My Gamil got hacked the Process and Corrective measures

Dear All,

I want to elaborate here on the process of hacking of my email that happened to me last night.

step 1
I receive an email saying verify your gmail account with a link that you should click to go to verification page

Step 2.
once you click the verification link a page will open which looks exactly like the google mail log in page but if you look at the address bar the URL is actually quite different. The URL that appears is
http://www.bakirkoymuzik.com/Account%20Verification.html

and page is still functioning

Step3:

now obviously you are (I was) tempted to put your id and password to verify your email ID. That is it, hacker has your password. He waits for you to sign out. The moment you sign out he starts to send emails to every contact from your email.

the text of the email is available on line

https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/gmail/PX_LsSk77PE

in my case what he did few additional things.

(1)   he went into setting of my gmail setting and changed it in such a way that all mails got forwarded to a ID that he created zakaria_jnu@yahoo.com thus my inbox was completely blank when I recovered my Gmail ID i.e. zakaria.jnu@gmail.com . I could recover old emails by writing to Gmail support by using the following URL http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78353

 

(2)   Another change he did in my gmail settings  in such a way that whenever someone wants to reply mails from my ID i.e. zakaria.jnu@gmail.com the replies should go to  a new Id which he created to look like my original id zakaria_jnu@yahoo.com so that even after I have recovered my email (which happened within an hour) of hacking, I could not stop him because my friends were interacting with hacker on faked email id. In this process one of my friend lost huge sum of money. First of all it took me lot of time to understand what is exactly the problem but solution was quick just went into Mail settings and then accounts and imports  changed the reply to email option by clicking edit info button which appears at right side of the section “Send mail as”

 

(3)   Last thing he did is that he managed to change the email ids that were stored in my contacts. What he did is he  added ‘er’ at the end each of the email address that is in my contact list for example one of my friend XYZ has email id is xyz@gmail.com but he has changed it to xyzer@gmail.com. Please note ‘er, just before @ and dot at the end. He did this so that I am unable to reach all my friends immediately after recovery of my emails by mailing all my contacts in one go. I solved the this problem by restoring the contact that existed in email before hacking by using Gmail help link http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1069522

 

please let others know about such a thing. I have put up a formal complaint with police. Please make it known to as many people as possible so that such incidents can be minimized if not eliminated.

 

Was there any light during the dark ages

Recent time has seen increasing number of media reporting about the contributions made Muslim scholars during the medieval period when Muslims ruled in majority of the land mass of the word. This period is usually cosidered as dark ages of Europe. It is held by many scholars that the knowledge bank that was created by Muslim scholars this so called dark ages were the most important input for European renaissance. Efforts to decode the contributions made by medieval Muslim scholars should not be looked at just for making Muslims happy or just to remember the rich heritage of Muslims that existed once upon a time. Knowing about the scientific development of this era will lead to new theories of sciences. This is because it is quite possible that many researches by the Muslim scholars were not picked up by European scientists. Most important of all we will have a theory of Knowledge which will be very different from what is held now – much more integrated and unifying.
Recently a movie and a book have been published that talks about how inventions of middle ages principally led by Muslims are relevant for our modern world that we live in. So here is the site. http://www.1001inventions.com/

I am sure many of you already know about it but I just wanted keep it in our information system so that people can refer it at later stages. There is interesting documentary by Regeh Omar when he was in BBC called “Islamic History of Europe” and another documentary on Muslim rule in Europe by Bettany Hughes titled “When the Moors Ruled in Europe” also supposed to be Done Under the flagship of BBC. In addition this there is a professor of Physics at University of Surrey named Prof Jim Khalili who got Micheal Faraday Prize on science communication from Royal Society of UK working on these issues. Vidoe of his lecture to Royal Society is also Online at Royal Society Website. Once you are in the website look for Jim Alkhalili. You can also visit his home page http://www.jimal-khalili.com for further ideas about his work. I hope you will enjoy his lecture. He has also written some newspaper items in Guardian but most importantly he has a book on this topic called Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science. Now if you are really keen to know more you can see his three hour documentary done by Jim again under the patronage of BBC. The urls as follows

Islam and science Part 1 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3342750741448358648#

Islam and Science Part 2  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0FSgNE4Lxc

Islam and Science Part 3  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LjdnKE_i9E

please write back if you know more links or sources then also write by more information. Another body of Science which is usually missed is economic Science. In fact even genius economist like Schumpeter tended to accept that there was no progress of economic thought during middle ages and he termed this period is a period of “great gap” in economic thought. This was success fully challenged by Shaikh M. Ghazanfar in his book Medieval Islamic economic thought: filling the “great gap” in European economics
Indeed it reminds us that Muslims had tradition of very advanced research in sciences (both Social and Natural). But the most important question that emerges from this rich heritage of Muslims is how come Muslim world experienced a deep and long lasting decline in this field. This is not a small period– right from 12th century to 20th Century. And as a student of economics I am led to infer that overall decline of Muslim world (mass poverty and failure of governance systems of Muslim countries and societies) are result of such decline. This is the learning that we have from latest theories of economic growth.

And this leads me to focus on history. I am searching for factors that led to such a prolonged halt of advance research during this period (12th century to 21st century) among Muslims. One apparent and superficial thing that comes up in various writing by scholars is closure of the gates of Ijtehad for making any new interpretation of the Quar’an and Hadith. I think people like Sir Syed and Allama Equal were deeply realised this fact and that is the reason that they kept arguing for reconstruction of religious thought. But actual question is what led to closure of the gate of Ijtehad. This is exactly what I am searching for. In fact there is no proper documentation about how this process of Ijtehad came to an end and who were/was exactly responsible for it and why did he/they do that.

getting started with NSS unit level data

Data provided by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) is rich source source of information on many issues concerning social scientists and research students.  But I find that many students and faculties struggle to get hold of detailed data that are provided in CD form by NSSO (Unit level). Most of people rely on reports produced by NSSO itself. The NSSO unit level data handling skill has remained among very few experts who have not come out openly to share their skills with others who are keen to learn.  When you google NSSO unit level data you will see many entries but non of them deal with how to convert the unit level data provided by NSSO in raw form to a use-able (or in spread) form. Therefore, my objective here is to provide a  helping hand for  handling/working with NSSO data. The first step is to be confident that you can handle it.

You must know that raw data files stored in Workfile folder has nothing but only matrix of numbers. for example

12345500

22143600

These number would not mean any thing to you until I tell you that first digit is the serial number of then person then second and third digit from left side represents the age of a person, next two digit is weight of the person and last three digit is the expenditure per month of the person. Since there are two rows therefore we have information of two people (two observations and four variables statistically speaking). Our objective now is to get above raw numbers in a format given below (spread sheet as we see in MS Excel or other statistical soft wares)

person           age                   Weight                    Expenditure Per month

1                       23                        45                          500

2                        21                        43                         600

Well it is very easy to do this because there is very less number of digits to deal with. But NSSO data has huge matrix of number which we can’t see through our open eyes in one go. So separating manually is simply not possible like the way I did above

Let us first understand how to extract data by using SATA a statistical software from any file which has raw data as is provided by NSSO.

suppose we have following data file in .text or .dat format (as is given by NSSO).  The following data file containing variables for individuals’ name, age, and weight would look in a fixed-width text file (fixed-width text files will not have a line for the variable names):

zakaria                       3078
lucy                          2754
zulki veryVeryverylonglastname2060

Note that the data are all packed together. The blanks between the names and ages of the first two people are called “filler”. They are there for two reasons: one, to leave room for people with longer names(like our third person), and two, to force each value of each variable to occupy the same columns. In this example, we would say that the variable “name” is in columns 1-30, “age” is in columns 31-32, and “weight” is in columns 33-34.  Assuming it was named “zakku.dat”, the command to read this file with infix would be i.e., the STATA command line would read like

infix str name 1-30 age 31-32 weight 33-34 using zakku.dat

Note that the variable “name” is a string (text) variable, while the other two variables are numeric. You can tell STATA that a variable is a string by placing “str” in front of its name. Otherwise STATA assumes that the variable is numeric. The infix command can read files with longer lines of data in an analogous way. Simply list as many variables and columns as you have.

Now, I hope that idea of extracting the data from raw data file to spread sheet is clear. Let us now turn back to NSSO data.

No one can provide exhaustive guide to NSSO data. My objective here is to get you started and then you can start learning by doing more and more on your own and discussing it with others.

Initially I will be working with mostly NSSO 55th round consumption exapnditure data which contains information for the year1999-2000. My objective here is not to give details about data. I am here to explain how to get raw data into a spreadsheet (use-able) form by using a statistical software STATA. If you have question you can post it in comments.

First step is to Know what is there in the CD that is provided by NSSO.

NSSO55th CD contains  Two folders

Docoment and Workfiles

Document folder has files on Instructions and Sampling Procedures. Most important file in this folder is the file named “Schedule.doc” (the questionnaire of the survey done by NSSO) and the layout file named wrk01055.doc

Workfile has raw data files in “.dat” format (Zipped). It is important here to note that file name are of significance.  From the information contained in schedule file and layout file we get the idea about which data file has to be used for extracting the data that you are looking for. For your ease I am attaching here [wrk01055]. Another file that is quite useful is the schedule file (the questionnaire of the survey done by NSSO). What we need now is the data file. I am unable to attach it here. So you have to manage NSS 55th round data CD on your own.

Understanding layout file:

Layout file named as wrk01055.doc basically tells you which data file is to be used for the variables that you are looking for and where exactly to look for those variable within the given raw data file. Different headings in the layout file also gives us an idea about which part of questionnaire is being considered in the layout given below the heading before each lay out.

for example one of the headings in lay out file reads as following

item                 length    byte-pos.    remarks

—————————————————————————–

work-file-id      2           1-2        “W1″

round-sch         3           3-5        “551″

sector                   1           6           -

state region       3           7-9

stratum              2           10-11

here names of variables appear under the heading item. For exapmle state region is variable whose byte legth in the data file is 3. The exact Location of the variable starts from 7th column in the data file and finishes at 9th column.

so if you want extract this variable the STATA command would read as

infix strgn 7-9 using “D:\nss55\All101.dat”

note here that I have changed the name from ‘state region’ to of the variable ‘strgn’. This is because STAT will not accept two words for same variable. So best suggestion is to keep it as small as possible as long it helps you to remember what it is. While mentioning the data file from where STATA has to read 7-9 column(7th to 9th column i.e., 7th,8th and 9th) location of file in computer should be properly mentioned. With this command you add any number of variable e.g.,

infix str wrkid 1-2 rdsch 3-5 sector 6-6 strgn 7-9 stratum 10-11 using “D:\nss55\All101.dat”

I hope now there is something for you to go ahead with NSSO data. Additions and queries are most welcome. Let us make NSSO Data accessible to all students of social sciences

Bye the I have recently another Blog which discusses extraction of NSSO data. I am pasting the Link here

http://durgeshonomics.blogspot.com/2009/10/note-on-nss-data-extraction-1.html

Report of the Third Visit of JNUSU Team to Bihar’s Flood Affected Area

Dear Friends,

I am forwarding with this mail the report of the report of the third visit of JNUSU team to Bihar’s flood affected area . Now it is going to five months since the Bihar was hit by flood. We left the Delhi on 30th November for flood affected area and spend 8 days in the flood affected villages. I am also attaching another file on Understanding Kosi River. This file has description of complex nature of Kosi river that prevents the goverment from finding permanent solution floods that are caused by Kosi river everytime.

The situation is still quite gruesome and the amount of relief work needed is grossly inadequate in comparison to what is reaching there through different organisations. As the area has no possibility of agriculture there is no employment opportunity. Government could have initiated massive public works programme as there is huge scope due to devastations in the flood but has not done so. Wide spread corruption in government relief programme is excluding weaker individuals and families from getting the benefits of the programme. We tried our best to reach those excluded with of best of our intentions.

Our experiences are much more wider than we could express through this report. The individual accounts of losing their dear ones, houses, cattle, food grains etc was deeply heartening. We would request please see the pictures at The stories of neglect and delays by government officials and representatives are endless. We have tried to summarise all these experiences in the report.

I would like thank all those people who supported us third trip of JNUSU’s releif programme, particularly to the organizers of Charity dinner at The Hague, The Netherlands — Mrs. Rajani, Mrs Abha and Mrs. Sanila and Contribution from Hyderabad were organised Priyesh Suman. Priyesh was also with us during our journey.

I would like apologise for being late in producing this report. Though we finished our visit by 8th of December I got caught up in some personal problems.

Please visit http://picasaweb.google.co.in/zakaria.jnu/BiharFlood?feat=directlink for pictures from the flood affected villages.
Thank you for supporting so many people who otherwise would have remained untouched.

Sincere Regards
zakaria

interview with Flood relief worker

Compte rendu de réunion de Sandeep, responsable de l’équipe de JNU et président de l’association des étudiants et Céline, ce 26 septembre : plus de détails sur ce qui a déjà été effectue, et ce qui est planifié.

 

 

 

Bonjour a tous,

 

La première équipe de JNU et Jamia Millia, était composée de Sandeep, Martand, Swati, Digvijay, Sanjay, Amir et Ameen, étudiants en philosophie, hindi, histoire, russe, sociologie et travail social, quatre d’entre eux étant eux-mêmes originaire du Bihar.

Afin de faire un travail de qualité, JNU travaille en collaboration avec Rajkumar Sinha, un médecin travaillant dans la région touchée depuis plus de 30 ans. Il est lui-même assisté pour le moment par 8 a 10 personnes.

 

Apres avoir amené le matériel de Delhi en train, l’équipe a rejoint a pied ou a vélo, les endroits indiqués par Mr. Rajkumar Sinha comme étant ceux ou son action était la plus nécessaire. De par la longue expérience de Mr. Rajkumar Sinha, ils y avaient presque toujours une personne de contact. A leur arrivée, ils commençaient par organiser, avec l’aide de cette personne, une réunion publique. Tout d’abord, ils expliquaient l’origine humaine, et non naturelle, de la catastrophe. Ceci est souligne comme essentiel par l’équipe, consciente de la petitesse de l’action matérielle par rapport aux besoins réels. En effet, savoir qu’ils n’ont pas été vaincus par la nature, ou punis par la mère Kosi, change complètement l’état d’esprit des gens touchés, leur approche de la situation et donc, leur organisation et leurs actions. L’équipe informait également la population sur l’aide envoyée par le gouvernement,  qui disparait très largement dans le marche noir ou la corruption des administrations locales (le gouvernement a ainsi annonce qu’il fournissait deux repas par jour). Ils suggérèrent donc aux gens de, connaissant leurs droits, de réclamer leur exécution auprès des administrations locales.

 

En exemple, comme relaté dans l’article du 19 septembre, l’équipe a constaté lors de son passage dans le camp de JBC, qu’il n’y avait qu’une pompe a eau pour plus de 10 000 personnes. Le gouvernement envoyait 5000 litres par jours, dont la totalité partait au marché noir. L’équipe s’est arrangée pour les distribuer lors de son passage, mais malheureusement, c’était du one-shot. Par ailleurs, dans ce même camp, la totalité de l’aide qui arrive, ne parvient qu’aux castes supérieures.

 

Par la suite, ils demandaient qui souffrait de quel problème médical. Ce fut fait séparément pour les femmes. En fonction du feed-back, ils ont donné du Metrogel, pour la diarrhée, du Crocin, pour la fièvre, du Ciplox, un antibiotique pour les refroidissement, du Corex, pour les refroidissements également (1000 bouteilles de 200 ml), du Citrizin, un anti-allergène, des médicaments pour la malaria et de quoi purifier l’eau. 5000 paquets de médicaments, contenant des doses pour 3 ou 5 jours, ont ainsi été distribués. Les gens connaissent bien ces maladies et savent comment utiliser ces médicament, ils ont simplement besoin du matériel, ayant perdu toutes leurs ressources.

 

Par ailleurs, l’équipe a également distribue des biscuits, du « puffed rice » et des bâches, extrêmement demandées. Ils n’avaient malheureusement lors de la première vague que 300 pièces (de 3,5 x 4 mètres, 150 Rs/pièce).

 

La grande majorité de ce matériel, a été remise a des comités, crées par consensus lors des réunions publiques. Ces comités sont composes de 5 a 10 personnes, âgées en moyenne de 30 a 50 ans, ils sont tous mixtes. Ils se sont mis en place plus facilement dans certains endroits que d’autres, mais cela a fonctionne partout. Ce afin que les gens soient acteurs responsables, et parce qu’ils connaissent les détails de la situation de chacun mieux que nous.

 

Par la suite, 500 bâches de 6×4 mètres (217 Rs/pièce) ont été achetées, principalement avec les premiers 500 euros arrivés de Belgique. Il a été choisi après évaluation de les acheter dans une qualité un peu moins bonne que la dernière fois, mais en de plus grandes dimensions. Elles sont distribuées par l’équipe de Mr. Rajkumar Sinha. Savoir que cette somme arrivait a permit a l’equipe de les commander a l’avance, et de concentrer le reste des ressources sur la nourriture et les medicaments (voir comptes ci-dessous). 

 

Le deuxieme virement de 555 euros (cad 37068.45 Rs, au taux de change de 66.79), arrivé le 26 septembre, ainsi que l’argent qui continue d’arriver, sont utilisé pour acheter de quoi purifier l’eau, mais il y a aussi une importante demande pour des sarees, afin que les femmes puissent se couvrir, et pour des vêtements chauds, l’hiver arrivant. La proportion de chacun de ces éléments, est, et continuera d’être décidée, selon des demandes locales.

 

Le travail de l’équipe continue donc !

 

Bien a vous,

Celine

 

 

 

 

quelques photos du travail sur le terrain

 

How Kosi river Changed its course

Kosi River Changed it course because of the damage in the Barrage in the River upstream in The Nepal

I am Attaching few picture here just to make it more obivious.

 

Also go through the articles various magazines in India for which I am providing the links in Below

A snake in knots   

Frontline, Volume 25 – Issue 19 :: Sep. 13-26, 2008

Bihar’s tragedy and the shocking failure

Farzand Ahmed and Amitabh Srivastava

September 5, 2008, India Today

Faces that bore the brunt of Kosi 

September 5, 2008, India Today

Update on Flood relief actvities of Jwaharlal Nehru University Students

Dear All,

The team lead by Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) to the flood affected areas is back. The situation in the field is quite bad. I am extremely sorry that I could not keep you updated over the time it is because I have been little busy with my academic activities as it is my last few months of my PhD. On other hand there was nothing substantial to report. I received the first installment of € 500 (INR 31,380)from Didier on 15^th of September 2008 (refereed in the report as Subsequent Contribution organised by a senior JNU student from the students of Université Catholique de Lovian, Belgium of INR 31000. INR 380 is still lying with me which i will give to JNUSU whenever they need). I am still waiting for another installment of €550 which Didier has dispatched in the beginning this week. The report of the pasted below shows that situation is quite disappointing as far as relief work of the government organisations are concerned. Because of our personal connections at local level we could treach remote areas where other relief agencies could not reach. I will try to post the Photos from the Field as soon as possible. I am unable to do it now because of lack of internet speed that we are getting at the moment. Actually I tried to do again and again and lost lot of time without any success. Thank you very much for your concern for the issue and continued support.We are yet to make another team that will go to the field. But we have already ordered for the plastic tents from that we have with us (see the details in the following report) as according to the assessment of the first relief team led by JNSU first priority should be to provide people with shelters.

Report of JNUSU’s Relief Team’s Visit To Flood Affected Areas of Bihar

A seven member JNUSU-led team (including four students from JNU and three from Jamia Millia Islamia) visited flood-ravaged areas in Supaul, Araria, Purnea and Madhepura districts to distribute food, tents and medicines. What became very clear to the team was that Bihar was witnessing not a natural disaster, but a manmade one. Everywhere, the lack of maintenance and repair work of the embankments was visible, which is a direct result of the nexus of contractors, engineers and successive state governments. Wherever the team went, the floods completely exposed the utter insensitivity of the state machinery. Regarding relief work, the reality on the ground was a slap in the face of the grand and loud claims made by both the Central and state governments.

The visit to various villages in Purnea district revealed pathetic conditions of the victims, and almost non-existent relief work. The team visited a mega relief camp, and also the Billori camp in this district on September 11^th. The visit revealed dismal conditions even in the relief camps located in cities. There was limited and highly inadequate food supply even in the government relief camps. Food was being supplied just once a day, and that too at 4-5 pm in the evening. There was no water supply. The quality of the medicines being distributed was questionable. There were no sanitation facilities. In the Billori camp, there was no lighting facility too.

During the team’s visit, the victims in the mega camp gheraoed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who had come to visit and to make tall promises. Three days later, on September 14, when relief was not yet forthcoming in spite of the CM’s promises, the victims blocked the National Highway 31 for hours together.

On September 12^th, the team visited Parvata and Gothiyari villages in Barhara block of Purnea district. This block is located is located at the borders of Madhepura district and adjacent to Bihariganj. The flood waters had inundated the area for 15-16 days. It is indicative of the government’s attitude that according to the official surveys, this area is not flood effected. Most of the houses here are constructed of mud and straw, and had been destroyed by the floods. The stored food in the houses had been washed away by the flood waters and the entire rice crop had been destroyed. The team found that the state government had initiated no relief work.

In Parvata, health conditions of the stranded villagers is continuously deteriorating, and there is an epidemic-like situation. In spite of this, there are no health facilities in the area, and neither is the government showing any interest in this matter. It is very clear that if this situation is not addressed immediately, the casualties are likely to triple in the days to come.

The condition of all the villagers, especially the babies, pregnant women and the aged is deteriorating day by day. As always happens in such situations, women and children were facing the brunt of the appalling situation in the camps. Our team distributed tents and food in both Parvata and Gothiyari villages.

On September 13^th, the team visited the Janakinagar Branch Canal (JBC) relief camp in Araria, the Kupari branch canal relief camp, Muraliganj Branch Canal relief camp, and the Raghunathpur village. The entire 25-km stretch between Muraliganj Branch Canal and Triveni canal was submerged. In Raghunathpur village which has been submerged, most of the houses barring a couple of pucca houses had been washed away. Thousands of people were wading through the flood waters to reach the nearest relief camp. People were drowning in the fast currents of the flood waters. In spite of a “national calamity” being declared, the JNUSU-led team did not see any rescue team anywhere.

In the JBC relief camp the anger over the inadequate food and water supply was palpable. The villagers alleged that any small relief supply that had managed to reach the camp was being siphoned off with the abetment of the entire district administration, from the Sarpanch Gram Panchayat to the camp supervisor. Hundreds of families were sleeping in the open. Even though there were supplies of water bottles, these were not being distributed. It was only after the team from JNU, along with the villagers gheraoed the camp director that bottles of water were finally distributed.

Near the JBC relief camp, apart from the official relief camp, we saw camps being run by the Hindu Seva Dal. The villagers informed the team that relief meant for the government-run camp was being sent to this camp. There was an obvious collaboration between the Nitish government and the RSS, where the flood ravaged victims have been forgotten. The entire relief was reaching only the upper castes. People from the upper caste had taken tents away, and given them to the camps run by the Hindu Seva Dal.

The conditions in the Kupari and Muraliganj branch canal relief camps were even more appalling. There was absolutely no facility for food or shelter. The JNUSU-led team distributed tents, medicines and food in the Muraliganj branch relief camp.

Both the Central government as well as the Nitish Kumar government are spending more time trading brickbats and making tall claims regarding their contribution to providing flood relief. Obviously, flood relief, and the huge human disaster has provided them with ample fodder for a cynical game of political one upmanship.

JNUSU condemns the blatant insensitivity of the Nitish government in failing to provide immediate relief for the victims. JNUSU also condemns the criminal negligence of successive state governments in Bihar in failing to put in place an effective and long-term flood control mechanism.

JNUSU thanks all those, including students and teachers of this campus, as well as students from abroad, who contributed to the JNUSU relief fund for the Bihar flood victims. We present below a statement of the collections and expenditures incurred.

Status of Bihar Flood Relief Collection and Distribution

Collection :

First Round fund before the trip	83,820.00
Subsequent fund Collection	6,540.00
Subsequent Contribution organised by a senior JNU student from the students of Université Catholique de Lovian, Belgium	31,000.00
Total Fund Collection ( in Rs.)	1,21,360.00
First Round Medicine Contribution by a faculty member (in Rs.)	13,000.00

Distribution During the Trip of the Relief Team (First Round)

Item	Expense (in Rs.)
1. Polythene Sheet (300 pieces)	49,500.00
2. Biscuits (200 Kilogram)	13,000.00
3. Medicine	8,210.00
4. Railway Cargo Booking	2,100.00
5. Additional Transportation charge of Materials	1,010.00
6. Food Items (Sugar, Chuda), Bleaching Powder at the relief spot	6,340.00
Total spent during the trip	80,160.00

Fund At Hand for further relief Material*

Savings from the First Round of funds	3,660.00
Subsequent fund Collection	6,540.00
Subsequent Contribution organised by a senior JNU student from the students of Université Catholique de Lovian, Belgium	31,000.00
Total (in Rs.)	41,200.00

* Polythene Sheets for flood victims are being purchased of this amount.

Sandeep President, JNUSU

Shephalika Vice-President, JNUSU

Pallavi Deka Gen. Secy., JNUSU

Mobeen Alam Jt. Secy., JNUSU

JNUSU

Dear All,

Nine students have left to flood affected areas with what ever money , medicine and Clothes that we could collect. Exact details will be soon coming up in day or two. Here are some Files just for refrences to meetings that were held to support the flood affected people in Jawaharlal Nehru University Studets Union (JNUSU)

jnusu-bihar-flood

jnusu-flood-relief-initiativespdf

Hope we are able to Make some difference to the life of people in Flood affected areas.

Cheers

zak

Worst Floods in Bihar: An appeal

Dear Friends,

Bihar is facing one of the worst floods its has seen in history (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7591006.stm). 16 districts and about 4 million people are affected. The relief efforts being made are grossly inadequate. Lakhs of people are still waiting to be rescued from the flooded areas and to be taken to the relief camps. The relief camps are inadequate and lack any facilities. However, only adequate relief is not enough. It is expected that people would not be able to go back to their homes before one year. The relief camps are to be run for a year. Rehabilitation efforts will also have to be made at massive scale. People are trying to organize relief for the flood affected areas. We request you to collect money for the relief of the people in flood affected Bihar.

The money can be sent to Prime Minister Relief Fund (India) (http://pmindia.nic.in/relief.htm), Chief Minister Relief Fund (Bihar) (http://cm.bih.nic.in/), or any reliable NGOs you know. You can also send the money to us. We would be sending the money to the JNUSU (Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union), which is sending a relief team to Bihar and is planning to take up the relief work at maximum possible level. The money would also be sent to other organizations actively taking up relief work in to the flood affected districts.

Thanking you sincerely

Zakaria, Nesar ….

Bihar flood A mail from My friend

Hello!

Is this a time for look for another project. The situation is so grave that millions of people are trapped in rising waters and there is no helping hands to rescue those people from their endangered shelter a lives. Media reports suggest that there are grossly inadequate relief works, very few number of boats, less than required food, medicine and other relief materials, no tents and above all there are very few  people (relief workers) available for those people suffering from one of the worst calamities the county is facing.

Apathy of the governments (both state and central governments) (central government’s response has been limited to announcing a package of Rs 1000 crore) and worst the response of the people of the country is amazingly cold. If we remember responses to Tsunami and Gujrat earthquake we would realize that responses of civil society and people at large have been that of being mere spectators at this time of national calamity.

Thousands of trucks full with relief material arrived in Gujrat within a couple of days of the worst earthquake it suffered. Thousands of people including Bollywood celebrities reached the Tsunami hit areas within a couple of days to provide relief to the victims of the worst natural calamities we faced then. But this time when one of the poorest state of the country is suffering from one of the worst flood situation it had ever known the response of civil society and people at large is cold and of just a being a spectator to the people’s misery. What could be the reasons. Is that the poor and marginalised people of a backward state (compared to extremly rich Gujrat) dont deserve that kind of attention or that the international responses which the Tsunami or even the Gujrat earthquake could generate is not possible in case of Bihar.

What could be the case one can only appeal and hope that millions of people facing the worst nightmare of their lives are rescued and provided relief….

Amity
Nesar