''BHARAT NEPAL PARASPAR SAMVAD'' (भारत - नेपाल परस्पर संवाद )

Dear Friends, 

We are delighted to express about our initiative towards establishing and maintaining relations across the border and to work for common challenges as well as for world peace.

With the commitment towards world peace and non violence , it becomes necessary to maintain relations with our neighbor countries. This relationship can only be maintained in real sense by the people of both the places. 

In view of this, Mission Bhartiyam decided to start its initiative ''BHARAT NEPAL PARASPAR SAMVAD'' (भारत - नेपाल परस्पर संवाद ) , a program that will help us to meet and to talk more frequently, to face the common challenges together and to build the relationship better and better. We will also initiate programs on basic issues together and we , together can set an example while giving message of peace to this world. 

For this program, we are very thankful to Sh. SAROJ YADAV, who is a student of Human Rights and lives in Kathmandu, Nepal. We all , through our series of meetings, decided to start this initiative. 

Sh. Saroj Yadav will be the Convenor of this program in Nepal, while in India, members of Mission Bhartiyam will help in planning and execution of activities alongwith Saroj and his group.    

All of you are welcome to join this initiative. Write us at

info@missionbharatiyam.org  

Thnaks to you all

TEAM- MISSION BHARTIYAM

Contact: 9958907799, 9873146393

PRESS RELEASE 'SADBHAVNA DELEGATION' REACHED AT KOSI KALAN TO SPREAD MESSAGE OF HARMONY

*Delegation distributed pamphlets on peace, members walked on roads singing peace songs and visited all areas including affected areas to spread message of humanity, peace & harmony

Kosi Kalan has become witnessed of communal violence some days ago and this incident affected the normal life of the area where three persons lost their lives and several injured. After this violence, market there was reopened after 22 days on this Friday.

Today on 24th JUNE, when the passenger train from New Delhi arrived at Kosi Kalan Railway Station, just with the tune of engine's noise, people started listening a noise, that was attractive and very much different. They started looking towards the compartment from which a young and energetic team of youths was deboarding on platform. They all were singing 'Insaan ka insaan se ho bhaichara, yahee paighaam hamaara'.

It was a team of young and bright persons named 'Sadbhavna Dal', sent jointly by Mission Bhartiyam, NCHRO & Resident Doctors Association, AMU. The group had youths who belong from Hindu & Muslim communities and includes students, professionals and activists.

During their schedule at Kosi Kalan here, Md. Faizan told that ''we have come here with a message that we should stop such fighting and should live with each other with all love and respect for all. Infact, it is the humanity that has been taught by Quran, Ramayan or any other epic.'' . Ansar from NCHRO told we are youth and it is our duty to make all such efforts to bring harmony in society.

It was quite strange and inspiring to see walking and singing these youths in this hot summers. Infact, this walk itself was giving the message of dedication and commitment towards enriching harmony. They also distributed the pamphlets to general public on roads of Kosi Kalan and Aditya from Mission Bhartiyam recites that our country is the symbol of unity and harmony; and many such examples can be told when people of both communities helped each other with pure heart. Dr. Riyazuddin added that these incidents made us ashamed and we still become helpless to think that why such things are happening in this 21st century world?

During their day long program at Kosi Kalan, this Sadbhavna Delegation victims of both the communities who get affected due to this communal violence came to meet with delegation members. Old aged Muslim Babu Sanab Puli, a rickshaw puller got his house burned by mob. He has Incurred loss of all of thngs collected for marriage of two daughters. (pic1). Shamsher ali resident of karimullahvas also got affected by mob burning d home. Over all about 700 homes n shops got burned of both d communities and 3 persons died. Pandit kishen of Gurushganj also got his cars and home totally burned. These victims themselves told the delegation that they are happy to see such people like you who are working for humanity. They also told that they do not have any hate towards other community and many from other communities are coming to help us.

It was also quite strange that just after arrival of Sadbhavna Delegation and its continuous walk on roads under the scorching heat, Kosi Kala recieved heavy shower from the sky. It seemed that Nature itself extended its support towards this youth team who was here for the message of harmony. A local business group M/s Era Infra Engineering Ltd. also welcomed the delegation on road arranged water and tea voluntary. It all made this visit fruitful in terms of meeting and mixing up with people.

About his experience that Saleem Md. Khan received, he told that it is a beautiful day for me, as I feel that after embarrassing people of both the communities and working for them, i learnt the real way of living in society. Another member of delegation Pankaj Pathak presented his words in lines of a song..Aman ke hum Rakhwale hum sab ek hain........

Other members included Dr. Akhlad, Soumya Prakash, Mofizur Rehman, Dheeraj Pandey, Nadir Ayubi, Shagil Khan and Shamim. 'Their faces were smiling and it seemed that heat cannot stop the air of comfort to pass on, it only requires a Tree nearby.' told a local citizen there, 'and we really need such youths for our society' he added with a smile , mixed with hope and watered eyes.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

मिशन भारतीयम , एन.सी. एच. आर . ओ . एवं रेसीडेंट डाक्टर्स एसोसिएशन (AMU)

संपर्क : Pankaj (9873146393), Aarish (9555999150), Ansar(9718351204), Pankaj (9811095895), Saleem Md. Khan (9411803348), Dr. Reyazuddin (9997258800),

_____________________________________________________________________________________________

News Published at:

Awam e Hind, New Delhi

Two Circles.net

Dainik Jagran, Mathura

BDTV

INVITATION TO JOIN SADBHAVNA DAL VISIT ON 24 JUNE 2012

Kosi Kalan is a place that is situated in District Mathura (U.P.) and not far away from New Delhi.

Recently this place has become witnessed of communal violence and this incident affected the normal life of the area.

Now, when the social harmony is in danger , we feel that as a concerned citizen of this country and as a human being, we have responsibility to do whatever we can as per our capability to spread the message of peace, love and harmony.

Mission Bhartiyam is a group of youths that is already involved in many works in the field of communal harmony, peace, environment and human rights. With our objective and commitment towards the communal harmony , we along with other organizations are hereby proposed to visit Kosi Kalan alongwith 10 member (approx) delegation.

This delegation will include hindus and muslims, and will be named as 'Sadbhavna Dal'. Delegation will include Hindus & Muslims and will visit there to spread message of peace, love, unity and harmony.

Program Schedule:

Date: 24 JUNE 2012 , SUNDAY

Departure:9:00 AM for kosi kalan

Day long program at Kosi Kalan that will include distribution of pamphlets to spread message of humanity, harmony, unity on the road. Members will sing peace songs on the roads of kosi kalan.

Delegation will also try to meet some local activists there, a small meeting with district magistrate.

Till evening at 8 PM on the same day, Delegation will be returned to New Delhi.

*We invite individual/organization who want to be in Sadbhavna Dal to collaborate with us for a joint representation, as this will make the motive more effective towards the cause of humanity.

#Please also send us messages & songs of peace and unity, so that we can use them during our visit.

Thanks to you all

Contact: 9873146393 (Aditya), 9555999150 (Aarish), 9811095895 (Pankaj)

missionbhartiyam@gmail.com, info@missionbharatiyam.org

www.missionbharatiyam.org

E-PAO covers Participatory Theatre

The Press release sent by Mission Bhartiyam about the initiation of Participatory Theatre has been published by E-pao, the prime web portal for Manipuris. 

check http://e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=news_section.Press_Release.Press_Release_2012.Artists_For_Cause_organized_its_first_participatory_Theatre_Workshop_20120618

PRESS RELEASE: ARTISTS FOR CAUSE ORGANIZED ITS FIRST 'PARTICIPATORY THEATRE WORKSHOP'

PRESS RELEASE: ARTISTS FOR CAUSE ORGANIZED ITS FIRST 'PARTICIPATORY THEATRE WORKSHOP'

Date:17 JUNE 2012

Place: New Delhi

Artists for Cause , a social initiative by Mission Bhartiyam organized its first workshop on 'Participatory Theatre' here at Moti Nagar, New Delhi.

Ten persons participated in the workshop and there they learned to be involved in society to identify the social problems in real means.

During the whole interactive and interesting session, facilitated by Saurabh Srivastava, who have experience of more than 20 years in theatre and who worked mostly on grassroot level through theatre, participants became familiar with situations of society , various social evils and the need.

It was also felt that only problem identification should not be the motive instead providing suggestions can work better.

Devika Mittal, masters student at SAARC university and core member of Mission Bhartiyam, described that it is art that touches every heart. Stree theatres are the tools of social reform since long time and we, through participatory theatre , will try to make it more effective where issue on which we will prepare the final play, will also come from side of participant rather than facilitator. In its unique way, we will be able to learn the process of democratization of a concept and will also be able to develop thoughts through debate, discussion etc.

Soumya Prakash who held a degree in Mass Com and presently learning social philosophies through his real participation in social activities found it useful and showed his interests alongwith various inputs.

It was also observed that professionals and students were the persons who became interested in this workshop so that they can contribute to society through theatre.

Vanshree, a masters student in SAARC university raise various issues during workshop that are required to address for a social change.

Megha, an electronics and communications engineer by profession told that she would like to work woth this group as on one hand we have a social responsibility to do for our society,  on another it gives self satisfaction, happiness, positive energy, personality development. Through this, we can spread awareness as well as learn.

In an interesting debate during the workshop,  where every participant has to tell topics on which they would like to make first stree play,  and then his/her topic discussed with all; it was found that various popular issues that were raised and discussed became null and void to be accepted as real problem, instead the real problem discovered.

 

Ankur Loonia, an engineering student at Jamia Millia University, New Delhi stated that he is keen to work through stree theatre. He told that he would like to make people aware to get associated with Artists for cause as this platform is providing you opportunity to create and to dream, to shape a 'free theatre' concept.

At the end, Pankaj Pathak on behalf of Mission Bhartiyam conveyed his sincere thanks to all who participated. He also told that we would like to train people who want to contribute to society through theatre by this initiative.

Artists for cause actually provides a platform to people who want to get involved in social activities and who want to spread message among society through art (theatre, painting, sketching, music etc) . However artists for cause will try to work among general public through their work at public places.

 

Others who participated includes Sulabh Srivastava, Shekhar Jain, Ravi Nitesh, and Mithileesh Pandey. Various issues discussed during this introductory workshop includes corruption, eve teasing, women safety, gender equality, communal harmony, poverty, child labor, disaster, environment, racial descrimination of NE people etc.

 

One topic will be selected in next workshop after a discussion and various aspects of toipcs that will be selected at various parameters. it will be done with participatory exercise with the group.

 

Next workshop will be organized in first week of July. Those who want to participate can write a mail at: info@missionbharatiyam.org or missionbhartiyam@gmail.com

 

Regards

Artists for Cause

http://www.facebook.com/ArtistsForCause 

 

 

----

Mission Bhartiyam

(regd under SRA 1860, established and managed by youths)

Website: www.missionbharatiyam.org

Blog: www.missionbhartiyam.blogspot.com

E-mail: missionbhartiyam@gmail.com, info@missionbharatiyam.org

 

*We work for Peace, Human Rights, Communal Harmony, Arts & Culture, Youth Affairs, Environment and other social issues

 

 

PROPOSED VISIT OF 'SADBHAVNA DAL' AT KOSI KALAN, MATHURA (U.P.) TO SPREAD MESSAGE OF LOVE< PEACE< HARMONY & HUMANITY AFTER A RECENT COMMUNAL VIOLENCE REPORTED

Dear Firends,

 

We believe that in the country like India, where harmony and unity among diversity is the basic feature of society and where non violence, peace and love are the values that we learnt since our childhood, its our responsibility to work for the humanity to give efforts towards social integration and to make our society living and cheerful with the objective of happiness for all, whenever this basic feature of society becomes unbalance.

 

Now, when the incidents at kosi kalan shocked the people living in this society, we would like to visit kosi kalan with our 10 member delegation as a ' Sadbhavna Dal', just to spread message of humanity and communal harmony. During our day long visit, we will distribute pamphlets (that will give message of peace, non violence and harmony), we will sing songs of love, peace and harmony. 

 

Delegation will include equal numbers of hindu and muslim members  who are working on communal harmony at grass root level.  Members may belong from Mission Bhartiyam, Sadbhavna Mission, Khudai Khidmatgar and Asha Parivar. We will not be involved in any other activity as the visit will only focus on communal harmony.

 

We hope that this initiative will also help the efforts of district administration towards the peace and harmony.

 

Please note that in case you require, as a security reasons and requirements of district administration, we are ready to provide a list of our proposed members who will visit (with their name and address), we are ready to produce identity cards, we are also ready to provide  our pamphlets that will be distributed and list of songs that will be sung by members.     

 

 * Fax to get permission has been sent at Office of the District Magistrate, Mathura (U.P.). We will visit the affected region as soon as we will get permission. 

Mission Bhartiyam and Khudai khidmatgar facilitated Students during third Save Girl child summit held at Gandhi Darshan, Rajghat, New Delhi on 29-30 May

Dear Members,

We are happy to share with you that few members of mission Bhartiyam participated in recently help convention on save girl child at new delhi.

Our members who participated were :

U.P.:
Basti: Praveen Srivastava, Arun Ji and Vishal
With students Venkatraman and Samriddhi
Lucknow: Ankit Gupta , Ashutosh Srivastava (from Darsh Sewa Sansthan)

M.P.
Vidisha: Ashok Lodi,

Odhisa:
Sibuprasad (from Utkal Youth
Lakshmikant Paikerey
Smruti

Mission Bhartiyam and Khudai Khidmatgar were jointly organized a poster/poem competition in Basti (U.P.) And Essay/paragraph writing in Lucknow (U.P.) On the save girl child subject in the month of May, Where many students participated and some of their creations get selected and were displayed during the summit held at new delhi.

Certificates and medals were given jointly by khudai khidmatgar and Mission bhartiyam to these students:

Venkatraman Bhatnagar for poster (in person)
Samridhi Pandey for poem (in person)
Priyanshi pal
Arpita
Ritu Sharma
Shreya Gupta
Maria Afsar
Jyotsna Pandey
Pooja Pal
Richa Mishra

Certificates to:
Seema Jaisawal
Shivangi Singh
Artika srivastava

'Soldier of change' medal given to:
Praveen Srivastava from Basti
Ankit gupta from lucknow
Ashok Lodi from vidisha

Medal for active participation:
Arun ji
Sibuprasad

Certificates of participation to
Vishal ji
Gandesh lodi
Heamnt srivastava
Amit srivastava

Thanks
Mission Bhartiyam
www.missionbharatiyam.org
Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel

A note on Biomass Energy: Barriers and Pitfalls

 Energy is the key factor on which the economy of the nation is dependent. In a country like India which is a developing country the major dependence of the economy is on industrialization which is in turn dependent on availability of quality power. Indian Power sector has been growing at a good pace but still there has been a significant gap between the demand and supply of electricity. The period post Electricity Act 2003 has witnessed a lot of policy measures from government aimed at providing electricity to all and rationalization of pricing and improvement of efficiency and quality through invoking competition in the sector. Some of the recent highlights of the sector are as follows:

 

 

Total Installed Capacity (As on 30.04.2012) :  2,01,637 MW

Per Capita Consumption                                 : 783Kwh (Global Average2300 Kwh)

 

Coal has been the dominant source of supply in India contributing around 65% of the total share in the total installed capacity. The disadvantage of too much dependence on a single source has recently highlighted the loop holes of the energy security. Changes in the global pricing regulations of coal and availability of domestic coal have nearly brought the sector to a halt. But the question is that whether we have any alternate source to compensate coal. The answer in the Indian context is still no. No doubt solar and wind energy are clean technologies but they are totally dependent on natural phenomenon and have inbuilt disadvantages such as inefficiency in inter state transfer and forecasting.

 

Biomass

 

Biomass has also bee identified as a renewable source of energy by MNRE and several policies have been laid down by government such as CFA and feed in tariff but there has still not been substantial improvement in the sector with huge potential for improvement. The main reason has been the financial viability of the projects being set up under various regulatory schemes of the biomass sectors.

 

Some of the suggestions to improve the viability are as follows;

 

v  The ERCs' and IREDA guided by Section 86(e) of Electricity Act 2003 and Tariff Policy have been laying down policies to promote the renewable energy sector, but the main emphasis has been on Solar and wind technologies. Although biomass has also been backed up with feed in tariff through higher return on equity as compared to conventional tariff but at the same time the issues to be addressed are the initial capital cost of the project and as well as the cost of the fuel used. The fuel price has been fixed by ERCs' on state level but what actually is happening that suppose state A is having a price of fuel lesser than state B thus in order to bring the financial viability to the project the State B imports fuel from state A thus giving rise to increase in demand of fuel in State A accompanied with increase in price of fuel in State A also. The possible mechanism that can address this issue would be an Administered Price Mechanism for the biomass fuel wherein government intervention would be required to fix price of the fuel.

 

v  The wind and solar energy project enjoy a must run status irrespective of the capacity which means that they will not be subjected to Merit Order Dispatch but Biomass plant with capacity above 10 MW are subjected to Merit Order dispatch and in case of the grid disturbance due to their higher tariff these project would be asked to back down leading to loss in generation and revenue for the developer. In the either case if the developer goes for a plant less than 10 MW he will not be able to get the advantage of the Economies of Scale. The biomass project have been approved by MNRE as clean technology therefore they must also be given the status of must run status.

 

v  The Biomass projects also form part of the renewable resources which can be utilized for RPO compliance by distribution utility. Technologies like solar and wind are being given a Generation Based Incentives for generation which has shifted the focus from capacity addition to generation which has significantly contributed to reduction in CO2 emissions in the country. Similar incentives should also be there for biomass plant.

 

SUMMARY OF BIOMASS POWER COGENERATION TARIFF ACROSS STATES  

 (AS ON 31.03.2011)

State	Tariff fixed by Commissions	RP0 %
Andhra Pradesh	@Rs.4.28/kWh,(201011)  (BM)    Rs.3.48/kWh                  (Cogen)	Min. 3.75%
Chhattisgarh	@Rs.3.93/Unit (2010-11)   (BM)	5%
Gujarat	@ Rs.4.40/unit (with accelerated depre.)  (BM) @ Rs.4.55/unit (with accelerated depre.)    for 1st 10 yrs(Cogen)	10%
Haryana	@ Rs.4.00/unit                   (BM)  @ Rs.3.74/unit                  (Cogen)    3%escalation (base year 2007-08)	1%
Karnataka	@Rs.3.66 per unit (PPA signing date)     Rs.4.13 (10th year)          (BM) @ Rs.3.59/unit,  (PPA signing date)    Rs.4.14/unit (10th  Year) (Cogen)	Min.10%
Kerala	@ Rs.2.80/unit                   (BM) escalated at  5% for five years (2000-01)	3%
Maharashtra	@ Rs. 4.98         (2010-11)  (BM) @Rs.4.79/unit (Comm  yr.) (Cogen)	6%
Madhya Pradesh	@ Rs.3.33 to 5.14 /unit paise for 20 yrs. With esc of 3- 8paise	0.8%
Punjab	@Rs.5.05 /unit, (2010-11)   (BM) @Rs.4.57/unit   (2010-11)   (Cogen)escalated at 5% -cogen, & 5%-BM	Min. 3%
Rajasthan	@ Rs.4.72 / unit-water cooled (2010-11)- & Rs.5.17-air cooled(2010-11)-(BM)	1.75%
Tamil Nadu	@ Rs.4.50-4.74/unit(2010-11) –  (BM)@ Rs.4.37-4.49/unit (2010-11)- (Cogen)(Escalation 2%)	Min. 13%
Uttaranchal	@ Rs.3.06/unit. (2010-11) - BM@Rs.3.12/unit (2010-11)- (Cogen) (new projects)	9%
U.P.	@ Rs.4.29 / unit, for existing and 4.38 for new with  escalated at  4 paise/year, base year (2006)	4%
West Bengal	Rs. 4.36/unit fixed for 10 years-BIOMASS	4%
Bihar	Rs. 4.17/unit (2010-11)–BIOMASSRs.4.25/unit (2010-11) – existing  (Cogen)Rs.4.46/unit (2010-11) – new (Cogen)	1.5%
Orissa	Rs.4.09/unit

 

 

 

CFA for Biomass Power Project and Bagasse Cogeneration Projects by Private/Joint/Coop./Public Sector Sugar Mills

	Special Category States(NE Region, Sikkim, J&K, HP & Uttaranchal)	Other States
Project Type	Capital Subsidy	Capital Subsidy
Biomass Power projects	Rs.25 lakh X(C MW)^0.646	Rs.20 lakh X (C MW)^0.646
Bagasse Co-generation by Private sugar mills	Rs.18 lakh X(C MW)^0.646	Rs.15 lakh X (C MW)^0.646
Bagasse Co-generation projects by cooperative/ public sector sugar mills 40 bar & above 60 bar & above 80 bar & above	Rs.40 lakh    * Rs.50 lakh    * Rs.60 lakh    * Per MW of surplus power@ (maximum support Rs. 8.0 crore per project)	Rs.40 lakh         * Rs.50 lakh         * Rs.60 lakh         * Per MW of surplus power@  (maximum support Rs. 8.0 crore per project)

  *For new sugar mills, which are yet to start production and existing sugar mills employing backpressure route/seasonal/incidental cogeneration, which exports surplus power to the grid, subsidies shall be one-half of the level mentioned above. 

 

By:

Syed Saif Abbas Naqvi

Energy Security Division- Mission Bhartiyam

www.missionbharatiyam.org