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Highly acclaimed acid rehabilitation centre of Lucknow faces closure

CV News/ August 12, 2018

SheRose Hangout, Lucknow, set up in 2016 for the rehabilitation of acid victims, is facing closure, an acid victim, Anshu, has it made known through the People's Media Advocacy & Resource Centre (PMARC). The women inmates of the SheRose Hangout, says the information, are worried, as stage has been set to hand it over to a private firm, Lotus Hospitality, whose employees reach up to the inmates on a regular basis to vacate the centre, which runs SheRose Cafe as part of the rehabilitation programme.
According to Anshu, "With this, the morale of all the girls is broken and our jobs and other rehabilitation plans are facing closure. The salary of the employees is delayed for six to nine months." The centre is run with Grant from the Mahila Kalyan Nigam, a government corporation.
According to Anshu, "We have come to know that the corporation has stopped the amount of more than Rs 45 lakh grant, which is due the continuation of the project, as a punishment for not …

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Ahmedabad-Bhuj protest rally to be held if Majid, disappeared on July 19, isn't found: MCC

CV News/ August 14, 2018

The Minority Coordination Committee (MCC), Gujarat, has warned that it would begin a wide-scale protest over the sudden disappearance of Majid Theba, 27, from his house in Bhuj on July 19 following cops entering his house, beating him up and his pregnant wife. Majid’s wife, Aashiyana Theba, who filed a FIR 26 years ago on disappearance of her husband, hasn’t heard from the police about the whereabouts of her husband.
“If Majid is not found, we will take out a rally from Ahmedabad to Bhuj”, said the Gujarat-based minority rights body, which has sought immediate intervention of the Gujarat DGP, the home minister and the chief secretary. The reason for beating up Majid and his sudden disappearance are not known.
MCC said, her family was having dinner when three policemen, including a head constable, came in asking for Majid. They started beating him. When Aashiyana tried to stop them, they thrashed her. She had to be admitted to GK General Hospital in Bhuj because of her pregnancy. On h…

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Over 500 wheat flour bags handed over to Gujarat govt to "collect" money for Dalit-Adivasi scholarship

CV News/ August 14, 2018

Dalit rights activists from 500 villages of Gujarat, led by Navsarjan Trust founder Martin Macwan, organized a rally from Gandhi Ashram to the Ahmedabad district collector’s office to highlight the failure of the state government to provide scholarship to nearly 70,000 Dalit and Adivasi students over the last two years. Carried out under the banner “Vote nahi Lot” (not vote, but wheat flour), the rally handed over hundreds of wheat flour bags to the Ahmedabad district collector to be handed over to chief minister Vijay Rupani.
“We wanted to send the message that if they don’t have money to disburse Rs 2.73 crore as scholarship to 70,000 children, they could l sell these wheat flour bags to give scholarships”, Macwan said. Twelve activists handed over the wheat flour packs along with a memorandum to the district collector. The memorandum said, “It is most unfortunate that on the eve of the 72nd year of India’s Independence Day celebrations, we would have to hand over collect wheat flo…

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