Know your neta through netapedia

NAKSHAB KHAN

Working on the lines of  online encyclopedia-wikipedia, a group of current and formers students of IIT-Mumbai have devised a database called “Netapedia” to provide information about Indian politicians and increase awareness about important national issues by ensuring participation from citizens.

The Netapedia claims to provide authentic profiles of Indian politicians based on the affidavits filed by them.

The website,  netapedia.in, contains information about politicians’ education, legal history, votes cast in their favour, assets, both moveable and immoveable, work record in their constituencies.

Speaking to The Sunday Indian, former IITian and founder of the website, Siddarth Mishra, said that the basic purpose of developing this site was to bridge the gap between electorate and the political leaders.

“Usually, voters don't know much about political leaders they are going to elect. Though there are several sources that transmit information about the politicians but there was no comprehensive platform. So we tried to focused on a single online tool which provides all information about Parliamentarians, Members of Legislative Assemblies and election candidates,” said, Siddarth Mishra.

The site also provides information about the MPLADS (Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme) summary for each of the MPs from 35 states and Union Territories.

Popular politicians who are most views on the site include Sonia Gandhi, Kapil Sibal, Lal Krishna Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Priya Sunil Dutt, Asaduddin Owaisi and Kamal Nath.

According to Siddarth , the founding members of the site include three former and five current IITians and they plan to give it a thorough professional look.

Siddarth added that it’s an unregistered entity right now, but they will get it registered as a non-profiting non government organisation (NGO).

“We plan to give it a thorough professional look. It’s an unregistered entity right now, but we’ll get it registered as a non-profiting NGO,” he said.

The project was launched in October last year.

On being asked whether such an entity, displaying information about politicians online, can have any legal repercussions, Siddarth  said, “We are only showcasing what is already in public domain and falls under the right to information of common people. We have gathered information about these politicians through RTI and sources like the Parliament and Secretariats.”

The other interesting feature of the site is that it provides electoral facts like “ever heard of 1033 candidates for a single seat? Believe it or not, it did happened for the Modaurichi assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu in 1996. The ballot paper was in the form of a booklet!”

The site further plans to add new features about politicians and the team hopes to rope in volunteers and readers to help with the research and give a new shape to the venture.

The site is gradually gaining popularity and gets over a hundred hits a day.

                 AMU tarana team and, With largest envelope of the world

Barbaric Israel! Stop slaughtering Palestinians

Some times, I feel the world is sitting on a Powderkeg with so many conflicts in different regions of the world having potential to rip apart world peace and the Middle East crisis is one of them for which no one seems interested to resolve the crisis and remains a mute spectator.

Some times back Iranian Prez Mahmoud Ahmedinejad had rightly argued, that “Israel has no right to exist” because it has no regards to human values and thrives on its bloodthirsty instinct.
So what we call to the failed UNITED NATIONS, the WEST and the EQUALLY impotent Arab regimes napping in the lap of WEST and observing the Palestinian HOLOCAUST nothing short of SO CALLED Holocaust of Jews?

If an Israeli is killed anywhere in the world, the so called moral, human values protecting, contractor and upholder of justice and democracy also known as the WEST takes the world on its head but why when its comes to armless Palestinians who are bombarded, butchered on the streets and fighting Isreal valiantly with stones goes silent.

Here I should laud Iranian leadership for standing beside Palestanian cause and rebuking the debauch Arab states lost in their ayyashi, masti and 60 years down the line doing nothing to resolve miseries of Palestine.

No one seems willing to persuade the Zionist regime hell bent on creating instability in the region murdering innocents. Israel has Hamas as its enemy, but the senseless 5th day successive bombardment has killed almost no Hamas militant except women, children and the elderly.
These senseless killings by Zionist regime in Palestinian territory prompts young and smart Palestinian girls and boys bobby trapped themselves and blew themselves up in an Isreali caffe and public places killing many.

Here I may sound to all of you like a moron, imbecile and a fundamentalist, but my friends this is the bitter truth that no one has the guts to digest.

So, is there any way out to resolve this unending and vexed issue where both Palestine and Israel can live in peace forever?
Here is the answer: Until and unless Israel trusts Palestinians, give its land back, remove all encroachments from Palestinians territories , allow them a free and independent nation, the peace will not return in the region. And this is only possible with the big powers persuading both sides to agree to terms that can guarantee their peaceful existence.