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   Feb 09

   Lakshmindra Kumar Sarkar says:

   THE IMPORTANCE OF SANTALI SCRIPT OLCHIKI Lakshmindra Kumar Sarkar  There...

   THE IMPORTANCE OF SANTALI SCRIPT OLCHIKI
   

   Lakshmindra Kumar Sarkar 

   There are 3 anthropological groups of the tribes of West Bengal.  The three groups are Pre-Dravidian, Dravid and Mongol.  The pre-Dravidian and Dravidian tribes of West Bengal constitute 17% of the total tribes.  The pre-Dravid and Dravidian tribes of West Bengal are Santal, Munda, Oraon, Bhumij, Mahali, Kora, Lodha. The Mongolian tribes are Bhutia, Hazong, Lepcha ,Toto, Garo, Mech, Ranga, Chakma and Murmu.  Though there are 3% tribes in West Bengal and their total number is 71, 695.
   

   Every person has a script irrespective of caste and religion.  A rich heritage is connected to the script of the individual for a long period of time.  In the case of tribals, no such heritage is found.
   

   The Santals have a rich heritage of education, language and culture among the tribes.  But the Santali language has been transmitted verbally thousands of years.  There is no definite script.  
   

   On November 17, 1979, the Government of West Bengal have recognized the Olchiki script of Santali language of Raghunath Murmu.  The Olchiki script was spread in the Bankura, Purulia and Midnapore districts.  In total, 105 schools have been started.  Among them 31 in Bankura, 15 in Purulia and 40 in Midnapore.  

   We need to see the usefulness of the script for the spread of education.  If there is an initiative from the people, other than the political party, this script can be accepted. 

   
   
   
   

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      Feb 09

      The Steve Sinnott Foundation says:

      Please restrict contributions to discussion of the challenges presented by the M...

      Please restrict contributions to discussion of the challenges presented by the Millennium Development Goals for education to secure universal education for children of primary school age.

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   Feb 09

   Lakshmindra Kumar Sarkar says:

   The tribal women neglect education.  But they must be educated if the socie...

   The tribal women neglect education.  But they must be educated if the society wants to progress.  

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   Feb 09

   Lakshmindra Kumar Sarkar says:

   Exploited Children in Legal and Social Sector Published in Alochana Magazine fr...

   Exploited Children in Legal and Social Sector

   Published in Alochana Magazine from Deoghar,

   October 1985.

   Lakshimdra Kumar Sarkar

   Before the city life gets busy early in the morning, the street children wakes up first.  These children sleep live in the railway station areas, at the tea stalls and  those who work as domestic help.  They start the day at work without any food in their stomach.  They do a lot of work around the day.  On the other hand, the kids of the rich class wake up with sweets in their mouth.  When the rich class kids wake up, they are given a class of Horlicks, milk or fruit juice as soon as they rise up.  This picture is always there in a society.  But in modern times, the problem that comes under discussion is the problem with children.  Everybody knows that child labor is a social problem.  It is often heard that the child is one of the member of the society and we have the responsibility of helping them grow up as a responsible citizen of the country.  As time goes by, this concept is changing and we find new debates and discussions on child problems. 

   In our country, on the way to the development of the child, there are many hurdles and difficulties which surround it like an octopus.  This is dangerous in reality.  The poor families are the victim of it.  India is an unlucky country where the children dying of malnutrition are increasing day by day.  In the same way, the children and young girls and boys are used in bad trade.  The children are put into jail for petty reasons or for no reasons at all.
   

   The children’s life is in danger for diseases or pollution.  Many children are losing their lives due to infection and becoming handicapped.  Neither they are getting the required food and environmental comfort like games, education, dress system.  They are growing up in really poor health rules.  The child death is rising in our country.
   

   The UNICEF gives us a clear horrible picture of the present and   future and they have presented another horrible picture that most of the children do not have malnutrition.  Even UNICEF thinks the mother of those malnutrition children do not know how much malnutrition is there in the children which is eroding their power to live. 
   

   The malnutrition of the children goes on more than the age of their adulthood.  The World Bank has seen from a survey in Indonesia that those farmers who suffer from deficiency in blood or anemia, their productivity is one-fifth or 20%.  It has been found that the children do not get the energy to play also.  It has been observed that the child who suffers from malnutrition cannot work for the society in the future. 
   

   In the developing countries, 15 lakh children dies due to “ham” disease, 10 lakh children dies due to dhanushtankar, 6 lakh die due to whooping cough.  50 lakh children in total dies from these diseases every year.  But there are vaccines.  If 6 vaccine injections are given to the children, then the expense per child is $5.  Every year the big countries of the world manufacture and does research work on the weapons.  Then how much is the expense for killing an individual?
   

   According to World Health Organization (WHO), the impurity in water and unhealthy environment is responsible for 80% of the diseases.  50 lakh children die due to the two reasons.  If there was pure water and environment, then we could help them live.  As a result of this, upto the year 1989-1990, the time period could be effectively considered for International Decade of Water Supply and Health.

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   Feb 09

   Lakshmindra Kumar Sarkar says:

   POET SARADAPRASAD KISKU MEMORIAL LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE In the Santal Pall...

   POET SARADAPRASAD KISKU MEMORIAL LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE

   In the Santal Palli of Mosleha Village of Bankura District

   LAKSHIMDRA KUMAR SARKAR

                   If you want to bring the tribals from darkness to light, the primary need is proper education (not only education based on books) and to make the health facilities available in every village.  Human development will stop due to lack of spread of education and they will not be free from superstition if the health facilities are not provided to them.

                   From this firm belief, a library will be set up and the tribals will become educated.  They will be identified as a ‘human being’ not as a ‘tribal.’

   The Mosleha village is in the number 2 Hirbandh block of Khatra of Bankura district.  The Mosleha village is the door to the tribal belt of the South-West corner.  He left the job of Aajkaal newspaper on April 1, 1993.  He became intimate with the tribals as he started working with the girls and boys of the region.

   Fifteen years ago, an organization called South Hirbandh Adibasi Club was set up.  This club at Hirbandh block had full of cultural and sports activities.  The officials of the club wanted to set up a library.  For this reason , Sushila Tudu donated 3 bighas of land for building the club.  He wanted to give more lands adjoining it.  A wall was constructed for the library.   Due to lack of initiative and money, this project was accidentally stopped.  The room that was filled with bushes and shrubs for 15 years were cleared for this library.  To give enthusiasm, me and my father Manindra Kumar Sarkar’s collection of 2500 books , journals, Santali poet, writer’s picture, book shelves donated a cash of Rs. 15,000, my brother, a national level football player Bratin Sarkar have promised to donate money.  At the initial period , sister Kabita have taken a loan of Rs. 3000 from his office.  In total, I have started this project with Rs. 70000-75000.  Along with it, two typewriters are given.  The primary objective is to make them self-employed and teach them without taking any tuition fees.  The typewriters were purchased by Kabita’s brother, Bratin.  The villagers are working as labourers  helping  us construct the room.  They are also collecting money.   Those who cannot give 1 rupee for fund raising, they are generous enough to give some rice grains.  But the requirement is Rs. 60000 to Rs. 70000.  Books and journals.

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   Feb 09

   Lakshmindra Kumar Sarkar says:

   KHATRA ADIBASI CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER ESTABLISHED 1990 A nonprofitable...

   KHATRA ADIBASI CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER

   ESTABLISHED 1990

   A nonprofitable and nongovernment organization

   Registered under W.B. Societies Registration Act XXXVI of 1961, Regd. No. S/74724 of 1993.

   COMMUNICATION ADDRESS
   

   HEAD OFFICE
   

   Hospital Road, Kurkutia Adibasi Para, P.O. Khatra, Pin 722140.
   

   Contact number:  9933409141/9330067228

   RURAL  ADIBASI MAHILA SAMITY

   Amongst our many activities, we are trying to educate dropout adolescent girls and make them conscious about their health and involve in income generating programs like Piggery, Goatery, Fishery, dairy and mushroom cultivation etc.

   MONIMELA

   In Monimela, we are giving character-building education as well as general division to the children.

   The above mentioned facts are a brief reports of our achievements and future plans.  

   BRIEF REPORT OF KHATRA ADIBASI CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

   Since 1990, this organization organized remarkable activities among the all communities in Bankura specially SC, ST and OBC at Khatra subdivision.  So many awareness programmes are organized such as Quality of Life, Santalee Language Movement, tribal unrest in West Bengal, Journalism Training, establishing Adibasi Press Club.  Sustainable agricultural programme and handicraft training among the women, character development programme among the children, establishing self help group formation, and also a library is under construction at Mosleha village near Khatra and so many development programmes are taken by this organization.

   FOUR WINGS OF KACDC:

   Now, this organization has formed its four wings like:

   i)  Human Resource Research Bureau.

   ii)  Rural Adibasi Mahila Samity.

   iii)  Children unit – Manimela and

   iv)  Tribal journalist unit – Adibasi Press Club.

   FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN OBJECTIVES

   Youth and Children Development by KACDC

   National Integration

   Self help group.

   Literary science.

   Cultural mind.

   Self-respect.

   Sportsman.

   Discipline and punctuality.

   Empowerment.

   Responsibility to the society.

   Education.

   Psychology.

   Organizational science.

   Health.

   Youth leadership.

   Social worker.

   Capacity building.

   KHATRA ADIBASI CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER

   
   
   
   
   

   TRIBAL WELFARE:  OBJECTIVES OVERVIEW OF KHATRA ACDC

   Tribal welfare should have the following objects in view.

   i)  To preserve strengthen and coverage all that in best in tribal society, culture, art and language.  

   ii)  To provide educational facilities that will enable the tribal folk to view life in a broader perspective and which will make them self reliant, Swamiji considered education to be the only solution to all national ills.  But according to Swamiji, education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigest, al l your life.  We must have life-building, man making, character making assimilation of Idea.”  Swamiji emplaraised character building because it is only strength of character that paves the way for practical wisdom.  With this and in view self-reliance and self-confidence have to be nurtured.”  One must raise oneself by one’s own exertions.  This applies all spheres of Swamiji.  And he has also warned us.  “All the wealth of the world cannot help one little Indian village if the people are not taught to help themselves.”

   iii)  To bring within the reach of every tribal the four fold goal of human life.  
   

   OVERVIEW

   In our effort to establish a just socio-economic order, we have traversed the area which concerns underprivileged and have-nots of our society.  We want to reach out to those people who have not seen the ray of development and progress.  We are to create a society which is free from ignorance and injustice.  In this direction, we have tried to cooperate with those who are struggling to generate social forces which could bring a sea change in our society.  Therefore, we expect people to gain power and form and inseparable part in decision making.  This is what we are trying to facilitate in our organizational activities.

   
   

   AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF KHATRA ADIBASI CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (KACDC) include:

   • To promote and develop culture of the backwards and tribals.
   • To take up welfare programmes in health and education.

   BRIEF DETAILS OF KHATRA ACDC

   Khatra Adibasi Culture and Development Center (KACDC) is a registered voluntary organization, established n 1991, (but the registration get in the year of 1993, 6^th October) with its headquarters of Khatra, district Bankura (WestBengal, India) a virtual backward area.

   KACDC’s aims at promoting a just economic social order, friendly environment and a human society.  In brief, organization is devoted to all round development of the rural masses.  It believes that development and progress can only take place when the rural masses are encouraged and inspired to take part in their own development.

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      Feb 09

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