Friday, August 31, 2012

National competition on School safety in India

The National Institute Disaster Management  (NIDM)under National Disaster Management Auothrity (NDMA), Government of India, of Ministry of Home Affairs    National Institute of Disaster Management is conducting School Safety Competition. School safety compettition 20012  The schools can join this competition. The National plan on school safety under NIDM School Safety Model Plan

The last date for submission is 15th September 2012. The Young Explorers Institute for Social Service of Salt Lake, North 24 Parganas would like to assist schools for drawing your school safety plan as per National Disaster Management Authority. The contact person : Major Sushanta Kumar De (Released), Secretary, Mobile no 9875764732. E mail : youthforum2k@yahoo.com

31 August 2012

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Friday, July 27, 2012

A civil society of India : The Young Explorers’ Institute for Social Service,



Initiation

A group of individuals used to gather every Sunday at the open ground of Salt Lake
they were Cubs, Scouts and Rovers, they used to learn to scout and to work for the betterment of their society. 

Initially there was a Scout group only; later on, a Guide group was also inducted. It was twenty
 years back, now those Cubs, Scouts and Rovers,  are quite grown-ups as most of them are today 
engaged in studying or working as young professionals.
           
            Building scientific temperament
         
Amateur Wireless activity is a scientific hobby, but for full-fledged operation, one should certainly
pass out the examination to get the license, under Government of India, Ministry of 
Communication. Mr Sushanta De, who is a licensed operator and at the same time the 
Honorary. The Secretary of this organisation. He along with his group had previously organized 
World Wide Wireless Radio communication, for Scouts & Guides, which is known as 
“Jamboree on the air.” The Representative of this Institute taking  sessions at 
Administrative Training Institute, Government of West Bengal on the strengthening 
communication for  Disaster  Management, A paper on 'Role of amateur wireless operator for
disaster management ' was accepted and discussed at the first National Disaster Congress held at 
New Delhi.

Link of the first disaster congress held in 2006



A wide range of programme was organized by this society at Birla Industrial Technology Museum, 
Kolkata, Science Museum at Burdwan, Purulia and mobile exhibition at salt Lake, visits at 
various Radio Stations at Kolkata, Simla, Allahabad, Leh and Sylhet( Bangladesh. The programme
on youth development, adventure, environment, volunteerism and international friendship were 
broadcasted.
           
            International brotherhood

For making international brotherhood this institute took initiative to know the 
SAARC Countries visited SAARC Secretariat, support was extended to the team
 who took up a SAARC Safari in 1995 by
3 motorcycles.


 SAARC PUBLICATIONS were handed over to Indian National library.

During January 2005, World Peace Congress held at Kolkata, it was organized by Internationa
Society for Intercultural Studies and Research. The Department of Post, Government of India,
released a special cover, the lay out of the same was done by  the young member, and this
was arranged by this Institute.

            Gender equality

To know the serious problems and the darker side of our society, one of their member 
participated in a National level competition on the hot burning topic,  ‘Do the boys and girls are 
having equal rights?’ organized by Unnati Features, a leading feature group of New Delhi and 
which was rightly supported by the United Nations Population Fund. He won a merit award for his
 entry along with other 50 other students.



 Institute’s representative was invited to take part in the various programme, two of them are:

a)   French Expertise in an Indian context for urban  and industrial environment, this was held at
 Kolkata in March 2003,
b)   Consultation on National Water Policy: Problems and alternatives at Indian Social Institute,
New Delhi, April 2003.

Environment awareness programmes

On their initiative, an audiovisual on Rain Water harvesting of Purulia was prepared in Bengali 
language, this was included second National level film festival on wildlife and environment held in
New Delhi.


The new threats by global warming and its subsequent effects is definitely a major concern for all of
us; their representatives took part in two expeditions on river Ganga, starting from Maharajpur,
(Jharkhand) to Behrampure (West Bengal), covering a distance of 190 km in just five days. In the next year another venture from Behrampure to Kolkata, a distance of 300 km. This time by rafts, 
both these expeditions were organized by The Institute of Exploration Regional unit Behrampure.



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·         An exhibition on Ganga was organized at State Central Library for mass awareness, it was a five days programme in which the subject was presented by visuals, prints, audiovisuals and performing arts. Such awareness programme was organized in various districts of South Bengal, this was mainly in educational institutes, museums, and libraries



     

·         A special tram was used for awareness generating among the citizens of Kolkata, the teachers, students and parents took part in this programme. They spread the message ‘peoples participation to protect the environment’.

·         Institute published a Bengali monthly, titled ‘Youth Forum’; it is mainly to promote volunteerism among the civil society.

·         Students of West Bengal Judicial Science, Vidyasagar University & Viswabhrati took part with this Institute for their practical works.

·         International Youth Day was organized at Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2006.
  International Youth Day


Letter from Jadavpur University International Relation Department
Letter from State Central Library, Kolkata




·         Six days joint programmes on the “Role of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, INA & East Asia’s countries for India’s freedom struggle.

·         Wall climbing training, awareness programmes for Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.

·         Institute was financed by charity and grants from Government of India, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Department of Culture, Government of West Bengal, Department of Environment and West Bengal Pollution Control Board, private funding agency and individuals. The Income Tax authority has granted this Institute to accept the donation, which will be exempted under 80 G.

Contributor Sushanta De

Mobile +919874764732

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Indian National Army (INA)

After the fall of Singapore in 1942 by the Japanese, during the World War II. The British Indian Army person nel were prisoner of war (POW). On the request of Rashbehari Bose, a great freedom fighter who left India and took shelter in Japan.The British India soldiers who were volunteered and joined Azad Hind Fauj or Indian National Army initially under Capt Mohan Singh. After the arrival of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose at Singapore from Germany the leadership was handed  over to him by Rash Behari Bose. The several publications are available in different languages including e resources.

The National Archives of Singapore is having on line exhibition on INA, you can have a look

National Archives Singaporehttp://www.subhaschandrabose.org/editorial.php?id=YWJlcmFzaWJvKDUpZmlyZQ##


Lucknow Bench order of Allhabad High Court


Article from Times of India

Government of India

Grievance Status

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Status as on 22 Aug 2013
Registration Number:DCLTR/E/2012/00029
Name Of Complainant:The Young Explorers Institute for Social Service
Date of Receipt:09 Mar 2012
Received by:Ministry of Culture
Forwarded to:museum 1
Officer name:Smt.Vanita Sood
Officer Designation:Under Secretary
Contact Address:Room No.333, C-Wing, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi.
110001
Grievance Description:We might have forgotten the role played by the Indian National Army (INA) for our independence movement. Is there any requirement to preserve the materials of INA. Yes Government of India has sanctioned freedom fighter pension to them, an area has been named as INA in our capital. What about a museum ? Is Ministry of Culture will consider this issue ? It is already more than 64 years passed of our Independence. The matter was raised during the meeting at Kolkata inm 2011 where Secretary of Ministry of Culture was present.
Date of Action:04 Sep 2012




Battles to repel Azad Hind Fauj voted UK’s greatest




The Imphal War Cemetery after a British delegation paid its tribute in April 2006 to the casualties of the Second World War. (Eastern Projections)

London, April 21: The twin battles of Imphal and Kohima, when British troops defeated Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s Azad Hind Fauj and the Japanese army during World War II, have together been chosen as Britain’s greatest battle.



The 1944 Imphal-Kohima battle was picked over the more celebrated battles of D-Day and Waterloo in a contest organised by the National Army Museum.



“Great things were at stake in a war with the toughest enemy any British army has had to fight,” historian Robert Lyman said, making a case for the twin battles in a 40-minute debate at the museum.



If Lt Gen. William Slim’s army of British, Indian, Gurkha and African troops had lost, the consequences for the Allies would have been catastrophic, Lyman said. The Japanese and Netaji’s army lost 53,000 troops (dead and missing). The Allies took 12,500 casualties at Imphal and 4,000 at Kohima.



The successful British defence meant they were later able to push into Burma and beat the Japanese back from mainland Asia.



Lyman suggested that one reason the double battle is relatively un-feted is that Britain played it down because of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s opposition to the British empire.



“This was the last real battle of the British empire and the first battle of the new India,” he said. The Indian troops “weren’t fighting for the British or the Raj but for a newly emerging and independent India and against the totalitarianism of Japan”.



Lyman ranked it with Midway, El Alamein and Stalingrad as the turning-point battles of World War II.



Imphal-Kohima was on a shortlist of five battles that had topped a public poll. Waterloo had topped the online poll, which produced a list of 20 land battles fought since the English Civil War (1642-51). Finally, the top five were debated before an audience of more than 100 guests yesterday at the museum in Chelsea before it went to an audience vote.



Imphal-Kohima received almost half the votes, far ahead of D-Day (1944), which received 25 per cent, and Waterloo (1815), which got 22 per cent. Rorke’s Drift in the 1879 Zulu War and the Battle of Aliwal in the 1846 Anglo-Sikh war in Punjab brought up the rear.



“Imphal and Kohima... showed that the Japanese were not invincible.... The victories demonstrate this more than the US in the Pacific, where they were taking them on garrison by garrison,” Lyman said.



The Imphal battle lasted from March till July while the April-June fight for Kohima, though smaller in scale, was so intense that it has been described as the “Stalingrad of the East”. Some veterans of the battles and historians have felt the victories have since been overlooked partly because the invasion of Europe, starting with the June 6 D-Day, took place while they were still being fought.



The contest’s criteria included a battle’s political and historical impact, the challenges the troops faced, and the strategy and tactics used.



The winner was a surprise given the enduring prominence of Waterloo and D-Day in Britain. Indeed, the troops who fought in India and Burma in WWII called themselves “The Forgotten Army”.



The Japanese along with Netaji’s army had poured over the Burmese border to enter India. Fought over a vast area of jungles and mountains, it was marked by vicious hand-to-hand combat.



In one sector, only the width of the town’s tennis court separated the two sides. When the relief forces of the British 2nd Division arrived on April 18, the defensive perimeter had been reduced to a shell-shattered area only 350 metres square.



There are several memorials to the British and Indian troops who fought in the area, including the famous “Kohima Epitaph”. It reads: “When you go home, Tell them of us and say, For their tomorrow, We gave our today.”



Lyman’s adversary in the debate, former Parachute Regiment Colonel Stuart Tootal, argued for the D-Day landings and subsequent Battle for Normandy against Hitler’s Germany. Although popular culture, including movies such as Saving Private Ryan, has highlighted the US role and relegated the British to a supporting cast, the operation was under the command of Britain’s Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.



The victory decided the outcome of World War II and denied the Russians total control of Berlin. It’s sheer scale and the risk involved made it Britain’s greatest battle, said Tootal, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan.



The Duke of Wellington’s victory over Napoleon’s army at Waterloo had gone into the final as favourite. Historian Iain Gale said its consequences were immense for Britain and it has “permeated our nation and its conscience”. Waterloo ended Napoleon’s attempts to dominate Europe. “It prepared the way for the British Empire and the modern world as we know it,” Gale said.



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Battles to repel Azad Hind Fauj voted UK’s greatest



The Imphal War Cemetery after a British delegation paid its tribute in April 2006 to the casualties of the Second World War. (Eastern Projections)

London, April 21: The twin battles of Imphal and Kohima, when British troops defeated Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s Azad Hind Fauj and the Japanese army during World War II, have together been chosen as Britain’s greatest battle.



The 1944 Imphal-Kohima battle was picked over the more celebrated battles of D-Day and Waterloo in a contest organised by the National Army Museum.



“Great things were at stake in a war with the toughest enemy any British army has had to fight,” historian Robert Lyman said, making a case for the twin battles in a 40-minute debate at the museum.



If Lt Gen. William Slim’s army of British, Indian, Gurkha and African troops had lost, the consequences for the Allies would have been catastrophic, Lyman said. The Japanese and Netaji’s army lost 53,000 troops (dead and missing). The Allies took 12,500 casualties at Imphal and 4,000 at Kohima.



The successful British defence meant they were later able to push into Burma and beat the Japanese back from mainland Asia.



Lyman suggested that one reason the double battle is relatively un-feted is that Britain played it down because of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s opposition to the British empire.



“This was the last real battle of the British empire and the first battle of the new India,” he said. The Indian troops “weren’t fighting for the British or the Raj but for a newly emerging and independent India and against the totalitarianism of Japan”.



Lyman ranked it with Midway, El Alamein and Stalingrad as the turning-point battles of World War II.



Imphal-Kohima was on a shortlist of five battles that had topped a public poll. Waterloo had topped the online poll, which produced a list of 20 land battles fought since the English Civil War (1642-51). Finally, the top five were debated before an audience of more than 100 guests yesterday at the museum in Chelsea before it went to an audience vote.



Imphal-Kohima received almost half the votes, far ahead of D-Day (1944), which received 25 per cent, and Waterloo (1815), which got 22 per cent. Rorke’s Drift in the 1879 Zulu War and the Battle of Aliwal in the 1846 Anglo-Sikh war in Punjab brought up the rear.



“Imphal and Kohima... showed that the Japanese were not invincible.... The victories demonstrate this more than the US in the Pacific, where they were taking them on garrison by garrison,” Lyman said.



The Imphal battle lasted from March till July while the April-June fight for Kohima, though smaller in scale, was so intense that it has been described as the “Stalingrad of the East”. Some veterans of the battles and historians have felt the victories have since been overlooked partly because the invasion of Europe, starting with the June 6 D-Day, took place while they were still being fought.



The contest’s criteria included a battle’s political and historical impact, the challenges the troops faced, and the strategy and tactics used.



The winner was a surprise given the enduring prominence of Waterloo and D-Day in Britain. Indeed, the troops who fought in India and Burma in WWII called themselves “The Forgotten Army”.



The Japanese along with Netaji’s army had poured over the Burmese border to enter India. Fought over a vast area of jungles and mountains, it was marked by vicious hand-to-hand combat.



In one sector, only the width of the town’s tennis court separated the two sides. When the relief forces of the British 2nd Division arrived on April 18, the defensive perimeter had been reduced to a shell-shattered area only 350 metres square.



There are several memorials to the British and Indian troops who fought in the area, including the famous “Kohima Epitaph”. It reads: “When you go home, Tell them of us and say, For their tomorrow, We gave our today.”



Lyman’s adversary in the debate, former Parachute Regiment Colonel Stuart Tootal, argued for the D-Day landings and subsequent Battle for Normandy against Hitler’s Germany. Although popular culture, including movies such as Saving Private Ryan, has highlighted the US role and relegated the British to a supporting cast, the operation was under the command of Britain’s Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.



The victory decided the outcome of World War II and denied the Russians total control of Berlin. It’s sheer scale and the risk involved made it Britain’s greatest battle, said Tootal, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan.



The Duke of Wellington’s victory over Napoleon’s army at Waterloo had gone into the final as favourite. Historian Iain Gale said its consequences were immense for Britain and it has “permeated our nation and its conscience”. Waterloo ended Napoleon’s attempts to dominate Europe. “It prepared the way for the British Empire and the modern world as we know it,” Gale said.



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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Book on Government, Government sponsored & Government aided libraries in the State of West Bengal


Recently a book on libraries of West Bengal has been published by the Directorate of Libraries of Government of West Bengal. 
There is a minister and Directorate on Libraries in the State of West Bengal. A total number of such libraries of
                                                   Government Libraries
No
Government-sponsored libraries
No
Government
aided
No
State    
02




District
06

19


Sub Division
04

232

07

Rural/Primary unit


2209


Total
12

2460

07