Updates
Our first batch (1954-60) met at Raj Darbar Hotel, Bodhgaya which has just concluded on October 23 and 24,2010. Twenty four of our batchmates came with their spouses with a few exceptions. Besides wives and siblings of Late Devendra Sinha and Late Dharnidhar Srivastava also attended the meet. Shriman Mithilesh Kanti and Mataji Smt.Nirmal Kanti graced the occasion with their presence. The occasion was marked as the passing of 50 years of leaving our alma mater in 1960 which captioned as “SWARNIM SNEH-MILAN”
The Naxalite Movement is one of the important components in the political spectrum in India. At one stage, the 'spring thunder' caused tremors in practically all the states of the Union and posed a serious challenge even to the democratic structure. The Idealists saw in it the beginning of a new world, a new socio-economic order. But soon sordid politics took over. The movement, however, continues to have a large support base because of the intellectual appeal of its ideology. It has survived more than a quarter-century of an onslaught by the security forces -without any external support, unlike the Punjab terrorism and Kashmir militancy. The Movement has developed an inherent strength. The present book is the only one of its kind. It covers all the important developments from the inception of the movement in 1967 to the present day in a historical sweep. I have added more non-conventional chapter to suit the taste of "Contemporary Reader". One more dimension has elaborated in this book about caste participation and Minority and Dalit status in the Naxalite Movement.
Naxalite Movement: A Biggest Challenge to the Internal Security
Defeating Naxalite Ways and Means to Defeat: Way and means to defeat Naxalism
Dr. Manish Ranjan is recipient of Prime Minister’s Award of “Excellence in MGNREGA” in Two Consecutive Years in 2008 and 2009, for work in Deoghar and Pakur districts in Jharkhand. In 2007, he was awarded by President of India for achieving the FIRST Fully Sanitized Panchayat in Alaudia of Latehar District of Jharkhand State. He is a 2002 batch Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer from the Jharkhand Cadre. He is currently working as Deputy Commissioner (D.C.) cum District Magistrate (DM) at Khunti district of Jharkhand.
Shri Arjun Mundiya, Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Sambalpur & Apar Mukhya Rajbhasha Adhikari was awarded Rly Minister’s Rajbhasha Silver Medal and citation by the Chairman, Railway Board in a special function at New Delhi on 27.01.2010 in recognition of his commendable contribution towards implementation of Hindi (Rajbhasha).
It is worth mentioning that Shri Mundiya has been looking after the duties attached to the post of Apar Mukhya Rajbhasha Adhikari since May’07 in addition to his normal responsibilities as Additional Divisional Railway Manager. He involved himself personally to oversee the implementation of Rajbhasha in the Division. The measures taken by him include setting up separate accommodation for Hindi section and library, to encourage branch officers to do official works in Hindi, the introduction of Rajbhasha Shield and group awards within the Division, the arrangement of the training centre and trainer to facilitate non-Hindi speaking employees to take up Prabod, Praveen and Pragya examinations, arranging trainer on honorarium basis for Hindi dictation, organizing workshops with help of PowerPoint presentation on “Hindiwriter” software to popularize typing in Hindi on computers, editing of in-house Hindi magazine “Hirakhand” and maximum usage of Hindi during meetings, seminars and cultural functions. A unique way of promoting Hindi adopted by him was to distribute Hindi to English dictionaries to the prize winners including employees’ wards in various competitions organized by Rajbhasha department.
Recognition by Railway Ministry of efforts made by Shri Mundiya is a matter of pride for the Hindi loving people of Sambalpur (Orissa) where Oriya is the spoken language in day to day official dealings.
Broadstreaming, not Mainstreaming’ - An Approach towards Solutions for Inclusive Development was delivered at XLRI, Jamshedpur as inaugural address in the conference on ‘Solutions to Inclusive Development’ on January 29, 2010. This talk was given by Vijoy Prakash Jee (Arun Ashram, 1967-72), currently serving as Principal Secretary (Rural Development), Bihar.
The talk gives glimpses into the model of development for Bihar and some of the steps that have been taken/being planned for improving the neglected segment of society. You can see the presentation at Scribd.com