When Leaders Turn Inhuman and Insensitive
As a popular saying goes it takes hundred years to build, but just a minute to destroy. When the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre started destroying one by one the institutions built over the past 70 years by the Congress, people assumed that the prime minister was going to build something new and different. Thus, despite the pathetic performance of the Modi-Government on the economic front during the first five years, the people gave the prime minister a second chance by re-electing his party to power. The second term so far has seen more destructions. No one knows what he is up to build. As the pro-Modi media kept projecting the prospects of India emerging a vishwaguru (master of the entire world), the people believed it. Now the reality has hit them hard. The Coronavirus has removed the mask from the government’s face. As the virus has been playing havoc with the lives of the people, the Government has virtually washed off its hands and seems to be suggesting that the people are responsible for their lives.
What is even more shocking is the utter insensitivity with which the political leadership is reacting to the woes of people. It is not the helplessness of the government which people will have to come to terms with but the utter disregard with which some leaders have treated the people’s ordeal. When the leadership of a country is heartless, catastrophes like the Coronavirus pandemic will not be accidental. A young man in Uttar Pradesh has been booked under the National Security Act just because he sought on Twitter oxygen for his ailing grandfather. The Government considered the tweet a false rumor about the shortage of oxygen in the state.
The Government’s view was that this youngster had put the reputation of the government at stake even when his grandfather was not a Coivid-19 patient. While this ailing man had no Covid, he did need oxygen and he eventually died. But the standing order of the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh is that the State faced no oxygen shortage and anyone saying anything which suggested otherwise should be booked under Goonda Act. The people in Uttar Pradesh are scared even to ask for oxygen to treat patients and those who raise voices against the shortcomings in the public health system of the state face the prospect of landing in jail.
Karnataka is not far behind. Recently, a former MP of the BJP publicly announced that the poor should not be given free rice under the Corona relief package as it would make them lazy. What the senior politician forgot is that the people are not dying just because of Covid but also because they go hungry with no possibility of earning an income during the lock down. People are seen eating the food spilled on the street. It is cruel to say that free food should not be distributed when the poor are in such a dire strait. This politician did not stop with his tirade against relief package for the poor. He went on to recommend that putting a few drops of lemon juice in the nose would produce enough oxygen to save those in need of oxygen support. If the humble lemon juice could have addressed the oxygen shortage in such a simple manner, why the hospitals in the country are not resorting to this solution? This suggestion is as ridiculous as the one heard previously that the cows exhale oxygen. In fact, a teacher in Raichur tried the lemon juice treatment on himself and lost his life but the police have not booked any case against the leader who misled the people and showed utter insensitivity towards the plight of those who are desperately queueing up in front of the hospitals for oxygen.
A minister in Karnataka created another record in insensitive behaviour. Food and Civil Supplied Minister Umesh Katti asked a poor man to ‘go and die’ when the latter sought the minister’s intervention to ensure the supply of food grains through ration shops. The minister said this in response to the poor man’s helpless question: ‘do you expect to us to die without food?’ The minister had no remorse for his indifferent utterance, and he later even defended it. The minister must know that the lockdown has proved even more problematic for the poor than the coronavirus. It has snatched the sources of livelihood from around 60 per cent of the daily wagers.
As the minister for food, he should have given some reassurance to the man seeking his help, but the minister’s response smacks sheer arrogance of power and utter disdain towards the disempowered. In the same vein, Revenue Minister R Ashok had assured that that the Government would make all arrangements for the cremation of the dead as if he were suggesting that the Government had no role in protecting the people’s lives and it would instead help them dispose of their bodies when they are dead. People do not need more crematoriums. They need hospitals, oxygen, and other means of saving their lives. But a leadership devoid of any humanitarian streak will only be able to show the people the way to the crematoriums. These leaders seem to need some oxygen of compassion for them to arrange the much-needed oxygen for helpless Covid patients.
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Fact Check: Beware of fake Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan website’s claim to offer job opportunities
Claim: sarvashikshaabhiyan.com website is related to the Government of India and offers job opportunities.
Fact: The website is not an authentic one, it is duping the job aspirants of their money.
Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan is a school education scheme in India that aims to improve the quality of education and ensure universal access to school. The scheme not only provides support for the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 but has also been aligned with the recommendations of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
It encompasses a comprehensive approach to school education, including initiatives like universal access to schooling, foundational literacy and numeracy, gender equity, inclusive education, quality improvement, teacher training, vocational education, sports and physical education, digital initiatives, and support for children with special needs, effectively combining the previously separate schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), and Teacher Education (TE) under one umbrella; essentially covering the entire spectrum of schooling from pre-primary to class 12. The Central Government recruits teachers and other staff under this Scheme for various posts across the country.
A website named sarvashikshaabhiyan is in circulation with several job recruitment links posted here. The website claims to offer employment opportunities to aspiring candidates. Job opportunities for primary school teachers, lab technicians, chaprasis, etc. can be seen on the website.
Here is the screenshot of the website home page.
Here is the archive link to the website pages.
Fact Check:
The website makes a False claim. It is not a genuine website and is not related to the Government of India’s Samagra Shiksha Abhiyaan scheme. The home page of the website does not show the Government of India’s logo and is very static in nature.
When we clicked on one of the recruitment ads posted on this website, we could see that it mentions that total job vacancies are 98,305, which is a very large number. The qualification needed for teachers is 10th, 12th or above.
When clicked on apply now, the website gathers all the details of the applicant including the phone number and email id, etc. At the end of the process, we can see a QR code for the payment of the application fee which is Rs 950.
Even though the UPI ID shown on this screenshot is sarvashiksha123@abcdicici, the user name on the bank states ‘Deepak Kumar’, not the name of any government department or scheme.
We also found that PIB fact check in its post, declared that this website is fake and is not associated with Government of India.
Beware!⚠️#Fake website 'https://t.co/A8nJO6T8Si' is posing as the official website of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan & offering fake job opportunities#PIBFactCheck
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) December 19, 2024
▶️This website is not associated with GOI
▶️Official website: https://t.co/pCjN1ZGIMW
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PIB also published a clarification on its website stating – It has come to the notice of the Ministry of Education that in order to dupe innocent applicants several websites have been created with the name similar to the schemes. (like www.sarvashiksha.online,
These websites offer employment opportunities to aspiring candidates and misguide the job aspirants through the layout of the website, content, and presentation in a manner similar to the original website and ask for money from the respondents for the applications. While these websites have come to the notice of the Department of School Education and Literacy, there may be more such other websites/social media accounts promising jobs and demanding money for the recruitment process.
The general public is, hereby, advised to avoid applying for job opportunities on such websites and to ensure that the websites are authorized by visiting the official website of the concerned Department/personal inquiry/telephone call/e-mail to safeguard their own interest. Any person applying on these websites will be doing so at his own risk & cost and shall be responsible for the consequences thereof.’ This clarification was published in March 2022. But the website has resurfaced again and is duping the aspiring candidates in the name of recruitment opportunities.
Hence, the website https://www.
(This story was originally published by telugupost, and republished by english.varthabharati.in as part of the Shakti Collective)
