Relief Camp for Jamia Flood Victims
Yuva Koshish ,with the joint initiative of Napm,Asha Pariwaar,Haideri Foundation and Sadbhav Mission, a team of twenty volunteers and approached the victims now living in the tents in Dhobhi Ghat near zakir nagar.We had distributed two hundred packets of food among the victims.Besides,two doctors accompanying the team,visited childrens and sick people in the camps.

Breaking This Hour !

More than Babri

By Zakia Akhtar

The city of Ayodhya has much more than Babri Masjid. It is a wound, which has not been healed from the past eighteen years since December 1992 when kar sewaks brought down the Babri Mosque. The most striking fact is that despite all these years of communal polarization, particularly around Ram Janambhoomi, there seems to be tranquility within the town and among its people. As the nation anxiously awaited the verdict in the Ramjanambhoomi-Babri mosque title suit, the Ayodhya also called, as ‘Mecca Khurd’ (small Mecca) was busy setting a textbook example of unity in diversity. While the Hindus are preparing to make a new structure, the Muslims being unsatisfied on the verdict are planning to move to the Supreme Court, a 750-year-old mosque and dargah of a Sufi saint holds out hope. The Argada Masjid and the Dargah of Ibrahim Sahib are both located on land belonging to the Hanumangarhi Trust.

Ayodhya is also called as Shahar-e-Auliya or city of Sufis. The people only recognize this place because of Babri Masjid; however, the most interesting fact is that the city has about eighty important dargahs. Many of these shrines or dargahs were destroyed in 1992 by Hindutva terrorists along with the Babri Masjid and numerous other ancient mosques in Ayodhya. Yet, even today large numbers of Hindus visit these shrines, revering the buried Sufi saints as men of God and as powerful beings capable of providing succor and help.

The oldest Dargah of Ibrahim Sahib is venerated by the people of every faith. People, irrespective of caste, class and religion come here to offer chadar and pray. The story relates that Syed Mohammad Ibrahim came here from Kazakhstan on a horse. His horse stopped at this very spot and refused to move further. It is said that from that day he settled here. His Urs (death anniversary) is celebrated on 24th–26th of Rajab (seventh month of the Islamic calendar), the head of the Hanumangarhi Trust along with all his associates visits the Dargah to offer chadar. The other important dargahs of this place are Dargah Naugazi, an 18 yards (16.2 metres) long grave, named after a prophet named Nuh (A.S.), is located in a narrow lane. The shrine, visited by scores of devotees, has no custodian.

The Teen Darwesh dargah, whose dome was also targeted by kar sevaks in December 1992 after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, is near Naugazi. No one knows the identity of the three saints buried there but it has a large following from all communities.

The most notable after Naugazi is the dargah of Prophet Shees. Considered one of the holiest shrines in town, some people believe the saint to be the son of Prophet Adam. There is a spot called the Ganesh Kund, on the southern side of the grave, where devotees take a dip. There appears to be no contradiction of faiths here.

Another important dargah is of Badi Bua located at a railway crossing between Ayodhya and Faizabad. This is one of the few dargahs of women in the area. Badi Bua was the sister of Hazrat Khwaja Nasiruddin Chiragh-e-Dehli, the spiritual successor of the Hazrat Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, the Chishti Sufi of Delhi. Part from these there are much more dargahs of sufis around the city, which shows a sense of togetherness and brotherhood in the eyes of all.
Ajodhya’s heritage is multi-cultural and multi-religious, and this has to be recognized and preserved. It is here that the given examples successfully show that these dargahs are playing a key role in bringing people together. This is also the ultimate aim of Sufism.
(The author is a research scholar in the field of Cultural Geography in Jamia Millia Islamia University)

Nationwide prayer organized to counter Babri verdict fallout

Yuva Bharat Communal Harmony Meet

YUVA KOSHISH ,AASHA PARIWAAR & NAPM is going to organise a Peace March in Memory of Rti Activist Amit Jethwa who was murdered in Gujarat somedays before.

Date: 26 July Monday 2010
Timings : 6:00 p.m
Venue: Gandhi Peace Foundation( I.T.O ) to Babu jagjeevanram Samadhi

Please come and join !
Thanking you in anticipation.

Candle Vigil in Support of Bhopal Gas Victims

Yuva Koshish , Journalist Union For Civil Society & National Alliance For People Movement has Organised Solidarity Candle Vigil in Support of Bhopal Gas Victims on 13 June 2010.

Is India capital of child labour In world?

After independence Child labour is a major problem in India. The major determinate child labour is Poverty. Even though children are paid less then adults, what ever income they earn is of benefit to poor families.
India has the largest number of children employed than any other country in the world. According to the statistics provided by the Govt. of India around 90 million out of 179 million children in the six to 14 age groups do not go to school and are engaged in some occupation or other works. This means 50% of children are deprived of their right to a free and happy childhood.
Unofficially, this figure exceeds 100 million but the fact that a large number of children are works without wages in field or in cottage alongside their parents, unreported by census, makes it very difficult to estimate accurately.A large number of children work in a cottage industries, matches, firecrackers, bidis, brassware, diamond, aluminum industries, glass, hosiery, hand loomed cloth, embroidery, leather goods, plastic bangles, mica mines, coal mines, hotels, rickshaw puller, local liquor industry, auto shop, vegetable shop Brick in and sporting goods. The highest numbers of children are found in agricultural sector.
Poverty has often been cited as the reason for child labour problem in India while it is true that the poorest, most disadvantaged sector of Indian Society supply the vast majority of child labourers, child labour actually creates an perpetuates poverty as it displaces adults from their jobs and also condemns the child to a life of unskilled badly paid work.

Child Labour and India Law

Passing laws is obviously not the solution, as they need to be enforced, in which our country has a poor track record. Multiple factors of child labour like i.e. Unemployment Low wages, Poor living standard, illiteracy and social attitudes.
Poor would rather have children who work to supplement the income. There are many cases where the parents (mother or father) sell their children as bonded labour for a petty sum of money.
Banning the child labour is not solution. 80 % of Indian child labours are working in hazardous condition or Industries. According to Articles 24 of The Indian Constitution and section 67 of Factories Act explicitly direct that children below the age 14 years are not to work in factories. Multiple Law and act forbid the employment of children in specified hazardous industries. They are as follows.
o Children (Pledging of Labour) Act, 1933
o Employment of Children Act, 1938
o Child Labour-Prohibition and Regulation Act
o The Indian factories Act, 1948
o Plantations Labour Act, 1951
o The Mines Act, 1952
o Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
o The Apprentice Act, 1961
o The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961
o The Atomic Energy Act, 1962
o Bidi and Cigar workers (condition of Employment) Act, 1966
o States Shop and Establishments Act

Problem Identification and Solution

The annual World Day Against Child Labour will be marked by events in scores of countries around the world on 12 June amid growing concerns over the impact of the economic crisis on child labour, and in particular girls.
For the World Day, the ILO will release a new report entitled “Give Girls a Chance: Tackling child labour, a key to the future,” highlighting the exploitation of girls in child labour and warning that the crisis could force more girls out of education and into child labour.
The report by the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) of the International Labour Office (ILO) will provide latest estimates on the number of girls in child labour and detail the exploitative forms of child labour facing them.
Yuva Koshish have a program for over all development of child labour with our effort at grassroots or cluster level. Our main activity would be -

1. Identification of child labour,
2. Registered their Name and address,
3. Awareness and counseling among the guardians of target group.
4. Group Discussion with targeted group
5. Admitted in our training Program

'Save our Earth ' Turn out your light, show support

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Earth Hour Campaign

If there is anyone very busy endorsing campaigns these days, it is surely Yuva Koshish ! We appealed all and one to switch off the lights for an hour from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on the 27th of March, so as to save much of the electricity from being wasted.
Even the film Industry have been requested to keep all shooting schedules off during that one hour. Such conservation has been given a supporting hand by almost every modern Indian city, with Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai heading the list.

The Chief Minister of Delhi Respected Shiela Dixit, who was there at the announcement of the official Brand Ambassador this year, said that such campaigns were of great help as last year, due to this campaign, at least 700 MV of electricity had been saved in Delhi alone.
Kindly switch off your lights and fans when not required, Take off the charger from the plug point after mobile is charged, Switch off the main plug point switch when Television is switched off, Switch off car engine when waiting at traffic signals etc.
Now, with the massive message of ‘Save our Earth’,at large scale Surely and conscious effort from each one of us will help to save our planet Earth from total extinction!
Turn out your light, show support.

In 2009 hundreds of millions of people around the world showed their support by turning off their lights for one hour.
Earth Hour 2010 will continue to be a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community. A call to stand up, to show leadership and be responsible for our future.
Pledge your support here and turn off your lights for one hour, Earth Hour, 8.30pm, Saturday 27th March 2010.
From a one-city event in Sydney, Australia in 2007, Earth Hour's message of hope and action for a better, healthier planet has gone beyond race, culture and religion.
In 2009, hundreds of millions of people across 88 countries simultaneously switched off their lights for one hour.
And just under two weeks out from Earth Hour 2010, citizens of more than 100 countries and regions have pledged to do the same at 8.30pm on March 27, in a conscious effort to be the change they want to see in the world.
Atlast,to add to Victor Hugo's words, it could also be said that 'many ideas are better than one'.

Once Again Right To Information proved It,s Credibility

Batla House: Post-mortem report confirms Atif, Sajid were hit by blunt force

Delhi - The N.G.O "YUVA KOSHISH" organised a meeting on 19th of March 2010 to discuss the outcomings and reply of the RTI filed by Mr.Afroz Alam Sahil.

Batla House encounter victims Atif Ameen and Mohd Sajid were hit by ‘blunt force impact by object or surface’, besides multiple gunshot wounds. The post-mortem report as confirmed this.
Whether Atif Ameen and Mohd Sajid were involved in terror activities only the court can decide. But genuineness of the September 2008 Batla House encounter in which the two Azamgarh youths were killed has been contested since the day one on various counts. The injury marks other than the gunshot wounds on their bodies were presented by the families and several independent fact finding teams and human rights activists as strong proof that the encounter was fake and the duo were killed pointblank.

This is the first time since the encounter that the post-mortem report has come into public, thanks to tireless efforts of RTI Activist & the Joint secretary of "YUVA KOSHISH" (N.G.O) Mr.Afroz Alam Sahil. To get this post-mortem report he knocked at every suitable door – Delhi police, AIIMS, Central Information Commission and National Human Rights Commission, but was shunted out on one ground or the other. Ultimately he received the report from NHRC.

On this prevailent issue,Mr.Syed Ali Akhtar,President of YUVA KOSHISH & RTI Activist Said that he urge & plead the masses,to move heavens and earth for getting the Right To Information.

YUVA KOSHISH SALUTES THIS MISSION

बीहड़ में सिनेमा
१६ मार्च २००१० से चम्बल घाटी मे होगा जमावड़ा बीहड़ कभी भी अपनी जगह नहीं बदलते पर बदल गए हैं बीहड़ों के रास्ते और
उनकी उम्मीदें !उम्मीदों पर ग्रहण है तो आशाओ पर पानी की गहरी धार.जिसमे
से बिना सहारे के निकलना बीहड़ों के खातिर चुनौती भी है और जरुरी भी.कभी
बीहड़ो की ओर रुख किया तो उपेक्षा ही नज़र आई .डकैतों के खात्मे के बाद
विकास के नाम पर अरबों रुपयें मिले पर विकास आज भी उनसे कोशों दूर है
.लोगों का रहन- सहन आदिम युग का है .अपराधी यही पनपते है और भोगोलिक
परिस्तीथिया उनका साथ देती है.
बीहड़ मैं दस्यु समस्या अभी भी मुह फैलाये खड़ी है.कभी पुलिस का आरोप तो
कभी डकैतों की कारगुजारियो का दंश. शायद यही बीहड़ का दुर्भाग्य बन
गया है. विकास की बातों पर गोर करें विकास में बीहड़ उपेक्षीत है.
क्योंकि विकास का पैकज बुंदेलखंड के हिस्से में जाता है और विकास के
दावे बीहंचल करके ही किया जाता रहा है. यहाँ के स्थानीय नेता भी
बीहड़ो का रुख नहीं करना चाहते,लिहाजा उनको बीहड़ो का दर्द नहीं समझ
आता. बीहड़ के गावों के विकास की खातिर " खेत का पानी खेत में और गाँव
का पानी तालाब में " साथ ही अनेक भूमि सुधार योजनाओ का लाभ महज उन्ही
जगहों पर हुआ है जहाँ आला अधिकारियो का दोरा कराया जाना है ,बाकि के
किसानो के हाथ खाली ही रहे हैं. बीहड़वासियों के बूढी आँखों में
विकास के सपने तो पलते है पर हकीकत का रूप लेने से पहले ही कईयों आँखें
बंद हो चुकी हैं उम्मीदों पर ग्रहण है तो भविष्य गर्त में नज़र आता है.
विकास के ठेकेदार रसूख वाले बन बेठे हैं. जिनको विकास के नाम पर हर पांच
साल बाद वोट लेना है. उन्हें इस बात से कुछ लेना देना नहीं है की विकास
की जमीनी हकीकत क्या है ? कभी कोई बीहड़ो का रुख करता भी हैं तो बंजरो
में कटीली झाड़ियो के बीच फिर से खुद को न उलझने का जज्बा लेकर जाता है.
कभी मौत का मंजर आये दिन अखबारों - खबरिया चैंनलो के लिए " चंबल घाटी और
खून " जैसे सीर्षको से पटी रहती थी. वस्तुतः वीहड़अंचल की भोगोलिक
परिस्तिथिया दस्यु समस्याओ के लिए ज्यादा जिम्मेदार रही हैं. डकैतों की
भूमि तो पहले भी चम्बल रहा है. बात करीब १९२० के आसपास की हैं जब
ब्रहमचारी डकैत ने डकेती छोडकर आज़ादी के समर में कूदा था, पर आज़ादी के
इतिहास के समरगाथा से ब्रहमचारी डकैत गायब हैं.बीहड़ न सिर्फ विकास में
बल्कि इतिहास में भी उपेक्षा झेलता आया है. आज बीहड़ की पहचान उसकी बदनामी
से ही होती है. निर्भेय गुर्जर,फक्कड़ ,कुशमा ,रज्जन ,जगजीवन आदि ऐसे नाम
रहे हैं जिन्होंने अपने दस्यु जीवन में बीहड़ों को अपने खौफ से उबरने
दिया वहीँ दस्यु सुन्दरी सीमा परिहार के भाग्य का निर्णय मुम्बैया
फ़िल्मी बाजार तय नहीं कर सका. सवाल यह उठता है की जब विनाश मीडिया की
ख़बरों में नजर आता है तो विकास क्यों उपेक्षित है.
आज बीहड़ों का कसूर क्या है ? क्या यु ही इस पर बदनुमा दाग बरकरार
रहेगा ? या फिर सहयोग की खातिर हाँथ बढाने में कोई झिझक है. हमारा मानना
है कि बीहड़ों का शानदार इतिहास दुनिया के सामने आये ने कि इसका बदनुमा
अतीत. बीहड़ो में कुछ दर्द है कुछ शिकायत हैं कुछ अपनापन है तो कुछ पाने
कि हसरत भी इन बीहड़ो छीपी है . बीहड़ो कि रवानी को दुनिया के सामने लाने
कि हसरत ही फिल्म उत्सव आयोजन का मकसद बनी . उम्मीदों से परे यह फिल्म
उत्सव उन बीहड़ गावो में आयोजित हो रहा है जो दस्युओ से प्रभावित रहे
हैं. इसके साथ ही मार्च में औरैया, इटावा, मालवा, अम्बेडकर नगर, मऊ में
फिल्म उत्सव का आयोजन किया जा रहा है. जिसमे खास तोर से जन सरोकारों पर
केन्द्रित युवा फिल्मकारों कि फिल्मो का प्रदर्शन , जारी एवं मंच प्रदान
कर प्रोत्साहन देना है. "अवाम का सिनेमा " के माध्यम से आम जन संवाद कर
मन की जिज्ञासा शांत कर सके . इसी क्रम में पुरे देश में फिल्म के बहाने
युवा प्रतिरोध को स्वर दे सकेंगे ,यैसी उम्मीद दिखती है.

अभिवादन के साथ ,
शाह आलम

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Cycle Rally in support of our National game Hockey - 20th February at Jamia Nagar to Jantar Mantar.To join plz contact 9871511120,9911300375