RESOLUTION....

I am inspired today again to blog regularly. This is after visiting a friends blog. This I did many a time but never followed. But now I will try to put into action. So here is the new beginning...
Today was an usual day as any other day... office. and FSMK work. may be tomorrow i will get something to wrote about.

SAY NO to INDO-US NUCLEAR DEAL

SAY NO to INDO-US NUCLEAR DEAL

A friend of mine has sent me mail on nuclear deal. This is the most precise and simple explanation i have read on why INDIA SHOULD say NO to 123 agreement. I am reproducing the contents.

Nuclear Agreement between India - USA :MUST READ BY EVERY INDIAN

There are lot of talks about 1 2 3 Agreement between India & USA and it almost led to the topple of Central Government. In this mail I am trying to explain the commercial & technical aspects relating to this Agreement which I have read and sharing with you.

What is 123 Agreement?

This is called 123 Agreement because this comes under USA's Atomic Power Act Section 123. Let's see how India's (Indians?) Sovereinty & Independence are pledged...

(1) After this Agreement USA will supply all fuel, machinery / equipment & technology to India for producing Nuclear Power.

(2) All these days from about 22 Nuclear Power Plants, India is producing power as well as Atom. It's a high security / secret that from where which is produced, how much is produced, where it is supplied, what research is being done with that, etc. to anybody. But if we sign this Agreement, we have to disclose these secrets and also agree to 14 of our Nuclear Power Plants to be under the scanner of International Atomic Power Organisation.

(3) The fuel utilised to produce Atomic Power can be recycled for reuse and this plant will be under direct supervision of IAPO.


If India does nuclear test, this agreement gets cancelled. But

(1) USA will take back all the machinery / equipments / technology supplied to India thus far.

(2) Those 14 plants will continue to be under scanner irrespective of the status of the agreement.

On the other hand, if any of the commitments given by USA is breached by
them, then there is no clause for cancelling this agreement.

The agreement is apparently like this... USA can either hug India or slap India. India will not ask why are we hugged or why are we slapped. On the other hand, India cannot hug or slap USA for breach of agreement.

This is only capsule so that easy to read and digest.


India Pledged.... Part 2

Requirement of Power

The most important requirement for India's Economic Growth in the coming years will be the power & infrastructure. The argument put forth favouring the 123 Agreement says that we need Nuclear Power Production to be increased to meet the demand.

Power Production in India

Presently following are the figures:

Thermal Power 66%

Hydel Power 26%

Solar & Wind Power 5% - Presently Rs.600 Crores are spent for producing
this power.

Nuclear Power 3% - If this is to be increased to 6%, it
requires additional Rs.50,000 Crores.

Naturally it will be wise to increase other 3 modes of power production
rather than the expensive & dangerous Nuclear Power. Isn't??

URANIUM

We used to import Uranium from various other countries. After the Pokran Test, we are not getting it. To augment the supply, we need to sign the 123 Agreement to get Uranium from USA. But we will have to declare to USA from which power plant India takes raw material for producing Atom Bomb. Why should we disclose our internal secrets toe bloddy US? Will any one allow an outsider to continuously monitor what's happening in your Hall & Kitchen of your house? Other study reveals that Uranium is available in India aplenty. Only hurdle is the
acquisition of land. To produce Atomic Power & Bomb in the next 40 years, the requirement of Uranium is 25,000 MT whereas the availability is 78,000 MT across India.

PLUTONIUM

Presently 35% of Plutonium is used to produce Atomic Bombs. After signing the Agreement, we will be allowed to use only 10%. Who are those rascals to restrict the usage of our natural resource? That is though you are capable of cooking & eating 10 idlis as your breakfast, you are allowed only 3 idlis henceforth. How can it be? Why should we accept this?

THORIUM

As told by Dr.APJ, we have abundant Thorium. In fact we are the 2nd largest producer of Thorium next only to Australia. India has to explore this further for producing power. For your information, in South India - particularly around Kanyakumari, the availability of Thorium is abundant.

INDIA-IRAN-CHINA

USA does not like the amicable relationship between India-Iran and also India-China. If India-China relationship gets stronger, then both these can rule the Eastern Part of the Globe which USA wants to break as per their divide & rule.

By signing this agreement, USA wants India to depend on it for producing power which is going to be a crucial factor in future. There is a talk of bringing Natural Gas from Iran to India with a big pipeline project. USA doesn't like this proposal.

Atomic Power Technology

Whether power is produced or Bomb is produced, using Atomic power without spoiling the infrastructure and without allowing the radiation is always under threat. Moreover preserving the wastes coming out of Atomic Power Plants is expensive & unsafe.

There was an accident in Three Miles Island in USA. To close this plant nearly USD 200 Crores spent with tons & tons of concrete but yet to be fully closed.

In an another accident at Soviet Union's Serbia Plant, even the next generation child are affected due to the radiation.

It will be very very expensive to defuse & close down an Atomic Power Plant than its construction cost.

France

France has got 56 Nuclear Power stations producing 73% of the country's total power requirement. They are catching up the problem of eliminating the wastes / emissions from out of those plants at the same time increase the power production capacity. Government of France is now thinking how to reduce the power consumption in the country.

Conclusion

In view of the above danger, rather than signing the agreement and pledging India to USA, it will be prudent to increase the Solar & Wind Energy and more importantly Hyder Power Production can be increased constructing DAMS.

The whole process of this Agreement started in the year 2005 when Manmohan visited USA. In a span of just 2 years a major decision of signing this agreement has taken place with political motive.
INDIA-CHINA-USA

India is very rich in Culture, follow Religions, Value Ethics, Level of
Education is Very Good.

China is also rich in Culture, follow Religion, better disciplined.

USA does not have Culture, does not have Ethics, only want power over
others. Particularly wants a firm footing in South Asia. Remember the
introduction EURO by European Countries and it is stronger than Dollar?
So their "DAL" cannot be boiled at "EUROPE". They are trying in India
as already Pakistan is in their clutches.

Appeal from former nuclear scientists published in some papers today:

Appeal to the Members of Parliament

On

The India-US Civilian Nuclear

Co-operation Agreement

We were part of a group of senior nuclear scientists who had in the past expressed our grave concerns and objections to India entering into a nuclear co-operation agreement with the US under the aegis of the Hyde Act 2006. We had written earlier to the Parliamentarians on this matter, and the Prime Minister had given us an opportunity to meet with him and discuss our views.

1. At this critical juncture, when the Government is about to rush the safeguards agreement through the IAEA, there is a great deal of disquiet among the scientific community at large in this country. Should the country be entering into such a long term binding arrangement without a detailed and rigorous examination of the IAEA Safeguards? Should a Government, based at best on a wafer thin majority and a divided Parliament, commit the country in this manner? We, therefore, are strongly of the opinion that the Government should not proceed to seek IAEA Board approval for the current draft safeguards agreement, until its implications are debated more fully within the country, and with a group of experts who were not party to the IAEA negotiations.
2. The government is enthusiastically pushing the Deal on the basis that it will bring about energy security to India, since it will enable the import of foreign nuclear power reactors. But, analysts have convincingly and quantitatively shown that this additional power will come at a much higher cost per unit of electricity compared to conventional coal or hydro power, which India can generate without any foreign imports.
3. Once the Deal is in place, it is also clear that India's commercial nuclear interactions with the US, as well as with any other country, will be firmly controlled from Washington via the stipulations of the Hyde Act 2006 enforced through the stranglehold which the US retains on the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Any argument to the effect that the Deal will be governed only by the bilateral 123 Agreement is untenable, because this Agreement in turn is anchored in US domestic laws, which include the Hyde Act. And, the Hyde Act contains several stipulations which are extraneous to the issue of bilateral nuclear co-operation, including foreign policy behaviour which India needs to adhere to if the Deal is to be kept alive. The real issue facing India, therefore, is whether or not we want this mythical extra 'energy security ' through this Deal, paying two to three times the unit capital cost of conventional power plants, with the additional burden of subjugating the freedom to pursue a foreign policy and indigenous nuclear R&D program of our own.
4. The nuclear Deal could also have other serious repercussions, including a potential weakening of India's nuclear deterrent and an inability to protect & promote indigenous R&D efforts in nuclear technology. A combination of the extreme secrecy with which the government has carried forward this deal, the media hype they were able to generate in its favour, the parochial interests of opportunistic individuals & organizations, and the unfortunate ignorance of the issues involved among the general public have put the country on a dangerous path, likely to lead to the detriment of the current & future generations of Indians. Today's urgency to rush to the IAEA Board, in consonance with the American timetable, to get the safeguards agreement approved and thereafter clinch the Deal during the tenures of the current governments in India and the US must, therefore, be replaced with an openness & introspection that is vital for a serious debate which the situation demands.
5. The central issue about the IAEA safeguards agreement has been the doubt as to how "India-specific" these are. In particular, since it is distinctly clear from the Hyde Act and the 123 Agreement that no uninterrupted fuel supplies have been guaranteed in these documents for reactors which India will place under safeguards, the Government had assured that this defect will be corrected in the safeguards agreement. Since the IAEA was all along known to be no fuel-supply guarantor, it is not surprising that Indian negotiators have failed to obtain any assurance in this regard. All that the IAEA Agreement states in its preambular section is that it notes uninterrupted fuel supply and support for a strategic fuel reserve is the basis of placing Indian facilities in safeguards. It places no obligation on the IAEA other than merely noting this. The corrective measures, indicated in the preambular section, have nothing that anchors them to any section in the operative part of the agreement. Against such unspecified and vague mention of corrective measures, India's obligations are clear and binding. In effect, India has agreed to place its facilities that it will list out in the Annex under perpetual safeguards without any link to an uninterrupted fuel supply.
6. The Government is asserting that the IAEA safeguards have "provisions for corrective measures that India may take to ensure uninterrupted operation of its civilian nuclear reactors in the event of disruption of foreign fuel supplies. Taking this into account, India is placing its civilian nuclear facilities under India-specific safeguards in perpetuity". The nation would like to know clearly what these "corrective measures" are, before plunging headlong into this Deal. India being merely allowed to withdraw the Indian-built civilian PHWRs from safeguards , and that too after stripping them of all spent & fresh fuel and components of foreign origin , is no corrective step at all because such action does not ensure uninterrupted operation of these civilian nuclear reactors in the event of disruption of foreign fuel supplies. Even here, Article 32 of the Safeguards Agreement appears to stand in the way of any such withdrawal. Besides, this relaxation does not apply to the imported power reactors, which will use up the bulk of our investments in nuclear power; these units will perpetually stay under safeguards, even after fuel supplies are denied. The Hyde Act prohibits the US Administration from directly or indirectly (through the IAEA or other countries) assisting India with life-time fuel supplies after suspension of the Deal. Therefore, the Government owes a clarification to the Parliament and the public about how they intend to avoid the consequential huge economic loss from the non-operation of these extremely costly imported reactors, as a result of fuel denial.
7. The 123 Agreement states that the imports under the Deal "shall be subject to safeguards in perpetuity in accordance with the India-specific Safeguards Agreement between India and the IAEA and an Additional Protocol, when in force". While the actual draft of the Additional Protocol (AP) applicable to India may have to be negotiated and agreed to at a later date, it is absolutely necessary that a prior agreement between the IAEA and India on the essential features of such an Additional Protocol must be reached simultaneous with the finalization of the safeguards agreement and certainly before signing it. The most intrusive actions under the IAEA safeguards are always taken on the basis of this protocol, including the "pursuit clause" which permits interference with our non-civilian programs on the basis of unsubstantiated suspicion. India needs to make it clear what the limits are beyond which we will not entertain any IAEA action or intrusion, and it should be clear that a standard Model Protocol applicable to non-nuclear weapon States will not be acceptable to India. The leverage to debate and get the kind of restricted Additional Protocol we want will be entirely lost once a safeguards agreement alone is first put in place and the installations put under safeguards. As we understand, the limitations within which India is willing to enter into the Additional Protocol regime was neither discussed by Indian negotiators at the IAEA nor do they appear in the safeguards draft or its attachments. In this context, the Government needs to clarify their thinking on the Additional Protocol, before entering into the safeguards agreement.
8. Reprocessing the spent-fuel arising from burning fresh imported fuel in our civilian reactors provides us valuable additional plutonium, which in turn can be recycled into future civilian fast breeder reactors (FBRs) or advanced heavy water reactors (AHWRs). Reprocessing, therefore, is at the core of India's plans to build long-term energy security.

The government had all along pledged to secure an unqualified right to reprocess spent-fuel and even termed India's right to reprocess "non-negotiable" . But, in the 123 Agreement, what has finally been obtained is merely an empty theoretical right to reprocess. The actual permission to reprocess will come after years, when a dedicated state-of-the art reprocessing plant is built anew to treat foreign fuel, along with a host of allied facilities. There will be a large number of safeguards & Additional Protocol issues related to this, and all these hurdles will have to be crossed to reach the beginning of reprocessing. Much of the fundamental basis on which all this will be done has to be discussed and settled now at the outset, while the overall safeguards agreement is being finalized. But, the Government has not done this exercise during the recent set of negotiations with the IAEA, and this deficiency will come to haunt India in future unless it is rectified.

10. Similarly, there are many other key safeguards-related issues of crucial importance which have not been addressed in the current draft. Furthermore, none of the issues included presently has been handled adequately or in an acceptable manner. We therefore appeal to the Members of the Lok Sabha to direct the Government not to proceed further with the current safeguards agreement, and ask the Prime Minister to initiate wide-ranging and structured deliberations on the Indo-US Nuclear Co-operation Agreement, both within Parliament and outside, to develop a broad consensus on this Deal among political parties and the general public, before proceeding any further.

SIGNATORIES:

1. Dr.P.K.Iyengar, Former Chairman , Atomic Energy Commission

2. Dr.A. Gopalakrishnan, Former Chairman, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board

3. Dr.A.N. Prasad, Former Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Center

A JOURNEY ...........

When i was kid i quite often used to accompany my father in the various cultural awareness programmes he used to take part.
And the most popular item in the show used to be “golla suddullu”. golla is the name of a caste in Andhra Pradesh and there livelyhood is cattle rearing especially sheep and suddullu means good versus. Golla suddullu is form of street play famous in telangana region of Andhra Pradesh. This form of street play was always crucial in enlightening people about society telling them stories of local deities and there fight against evil earlier. but many cultural troupes these days use it for educating them on the various burning issues concerned to there livelihood.
I remember the song with which they usually start this play.
“Rajulu marina gaani rojulu maarina gaani !!! ....”
“Maaraledu mana brathukulu theeraledu mana baadalu!!!........”
exactly it is same and these versus are true even to date at any point of time and usually the play ends in educating the crowd the importance of a united struggle to solve a burning issue.
I was travelling along with a fellow friend to a village xxx of xx mandal of rangareddy district to participate in the 13 day cycle yatra organized by kula vivaksha porata sangham (KVPS) - Struggle Committee against Caste Discrimination. It was on 9the day since the yatra started. The purpose of the yatra is educate the masses on the evils of caste discrimination. It was aimed at doing more than singing some songs or playing street plays to educate people.
Geographically the Rangareddy district engulfed the much hyped hitech city Hyderabad. But this has done no good to the oppressed living here. There is no change in the conditions of the vast set of dalits living in this area even after 58 years of independence. Sri B.V Raghavulu the vice - president of KVPS, led the yatra. In my half-day participation I had the opportunity to see the conditions in three villages. I joined the other drum beaters from various villages in ranga reddy we were walking in front of the yatra in every village. The sound of the drums were reckoning as if they are the wakening call for the dalits. It was a call asking them to come join hands, be united and fight aginst 59 kinds of discriminations they are facing even to date in the so called the biggest democracy of the world. It is a shame to the civilized world. In each of these villages the forms of discriminations were almost similar. Its not just in the villages but all the villages the cycle yatra passed by. The most prominent forms of discrimination were untouchability, denying a shave or hair- cut to dalits by village barbers, separate utensils maintained for dalits and upper caste people in hotels. A human being can live with out food for a day or two but can he live with out water?? And these dalits are denied even that they are not allowed to take water from village public wells or hand pumps they all travel miles to fetch a pot of water, and many a times that is not at all hygienic. Thousands of dalits all around the state lived all there life with out even knowing how the deity of god in the temple looks like. There are thousands who might have crossed even there 70’s but never entered village temple.
These are the people who clean the filth of the whole village. They are the people who kick-start the journey of dead to heaven. They tear out there skins to make shoes to protect others feet but unfortunately the dalit wadas are most of the time unhygienic, they do not have minimum eminities of sanitation, forget about there feet they lead the most unprotected lives, all there life they live in hell.
The yatra moved from village to village opposing all forms of discrimination. Braking utensils as mark to end the separate utensils in hotels. Forcing the barbers to perform shave and hair-cut to dalits. The yatra told the people that they have the law on their side. The practice of untouchability is a crime and people practising are punishable anywhere from 9 to 18 years.
In the places were dalits were not allowed into temples we led them into temples. I can still see the happiness in the eyes of XXXXXX. He is dallari of the village the man who burns the effigies of the dead. he is over 80 years of age born brought up in the same village he never saw how idol of the god looks like. on the first instance he was hesitant but when my compatriot took by hand into the temple he prayed to the god from his heart and it looked like he fealt from then on he is in independent india he thanked the group hugged my compatriot who led him into temple and tears of happines roled instantly over his tired, sweating cheeks. he said probably he is still alive to see this day.
I wanted to play the same balley of palle siddulu here and every where else and say aloud "rojulu kachitanga maaruthaayi kaani adi jaragaalante daaniki sangathitha poratame margam."(the days ahead will definately change, but only through united struggles). when the rest of the group who joined the cycle yatra were spreading the same message assuring them full support from KVPS. I was speaking it out aloud the drum(dappu in my hand playing it along with dalits and other cultural activists who participated in the yatra.

SAVE HUMANITY OPPOSE BUSH

I CANNOT COUNT ON MORE NUMBERS. I CANNOT LET MOTHERS TO SUFFER. I CANNOT HEAR MORE CRIES OF INNOCENTS. SO I OPPOSE BUSH VISIT TO INDIA IF U FEEL FOR THESE KIDS U OPPOSE IT TOOO.............