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Strangers in Their Own Land  https://thebaffler.com/salvos/strangers-in-their-own-land-sitlhou  Makepeace Sitlhou no. 65 October 2022
Assam’s Bengali-origin Muslims face disenfranchisement and indignity

National Register of Citizens (NRC). Originally developed in 1951 as part of independent India’s first census, this misleadingly titled registry is supposed to contain a list of “official”—or “legal”—Indian residents of Assam. In 2019, the Indian Supreme Court completed the NRC’s first update since its inception to detect “doubtful” voters, but the NRC does not determine citizenship, nor does it correct the voter list. During the process, which began in 2015 and was funded by the federal government, Assam’s state government reviewed some sixty-six million documents submitted by over thirty million applicants. Those who didn’t make the final draft were likely to face detention or deportation.

Meanwhile, at a federal level, the BJP passed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), paving the way for the naturalization of all non-Muslim migrants who came to India before December 31, 2014 from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The BJP claims that the CAA is a humanitarian gesture intended to help religious minorities fleeing surrounding countries, despite the law making clear that all other non-Muslim religions were exempt from new citizenship checks—that in effect, it codified the selective disenfranchisement of Muslims as a whole.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a retired Border Police official told me that since 2007, each Border branch was given a monthly quota, and, if unmet, the BP would not pay their salary or punish them in some other way. It’s not difficult to imagine that police officials fabricated false cases under these circumstances. Officials would even use registers of village surveys in a local station to easily pick off names to charge. “This is what happens when you’re working under pressure to report ten to fifteen cases every month,” the official said. The quotas, of course, are not recorded in any official communiqué by the higher authorities.

Himanshu Kumar Exposed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX2iWgyS4OE Jan 7, 2012 

Himanshu Kumar, of the now destroyed Vanvasi Chetna Ashram in Dantewada Chhatisgarh, is caught on camera talking about his true ideas. It has been reported that having worked for 17 years in the tribal best of Dantewada, the security forces swooped down upon his ashram and razed it to the ground in 2009. In 2010 he was forced to flee from Chhatisgarh as the pressure to arrest him mounted

He has often been called a maoist sympathizer. This video exposes where his true sympathies lie.

Comments 10 year ago. 2012 bhupat shoot  What kind of social revolution is required -- this is debatable question before many kind of organisations, fighters and revolutionaries but there is no amicable agreement on thoughts and ideology. 

Alan R: 1 year ago What is indisputable is Modi and cronies permitting the abuse of the rightful owners of the land trying to force them from the only thing that they possess - their forests and the minerals which lie underneath. Their shameful and unlawful treatment of the
Adivasi tribal peoples is all about engineering them into pitiful camps. The poorest of the poor being exploited in the name of progress and corruption.

Three Months On, India's Single-Use Plastic Ban A Dud By Tanvi Deshpande| 2 Oct, 2022
Banned plastic including straws, cutlery found in circulation in Mumbai and Delhi. Experts call the ban weak and ask that big players, that produce more plastic, and more plastic items be brought under the ban's ambit

Of the total plastic generated, the share of the now-banned single-use plastic--at, as we said, 2-3%--is minuscule. Thus, even if the ban had worked well, the impact on plastic waste generation would be negligible.

In 2020-21, India generated nearly 3.5 million tonnes of plastic, as per details provided by 35 states and Union territories. Maharashtra forms 13% of this, followed by Tamil Nadu (12%) and Punjab (12%). Meanwhile, India's recycling capacity, at 1.56 million tonnes per annum, is only half of the total plastic generated. Brands are expected to recycle around 800,000 tonnes per annum as part of their Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).  

India Wants Manufacturers To Manage Plastic Waste. Here’s How Proposed Rules Fall Short By   Bhasker Tripathi|  5 Oct, 2020 https://www.indiaspend.com/india-wants-manufacturers-to-manage-plastic-waste-heres-how-proposed-rules-fall-short/  The draft rules offer three options to producers: pay a fee into a central corpus that would be spent towards managing the waste; buy credits from a system that would be established to offset the plastic waste they generate; or participate in and pay for establishing producer responsibility organisations (PROs) to collect and manage post-consumer plastic waste... 

Industry experts who have studied the draft say the rules do not hold producers responsible, rather offer them ways to evade responsibility. By failing to put curbs on overproduction, the draft fails to emphasise waste minimisation and also provides no clarity on how these models will work.

One of the biggest reasons for India's plastic crisis is that the country's plastic industry uses different tactics to distract, delay, dilute and derail progressive legislations on plastic control that are unfavourable to them, according to an addendum to the September 2020 global report, Talking Trash: The Corporate Playbook of False Solutions to the Plastic Crisis. https://talking-trash.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/TalkingTrash_FullReport.pdf  

The India-segment of this report was researched and written by Shah, quoted earlier.