Heard this good one on the bandh?

Heard this good one on the bandh?
Karunanidhi's explanation is food for a lot of thought

AFTER

being roundly criticised for foisting on

Tamil Nadu and Puducherry

a situation best described as a bandh,

Chief Minister M Karunanidhi

has put out an explanation as to how that situation came to be.

While we wonder what the Chief Minister

gained from making the state undergo the rigours

of a shuttered down situation,

what he now offers for our consideration is that the

Chief Secretary received the copy of the Supreme Court order

only around 10.30 pm on September 30; and there was

"just a few hours between

the time the order copy was received and the 'bandh' to begin".

It is unclear

if there is a hint of a suggestion that if the orders

had come earlier, things would have turned out otherwise.

But

since he has given us this background,

we would have liked to find out

what time the government counsel in New Delhi got a copy of the order.

Further

how much time would it have taken for the Government counsel

to have transmitted the relevant portions of the order?

There are such things as telephones and faxes these days.

That the court had ruled out a bandh was news

far earlier than the time the

Chief Secretary apparently seems to have got the order.

In fact,

we would like to point out that the

Kalaignar Television began to run news crawler that the

DPA leadership was going to go on a fast,

clearly as a measure to trim their sails to the Supreme Court wind,

as early as around one thirty in the afternoon.

By a quarter to three the DMK office

had begun to fax various newspaper offices the news of the fast.

Shortly

thereafter it was common knowledge that it could be taken

for granted that buses would remain off the roads.

It is therefore strange that the Chief Minister

should bring up the time the Chief Secretary obtained

the orders as being germane to the argument he tries to make.

The Chief Minister further says that the various ministers

of the ruling combine, including himself,

attended to work at their offices and that

"all"

government offices throughout the state functioned;

some schools and colleges functioned;

all trains ran that day and there was no disruption of flights.

We will examine each point on merit but the icing

on the cake of his arguments is that

so far as the bus transport was concerned,

" a significant number of buses

were plied and the situation improved as time went by."

The Chief Minister further maintains that

"public and the workers did not have enough time

to know that the Supreme Court had heard

the case on Sunday and had granted a stay against the bandh.

Hence,

if only those who raise questions had given some time to ponder over this,

there would not have been any scope for condemnation (against me)."

It is obviously a moot point as to how quickly

the development in the Supreme Court could

have been disseminated,

especially robust steps that could have been taken to roll back the bandh,

considering the various enviable media

options that the Chief Minister no doubt

and self-evidently has at his disposal,

including Kalaignar Television and Murasoli,

not to mention options in the English language press.

But here, briefly, are the salient highlights of that day,

as we saw it and reported it:

Public mobility was crippled because most of the

government Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses

stayed off the roads for most part of the day.

Trains ran,

certainly, but not many could make it in public transport.

Those who used three wheelers paid more

than the fair price for it; 26 domestic flights were

cancelled from Chennai alone.

Could this be considered a disruption?

Oh yes, government offices did function.

And how!

When our reporters visited the government offices

to take a litmus test of reality,

including at all ten floors of Namakkal Kavignar Maaligai,

only 15 per cent of the staff were present.

The Tamil Nadu Government Officials' Union

President G Suriyamurthi is on record in one of our reports

claiming most government employees

were unable to get to work because of suspension of public transport.

Given this development,

how does the government propose to view the

mass absence:

as unauthorised leave, casual leave?

If this is the way government offices nowadays

"function"

in Tamil Nadu as the Chief Minister so delightfully asserts,

it would certainly explain a lot of things.

So far as the part

where the Chief Minister claims some schools and colleges functioned,

we would like to bring to your attention

a remark made by his Education Minister,

which we reported that day,

when he was asked to give a status report

on the functioning of schools on October 1.

Thangam Thennarasu declared:

"I went to take part in the fast and hence

I do not have any details on the functioning of schools."

Without putting too fine a point to it,

it is pertinent to note that in government hospitals

outpatient inflow fell by about fifty per cent on October 1.

Could this have caused any misery and suffering?

Imagine,

too, amount of business that was lost that day.

We continue to wonder how is it our version

of reality is consistently at variance with the Chief Minister's?

Nuclear Power For France & Japan Bombs For India

Nuclear Power For France & Japan Bombs For India -- Ravinder Singh [The first Magnox power station, Calder Hall, was the world's first commercial nuclear power station. First connection to the grid was on 27 August 1956, and the plant was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 October 1956. When the station closed on 31 March 2003, the first reactor had been in use for nearly 47 years. --- In all, 11 power stations totalling 26 units were built in the UK where the design originated.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/reactors.htm

Following actually means France produces enough electricity to serve its electricity needs; 540 € ¦’¶ 100 = 440 TWh. Last year France produced 25 times more nuclear electricity than India.

USA produces 7.5 Billion Units per reactor compared to less than 1 BU per reactor and 50 times more electricity than India. Reactors designed by AREVA & Mitsubishi of 1500 MWe will produce 12 BU of electricity annually. So cost shall be much less in future. Even Bulgaria produces 9 BU per reactor has two reactor but produces more electricity than India from 17 reactors.

[In 2004, 425.8 TWh out of the country's total production of 540.6 TWh was from nuclear. France is the world's largest net exporter of energy, exporting 18% of total production (about 100 TWh) to Italy, Britain, and Germany, and its electricity cost is among the lowest in Europe.]

[Areva NC claims that, due to their reliance on nuclear power, France's carbon emmissions per kWh are less than 1/10 that of Germany and the UK, and 1/13 that of Denmark which has no nuclear plants. Its emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide have been reduced by 70% over 20 years, even though the total power output has tripled in that time.]

Going in to the details, I believe Japan opted for Magnox design for it can be used for making both Plutonium and generate power but India opted for CANDU design which uses natural uranium were very costly than enriched uranium based PWR.

Japan got both plutonium and power in abundance- based on imported reactors and uranium. India was interested in cheap thrills of exploding bombs.

India was at par with Japan and France in Nuclear Power development in 1970 and in fact I found Japan bought GEC UK reactors of Magnox design that emitted high amount of radiation and didn€ ¦’²t have containment, two of the Magnox reactors are still in operation in spite of high radiation, That is precisely the reason of UK to go against Nuclear Power but since oil prices have again crossed $83 per barrel mark, UK too is reviewing Nuclear Program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dkai_Nuclear_Power_Plant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU
http://www.iea.org/textbase/stats/pdf_graphs/FRELEC.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_States

At a seminar yesterday Lord Swaraj Paul told the delegates only 7% of Indians go for graduation compared to 52% in UK.

As per another study here only 2% Indians have science & technical. And very fewer really understand technology. You have to ask yourself only one question; whether a country who has tones of nuclear fuel in its reactors and operate and manage large Nuclear Power plants can develop N-bomb when required?

It was always preferred to have Nuclear power capability of 50,000 MW than telling the world we have 50 nuclear bombs.

[The first nuclear reactor in Japan was built by GEC (British Company). In the 1970s the first Light Water Nuclear Plants were built in cooperation with American companies. These plants were bought from US Vendors such as General Electric or Westinghouse with contractual work done by Japanese companies, who would later get a license themselves to build similar plant designs. Developments in nuclear power since that time has seen contributions from Japanese companies and research institutes on the same level as the other big users of nuclear power.]

Japan from the very beiginning developing Nuclear Technology and is collaborating to build third generation reactors.

Ravinder Singh October03, 2007 Progressindia2008@yahoo.com
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But we also must remember that we have neighbors like China & Pakistan, one with a huge military power including atomic bombs and another a country which breeds global terrorism. Whether we like it or not, or accept it or not, that is a reality.

If, we did not have the nuclear bombs, we would have been under tremendous pressure from both these countries...

We need both bombs and power... Power without security of our lives will not be acceptable to most of us,

Nuclear Power A Political Tool Or Cheap Energy Source

Nuclear Power A Political Tool Or Cheap Energy Source € ¦© - Ravinder Singh, Inventor
I asked Lord Swaraj Paul € ¦’³Sir you have missed an important issue of Nuclear Power€ ¦’´ at a reception in his honor in Delhi€ ¦’¶ India need big Nuclear Program.

I was disappointed to hear from him that Nuclear reactors are not suitable for India for India has terrorism problem, terrorists could blast nuclear reactors and for their high cost. Modern reactors have thick containment shield are in fact absolutely secure. UK though a pioneer ranks ninth in Nuclear Generation, 22Nd in per reactor generation and 24Th rank in terms of capacity utilization factor.

But Nuclear Power is cheapest and countries not just France or Germany or USA but also UK, Switzerland, South Korea, Sweden, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary, Canada, Lithuania, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine and more already produce Nuclear Power in significant amount.

In fact 30 countries are already operating Nuclear Power reactors and more than 130 member countries of IAEA are developing nuclear program in various stages.

With the rising oil prices likely to hit $100/ barrel within months will give Nuclear Power a big thrust. At one seminar I advocated scaling up of Nuclear Program to 60,000 MW by 2030.

Bhakra Dam foothills are ideally suited for 10,000 MW capacity and can supply 35,000 cusecs of cold cooling water for 50 to 100 years. Bhakra Dam region also has over 30,000 MW hydropower already developed or under development to support peaking demand therefore Nuclear Plants can operate as base load units at full load.

North India is particularly suited for its distance from coalmines and seacoast therefore involve high cost in importing coal. At least 30,000 MW of Nuclear Power may come up in North India.

Carbon Dioxide and NO2 emissions by coal fired units in North India cause much greater harm in land locked North India than most seacoast states in Western, Southern and Eastern Regions.

India€ ¦’²s Nuclear Power Program was hampered by political interventions and even sabotage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors#Japan

Before Pokhran in 1974 India already had three reactors of 2X160 MWe and one 100 MWe operational. At time Japan had 439 MWe unit size reactors operational. But after a month of Pokhran Japan commissioned its first 760 MWe reactor by TEPCO in July1974 and KEPCO installed 780 MWe reactor in November1974. Next big leap in unit size was 1056 MWe commissioned by JAPC at Tokai in November 1978. It was soon followed by 1120 MWe in March,1979 of KEPCO.

There was big set back to Indian program, next 200 MWe reactor after Pokhran was commissioned in April, 1981. By then Japan had graduated to 1120 MWe but these units produced around 6.1 GWh/GWe than Indian reactors of 4 GWh/GWe therefore Japanese reactors of 1120 MWe eproduced 9 times more power than 200MWe Indian reactors.

When India was looking for spare parts to commission RAPS 2 of 200 MWe rating, Japan was feverishly building nuclear plants of large size. India introduced its first 210 MW coal based project Japan had already 1056 MWe / 1120 MWe reactors that produced almost 10 times more electricity per unit compared to India thermal units. One such unit produces twice more power than five units at Badarpur Thermal Power Station in Delhi that emits 7.2 million tones of CO2 every year.

Since commission a 760 MWe TEPCO reactor installed in 1974 produced more electricity than all India Nuclear Power Program.

JAPAN REACTORS BUILT BETWEEN MAY1974 & APRIL 1981
Name
Type
Rating,
MWe
Operational
Status
Operator
Fukushima I-2
BWR
760
July, 1974
TEPCO
Takahama-1
PWR
780
Nov. 1974
KEPCO
Genkai-1
PWR
529
Oct. 1975
Kyushu E.
Takahama-2
PWR
780
Nov.1975
KEPCO
Hamaoka-1
BWR
515
March, 1976
Chubu E.
Fukushima I-3
BWR
760
March, 1976
TEPCO
Mihama-3
PWR
780
Dec. 1976
KEPCO
Ikata 1
PWR
538
Sept. 1977
YODEN
Fukushima I-4
BWR
760
Oct. 1978
TEPCO
Fukushima I-5
BWR
760
April, 1978
TEPCO
Hamaoka-2
BWR
806
Nov. 1978
Chubu E.
Tokai-2
BWR
1056
Nov. 1978
JAPC
€ ¦Ôi-1
PWR
1120
March 1979
KEPCO
Fukushima I-6
BWR
1067
Oct. 1979
TEPCO
€ ¦Ôi-2
PWR
1120
Dec. 1979
KEPCO
Genkai-2
PWR
529
March, 1981
Kyushu E.
INDIA
PHWR
200
April, 1981
RAPS 2

A reactor of 1120 MWe producing Nine Times more electricity per reactor than India was already operational in Japan in March1979. India graduated to 540 MWe only on September12, 2005.

India ranks at the bottom in terms of---


Per capita Consumption of Nuclear Power. World Average 400 units to India€ ¦’²s 14.
Generation per reactor is only 0.9 BU in India against world average of 6 BU per reactor and Pakistan 1.3 BU.
In terms of capacity utilization India is lowest at 4GWh/Gwe. Pakistan at 6.5 GWh/GWe is ahead of India.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf93.html

Romania appeared to be at the bottom but going to its site I found one of its two reactor of 650 MWe was commission in September2007 and didn€ ¦’²t generate power in 2006. That puts Romania reactors to be among high performers. In 2008 Romanian two reactors will produce 10 BU of electricity contributing 18% of its power at capacity use of 8 GWh/GWe.

Ravinder Singh October03, 2007
Progressindia2008@yahoo.com

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/reactors.htm


Countries
Nuclear Generation GWh / % of Country
GWh per
Reactor/ GWh/GWe
No. Of Reactors
Installed Capacity In MWe
1. USA 787.2; 19%
7.5 / 7.8
104
99,049
2.
France
428.7; 78%
7.25 / 6.7
59
63,473
3.
Japan
291.5; 30%
5.3 / 6.1
55
47,577
4.
Germany
158.7; 32%
9.3 / 7.7
17
20,339
5.
Russia
144.3; 16%
4.65 / 6.6
31
21,743
6.
South Korea
141.2; 39%
7.0 / 8.0
20
17,533
7.
Canada
92.4; 16%
5.1 / 7.3
18
12,595
8.
Ukraine
84.8; 48%
5.65 / 6.2
15
13,168
9.
U. K.
69.2; 18%
3.64 / 6.3
19
11,035
10.
Sweden
65.1; 48%
6.5 / 7.2
10
9,086
11.
Spain
57.4; 20%
7.2 / 7.7
8
7,442
12.
China
51.8; 1.9%
4.71 / 6.0
11
8,587
13.
Belgium
44.3; 54%
6.33 / 7.7
7
5,728
14.
Switzerland
26.4; 37%
5.28 / 8.2
5
3,220
15.
Czech R.
24.5; 31%
4.1 / 7.0
6
3,472
16.
Finland
22.0; 28%
5.5 / 8.1
4
2,696
17.
Bulgaria
18.1; 44%
9.05 / 9.5
2
1,906
18.
Slovakia
16.6; 57%
3.32 / 8.3
5
2,064
19.
India
15.6; 2.6%
0.91 / 4.1
17
3,779
20.
Brazil
13.0; 3.3%
6.5 / 6.8
2
1,901
21.
Hungary
12.5; 38%
3.125 / 6.9
4
1,826
22.
Mexico
10.4; 4.9%
5.2 / 7.9
2
1,310
23.
South Africa
10.1; 4.4%
5.05/ 5.5
2
1,842
24.
Lithuania
8.0; 69%
8.0 / 6.75
1
1,185
25.
Argentina
7.2; 6.9%
3.6 / 7.7
2
935
26.
Slovenia
5.3; 40%
5.3 / 7.6
1
696
27.
Romania
5.2; 9.0%
2.6 / 4.0
2
1,310
28.
Netherlands
3.3; 3.5%
3.3 / 6.8
1
485
29.
Pakistan
2.6; 2.7%
1.3 / 6.5
2
400
30.
Armenia
2.4; 42%
2.4 / 6.4
1
376

WORLD
2658
6.05
439
372,002

Reservations and Muslims

The Supreme Court has yet again stayed the law passed by the Andhra Pradesh Government granting 4% reservations for sections of Muslims. One of the programmes on which the Congress fought elections was that it would bring in legislation to provide for reservations for Muslims. Voters from all the communities elected the Congress Party and Telengana Rajya Samiti to power fully aware of the promise of reservations for Muslims in its election manifesto. After getting elected, the Y. S. Rajshekhar Reddy Govt. brought in legislation to provide for 5% reservation for Muslims. The legislation was challenged in the Andhra Pradesh High Court and High Court struck down the legislation as unconstitutional and violating the fundamental right of equality. Article 15 and 16 of the Constitution of India provides that the state shall not discriminate on grounds only of caste, religion, gender and language or any one of them. However, affirmative action by state providing for reservations for socially and educationally backward classes and special provisions for women and children would not be deemed to be violation of general rule of non-discrimination. The AP legislation provided for reservations for Muslims on the ground that the Muslim community was socially and educationally backward community and therefore covered by the deeming provision in Article 15 and 16 of the Constitution. The A.P. High Court in its judgment opined that the affirmative action of reservation was for socially and educationally backward classes and not for a religious community, and, moreover, there was no data on which the AP Govt. could have come to the conclusion that entire Muslim community was socially and educationally backward. The overall percentage of reservation, according to Supreme Court cannot exceed 50%. However, after providing for 5% reservations to Muslims, the overall percentage of reservation exceeded 50% and this was one more count on which the earlier order of reservation for Muslims.
The Andhra Pradesh Govt. then asked AP Commission for Backward Classes to examine the social, educational and economic status of the Muslim community. Based on the Commission's findings, the AP Govt. decided to create group E called "Socially and Educationally Backward Classes of Muslims" in the list of Backward Classes. 15 specific classes of Muslims which were included in the list are Achchukattalavandlu, Attar Saibulu, Dhobi, Fakir, Garadi, Gosangi, Guddi, Eluguvallu, Hajjam, Labbi, Pakeerla, Borewale, Qureshi, Shaik, Siddi, Chakketakera and other Muslim groups. Those excluded from the list of backward class Muslims were - Syed, Musahik, Mughal, Pathan, Irani, Arab, Bohra, Shia Imami Ismaili Khoja, Cutchi-Memon, Jamayat and Navayat. The 15 th Group on the list of backward classes was "Other Muslim groups other than those excluded." The Supreme Court has stayed the operation of provision for reservation for Muslims as it implied that many other sub-sects would be benefited from the Law. The AP Govt. has provided for reservations not only for the socially and educationally backward sections of the Muslim community, but also for the rest of the community not excluded from the list. The Supreme Court opined that the rest of community would also include sections which were not socially and educationally backward and therefore violate Article 15 and 16 of the Constitution and amount to discrimination on the grounds only of religion.
United Muslim Action Committee had opposed reservation for Muslims on the basis of categorization of only some of them as backward on the basis of their castes. They maintained that there was no caste system in Islam and therefore, the reservations should be for the entire Muslim Community in Andhra Pradesh or not at all.

Our Constitution is secular and reservation for the entire Muslim Community would amount to discrimination only on the basis of religion, which is in violation of Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Constitution. Disregarding the legal hurdles in providing for reservations for all Muslims, in my opinion, it is not even desirable and will benefit the wrong persons, who do not need reservations for their upliftment and encouragement. The Bohras, Memons, Khojas are largely trading communities having a large section of educated middle class amidst them. The three communities from Gujarat benefited from development of trade in Western India during British Colonial period with development of Bombay as a port city. The younger generation in these communities avail of higher education even without the benefit of reservation or any other affirmative action from the state. After education, though some of them pursue professional careers as doctors, engineers, lawyers, chartered accountants etc., a few of them prefer to continue their family business. Along with mosques and seminaries, these communities have also been able to contribute and give the country educational institutions, hospitals and other public institutions. The elite of the community are able to extend a helping hand to their poor brothers and sisters in the community. If 17% of Muslims are matriculates (as compared to 26% of matriculates in all communities), the non-backward class Muslim communities, or Ashrafs, as they are referred to generally, including the Bohras, Khojas and Memons contribute a significant number to the overall percentage of Muslim matriculates. Though the Ashrafs are not more than 10-15% of the community, they contribute in a significant way to the 17% matriculates. Similarly, the Ashrafs contribute significantly to the 3.6% Muslim graduates and 0.4% Muslims with technical education, as against 7% and 0.5% for all communites respectively. If benefits of affirmation action was to be extended to all, the Ashrafs would be in a much better position and corner most of the benefits of reservation due their urban base and advantage of English educational background in convent schools and other better educational institutions. The disadvantaged will continue to remain so. Inclusion of specific communities within the Muslim community on the backward classes list also acknowledges the ground reality that Muslims are not one homogenous sociological unit. The caste based discrimination of the specific backward communities continue despite their conversions and that these communities continue their caste based profession and identities.

It is time to question reservation as the only form of affirmative action. The politician finds reservation most tempting for they don't have to mobilize additional resources from the budget. Pass a legislation fixing reservations for a specified community and gather their votes. A small section of Muslims backward class artisans have come up hard way and have been able to marginally benefit from growth in exports in particular and economy in general. A small section of saree weavers in Varanasi, brassware artisan in Moradabad, workers in lock industry in Aligarh, scissors industry in Meerut have managed to be upwardly mobile. The backward classes within the Muslim community will benefit more if the government formulates schemes for protection of informal labour, provides support for upgradation of the skills they already possess and financial support through co-operatives of artisans to ensure full participation of these sections in the economic growth. But that would require re-allocation of resources from the industries to poor and from supporting the sugar barons and their co-operatives to the poorer artisans. It will require a statesman and a visionary rather than pigmies using same old formulas.

Doctors changing lives in naxal belts of Chattisgarh

New Delhi: Malaria, tuberculosis, Cholera HIV AIDS name the disease you have it here.

Here in the heart of the other India here in the country's poorest state Chattisgarh. But there is one glimmer of hope. Seven years ago eight doctors almost all of them from AIIMS giving up everything and come here not looking for money not for glamour but for a chance to serve the people who need to be served. The four couples are spreading sunshine here not far from the place where the Naxalite challenge the rule of the law.

And though it's just the dawn of a new day and the shadows still linger on these faces in the queue, rural Bilaspur gratefully acknowledges the presence of these doctors who are slowly changing their lives.

It happened more than ten years ago. Some doctors in AIIMS, the best medical institution in the country, wanted to do something more with their lives. They wanted to step out from a big city, move to the countryside and serve the rural poor. Idealism was more important than getting rich. It took a long time to set the hospital up in Ganyari, twenty km from Bilaspur town and seven years later the results are showing.

“We worship this hospital as temple, it’s a temple for us,“ says a villager.

It's that belief that doctors need to go to the countryside which matters to Dr Yogesh Jain, the inspiration of the team, the bubbling Dr Anurag Bhargav, the Mister Energy of the group, Dr Raman Kataria, the quiet surgeon and Dr Biswaroop Chatterjee, the polite microbiologist.


They had an intellectual support system here in Delhi. Doctors, scientists and the rare bureaucrats who believed in their dreams and helped them pursue it. Some of these doctors went to big schools, DPS Mathura Road and Modern School Barakhamba. Three of them are National Scholars and all four just came together as though they were a music band.

Dr Biswaroop Chatterjee says, “Yogesh asked me if I would join him then I decided I should go with him.”

What acted, as an even greater catalyst was that all four married doctors, Dr Madhuri Chatterjee, Dr Madhvi Bharagav, Dr Rachna Jain and Dr Anju Kataria. Some of them even met in AIIMS.

“We were working in the same hospital in AIIMS. It is not very simple to do but all of us were together there were eight of us and that has made thing easier,” says Dr Anju Kataria.

Every couple takes home a total salary of Rs 25,000. They don't want more because then it causes too much disparity with others member of the staff. Is that enough family income in the 21st century where gadgets have taken over our lives?

Anurag says, “Most of the many of the things are actually not essential. I don't think that I miss driving around in a Mercedes.”

“I mean if it was more than this we just couldn't be able to run the organisation. I mean we are taking 12, which is a huge chunk, “ says Dr Biswaroop Chatterjee.

In Ganyari, you get the feeling that it's the women who are sometimes doing more than their husbands. They do surgeries, they man the OPDs, they run the thirteen-bed ward and they even attend clinics in the remote villages.

Dr Rachna Jain says, “There is more satisfaction of course but there are financial constraints and I won't say they are not there and sometimes one regrets too but its okay but one feels more satisfied at the end of the day and you are happy.”

“I think one needs more if you have more of it…if you increase your own needs, you never where you can get satisfaction, “ says Dr Madhori Chatterjee.

So they keep their food simple in the canteen where doctors, patients, friends, other members of the staff come together. And it's all about self-service.

Self-sufficiency personal hygiene are both basic requirements here so after an ordinary and nutritious lunch you need to wash your own plate.

And they have their children whom they don't want to deprive and they are sent to Jain International, the best school in the outskirts of Bilaspur.

There are the birthday parties like this one for Biswaroop's daughter where they come together and talk everything but work.

They have ordinary lives some do have support system like Dr Rachna Jain's mother, who is also a doctor. She has taken a up a job at the Bilaspur hospital and lives in the neighbourhood to stay close to her granddaughters. She is quite honest that her son-in-law could have probably made more money.

Rachna’s mother Dr Chatterjee says, “Well its not my decision its there decision and before marriage if I knew. I would have taken the decision otherwise now its there decision.”

Dr Biswaroop and Madhuri Chatterjee have other worries. Their son has a medical problem for which they need money. The treatment is seriously expensive. He has to taken up temporary jobs elsewhere to keep the money coming in.

“I mean I am not switching the jobs but yes I mean defiantly I need more money for my son I mean although all my friends have been very supportive but even then as a father i feel obliged that ok what ever I can earn myself its better be done that way, “ says Dr Biswaroop Chaterjee.

Eight people who are together living out a dream they had dreamt ages ago. What about ego conflicts, there are bound to be differences.

Rachna Jain says, “There are moments of ego conflicts, there are problems but the main goal is same and the motive of coming together, we bear that in mind and we work together we do have problems.”

And so every Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, Ganyari hums with activity. The queues are long. Jana Swasthya Sahyog has taken over health care in Bilaspur.

The primary health care centre is desolate, even the doctors and other staff are seldom present. Eight doctors have turned things upside down in this tribal and scheduled caste dominated very backward district.

The doctors are definitely not the firsts of their kind. Others like this equally popular bearded doctor traveled this path before. Dr Binayak Sen had given up everything after graduating from Christian Medical College, Vellore and had dedicated the early part of his medical career to the health of miners. He has been an inspiration for these doctors as well.

Fortunately Ganyari and Bilaspur, are slightly cut off from the spreading Naxalite map of the country. These doctors can avoid tough decisions, which Dr Sen didn't.

A remarkable change has been made possible in the past seven years. A big community of trained women have kept a close watch on the health of their neighbors.

Ambulances are bringing in emergency cases to the hospital where the doctors treat the patients with unimaginable dedication. But beneath this positive there is a question that these doctors have been asking - why is the social system so unjust and unequal?