THE CONTEMPORARY ISSUE PAPER WILL COVER THE FOLLOWING
TRIBAL ISSUES
• Forest
• Mining
ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS
• Chipko movement
• Anti Dam movement – Silent Valley, Supreme Court Judgements
SHETKARI SANGATHANA
• Gawande
• Sharad Joshi
• Rasta Roko
• Marathwada & Western Maharashtra
• Pressurized governments to introduce Market Co-operatives
• Support services for efficient farming
• Only farm organization which also focused on women
• Sita Shethi – Encourage women to grow vegetables near their houses as a source of additional income
• Supported the Dunkee Draft
SAMYUKTA MAHARASHTRA PARISHAD
• Samyukta Maharashtra Movement
• Akola & Nagpur Pact
• Idea of unilingual state of Maharashtra with Bombay as the capital
• Integrating all Marathi speaking areas
• S M Samiti – Politicization of the SMM
• Samiti formed by Socialist & Non Congress parties
• Response to Nehru speech at Chowpatty
• Y B Chavan
• 1957 Elections
• Failure of opposition
• Morarji Desai removed and replaced by Y B Chavan
• 1st May 1960 – Maharashtra Day
VIDHARBHA
• Poor irrigation & Little industrialization
• 1963 – Nag Vidharbha movement
• Crushed in 1975 during the emergency
• Revived in 1991 by the BJP
MILK CO-OPERATIVES
• Operation Flood
• Small milk producers of 10 to 100 lts
• Amul decided to get all together at local & regional levels to create economies of scale
• Modernization
• Milk based products
• Creation of a national brand
• Co-incided with National Dairy Development Board creation
POLICE REFORMS
Lower Police / Constables
o Poor Living Conditions
o Strenuous working conditions
Modernization
o Better Training
o Equipment
o Professionalism
o Minimizing political interference
o People friendly
Maharashtra first state to have women incharge of police stations
Jail Reforms – Tihar Jail model
CORRUPTION
• C Rajagopalachari 1st person who predicted corruption in India
• License permit raj
• Bureaucrat Politician Nexus
• Weak Checks
• Decline in respect for rule of law
• Loop holes in legal system
• 3.2 Crore cases pending
• Nagarwala Case, Bofors, Stock market Scam, Fodder Scam, Satyam Scam
• SEBI for Finance Monitoring
• CAG has only advisory powers
RTI
• Started in Rajasthan
• Shailesh Gandhi, Anna Hazare
• PIL vs Normal Litigation
o Locus Standi Waved
o Litigation process eased
o Clause of anonymity
o Special case & quick
ACCOUNTIBILITY
• Elections
• RTI supported by PIL
• Parliament Action
• Corporate accountability – Law of Torts & Compensation, Bhopal Gas Tragedy
TRIBAL ISSUES
• Forest
• Mining
ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS
• Chipko movement
• Anti Dam movement – Silent Valley, Supreme Court Judgements
SHETKARI SANGATHANA
• Gawande
• Sharad Joshi
• Rasta Roko
• Marathwada & Western Maharashtra
• Pressurized governments to introduce Market Co-operatives
• Support services for efficient farming
• Only farm organization which also focused on women
• Sita Shethi – Encourage women to grow vegetables near their houses as a source of additional income
• Supported the Dunkee Draft
SAMYUKTA MAHARASHTRA PARISHAD
• Samyukta Maharashtra Movement
• Akola & Nagpur Pact
• Idea of unilingual state of Maharashtra with Bombay as the capital
• Integrating all Marathi speaking areas
• S M Samiti – Politicization of the SMM
• Samiti formed by Socialist & Non Congress parties
• Response to Nehru speech at Chowpatty
• Y B Chavan
• 1957 Elections
• Failure of opposition
• Morarji Desai removed and replaced by Y B Chavan
• 1st May 1960 – Maharashtra Day
VIDHARBHA
• Poor irrigation & Little industrialization
• 1963 – Nag Vidharbha movement
• Crushed in 1975 during the emergency
• Revived in 1991 by the BJP
MILK CO-OPERATIVES
• Operation Flood
• Small milk producers of 10 to 100 lts
• Amul decided to get all together at local & regional levels to create economies of scale
• Modernization
• Milk based products
• Creation of a national brand
• Co-incided with National Dairy Development Board creation
POLICE REFORMS
Lower Police / Constables
o Poor Living Conditions
o Strenuous working conditions
Modernization
o Better Training
o Equipment
o Professionalism
o Minimizing political interference
o People friendly
Maharashtra first state to have women incharge of police stations
Jail Reforms – Tihar Jail model
CORRUPTION
• C Rajagopalachari 1st person who predicted corruption in India
• License permit raj
• Bureaucrat Politician Nexus
• Weak Checks
• Decline in respect for rule of law
• Loop holes in legal system
• 3.2 Crore cases pending
• Nagarwala Case, Bofors, Stock market Scam, Fodder Scam, Satyam Scam
• SEBI for Finance Monitoring
• CAG has only advisory powers
RTI
• Started in Rajasthan
• Shailesh Gandhi, Anna Hazare
• PIL vs Normal Litigation
o Locus Standi Waved
o Litigation process eased
o Clause of anonymity
o Special case & quick
ACCOUNTIBILITY
• Elections
• RTI supported by PIL
• Parliament Action
• Corporate accountability – Law of Torts & Compensation, Bhopal Gas Tragedy