4457 - Stop enrolment shivir of illegitimate and illegal biometric UID/Aadhaar number for media persons in public interest

From: Gopal Krishna <krishnagreen@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 12:34:17 +0530

Subject: [Arkitect India] Stop enrolment shivir of illegitimate and

illegal biometric UID/Aadhaar number for media persons in public

interest [9 Attachments]

To:

Hon'ble Chairman,

Press Council of India (PCI),

Soochna Bhavan,

Lodhi Road,

New Delhi-110003

Hon'ble Members

PCI

New Delhi

Subject- Stop enrolment shivir of illegitimate and illegal biometric

UID/Aadhaar number for media persons in public interest

Sir,

This is to seek your urgent intervention to stop the proposed enrolment

shivir for biometric Unique Identification (UID)/Aadhaar number for media

persons, we wish to seek immediate intervention to stop enrolment of

UID/Aadhaar number in public interest. This initiative is unethical and

violates the code of ethics for journalists.

On behalf of Citizens Forum for Civil Liberties (CFCL), we wish to inform

you about our shock and disbelief at the plan of Delhi Journalists

Association (DJA) and Indraprastha Press Club of India with support from

the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to organise a shivir for media people

to enrol for biometric Unique Identification (UID)/Aadhaar number which is

illegitimate and illegal.

We submit that IMA's support for an exercise like biometric identification

is akin to German Medical Association's decision to support medical

atrocities committed during the 1930s and 1940s while under Nazi rule for

which they have apologized after 75 years. IMA may have to regret in the

same way. ( Reference: The Lancet, Volume 380, Issue 9852, Page 1472, 27

October 2012)

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2961842-X/fulltext

We submit that Dr Mohan Rao, Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and

Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has underlined that

"the claim that the Unique Identification project will facilitate the

delivery of basic health services is dishonest."

www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2824/stories/20111202282401900.htm

It is noteworthy that aadhaar/UID is a biometric identifier number of 12

digits and not a card. Such schemes have been abandoned by countries like

Australia, UK, France and China because it raised concerns about

indiscriminate surveillance.

We submit that history is testimony to misuse of such systems by despotic

forces. German rulers used IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine in the

census of the country in 1933 and since there was a provision for

identifying race and ethnicity, the Nazi rulers with the help of IBM could

conveniently count and identify the Jews whom they savagely butchered out

of racial hatred. One, therefore, cannot rule out the possibility of this

power being misused by persons in power to access private details such as

religious, racial, caste or even political profiling from Aadhaar data base

to serve undemocratic, illegal and unethical purposes for use in ways that

may pose a risk to the life or security of the person concerned. It is

noteworthy that when quizzed on how they would prevent Aadhaar data base

from falling in wrong hands or enabling unscrupulous politicians to misuse

for their benefit and against the interest of the Indian people, Nandan

Nilakeni who eulogizes Aadhaar number as “ubiquitous” and even advised

people to “tattoo it somewhere,” lest they should forget it, was caught

napping.”

We submit that it is admitted that Governments of France and South Korea

and transnational companies like Gemalto, IBM, L-1 Identity Solutions,

Microsoft and Pfizer are part of the World Bank’s eTransform Initiative

(ETI).

We submit that what is least talked about is that the E-identity and

UID/aadhaar related projects are part of World Bank's eTransform

Initiativeformally launched on April 23, 2010 and Interpol's

e-identity database project. This along with the then Union Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee's announcement in January 2011 for voluntarily seeking

fullfledged  Financial Sector Assessment Programme by IMF and the

WorldBank merits attention of the legislatures. In April, 2010 L-1

Identity Solutions Inc. (which has now been purchased by biometric technology

company Safran group), a French corporation signed a Memorandum of

Understanding (MoU) with the World Bank as part of the launch of the

initiative at a World Bank Spring Meeting event attended by many developing

country Ministers of Finance and Communications. It claimed that this

collaborative relationship with the World Bank is meant to improve the way

governments in developing countries deliver services to citizens as part of

the launch of the World Bank eTransform Initiative (ETI). The World Bank's

ETI seeks to leverage Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to

build a knowledge sharing network that helps governments of developing

nations to leverage the best practices of practitioners like L-1 and others

to improve the delivery of social and economic services. The knowledge

sharing network will focus on areas such as electronic Identification

(eID), e-Procurement, e-Health and e-Education; areas vital to promoting

the participation of citizens in democratic processes, such as voting, and

helping undocumented citizens get access to health and welfare programmes.

The World Bank is currently funding 14 projects related to e-government and

e-ID around the world. Are citizens supposed to believe that the World Bank

Group is working to ensure that India's national interest and its citizens'

rights are protected?

It must be noted that Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance has

rejected the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010 which was

meant to give legal status to Unique Identification Authority of India

(UIDAI) in its report to the Parliament dated December 13, 2011. The report

is available at 164.100.47.134/lsscommittee/Finance/42%20Report.pdf.

In November, 2012 a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice and Justice J

Chelameshwar issued notices to Ministry of Finance, Planning Commission and

the UIDAI on a PIL by a retired judge of Karnataka High Court K S

Puttaswamy who said the government was bypassing Parliament by going ahead

with  the distribution of UID numbers. The PIL has relied on the letter

sent to Prime Minister by Justice Rama Jois, former Supreme Court judge and

member of Rajya Sabha questioning the legality of UIDAI.

We submit that a coalition of people who have become beneficiaries in the

possible profits from biometric database have taken media persons for a

ride. It may be noted that publications like The Statesman, Tehelka, The

Hindu, Hard News, Samayantar, Teesari Duniya, Frontline, Rediff.com,

Samkalin Tapman, Chauthi Duniya, Public Agenda, Prabhat Khabar and Pratham Pravakata under Shri Ram Bahadur Rai have attempted to expose this

coalition.

We submit that there has been instances where 3.57 crore signatures against

Aadhaar/UID were submitted to the Prime Minister referring to the

implementation of UID/Aadhaar as ‘subversion of democracy’.

In a significant development following rigorous deliberations, an Indian

development support organization founded in 1960, Indo-Global Social

Service Society (IGSSS) has disassociated itself from UID Number project

which was being undertaken under Mission Convergence in Delhi.

Withdrawal of IGSSS that works in 21 states of the country across four core

areas India: Sustainable Livelihood, Youth Development, Disaster Risk

Reduction, and Urban Poverty merits the attention of all the states and

civil society organisations especially those who are unwittingly involved

in the UID Number enrolment process.

In its withdrawal letter IGSSS said, “we will not be able to continue to do

UID enrolment, as we discussed in the meeting of 10th May 2011.” It added,

it is taking step because `it’s hosted under the rubric of UNDP’s *“Innovation

Support for Social Protection:** **Institutionalizing Conditional Cash

Transfers**“** [Award ID: 00049804, Project: 00061073; Confer: Output 1,

Target 1.2 (a) & Output 3 (a), (b)]*. In fact we had no clue of this until

recently when we searched the web and got this information.’

It is clear that both Mission Convergence and UIDAI have been hiding these

crucial facts with ulterior motives. The letter reads, “IGSSS like many

other leading civil society groups and individuals are opposed to

conditional cash transfers and the UID will be used to dictate it.”

We wish to inform you as to why all Freedom Loving Indians should oppose

UID/ Aadhaar, National Population Register (NPR), National Intelligence

Grid (NATGRID) and National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC)?

They do so because:

It is a threat to privacy, civil liberties, federalism, national security,

sovereignty and constitution

It is without democratic, parliamentary, legal and constitutional sanction

It facilitates emergence of a Database, Surveillance State and Property

based Democracy

It is anti-poor and anti-citizen as it dismantles Public Distribution

System and other existing social service entitlements

It promotes outsourcing of governance

It is fraught with dangers of genocide and communal crisis

It is guided by undemocratic international financial institutions and

defence policies of other nuclear weapon holding countries

The collection of biometric data is an act violation of human rights and

turns citizens into subjects and treats them worse than prisoners.

There is an imminent danger from biometric technology companies

indiscriminately collecting biometric data like finger print, iris scan

It compromises citizens’ rights of present and future generations

It is a boondoggle, an unnecessary and wasteful project for citizens as it

transfers public money to private parties

Taking cognisance of the uncalled for linking of employees provident fund

with UID being opposed by the trade Unions, the report of Parliamentary

Standing Committee (PSC) on Finance that rejected the National

Identification Authority of India (NIDAI) Bill, 2010 for giving post dated

legal mandate to Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI);

Recalling the Statement of Concern on Unique Identification (UID) Number/

Aadhaar Number project and its inter-linkages with the proposed

legislations and institutional machinery issued by 17 eminent citizens like

Justice VR Krishna Iyer, Prof Romila Thapar, Late K.G.Kannabiran, Kavita

Srivastava, Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, Late S.R.Sankaran, Deep Joshi, Prof.

Upendra Baxi, Prof. Uma Chakravarthi, Shohini Ghosh, Amar Kanwar, Bezwada Wilson, Trilochan Sastry, Prof. Jagdish Chhokar, Shabnam Hashmi and Justice A.P.Shah dated September 28, 2011 seeking halting of the project;

The Statement of Concern is available at

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/NO2UID/

We wish to draw your attention towards the article by Shri Arun Jaitley,

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha made available in Urdu, Gujarati, Hindi

and English that raises grave concerns about UID/aadhaar. The article is

at:

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/my-call-detail-records-and-a-citizen-s-right-to-privacy-arun-jaitley-355448

We wish to draw your attention towards 'Why the UID project poses a danger

to our sovereignty' available at

http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-why-the-uid-project-poses-a-danger-to-our-sovereignty/20130702.htm

*

*We wish to submit that 'Legislatures fail to save citizens from their

biometric profiling by World Bank Group and its partners' (

http://www.toxicswatch.org/2013/05/legislatures-fail-to-save-citizens-from.html

*)

*

We wish to draw your attention criticism of DJA, IPCI असंवैधानिक और

अलोकतांत्रिक आधार कार्ड बनवाने के लिए शिविर लगातीं कूपमंडूक पत्रकार

यूनियनें at* *

http://bhadas4media.com/article-comment/13503-2013-08-02-18-35-39.html*

** *

We wish to share how biometric UID/Aadhaar entails "नागरिक की निजता पर सबसे

बड़ा डाका"

http://visfot.com/index.php/current-affairs/9582-adhar-card-story-gopal-krishna-1307.html

*

*Kindly find attached the notification appointing NN, Chairman, Infosys Ltd

as Chairman UIDAI, the RTI reply refusing information about UID enrolment

of Prime Minister, cabinet ministers and others, RTI reply denying

information about the contracts given to foreign companies that work with

intelligence agencies of France and USA and World Bank Policy paper 'Use of

biometric technology in developing countries'. Central Information

Commission is seized with the issue of denial of information and had heard

the matter on June 24, 2013.

*

*We demand immediate audit of the activities of the UID Authority of India

since January 2009 till date;

We recommend to all the State governments, government departments and

voluntary organisations to boycott the UID related projects with immediate

effect.

We will be happy to share all the relevant documents in this regard. The

report of the Parliamentary Committee is attached and other relevant

documents in English and Hindi attached for your perusal and consideration.

We demand that enrolment shivir of illegitimate, illegal and questionable

scheme like biometric UID/Aadhaar number for media persons in public

interest.

thanks & regards

Gopal Krishna

Citizens Forum for Civil Liberties (CFCL)

Mb: 09818089660

E-mail:gopalkrishna1715@gmail.com

Cc

Office bearers and members of Indian Journalists Union (IJU)

Office bearers and members of Indian Medical association (IMA)

Office bearers and members of NUJ

Office bearers and members of DJA

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2895 - Cash Transfers and UID: Essential Demands

Cash Transfers and UID: Essential Demands

We support cash transfers such as old age pensions, widow pensions, maternity entitlements and scholarships. However, we oppose the government’s plan for accelerated mass conversion of welfare schemes to UID-driven cash transfers. This plan could cause havoc and massive social exclusion. We demand the following:

1. No replacement of food with cash under the Public Distribution System.

The PDS is a vital source of economic security and nutrition support for millions of people. It should be expanded and consolidated, not dismantled.

2. Immediate enactment of a comprehensive National Food Security Act, including universal PDS.

Instead of diverting the public’s attention with promises of mass cash transfers before the 2014 elections, the government should redeem its promise to enact a National Food Security Act (NFSA).

3. Cash transfers should not substitute for public services.

While some cash transfer schemes are useful, they should complement, not substitute for the provision of public services such as health care, school education, water supply, basic amenities, and the PDS. These services remain grossly under-funded.

4. Expand and improve appropriate cash transfers without waiting for UID.

There is no need to wait for UID to expand and improve positive cash transfer schemes such as pensions, scholarships and maternity entitlements. For instance, social security pensions should be increased and universalized.

5. No UID enrolment without a legal framework.

Millions of people are being enrolled for UID without any legal safeguards. The UIDAI’s draft bill has been rejected by a parliamentary standing committee. UID enrolment should be halted until a sound legal framework is in place.

6. All UID applications should be voluntary, not compulsory.

UID should never be a condition for anyone to access any entitlements or public services. A convenient alternative should always be available.

7. UID should be kept out of the PDS, NREGA and other essential entitlement programmes for the time being.

Essential services are not a suitable field of experimentation for a highly centralised and uncertain technology. Other applications (e.g. to tax evasion) should be tried first.

Explanatory Note:

Why we Oppose the Rush to Cash Transfers and UID

We support cash transfers such as old age pensions, widow pensions, maternity entitlements and scholarships. In fact, many of us have been part of struggles to expand social security pensions and improve their delivery. We also support appropriate, people-friendly uses of modern technology for this purpose.

However, we have serious reservations about the government's rush to link these cash transfers to “Aadhaar”, the unique identity (UID) number. This is because the linking of these schemes can cause huge disruption – think of an old man who is currently getting his pension from the local post office, but will now have to run around getting his “UID-enabled” bank account activated and then may find his pension held up by fingerprints problems, connectivity issues, power failures, truant “business correspondents”, and what not.

We are also firmly opposed to the introduction of cash transfers in lieu of food and other commodities supplied through the Public Distribution System, for many reasons. One, subsidized food from the PDS is a source of food and economic security for millions of poor families. In 2009-10, implicit transfers from the PDS wiped out about one fifth of the “poverty gap” at the national level, and close to one half of it in states like Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh. Recent experience also shows that it is possible to further revamp and reform the PDS without delay.

Two, the banking system in rural areas is not ready to handle large volumes of small transfers. Banks are often far and overcrowded. The alleged solution, banking correspondents, is fraught with problems. Post offices could possibly be converted into useful payment agencies, but this will take time.

Three, rural markets are often poorly developed. Dismantling the PDS would disrupt the flow of food across the country and put many people at the mercy of local traders and middlemen.

Four, there are concerns of special groups such as single women, disabled persons and the elderly who cannot easily move around to withdraw their cash and buy food from distant markets.

Last but not least, inflation could easily erode the purchasing power of cash transfers. When the government refuses to index pensions or NREGA wages, how can it be trusted to index cash transfers to the price level? Even if some indexation does happen, small delays or gaps in price information could cause significant hardship for poor people.

The Kotkasim fiasco is a telling example of the potentially disruptive effects of inappropriate cash transfer schemes. The experiment was launched with much fanfare and immediately projected as a “stunning success” based on the fact that kerosene subsidy expenditure had declined by 80%, but in fact, the main reason for this decline was the collapse of the entire kerosene distribution system.

An impression has been created that the government is all set to launch UID-enabled cash transfers on a mass scale before the 2014 elections. This is very misleading, and looks like an attempt to make people rush to UID enrolment centres. This announcement also diverts attention from the government’s failure to enact a National Food Security Act. The food security bill, very weak in the first place, has been languishing with a Standing Committee for a whole year. Meanwhile, food stocks are accumulating on an unprecedented scale. The need of the hour is a comprehensive National Food Security Act, not a potentially disruptive rush for UID-driven cash transfers.

List of Signatories

1.            Sunil Abraham, Centre for Internet and Society

2.            Pushpa Achanta, Writer

3.            Bina Agarwal, Professor, Institute of Economic Growth

4.            Samantha Agarwal, Activist, Raipur

5.            Ankita Aggarwal, Researcher, New Delhi

6.            Ashutosh Agrawal, Student

7.            Anivar Aravind, Entrepreneur, Technology Manager

8.            Chirashree Das Gupta, Ambedkar University

9.            Indu Agnihotri, Director, Centre for Women’s Development Studies

10.         Sohail Akbar, Associate Professor, Jamia Milia Islamia

11.         Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar, United Theological College Bangalore

12.         Janki Andharia, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

13.         Sadhna Arya, University of Delhi and Saheli Women's Resource Centre

14.       K.V. Nagesh Babu, Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

15.         Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Vice Chancellor, Tripura University

16.         Megha Bahl Student, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi

17.         Arindam Banerjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University

18.         Arindam Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Ambedkar University

19.         Sreshtha Banerjee, Social Activist

20.         Sanjay (Xonzoi) Barbora, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Guwahati)

21.         Kripa Basnyat, PWESCR, Programme on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

22.         Moushumi Basu, Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

23.         Akansha Batra, Junior Research Fellow, Indian Statistical Institute

24.         Anjali Bhardwaj, Satark Nagrik Sangathan

25.         Bharat Bhatti, Student, Ambedkar University

26.         Kiran Bhatty, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research

27.         Praful Bidwai, Journalist

28.         Ramila Bisht, Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

29.         Arudra Burra

30.         Kathyayini Chamaraj, Journalist

31.         C.P. Chandrashekhar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

32.         Sarika Chaturvedi, Ph D scholar, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

33.         Aheli Chowdhury, JOSH, Delhi

34.         Arati Choksi, People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Bangalore

35.         Gowru Chinnapa, Bangalore

36.         Priti Darooka, PWESCR, Programme on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

37.         Jitu Das, Alghanim Industries

38.         Asit Das

39.         Anirban Dasgupta, South Asia University

40.       Jashodhara Dasgupta, National Alliance for Maternal Health and Human Rights

41.         Saurav Datta

42.         Ashwini Deshpande, Professor, Delhi School of Economics

43.         Ritu Dewan, Mumbai University

44.         Nikhil Dey, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan

45.         Harish Dhawan, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Delhi

46.         Arundhati Dhuru, National Alliance of People’s Movements

47.         Gabriele Dietrich, National Alliance of People's Movements

48.         Sarah Dobinson, PWESCR Programme on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

49.         Jean Drèze, Visiting Professor, Allahabad University

50.         Ajit Eapen

51.         Warisha Farasat, Lawyer

52.         Jayati Ghosh, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

53.         Kaveri Gill, Independent researcher

54.         S. S. Gill,  Director General, CRRID, Chandigarh

55.         Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Journalist

56.         Aashish Gupta, Research Assistant, Allahabad University

57.         Ruchi Gupta, National Campaign for People's Right to Information

58.         Zoya Hasan, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

59.         Neeraj Hatekar, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Mumbai

60.         Rohini Hensman, Independent scholar and author

61.         Himanshu, Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

62.         Danish Husain, Actor

63.         Indira C, Researcher Public Health, Delhi

64.         Kaveri Rajaraman Indira, Concern, Indian Institute of Science

65.         Jaya Iyer, Khadya Nyaya Abhiyan

66.         Devaki Jain

67.         K.P. Jayasankar, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

68.         Praveen Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University

69.         Sadan Jha, Assistant Professor, Centre for Social Studies, Surat

70.         Ravinder Jha, Miranda House, University of Delhi

71.         Rajiv Jha, Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi

72.         Amrita Johri, Satark Nagrik Sangathan

73.         Sunny Jose, Associate Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

74.         Aleesha Mary Joseph, Student, St. Stephen's College

75.         Deep Joshi

76.         Vijay Lakshmi Joshi, People’s Union for Civil Liberties

77.         K. P. Kannan, Chairman, Lawry Baker Institute of Habitat Studies, Thiruvantanthapuram

78.         Anirban Kar, Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics

79.         Ashok Khandelwal, Economist

80.         Madhulika Khanna, Researcher, New Delhi

81.         Sushil Khanna, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

82.         Reetika Khera, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

83.         Asha Kilaru, Public Health Researcher, Bangalore

84.         Ashish Kothari, Kalpavriksh

85.         Subasri Krishnan, Filmmaker

86.         Kavita Krishnan, CPI(ML) Liberation

87.         Abhay Kumar, Karnataka

88.         Richa Kumar, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

89.         Awanish Kumar, Ph.D. Scholar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

90.         Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements

91.         A.K. Shiva Kumar, Economist

92.         Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum

93.         Kamayani Bali Mahabal, Advocate

94.         Neeraj Malik, University of Delhi

95.         Anubhuti Maurya, Bharati College, University of Delhi

96.         Surajit Mazumdar

97.         Indrani Mazumdar, Centre for Women's Development Studies

98.         Bhanwar Meghvanshi, Dalit Adivasi Aur Ghumantu Adhikar Abhiyan, Rajasthan

99.         Subhash Mendhapurkar, SUTRA, Himachal Pradesh

100.      Aggie Menezes, Associate Professor, St Xavier's College

101.      Mira Mehta, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland

102.      Kalpana Mehta, Manasi Swasthya Sansthan, Indore

103.      Ritambhara Mehta, Independent Researcher

104.      Nivedita Menon, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

105.      Rajkishore Mishra, Orissa

106.      Srijith Mishra, Associate Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

107.      Gautam Mody, Secretary, New Trade Union Initiative

108.      Mritiunjoy Mohanty, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

109.      Sanat Mohanty, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

110.      Anjali Monteiro, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

111.      Vipul Mudgal, Inclusive Media for Change, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

112.      Prakriti Mukerjee, Yoda Press

113.      Poonam Muttreja, Population Foundation of India

114.      Tithi Nandy, Healthwatch Forum Uttar Pradesh

115.      R. Nagaraj, Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

116.      Farah Naqvi, Writer and Activist

117.      Sudha Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

118.      Rajendran Narayanan, Visiting Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute

119.      Arvind Narrain, Alternative Law Forum

120.      Saboohi Nasim, Assistant Professor, Aligarh Muslim University

121.      Balaji Narsimhan

122.      Nandini Nayak, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London

123.      P. Niranjana, Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

124.      V.P. Niranjanaradhya, National Law School of India University

125.      Claire Noronha, Collaborative Research and Dissemination

126.      Madhurima Nundy, Institute of Chinese Studies

127.      Gangaram Paikra, Right to Food Campaign, Chhattisgarh

128.      Parthapratim Pal, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

129.      Sandeep Pandey, National Alliance of People’s Movements

130.      Soma Kishore Parthasarathy, PhD scholar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

131.      Medha Patkar, National Alliance of People’s Movements

132.      Prabhat Patnaik, Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

133.      Utsa Patnaik, Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

134.      Boban V. Paul, NGO professional

135.      Pamela Philipose, Director, Women’s Features Services

136.      Neetha Pillai, Senior Fellow, Centre for Women's Development Studies

137.      Dr Prabir, Independent Consultant, West Bengal

138.      Pranesh Prakash, Law and Policy Researcher

139.      Mythri Prasad, Researcher, French Institute of Pondicherry

140.      T. V. H. Prathamesh, Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

141.      Raghav Puri, Independent Researcher

142.      Pushpendra, Director, Centre for Social Studies, Surat

143.      Kalyani Raghunathan, Ph.D. Scholar, Cornell University

144.      Annie Raja, National Federation of Indian Women

145.      Jawahar Raja, Advocate, Delhi

146.      Suvrat Raju, Reader, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Mumbai

147.      R. Ramakumar, Associate Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

148.      Kannama Raman, Associate Professor, University of Mumbai

149.      Usha Ramanathan, Legal Researcher

150.      Ashish Ranjan, Birla Institute of Technology, Patna

151.      Bharat Rastogi, Graduate student, University of California Santa Barbara

152.      Savitri Ray, FORCES Network, Centre for Women’s Development Studies

153.      Mohan Rao, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

154.      E. Rati Rao, People’s Union for Civil Liberties Karnataka

155.      Vidya Rao, Jain Vishva Bharati Institute, Rajasthan

156.      D. Narsimha Reddy, Chair Professor, NIRD, Hyderabad

157.      Rammanohar Reddy, Editor, Economic and Political Weekly

158.      Dr. K. Srinath Reddy

159.      Ira Regmi, Student, Lady Shri Ram College for Women

160.      Rohit, Assistant Professor, South Asia University

161.      Aruna Roy, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan

162.      Saheli Women's Resource Centre Sahyogi, Patna

163.      Preeti Sampat, Independent Researcher

164.      Meera Samson, Collaborative Research and Dissemination

165.      Sunil D. Santha, Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

166.      Radha Kant Saxena, People’s Union for Civil Liberties

167.      Sukla Sen, EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity), Mumbai

168.      S. Seshan

169.      Sudeshna Sengupta, Mobile Crèches

170.      Mitu Sengupta, Centre for Human Development and Human Rights, New Delhi

171.      Prem Krishan Sharma, President, People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Rajasthan

172.      Saurabh Sharma, JOSH, Delhi

173.      Veena Shatrugna, Former Deputy Director, National Institute of Nutrition

174.      Jeevika Shiv

175.      Dr. Mira Shiva, Initiative for Health & Equity in Society

176.      Rama Shyam, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

177.      Aditya Shrivastava, Advocate

178.      Shankar Singh, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan

179.      Bhanwar Singh, Astha

180.      Mahipal Singh, National Secretary, People’s Union for Civil Liberties

181.      Paramjeet Singh, People’s Union for Democratic Rights

182.      Surjit Singh, Director, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur

183.      Dipa Sinha, Ph.D. Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University

184.      Shantha Sinha, National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights

185.      Ahmed Sohaib, Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association

186.      Gautam Sonti

187.      Vivek Srinivasan, Stanford University

188.      Nisha Srivastava, University of Allahabad

189.      Ravi Srivastava, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

190.      Shambhavi Srivastava, Graduate student, University of British Columbia

191.      Kavita Srivastava, National Secretary, People’s Union for Civil Liberties

192.      Sulakshana, Right to Food Campaign, Chhattisgarh

193.      Nandini Sundar, University of Delhi

194.      Mayur Suresh, Ph.D. Scholar, University of London

195.      V. Suresh, General Secretary, People’s Union for Civil Liberties

196.      Kamayani Swami, Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan

197.      Padmini Swaminathan, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad

198.      M.S. Swaminathan, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha

199.      Sharmila Tagore

200.      Krishan Takhar, People’s Union for Civil Liberties

201.      Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Reader, University of Hyderabad

202.      Padma Velaskar, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

203.      G. Vijay, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, University of Hyderabad

204.      M. Vijayabaskar, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai

205.      Vimochana, Forum for Women’s Rights

206.      Achin Vanaik, Retired Professor, University of Delhi

207.      Sujata Visaria, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

208.      Bezwada Wilson, Safai Karamchari Andolan