Wednesday, June 3, 2015

O R O P: Rally at Jantar Mantar New Delhi











              

   O R O P: Rally at Jantar Mantar New Delhi

                                      At

                 1100 H on Sunday June 14


 


    Dear Veterans,
     
     
     
    Time to sit on the sidelines and ruminate on the sad fate of the Faujis is over! Come and lend your shoulder to the rightful and just fight for your own and subsequent generations of veterans' welfare, status and pensions. Your have nothing to lose except your mental inhibitions.  The fight is in it decisive phase.
     
     
    It is now or never.
     
     
    I implore all veterans to come to Jantar Mantar and join the rally physically on Jun 14 at 1100 H. Mere emotional or e-mail support is of little avail. Patel Chowk Metro Station is right next to the rally site (just 100 metres). Rajiv Chowk Metro Station is about 750 meters away. 
     
    I am organizing transport from Panchkula. Separate transport is being organized from Mohali by Brig Harwant Singh, Convener, IESM, Punjab. People from Chandigarh can join us either at Mohali, or Panchkula. You can also avail of the morning Shatabdi Express.
     
    Looking forward to meeting at the rally site at New Delhi on June 14,


     
     
    Brig Kiran Krishan (Retd.)
    Convener IESM, Panchkula & North Haryana
    Mobile: 9876116898
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Tuesday, June 2, 2015

    MOTHER OF ALL THE BATTLES FOR THE FREEDOM OF INTERNET :Whose Internet Is It, Anyway?

    SOURCE:
    http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/net-neutrality-internet-web-apps-telecom-companies/1/440876.html










                    MOTHER OF ALL  THE  BATTLES                                    FOR
            THE FREEDOM OF  INTERNET



                    Whose Internet Is It, Anyway?

                                             By

                             

                                Ball in Government's Court as 
                  GREEDY SELF CENTRIC  INDIAN TELCOS 
                   move to compartmentalise the world wide web
     
     
             NET NEUTRALITY IS A LITMUS TEST
                                          FOR
                   THE MODI GOVERNMENT
     
                        INTELECT SLAVERY
     
                                           OR
     
                       INTELECT FREEDOM
     
     
                                        YOUR FREEDOM
                                                    
                                                     TO
     
          FREE ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE IS UNDER ATTACK
     
                                          IF INDIAN PUBLIC
     
        LOOSES THE NET NEUTRALITY  BATTLE
     
                                               THAN
     
                            BE PREPARED TO FALL
     
                                                 INTO
     
           PREPETUAL INTELECT BONDED  SLAVERY
     
                                                      OF
     
                            INTELECT  RATIONING
     
     
     
     


    Net Neutrality
    Information is the new gold. It is the new oil. Anyone who controls information has access to great wealth and power."
    From Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet (2015), directed by Ali Akbarzadeh

    Neutrality, as a philosophy, is the tendency to not take sides in a conflict. It is different from apathy, ignorance or indifference. It means tolerance regardless of how unusual, unpleasant or even deplorable a perspective might be.

    It is this spirit of neutrality that has made the internet The Great Democratiser.


    A universe within a universe that offers a chaotic mesh of ideas, throws up countless possibilities, and provides a level-playing field for all-be it a media conglomerate headquartered in Silicon Valley or a tiny start-up in small-town India.



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    The raging discussion on net neutrality-the principle that the internet must be free and open, and all information must get equal weightage no matter who is creating it-impacts far more people than just the tech community. Once you look past jargon such as 'gatekeepers', 'data packets' and 'network architecture', you realise that the fundamental questions are two fairly simple ones: who does the internet really belong to-the telecom companies who provide the cables that enable access to it, or the users who fill it with apps, data and information? And, what is the primary role of the internet-is it a tool to pay bills, watch TV shows and keep in touch with friends, or is it a round-the-clock symposium of ideas, opinions and innovations that could redefine the space we inhabit today and the times we will live in tomorrow? 
     Facebook's Internet.org attracts 8 lakh users in India



    Although the discussion on network neutrality is almost a decade old even in India, its various twists and turns have become pronounced over the last few weeks, and are likely to get more angular as the government gets ready to frame a clear policy on it soon. At the heart of the problem lies a push by telecom companies, who also double up as service providers either via broadband or via mobile phones, to strike deals with certain websites and apps to offer them preferential treatment. This can either be in the form of making them part of an exclusive "zero rating" in which no data charges apply, or in the form of ensuring faster browsing speeds for their products, thereby encouraging  ( read  'FORCING' ) users to go to these websites and apps more often than other newer products devised by smaller companies. In India, for example, Airtel stirred the pot by offering a zero rating for data transactions on certain websites. Their private club included the biggest e-commerce marketplace Flipkart, just as Internet.org, a similar scheme by Reliance Communications and Facebook, included one of India's biggest travel portals Cleartrip and news portal NDTV.com, but the companies pulled out because of a public backlash once the net neutrality debate went viral.








    Leading proponents of neutrality, such as Medianama.com, argue that both these initiatives would effectively split the internet into different zones-free and paid, Indian and foreign, big companies and small start-ups, and into sections monitored by individual service providers.
    TRAI won't display emails if you specify it




    Net Neutrality vs Net Opportunity


    The telecom companies, who all say they want an "open internet", counter net neutrality with a catchy phrase of the own-Net Opportunity. This is the philosophy that internet use must be inventively monetised

    ( PAY AS U USE THE INTERNET, USAGE FEES SLAVE TO  THE WHIMS OF THE TELCOM OPERATOR)

      in order to connect remote parts of the country where there is still no access. They suggest that neutrality is stopping them from making enough revenue to effect this expansion. As Rajan Mathews, director general of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) put it in recent interviews: "People espousing net neutrality in India say that everyone who has access to the internet should have access to every website or application, and we are not denying that. What we are asking is, what about the 1 billion people in India who do not have any access;? They too must have access to the internet."

     The COAI's 'Sabka Internet' campaign, which talks about a "Digital Bharat" and "affordable internet for all" on a website peppered with heartwarming images of internet usage in rural India, is a subtle distillisation of this anti-neutrality argument. To put it in a poker (and French Revolution) metaphor, the telecom companies are effectively saying, "We see your egalite, and raise you a fraternite."

    INDIA HAS GOT TWO GOVERNMENTS  "DILLI SARKAR"  &   "BCCI"  IF  MODI  SCUMBLES THAN INDIA WILL HAVE THIRD GOVERNMENT  

                             COAI  KI  SARKAR


    ( Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI)  ki Sarkar)










































    However, the argument of the telecom companies, made by citing the Rs 1.1 lakh crore spent to purchase spectrum in March and the hit to voice and SMS revenues being caused by OTT (over-the-top) services such as Skype and WhatsApp, isn't flying with everyone. The genesis of the latest controversy lies in a March 27 "consultation paper" released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) -that made a series of recommendations. Along with suggesting that any company using voice or messaging should buy a licence from the government even if it was operating from abroad, TRAI recommended that internet companies register with service providers to ensure smooth delivery to users. Going by these recommendations, a telecom company such as Airtel could sign a deal with an OTT app such as WhatsApp, offering it for free while throttling a competitor such as BlackBerry Messenger or smaller apps such as Kik Messenger. Since this was a consultation paper, TRAI asked for views from internet users across India by April 24. Over the course of that month, they received comments from 1.1 millon people ask- ing them to preserve net neutrality by neither licensing OTT services nor giving telecom companies the right to charge different prices for different Web-based services.



    What stood out in the TRAI's consultation paper was how different it was to the views the regulator had held in the past. In a 2006 paper, TRAI Review of Internet Services, for example, it had categorically said that net neutrality must be protected because it is this principle that has "allowed many companies (application service providers, content providers etc) to launch, grow, and innovate".



    The regulator had also sounded a warning: "Internet access providers may (one day) use their market power to discriminate against competing applications and/or contents. The issue of net neutrality in the long term can threaten the popularity of the public internet-based telephony and similar other applications as all the intermediate internet providers may start asking commercial agreements in absence of which they may refuse to carry the content and provide desired quality of service." Incidentally, the TRAI chairman at the time, Nripendra Misra, is now principal secretary to Prime Minister

      Narendra Modi.



    Supporters of net neutrality  suggest that the change of heart has come because of pressure from telecom companies. TRAI denies the allegation. But neutrality supporters, led by a group of artists, professionals and entrepreneurs who have come together to start the Save The Internet campaign, allege that telecom companies are pushing for changes even though they are growing at a healthy rate and the reduction in voice and text revenues has been more than made up by increased data usage (see graphic). They also point out that the three leading telecom companies, Airtel, Vodafone and Idea, have added between 7 and 11.5 million 3G internet connections in the last four quarters alone. India is expected to have in excess of 354 million inter- net users by June 2015 with 213 mil- lion of these also using their phones to go online.




    Government Under Pressure ( read BLACK MAIL )

    The stakes have now become higher than just protecting neutrality as it exists at the moment.

    Net neutrality supporters want more than status quo.

     Even as the telecom companies are asking for the freedom to monetise, these groups are asking for the exact opposite-strict guidelines or laws that make it mandatory for service providers to uphold net neutrality.


    While TRAI is a regulator with legal powers that allow supervision of tariffs and "quality of service", binding guidelines are usually framed by the Department of Tele communications (DoT), which gives operating licences to telecom companies. The ball, therefore, is in the government's court, and its attempt to strike a fine balance between the telecom lobby and public out-cry has met only limited success so far.



    In a May 21 meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by BJP MP Anurag Thakur, the government met with opposition from the ruling party's veteran leader L.K. Advani. At the meeting, where representatives of service providers Airtel, Vodafone and Idea were invited to present their case, Advani sided with Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien and Congress MP KVP Ramachandra Rao, who insisted that consumer forums and OTT service providers should be invited first. "Delhi is hot. But deliberations at Parliamentary Committee meetings just got even hotter," O'Brien tweeted soon after the meeting. O'Brien, who had first raised the issue through a 'calling attention' in the Rajya Sabha told INDIA TODAY: "We don't want to fight the telecom companies, but we have to take care of consumer interests." Even in Parliament, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has pushed for a law to protect net neutrality, linking it with his tirade against corporate favours by what he describes as a "suit-boot ki sarkar". Though the government has been talking about sup- porting an open internet, its stand on the various nuances of net neutrality is not quite clear. Sources in the telecom ministry say they are still waiting for reports from the standing committee, TRAI and DoT, along with keeping their ear peeled for public opinion, before taking a firmer stand. Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, how-ever, has been quoted as saying that "various ways to implement net neutrality, such as introducing clauses in the licensing conditions" are not out of the question.



    Incredibly though, it is the internet's power as a 'DEMOCRATISER ' that is turning out to be the biggest hurdle for the telecom companies. It was a 23-page summary of the TRAI's 118-page consultation paper made by Save The Internet that high-lighted issues which would have otherwise got overlooked. And it was All India Bakchod, the comedy collective, that simplified the problem through a pro-neutrality skit that went viral online and pushed users to flood the TRAI with emails. A bit like how John Oliver had turned the debate in the United States after a pro-neutrality segment on his show Last Week Tonight last June. In his show, Oliver had famously said: "They shouldn't call it 'Protecting Net Neutrality'; they should call it 'Stopping Cable Company F*ckery'."


    So can the Web remain a platform where every opinion, no matter how disagreeable, and every piece of information, no matter how unpleasant, gets equal play and equal band- width?

    Chances are that the internet itself will ensure that it does.


    Follow the writer on Twitter @_kunal_pradhan
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Monday, June 1, 2015

    O.R.O.P. : THE BAD & UGLY - TAAL THOK KE









                                                          NOTICE





    Indian Ex Servicemen Movement
     
       
       
     
     
       
    Anil Kaul

    May 31 at 12:35am
     


    Dear Veterans



    It is time for all ESM organisations to put their shoulder together and convert push into shove for final battle of OROP. IESM has proposed a meeting of ESM organisations on 6 June 2015 at 1030h at Constitution club meeting room. This is near Rail Bhavan in New Delhi. 


    IESM requests all ESM to join in for the meeting and give constructive suggestion to request Government to finalise OROP and issue notification at the earliest. 


    Agenda for the meeting is open but will be restricted to OROP and issuance of notification. Proposed agenda is given below. 


     Efforts required to ask the Government to issue notification of OROP without any dilution in the definition.
    Request all to join in the Maha sangram rally on 14 June at Jantar Mantar. It is an ESM rally. All veterans are requested to join and make it a success. 



    Plan and conduct of the rally. 



    Plan for relay hunger strike from 15 June till issue of notification for OROP



    Plan of rally in 50 towns of india and relay hunger strike in 50 towns.




    Return of tranche of Gallantry medals to President of India
    Any other issues raised by members. 



    ESM from more than 10 states have confirmed their participation for the meeting. Many organisations have also confirmed their participation. 



    Many civil organisations have also confirmed their participation. C4F (Delhi university students will be attending in large number)





    Kindly send your participation to undersigned. I will be thankful to receive your names by 3 Jun for us to make necessary admin arrangements 




    GEN SECY IESM

                                                             




                                                                     PART - I




                     One Rank, One Pension:

            What is complicating its implementation?


    31 MAY 2015
            

     ( SOURCE:
                 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRVEpPeXW-s )




     
     
     
     
    Published on May 31, 2015
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said, One Rank, One Pension is complicated but our government will implement it without fail. Today on Taal thok ke we ask What is complicating its implementation after all?
     
     
     
     
     
        PART - II
     
     
     
     
     One Rank, One Pension: What is complicating its implementation? Part-2  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    SOURCE:
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     OP TWEET           
     
     
       

     
    Anil Kaul
     
    May 31 at 12:55am
     


    OP TWEET

    #OROP maan ki baat NATO NATO NATO


                 (NO ACTION TALK ONLY.)




    #OROP definition not clear says PM.




     Pray define the following


    1.ENEMY.

    2.FIGHT.

    3.DEATH.

    4.WOUNDED.

    5.WIDOW AT 25.

    6.ORPHANED AT 2.6.

    7.AMPUTATION.??






    #OROP Now paramilitary step in.


     Well managed leak and statement to


    divert OROP. Standby for more such

    delaying tactics. Armed Forces be hung



     
    #OROP

    Now RM backtracks.

    Says No time frame.

    Surprising from the definitive to

    INDETERMINATE sliding scale


    Landed ESM on their butts with a thud 

    #OROP Now the PM steps in


     Questions the definition of OROP

     What next?

    contempt of Pariament & SC The ride on

    the roller coaster continues OMG


    #OROP Op tweet electronic coverage

    IndiaToday 5* broke storyNews X 5* All

    day+debate no1TimesNow Half day+4*

    debate no2 NDTV *wrong panelists

    #OROP Op Tweet Mesia Battle Electronic

    media ***** Print Media *** Regional

    Winners Pune Maharashtra . leading

    reporter jugal purohit, 



     

    #OROP Op tweet battle of TV channels.

    Raged through the day. Result ESM -1

    Govt - 0. Media races TV -1st Print -2nd,

    # #OROP FM views In elections promises

    are made they are not fulfilled.ESM lower

    expectations we cannot waste money on

    unproductivity. Is PM listening
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    Government ( NDA ) Hits Back at AK Antony Over 'One Rank One Pension' Remar

     

    May 31, 2015

     
    SOURCE:http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/government-hits-back-at-ak-antony-over-one-rank-one-pension-remarks-767339?utm_source=taboola
     
    Government Hits Back at AK Antony Over 'One Rank One Pension' Remarks
    File photo of former Defence Minister AK Antony
     
                        The government on Saturday hit back at former Defence Minister AK Antony over his remarks that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was "misleading" the nation on the 'One Rank One Pension' issue.

    "I do not want to comment on the statement of Antony. It will be better if friends in Congress accept soon that they are no longer in power. They did not do these works properly and hence people of the nation have reduced their numbers (in Lok Sabha) to 44," Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters.

    Mr Prasad's reaction came at the media briefing after the Union Cabinet meeting in New Delhi.
    Senior Congress leader Mr Antony had slammed the Prime Minister saying that "either he is unaware of facts or he is misleading the nation in order to cover up his government's failure to implement the UPA decision on 'One Rank One Pension' (OROP)."

    "I can say that what he is saying is totally incorrect and factually wrong. BJP-NDA Governments did nothing for ex-servicemen. They were in power from 1998 to 2004. They did not to anything on the issue of one rank-one pension," Mr Antony had said.

    In an interview to a newspaper, Mr Modi had earlier said, "We are committed to OROP, but we are in consultation with defence personnel regarding the definition of OROP... Our government is here for five years and we cannot do anything without consulting the people concerned. The dialogue is being actively pursued. There is no need to have any doubt on this."

    Mr Prasad said that he has nothing more to say on the issue as the Prime Minister has already explained about it in detail in the newspaper interview.

    Meanwhile, responding to questions about the controversy surrounding the action by IIT-Madras against the Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle (APSC), Mr Prasad said the management of IIT-Madras has already clarified that there is complete freedom of expression on the campus.

    "Certain guidelines have been violated by the organisers. Internal guidelines have been violated and action taken," he said, adding that Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani had also clarified on the issue.

    A political slug-fest erupted on Friday after the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras decided to de-recognise a students' group, many of whose members were Dalits, following a complaint that it was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi