From: Umi Daniel <umi.daniel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Subject: Fw: {KBK OTable} CMAS Firing detail report
To: kbkroundtable@googlegroups.com
Dear friends,
This is pertaining to the fact finding report posted by Sharanya and
we have received the response from subcollector of Koraput who has
expressed his own views. let us welcome such posting from people in
administrtion and continue our discussion.
please go through the mails below which is self explantaory.
Regards
Daniel
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fromUmi Daniel <umi.daniel@gmail.com>
torajeshpatilias@gmail.com
cc1100kishore@gmail.com,
agragamee@sify.com,
deepak3818@rediffmail.com,
bidyut Mohanty <bidyut.mohanty@gmail.com>,
Sharanya Nayak <sharanya.nayak@gmail.com>
dateTue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:18 PM
subjectRe: [OREGS Watch] Fw: {KBK OTable} CMAS Firing detail report
mailed-bygmail.com
Dec 1 (1 day ago)
Hello Rajesh,
Thank you very much for expressing your frank and open views which I
feel has the ingredient of both official and personal opinions.
Unfortunately, your posting couldn't be delivered to the kbkroundtable
members since you are not the member of the group. However the mail
reached to me which was addressed to Sharanya and copied to others
along with bidyut and Agragamee.
Would it be OK if I post your mail to the KBK roundtable? Please
confirm so that the conversation reaches out to more members.
Rajesh, I appreciate your views in which you have responded to the
matter related fact finding posted by Sharanya. I have found very few
bureaucrats who go beyond their official line and interact with
people. Please keep this up until your seniors ask you to abstain from
such interaction.
I fully agree with you that the fact finding has certain limitation
which may be contested and argued from a diverse position and
perspective. And each passing day, there is always inquisitiveness
from every quarter to learn the truth.
In reply to your statement, the one I am referring is pertaining to
the issue of tribal snatching way the gun and firing 22 rounds. Let
us examine this, the firearm used by IRB must be a sophisticated one
and probably a self loading assault rifle. During an open shootout
situation (the situation in the firing zone must be like a combat zone
in Narayanapatna) a tribal is snatching a rifle (may be AK47 or some
modern self feeding rifle) unlocks it, takes safe position and fires
indiscriminately. Where the bullets have gone?? Who was the target...
22 rounds fired, not a single bullet hit anyone?? Two rifle, 22
rounds of gunshots and then the person escapes unhurt and unnoticed by
the police? And now please don't tell me that the two people who were
killed were the one holding the gun and fired 22 (11rounds each)
rounds?? In India the police got a terrible history of planting such
stories and all such stories were proved futile. The genuineness of
the story from Narayanapatna will also be brought to the limelight
oneday.
Secondly where the injured have gone? In a war situation even the POWs
are entitled to the best of medical care, but the poor tribal who were
being shot were allowed to fend for themselves without any attention
to their medical need. You say a medical van is waiting in
Narayanapatna to treat the victims. Then why the people are not
reporting? What is preventing them to save their precious life?
I don't think the democracy was worst since last 5 months in
Naryanapatna because of the tribal demanding their basic rights. On
the contrary, people of these area, since ages have been
undemocratically ruled, miss-governed by the administration and
exploited by our own society, and institutions. Moreover, the
administration which is considered to be more powerful, privileged and
authoritative has failed in responding to peoples fundamental issues
and went on implementing certain populist government schemes which too
has never yielded significant results.
I must congratulate you and your team in Narayanapatna for your
excellent effort in streamlining certain work related to NREGA,
provision of forest land and transfer of land back to tribal. However,
please compare the two and half month achievement indicators in
Narayanapatna with some of your other blocks like Dasmanthpur,
Semiliguda, Lamtaput and you will find out the variation. Why the
same vigor and obligation is not demonstrated in similar tribal
blocks. The answer is simple; there is no any pressure either from
below or top on the administration the way you have been experiencing
in Naranyanapatna.
You are absolutely right, the effort from NGOs are not visible or
effective. However, like the BDO who is putting his best of effort in
Narayanapatna and considered the best in KBK, there are some good
civil society organizations doing meaningful work in their own field.
We simply can't ruleout the role of civil society in strengthening
development, human rights and democracy.
My former colleague and senior in ActionAid Mr. Harsh Mander used to
opine that, the administration often tend to get suspicious and
defensive at a juncture when the institutions to whom they represent
indulge in conflict with poor and marginalized people who seek
justice. There are people in the administration who in the past have
demonstrated high value and transparency in their work and stood firm
for the cause of people to whom they serve. I have enough faith in the
administration and people like you who can transform the situation. I
am a great admirer of the present collector of Koraput who is
considered as people's collector because of his low key, down to earth
attitude, honest and knowledge about the local issues. I am sure
under his leadership things will certainly change.
I will look forward to your response.
Regards
Daniel
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From: rajesh patil [mailto:rajeshpatilias@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 11:14 PM
To: Sharanya Nayak
Cc: 1100kishore@gmail.com; agragamee@sify.com; bidyut Mohanty;
umi.daniel@gmail.com; kbkroundtable@googlegroups.com;
deepak3818@rediffmail.com; soojata mishra
Subject: Re: [OREGS Watch] Fw: {KBK OTable} CMAS Firing detail report
Hello sharanya,
First of all I will congratulate you and your team for your daring
visit to Narayanpatna and preparing a fact finding report "'Democracy'
at its worst !" . The findings of the report are really shocking and
one can very easily get convinced that it must be situation like
Somalia or Sudan if he has no knowledge about the history of the
problem and the prevailing situation in Narayanpatna.
You have very conveniently ignored all other dimensions of
the problem and generalized the report basing on the firing incident.
First of all your report is factually incorrect and one sided. It
generally happens if one looks at the issues with prejudice and has
other extraneous motives. Had you interacted with all the parties like
the agitators, police and the native of Narayanpatna who might have
witnessed the incident you could have been more objective and you
report could have been more meaningful. Whole narration about the
incident of firing is not exactly correct police used 82 rounds which
includes 24 rounds fired from the two weapons snatched whereas you
have mentioned 300 rounds without any cross checking, only IRB men
fired Cobra and CRPF were not in the picture, they were carrying bow,
arrow, Khanda, axe but you mentions that they were not carrying any
arms. Collector Koraput reached the firing spot first who was
accompanied by Nihar Ranjan Pattnaik and not the way you have
mentioned.
Madam, the Democracy was at its worst not from the firing
incidence but from last five months when CMAS forget where the line
between the agitation and violence ends. While demanding for their
rights they were taught to forget the same entitled to others on whom
they perpetrated the violence in most barbaric way. These five months
saw five murders one gang rape which is not even reported, total
destruction of 410 houses of SC, general and tribals who denied to
join CMAS, looting and eating of over 2000 cattle, goats. Last 15 days
saw looting of over 20 motorcycles, two commanders and one tractor.
Over four thousand people were bitten and driven away from their homes
in the name of exploiters and outsiders many of whom live at five
refugee camps in Koraput, two in Laxmipur. It will surprise you that
20% of these people are tribals. They are undergoing through severe
mental depression and trauma some of these people have became mentally
ill. Anyone can visit them and see whether they are exploiters and
having flats in Bhubaneswar or Vizak. No fact finding team could dare
to come forward to understand their plight. Many of these people may
be shivering in the 5 degree cold of Koraput when we all are sleeping
comfortably. Is the democracy has any meaning for these people? We
can't have best of both the worlds. We can't pick and choose when it
comes to the rights and duties in the democracy.
Who is responsible for this all? We all so called
activist, rightist , leftist, NGO, civil society of course politicians
use the tribals. Use them in whatever situation they are. All the
communist guys who were guiding them all along are nowhere to be seen.
They have very conveniently escaped from the place leaving the tribals
in mess. We use them whatever way we like. Some people make career
writing about them in the manner in which it becomes readable and
attractive, some others work for them making career and earning money
and accolades for it. In the name of helping tribals we do more harm
to them. We all move ahead but they are where they were some 40 years
back.
You say you work in the Kumbhari Panchayat of Narayanpatna
but you have not mentioned that some of the tribals in that Panchayat
doesn't make brooms but deadly bombs.i shall not touch this subject
but there is need for looking at the issue in totality. Since you have
already branded the govt machinery as "Government officials …????
Less said the better it is" shows your ignorance about the work
being done there. The BDO and Tahsildar of Narayanpatna are probably
the best in the KBK area. The PDS, AWC are all running smoothly all
the teachers who are posted in that area are regular in their work.
Only in the last month when the situation was getting better the BDO
could spend over 20 lacks in NREGA which is probably highest for any
KBK block. Forest Right Pattas are ready for 1300 people in
Narayanpatna alone and their 2000 applications are under processing
stage. Lands have been reverted from non-tribals to tribals in over
100 cases within a span of two and half months. I will suggest you to
spare some time and talk to the RIs, BDO, Tahsildar ask why they are
working there and not in cuttack or Khorda district. The non govt
people who are suppose to be working for land issues of the tribals in
Koraput have no time to have any communication with the authorities
and supplement their efforts and the vocal legal fraternity has no
time to look into the cases whereby large scale stays are being
granted by HC to the reverted cases. Probably, I have digressed to
much, anyway we all are use to pay leap service to the tribals so I am
not exception!
For the kind information the combing for arrest was done
for two days only to nab some leaders of CMAS against whom very
serious cases are pending, use of large force was warranted because
there was possibility of counter attack. The force is already
barracked since last two days and mobile van is stationed at
Narayanpatna to treat the injured. Let's not work in different
directions when the goal is same.
Rajesh Patil,IAS
Sub-Collector, Koraput
9437574892
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