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The study, covering eight states by Azim Premji University (APU) and Lokniti (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies [CSDS]), defines effective trust as the difference between percentage of respondents who opted for a “great deal of trust” at one end of the scale and “no trust at all” at the other.
 
The study, accessed by IndiaSpend, was conducted in 22 assembly constituencies with 16,680 respondents. Nearly 77% respondents showed the most trust in the military, followed by 54.8% in the SC and 48% in the HCs.

 
 
On average, elected offices and institutions such as the president, prime minister, chief minister, parliament, vidhan sabha (state legislature) and panchayat/municipal corporation (MC) enjoyed an “effective trust” of 40%.
 
But there are wide variations within these categories across the eight states.
 
All states do not concur
Maharashtra showed high levels of trust, over 60%, in elected institutions–parliament, vidhan sabha, panchayat/MC–while Andhra Pradesh (AP) showed least level of trust, with parliament and vidhan sabha garnering -4% and -2% of “effective trust”, as per the report.
 
“We also find that both rural and urban local level elected officials play increasingly important roles in providing services to their constituency and this likely influences citizens’ public opinion relating to elected officials,” Siddharth Swaminathan, co-author of the study and a faculty at APU, told IndiaSpend.
 
Maharashtra showed nearly 53 percentage points more trust in elected offices and institutions than AP. Jharkhand (52.5%) and Chhattisgarh (49.5%) followed Maharashtra in the rankings.
 

 
People have sub-zero levels of trust in political parties
Political parties garnered low trust, at -1.75%. With the exception of Maharashtra polling the highest trust at 31%, the other seven states either polled single digit or negative percentage trust. Political parties polled the lowest in the list of 16.
 
About 73% Indians have shown confidence in their government in 2016 as against 30% Americans, according to Government At A Glance 2017, a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, IndiaSpend reported on July 14, 2017. The confidence level in government has actually declined from 82% in 2007.
 
The average “effective trust” in parliament was 36.6% in the eight states surveyed. A similar study by CSDS conducted in 2013 indicated that 56% people trust the parliament in varying degrees; this was 43% in 2005, FirstPost reported on October 6, 2015.
 
Courts trusted, but less so now than before
The study found significant trust in the judiciary. It observed a steady decline in average trust levels in the SC to HCs to district courts across all states, except AP where 28% stated trust in the district courts. The SC and HCs enjoyed 21% and 20% trust, respectively, in AP.
 
In the other seven states, the SC and HCs enjoyed an average “effective trust” of 60% and 52%, respectively.
 
Of the top five institutions that enjoy high levels of trust, four operate at a distance from citizens, the study said.
 
“An obvious reason for differences in trust between institutions closer to citizens compared to distant ones is that citizens have routine interactions with institutions that are closer [district courts, the police, government officials],” said Swaminathan.
 
Additionally, there could also be spillover effects–citizens who trust one set of institutions are more likely to trust another set related to it. This may have very little to do with specific policy output, said Swaminathan.
 
The office of the district collector, one who is more likely to be approached or connected with the issues of everyday citizenship, is the only outlier. She/he garnered 47% “effective trust”, coming fourth in the list after HCs.
 
Maharashtra polled the highest at 69%, 45 percentage points more than AP.
 
Govt officials and police rank only above political parties
Police and government officials rank only above political parties in the list.
 
Government officials (collector and tehsildar have been listed separately) scored 4.8% trust while the police manage only 0.9 percentage points more. This can be attributed to the politicisation of these spheres, the lack of transparency in their functioning, and corruption in the last decades, according to the report.
 
As many as 1,629 cases of corruption were reported in India–in which 9,960 people were involved or 11 every day–under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, over two-and-half years ending June 30, 2017, IndiaSpend  reported on October 30, 2017. India was ranked 79 of 176 countries, scoring 40 on the “Corruption Perception Index 2016” released in January 2017, by Transparency International, a global advocacy on corruption.
 
Media can also influence public opinion about institutions, said Swaminathan. Certain institutions such as the election commission are more likely to be favourably covered than say, the police, he pointed out.
 
The number of senior government officials involved in public corruption cases investigated by state agencies has increased 95% over the past five years, said this 2015 IndiaSpend report.
 
(Paliath is an analyst with IndiaSpend.)
 

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With the Subedar Major departed, the onus to deliver the message of reassurance that the future of the armed forces and the defence of the country, was in safe hands fell on the Academy Cadet Captain (ACC). It is no secret that the Academy Adjutant, who supervises the parade usually has his attention on the horse he is riding than on the parade because controlling the horse is as important as the parade. This responsibility fell on ACC Mohammad Sohail Islam a strapping Muslim youth from Assam.

Academy Cadet Captain Sohail Islam was selected for the honour from among 344 cadets who passed out of the course. Captain Sohail Islam was clearly a cut above the rest as he was an all-rounder excelling in academics, physically tough, mentally robust and importantly spiritually upright.

To achieve this position is not an easy task. Consider the hundreds of thousands of youth appearing for the Union Public Service Commission’s (UPSC) NDA entrance exam of which only 6000 clear the exam and qualify at the services selection boards. And finally, only 300 make it. It needs immense hard work.

Now to the parade, as President Kovind alighted from the horse-drawn carriage, he was received by the Commandant. At the far end of the parade ground, 854 cadets wearing white patrols were lined up in their squadrons on either side of the Nishan Toli, bearers of the President’s Colours, conferred on the Academy by President Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy. Standing tall, right in front was their sword-bearing leader, ACC Mohammad Sohail Islam. As he sprung to attention on the arrival of President Kovind at the Quarter Deck, the commentary paused and the chatter of the parents and siblings of the cadets stopped. And a hush fell over the ten thousand odd spectators.

After his reverberating word of command for a general salute, sword in hand, Sohail Islam marched up to the dais to report the Academy present on parade for inspection by the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. Thereafter, Islam mounted the ceremonial jeep alongside the Supreme Commander for the circuit of the parade ground as the Rashtrapati inspected the smartly turned out cadets. Islam then led the parade in its march past, doing an electric ‘eyes right’ while lowering his sword in salute as he strode past the Quarter Deck, as the podium is called, styled as it is after a ship’s deck in deference to the jointness between the three services that the Academy lays the foundations of. The President was escorted by the Commandant to present the most coveted awards, to the three deserving passing out cadets. Among the three was Sohail Islam, winner of the President’s Silver Medal awarded for standing second in the overall order of merit.

As President Kovind proceeded with his very pleasant duty of inspiring the young lads, the next cadet he had to pin a medal on was Ali Ahmed Chaudhury, a Squadron Cadet Captain, winner of the President’s Bronze Medal. The President received Ali’s salute, shook Ali by the hand and pinned the medal on his white patrol tunic.

As squadron cadet captain, Ali had led his squadron march past, belting out the command of ‘eyes right’ at the Quarter Deck. A squadron cadet captain is among the top-drawer appointments, leader of over a hundred cadets of all six courses assigned to the squadron. He is responsible for steering the squadron’s showing in the competitions for the overall championship banner for the best squadron, an annual life-and-death battle at the Academy. That the contest is so fierce is because the squadron is where the cadets learn that they must be ready to die for their outfit; squadron today, a platoon, flight or a ship tomorrow. He has to be a role model in preparation for the traditional, and historically validated, the manner of leading Indian soldiers in battle; where leading means just that: from up front and ahead. Obviously, Ali measured up and how.

Son of a retired army Subedar from Karimganj in Assam, his twin brother is due to receive the president’s commission from the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, this term. Ali is a Georgian, as the graduates of Rashtriya Military Schools, earlier named after King George, are called.
The one who pipped both Sohail and Ali to the top post was Battalion Cadet Captain Akshat Raj, on whom the President pinned the Gold Medal.

Sohail, like Ali, is the son of an ex-serviceman, a Havaldar from West Bengal; while Akshat is a school teacher’s son. All three are from humble backgrounds, society’s bedrock that continues to offer India’s best stock for its most onerous duty. The three typify the quintessential warriors – Karmyogis of yore – trained as the nation’s warriors from a tender age.

Both Sohail and Ali exemplify the words of President Kovind in his speech ‘The parade comprises cadets from all parts of India and from a variety of communities. Its harmony speaks for our essential unity as much as our pluralism as a society.’ He had just had lined up before him Akshat, Sohail and Ali. This is what the line up suggested to him.

Sohail and Ali were right up there inspiring the Rashtrapati and rest of nation to reflect on India’s essence. That’s where Muslim youth need to be, all the time. Sohail and Ali tell that us that it is within reach, doable and, is indeed, a glass ceiling already breached. Just like the remarkable performance of Muslim youth taking the civil services exam and topping the exam, the avenue of an armed forces’ officership – ‘a calling’ for a ‘rare breed’ according to President Kovind – is open for Muslim youth to aspire and achieve. Thanks to Sohail and Ali, the President’s Gold Medal – not having a Muslim inscribed on it since the mid-seventies – is now ours to grasp next.

The author was a Squadron Cadet Captain at the National Defence Academy in the mid-80s.
 

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Pulwama Degree College in South Kashmir bears the marks of a place touched by conflict. The telltale stones and shattered glass seen in so many parts of the Valley have arrived here as well. It is deserted, apart from a lone gatekeeper. Opposite the building marked “IT Centre” is scrawled the legend, “Love you Burhan”.

The college has been closed since Monday. On Saturday, this desolation had been filled with students and security forces, flying stones, tear gas fumes and pellet showers. About 54 students were injured in the clashes that day. Some of those seriously wounded had to be shifted to hospitals in Srinagar.

Saturday’s violence has galvanised campuses across the Valley. The Kashmir University Students’ Union had called for protests in all colleges and universities on Monday in solidarity with the students of Pulwama. Students in Baramulla and Sopore towns in the north, Anantnag and Tral in the south and Srinagar in central Kashmir clashed with security forces. About 70 more students were injured in these incidents, many of them in Srinagar. Among the critically injured are two students with brain injuries.
 

On Tuesday, universities, colleges and high schools remained closed, while protesting students in Banihal blocked the Jammu-Srinagar highway, the Valley’s primary supply line. A dour silence descended on Pulwama town, which had gone into shutdown mode, with shops closed and streets sparsely populated. Naveed Dar, a second-year arts student at Pulwama Degree College, had limped to a dim, curtained tea shop in town. This was the first day he could walk after being beaten up by security forces.

“I thought these were stories, these things don’t happen,” Naveed Dar said, bemused. “We came to see the real face of the forces.”

On Wednesday, schools opened but colleges and universities stayed shut.
 

A skirmish

It started last Wednesday when two armoured Army vehicles known as Caspers entered the Pulwama college campus, said Taufiq Farooq, a first-year arts student who was hit by pellets that day. “You know the situation here, students started pelting stones and the Caspars went back,” he recounted. “Then there was a protest outside the administration block; why had an Army vehicle entered the college?”

According to a statement by Army spokesperson Rajesh Kalia, soldiers had gone to visit the administration to talk about a “painting, drawing competition” in the college. But students did not know the purpose of the visit. “Students thought they were going to raid or pick up students,” Farooq explained. This is common after there is stone-pelting. Anything can happen any time.”

Two days later, Farooq said, a security cordon was laid right outside the college’s gates, and not 200 metres away as the police claimed. According to another student Rayees Mohammad Bhat, however, the cordon was farther away, near the toll post leading into the town, and it was a regular exercise.
Either way, the college students started pelting stones just outside the gate. “They used tear gas from the start,” said Farooq. “After 10 or 15 minutes, they started using pellets.” What followed next, according to Farooq’s account, was a thrust and parry between the students and the security forces that lasted nearly four hours until the evening.

The security forces’ vehicles retreated at first, then they drove up to the gate and started firing shelling into the college, Farooq continued. “They must have called the police station because two Rakshaks [armoured police jeeps] then entered the college premises and stopped at a barricade near the gate,” he said.
 

Trapped in a stone-pelting crowd, they first fired sound shells, then they stepped out of the Rakshaks and started shelling and spraying pellets. Angry students managed to chase the vehicles out of the campus.

Some students, thinking they had driven away the forces, moved into the administration building to protest against the incursion. Then the police and the CRPF returned with bunkers and reinforcements. “Stone-pelting inside the college had stopped then,” said Farooq. Yet, students at the administration block came under heavy shelling. Though they retaliated with stones, they were forced into classrooms.

“I went into a classroom after I got injured,” said Farooq, whose shoulder and upper arm are still peppered with pellet scars. As pepper and tear gas clouded the classrooms, many girls fainted. When vehicles carrying the injured students tried to make their way to the hospital, boys were pulled out and beaten up, he alleged.
 

To the library

There were students who did not join in the clashes. Naveed Dar, for instance, said he had taken cover in the geography department building and then the library, where he saw girls fainting from the gas fumes. Then the security forces also entered the library.

“Some teachers came and said nothing will happen, come out,” Naveed Dar recalled. “We were leaving but then the girls were beaten up so we went back in.”

They tried to go out again, twice. The first time, the girls were sent out unharmed but the boys who followed them were beaten. The second time, the security forces said they could all come out, nothing would happen, Naveed Dar continued.

“When one boy came out, they beat him up and he fell down,” he said. “Then they said run now, and we ran. Whoever came in their way was beaten. I was hit twice in the legs and once on my back.”
 

After that, he made his way to the principal’s office, which had been vandalised by the students, to find crying girls crouching there. Then the teachers told them to get into a college bus, Naveed Dar said, and that’s how they managed to escape.

Shahbaz Ahmed Dar, recovering at a Srinagar hospital, said he was attending class when he saw girls being sprayed with tear gas shells by the security forces outside. When he went out to protest, they beat him up. He now has a fractured knee and shoulder injuries.
 

‘Mild force’

Pulwama Degree College Principal Abdul Hamid was not available for comment. But when contacted by local newspapers a couple of days ago, he had said, “ I too rushed towards the gate and saw two police vehicles entering the college. I stood in front of the vehicles and pleaded, with hands folded, to the policemen not to enter the premises…I told the policemen that 5,000 students were in the college and the situation would turn bad. However, the policemen did not listen to my pleas.”

Bhat admitted that there was shelling on students but he claimed it was only from near the gate. Afterwards, they did return with reinforcements to the administrative building, but it was to rescue, not to attack.

“There were SOS calls from the college, from girls and teachers, saying we are trapped, we have been locked inside our rooms,” he said. “That’s when the police went inside. Mild force was used and the miscreants were chased away. The teachers, staff and students were let out.”

According to Rajesh Yadav, commandant of the 161 battalion of the CRPF, just two units of the paramilitary force are stationed in Pulwama. They are deployed as and when requested by the police. He refuted the claim that students had been beaten up, saying action was taken against stone-pelters alone.
 

‘You were protecting the boys’

Similar scenes were repeated in other parts of the Valley on Monday. Iqra Sadiq, 20, lay with a fractured skull at the Sri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital in Srinagar. A first year student at the women’s college in Nawakadal, Srinagar, she had been part of a protest march into the city.

“The boys were leading us,” Sadiq said, speaking slowly. “When we reached Eidgah [a neighbourhood in old Srinagar], the boys started stone-pelting and we ran away. There were CRPF men on the right and left and a Rakshak in front of us.”

In the chaos, a stone hit her on the head. A friend visiting Sadiq at the hospital said she was brought to the hospital by four boys in an auto-rickshaw, early in the afternoon. The doctors had removed blood clots from her head, family members said, and she was expected to be released in four or five days.

“It was a peaceful protest [in the beginning],” Sadiq said. “We were shouting slogans for Azadi, student power zindabad, etc. The police told us to move ahead. They signalled that they would not do anything.”
 

Meanwhile, a lecturer at Baramulla Degree College said the slogans started around 11.15 am. “Earlier, two cops had come asking the administration if any police deployment was required, we said no,” she recounted. The college authorities had locked the gate so that students could not leave and the forces could not come in.

“Around 11.45 am, three tear gas shells were fired into the college,” she continued. “We could not see anything in the buildings. One teacher fainted. Another, who was pregnant, had a difficult time even after the smoke cleared up. Boys ran into the college grounds from the main building and the forces also came in. They cleared the boys from the grounds. One was caught near the administration section and brutally beaten. Some members of the staff were also roughed up. The police said, ‘you were protecting the boys’. There had been negligible stone pelting. It was mostly sloganeering.”

The Baramulla police confirmed that they had fired “some” tear gas to disperse the students but denied beating up the college staff. One student was trying to damage a car and he was pushed and beaten up as were three or four other boys, the police claimed. After the violence subsiuded, the police and the tehsildar went into the college to meet the students, said the lecturer.
 

Fear and anger

For students such as Naveed Dar and Shahbaz Dar, this was their first brush with the security forces. Unlike Farooq and their other classmates, they had not gone out protesting in 2016. Naveed Dar, for one, was worried about finishing his course.

The conflict in Kashmir has hit student life with its constant curfews and shutdowns. In 2016, the boys said, Pulwama Degree College was shut for six months. When it reopened, they went straight into exams. “It’s been three years and I am still in my third semester. At this rate, I will finish college in nine years,” he said.

The turbulence has also meant that students cannot imagine a future. Naveed Dar only knows he wants to get out of an increasingly violent Pulwama as soon as he can. Neither Farooq nor Naveed Dar have career plans. “We never got to think about it,” said Farooq. “When you have to think whether you’ll make it to the next day, it changes things psychologically.”

Such extended periods of closure have also meant that student politics has not taken root in colleges, not in recent years at least. Pulwama Degree College is not strict, students said. During the protests last year, pro-freedom posters and slogans went up and were not taken down by the college authorities. But there were no protests organised by the students as a group.

The last time a protest march started from the college ground was in 2009, when the Valley rose in protest against the rape and murder of two young women in Shopian, allegedly by security forces. The “Shopian Chalo” call, in fact, had come from Pulwama Degree College, said Farooq.

Unlike other parts of the country, student unions are proscribed in Kashmir. The Kashmir University Students’ Union was banned in 2010, the year mass protests erupted and its offices were demolished by the authorities. Its current iteration is not officially recognised. Could the latest spate of clashes between students and security forces lead to a new phase of mobilisation and political organisation in Kashmir’s colleges?

It remains to be seen. For Naveed Dar and Shabaz Dar, it means the last bastion of security has been breached, giving rise to new fears. But Farooq said fear has disappeared among students, it is only anger now. The next time such a clash happens, he added, it could be even more intense.

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सोशल मीडिया पर फिर से एक BSF जवान का वीडियो वायरल हुआ है। जिसमें जवान बताता है कि पूर्व में जो सेना के जवानो के वीडियो आए थे उसके बाद अधिकारियो ने जवानो पर सख्त रूख अपना लिया है। सैनिक के साथ नौकर से भी ज्यादा बद्तर व्यवहार किया जाता है।

जवान ने आरोप लगाया कि भारत अब आजाद है लेकिन अधिकारी अंग्रेजी की तरह से सैनिकों के साथ व्यवहार करते है। BSF जवान जनता से सैनिको का साथ देने का अनुरोध करता है। इस तीन मिनट 40 सैकेण्ड के वीडियो में BSF जवान अपनी आपबीती को बयां करता है जिसमें अधिकारियों के बर्ताव और शिकायत करने पर कैसा तरीका अपनाया जाता है।

इस पर चर्चा करता है। हाल ही मैं इस वीडियो को सोशल मीडिया पर अपलोड किया गया है। जबकि सैन्य प्रमुख या अन्य अधिकारिक प्रमुख का बयान इस वीडियो पर नहीं आया है।

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Photo: From Tej Bahadur Yadav’s Facebook page

She wrote, “Namaskar to people of this country. I want to inform you people through social media that I haven’t been able to speak to my husband since Monday evening. We don’t even know where and under what condition he’s been kept.”

In a sensational development, Yadav on Monday had alleged rampant corruption in the para-military forces.

The video, originally posted on YouTube had gone gone viral on social media platforms with even Home Minister Rajnath Singh asking for explanation from the BSF.

Yadav had alleged that he was often forced to sleep empty stomach even though there’s no dearth of food supply to the armed forces. He appealed to Prime Minister to intervene to make situation better for them.
The BSF, in its defence, had accused the aggrieved soldier of being ‘habitual offender of absenteeism without permission’ and ‘chronic alcoholism.’

The BSF said in its statement, “The soldier is a habitual offender of absenteeism without permission, chronic alcoholism and misbehaving with superior officers…For such reasons, individual (Tej Bahadur) has served mostly in headquarters under supervision of some dedicated superior officer.”

The statement by the BSF did not go down well with the social media users, who asked why the paramilitary force had deployed the soldier in question on a sensitive location with weapons when there were so serious complaints against him.

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जब मैं आपको यह पत्र लिख रहा हूँ, और यह पत्र आप तक पहुँचे, तब तक हो सकता है कि सच बोलने के जुर्म में आपका दोबारा कोर्ट मार्शल हो रहा हो। हो सकता है कि आपकी सेवा ख़त्म हो गई हो। मुमकिन है कि इस बीच आतंकवाद से लड़ते हुए आप शहीद हो चुके हों और आपकी मृत देह ताबूत में आपके गाँव लाई जा रही हो, जहाँ नेता लोग भारत माता की जय बोलकर देशभक्ति दिखाने के लिए बेताब हों। मुमकिन है कि इस बीच बर्फ़ में ड्यूटी करते हुए आप मर चुके हों और आपकी लावारिस देह गल रही हो।

ये सारी संभावनाएँ वाजिब हैं। आपने जो रास्ता चुना है, उसमें ये सब कुछ संभव है।

आप सीमा पर माइनस टेंपरेचर में देह गला रहे होते हैं, इसलिए ही तो नेता और अफ़सर मौज कर पाते हैं। हमें मालूम है कि उनके बच्चे सेना और फ़ोर्स में जवान नहीं बनते।

जब सीमा पर कोई हमला होता है और मरने वालों के नाम सरकार ज़ाहिर करती है तो हम समझ जाते हैं कि आप कौन हैं, जिनकी वजह से देश चैन की नींद सोता है और नेता, अफ़सर, उद्योगपति गुलछर्रे उड़ाते हैं।

आप लगभग हमेशा किसान, कारीगर, पशुपालक, परिवार के लोग होते हैं। आप ही हैं जो देश का पेट भरते हैं और देश को सुरक्षित भी रखते हैं।
आपकी जय।

भारत के इतिहास के पिछले 50 साल को छोड़ दें, तो यह हार और अपमान का इतिहास रहा है। एक हज़ार घुड़सवार भी सीमा पर आ जाते थे तो भारत के शासक ज़मीन पर लेट जाते थे। हमलावरों को बहन बेटियाँ सौंप देते थे। उनके दरबार के नवरत्न बन जाते थे।

बाक़ी देश चुपचाप अपमान के घूँट पी लेता था क्योंकि बहुजनों के शस्त्र धारण करने पर धर्म ने पाबंदी लगा रखी थी।

भारतीय इतिहास में आज सीमाएँ सबसे सुरक्षित हैं क्योंकि तेजबहादुर यादव और नीलेश कांबली और वीर सिंह पटेल और जितेंद्र मौर्य और रमेश बिंद और दिनेश पासवान सीमा पर तैनात है। अब भारत कोई युद्ध नहीं हार सकता।

देश अगर इन जवानों का एहसानमंद है, जो कि होना चाहिए, तो उनकी तनख़्वाह बढ़ाए। उचित पेंशन दे। उनकी सुविधाओं का ख़्याल रखे।

उनकी सेवादार यानी अर्दली की ड्यूटी बंद हो। जिनके हाथ में मशीनगन होती है, वे लोग अफ़सरों के घरों में कुत्ते टहलाते शोभा नहीं देते।

देश को तेजबहादुर यादव का सम्मान करना चाहिए। वह जली रोटी का हक़दार नहीं है। वह हमारा रक्षक है।

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बीएसएफ जवान तेजबहादुर यादव ने सेना के अफसरों के खिलाफ मोर्चा खोलते हुए देश में सनसनी फैला दी है। जवान का आरोप है कि हड्डियों को गला देने वाली ठण्ड में 11 घंटे खड़े रहते हुए नौकरी करने वाले जवानों को ढंग का खाना नहीं मिलता है।

जवान ने सुबह नाश्ते और दोपहर में दिए जाने वाले खाने का वीडियो बना कर सोशल मीडिया में अपलोड कर दिया जो देखते ही देखते वायरल हो गया। जवान ने दिखाया कि कैसे ऐसे मुश्किल हालातों में उन्हें थर्ड क्लास खाना दिया जाता है।

सुबह नाश्ते में जले हुए पराठे और चाय, खाने में पानी जैसी पतली दाल और रोटी,दाल ऐसी जिसमें नाम मात्र की दाल होती है बाकी पानी और हल्दी का घोल होता है। जवान ने आरोप लगाया कि जवानों को जो राशन भेजा जाता है उसे बड़े अधिकारी बाजार में बेच देते हैं और मुनाफ़ा कमाते हैं।

जिस देश का प्रधानमंत्री अपने आपको देश का चौकीदार कहता हो और खाने में काजू के आटे की रोटी खाता हो उस देश की सुरक्षा में लगे हुए जवान को थर्ड क्लास खाना मिलता है।

विडियो बना कर देश की सेना के जवान ने बताया अपना दर्द —–

विडियो के जरिए बीएसएफ जवानों को मिलने वाली सुविधाओं पर सवाल उठाने वाले जवान तेज बहादुर यादव को अब दूसरी यूनिट में भेज दिया गया है। बताया जा रहा है कि मेस कमांडर को छुट्टी पर भेजा गया है।

फौजी ने पिता को भी बताया था अपना दर्द —–

तेज बहादुर के पिता का बयान सामने आया है,जिसमें उन्होंने कहा “दिसंबर में तेज बहादुर घर आया था। उसने बताया था कि अब वो वहां नहीं रह सकता क्योंकि वहां खाना नहीं मिल रहा है।”

फ़ौज के अनुशासन नियमों पर लग रहा है प्रश्नचिन्ह !

जवान तेज बहादुर के आरोपों के बाद से बीएसएफ अधिकारी अब सिर्फ उस जवान की कमियां बता रहे है और यह बता रहे हैं की वो सनकी और अनुशासनहीन हैं किन्तु यह नही बता रहे है कि अगर वो गलत था तो अब तक कार्यवाही क्यों नही की गयी। क्या यही फ़ौज का अनुशासन है ? या यह कहा जाये की बीएसएफ अधिकारी और भारत सरकार अब अपनी इज्जत बचने के लिए उस जवान को सूली पर चढाने से नहीं चुकेगी !

बीएसएफ अधिकारियों की विवादास्पद रिपोर्ट,जवान तेज बहादुर यादव को सूली पर चढ़ाने की तैयारी  !

सीनियर अधिकारियों का कहना है की यह जवान दिशा निर्देशों का पालन नहीं करता था, इससे पहले भी कई बार जवान ने अपने वरिष्ठ अधिकारियों पर बंदूक तान दी थी। अधिकारियों ने कहा कि तेज बहादुर पर ड्यूटी के दौरान अनुशासनहीनता के कई आरोप लगे हैं। साल 2010 में उसका कोर्ट मार्शल किया गया था। इस मामले पर बीएसएफ के डीआईजी एसडीएस मान ने कहा है कि बीएसएफ के जवान के वीडियो के बाद इस मामले में जांच के आदेश दे दिए हैं। उन्होंने ये भी कहा कि उस जवान ने 20 साल के कार्यकाल में 4 बार बुरा बर्ताव किया और इसलिए उसे प्रमोशन भी नहीं मिला, हो सकता है कि इसी निराशा की वजह से उसने ये वीडियो बनाया हो। गौरतलब है कि जम्मू-कश्मीर में भारत-पाकिस्तान सीमा पर तैनात सीमा सुरक्षा बल (बीएसएफ) के जवान का वीडियो सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल हो गया है। जवान ने वीडियो में आरोप लगाया है कि खराब गुणवत्ता का खाना देकर उनके साथ ‘अत्याचार’ किया जा रहा है। यही नहीं, कई बार तो उन्हें खाली पेट भी सोना पड़ता है।

मामले में केंद्र सरकार के दखल के बाद बीएसएफ के अफसरों के लगातार बयान आ रहे हैं। मामले पर अपनी प्रतिक्रिया देते हुए बीएसएफ के आईजी डीके उपाध्याय ने कहा कि मामला बहुत गंभीर है और इस मामले की जांच होगी साथ ही सख्त कार्रवाई भी की जाएगी। इसके साथ ही उन्होंने बीएसएफ के डीआईजी के उलट बयान देते हुए कहा कि वो इस बात से समहत है कि खाने की गुणवत्ता उतनी अच्छी नहीं है जितनी होनी चाहिए लेकिन ये बात भी सच है कि इस मामले par पहले कभी किसी ने शिकायत नहीं की।

उन्होंने अधिक जानकारी देते हुए ये भी कहा कि वीडियो बनाने वाले जवान का कोर्ट मार्शल किया जा चुका है। जवान के परिवार का खयाल करते हुए उसके खिलाफ कड़ी कार्रवाई नहीं की गई। उन्होंने ये भी कहा कि अगर जवान फेसबुक पर वीडियो पोस्ट न करता और सीधे अपने अधिकारी से शिकायत करता तो अच्छा रहता है। इसके साथ ही उन्होंने ये भी सवाल खड़ा किया कि ड्यूटी के दौरान जवानों को मोबाइल फोन इस्तेमाल करना मना है। तेज बहादुर ने ऐसा कैसे किया बीएसएफ इसकी भी जांच करेगा।

चार मिनट की अवधि वाले तीन अलग-अलग इन वीडियो को सोशल मीडिया पर बीएसएफ की 29वीं बटालियन के कांस्टेबल टीबी यादव (40) ने अपलोड किया है। वर्दी पहने और राइफल लिए कांस्टेबल यादव वीडियो में दावा कर रहा है कि सरकार उनके लिए जरूरी चीजें खरीदती है, लेकिन उनके वरिष्ठ और अधिकारी उन्हें ‘गैरकानूनी’ तरीके से बाजार में ‘बेच’ देते हैं, जिसका खामियाजा उन्हें भुगतना पड़ता है। वीडियो में कांस्टेबल यादव ने वह खाना दिखाया है जो कथित रूप से उसे परोसा जा रहा है।

वह कहता है, ‘नाश्ते में हमें बिना अचार या सब्जी के सिर्फ पराठा और चाय मिलती है.. हमें 11 घंटों तक कठिन परिश्रम करना पड़ता है और कई बार तो पूरी ड्यूटी के दौरान खड़े ही रहना पड़ता है। दोपहर के खाने में, हमें रोटी के साथ ‘दाल’ मिलती है जिसमें सिर्फ हल्दी और नमक ही होता है। ऐसी गुणवत्ता का खाना हमें मिल रहा है.. एक जवान कैसे अपनी ड्यूटी कर सकता है? मैं प्रधानमंत्री से जांच की मांग करता हूं.. कोई हमारी मुश्किलों को नहीं दिखाता। यह हमारे खिलाफ अत्याचार और अन्याय है।’

केंद्रीय गृह मंत्री राजनाथ सिंह ने ‘उचित कार्रवाई’ के आदेश दिए हैं!

तेज बहादुर यादव का कहना है कि यह वीडियो शूट करने और अपलोड करने की वजह से उसके खिलाफ शायद कड़ी कार्रवाई की जाएगी और वह शायद यहां नहीं रह पाएगा। उसने लोगों से अनुरोध किया कि वह इस मुद्दे को आगे बढ़ाएं ताकि सुधारात्मक कदम उठाए जा सकें।वीडियो सामने आने के बाद गृह मंत्री राजनाथ सिंह ने ट्वीट किया, ‘बीएसएफ जवान की मुश्किल वाला वीडियो मैंने देखा है। मैंने गृह सचिव से कहा है कि वह तुरंत बीएसएफ से रिपोर्ट मांगे और उचित कार्रवाई करें।’ बीएसएफ ने भी वीडियो पर संज्ञान लिया और आधिकारिक ट्विटर एकाउंट से ट्वीट कर बताया कि मामले की जांच के आदेश दे दिए गए हैं।

इसके अलावा उपमहानिरीक्षक (डीआइजी) स्तर के एक अधिकारी को उस जवान की तैनाती वाली जगह पर भेजा गया है जो वहां पहुंच भी गए हैं। बीएसएफ के वरिष्ठ अधिकारी ने बताया कि नियंत्रण रेखा पर तैनात बल के जवान सेना की ऑपरेशनल कमांड में काम करते हैं और वही उन्हें खाना और अन्य चीजें मुहैया कराते हैं। हालांकि, खाना बनाने और अन्य प्रशासनिक कार्य बीएसएफ ही करता है।तेज बहादुर यादव चार बार दंडित हो चुका है आरोप लगाने वाला जवान के उक्त अधिकारी ने बताया कि टीबी यादव 1996 में बीएसएफ में भर्ती हुआ था और उसे पूर्व में चार बार बड़े दंड दिए जा चुके हैं। अनुशासनहीनता के आरोप में उसे चेतावनियां भी जारी की जा चुकी हैं। उन्होंने बताया कि उसने स्वैच्छिक सेवानिवृत्ति के लिए भी आवेदन किया हुआ हैं।

BSF कैंप के आसपास के लोगों का दावा, ‘आधे दामों पर राशन, ईंधन बेचते हैं अधिकारी’ !

बीएसएफ के जवान तेज बहादुर यादव के खाने की खराब गुणवत्ता को लेकर जारी विडियो से देश में हंगामा खड़ा हो गया है। बीएसएफ ने अपनी प्राथमिक रिपोर्ट में इन सभी आरोपों को सिरे से खारिज किया है, हालांकि मामले की उच्च स्तरीय जांच जारी है। दूसरी तरफ एक चौंकाने वाली बात सामने आई है। बीएसएफ कैंपों के आसपास रहने वाले लोगों का दावा है कि कुछ अधिकारी उन्हें फ्यूल और राशन का सामान मार्केट से आधे दाम पर बेचते हैं।
बीएसएफ के जवान तेज बहादुर यादव ने अपने विडियो में इस बात का जिक्र किया था। उन्होंने विडियो में दावा किया था कि सरकार राशन का पर्याप्त सामान भेजती है, स्टोर्स भरे पड़े हैं मगर अधिकारी सामान को सैनिकों तक नहीं पहुंचने देते और बाहर ही बेच देते हैं।

एक बीएसएफ जवान और श्रीनगर स्थित हुमहमा बीएसएफ हेडक्वॉर्टर के आसपास रहने वाले कुछ स्थानीय लोगों का दावा है कि एयरपोर्ट के आसपास रहने वाले दुकानदार, कुछ बीएसएफ अधिकारियों द्वारा बेचे जाने वाले ईंधन के प्रमुख खरीददार हैं। नाम न उजागर करने की शर्त पर एक बीएसएफ जवान ने कहा, ‘ये अधिकारी स्थानीय बाजारों में राशन और खाने-पीने की चीजें बेच देते हैं। हम तक सामान पहुंच ही नहीं पाता। यहां तक हमें हमारी दैनिक उपयोग की चीजें भी नहीं मिल पातीं और वे इन्हें बाहर अपने एजेंट्स के माध्यम से मार्केट में बेच देते हैं।’

इलाके के एक ठेकेदार ने बताया, ‘हमें मार्केट से आधे दाम पर हुमहमा कैंप के कुछ अधिकारियों से डीजल और पेट्रोल मिल जाता है। इसके अलावा राशन में चावल, मसाले, दाल और रोजमर्रा की चीजें भी बेहद कम दामों में मिल जाती हैं।’

इसके अलावा इलाके के एक फर्नीचर डीलर ने बेहद चौंकाने वाला दावा किया है। उसके मुताबिक, ‘ऑफिस और बाकी सरकारी जरूरतों के लिए फर्नीचर खरीदने आने वाले अधिकारी हमसे मोटा कमीशन लेते हैं। उनका कमीशन हमारे मुनाफे से भी ज्यादा होता है। बीएसएफ में कोई ई-टेंडरिंग व्यवस्था नहीं है। अधिकारी आते हैं, अपना कमीशन लेते हैं और फर्नीचर खरीद लेते हैं। कई बार तो उन्हें फर्नीचर की क्वॉलिटी से भी ज्यादा मतलब नहीं होता है।’

यह हाल सिर्फ बीएसएफ का नहीं है। सीआरपीएफ के कुछ अधिकारियों का भी यही हाल है। श्रीनगर में एक महीने पहले तक बतौर आईजी (प्रशासन) तैनात रहे सीआरपीएफ के आईजी रविदीप सिंह साही ने कहा कि अगर सप्लाई में किसी तरह की गड़बड़ी है, तो वह इसकी जांच कराएंगे।

Courtesy: Dainik Aaj

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