Hidaya Foundation's bid to co-ordinate poverty alleviation programme

safia@coastaldigest.com (CD Network)
August 11, 2011

Mangalore, August 27: Reaching out to the most deserved and poorer sections among the community effectively and methodically is Hidaya Foundation's approach towards tackling the issue of poverty. Hidaya foundation, a mangalore based organization has been sincerely engaged in a constructive way in addressing the problem of poverty among Muslim for quite some time now. And it has now ambitious plans to address the issue in a big way.

Data collection

The Foundation distributed 'Ramadan Kit' to 850 most deserving families across Dakshina Kannada district beginning of this Ramadan. Prior to this, various teams of the foundation went across the district to find out the deserving families who could be covered under scheme. During the process, the teams not only identified the deserving families, but also collected data of socio- economic- educational scenario of this section of the community. Kasim Ahmed, on behalf of the organization, says that they had embarked upon the mammoth data collection project not just to help out these people in Ramadan, but to plan a complete poverty alleviation and rehabilitation programme throughout the year for this section of Muslim community.

In fact, the teams have horrifying story to tell about the miserable living condition of these people. Many families live in thatched or mud houses and it is unimaginable for most of us how they survive the severity of Monsoon rains and winds. Power supply is still a dream for many of them. Poor or no ventilation in many houses make these people live in pitch dark even at midday sunshine. Leave alone toilets, many houses don't even have bath rooms that have walls to safeguard the modesty of women.

Each house has a story to tell about the misery of life. Women are most affected. Many of them are either widows or deserted by their husbands with many children to look after. Even those houses where men are available either earn meagre amount per day or don't work at all due to physical ailment and other reasons. Children are most helpless lots, suffering badly from malnutrition and lack of education due to poverty. Single room dilapidated houses, shabbily dressed, mal- nutritious women and children are seen around everywhere. The presence of specially abled children in many houses and inability of these families to provide rehabilitation to these children add to the misery of the families.

Total solution at colony

As part of a total rehabilitation programme, Hidaya foundation has secured around 6 acres of land at KavalKatte, Bantwal tq. and has plan to build 40 houses to start along with a rehabilitation centre for specially abled children and a self- help centre for women.

Coordinated exercise

The Foundation recognises the similar kind of relief effort done by various other organisations in the district. It wishes to have a coordination between various such organisation so that a concerted effort can be made to reach out to poorer section of the community. As a beginning in this regard, Hidaya foundation convened an Ifthar meet of the all the like-minded organizations on 19th of this month at Kairali Hotel in Managalore. Aziz Maulavi, Khatib of Masjidunnoor in his address stressed the need to look into the matter seriously.

The think-tank and representatives of organisations gathered on the occasion appreciated the initiative taken by Hidaya Foundation in this connection and expressed the need for such an endeavor and agreed to work with the Foundation to arrive at a consensus and understanding.

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June 8,2020

New Delhi, Jun 8: Two civil defence employees have been arrested by the Rajasthan Police today in Jaipur based on Military Intelligence (MI) inputs that they had been passing on sensitive information to Pakistan's spy agency ISI.

The arrested are: Vikas Kumar (29), a civil defence employee at an army ammunition depot near Shri Ganganagar (Rajasthan) and Chiman Lal (22), a civil contractual employee of the army's Mahajan Field Firing Range (MFFR), Bikaner. 

Both were working as espionage agents on behalf of Pakistan's intelligence agency and were giving out details of Ammunition and MFFR, vital military installations in India's Western front. 

The MI Lucknow's operation named Desert Chase assumes great importance as the Shri Ganganagar Ammunition Depot and Bikaner MMFR are strategically important military installations on the western front along the Pakistan border.

The work on the "operation" began in August 2019, when the MI Lucknow, through its sleuths, learnt about an espionage agent near Sri Ganganagar who was passing military information to his handlers in Pakistan. The individual was identified as Vikas Kumar - the civil defence employee at an army ammunition depot near Sri Ganganagar.

The MI Lucknow shared the case with UP ATS in the month of January 2020. Vikas's activities were monitored and analysed by a joint team of MI Lucknow and UP ATS. The operation was code-named 'Desert Chase'.

Based on these, it was learnt that Vikas is acquiring photos of a "water distribution register" at a water point/pump house in MFFR through a contractual civil employee named Chiman Lal. The development of the case was halted due to the start of the lockdown period all across the country.

Finally, the case shared with Rajasthan Police Intelligence in the first week of May 2020. A joint team was formed between Rajasthan Police-Intelligence and MI Lucknow.

Fresh leads were found as new payments were detected along with a trail of sensitive information being passed on to Pakistan by two accused.  

Vikas Kumar confessed to having passed the following information to Pakistan:

•    Details received from Chiman Lal about Army units and their strength coming to MFFR.
•    Details of ammunition coming to his ammunition depot including their type, quantity, mode of transportation, date of arrival on a routine basis (almost every time it came to his notice).
•    Details of ammunition (to include their type, quantity and mode/date of transportation) further distributed/transferred to local army establishments/units (including two local brigades) and elsewhere from his ammunition depot.
•    ORBAT (Order of battle; composition related details) of two local army brigades and all changes in them as they came to his notice.
•    Name, rank and personality traits of some Senior Military Officers in the two army brigades nearby, his ammunition depot and others who visited the military station.
•    Photos of arms, ammunition, tanks other military vehicles (with their tactical numbers) at MFFR whenever he could visit it after April 2019.

Vikas also confessed to having received at least Rs 75,000 in total from his Pakistani handler for the information he has shared during this entire period. He used to receive them mostly on bank accounts of his and his brother, Hemant Kumar. The latter was found to have no links to the espionage case otherwise. Out of this sum, he had paid approximately Rs 9,000 in total to Chiman Lal for his assistance in lots of Rs 1000- Rs 2000 since their first meet.

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March 12,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 12: The Karnataka government on Wednesday clarified that no coronavirus "emergency" has been declared in the state and that all the schools and offices will remain open.

Earlier, there were fake reports that Karnataka has declared "coronavirus as an epidemic" in the state.

In a statement, Karnataka health commissioner Pankaj Kumar Pandey refuted the reports doing rounds on social media which said Karnataka had declared COVID-19 as a "state epidemic".

Refuting the rumours, he added that all the schools, offices and other institutions will continue to function normally in the state.

The Karnataka government earlier today issued temporary regulation which asked all government and private hospitals to have flu corners for screening of suspected cases of COVID-19.

According to the regulation, no person/institution shall use print or electronic media to spread mis-information on COVID-19 without prior permission of the department of health & family welfare. If a person is found indulging in any such activity, they will be punished, it said.

The Karnataka government also started a campaign called 'Namaste over Handshake' that encourages people to greet in the traditional Indian style, to tackle the spread of the virus.

The state has reported four positive cases of coronavirus so far.

India, so far, has 60 confirmed cases of coronavirus, including 16 Italians tourists.

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May 5,2020

Bengaluru, May 5: The Karnataka government is planning to maintain a Health database of its citizens in the backdrop of experience gained from the COVID-19 pandemic, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said on Tuesday.

In a statement issued here, he said a “Health Register” will be maintained to keep track of all health issues of the people and the project will be implemented first in Chikkaballapur district on an experimental basis.

“COVID-19 has provided enough experience for all of us and therefore, there is a need to maintain health data of each person. The government will be undertaking a survey using a team of Primary Health Centre officials, Revenue officials, Education department staff and Asha Workers,” the Minister said in a release here.

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