Model Block[1] Final

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Learning from Model block process

For a society based on equality and torture free environment it is necessary to

establishment civil and political rights in context with social, economic and

cultural rights.

The work under the two pilot projects on testimonial therapy focused with

most marginalized people of the community such as Musahar, tribals,

indigenous group and Dalit. In which regular contact were established with the

few survivors Pintu, Chotelal, Hublal, Katwaru, Ajai Singh, Ramlal Patel and

few others still are connected and work for human rights as human rights

defenders.

At the starting of this project there was a thought that those selected under

the project have been working in the past too and were connected to the

localities even before us. They were to be led. But with regular interaction and

meetings and dialogues an understanding was developed and coordination was

achieved which brought forth a better system. This is an ideal team for model

village.

The team members who were associated since past contributed two days to

develop a activist manual to bring about a better understanding and future

guidance. In the last one and a half year activists of the organization have

developed understanding and it has brought about sustainability. Closed

society in model village process is now showing up to start in open society

process.

Status of the services provided in the model villages are as follows:

S.

no

Activities Achieved

1 Testimony 318

2 Followup 155

3 Folk School 51

4 Honor Ceremony 24

5 Meta - Legal 400

6 Legal 54

7 Medical assistance 09

8 Transport assistance 03

9 Other welfare assistance 03

10 Community meeting 19311 Identification of case 379


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12 RTI 87

It has been working in such a manner that it brings the impact of a non

violence social transformation having a silent ongoing revolution. The impact of

ripple effect is in all directions. An example: During visits to villages womenfolk are often seen talking that this particular issue was explained to us in a

former meeting and we discussed it with men later on.

On the other hand if this is looked upon as cases then groups of victims often

make crowd at the office to raise their voice. (On several occasion they say lets

go there as this is the only human rights organization in the state that

supports fight for justice.) a common saying among victims, Sanjay Yadav,

Nandlal.

Example of few survivors reaches to office:

1) SC/ST casesNandlal, Munni and Guddu, Phoolpur, Musahar Basti2) Bonded labourShakra, JalalpurBanwari, Fatanpur Champa3) Women atrocityMaximum cases of domestic violence came to light4) Police cases Deepu, Upendra Nath Singh, Shashikant Gaur, Kallu

Mistry, Brijbala Singh

5) Organised violenceSanjay Yadav6) Cases of arrestSatnam Singh and others

People are actively participating in the model village programme. Active

community leaders (barefoot workers), former survivors like Ramdayal,

Laxman, Ramkripal, Yaseen, Muharram Ali, people of Ahladpur Chittaur and

Hindwari village, Chotelal, women of Kudi Musahar basti, Prabhu and his

associates from Aswari village Mahatim, Nandlal and Bhanoi.

Earlier the focus was upon torture and organized violence as civil and political

right. After a two day consultation upon activist manual under the model

village project work has now to be linked with socio-economic rights issues

such as malnutrition, sanitation, status of jail with the released prisoners.

This will be implemented in phases under the project.

Along with the brain storming of the community leaders and preparation of

watch dog team of barefoot workers they will be trained to become change

makers in the society. In the first phase a man and a woman will be selectedfor this purpose from a village. The selection will be done through election


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process which will be held at the village, block and district level. They will hold

meeting every three months and one convention in a year.

The purpose of such meetings and convention will be to make the participants

share their experiences and learn from the case presentations to be done in

the meetings. Narrations by former survivor will be a learning lesson for allthat will provide unity to all in the community, which leads as prevention

process against TOV.

We can take examples of Bhonu, Bhanoi and others who were the victim of

police torture and organized violence but they stood up against it strongly.

Another example is of Kamlesh for whom the entire Gagkala mushar Basti has

come up to give his fight a political shape.

Intensive follow up of work done up till now will be ensured that will makefuture strategy and provide vital help for the model village process. The

learning from Belwa village, understanding of the community and ability to

anticipate today help discussion among the member of the Musahar Basti.

With the steps taken at the local level our families participate in the selection

process and are heading towards community strengthening. At the local level

approximately 11000 people have been connected.

We still run learning process and along with work for improving the

organization. The local self governance actually works against the Dalit and

Musahars. Testimony helps process of pressurizing and evaluation to start the

change for institutional reform of local self governance (panchayat)

Harinath and Lalman Musahars had to spend 10 years in jail despite being

innocent, which was only due to the corrupt system and the flaws in it. Same

is the situation with Akkar, Bhonu and Balli. Constitution gives us the right

to right justice and on time. If this does not happen then it is a violation of

fundamental rights and against the constitution.

Following points have come up from the model block process

Expectations;

1) If local issues of the village are raised prominently and continuously amodel village can be made.

2) The community leaders and survivor can be imparted proper trainingand made strong enough to lead


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3) People from the community are standing as leaders, they need training.The leaders need training on a regular basis so that they can be strong

and thereby community becomes organized. The need is to raise

maximum issues through advocacy to develop a model.

4) Community needs to be organized to bring social change.5) People are now standing on their own for each others rights6) Self unity will be promoted on the problems7) People will think seriously over education and health8) Leaders now tell problems of the community and even inform on the

telephone. This strategy has helped to mobilize the community

9) The strength of the programme will be to bring unorganized peopleunited as a group at one place

10) Survivors who were afraid to speak out of fear are now putting forththeir problems and issues without hesitation

11) Women folk now understand their rights and participate prominently12) Youth are active as target groups; they conduct folk school and have

developed understanding towards the issues. This has made people to

speak in open

13) People in the target group have understood well upon MNREGA andare now reaching government hospitals to avail free of cost health

services. More applications are coming up for MNREGA

14) For the ones lodged inside jail we will go to jail once or twice and meetthe family members of prisoners there to distribute the guidelines of

DK Basu and hold meetings with them to make them aware about the

guidelines and the laws

15) With regular interaction and follow up with the survivor they have nowunderstood the rules and are standing up against atrocities. They are

also identifying other such survivors and extending a helping hand to

other survivor and giving them courage to fight against atrocity.

We would take the data of prisoners under the Right To Information Act from

the district jail and meet their prisoners families to get information about the

cases.

Achievements


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Robertsganj.

1) Rajmati alias Mangri (survivor of sexual harrasment) and Amrawati,wife of Laxman was given Rs 6250 as compensation after her case got

registered under the SC/ST act

2)Two people Devchandra and Suneshwar were given Rs 1500 as theirhouses in the Raup Ghasia Basti were impounded by water.

3) Suneshwar got Indira Awas on the directives of the district magistratewhile the names of ten others in Ghasia Basti have been nominated

for the same

4)

Names of 52 children of Ghasia Basti were registered in the primaryschool

5) Construction of the Anganwadi centre was completed in village Tiyaraand now an Anganwadi worker is running the centre on a regular

basis

6) Piyari Devi (Hinduari) was reinstated for cooking mid day meal on thebasis of written complaint and other communication with authorities

after she was removed from the post

7) Naugarh (Majhegai and Devduttpur) survivors were organized againstthe step taken by forest department in which houses of many Dalits

were uprooted. The work of digging being done by forest department

was also stopped by the community people.

8) Installation of electricity polls in Lodhi villageBadagaon-

1) Documentation was done in the case of Nindanpur (Kalawati). After thisthe accused (Satyanarayan Pandit) made a public apology in the village

and paid compensation personally In the matter of Bhanoi in Baragaon

documentation helped to make the case a degree and has helped

community strengthening

Pindra-

1) At least in 8 villages Indira Awas have been made and also the job cards.After intervention by the organization work days are being mentioned in

the job cards and payment of labour is also being done


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2) Ratanpur (Kinau) people had to travel at least one kilometer distance toget drinking water but with the intervention by the organization a hand

pump has been installed

3) Balli Banwasi was illegally detained by the SHO Phoolpur for four daysand a bogus case was also lodged against him. When magistratedemanded an answer the SHO apologized

4) On the basis of the applications action was taken and statementsrecorded, which has helped in community strengthening

5) Tension was brewing among people in Aurao, Kharagpur and peoplewere ready for violence anytime. Efforts were made to ensure peace that

worked and now people live peacefully in these two villages

6) ANM (Auxiliary Nursing Mother)/HV (Health Visitor) go within thecommunity. ASHA workers too visit people in the community

7) Phoolpatti was beaten up by the upper caste on the occasion of marriagebut they tendered public apology fifteen days later

8) People have developed confidence after they were granted free legalconsultancy

9) Monitoring of government schemes at village level has begunAmbedkar Nagar-

1) People are now being benefited by government schemes.2) Rambali of Mubarakpur started getting benefit of the Antyoday Anna

card

3) Sixteen people got the benefit of Manyawar Kansiram Awas Yogna inMubarakpur ward number 3 and 7 and 6 people in Mohania

4) People in Mubarakpur ward number 4 started getting benefit ofMahamaya economic support scheme also with a few people in Mohania

5) Parveen Bano daughter of Hasmat Ali in Alhadpur got support withSavitribai Phule education scheme for two years


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6) In the case of Hajara Khatoon in Ahladadpur success has been achieveat few points through documentation

7) An Anganwadi worker was appointed in Ahladadpur8) Asopur (Bagia) now has its Anganwadi worker coming on a routine basiswho usually remained absent from duty earlier9) Probe has begun on the applications filed from Lucknow on June 26,

2011 on the occasion of torture day

10)Notice has been issued on the applications filed in regard to theuprooted families in Chintaura

Shortcomings1) Resignation by staff has brought problem on smooth functioning and

establishing of new staff. It has also made an impact upon internal

understanding

2) Problem in getting timely solutions to the problem of the communityfrom the officials

3) The facilities of ration card, old age pension and drinking water has notreached all the beneficiaries as yet

4) Not all children are coming to the Anganwadi centre5) Work at times is not done according to the planning done in advance6) Lack of positive response to the human rights cases sent for probe

earlier

7) Lack of training of the community leaders8) Survivor/witness turning hostile on the temptation/pressure from the

officials

9) Not all are satisfied in the community10)People are superstitious which is a key hurdle in getting people united

for a cause

11)At times when we are not able to bring about a desired result expectedby the people we feel depressed and there is a loss of enthusiasm


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12)Some people who have greater awareness in comparison to other talk oftheir personal interest and ignore common interest of the Basti people

13)Sometimes leaders are accused by people during the communitymeeting. Such things happen a few times creating problem

14)When victims are not met for a regular follow up they fall in the trap ofsabotage plots

15)At times we enter in to heated debate with the officials while pursuing avictims case hence the relation with the officer gets awful

16)Earlier the number of cases were less but now the number has gone upwhile the workers are raw. This has brought a problem

Risk:

1) Pradhan, local administration, politicians, people with a communal bentof mind, people with muscle power and people with dominating nature

2) Personal enmity of the leaders with the upper class people of the village3) Risk might be there during follow up visit to the area once the problem

or issues are registered with the high officials

4)The local peoples representatives raise a doubt about us5) In some villages problem came up due to the differences developed by

the Pradhan himself. For example Dinesh Kanaujia the Pradhan of

Jagdishpur gave Rs 300 and 25 kilogram of wheat to convince her to give

statement in favour of the accused (Ahiravir)

6) People of the upper class gamble in community under Musahar Bastipolice station. Women in the locality are worried with the fact. This leads

to violence often

7) Some of the politicians and self styles goons spit venom and threatenvictim of dire consequences

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