THELIGHTOFANDAMANS: Civil Rights Protection Forum Formed

Monday, January 30, 2012

Civil Rights Protection Forum Formed

THE LIGHT OF ANDAMANS | VOL 35 | ISSUE 25 | 27 JAN 2012

Civil Rights Protection
Forum Formed

By Staff Reporter

Every Citizen of the country has been bestowed with rights through the Constitution of Indian on the Republic Day in 1950. This was the Day in fact when the Citizens became free whereas the nation was geographically freed on Independence Day. But despite the Constitutional Rights and other privilege and rights offered by the Government to its people, the common people are deprived of the same due to vested interests of bureaucrats, politicians and other related elements. Realizing this fact group of some like-minded people came together to form a body christened as "Civil Rights Protection Forum". They met a number of times and after drafting its bye-laws and Memorandum of Association for its registration launched the Forum on 26th January, 2012. Engineer T.K Krishnamooty, Dy. Chief Engineer, AHW, who is an authority on Right to Information Act in the islands as on special invitee interacted with the members and appealed to them to act truly for the underprivileged and needy citizen and to achieve the aims and objectives of the Forum. The members vowed that 'they can and they shall bring a positive change in the Society'.

The Forum has unanimously elected Retd. Dy.S.P Nageshwar Rao as its President and Social Activist Smti. Kesar Devi as Vice President. Basudev Dass a media person and Social activist is the General Secretary with Arvind Rai Sharma, Social activist as Joint Secretary. The fund and cash will be taken care of by Dr. Misri Lall, CMO (SAG) (Retd.).

The Forum has people from all walks of society including engineers, doctors, businessmen, lawyers, mariners, agriculturist, bureaucrats etc.

Once registered the Forum will begin with awareness campaign all over the islands to make the citizens responsive of their Rights and duties to make an empowered citizen in the islands territory.

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About The Light of Andamans

The Light of Andamans’ was born out of the zeal and determination to fight against the suffocating Kafkaesque atmosphere on the society that existed even after 30 years of Independence under bureaucratic rule. It was a hangover of the ‘Raj’that extended much too long in the Islands.

The Light of Andamans’ was started in 1975. The paper had always been a crusader, taking up the causes that no other newspaper would touch. In doing so, it very often stepped on the toes of the authorities and had to face persecution in the form of denial of advertisements and numerous court cases against it. For a small stint, the publication came to a halt in 2003.

Gezira Publications Private Limited took over the paper in the year 2005 and transferred the title in a bid to revive the second oldest newsmagazine from extinction and also to carry forward the mission.

The Newsmagazine, under the new management, has undergone a sea change both in form and content. It turned into a full-fledged tabloid with 10 pages with plenty of photographs making both pleasing to the eyes and soothing for the mind. “It has acquired a position where it influences the policies in vital matters concerning the development of the islands, protection of aboriginal tribes and addressing the problems of the disadvantaged groups. The newsmagazine is known and appreciated for its bold, free, fair and balanced reporting.”

Late Govinda Raju and his team worked very hard to rebuild the reputation, goodwill and a healthy new image of the newsmagazine brick by brick. After the demise of Mr Raju in 2010, the magazine is now being edited by Zubair Ahmed and published by Basudev Dass. The newsmagazine continues its mission of highlighting policy issues pertaining to the Islands.