MoS I&B participates in Facebook Q&A

07-May-2016 11:23 IST

Col. Rathore interacts with netizens 

Asks them to stay connected with the Government

I'm here for the next one hour to take your questions, so ask away.

मैं आपके सवालो का जवाब देने के लिए यहां फेसबुक पर हूं।

Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting, Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore has participated in a live Facebook Q&A with the public and replied to questions fielded by people from different parts of the country. Emphasizing the need to stay connected, the Minister requested the citizens to interact with the government on Mygov.in and NaMo App on a regular basis, to send questions and topics to Prime Minister’s Mann Ki Baat, and to stay connected with all Ministers on their respective social media pages. 

Sharing with the citizens Government’s vision on development and communication, Col. Rathore reiterated that the present government under the visionary leadership of Shri Narendra Modi strives to reach out to every individual through every means possible, to empower them with relevant information on Government policies and schemes, and to bring their feedback to the government to make schemes more effective. 

During the one-hour interactive session which began at 9.30 in the night, Col. Rathore answered questions on various aspects of information and broadcasting, media ethics, crisis communication, public policy, Defence preparedness, border security, cyber threats, Olympics, skill development and employment generation. The Minister also received many suggestions and ideas from people on a wide variety of subjects during the live interaction. 

At the end of the session, the Minister appeared Live on Facebook Video and thanked all the people who interacted with him. He also said that as it was an interesting and important means of reaching out and staying connected with the people, he would request other Ministers also to use social media platforms for similar real time interactions. 

In his first Facebook Q&A, the Minister could answer 65 questions in English and Hindi out of a total of 1453 queries received during the hour-long session. Col. Rathore’s live video on Facebook received more than 12 thousand views and around 6 thousand likes within a short span of time. 

The Q&A event was jointly organized by the social media team of Press Information Bureau, New Media Cell of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, and Facebook. The entire Q&A event is accessible on the following link: 

https://www.facebook.com/Rathore/posts/1783832128506184

Seminar against The Land Acquisition Ordinance 2015

Seminar opposed the govt conspiracy 

Ludhiana: 9 May 2015:(Punjab Screen Bureau):
The Land Acquisition Ordinance 2015 is a devious move of the BJP government to grab the land of the farmers in the name of development completely diluting the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act 2013. This ordinance completely ignores the provisions of the previous act whereby the farmers were taken into confidence before acquiring their land for the matters of public interest. This was said by Com Bhupinder Sambar - General Secretary Punjab Kissan Sabha while addressing seminar organized by the Social thinkers Forum and Lok Sahit Manch Ludhiana at Punjabi Bhawan here today.  
It was after long drawn struggle, he said,  that in 2013 the infamous clauses of the Land Acquisition Act 1894 of the British government was amended. According to this Land Acquisition would not be permitted in the fertile multi crop and irrigated land as it could jeopardize country’s food security. Moreover reasonable compensation was to be paid to the land owners in advance. Only a minimum required land for any project should be acquired  and if the land remains utilized this should be returned to the original owner as per the 2013 Act. Moreover possession of the land would be taken only after full compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement of the affected families has been completed. In addition social impact assessment was to be made before acquiring the land. Com Sambar further cautioned that the present Ordinance dilutes the Act of 2013 to the extent that most of these features just diminish and the ordinance is as tyrannical as the act of 1894. This Ordinance completely ignores the clauses on consent social impact assessment. This also allows acquisition of multi crop irrigates fertile land. The ordinance and acquisition without going into social impact will be a big threat to our biodiversity as the corporate houses will ruin our eco system in the name of development to benefit them. This ordinance is aimed at facilitating acquisition of the land for private companies and land mafia.

He elaborated that out 85000 hectares acquired in Maharashtra, 15000 Hectare is lying idle. In Madhya Pradesh out of 45000 hectare  21000 is lying unutilised. Similar is the situation in many other states. Even the CAG has pointed out that this ordinance amounts to major transfer of wealth from the rural population the corporate world.

Dr Arun Mitra Convener of the Social thinkers’ Forum said that as per some analysis the government’s move to acquire one kilometer land on each side of the railway tracks and the roads will lead to 36% of the cultivable land be taken over leading to crisis of food security in our predominantly agricultural country and uprooting of 28 crore of people.

In the end in his vote of thanks Adv. Mitter Sain Meet, General Secreaty- Lok Sahit Manch thanked the main speaker and the others who enriched the discussion with their valuable ideas. He said that the NDA government, in its drive to snatch the land from the farmers, issued the ordinance to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement(Amendment) Act 2013. This procedure is totally undemocratic. The others who participated in the discussion include Com D P Maur, Dr. Rajinder Pal Singh Aulakh, Mrs. Gurcharan Kaur Kocher, President-Punjab Istri Sabha Ludhiana, Com. Ramesh Rattan, Com. Gurnam Singh Gill, Com. Charan Sarabha, Gurnam Sidhu.

Without political patronage drug business cannot sustain

Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:31 AM
S. Majithia should resign on moral grounds 
Ludhiana: 8 Jan 2014: (Rector Kathuria//Punjab Screen):
The Social Thinkers Forum Ludhiana has demanded CBI probe into the allegations by international drug smuggler Jagdish Bhola who has blamed Minister S. Bikramjit Singh  Majithia to be involved in the drug racket in Punjab. Our state is reeling under the menace of drugs with lakhs of youth ruining their lives under the influence of drugs. Convener of the Forum Dr Arun Mitra and other activists M S Bhatia, D P Maur and Ramesh rattan said that recently  we had organized a seminar where Shashi Kant former DGP Prisons was the Chief Guest. Message of the seminar was that without political patronage  drug business cannot sustain. Social Thinkers Forum expresses anguish at  the situation of drug mafia becoming powerful in the state. There is urgent need to not just catch the small fries but the big fish need to be brought to book as per law of the land.   In this connection it would be appropriate for S. Majithia to resign on moral grounds and cooperate in the probe without any pressures by the central agency.

Social media is a wonderful platform

But an ugly side also

Lok Raj on FB:Options for this story

Social media is a wonderful platform to discuss various issues and share your creative works. At the same time there is an ugly side to it. Some people use it for spreading hatred and wrong information is circulated. 

There is abundance of such post where the information has no factual basis eg comparative prices of oil in different countries, amount of Indian black money in Swiss banks....so on and so forth.

Saw some gory pictures posted as atrocities by India on north eastern people, Dalits and tribals etc, which are actually pictures of Tamils killed in last few years by Srilankan army.

No one says wrong things are not happening in India and that we should not discuss; but the information needs to factual and authentic. Otherwise poster's own motive and integrity will become questionable.