[eebill] FW: Campaign [Social Jurist]

[Gita Dewan Verma]

>From: "Ashok" <socialjur at mantraonline.com>
>To: "Gita Diwan Verma TownPlanner" <purplepapaya36 at hotmail.com>, "Ghanshyam 
>JUDAV" <judav_jharkhand at yahoo.com>, "Gerry Pinto UNICEF" 
><gpinto at unicef.org>, "Geeta" <geeta at cemd.org>, "gaysu arvind" 
><cosmic at vsnl.com>
>Subject: Campaign
>Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:17:43 +0530
>
>Dear friend,
>
>         The letter dated 14.12.2004 is pasted hereunder. We need your 
>participation and support for this campaign. Kindly send your suggesions 
>and join us in this campaign.
>
>with regards,
>Ashok Agarwal
>
>
>
>TAKE SCHOOL TO CHILDREN CAMPAIGN
>
>(Social Jurist - M.V. Foundation Initiative­)
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>
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>                         478-479, Lawyers' Chambers,
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>Western Wing, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-110054.
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>Phone: 23910014
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>Fax:     23986541
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>                   E-mail: socialjur at mantraonline.com
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>        Website: http://www.socialjurist.com
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>                                 14.12.2004
>
>
>
>To,
>
>
>
>Dr. J.N. Banavaliker,
>
>Director (Hospitals),
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>Municipal Corporation of Delhi
>
>Town Hall, Chandni Chowk,
>
>Delhi-110006.
>
>
>
>Dear Sir,
>
>
>
>             In view of the pleasant discussion we had the other day, I 
>would like to inform you that - "Take School to Children Campaign" is a 
>Social Jurist - M.V. Foundation Initiative.  It aims at eliminating the 
>menace of 15 lacs child labour in Delhi by ensuring their entry into formal 
>school system and to strengthen the Government formal school system.  The 
>Campaign also aims at empowering the masses to demand for adequate 
>schooling facilities, quality education including residential schools, 
>wherever it is required, and to remind the Government to perform its duties 
>to provide the free and compulsory education as incorporated in Article 21A 
>of the Constitution of India, to children. Though the ultimate target of 
>the Campaign is to cover all the 70 MLA areas of Delhi but it has made it's 
>beginning from Bhalswa-Jahangirpuri MLA area (North -West Delhi)
>
>
>
>             In Bhalswa-Jahangirpuri MLA area, there are 38 MCD schools in 
>which 30,000 children are studying.  It has been noticed that health 
>conditions of these children are appalling as every child is suffering from 
>one or the other disease.  It is apprehended that majority of these 
>children are suffering from T.B.  It is needless to say that the poor state 
>of health of these children is one of the major factors of large-scale 
>dropouts.
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>             It is surprising that inspite of MCD having school health 
>scheme for the children, the expert/qualified doctors' team has ever 
>thoroughly medically examined hardly any child. It is needless to say that 
>right to health is a fundamental right of every citizen guaranteed under 
>Article 21 of the Constitution of India.  Apart from this, Section 25 (c) 
>of The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights 
>and Full Participation) Act, 1995 mandates the Government and the Local 
>Authorities to screen all the children at least once in a year for the 
>purpose of identifying "at-risk" cases with a view to preventing the 
>occurrence of disabilities.  Unfortunately, these constitutional and 
>mandatory statutory provisions have always remained dead letters and no 
>steps on the part of the Government and the Local Authorities have ever 
>been taken to implement the same.  Had these provisions been implemented, 
>the state of health of the children would not have been so bad as it is 
>today.
>
>
>
>I would like to propose that you may kindly take initiative to arrange 
>medical checkup of each and every child/student of all the 32 MCD schools 
>of Bhalswa-Jahangirpuri MLA area at the first instance and thereafter 
>systematically extend the same to the children/students of other MCD 
>schools of Delhi.  I also propose that MCD should have the computerized 
>health data of all the students on its website.  This will go a long way in 
>improving the state of health of the children of this city.
>
>
>
>I wish to have an appointment with you to deliberate further on this issue. 
>I assure you of all my possible cooperation to make it a great success.
>
>
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>Thanking you,
>
>
>
>                                            Yours faithfully,
>
>
>
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>                                                (ASHOK AGARWAL)
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>                                                          ADVOCATE
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>                                                           CONVENER
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>                                                               M- 
>9811101923
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