BeyondHeadlines News Desk
Communal Violences always affect the innocent. Muzaffarnagar is no different. The school going kids have been badly affected. Students who are due to appear for their Board Examination in 2014 are unprepared and scared.
In this backdrop INSAAN International Foundation (IIF) and BeyondHeadlines (BH) have written letters to the Mr. Ram Govind Chaudhary, Basic Education Minister, UP, District Magistrates at Muzaffarnagar and Shamli to get an estimate of the number of students and what facilities including books and monetary support are urgently required.
A team comprising of volunteers and members of INSAAN and BH is heading to visit the camps to survey and understand the ground situation and prepare a report. In the meantime they have requested to charity organizations and common citizens to extend support to the students in form of books and materials, free coaching and financial support.
At a time when politics has taken precedence over well being of the victims, INSAAN is launching an RTI Campaign to get updates from state and union governments regrading the actions taken since the riots started in August-September 2013. Readers and concerned citizens are requested to send their queries and INSAAN will add those to its questions under RTI applications. The received information will be covered by BeyondHeadlines.
INSAAN Chairman Mr. Afroz Alam Sahil and its National Secretary Mr. Kamala Kanta Dash have appealed to everyone in India to come forward and support these children. Mr. Sahil said that the hopeless people in the camps cant be seen just as Muslims or Hindus, they are simply the victims and essentially poor. He said that students in the camps in last four months have not been to their schools and have neither studied anything. Strongly criticizing the politics that has happened since the riots that destroyed lives, property and livelihood, Sahil hopes that the civil society will rise up to the occasion in the absence and failure of both the state and central governments.
Mr. Sahil can be contacted on his mobile: 9891322178 and please send your queries and support to INSAAN and BH through this email beyondheadlinesnews@gmail.com
