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 IIT Bombay suicide: Rights group says Solanki had told his sister about discrimination he faced at the institutehttps://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/iit-bombay-suicide-rights-group-says-solanki-had-told-his-sister-about-discrimination-he-faced-at-the-institute-23273509  PUCL: Merely holding some individuals responsible for the acts of Caste discrimination and providing solutions within criminal justice system.. will only result in shifting the responsibility from society, Institutes and Governments to few individuals...  but provides no way forward to strike at the roots of Caste discrimination.

The statement said that what is required is to provide the students from marginalized communities academic institutes which are determined to counter caste hierarchy by institutionalizing measures and mechanisms to create an atmosphere which is inclusive. 

The rights group emphasized that in case of Darshan Solanki’s death the Special Investigation Team must be completely transparent in their functioning and provide all available information and statements of any persons concerning this enquiry with his parents.

For full statement https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EiGhAFu8Xpt0LApwfw90RiDyFdn-c_88

The statement calls for Enactment of a new legislation to respond to caste‐based discrimination in HEls at all India
level.
The primary focus and basis of such a legislation as to be:
• Explicit recognition of caste-based discrimination in educational institutions
• Places onus of providing a safe and secure environment on the management of the educational institutions
• Lay out a dedicated mechanism for redressal of complaints for every educational institution to abide by.
• Along with emphasising redressing acts of caste-based discrimination there must be an equal stress on creating awareness around caste discrimination and setting up of mechanisms to enable prevention.
• Processes under this legislation must involve all sections of people from the institution to implement this legislation, thus making this a shared responsibility of everyone.
• Persons from marginalised communities representing all sections of students and staff of the institution must form the majority of members on all committees made for the implementation of this act.
• These committees must also have participation of representatives of civil society members who have been active in anti-caste struggles.

BBC पर UK विदेशमंत्री से भिड़े जयशंकर, UK Foreign Minister vs S.Jai Shankar on BBC Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnV56T0lf54 DESH NEETI  Mar 4, 2023

All entities must comply with laws, Jaishankar tells UK Foreign Minister on BBC tax ‘survey’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8MYLgpzxL8 https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/uk-foreign-secretary-james-cleverly-raises-bbc-tax-issue-with-eam-jaishankar-484191 Last month, the Income-Tax authorities had carried out surveys at the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai. The action by the tax authorities came immediately after the BBC released a documentary about the 2002 Gujarat riots which alleged inaction during the massacre by the then CM Narendra Modi.

‘Positive’ on India, UK ‘raises’ BBC https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/positive-on-india-britain-raises-bbc/cid/1919832 Indian sources said that when Cleverly brought the matter up, “he was firmly told that all entities operating in India must comply fully with relevant laws and regulations”. The Reuters news agency reported that Cleverly did not go into the details of what he said about the tax searches on the BBC.

“The conversations I had with him are best to keep with him. I did raise it,’’ Cleverly was quoted as saying. “One of the advantages of having such a strong and professional relationship with Dr Jaishankar is I am able to bring up, and indeed he brings up with me, some of these sensitive issues. I did raise it with him.”

 Decoding the Adani Scam  https://youtu.be/y07OMvvSMDg?t=965 Panel Discussion two hour long

watch Segments:

Opening Remarks: Feroze Mithiborwala, Writer, Social Activist  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=1126&end=1455    This is not just about PMs role, but it is a matter of national sovereignty when a company is sold national resources and logistics. How do activists understand this.. five stage operation.. cooking up books of accounts, manipulation in the share markets through some entities buying shares, which enables higher loans from banks , which again round trip the capital. Prior to the Hindenberg report, journalist has written about the off shore companies involved.. Role of Adani in other countries like Srilanka, Bangalesh, Israel and facilitation of this through the PMs office.

Presidential Remarks by Dr. G G Parikh. https://youtu.be/4UMYPp0JhRw  The gandhian path would be to get people and youth in large numbers. Can we get back to those ways.  They feel that they can keep making mistakes, and people will forget. I dont think this can continue. Slowly a situation will arise when youth will come to the streets in a big way. Naya Jamana Ayega, Humari Republic bach Jayegi.

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Journalist, Author  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=1797&end=1894   the Adani group has filed six cases against him, including two gag orders, but he chose to speak as silence was no more an option.

Six Defamation cases details  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=3653&end=4405   Story of Resignation from EPW, Gag order after story on retirement of judges. Was PGT informer for Hindenberg? 

About the Adani group. Its spectacular rise & precipitous fall : https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=1895&end=2267    “The Adani group has expanded into many areas of business for which it has taken loans from various banks and even LIC. It is too big to fail but if it slows, it can certainly have an impact on the country,”

 The Uniqueness of the Adani group . Never before has a corporate group spreads to so many sectors of the economy, and is dominant of many of the sectors.  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=2267&end=3044  The story of the different started with the SEZ in Mundra during the Congress regime.  which is now the biggest SEZ, biggest container port. and a chain of 12 ports all along the coast. The core of the india's infrastructure, including food storage infrastructure and defence military grade drone., importer of coal, nine coal mines in India has been rendered to the Adani Group.

 Bangladesh project issue.  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=3044&end=3177  

Dominance in gas, solar, cement media, real estate, etc https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=3179&end=3653 

Real estate: more than 300 projects.. Dharavi included  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=3393&end=3443

Family connections https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=3443&end=3539

Ravi Nair, Journalist, Author 

 Bailable warrant from Mansa station in Gujarat. what was it all about   https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=4485&end=4726 . adani in aug 2021. Court used to send summons to an old address. They collated different tweet and different articles, most of the tweets are quotes from other articles with links. So what the original article is not defamatory, but tweeting it became defamatory!

 government support to the group. https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=4726&end=5356  “Adani calls his rise mehnat (hard work), mehnat and mehnat. But it is Prime Minister Modi who has worked hard for him,” said Nair. eg Godda power project. 2 MOUs for indian companies, to establish plants in Bangadesh.  After 3 months the MOU changed to Adani project to build the plant in India, and export that power.  For the project they forcibly took 2,000 acre of land from farmers to help them set up a power project. . Just before the 2019 elections this Godda area has been declared as an SEZ where he enjoys many tax exemptions,”      “Bangladesh is paying more price to a private company who is exporting thermal electricity to them when India is not even a power surplus country.

The story of water being drawn from the ganga. environment clearaance?  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=5356&end=5562             Then they wanted water from the Ganga which is 90 km away, so again they forcibly took more land.

Sri Lanka Story  https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=5563&end=5826        Modi govt. forced the Lanka govt to give this project to Adani.

In 2019 - PMO decided to privatised six airports. The story behind Mumbai airport. https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=5827&end=6383        -

Offshore  investments & SEBI investigations: https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=6392&end=6941  “There were to be inquiries against the Foreign Portfolio investors who were investing only in his companies in India. SEBI was to inquire but where are the earlier reports? Now, SEBI will be inquiring again,”

Adv. Mihir Desai, PUCL https://youtube.com/embed/y07OMvvSMDg?start=8629&end=8878   Refers to the opinida article referenced below.. when you are talking about Adani you are not only talking about shares going up and down. You are talking baout large scale un-employment, about rights being taken away from Adivasi, you are talking about environment being de-graded. All these are human rights issues. and it is likely to affect the economy at large.  and when you see the government also  tweaking the Laws, that is something that needs to be answered by the government. 

Here is what Opindia highlighted : https://www.opindia.com/2023/02/naxals-muslim-and-christian-groups-organise-event-on-adani-scam/

& Free Press ... Here's how Adani slowing down can have impact on India https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/heres-how-adani-slowing-down-can-have-impact-on-india The slowing down will not just affect the economy of the country but can also lead to large-scale unemployment and the use of public money to bail it out, said the speakers. March 02, 2023  The Adani group has filed six cases against Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, including two gag orders, but he chose to speak as silence was no more an option. ...there has been a pattern in the rise of the Adani Conglomerate; a pattern in the filing of defamation cases against journalists who wrote against Adani, no publication of earlier enquiry reports in which Adani was accused and tweaking of government rules to favour Adani in getting airports where it had no experience.

 Speakers said that the citizens of Bangladesh were against the terms and this could harm the relations between the two countries. In many cases, the speakers alleged that there was a lot of transfer of goods within the group itself. They further alleged that some of the companies were owned by relatives of Adani who are on the run for having defaulted on bank loans and their whereabouts are not even known.