By Professor B. R. Sant A nation-wide mission for Encroachment Free Footpaths (EFE) is apt to be part of the challenge set Prime Minister Narendra Modi for transforming the country into a ‘New India’ by 2022 — the 75th anniversary of India’s independence. Footpaths and Pedestrians Everybody is a pedestrian at one time or the other and have to walk, both by law and convention, only on footpaths (also called pavements or sidewalks). But definitely not on roads which are meant for motorized/vehicular traffic. The two are equally essential, import…
The annual General Body meeting of the Standing Committee of Tarnaka Residents' Welfare Associations (SCOTRWA) was held on 23rd December, 2017 at the Nagarjuna Nagar community Hall. The following office bearers have been elected for the period 2018-2020: Prof. T. Tirupati Rao - President, Sri N.S.Prasad - General Secretary Syed Khaled Shah Chishti Hussaini - Joint Secretary Sri. KSLVS Raju - Treasurer. Further, a core team of the following memebrs has been elected as a part of restructuring of the body for more effective func…
Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani Human beings as they evolved into living in societies have acquired certain natural expectations and claims against each other, on reciprocal basis, such as, respect for life, family and property, civil liberties, fair play and justice, fraternity and solidarity. When we formed political states, we expected the state to convert those values into legal rights and duties and to reconcile them with authority in the interests of all. In our modern state, we have the constitution, which articulates the same as mandate to t…
On 22-11-17 MRCA committee members Advisor Bhujanga Rao, Vice- President- M. Parthasaradhi, Gen. Secretary-Sudhir Mathewes, Ln. N. Raghurami Reddy and GRS Prasad Rao, convenor MRCA met the Hyderabad Metro Rail, M.D. Sri. N.V.S. Reddy to discuss about the role of MRCA. Further expanding the activities of the MRCA Station Level Committee of Habsiguda, NGRI has been formed with active members meeting at Habsiguda and Lion N. Raghurami Reddy was selected as Convenor of Station Level Committee (SLC) of the above two stations and a team of 8 memb…
That Hyderabad needs the Metro is a no-brainer. But whether the private management of the network will still be smiling when the time comes to pay back the debt is a moot question. Barely a week after its inauguration, honchos at the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR), exuded confidence the Rs 16000 crore plus project will break even in the fifth year and start making profits immediately thereafter. The unbridled optimism, if appearing somewhat premature, may be attributed to the hordes of curious Hyderabadis who have been thronging the spanking new M…
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani Primitive feelings of bewilderment and fear in man were expressed by declaring his submission to the unknown and known forces in nature, imploring for their protection. Such submission or surrender was, gradually, extended towards many invisible and visible things and to persons on earth or in heavens in order to seek their favourable disposition and kindness. We have good evidence to conclude that before the period of established religions, people all over the world, including in India, were practicing shamanist kind of c…
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani It has become a fashion or political correctness to fear that the increasing economic differences might automatically harm the society or do injustice to others. Historically, it is true that just like in political domain, in economic domain also glaring inequities and injustices were prevailing till the end of the Twentieth century. But, now, the context is totally different. The democratic rigour and vigour of the new market mechanisms and of the relevant regulatory bodies are such that growth is forging ahead and it i…
Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani Our very urgent primary task is eradication of chronic and massive poverty, which is the legacy of our old India. We have inherited systemic poverty i.e. we have resigned ourselves to poverty and from tolerating deprivation we went to accepting poverty without fighting it. We explained it to ourselves as fatality. The fact that it also happened due to lack of social solidarity among the people is a matter of perplexity. We soared very high in spiritual elation while our feet were in sinking marshy mud of humiliating pover…
Dr. Rao VBJ. Chelikani We are living in a new India and accordingly our relations with the international community and our bilateral relations with other countries, including with our neighbours, have to be reviewed at from this new reality, afresh and very urgently. We need to declare a new foreign policy. We are, still, stuck up with Panch-sheel principles in bilateral relations and Non-Alignment policy with regard to the former super powers and big powers, which are no more relevant. For all these years we have formulated orthodox state-ce…
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…
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