To
The Editor
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Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg
New Delhi 110002
The High Capacity Bus System has found many ardent advocates the world over as a relatively inexpensive and efficient mass transport system. Renamed – somewhat incorrectly – as the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) in the city of Delhi, it has been designed not only for the most widely used form of public transport (the bus carries about 40% of the 15 million passenger trips per day in the city), but also provides demarcated space for the cyclist and the pedestrian (who account for another 42%), while leaving a substantial two lanes for the private cars and two/three-wheelers (which account for the remaining 8% and 10% respectively).
Statements, Reports, Calls to Action
Media Release: People's Parliament Slams UPA government: Demands Non Displacing Development Paradigm
People's Parliament Slams UPA government: Demands Non Displacing Development Paradigm
Press Release
29th April 2008
People's Parliament Slams UPA government: Demands Non Displacing Development Paradigm
More than a thousand people from people's movements from across the country have come together under the banner of Sangharsh. A three day agitation and dharna in front of the Indian Parliament in New Delhi's Jantar Mantar was started on 28th April 2008.
A Jan Sansad (People's Parliament) was organised today on issues of Displacement, Land Acquisition and R&R. People's voices on these issues have so far remained on the margins of electoral politics. A much needed platform for dialogue and engagement between people and their elected representatives was presented today.
Save the lives of 13 under-trials in Nagpur Jail! Support demands of hunger strike!
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To: all citizens
Save the lives of 13 under-trials in Nagpur Jail! Support demands of hunger strike!
To,
The Governor,
State of Maharashtra, India
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Dear Sir,
We, the undersigned, are seriously concerned about the health of 13 under trial prisoners, allegedly Naxalites or Naxal sympathizers, in Nagpur jail who have been on hunger strike since the 7th of April, 2008. The issues for which they have launched the hunger strike are serious and urgent. They have already petitioned the state authorities drawing attention to the following issues:
* The police have been using Sec. 110 CrPC (Security for good behavior from habitual offenders) to re-arrest those who have been acquitted by the judiciary, on the grounds that they are accused of abetting Naxalites in commission of crimes. Already two such cases have happened. Jayakka was re-arrested on 29/3/2008 after being acquitted and Mallesh Sailu was also re-arrested on release on 1/4/2008. Both should be unconditionally released.
Srilanka peoples organisations on high food prices
Statement of people’s organizations on high food prices: time for a comprehensive shift in economic policy
THE PRESENT
1. Food price increases in Sri Lanka - higher than global increases.
World food prices increased by 40% last year and in Sri Lanka it was much higher. The price of essential food such as rice, bread and milk increased two or three times and the impact is greatest on the poor who spend about 80% of their income on food. This is part of a global crisis in which more and more people cannot feed themselves or their children. Alongside the current high cost of living increase this situation is extremely dangerous.
Chidambarams peoples budget misses the fishing boat
Thiruvanathapuram: While welcoming the partial debt relief for small and marginal farmers, the Kerala Swantantra Matstya Thozhilali Federation (KSMTF) stated that it was unfortunate that Finance Minister P Chidambaram once again completely ignored the concerns of the fishing community.
‘The 60,000 crore relief package is a step forward, but given the limited access of small and marginal farmers to institutional credit (where the waiver will apply), the scheme will not cover a vast majority of farmers who have borrowed at exorbitant rates of interest from money lenders. Further if one locates the budget in the overall neo-liberal macroeconomic policies of the UPA Government, much of the ‘pro people’ schemes in the budget can be see as hollow pre-election rhetoric’ stated T Peter, President of the KSMTF.
‘The 60,000 crore relief package is a step forward, but given the limited access of small and marginal farmers to institutional credit (where the waiver will apply), the scheme will not cover a vast majority of farmers who have borrowed at exorbitant rates of interest from money lenders. Further if one locates the budget in the overall neo-liberal macroeconomic policies of the UPA Government, much of the ‘pro people’ schemes in the budget can be see as hollow pre-election rhetoric’ stated T Peter, President of the KSMTF.
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