IN ORDER TO PREVENT PEOPLE / POLITICAL PARTIES DEMAND FOR JUSTICE THROUGH CBI
OR JUDICIAL PROBE.
It
is a fact that majority of the cases of people demonstration or dharnas etc or
by the political parties in the event of any tragedy of rape, murder or suicide
of any individuals is for the CBI probe or for judicial probe. Since people /
political parties do not have trust/ faith in the investigation of the local
police/ concerned state police as they fell they are biased towards vested
interests and they cannot perform impartial inquiry and without which the
culprits do not get punishment as per law/ may get reduced punishment? And in
such case there is no meaning for justice to the victim. Its really sad that
our systems are not strong enough to create confidence in the police of the
territory; but the fact of the matter is that all political parties as well the
some of the people are aware that even CBI enquiry cannot yield the perfect
investigation unless otherwise there is freedom of investigation, as SUPREME
COURT of India termed CBI as CAGED PARROT, and the recruitment of CBI is done
by the central government and they report to the central government for
administrative purposes?
So
in order to ensure victims get justice and the culprits get convection and reduce millions of
man-hours by the people/ political parties wasting in darnas/ demonstrations
demanding CBI enquiry / judicial probe, reduce the mental agony of the
victim/family awaiting for justice to be delivered to them, all political
parties must ensure government of the day enact law forming an independent
federal inquiry agency (FEDERAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY - FIA) comprising of straightforward
police officers from all states who has
hands on expertise in handling different cases like rape, murder, suicide etc.
This FIA is not like CBI, its more or less like SIT headed by a sitting judge; (CBI
can probe for all cases which need interstate probe in cases like terror,
financial scams, all government scams etc) The FIA will deal with only such
cases like rape, murder and suicide in any part of the country in that
respective state/ territory, but CBI can do probe in all other cases other than
FIA do, in the process of investigation
CBI may utilise expertise of FIA and vice versa; This FIA should be headed by a
SITTING SUPREME COURT JUDGE at the centre or apex, and in the states by the
HIGH COURT JUDGE and in districts by a SITTING DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, all the
cases of any kind of demand from the victims/ their immediate family members
(list of eligible members that can demand FIA enquiry) should be eligible to
demand for FIA enquiry, and the FIA will soon take over the case immediately
from the local police and start its investigation. FIA should complete
investigation in time bound manner for each case and ensure that justice is
delivered to the victim in a specified time period. And once FIA APEX delivers
the judgement, it can be challenged only in SUPREME COURT FULL BENCH. This
measure will saves lot of time of local police, judiciary time, and local
police can focus on law and order of the territory, also people will feel that they
got justice in time, also millions of man hours of productive time saved due to
avoiding of people demanding for CBI probe or Judicial probe, as the scope for
biased investigation is very marginal as the case is monitored by the JUDGES
from DISTRICT COURT to HIGH COURT to SUPREME COURT.
Also it should be made mandatory that other than the family members of the
victim no one should be eligible to ask for any type of investigation,
especially the political parties are barred from demanding on behalf of the
victims. Only human rights commission can demand inquiry to FIA at any point of
time in case they feel that the victim is getting injustice due to enquiry of
local police, in case the victim is illiterate/ unaware of the provision of FIA,
also the victims should possess authority to demand for FIA at any point of
time even after trail court pronounced its judgement based on the enquiry/
investigation of local police. This measure ensures people get justice and
people of the country will have belief in law enforcement authorities and legal
constitutional justice system of the country. It reduces political parties
doing all sorts of drams to get political mileage, score brownie points by
demanding justice for the victims.
10)
NEED FOR PROPER DISASTER MANAGEMENT SERVICES IN EVERY
DISTRICT, MANDATORY PERIODIC AUDIT AND TESTING OF EQUIPMENT, ALSO NEED FOR
TRAINING OF POLITICAL PARTY YOUTH AND OTHER COMMON YOUTH WHO ARE INTERESTED IN
VOLUNTEERING IN DISASTER RESCUE AND RELIEF OPERATIONS, THE TRAINING BASED ON
THE NATURE OF DISASTER SUCH AS CYCLONE, (IN CYCLONE PRONE AREAS), FLOODS, EARTH
QUAKES (SEISMIC 3 AND ABOVE ZONES), FIRE, COLLAPSE OF BUILDINGS, ETC FOR
MINIMIZING THE DAMAGE TO LOSS OF HUMANS AND PROPERTY. AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY BASED
DEVICES LIKE DRONE CAMERAS, DRONE OPERATED INFRARED THERMAL CAMERAS TO IDENTIFY
HUMANS STRUCK IN THE DEBRIS ETC IN THE EVENT OF DISASTERS BY BOTH DISASTER
RELIEF TEAMS AND BY THE PRIVATE MEDIA ORGANISATIONS.
Also
governments both central and states must prepare a uniform norms for disaster
rescue and relief operations with preparedness to minimize the causalities and
save the humans lives and the property as far as possible. For this the
disaster management authority should possess standard latest equipment, also updating
the equipment inventory every year, and also there should be periodic testing
of the equipment for ensuring that equipment are fully functional/operational
at the time need, also the disaster rescue teams should use the drones for
taking pictures, video of extent of disaster and also use thermal cameras/
imaging technology, infrared radars to identify the humans struck in the
debris, also government must train the ex army persons and youngsters who wish
to volunteer the disaster rescue and relief operations with basic training to
assist the disaster teams, also to start disaster management even before
government teams arrives under the guidance / instructions of the government
rescues teams, as these trained volunteers are available locally, for this
government must select at least 100 members in each mandal / block for this
basic training course and provide certificate in this regard. The volunteers
can be divided into specialisation in the possible disaster in that territorial
jurisdiction/ vicinity of the 100 km surroundings, like the coastal areas
people for cyclones, near the river area people for floods, those in the earth
quake prone areas should be trained in earth quake disaster rescue and relief
management and for some people like fire, building collapse etc. The phone
numbers of all disaster management trained volunteers should be made available
on the website area wise and also they should be tracked by the disaster
management teams to utilise their services by using the nearest available
trained person in the vicinity of disaster. These measures will save lot of
human lives. Also it should be made mandatory that building codes should be
prepared as per the general nature of disasters in the respective territorial
areas.
11)
NEED FOR RESTRICTING/ SENSITIZING MEDIA FOR NOT TO
HAMPER THE RESCUE AND RELIEF OPERATIONS IN THE EVENT OF ANY NATURAL CALAMITY OR
INVESTIGATION IN CASE OF ANY TRAGEDY OF CRIME. NEED FOR REGULATION MEDIA FOR
ENSURING MEDIA PROVIDE SPACE PROPORTIONATE TO PERCENTAGE OF VOTE SHARES IN
GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR POLITICAL PARTIES, ALSO PROPORTIONATE TO PERCENTAGE OF
POPULATION OF CASTE, RELIGION, GENDER AND INCOME GROUP IN THEIR PANEL
DISCUSSIONS, ALSO MEDIA ORGANISATION TO MAINTAIN SOCIAL JUSTICE, SOCIAL
EQUALITY IN THEIR ORGANISATION, WITH PROPORTIONATE REPRESENTATION DALITS , ADIVASIS AND BACK WARD CASTES IN
THEIR EDITORIAL BOARDS MAINTAINING CONSTITUTIONAL RESERVATIONS IN MEDIA
ORGANISATIONS; FIXED TENURE FOR EACH POSITION IN MEDIA ORGANISATIONS AND
MANDATORY RETIREMENT AFTER ATTAINING 60 YEARS IN MEDIA ORGANISATIONS TO ENSURE COUNTRY PROGRESS DUE TO EQUAL VOICE
FOR ALL SECTIONS IN THE COUNTRY.
It
is a hard fact that in most of the cases till date whenever there is a crime
happened, the media is pro actively wish to put the detailed description of
crime to their viewers, but most unfortunately media is also becoming a
deterrent in the investigation of the case as media un knowingly contributing
its bit to get the evidence distorted due to the foot prints by several media
organisations representatives at the place of crime, also its a fact in some
cases the media organisations investigative journalism is helping the police
nab the accused and also in some cases the culprits getting convection, but the
hyper active media is also unknowingly indirectly helping the accused/ culprits
to understand the weakness of investigation and it gives long rope for them to
escape from the clutches of law, also it is most unfortunate that media giving
political party leaders the space to air the views at the time of crises to
start blame game and try to score Browne points shamelessly by some sections of
people who are otherwise totally insensitive. As such there should be a law
restricting the media to air only feeds from government media or media not to
enter the site of crime or visit the site of disaster when relief and rescue
operations are on, also media can air the views of only government officers/ elected
representatives in government or leaders of opposition during the time of
crime/ disaster, that too out of the place of crime/ disaster affected area.
Also
it is fact that media playing a great role in making people aware about the
causalities and precautions after the disaster/ natural calamity/ event
occurred in any territory, providing some sort of idea what is happened, and
what are the relief measures the victims of natural disaster is getting, but
media should unite in this need of the hour help during crises, they should exhibit
large heart and unite and send their reports in such a manner they can cover
all the disaster effected places and ensure that people get some sort of
confidence both the people in that disaster territory and also to the families/
relatives of those who are caught in the territory of the disaster regarding
the safety and life of their loved ones through airing regarding the missed
people, un contactable/ traceable people.
Its is really a painful thing that media caught in the edge of
completion going solo by every media one after the other the same areas of
devastation and taking bite from the effected people one after the other in
that territory, interviewing the service personal, disaster relief persons
regarding the disaster and almost repeated questions of similar nature by every
media, is really painful for millions of common people, so media if believed in
real help / service to the victims, also more pathetic is that even in this
hour of crises some of the media try to claim that we are first to reach this
place or we are first airing this pictures or we are first to interview this
officer of relief/ disaster management or we are first to travel in this
helicopter of relief etc, is really discussing and insensitivity of media????? in fact it is criminal on the part of the both
the government service officers part to allow media in their relief choppers as
that space for two passengers (camera man and reporter) can be used for relief
of several affected people??? and also claiming in some media that they are
part of relief operations or covering relief operations is really shocking for
many common viewers, that how come tax payers money be used by these private
media houses to report the events and claiming exclusivity and also it is
hampering the relief operations to some extent as that space occupied by the
television news crew can be used for carrying further relief material????; also
it is fact that many people feel that role of media in natural disasters is not
much except creation further anxiety/ pain in the effected people as well as non
affected people, as it is a fact if the media able to reach to some places of
disaster much faster than the relief operations then in the event of
interviewing the affected people, they will certainly express their anguish
that government did nothing, they did not get anything etc etc, even though it
is very fact, that one has to understand that there is no magic wand in
government/ relief agencies to just take care of all the affected people at the
same time, after all relief material to be carried from faraway places mostly
by the air route by choppers and as such the first preference to be given to
maximum affected areas and then they slowly get reach to all the areas that
affected, also it is fact that the people who are affected by disaster are expressing
their views in undue stress and also it is their right to expect/demand from
govern for such help, but media should be sensitive in this regard and should
not try to score brownie points by criticizing the government/ rescue / relief
teams???.
Also
it is ideal that media organisations
decide themselves restrict to number of reports from themselves and select few
to represent entire media and send to cover any incidences of crime like rape/
murder/ suicide and take the share the feed among all media in the larger
interest of the getting justice to the victim???. also it is ideal that
government must ensure that they enact a law restricting the media to certain
points of areas (they cannot enter within few meters of the area of crime till
the police/investigation teams takes the clues and clear the area for public
movement), in the larger interest of justice to the victim. This not to be
treated as curbing the freedom of press, freedom expression/ speech of any
individuals/ media, but only and only in the interest of the getting speedy
justice to the victims and not to give room for the culprits to get escape,
hide behind the lacunas of the investigation by getting first hand information
through media investigative journalism exposing the negatives of the
investigation??? It is for the media to self introspect and analysis their acts
how far it is justifiable in this regard??
Just
because some one is holding journalistic degree they should not think they are
only responsible citizens in the country and they are like judiciary or above
judiciary and they are above law and they can do anything and everything they
wish, all others should be mute spectators for all acts of journalistic
fraternity and no one can show the drawback of media and as the journalist
think/ presumption that media is like god, and expressing draw backs/ lacunas
of media is a blasphemy???? If it is so its ridiculous thinking and height of hypocrisy,
after all every citizen is answerable to the people of the country in a
democracy and should be abide by the constitutional law, if media believes in democracy
they should value the morals, ethics of journalistic principles in the larger
interest of people and not for indirectly dictating terms for others through
having the so called investigative journalism obtaining the details about any
section of society, making the political
class indirectly obey /dance to the tunes of the media organisations does not
amount to journalistic values,
ethics????, which is the opinion of millions of common people, if media
organisations have any reservations in this opinion of millions of common
people, they should go for their opinion poll in every media in this
regard????? Also many people feel that it is disgusting and un professional to
claim we are number one to get TRP and get profits to their organisation??????,
in fact for many millions of people media is a ray of hope and also without
independence, free press the other three pillars of democracy viz, legislative,
executive and judiciary may not function perfectly so role of media in the
nation building cannot be undermined, demined but at the same time media should
understand that everything has some limits of its own and media too draw its
limits and rectify its short comings and do course correction in the larger
interest of people of the country.
If
media is really intended for the welfare of the betterment of all sections of people and media is for
social justice and social equality, and if media believes in equal opportunity
for all, if media believes that talent and intellect is not the property right
of elite/ upper echelons or a particular upper caste, they should ensure/accept/
adopt structural changes and reforms in media are brought and they allow the
government to bring in reforms in media organisations for uniformity and common
laws prevails in the media organisations recruitment, promotion, and
retirement?? When media is considered as fourth estate and a powerful medium of
commutation and an influential agent of change, the social equality and social
justice should start from media organisations first to set examples for others???
How come media think they are different, all others in the country to follow
one set of law and the media has its own laws all in the name of freedom of expression/
press/ independent of media?? Do independence of media means that just like that
some son/ daughter of elite or their kin kith of the ownership of media become
editor in chiefs, managing editors or editors in the media, where as other
journalist with lot of talent and intellect and expertise languish as just
reports/ chief correspondents etc, if media is really transparent they should
keep the details of entire media editors of each media house on the internet
website of their own media house as well in Broad casting associations website about
the experience of the editors, managing editors, editors in chief and their family
back ground, their relation to the promoters of media, their financial back
ground, their income status; then things will be clear?
Also
if media is not having low view for the dalits, adivasis and other back ward
castes, media organisations should ensure there is proportionate representation
of dalits adivasis and other back ward class people in their organisation as
per percentage of population of caste, religion and income group in their
organisation, in all media organisations, there is acute need for
constitutional reservations in this regard; if they think so that
constitutional reservation is needed then all the elected representatives possessing
any kind of respect for democracy, up lift meant of dalits, adivasis,
obc’s and downtrodden sections then, they
should ensure government amend law to make it mandatory that constitutional reservations are applicable in
each media house / organisation whether run by government or private corporate,
or by a MNC at all levels of the organisation from reports to editorial boards,
in all departments of media organisation after all media is forth pillar of democracy,
when all three pliers have constitutional reservations why not in fourth pillar
of democracy???, also it s necessary as this media is directly influencing the
lives of millions of people through their activities, so reservation in media
organisations is a must, its heinous on the part of media organisations to hide
behind the so called MERIT, as merit is not the propriety of upper castes or
upper echelons????; also it is a must for all media organisations to ensure
proportionate representation of Dalits, adivasis and other backward class
people in its editorial boards, all matters pertaining to these downtrodden
sections should be looked after by these dalit/ adivasi/ obc editorial members
of media houses.
Also
media houses should ensure youth of the country to get opportunity for them to
rise in the carrier of journalism, media organisations should have fixed tenure
for each position, i.e one can be a reporter for certain period of time, one
can be editor for certain period of time, one can be editor in chief for certain
period of time, after that they may continue in the organisation till the
retirement in the media organisation; also there should be a fixed age of
retirement of 60 years for the media people to retire from the profession of
journalism working in any organisation, however after retirement journalist can
act as freelance journalists. This measure will certainly ensure all sections
of society have equal opportunity in the media organisations and there exists
an impartial/ non biased broadcast of new/ views as it is fact that editors,
managing editors and editor in chiefs decide the content to be aired/
printed???; as it is a fact an open secret that off the record talks of many
revel that, which is also the opinion of many educated people that media
organisations are biased towards upper echelons and upper castes, but pretend
to rise issues of downtrodden all hand in glove with the elite political leaders, all for profit of the media
organisations, as majority of the viewers are common people and downtrodden
sections???? since the managing editors, editors in chiefs and editors decide
the content to be aired/ printed, they give importance to the content of upper
echelons and completely ignore/ neglect / give abysmal space to the
downtrodden/ dalits and adivases in the media as it is a fact that still media
origination top brass is completely occupied by upper echelons/ upper caste, In
order to wipe off this notion and to ensure confidence in the media
organisations and also for exhibition of real commitment towards the
downtrodden sections, they should provide equal space for all sections of
society and they should call for panel discussions based on the income group
and caste/ religion/ gender in each discussion, also the total time of aired/
printed space of media organisations should be divided as per percentage of
population of caste, income group and religion and gender in order to do
justice to all sections of the people as it a fact that media being a powerful
medium of influence, they can project any one and make hem hero at the same
time they can run the stories to make people with substance as zero???
Its
high time for media elders to exhibit the wisdom in them to rectify the media
irregularities, lacunas in the media; in
case media failure to do so by letting down the meaning of democracy in the
country, then Government must not provide any news to the private media
organisations, only Door Darshan and all India radio should get first hand
information and the private media can source from the Doordharshnan or from the
government social media sites, if private media is truthful then it should
correct it self???? Also government must put a gag order on the media houses barring
them to claim that they are number one media organisation by media organisations
by self certification???? the media persons think that they can fool the
viewers by self certification??? there should only one recognised government
organisation or any organisation to provide the TRP RATINGS and those ratings
should decide which cannel is viewed by how many people, its a sham that media
organisations getting surveyed by private organisations and claiming they are
number one???
Also
government must ban the media organisations presenting so called awards or excellence in the name of so and so etc,
only intended for Public relation development exercise and also these political
and bureaucratic class who are otherwise
strive for popularity are hand in glove with the media heads and leaks
information to the media for getting soft corners/ popularity, otherwise even
when closed door meetings are still on section of media airs that as per
sources this is the information that is happening in the closed room of any
government meeting????; as such in the first place government must completely
ban the private media organisations from giving any awards to government
officers and elected representatives and political party organisations, and
also it should be a criminal offence for announcing and also for receiving such
awards, this measure will certainly reduce the political - bureaucratic - media
nexus????;
Also
government must ban exclusive interview to any private media by government
officers / ministers in the government and also elected representatives, after
all elected representatives are not for section of population, but entire
territory? As All sections of people do not have access private news channels,
more specifically so called English news channels only less than 1% of the
population watching the national media??
Also
government should make it mandatory that all media organisations both
electronic and print required to provide space to political parties based the
percentage of share of votes they got in the general elections, and there
should be daily online data for public view about the coverage of news of
different political party organisation events/ events of government in which if
there is panel discussion then the composition and time of airing/ printing
space should be based on the percentage of vote share of that particular
political party, in case the entire non ruling political parties becomes a
cartel and gives open letter for anyone among them can use the entire space as
per their combined vote share, then the media organisations should o so; this
measure is necessary as most of the media houses are biased towards some or
other political party and they do not cover or cover for name sake the other
political party which they do not have liking, it is an open fact????. Also it
is fact that some of the political parties especially regional parties are running
their own channels and they simply air / print their own news/ party news and
they will hardly give any space for other political parties; so the above
measure of proportionate allocation of media space as per percentage of vote
share is a must to maintain media neutrality and non biased political nature of
media organisations.
Also
there is acute need for media organisation to provide training for the people
who conduct panel discussions to behave professionally and provide equal
opportunity for all the people in the panel discussions and the panel should
comprise of all sections of society who are registered with them from different
castes, religions, gender, income group and professions and the selection of panel
should be on random bases and not by pick and choose and the political party
official spokes persons can take part in the discussions; also the person
conducing panel discussion should be trained enough that he/she should not
overlap/ cut mike/ do not give chance for persons to express their opinion and
they to enforce their own point of view as final as if they are above all and
they knew everything all others are just to applaud them? Is ridiculous and
such mindset people are not suitable to conduct the panel discussions, its
against professional ethics of journalism and leadership otherwise, as leaders
are to be good listeners first rather they try to hound others with their own
personal view and in fact it is nothing but one or other way megalomania that
since the media organisation is at their disposal they even try to denigrate
others who do not accept their point of view??? Government must ensure media
regulations in such a manner that every panel discussion should be professional
and decent and everyone should have right to express their point of view in
equal time????; these above measures of regulating media is not amounts to
controlling media/ restricting media from so called freedom press, but it is
for streamlining of the media in the larger interest of people of the country,
also for ensuring social justice and social equality prevails in the
influential medium of communication, which sets an example for others to
follow. All persons with minimum common sense and minimum wisdom, who work in the
larger interest selflessly, will accept these views described in this
regard.
12)
CONCLUSION
It
is fact that due to lack of systems in place / lack of certain laws in place
for protecting the interest of victims and their families, most of the
political parties are trying to en-cash the hour of crises and emotions of
people in the hour of tragedy shamelessly, as such its high time that
government enact laws for stream-line-ing the systems in a such manner that all
victims in the country will get speedy justice, the affected lives will get
right compensation for ensuring the day to day life not effected, for this the
first step is banning political parties / leaders rushing to spot of
crime/disaster for preventing the occurrence of damage to the
evidence/investigation also prevention of
scope of spared of infections to the victims sue to visits of political
party leaders to the victims in hospitals, also regulating number of visitors
to the hospitals to reduce the risk of infections to the patients and ensuring
speedy recovery of patients, also since most of the issues in the country revolve
around the farmers, it is necessary that interests of farmers are taken care by
every other citizen, it is high time that government must formulate laws to
nullify/ contain the happing of suicides by farmers n account of crop failure,
due to debts, by making it mandatory hence
forth agriculture/ cultivation should be dome in a cooperative manner,
like Village Agriculture Cooperative Associations, and making it mandatory that
all agriculture holdings should use ¼ of their land for horticulture/
vegetable/ cash crops and all agriculture holdings should raise cattle/ poultry
when the cultivation is done by individuals (not buy corporate), also
construction of rural storage godowans in every mandal with railway sidings,
government paying uniform compensation for farmers throughout the country,
maintenance of parallel sites for assessment of crop damage by all political
parties each farmer wise/ village wise ensuring no farmer is left out in the
event of crop damage, all farmers get the compensation amount equal to the
input costs, will certainly hep in containing the suicides of farmers, also measures for
containing the politicisation/ capitalisation of framers deaths by the
political parties by restricting the political party leaders visiting the
victims house all in the name of so called consoling wasting millions of
rupees, for such consoling and all political parties if really interested in
the welfare of the diseased family, they should pay such costs estimated for
visits of their top leaders the victims family, also alternatively the
political parties can sponsor to the victims family if they wish to meet the
top political leaders of that political party in their head quarters; also making it mandatory that media restricted to
air the views of political party leaders / elected representatives visiting the
victims, also government creating a fund/ agency/with 100 % tax exemption on
the amount spend by any individual or corporate in the process of helping the
victims in rape/ murder/ suicide family members in distress, / adopting the
family of the diseased in case of the diseased is a bread earner of the family,
in addition making a specialised investigation agency like Federal
Investigation agency FIA for investigating exclusively into rape, murder and
suicide cases with the agency headed by a sitting judge of supreme court, thus
ensuing impartial investigation and speedy
time bound justice thus creating the respect for constitutional justice in the
people, in addition reducing the political parties agitating for this kind of
impartial justice, also restating only the victim/ their immediate family
members has the authority to demand for FIA or CBI probe and not the political
parties, and once the request for the FIA probe is made by the FIA will take
over the probe and do investigation; also there should a a complete disaster
preparedness by all states/ center based on the territories which exposed to
particular type of disaster, in addition training team of volunteers for
disaster preparedness, also making all political parties maintain disaster
preparedness in each mandal, also use of drone cameras and latest technologies
for disaster management, also restricting the media to behave sensibly and
responsibly in the events of crimes/ tragedy/ accident/ natural calamity/
disaster and act in the larger interest of all sections of people playing a
role of giving hope to the people in distress rather than creating panic among
people, all leading to real meaning of true democracy, also there should be
media regulations without curbing the freedom of press only to streamline the
operations of media organisation to maintain social equality and social justice
in media organisations by providing equal opportunity for dalits, adivasis and
other backward class in every media organisation proportionate to the
percentage of population of caste and religion in that state/ centre, also for
ensuring media produce equal space for
al castes, religions, income group and gender based on the percentage of
population of each category, also political parties based on the percentage of
vote share each political party got in the general elections that is sate
assembly for regional channels, and parliament elections for national channels,
all leading to equal opportunity for all sections of people and no political
party take advantage of any tragedy/disaster for gaining political mileage by
fooling common people with their publicity tactics using the media for
political gains can be contained, all leading to real service to the people
will happen and inclusive growth of all sections of people occur in the
country.
Note: If anyone hurt due the content in
this document, I express my sincere regrets, pray almighty to provide
equanimity of vision, mind and wisdom for them, as i have expressed only the
opinion of several people, only in the larger interest of people of the country
and nothing intentional to criticize/ nor to degrade/ de value any individual
or section of people or organisation or people from any caste, religion or
gender or income group, but certainly intended to being the desired change in systems
in the larger interest of people of the country.
Note: Ref my documents 1) Political and
Electoral system reforms Jan 2013 2) Food
for all Sep 2012; 3)
Protection of hill stations July 2013; 4) Media regulations Sep 2013 in my blog
or scribd
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JAI HIND
PRADEEP
KUMAR KUNCHE
Think
Social Engineering Think Me
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