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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Route of Ganga expeditions in 1995 & 1996

·         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

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14th November 2016

The Hindu : News / National : Captain Lakshmi Sahgal (1914 - 2012) - A life of struggle

The Hindu : News / National : Captain Lakshmi Sahgal (1914 - 2012) - A life of struggle

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##


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Registration Number	:	DCLTR/E/2012/00029
Name Of Complainant	:	The Young Explorers Institute for Social Service
Date of Receipt	:	09 Mar 2012
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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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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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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

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Memory of Territorial Army of India

Territorial Army of Kolkata
It was 22 years back, we were deployed some where in western sector of our country. I had joined from my bank’s job. We were Territorial Army (TA) personnel  from Kolkata, our unit is affiliated to Garwhal Rregiment of Indian Army. In Kolkata there are 2 Infantry TA battalions and 1 General Hospital (TA).
We used to assemble on Sundays and annual camp for training at the unit location at southern part of Kolkata. Our employer had released us for military service. We switched over from civilian to TA personnel, some of us performing section commander, platoon commander, company commander & other appointments. There are regular service personnel also in our unit.
We had various task to perform some time ground defence of air port, ordnance depot,ammunition depot, vital  establishments e.t.c.
Our rank structure are same like Indian army, the food for jawans, non commissioned officers, junior commissioned officer and officers are prepared in their respective kitchen some time we had ‘barakhan’ a great feast for all. Some recreation programme make more attractive. Our unit has an orchestra group they were very popular even for the civil function at the out side.
Like Indian army TA also famous for ceremonial and social activities like TA day (9th Oct), Raising day (15th March), Dushera festival e.t.c. The family members and ex TA personnel join in these days to remember their old days.
Now TA are engaged in various assignment , mainly internal security. They are performing continuous military service and earning their pension from Ministry of Defence.
Contributor Sushanta De, email : youthforum2k@yahoo.com
13 Jul 12

The ICRC and Universities

The International Committee Red Cross Red Crescent (ICRC)

Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) is only society recognized
in India by the ICRC (www.icrc.org ) In our country
IRCS is working since 1920. they have branches in all the States and UTs,
districts and sub division level. 

2. The ICRC and Universities of the World working together
to promote international humanitarian law. We are one of the partner
organisation working this direction. We would like to request you kindly
consider to promote international humanitarian law in your University. .

3. We propose some of the steps which may be considered at the
initial stage to find out the scope to promote the issue for the benefit of teaching,
researcher and students communities

a)  Collection of
printed and electronic publications, initially we will handed over some
publications, same may be displayed & issued through your library, you can
select the publications on line (www.icrc.org )

b) International Red Cross Red Crescent (IFRC) (www.ifrc.org) is having a e learning platform
any person as volunteer may join this programme  for registration, training, evaluation and issue of certificate are  carried on line. 
 

NCC the biggest youth organization in uniform in our country

The youths of our country who are in various educational institutions in 
secondary, higher secondary and under graduate level and join  the biggest
youth organization, the National Cadet Corps(NCC). They have Boys, Girls , Army, Navy 
and Air wings. Their uniform are different, Army wing cadets put on ‘Khaki’, 
Navy and Air Wings their colour are white and sky respectively. 


The NCC Act was adopted in 1948 in our country, prior to that  there was 
Officers Training Unit (OTU) in which Subhas Chandra Bose was also a cadet.

1. To Develop Character, Comradeship, Discipline, Leadership, Secular Outlook, Spirit of Adventure, and Ideals of Selfless Service amongst the Youth of the Country. 2. To Create a Human Resource of Organized, Trained and Motivated Youth, To Provide Leadership in all Walks of life and be Always Available for the Service of the Nation. 3. To Provide a Suitable Environment to Motivate the Youth to Take Up a Career in the Armed Forces.

Organisation

Lieuant General (Lt Gen)

Director General (DG) NCC Office

Ministry of Defence (MOD) , Government of India (GOI),

RK Puram, New Delhi 110066

Web site http://nccindia.nic.in/

Sainik Samachar

Cadet Journal

Officers Training Academy (OTA) NCC,

Kamtee, Maharastra

Major General (Maj Gen)

Additional Diretor General (ADG)

NCC Directorate West Bengal and Sikkim

MOD,GOI, P67 Block ‘D’ New Alipore, Kolkata 700053

Printed books on the training of NCC to be purchased may be through library, Institute

should subscribe fortnightly journal in Bengali and  English, the annual subscription is Rs one hundred onl,

Business Manager, Sainik Samachar, GOI, MOD, Hutment, Church Road, New Delhi 110001, DD to be payable ;Editor in Chief, Sainik Samachar.

In our state NCC is under the Civil Defence Department, GOWB, Writers Building

The Institute is under a NCC Battalion who arrange for the enrolment, training and conduct the examinations, i.e. NCC certificates’ B’ & ‘C’.

a)      Commanding Officer (CO)

b)      Administrative Officer

c)      Subedar Major (SM)

Senior Division

Boys & Girls

Wings

Army, Navy & Air

Aim

 http://nccindia.nic.in/Aim.htm

It was started in 2011 a volunteer of the Young Explorers’ Institute for Social Service took imitative to impart training to the students of Rabindra Bharati University of Kolkata, The students were motivated to undergone NCC training, NCC authority was approached, visit of Fort William, State Bank Museum  was made for the students. Programmes were organised at the university campus on the ‘Role of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, Indian National Army for India’s freedom movement’ & the career in Indian Army. A wall climbing training was organised at the wall of West Bengal Mountain Adventure  Sports  & Trekkers Foundation at Yuva Bharati Kriangan, Kolkata.

An open unit of NCC, Army Wing, Senior Division was started in 2012 under 12^th Bengal Battaion NCC of Kolkata, The weekly training are organised at the university campus under the NCC Permanent staff, the cadets attained NCC annual training camp and appeared the proficiency  examination and successful cadets have been presented

Actions by the Institute

a)      Application in prescribed form NCC web site

b)       NCC Company strength max 100, a room with furniture for safe holding  of Government stores including uniform

c)      Training area if at the campus

d)      Cadets appointments

i)                    Under Officer

ii)                  Company Sergent Major

iii)                Company Quarter Master

The details of enlistment in the National Cadet Corps (NCC) during last five 
years is given below year wise:-
            
Enrolled cadet strength Fresh enrolment during the year 
Percentage of enlistment 

2004-05 1209447 529232 43.76 
2005-06 1208418 528175 43.71 
2006-07 1225820 535423 43.68 
2007-08 1224110 612065 50.00 
2008-09 1236792 618396 50.00 
Government is working on a proposal to chalk out the modalities to increase the 
sanctioned NCC cadet strength from 13 lakh to 15 lakh cadets over a period of 
five years. ( Ref *1 )

The DG NCC Lt Gen PS Bhalla, said  stated
that the strength of NCC cadets from present 13.4 lakh would be increased to 15
lakh in next five years. To support the increase and expansion, six Group
Headquarters and 60 additional NCC Units would be raised, he said.  50 per cent of the Units will be raised in insurgency affected areas, J&K, including in Maoist-affected regions of
Jharkhand and Chattisgarh. He was recently on his two-day visit to the NCC
Directorate of West Bengal and Sikkim, at Kolkata.

NCC  have different raining modules such as, drill, weapon, field craft, map 
reading, first aid e.t.c.The weekly training, annual camp, special camps like, 
attachment to the  with regular units of the armed forces, give the cadets
the understand real life of a armed forces personnel. The advance leadership 
training and republic day camp give them to groom in leadership and national 
integration. 

In keeping with the changes in training philosophy, necessitated by the academic
pressures that a cadet faces, 95 NCC academies are proposed to be raised
nationwide, one each for the 95 Group Headquarters spread across the country,
DG NCC, 
           
 “These NCC academies will have full-fledged infrastructure for boarding and lodging of
cadets, parade ground, information technology laboratory, firing range, auditorium
and language labs, to begin with,” he said.  Explaining the rationale behind the project,
DG NCC said the NCC academies would help lower the period of training camps and
would also bring cadets from professional college such as the IIMs, IITs and
NITs, ensuring that at all levels of leadership, the values of nationalism,
patriotism and secularism are imbibed

The cadets are sent regular adventure training courses
conducted by various mountaineering institutes in India. NCC organized 1st Mountaineering 
expedition in 1970 to Panchachuli, Uttrakhand Himalayas, since then various 
expeditions have been organiised. First time NCC flag was on the top of Lion  
peak  (20100 fts) in June 1972, in Himachal Pradesh. A group of climbers of 
Kolkata had climbed two peaks during these expedition. The expedition was
mainly NCC Cadets and sponsored by Directorate General NCC. (Ref *2)

There is a special match competition for NCC cadets in rifle shooting event in 
National Shooting competition. NCC cadets are taking regularly various 
international, national and regional events including last 16th commonwealth 
games. 


The proficiency test is carried out regularly. The NCC ‘C’ certificate holder
gets the chance to appear before the service selection board for joining the special 
entry in Armed forces as Commissioned Officer.

The cadets are encouraged to take part in social services which is now part of 
their regular activities. 


Ref (*1 ) PIB Press release of 14 Feb 2010. (*2)   
a) The Sainik Samachar June 1972,
b) Publication of NCC Directorate WB, Sikkim & Andaman of 1972.
c) A Bengali book titled ‘Lahur Singher Sandhane’ (In search of lion, an
account of this expedition) by Sisir Ghosh, published by ‘Saibya Pustakalya’ of
Kolkata, 
d)  http://nccindia.nic.in/