Assam bomb-blasts and growth of militancy

13 bomb-blasts in 4 districts of Assam killing more than 100 people and injuring more than 500 people during the festive season of Diwali and Eid shocked entire India.
Prima facie it looked like a handiwork of ULFA, a separatist organization in Assam, but eventually needle of suspicion is pointing to Bangladeshi terrorist organization Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI).
Though ULFA has categorically denied any role in serial bomb-blasts, its Bangladesh connection is well known. Today ULFA is based in Bangladesh.
Had anyone predicted this 25 years back, people would have laughed at him. This organization was established in 1979, that was a turbulent period in History of Assam. AaSU (All Assam Students Union) was agitating against Bengalis. These bengalis were mainly illegal migrants from Bangladesh and Marwari businessmen from West Bengal. Ulfa grew with this agitation. When agitation ended, ULFA took its own stance. Now it wanted separate Assam. As per ULFA, Assam was never a part of India. It started developing links with other secessionist organizations like NSCN. So now the focus of organization changed from anti-Bengali to Anti-India.
Irony was that in 1989 Bangladesh allowed ULFA to establish camps in Bangladesh. The organization established to protect Assamese interests against Bangladeshis is now under asylum of Bangladesh.
Decade of 90 in Bangladesh is marked with the growth of fundamentalist politics. Various Islamic fundamentalists organizations were formed with the help of ISI. And as a larger conspiracy to weaken India, ULFA was given full support from these organizations and ISI.
The next decade saw ULFA turning into a puppet of ISI and therefore has completely lost its base and popularity in Assam.
Though still it can not openly claim responsibility of the bomb-blasts, but definitely this is one organization which provides basic infrastructure on which Bangladeshi terrorist organizations are thieving upon.

Need for Judicial Reforms in India

Few days back a historical case was closed after 65 years. It is historical, because perhaps it was the longest running case in India.
The case was to recover money of Jaggery sold to some party which then refused to pay back. Looks like a trivial matter, isn't it? But still it took 65 damn years..the 4th generation of the petitioner got the justice(?).

This case is not an exception in our judicial system. There are so many pending cases and the least unit of time-line for closure of any case is years (and not days or months).

Here are some facts around our judicial System:
Pending cases: 25 millions
Out of which Criminal cases are: 18 million
Cases pending with Supreme court: 50000
Cases Pending the lower courts: 15 million
Yearly Increase in pending cases: 2 million

With such a dismal state of judicial system, no one expect justice from it. People think hundred time before approaching courts. There is a old proverb 'Justice Delayed, is Justice Denied". So it is not even appropriate to call our judicial system as 'Judiciary'. Because it is no longer able to deliver justice to common man.

On the contrary, this same system is being used by rich class to get away with any crime. One just need enough money to hire a good lawyer who will be able to postpone the case for years. But there is a problem if you don't have money and that is a problem of 80% of Indians. So Indians please don't expect any justice in the current system. It is not meant for you, but to protect rich class from the rule of law.

This is one side of the story. The other hand it shows the state of our society and the growing criminalization. As a society are we progressing? The answer is sad, no. The morality of society is degrading. There is no value of 'values' and ethics. The more ethical your conduct is, more is the chance that someone will fool you.

While degradation of our society is rampant, the judiciary is not ready to change. It is following the same old procedures. Even the laws need to be simplified and our legislative system should work upon that. Computerization will help a lot. If every panchayat has a facility of teleconferencing, it could be used by the courts instead of summoning people in the court. There has to a time-line for each kind of case. Each case need to handled as a project and enough resources should be allocated to it.

I think it is all about following good management practices than following old bureaucratic processes. With good management practices courts will be open more than 190 days a year, at least we can expect a norm of 225 days of work per year followed by our judiciary.

Truth of RRB exams

Recently there was controversy in Maharashtra over exams held by Railway reservation board.
MNS and Shivsena tried to protest and stop this exam. They are being criticized by entire media.
Here is a truth. Every Punjabi, Gujarati and Maharashtrian should protest

In 1976, Central home ministry created guidelines based on which the India is divided into three lingual zones

* Group A (Hindi Zone): This includes All hindi speaking states like UP, Bihar, Rajastan, Madhya-pradesh, harayana, delhi etc.
* Group B: This includes all the developed non-hindi states. Maharastra, Gujarat and Punjab (chandigarh included)
* Group C: This includes rest of the states.

Everything was going fine with this division. Each zone was conducting exam in the local language and all the schedule of all the exams used to get published in the local newspapers.

But in 1988, there was a change made in this guideline. For Zone B, Hindi was made an alternate language, making people from Zone A eligible to write exams conducted in Zone B. Also it was made clear in this guideline that the advertise of these exams will get published in the local news papers of Zone A and not in Zone B. So people in Zone B always have to rely on employment news and not on the local newspaper. Most of the time Employment news goes out of circulation. So many people in Zone B miss the exams.

Shivsena is fighting for it since 1988. But no one listen to them. The national media is biased. Hence now Shivsena is coming on roads since last 3-4 years on this. This treatment is unjust for all people in Punjab, Gujrat and Maharashtra.
Everyone should protest against these regulations.