Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani India, just as it is a country of diversities, it is also a country of minorities. But, it need not be any more a country of discriminations. The British never stopped being sceptic about India becoming a united and single nation-state like theirs. All the commissions, there were many, which were appointed, took each section of the population as separate entity and took upon themselves the responsibility to protect them. Right from the very early stages of reforms, the British government representatives were proposing re…
Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani Today’s India is a country of middle classes run by the middle classes for the middle classes. In the past, the situation was different. A chief or a king or a dictator or a religious head used to promise to take charge of the welfare of the whole society. In independent India, we have vaguely envisaged a strategy of sarvodaya i.e. welfare of all, which, in reality, proved well-nigh impossible. Similarly, the strategy of development from the bottom, antyodaya , traditionally considered to be Gandhian approach, too tur…
By Prof. C.V.Raghavulu The people of Cherukumilli village of Akiveedu mandal in West Godavari district have shown what it means to be a caring community through their care for the citizens of the village in their sunset years. In a unique initiative that has been on since 2007, the village has been taking care of its senior citizens who are alone and without any support by providing them with two square meals a day. Well settled people hailing from the village and now living in far off places like Hyderabad, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam and the U…
Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani We are all getting very much concerned about the frequent abuse of power, rampant corruption and occasional arrogance of many of our MPs and MLAs and, in fact, by the whole political class, in general. Having removed the kings, sultans, and colonial masters and having abolished zamindars and jagirdars, now, are we returning to the rule by the feudal lords and petty dictators? We admit that there are, certainly, some exceptions. Power-Broking : Traditional political power structures still create high-sounding desig…
FGG: Activities for the year 2016 The main activities are governance reforms, fight against corruption, electoral reforms, decentralization etc,. 1 Role of Money in Elections - Cases Booked During the last general elections in AP and Telangana states, lots of cases were registered against the contesting candidates for bribing the voters with money. In all about 150 Crores of money was seized during election period. F.G.G. feels that all the cases booked under sec.171 I.P.C (corrupt practices in elections) should be brought to their log…
The word ‘opposition’ on the face of it, is often perceived in a negative sense, thereby pre-judging the nature of the expression. In political language, particularly, in democratic terms, however, it ought to be a positive function to identify the negative aspect, so that one can propose the alternatives. But, like absolute affirmation, absolute opposition is also not entirely democratic. Opposition in a debate has to be interpreted as a right to criticise and, further, as an opportunity to present alternative choice of ideas and actions. …
GHMC Commissioner Dr B. Janardhan Reddy has urged senior citizens in the city to prevail upon residents in their respective colonies to participate in keeping their environs clean and to participate in the Swach Programmes of the GHMC. “Senior citizens have an important role to play in educated residents in colonies and apartment complexes on issues like waste segregation and help GHMC in its Swach Sarvekshan drive,” the Commissioner said addressing representatives of various senior citizen associations in the twin cities on December 29. The m…
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