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A charter of demands by the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan and All India People’s Science Network.
Author: mkukrishna
Statement from AIPSN and JSA
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A call to government to ACT NOW- to save lives, to strengthen public health services and to safeguard livelihoods
Issued by
Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) &
All India People’s Science Network (AIPSN)
From 30 January 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was reported, till today, March 15, 2020, the number of confirmed cases in India has risen to 107, and there have been two deaths. The government of India has reacted swiftly to this epidemic by curtailing international travel, screening those coming in from abroad and their contacts and either isolating them if they have tested positive or placing them in quarantine if they are asymptomatic. This has no doubt helped delay the epidemic. But as the government knows, the worst is yet to come.
While immediate executive action in the form of isolation of patients and quarantines, and a high pressure campaign for social distance is most welcome, this would not be sufficient if community transmission is established and the pandemic peaks. The country is particularly vulnerable because of a high degree of past neglect of public health services, and the privatization of healthcare. The country is also vulnerable because a large section of population is struggling to meet their minimum basic necessities and the last decade of economic and social policies have pushed them to the brink. In such a social and economic context, this epidemic may prove the last straw and lead to an unprecedented catastrophe unless the government pays heed to the entire charter of demands we present below.
Salient features of the COVID-19 pandemic:
COVID -19 is the name of the disease caused by a particular strain of Coronavirus that has been spreading across the world. In symptoms it is remarkably similar to the seasonal flu and earlier flu and coronavirus pandemics. But it has a mortality rate much higher than the seasonal flu, though lower than the other flu and coronavirus pandemics. Over 81% of those who are infected will have only mild symptoms, another 15 % would have severe symptoms requiring medical consultation and often hospitalization and about 4 per cent would require critical care which may include ventilator support and ICU care. The mortality is highest in those above 80 and this decreases with age. Children are relatively spared.
Though it is considered unlikely that a situation like the one caused by the 1918 flu pandemic will be repeated because of better healthcare systems, it is not impossible. Neither an appropriate drug nor a vaccine is likely to become available within the next few months. Therefore the reliance is still on the age-old measures of isolation, quarantine and social distancing.
Once community transmission is established there would be a sharp increase in the number of cases, and this would be more so if there are many asymptomatic disease-spreaders or a very high susceptibility in the population. This disease could potentially infect 30 to 50% of the current adult population in the country. Even with a lower case fatality rate of 1% to critical care requirement of 4% the weakened public health systems would be overwhelmed and this would lead to millions of excess deaths in the coming year.
We do not know whether community transmission has been established, nor the actual level of spread of the disease because our current scope of testing for the virus is far too limited. In the absence of such testing, clusters of the disease- spread can develop and reach dangerous levels before they are noticed.
However there is a concern that in the name promoting social distancing, the entire burden of accountability for averting the epidemic and preventing loss of life due to it is shifted to the people and within that, the most vulnerable sections. The current approach to pandemic control that leads to shutting down of considerable economic and social activity is unsustainable and at best of temporary benefit. The epidemic peak may occur months later, and not now. Such a delay, or flattening of the epidemic curve as it is known, is useful because it would give time to the government hospitals time to gear up. But if no efforts are made to prepare the hospitals or expand the testing, the delay only leads to prolonged economic and social suffering of the majority with adverse health outcomes deferred but not averted.
The main thing that communities can do is to protect themselves by rapid improvements in health related practices and hygiene. Communities also need to extend solidarity with those who are suffering health-wise or economically due to the epidemic. People’s movements recognize the role they have in both promoting hygiene and in building solidarity.
We call on national and state governments to address both the adverse health outcomes and the adverse impact the control measures are making on the lives and livelihoods of people which are as equally damaging and require mitigation.
A Peoples Charter of Demands- Save Lives, Save Livelihoods and Respect Human Rights:
Based on the understanding that is discussed above (and elaborated in a background paper on the COVID-19 epidemic), the Peoples Science Movements and the Peoples Health Movement adopt the following charter of demands that articulates its understanding and its demands:
Health Care Related:
- Government must expand testing facilities and criteria for COVID-19. Testing should not be limited to only those with symptoms who have travelled to certain countries and those who have come in contact with them. Any clinically suspected person should be able to get tested. While containment by isolating patients with the disease, tracing contacts, and quarantining individuals returning from nations with an established outbreak may continue to be relevant for a longer period, the system needs to gear up for addressing community transmission.
- Government must rapidly prepare public health services for a surge in patients requiring healthcare and hospitalization by strengthening the public hospitals. This would require, at the very least, one hospital with an ICU; potential isolation wards and ventilators; and oxygen supply in every five to ten lakh population. It would also require corresponding improvement in supply of relevant medicines and consumables such as oxygen and deployment of human resource. We reiterate that such an expansion was anyway long overdue, and this epidemic is an opportunity to rush such preparation through.
- In the event that the pandemic becomes a full blown emergency in any part of the country, it would be necessary that all existing medical facilities be brought under a centralised district authority, including all private hospitals. Allocation of medical facilities will have to be done by this authority and not by the market mechanisms. The protocols and administrative and financial measures required for doing so must be put in place as part of epidemic readiness.
- Immediate strengthening of the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, by a major increase in capacity to test for this disease, and to report on all seasonal flu and other fever related deaths from across all facilities – public and private. In the absence of such expansion, we caution that the country could even go through an epidemic without knowing it, or could be surprised by large cluster-outbreaks where they are least expected.
- As a long term measure we call for establishing a Government Centre for Disease Control in every district which is staffed and facilitated to test, identify and provide alerts and advice precautionary measures for pathogenic attacks like the current COVID-19 pandemic.
- Ensure safe working conditions and adequate protective equipment for healthcare and support staff. These are to be provided not only in hospitals but also for frontline workers supporting home quarantine and isolation. This would require that medical tools such as effective facemasks and sterilizing fluids are prioritized for front-line healthcare workers and patients.
- Ensure that the distribution of scarce resources in the event of a widespread outbreak should be governed by a clear evaluation of the public health needs, rather than on sales to the highest bidder (this problem emerged with Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic). International collaboration vis-a-vis developments in medication and vaccines is a must, and care must be taken to prevent patent monopolies from limiting production of potential treatments.
Social Distancing and Human Rights:
- Social distancing must necessarily be done by public education and persuasion. The use of coercive measures would be unfair and unhelpful. Mass gatherings, public events, whether social, religious, sports related, cultural or political, could be dissuaded for some time more- but should not be banned.
- Active community support and outreach services need to be built up for those in home quarantine, those whose social security benefits are curtailed due to closure or those having difficulties in accessing essential services. Many under home quarantine will have co-morbidities that would require access to follow up care and medication. Many children will need access to supplementary nutrition programs, more so, when their parents’ livelihood is compromised. Shutting down such services without providing for alternatives would be unfair.
- When populations are placed under lockdown or quarantine, special measures would need to be in place to ensure that this is done in a humane manner and without abuse to core human rights. Governments need active engagement of human rights institutions and civil society organizations and trade unions to inspect and report back on standards of care and the problems that the most vulnerable sections are facing.
- The freedom of the media to report on the epidemic and its consequences must be safeguarded at all times. However when carrying messages on the nature of spread, the source of infection or on treatment, news media must be encouraged to keep to the parameters set by government channels, international health institution channels, or of universities and research institutions. Where information is from any other sources, the news must be accompanied by a disclaimer that this is unverified and could be fake. Any blanket ban on media freedoms is unwarranted and should be resisted.
Redressing Economic Inequity- as cause and consequence:
- Maintenance of routine economic activity, which primarily means safeguarding of the livelihoods of the majority, should also be acknowledged and acted upon as a public health priority. Public education should also address the need to build solidarity in such times. The working people and poor take a much larger economic hit due to disruption of livelihoods than the salaried section and the affluent, and this should be acknowledged. There has to be active community support and support from employers to those in home quarantine and those whose livelihoods are compromised by these lockdowns.
- There must be an immediate increase in public expenditure that leads to widespread demand-side support in the form of increased social security and food security measures such as enhancement of entitlement under the Public Distribution System (PDS), and cash transfers. This is urgently required to address the attack on livelihoods of the majority that have already been compromised by a decade of economic policies that intensified capital accumulation, but destroyed livelihoods. Further concessions to corporate industry to counter the crisis they are also facing, and further austerity for the working people would be most counter-productive and iniquitous.
National Convention of AIPSN on Medical Education and Strengthening of Public Health Care Services
The Health Sub-Committee of AIPSN recently organised a National Convention on Medical Education and
Strengthening of Public Health Care Services on 21 and 22 December in Hyderabad.
The meeting hosted by Jana Vignana Vedika- Telangana, had around 100 participants from 15 states of the country. The convention was an avenue to discuss creative approaches to address the issues of medical education and public provisioning of healthcare.
Click on the links given below for the details
Concept Note https://aipsn.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/AIPSNHealthDec2019-1concept-note.pdf
Schedule of meeting AIPSNHealthDec2019-2Schedule
Writeup on technical matters AIPSNHealthDec2019-3Writeup
Presentations
Day 1 : talk1, talk2, talk3, talk4
AIPSNHealthDec2019-1.1 Public Health and Disruption- Prasada Rao
AIPSNHealthDec2019-1.2Saving&StrengtheningPublicHealthServices
AIPSNHealthDec2019-1.4 TRIBAL HEALTH CHALLENGES- Ram Kishan
Day 2 : talk1, talk2, talk3, talk4, talk5
AIPSNHealthDec2019-2.1 Universal Health Coverage
AIPSNHealthDec2019-2.2De-privatisation in healthcare in India
AIPSNHealthDec2019-2.3 access to medicines
AIPSNHealthDec2019-2.4 mobilising to save public services- Abhay Shukla
AIPSNHealthDec2019-2.5 Right to Health- Sundararaman T
AIPSN feedback on DNEP 2019
Feedback from AIPSN on Draft National Education Policy (DNEP) 2019
The feedback (click here) on the policy and the committee report is submitted by AIPSN to the nation based on the inputs drawn from the experts researching on education, the teachers working in the field of education and the scientists and technologists working in the AIPSN member organizations.
The feedback is given in three parts: Part 1 gives an Overview. Part 2 provides domain wise critique. Part 3 covers final remarks and demands. Those providing the inputs for this submission of AIPSN have actively worked with the member organizations of AIPSN in the field of education and research for several years. A summary (click here) of all the points made here has been provided separately. In addition points for an alternate proposal (click here) have also been put forward in another document along with this critique.
It is significant that even when the experts chose to acknowledge the observations made by the committee, they could not find much merit in the diagnosis or in the solutions offered through its proposals. They remained of the view that the committee has made not only many impractical or illogical recommendations but several proposals are dangerous and can harm the system of education. AIPSN is therefore providing also the ideas for the formulation of alternate policy proposals for an active consideration of the Union Government. AIPSN is committed to discuss the policy and the alternate proposals received for the mobilization of the public through the associations and platforms active in the field of education.
TN Academicians appeal to the public on the eve of Elections 2019
TN Academicians appeal to the public on the eve of Elections 2019
*Vote for Constitutional Values, Diversity and Inclusive Society
*Prevent Suicidal Increase of Economic Inequality
*Vote for creating a Healthy, Rational and Scientific Tamil Nadu and India
Dear Friends,
In a few weeks from now, we would elect the 17th Lok Sabha. This is an important duty that would determine our country’s future and that of the “Idea of India”.
We, as academics, work or have worked in institutions of research and learning. These institutions of learning and research are the places where different schools of thought have to contend, with freedom and without fear. In contrast, a climate of fear has been created in institutions of higher education that discourages questioning and critical thinking.
From the systematic attacks on independent academic functioning in highly regarded universities like JNU to what has been described as the institutional murder of Rohith Vemula at the Central University of Hyderabad, central universities are being obstructed when discharging their academic duties. From unacceptable threats to criminal physical assault, a range of coercive measures have been unleashed by the elements seeking to destroy pluralism, secularism and diversity which are so central to the idea of India. Atrocities against religious minorities, dalits and women in the name of upholding “nationalism” have been witnessed in other universities too, including in Delhi, Rajasthan, Chandigarh, Jadavpur, Allahabad, the BHU and the AMU and many other places
These atrocities, deplorable as they were, are known to have happened under instigation and support of the ruling party at the centre and its ministers. The elements executing these atrocities have unfortunately been protected and encouraged by the ruling dispensation.
While these above events are visible, a surreptitious attempt is going on to change the character of our institutions, in various ways: by appointments of heads of institutions, by curbing funds, by ensuring promotion of obscurantist ideas, etc.
The NCERT has taken up the task to promote the RSS’s pet projects to introduce in the text book, topics of dubious provenance and has recently removed chapters that include accounts about peasants and farmers and class and caste relations and struggles. In the area of higher education, the appointment of a person known for his links to the RSS, as the Vice Chancellor of the prestigious Jawaharlal University is a prime example of the ruling government’s assault on higher education. It is to be noted that 93% of the JNU faculty had protested against this Vice-Chancellor’s undemocratic methods.
The system of higher education is being greatly weakened by the promotion of obscurantism, irrationality and aggressive communalism by the ruling dispensation.
Equally important, the regime’s policies involve the most aggressive privatization, centralization and corporatization of education, as seen in their New Education Policy and the HECI Bill, both of which have met widespread public protest. These lay bare the plans to place academic bodies at the mercy of the government.
An appointee of the NDA government, Chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research targets eminent intellectuals critical of the wrong doings of the regime just as the finance minister the other day accused more than a hundred distinguished economists seeking greater credibility and transparency of government statistical bodies of being “fake” economists.
Senior researchers as well as doctoral scholars get little funding for quality research. This is true not just in social sciences but also in natural and physical sciences.
The government makes tall claims of India being made a Superpower but does not spend even 0.6% of the GDP on Science and Technology.
Beyond the world of academia, the regime’s economic policies have caused massive destruction of livelihoods in the informal sector which accounts for more than 90% of our workforce and more than 40% of our national output.
The draconian act of demonetization and the ham handed introduction of GST have caused havoc. They have led not only to a decline in the rate of growth of GDP, but a massive growth in unemployment by destroying the employment-intensive informal sector. Unemployment is soaring, as revealed both by the most recent government survey report (the release of which has been blocked by the government) and the private agency the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE).
More than a hundred people died in the aftermath of demonetization while not a penny of black money was recovered. Across rural India, the agrarian crisis has worsened, with a steep fall in prices of agricultural produce even while farmers in hundreds of thousands have marched across the nation seeking justice and an end to policies that compel famers to commit suicide.
In the past five years the ruling dispensation has subverted the constitution and various democratic institution rights from Supreme Court to RBI. Even the election commission has not spared. The ruling party has used the colonial law on sedition to surprise voices of dissent.
While the situation is grim, it is not without hope. The struggles of the farmers, the massive protests of various sections of employees and workers, both in the states and at the all India level, of women, of dalits and the scheduled tribes, of religious minorities under murderous attack from goons patronized by the ruling dispensation – all these give us hope in the resilience of the Indian people. But we cannot be complacent.
We, the socially concerned academics, whose education has been made possible by the taxes that our working people pay when they buy any good or service, owe it to them and to ourselves to ensure that India remains secular and democratic and its higher educational system gets strengthened in its pursuit of science and critical inquiry. We cannot allow people who express dissent or question the system to be termed anti-nationals.
The first step in this process is to ensure that the coming elections result in a regime that stands by the Constitution of India. The Indian constitution, the product of our freedom struggle, proclaims in the preamble, India to be a Secular, Sovereign, Socialist, Democratic Republic.
The rise of organized regressive forces in the last several years – committed to destroying the Constitutional values – has to be challenged and stopped forthwith without any reservation.
List of signatories 1. Dr.M. Anandakrishnan, Former Vice-Chancellor Anna University, Chennai, Former Chairman IIT Kanpur. 2. Justice Hari Paranthaman, Former Judge of Madras High Court, Chennai. 3. Mr. M.G. Devasahayam, I.A.S (Retd), 4. Dr. S. S.Rajagopalan, Educationist, Chennai. 5. Dr.V. Vasanthi Devi, Former Vice-Chancellor, MS University. 6. Dr.M. Rajendran, Former Vice-Chancellor Tamil University. 7. Dr.K.A. Manikumar, Ex. Vice-Chancellor, Swami Vivekanda University, M.P. 8. Mr. R. Poornalingam, I.A.S (Retd), 9. Mr. P.Vijayashankar, Editor, Frontline. 10. Dr.S. Sathikh, Former Vice-Chancellor University of Madras. 11. Dr. Ponnavaiko, Former Vice-Chancellor, Bharathidasan University. 12. Dr. S.Theodore Baskaran, Writer. 13. Mr. P.B. Prince Gajendra Babu, Educationist, General Secretary, SPCSS. 14. Dr.K. Nagaraj, Professor (Retd) MIDS, Chennai . 15. Dr. R. Ramanujam, Professor, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. 16. Dr. Enakshi Bhattacharya, Professor, IIT Madras, Chennai. 17. Dr, Ayan Mudhopadhyay, Associate Professor, IIT Madras, Chennai. 18. Dr. Suresh Govindharajan, Professor IIT Madras, Chennai. 19. Dr.K. Jothi Sivagnanam, Professor, Dept of Economics, University of Madras. 20. Dr. Sridhar, Economist, Frontline. 21. Dr. Y. Srinivasa Rao, Professor, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappali. 22. Dr.V.B. Athreya, Economist, Professor (Retd) Bharathidasan University. 23. Dr.R. Kaleeswaran, Professor, Dept of Art and Literary, Loyola college, Chennai. 24. Dr. V.Jeevanandam, Environmental Activist cum Medical Doctor. 25. Dr. C.S. Rex Sargunam, Medical Doctor and President, Tamil Nadu Health Development Association. 26. Dr.Era. Natarasan , Science Writer and Educationist. 27. Mr.Su.Ki. Jayakaran , Geologist and Writer. 28. Dr.S. Janakarajan, Professor (Retd), MIDS. 29. Dr.T. Chandraguru, Professor (Retd) and Former Syndicate Member, MKU 30. Dr.S. Kochadai, Professor and writer. 31. Dr.G.C.Manoharan, Librarian (Retd), Mannar Thirumalai Nayakar. college, Madurai 32. Prof.S. Mohana, Professor (Retd), Palani Aandavar Arts college, Palani. 33. Dr. R. Murali, Professor (Retd) and Former Principal Madura College, Madurai. 34. Dr.V. Natarjan, Scientist (Retd), IGCAR, Kalpakkam . 35. Prof. S. Ramasubramanian, Writer, Professor (Retd), Government Arts College, Tiruvannamalai. 36. Dr.K. Ramakrishnan, Professor (Retd), Bharathiar University 37. Dr.Mu Ramaswamy, Dramatist, Professor (Retd), Tamil University. 38. Dr. R. Rukmani, Scientist (Retd), MSSRF, Chennai. 39. Dr. A. Sankarasubramanian, Professor (Retd), Government Arts College, Salem. 40. Dr. S. Sankaralingam, State Vice President, PUCL. 41. Dr.V. Sridhar, Scientist (Retd), IGCAR, Kalpakkam. 42. Dr.Mu. Thirumavalavan, Former Principal Government Arts College, Viyasarpadi, Chennai. 43. Dr.R. Usha, Professor (Retd), Madurai Kamaraj University. 44. Prof. P. Vijayakumar (Retd), Saraswathi Narayan College, Madurai 45. Prof. Prabha Kalvi Mani, Makkal Kalvi Eyakkam. 46. Prof.A. Marx, Writer, Chennai 47. Dr.R. Chandra, Professor (Retd), UD College, Thiruchy. 48. Prof. K. Raju, Editor, Pudhiya Aasiriyan. 49. Dr. V. Ponraj, Former Principal, MTT Hindu College, Tirunelveli. 50. Dr. A.James Willams, Professor (Retd) and Former All India President, AIFUCTO. 51. Dr. I.P. Kanagasundaram, Former Principal, District Institute of Education and Training. 52. Dr. P. Rathnasabhapathi, Retired Professor of Tamil, Chennai 53. Dr. P.Murugaiyan, Principal (Retd), Sivanthai College of Education, Chennai. 54. Dr. S. Jayshankar, Principal (Retd), Sri Vasavi College, Erode. 55. Dr. S.Hema, Professor (Retd), Holycross College, Trichy. 56. Dr. V.Murugan, Professor (Retd), Vivekanandha College, Chennai.
Appeal Move Initiated By: 57. Dr. S. Krishnaswamy, Senior Professor (Retd), Madurai Kamaraj University. 58. Prof.P. Rajamanickam (Retd), Saraswathi Narayan College, Madurai and General Secretary AIPSN 59. Dr. N. Mani, Professor and Head, Dept of Economics, Erode Arts college, Erode. 60. Dr.T.R. Govindarajan, Professor (Retd), Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai.
More than 150 Scientists Appeal to Citizens
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More than 150 Scientists Appeal to Citizens
An atmosphere in which scientists, activists and rationalists are hounded, harassed, intimidated, censored, jailed, or worse, murdered, is not the future our country deserves.
03 Apr 2019
The upcoming election is a crucial one. It asks for a re-affirmation of the most fundamental guarantees our Constitution gives us: equal rights to faith or lack thereof; culture; language; association; personal liberty and freedom of expression. These rights, even as they accrue to each of us individually, can only exist if they accrue to all Indian citizens — without partiality or discrimination.
To defend these rights, we must reject those who lynch or assault people, those who discriminate against people because of religion, caste, gender, language or region. Again, we must reject those who encourage such practices. We cannot endorse a politics that divides us, creates fears, and marginalises a large fraction of our society — women, dalits, adivasis, religious minorities, the persons with disabilities or the poor. Diversity is our democracy’s greatest strength; discrimination and non-inclusivity strike at its very foundation.
An atmosphere in which scientists, activists and rationalists are hounded, harassed, intimidated, censored, jailed, or worse, murdered, is not the future our country deserves. It is not the future we want to give our youth. We want them to awaken to a country that sees science as a means of democratic empowerment through sceptical, open-minded questioning, rather than just a commercial enterprise. We must put an end to the denigration of rational, evidence-based public discourse; only then can we create better resources and opportunities for jobs, education and research.
We appeal to all citizens to vote wisely, weighing arguments and evidence critically. We appeal to all citizens to remember our constitutional commitment to scientific temper. We appeal to you to vote against inequality, intimidation, discrimination, and unreason. These are inimical to the values of our Constitution, whose promise is best reflected in Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s famous words:
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”
| 1 | A. Mani | 53 | Geetha Venkataraman | 105 | Ramesh Awasthi |
| 2 | Aaloka Kanhere | 54 | Gyan Prakash | 106 | Ramkumar Sambasivan |
| 3 | Abha Dev Habib | 55 | Harita Raval | 107 | Ramya T. N. C. |
| 4 | Abhijit Majumder | 56 | Harjinder (Laltu) Singh | 108 | Riddhi Shah |
| 5 | Adish Dani | 57 | Imrana Qadeer | 109 | Rohini Karandikar |
| 6 | Ajit M. Srivastava | 58 | J. G. Krishnayya | 110 | Rohini Muthuswami |
| 7 | Akash Gautam | 59 | Jagat K Roy | 111 | Rupali Gangopadhyay |
| 8 | Amala Bhave | 60 | Jayashree Ramadas | 112 | Sabyasachi Chatterjee |
| 9 | Amit Apte | 61 | Jayashree Sen Gupta | 113 | Saman Habib |
| 10 | Amit Bhaya | 62 | Joby Joseph | 114 | Samriddhi Sankar Ray |
| 11 | Amit Misra | 63 | Jyotishman Bhowmick | 115 | Samudrala Gourinath |
| 12 | Amitabh Joshi | 64 | Jyotsna Dhawan | 116 | Saroj Ghaskadbi |
| 13 | Amitabha Bandyopadhyay | 65 | Kapil Paranjape | 117 | Satyajit Mayor |
| 14 | Amites Dasgupta | 66 | Karthikeyan Vasudevan | 118 | Satyajit Rath |
| 15 | Aniket Sule | 67 | Kartik Shanker | 119 | Shailaja Sopory |
| 16 | Anindita Bhadra | 68 | Kumarjit Saha | 120 | Shanta Laishram |
| 17 | Anirban Mukherjee | 69 | L. S. Shashidhara | 121 | Shivprasad Patil |
| 18 | Ankan Paul | 70 | Madan Rao | 122 | Shobha Madan |
| 19 | Anna George | 71 | Madhavi Reddy | 123 | Shraddha Kumbhojkar |
| 20 | Anup Padmanabhan | 72 | Madhulika Srivastava | 124 | Shubhi Parolia |
| 21 | Argha Banerjee | 73 | Manisha Gupte | 125 | Sitabhra Sinha |
| 22 | Arjun Guha | 74 | Mayank Vahia | 126 | Smita Krishnan |
| 23 | Arnab Bhattacharya | 75 | Mayurika Lahiri | 127 | Sorab Dalal |
| 24 | Asha Gopinathan | 76 | Medha S. Rajadhyaksha | 128 | Spenta Wadia |
| 25 | Atindra N. Pal | 77 | Mercy J Raman | 129 | Srikanth Sastry |
| 26 | Aurnab Ghose | 78 | Mihir Arjunwadkar | 130 | Sriram Ramaswamy |
| 27 | Avinash Dhar | 79 | Mohan Rao | 131 | Subhadip Ghosh |
| 28 | Ayalvadi Ganesh | 80 | Mrinal K Ghosh | 132 | Subhadip Mitra |
| 29 | Ayan Banerjee | 81 | Mugdha Karnik | 133 | Subhash C. Lakhotia |
| 30 | Bidisa Das | 82 | Mundur V. N. Murthy | 134 | Suchitra Gopinath |
| 31 | Chayanika Shah | 83 | Nandita Narain | 135 | Sudeshna Sinha |
| 32 | Chetana Sachidanandan | 84 | Naresh Dadhich | 136 | Sudipto Muhuri |
| 33 | Chinmayee Mishra | 85 | Nisha Biswas | 137 | Sugata Ray |
| 34 | Chinmoy Chatterjee | 86 | Niti Kumar | 138 | Sugra Chunawala |
| 35 | Debabrata Ghosh | 87 | Nixon Abraham | 139 | Sumeet Agarwal |
| 36 | Debashis Ghoshal | 88 | Pallavi Vibhuti | 140 | Sumilan Banerjee |
| 37 | Debashis Mukherjee | 89 | Partho Sarothi Ray | 141 | Surendra Ghaskadbi |
| 38 | Debashish Goswami | 90 | Prabhakar Rajagopal | 142 | Swapan Chakrabarti |
| 39 | Deepak Barua | 91 | Prabir Purkayastha | 143 | Tapan Ghosh |
| 40 | Deepika Choubey | 92 | Pradip Dasgupta | 144 | Tapan Saha |
| 41 | Devaki Kelkar | 93 | Pradipta Bandyopadhyay | 145 | Tejal Kanitkar |
| 42 | Dibyendu Nandi | 94 | Prajval Shastri | 146 | Tushar Vaidya |
| 43 | Dinesh Abrol | 95 | Prakash Burte | 147 | V. S. Sunder |
| 44 | Dinu Chandran | 96 | Pranay Goel | 148 | Vidita Vaidya |
| 45 | Dipshikha Chakravortty | 97 | Prasad Subramanian | 149 | Vijay Chandru |
| 46 | Dipti Jadhav | 98 | R. Ramanujam | 150 | Vineeta Bal |
| 47 | Divya Oberoi | 99 | Raghav Rajan | 151 | Vivek Borkar |
| 48 | Gagandeep Kang | 100 | Raghunath Chelakkot | 152 | Vivek Monteiro |
| 49 | Gaiti Hasan | 101 | Rahul Roy | ||
| 50 | Gauhar Raza | 102 | Rahul Siddharthan | ||
| 51 | Gautam Menon | 103 | Rajiva Raman | ||
| 52 | Geeta Mahashabde | 104 | Rama Govindarajan | ||
People’s Manifesto on Literacy and Education of AIPSN and BGVS
People’s Manifesto on Literacy and Education
Please see here in English , Hindi , Odiya , Tamil , Telegu
of All India People’s Science Network and Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti.
AIPSN and BGVS have been doing an all India campaign by conducting Jan Shiksha Samvad (People’s Education Dialogue) at village, Panchayat, Block and District level in 23 States of India.
The State Level Samvad will be 10 th 14th April in State Capital of 23 States.
Individuals and organisations are requested to endorse the Manifesto.
President and Secretary President and Secretary
BGVS AIPSN
Peoples Health manifesto-2019 by Jan Swasthiya Abhiyan (People’s Health Movement India)
Peoples Health manifesto-2019 by JSA
As the General Elections-2019 are fast approaching, Jan Swasthya Abhiyan activists are pushing the political structures to address the issues plaguing people’s health by releasing a ‘People’s Health Manifesto-2019’
The manifesto demands increasing the public expenditure on health to 3.5 per cent of the GDP in the short-term and absorbing the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme—based on the discredited ‘insurance model’—under a strengthened, well-funded public health system and a right to health act which includes a patients charter.
Click here to read and download the People’s Health Manifesto-2019 in English
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