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The Great Indian adoption racket across four continents

Lakshmy Ramanathan, TNN, Sep 1, 2008, 05.30am IST

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Its easy to buy babies at TNs govt hospitals

Police Probe Statewide Child Trafficking Ring With Links In Healthcare System

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About 18 months ago,doctors told Maruthayi,39,(name changed) that she would not be able to deliver a baby.Today,she dotes on an 11-month-old boy,buying him clothes and toys and taking him to the doctor for his shots.She cant imagine a life without him.
Maruthayi told The Times of India that she purchased the baby from a Kilpauk Medical College (KMC) hospital administrator but refused to divulge the amount she had paid.I paid him in thousands.The biological mother would have got most of it, she said.
Eight months ago,a TOI team went undercover and met the administrator who said he could find a baby for a potential buyer.In April,he was caught on camera saying he had found a woman who was due for delivery at the hospital in two months: I know your number.I will call you after she has the delivery negotiations will begin after that. On Monday,in a telephonic conversation,he promised to close the deal by next week.The conversation has been recorded.

Chennai:

Even as the Tamil Nadu police are currently working to unravel a child trafficking network spread across the state,it continues to be possible to buy a baby in Chennai.In fact,it would not be difficult to just walk in and steal one.And its not just at KMC that the task is so easy,government hospitals across the state have become the source for baby traffickers.
Ironically,almost every senior official,including Additional Director General of Police Archana Ramasundram and health secretary VK Subburaj,agree.Only two days ago,a woman lost her newborn at the Rajaji Medical College Hospital in Madurai.Police traced the child and restored it to the parents, says Subburaj.
Nearly 70% of all deliveries in the state take place at government hospitals,and most babies that are trafficked are from these hospitals.The cost of a baby ranges from Rs 10,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh.Entry to government hospitals is not restricted,so security is a cause for concern.Government hospitals have no strict visiting hours.The campuses are huge.We need to evolve strategies to beef up security, says ADGP Archana Ramasundram.
The hospitals also face the problem of corrupt grade-IV staff.The staff demand money for every service,including getting xrays and cleaning the woman in labour.They hit my daughter on her thighs while she was in labour.We were forced to give them money, says Muthulakshmi,whose daughter was admitted to the Woman and Children Hospital at Egmore here.
In almost every government hospital,staff are aware of brokers who actively participate in child trafficking.While some babies are abandoned or sold by poor parents,others are stolen.

BIG BIZ OF BABIES

Of 11 babies bought and sold in 18 mths,4 were stolen from or near GHs in Krishnagiri and Tirupattur 3-month-old baby boy stolen from Krishnagiri GH | Rescued in Perambur 3-year-old boy stolen from near Krishnagiri GH | Sold in Gingee 2.5-year-old boy stolen from Tirupattur GH | Sold in Krishnagiri 1.5-year-old boy stolen from Tirupattur GH | Sold in Bangalore

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11 babies traced,2 restored to parents

 

Breakthrough In Child Trafficking Case Came After Hosur Villager Approached Krishnagiri Police Last Month

A Selvaraj | TNN

Chennai: It all started when Ramakkal,who lives in a village near Hosur,went to the Krishnagiri police last month saying her three-month-old son had been stolen.The distraught mother told them she had been at a government hospital and made friends with a woman,who made off with the child.
She described the woman as having burn marks on her neck and hands.We formed special teams and closed in on Dhanalakshmi who lives in Krishnagiri.She was taken into custody.She confessed after Ramakkal identified her, said Krishnagiri superintendent of police AG Babu.
Krishnagiri district,among the more backward in the state,is known for cases of female infanticide,but in the last few weeks it has emerged as a source for babies that are sold to childless couples.Eight of the 11 babies rescued recently are from Krishnagiri.
Police said Dhanalakshmi,35,befriended Girija,45,at the Kilpauk Medical College hospital.Dhanalakshmi was undergoing treatment as she had tried to set herself ablaze after a fight with her husband.These were the burn injuries that would lead to her identification and the cracking of the case.Girija,who lived in Perambur,realised that parents in poverty-stricken Krishnagiri district would probably be willing to sell babies.She convinced Dhanalakshmi to buy babies from parents for as little as Rs 1,000 or steal them.Dhanalakshmi received Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,000 for a baby.
Girija sold the babies to childless couples at prices ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh.Through her relative,Jayaprasad,who was working in a wine shop at Neelankarai and his girlfriend,Nancy Tersy,Girija networked with another child racketeering group headed by Pastor Alphonse Xavier,who ran a church near Chennai,and a Puducherry-based self-styled social activist M Lalitha.Their luck ran out when Dhanalakshmi stole Ramakkals child.
Police investigations led to the arrest of Dhanalakshmi,Girija,Siva,Jayaprasad,Alphonse Xavier,Lalitha,Nancy and three others,and the rescuing of 11 babies (seven male and four female ).Based on Lalithas confession,the manager of a private hospital in Chennai was arrested for issuing false birth reports for the babies.The kidnapped children have been traced to various parts of Tamil Nadu,Puducherry and Bangalore.There are still some knots that can be untangled only by questioning the suspects further, a police officer said.
We are probing if children were sold abroad too.Arrests of a few more accused will reveal this, said a senior police officer.Till now,seven members of the gang have been arrested and five,including Girija,have been detained under the Goondas Act.But Krishnagiris children may not be safe unless the entire child trafficking network in Tamil Nadu is unravelled.
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MINOR-ITY REPORT

Buyers:

They are normally childless couples who often end up at infertility clinics.Touts put them in touch with dubious social service outfits.The couples pay money to adopt the babies

Sellers:

Agents befriend pregnant women from poor families at govt hospitals and ask if they want to sell their babies.Mostly,class IV staff in hospitals are involved in this racket

Modus operandi:

Touts buy or steal babies from Krishnagiri and Vellore districts and hand them over to contacts in big cities.Later,the babies are sold to childless
couples using fake
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Children tossed between foster,biological parents

 

Radha Venkatesan | TNN

Krishnagiri: For 25 years,Kamalam and Periyasamy were childless.We were resigned to life without a child, says Kamalam Periyasamy.
Then on the evening of November 30,2008,a two-and-a-halfyear-old boy suddenly stumbled into their lives.Our landlord told us about his relative.A little boy had been orphaned and needed a caring home.Out of sheer sympathy,we brought him home.Believe us,we did not pay a single rupee, sobs Kamalam,hugging little Sripathy in her small house in Krishnagiri.
A driver in the Tamil Nadu Public Works Department,Periyasamy says he never dreamt that the child might have been a victim of trafficking.He brings such joy and colour to our lives, he says.Sripathy quickly settled into life at the Periyasamy household and the couple felt a dream had come true at last.
But two days ago,police knocked on Periyasamys door and told him that he and his wife were parenting a child stolen from a couple at the government general hospital at Tirupattur in Vellore district.Dhanalakshmi,who was supplying babies from Krishnagiri and Vellore,to a child trafficking gang in Chennai had stolen the boy over a year ago.
When I first saw Sripathy,he pleaded with me not to leave him, says Periyasamy,who had fled Nagapattinam after the tsunami and settled in Krishnagiri.Another tsunami has struck us now, says Kamalam.
Now,the couple are begging the boys biological father Selvam,a struggling mini-bus driver,and mother Sangeetha not to take away their life.The Krishnagiri magistrate court has asked the Periyasamys to keep custody of the child until the results of the DNA tests are out.
At the Krishnagiri court complex,a couple from Bangalore,Puzhuthiraj and Mehala,who had bought a baby from the Chennai gang,are also inconsolable.How can I let go of the child cries Mehala,cuddling one-and-a-half-year-old Viswas.He was also stolen from the Tirupattur GH from a poor Muslim couple.
It is these poor tots who are being tossed around in the emotional tussle between their foster and biological parents.
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CAUGHT IN AN EMOTIONAL TANGLE: Kamalam and Periyasamy with four-year-old Sripathy who was stolen from Tirupattur and given to the couple in November 2008

 
Krishnagiri: Baby snatchers paradise

 

Radha Venkatesan | TNN

Krishnagiri: Lined with mango groves and granite rocks and located close to Bangalore,Krishnagiri district is emerging as a trading hub of Tamil Nadu.These days,though,the town is not just attracting mango and granite traders,but child shoppers too.
With more than half its population steeped in poverty and illiteracy,Krishnagiri has become a hunting ground for child traffickers,who either steal or buy babies here,and put them up for sale in the adoption market.Krishnagiri police,who unearthed the child trafficking racket,have so far traced 11 children stolen or bought from Krishnagiri and neighbouring Vellore by a Chennai-based gang.
Poverty is the key reason for child traffickers targeting Krishnagiri.There is a deep resistance to family planning among the migrant labourers.In a few places in Krishnagiri,parents continue to kill female babies as they do not want them, said a police officer.
Three years ago,when an auto drivers wife,Girija Siva of Perambur in Chennai met a petty shop owner,Dhanalakshmi of Krishnagiri,at a government hospital in Chennai,she was intrigued by Krishnagiris tale of poverty,infanticide and illiteracy.She saw a great opportunity for child trafficking, said Krishnagiri police inspector A Kannappan.
From running a marriage brokers business,Girija switched to child trafficking.The first victim was the ninth child of a migrant brick kiln worker.They paid Rs 1,000 for the boy,and sold him for Rs 35,000.In Krishnagiri,parents stealthily sell their babies for Rs 1,000 to Rs 3,000, said a social welfare department official.
As demand for children grew from childless couples,Girija directed Dhanalakshmi to prey on women at government hospitals and bus stops in Krishnagiri.Depending on the sex and health condition of the child,the price was fixed ranging from Rs 25,000 to over Rs 1.5 lakh.Obviously,boys always fetched a higher price.
Dhanalakshmi stole the babies and Girija,her husband Siva and friend Rani,would bring them to Chennai.As childless couples flocked to her illegal adoption agency,she started collecting advances of Rs 10,000 to Rs 50,000.The pressure to give children to couples from whom she took an advance forced her to steal more babies, say Krishnagiri police.

Security to be tightened in all govt hospitals

 

Vivek Narayanan | TNN

Chennai: State government hospitals will soon have a security makeover with a private womens force manning their premises and CCTVs monitoring corridors.As the state police continue their crackdown on baby abductors,the state government has finally woken up to the issue,convening a meeting month-end to discuss steps to strengthen security at hospitals,which are proving to be major hunting ground for child-trafficking gangs.
On June 30,officials from the state health department and the crime branch-CID will meet to discuss the various security measures to be taken to strengthen security at government hospitals.ADGP Archana Ramasundaram and health secretary VK Subburaj will evolve stringent security measures to prevent trafficking.
The measures will include posting of private women security personnel in hospitals and CCTVs on all corridors.We have some funds in patients welfare societies at every hospital.The medical superintendents can make use of the fund to tighten security, said Subburaj.
The police have been suggesting appointment of ex-servicemen to shore up security.The main problem in the government maternity hospitals is that there is no foolproof security system to monitor and keep track of visitors.In private hospitals tokens are given to family members who would visit the patient daily and in case they need an additional token,the request has to be given in writing, said a police official.
The CB-CID is also monitoring childrens homes across the state and preparing a status report on unlicensed ones.The police say there are 800 unregistered children homes in the state with no supervision whatsoever.Meanwhile,the Chennai suburban police which arrested four womenAsha,Nancy,Kavitha and Andalinvolved in selling stolen babies,has also planned a series of security measures in hospitals.
On June 5,a four-day-old baby was stolen from a private hospital in Madhavaram.The culprit posed as a visitor and offered help to the babys mother.Under the pretext of taking the child to the vaccination room,the lady disappeared with the child.Such cases should be dealt with seriously.Though we cannot compel the hospitals to fix CCTV cameras,I will be advising them to do so, said Chennai suburban commissioner S R Jangid.
 

Fraud alleged in adoption of 5 children

Committee Files Complaint Against One Social Worker

R Vasundara | TNN

Chennai: The city-based Child Welfare Committee (CWC) has filed a police complaint,alleging irregularities in the adoption procedure of five children,all five-year-olds born in the same hospital in Coimbatore.The CWC has charged a social worker in the Guild of Service,an authorised adoption centre,of forging adoption documents for the children to get clearance from the committee.
According to Dr P Manorama,chairperson of CWC,which comes under the staterun department of social defence,the issue first came to her notice when the social worker applied for clearance for adoption of all the five children simultaneously.Normally,the Guild of Service applies for clearance from CWC for one child at a time.This made us suspicious.When our probationary officer verified the background of the children,we found that all the five children were born in the same hospital (Sheila Hospital) in Coimbatore. said Dr Manorama,who filed a police complaint on Friday last.
We are investigating the case, Mohammed Shakeel Akhtar,city police additional commissioner told TOI.Once we verify the allegations (pertaining to the social worker),we will pass on the case to Coimbatore police for a probe against the hospital. The Guild of Service management has denied knowledge of the five children being under their care.
According to Dr Manorama,officers of the social welfare department discovered last year that the five children (none of whom were disabled) were residing at Cheshire Home,a home for the differentlyabled.Their case was transferred under the care of Guild of Service.We were approached by the social worker from the Guild in October 2009 for temporary custody of the children.The adoption papers were presented again in February 2010 for verification, explained Manorama.When I wrote to the secretary of the Guild,I discovered that the Guild had no knowledge that these children were under their care. Moreover,the social worker had already put up three of the children for adoption without the mandatory clearance from the CWC.
Raising further questions are the actions of the hospital which had given away these babies (they were all born in 2005) to Missionary of Charity Home in Salem.One of the five children is the offspring of Mohammed Usman of Coimbatore who claims he was misled into giving away his girl.
I was told before the delivery that my baby has a fatal kidney problem and will not survive for more than a week.The doctor persuaded me to sign a bond and entrust the child to a missionary home, he said.However,when he decided to bring back his baby,he was informed that she was not with the hospital.
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF DISAPPEARING BABIES

As City Population Went Up By 16%,Birth Rate Dipped By 14%

Pushpa Narayan | TNN
Chennai: As startling tales of babies being stolen tumble out of hospitals every day,the Chennai Corporations birth registry shows a striking trend of babies getting scarce.In the last 10 years,while Chennai has seen an increase in population by over 16%,there has been a drop in child birth by nearly 14%.
While demographic experts cite effective family planning and awareness as vital contributory factors,doctors dont rule out infertility problems among couples for the dip in child birth.The 2001 Census shows that Chennais population was nearly 43 lakh and the birth registry recorded 1.2 lakh child births.In 2009,the citys population was estimated at 50 lakh.The same year,the civic body recorded a little over one lakh births.
The decline in the number of child births has been consistent since 2001, says Chennai Corporation commissioner Rajesh Lakoni.Population experts say that while many people in the city are now delaying marriage and child birth for professional reasons,several couples have restricted themselves to one child.Until some years ago,girls were married off early.Now,girls try to delay their marriage.Even after marriage for various reasons including careers,many women take birth control pills to push pregnancy as farther as possible.There is a considerable number of women in the city who have their child after the age of 32.While some naturally lose the fertile period,others adopt ways to avoid further pregnancies, said former director of public health Dr S Elango.
Though many gynaecologists dont deny this,they say the larger reason could be because of the increase in increasing fertility troubles.We are seeing a marked increase in the number of people visiting our clinics.Ten years ago,infertility was estimated to be about 15% of adult population.There is no recent study for reference.But going by the number of cases,we can say that the incidence must have gone up by at least 5% in recent years.We see many couples,young and old,walking in with infertility problems, said obstetrician-gynaecologist Dr Jayashree Gajaraj,ex-president,Federation of Obstetrician-Gynaecologist Society of India.The success rate for infertility treatment has not crossed 35% even at the best of fertility centres.
So a large percentage of them do remain childless even after treatment.Some of them dont even attempt it because its expensive and does not have an insurance cover, she added.
Doctors like sexologist Dr Narayana Reddy dont rule out the impact of rapid changing lifestyle on fertility.Lifestylerelated problems like obesity,hypertension and diabetes,besides pollution,smoking and alcohol addiction contribute to the problem.Nearly 18% of the city population are diabetics.An equal number of them have blood pressure.Many youngsters smoke.All these take a toll on a persons sex life.We also see men with low sperm counts and other sexual problems such as erectile dysfunction, he said.
Fertility expert Dr Priya Selvaraj said the common problem among women is delayed pregnancy.Since many put their careers ahead,they come to us very late.When we diagnose them we see serious gynaecological problems, she said.

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Police Suspect An Organised Network Behind Stealing Of Babies And Their Sale To Childless Couples In TN,Abroad

Radha Venkatesan | TNN

Coimbatore: There is racket that steals babies from the cradles at government primary health centres in backward districts,particularly Krishnagiri,of the state,the police firmly believe.

The stolen babies are being sold for up to Rs 1.5 lakh,the police say.

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‘Rights activist’, priests in child trafficking ring

‘Rights activist’, priests in child trafficking ring

June 4th, 2010
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June 3: The child trafficking racket run by a priest from his church in Padappai near Chennai, busted by the police recently, has turned out to be much larger than the cops initially believed.

A Krishnagiri police special team has picked up the woman head of a purported human rights group from Puducherry for being part of the trafficking ring and arrested a second priest, Selvam, who investigating officials say was in cahoots with racket mastermind Alphonse Xavier. Selvam runs a church in Villupuram district.

Investigators now believe that the sinister nexus between the priests and the human rights group could have been responsible for at least a dozen more cases of child abduction. The police also said investigations indicated that the child trafficking ring could have a Chennai link.

“We have arrested six people including two priests and three women in connection with cases of missing children in our district,” said a senior Krishnagiri police officer on Thursday. “We have also picked up a woman who claims to be the head of a self-styled human rights outfit.”

The trafficking ring was exposed after Ramakka, a woman from Hosur, lodged a complaint with the police about the abduction of her 3-month-old son on May 18. She said a woman who had befriended her had kidnapped the child from the Krishnagiri bus stand.

The cops zeroed in on the suspect, Danalakshmi, the next morning but she had already handed over the child to two women from Perambur. “We then traced the child in Perambur and arrested three people there,” the officer said. Dhanalakshmi confessed to have stolen a 3-year-old boy who was reported missing in December 2009 and said that the child had been handed over to a Alphonse Xavier for Rs 5000. Xavier and Selvam had sold the child to a family in Ginjee. “We arrested the priests and traced the boy, who was reunited with his parents last week,” the Krishnagiri officer said.

Meanwhile, state government officials, continuing their drive to identify unlicensed orphanages, on Wednesday rescued 17 children from an illegal home in Nagercoil.

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The present book makes a scholarly attempt to examine the portrayal of South Indian ;culture in thirty-seven Indian English novels written by seven eminent authors: K.S Venkataramani, K.Nagarajan,Kamala Markandaya,Raja Rao, R.K.Narayan B.Rajan and Santha Rama Rau. The novels under study were published during the years 1925-85. The book sketches and evaluates critically the cultural values and assumptions such as the idea and role of womanhood the role relationship the role of myths and puranas the role of the guru the role of religion and bhakti and the role of proverbs. It makes an attempt to evolve a cultural criteria that is ;native and indigenous and demonstrates a paradigm that could as well be applied to Indian English poetry,drama and short story. While establishing a close relationship between literature and culture the book makes a rich contribution to the disciplines of indological studies,Comparative literature and Indian English literature.
About Author :
Rev. Dr. S.Xavier Alphonse, S.J. is a Jesuit Priest of the Tamilnadu province. He completed his doctorate from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, in 1992. He taught at St. Joseph's College (Autonomous) Tiruchirapalli and was the Principal of Loyola College (Autonomous) Madras from 1992-95. At present,he is the Director of Curriculum Development and Project planning of the Madras Community College. In 1987, he went to great Britain as a British Council visiting scholar and interacted with scholars at various British universities including the well known fiction critic Professor David Lodge at the University of Birmingham. Also, he spent a year in the USA and visited various universities, He published a biokgraphy of Mother Teresa in Tamil entitled The Spring Returns Not in 1978 and a book on community colleges in India entitled Changing Track in 1996.
Contents :
Introduction Part I Indian English Literature : Some Problem Part II Indian English Fiction: Critical Approaches : A Review Part III The Cultural Approach : The South Indian Element Part IV The Cultural Values and Assumptions The Idea and Role of Womanhood The Significance of Relationship The Role of Myths and Puranas The Absorption of Native Preoverbs,Expressions,Festivals and Customs The Role of the Guru and Asceticism The Role of Bhakti and the Idea of Religion Part V Kanthapura to Malgudi Index The List of Charts
Alphonse Xavier

Community college initiative by the Madras Centre for Research and Development of Community Education

June 08, 2004

Community college initiative by the Madras Centre for Research and Development of Community Education

Mylapore Times (dated May 29 - June 04, 2004), a local neighbourhood newspaper in Chennai, interviewed Dr. Xavier Alphonse, a Jesuit priest who set up the Madras Centre for Research and Development of Community Education (MCRDCE) in 1999 to facilitate the growth of community colleges in India. For the last five years, the centre has been actively involved in this process and has, till date, helped to set up 111 colleges.

Dr. Xavier Alphonse, director of MCRDCE, has served as the Principal of Loyola College, Chennai, for three years and currently works in the English Department of this college. He set up the Madras Community College in San Thome in 1996, worked here for three years and visited 18 community colleges abroad, before he decided to set up the centre.

Here's the text of the interview.

How would you define a community college? It is a place that makes people fit for a job. It is an alternative system of education to empower the socially, economically and educationally disadvantaged. Here, we concentrate more on skill development based on each individual. Anyone can join - school dropouts, degree holders who want to learn a particular skill - we even have students from the rural areas. Anyone from the age group of 16 to 47 years can enroll.

What is this 'alternative' system of education?
First, we concentrate on teaching life-coping skills. This covers self-esteem, motivation, time management, dealing with loneliness and failure - a complete attitudinal formation of the individual. Second, we have a dynamic relationship with employers. So far, formal education and industries have been like a railway track, they never met. But with community colleges, they are very much a part of the process. Internship is a must for everyone, because we believe that hands-on experience is invaluable. Here, we follow a reverse process as compared to formal education. We conduct a complete analysis of the employment scene and see where people are required. We have assured job placement.

Why were community colleges started ?
The movement began in order to give equal opportunities to all. In my experience as a teacher, I have seen that the poor always get eliminated. They needed a space of their own. According to a UNDP survey, there are 550 million people in India without skills, though we are ranked seventh when it concerns information technology skills. Obviously, skills of the day are not reaching the poor.

What is the role of the centre you run?
We are the facilitators. Before we help to set up a community college, we conduct meticulous and extensive research on the community. We approach industries or organisations for help and sponsorship. I design textbooks and the centre also helps in teacher training. We have trained more than 650 teachers so far. Now we are trying to make the projects financially viable, as no fees are charged. In the sense, if they cannot pay, we don't throw them out. Some of the students have been known to pay the institution after they get jobs and they even sponsor the education of some of their juniors.

How is the movement progressing ?
It is a positive growth. For our centre, I believe that we have crossed the first stage of conceptualising and implementation. Now we need to concentrate on consolidation and quality sustenance. Personally, I want the community colleges to go to rural areas as well. We need to set them up there, hone skills in integrated farming, horticulture and tapping native medicines so that they can give back to the community. Another thing we need to concentrate on is the vertical growth of the students - how to induct them into other universities for higher studies. I am trying to link up with open universities for this purpose.

 

The MCRDCE web site provides some more information.

The Community College movement started in India in 1995. As the Community Colleges were emerging, there was a need felt by the Community Colleges to have a Co-ordinating Agency. To respond to this need, The Madras Centre for Research and Development of Community Education (MCRDCE) was started in January 1999. It is an undertaking of the Jesuits of Tamilnadu Province to help, facilitate and consolidate the Community College Movement. The Centre is the unit of the Loyola Technical Institute Society, Madurai.

MCRDCE is a service agency that helps the various Community Colleges in different aspects of the Community College system. It is not a body of accreditation that gives recognition and approval for the Community Colleges. It performs the functions of helping the agencies to establish Community Colleges, monitor them continuously and evaluate them periodically. It has succeeded in bringing all the Community Colleges for five Consultations during the last two years. It has also conducted two national workshops involving the NGOs in India and existing Community Colleges in collaboration with the HRD Ministry. It has fulfilled the function of net working among the Colleges and sharing of information. It has provided a direction and a focus to the Community College Movement.

 

For more details, contact
Madras Centre for Research and Development of Community Education
Gokul Villa, 'A' Block, Flat No. S5&S6, 2nd Floor,
No. 250, R.K. Mutt Road, R.A. Puram, Chennai - 600 028. E-mail : mcrdce@vsnl.com

 

 


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Yolanda Chatelier

Hi,
My father lives in Chennai. He is 53 years old. He was taken out of school at a very early age and has never had the opportunity to return to complete his education. He is self-taught and has worked abroad in the technical and fields. But I know that he has a desire to finish his high school education and then move on to college education. Is this possible in India? If so, where would I find the information to enroll him to fulfill his lifelong dream? Please help!
Sincerely,
Yolanda.

Posted by: Yolanda Chatelier | December 08, 2005 at 12:59 AM

MOHAMMED RIZWAN

ABOUT VISUAL COMMUNICATION FEES

Posted by: MOHAMMED RIZWAN | September 16, 2006 at 05:32 PM

jaspal singh

i want admission in B.tech chemical streem,am diploma holder from punjab technical board.
please give me proper feedback and contect number.
with respect,
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Posted by: jaspal singh | June 25, 2007 at 02:54 PM

ramvilas

I WANT TO DO WORK AS COMMUNICATION OFFICER

Posted by: ramvilas | January 28, 2008 at 11:54 PM

Mary Nietlling

To Whom It May Concern:
I am an associate professor of English at a community college in Tennessee (USA) and I am looking for a college or university that would accept me as a teacher, free of charge, from July through December 2009 (sponsored by Rotary International).

Posted by: Mary Nietlling | February 25, 2008 at 11:07 PM

G Venkatesan

Shanthimalai Research & Development Trust a charitable trust working for needy peoples in south india. We setup new community college with in a month, we expecting volunteers and other support from world wide please conduct email: ctlc@shanthimalai.org those who interested.

Posted by: G Venkatesan | December 01, 2008 at 03:20 PM

Mr. Dilip G. Rajurkar

Dear Sir,
I want to open a community college in Triable area in Maharashtra. How much Grant are provided by govt.of India. Please give me the right guidence about this.And also I want to contact with you by tele-communication so please give me your contact number.
Regards
Mr.Dilip G.Rajurkar
Mb.No.-09422159902.

Posted by: Mr. Dilip G. Rajurkar | August 24, 2009 at 04:32 PM

Asish Ariel Lepcha

Rev. Father,
I belong from catholic family in sikkim. From the childwood days i had a burning desire to serve the poor. i completed my graduation from st.joseph's college ,darjeeling (2005). so, in 2006 i got a chance to join visva bharati university,bholpur(W.B) for M.S.W ( master's Degree) but all went wrong as my admission was cancelled as i did not opt for any special subject in my degree level. I was disheartned and came back home but again i got admission in Rabindra Bharati University (distance Learning) in 2007 since the admission i could not appear my examination due to certain financial issues. Right now im working as a teacher in small school in my locality and thinking of establishing my own NGO to help the needy and the poor students. father i just want some guidelines that how to start it........ though i have many childrens who are seeking help. ???????? I do not have any financial references.
father do your institution provide any community service cources if then can you please refer to me
Thankyou

Posted by: Asish Ariel Lepcha | February 20, 2010 at 01:18 PM

R.Indhumathi

Rev. Father,
And Hi Mr.Johnson

This is Indhumathi, who worked as the project coordinator in siruganur(Voice Trust). Since i have a deep concern and inspiration of community college, i have registered an NGO on my own and seeking a good support from my funders to start a community college. im planning to go ahead by end of the year and before that i missed ur contact number and pls do send an email about ur present location of mcrdce and mr.johnson your phone no.pls.
Father,i catched u up once in kalaingar tv and then and there in magazines. long live you and your work.

My Mobile no: 9865457731

Alphonse Xavier

Priests - Kingpins of ‘KID’nappers

Priests - Kingpins of ‘KID’nappers
27/05/2010 13:38:08  Aron

PEDOPHILE PRIESTS - IS OLD HAT- WHAT NOW?

The Dinamalar Sunday issue dated 23-5-2010, has repotyed -Special branch Cops have arrested the ring leader of a group of kidnappers of children, and guess what- 'a Christian Priest, and the hunt is on for another Priest” 

It seems the Christian Church will not let us any respite to laugh up one’s sleeves watching their world wide slide splitting Scandal Gospel Comedy Show-

We pagan souls are as pleased as Punch but too much of laughing can kill, you see.
In Krishnagiri, last 18th one Rammaka’s 4 months old infant had been kidnapped by a gang of four who had earlier been arrested.

Grilling with due respects, had them capitulate further information- regarding the modus operandi and the actual linchpin behind this Ring of ‘Kidnappers’.

It seems in Krishnagiri, the 3 year old boy of a resident of Lakshmipuram, which was playing in the street, had been nabbed away by one Dhanalakshmi , who had handed over the child to another Girija of Chennai.

The trail then lead the Special Branch police, according to the report- to a Perambur- Irumbuliyur Christian Priest – Alphonse Xavier, whom the Police have revealed to the newsmen, as the Leader of this ‘Kid’napping Ring.

 Kidnapper Linchpin Priest- also the Leader of a Political party

True to Kollywood style villainy, this Christian Priest, Alphonse has also launched his own Political Party recently- the Raja Reega Peoples Party.

We are not able to comment on this, however- because whatever these Rajareega or people must mean, whether such Royal Pursuits of such Christian Priests, or the Rule by such People or their supporters or ...it escapes understanding, so we give up. Suffice; we know that he was the leader of such Rajareega People.

This Girija who had sung like a bird, and exposed our Rajareega neta of kidnappers, had earlier been appointed as the leader of RRP party’s Perambur women’s wing.

Last December 4th the Paper says- she had kidnapped another boy Deva and handed him to Alphonse Xavier for which she was paid Rs.10,000/-

This boy had been sold through the RRP party’s Senchi taluk secretary one Selvam who is also a Christian Priest.

The Priest had gone absconding, after the cops rescued the boy from the Milkman to whom it had been sold at Devanampettai.

The whole Ring had been running a Christian Charity organisation in Perambur- the report says.

Christian kingpins of ‘Kid’nappers-No laughing matter

The above news was initially droll to read, but it seems it is no laughing matter- till we could connect this with the Global Sex Scandal of the Christian Church- where the revelations are not at all charming- but hair raising, involving the kids of the unsuspecting Laity.

It seems like, this Class of sacrosanct and pompous religiosity- had been so shielded from any public scrutiny and allowed free to go wearing frocks to do their nefarious activities, here in India, unlike the West where they have come under the heat of increasing query, investigations and merciless exposures- that this news might be the foretaste of a much larger and ghastly goings on.

This might just be the tip of an iceberg of a soon to come- devastating exposes of the Criminality of Christian Clergymen in India- something we had already been warning in our forums.

Our daftly cultivated aura of the pious Christian Clergymen, has made easy- the entrenchment of their dark and perverse influence- That Indian bogus secularism has thoughtlessly allowed to grow, among our culturally sensitive and refined Indian Society-in the name of Respect for Faith and Minority rights- An abominable travesty of religiosity-which is sad not just because the victims might be Christians themselves- but also most are our own uncared for sections converted by lure.
Alphonse Xavier

Exposed:Child smuggling racket in the South

Exposed:Child smuggling racket in the South 8 Jun 2010, 0836 hrs IST
The recent recovery of eight stolen children from Chennai has exposed one of the biggest child trafficking rackets in the south of India, with its tentacles spread across the country and the globe. As TIMES NOW investigates, the culprits in the racket pose as human rights activists in Tamil Nadu, steal children from unsuspecting parents and sell them to the highest bidder. 

According to the Krishnagiri police (Karnataka), this particular child trafficking racket was being run by two priests and a self-styled 'human rights activist'. The police have since the end of May rescued eight children who were reported missing from the district over an 18-month period, from various cities in the south. 

The police on Friday (June 4) booked five people including priest Alphonse Xavier and three women under the Goondas Act. They have also picked up a woman who claims to be the head of a self-styled human rights outfit. The probe indicates that the racketeers could have connections with a larger network. The invesigators believee that they may have been involved in the abduction and sale of at least a dozen more children. 

TIMES NOW discovered two of the eight children recently rescued, who are barely toddlers. One of them, Ajay, is now two years old and was found in Chennai. His parents have not been traced. Another child, Kalai Priya, is just a year old and was discovered in Puducherry. Her biological parents too, have yet to be traced. 

Both children were reportedly sold to childless couples. 

One of the players allegedly involved in the abduction of the eight children is a woman named Dhanalaxmi, who kidnapped the children from bus stands or hospitals after gaining the confidence of the parents. 

Dhanalakshmi handed over the kids - all between three months and three years of age - to Girija and Rani in Perambur in Chennai for a few thousand rupees. Girija then sold the kids, fi-ve boys and three girls, to childless parents in different locations in Tamil Nadu through the priest named Xavier in Padappai near Chennai - or self-proclaimed human rights activist Lalitha of Puducherry. 

According to the police, some kids were sold for as much as Rs 1 lakh each. The priest and Lalitha told the adoptive parents that the children were orphans, and even arranged for their birth certificates. 

"We have booked Alph-onse Xavier, Dhanalakshmi, Girija, her husband Siva and Rani under the Goondas Act," SP Babu said. "We plan further interrogation of Lalitha and the other priest, Selvam, who has also been arrested." 

The trafficking ring was exposed after Ramakka, a woman from Hosur, lodged a complaint with the police about the abduction of her 3-month-old son on May 18. She said a woman who had befriended her had kidnapped the child from the Krishnagiri bus stand. "I lost my child...she took him away from in front of my eyes," she tells TIMES NOW. 

The cops zeroed in on the suspect, Dhanalaxmi, the next morning but she had already handed over the child to two women from Perambur. "We then traced the child in Perambur and arrested three people there," a senior Krishnagiri police officer said. 

Dhanalakshmi confessed to have stolen a 3-year-old boy who was reported missing in December 2009 and said that the child had been handed over to a Alphonse Xavier for Rs 5000. Xavier and Selvam had sold the child to a family in Ginjee. "We arrested the priests and traced the boy, who was reunited with his parents last week," the Krishnagiri officer said. 

Another parent, Selvaraj has been reunited with his lost son. 

The child racketeers' network, allegedly masterminded by the priest Alphonse Xavier and Lalitha of Puducherry, has been found spread across Tiruvannamalai, Cuddalore, Villipuram, Chennai, Puducherry and Krishnagiri, but police say this is only the top of the iceberg. 

The arms of this network may be long indeed, reaching other parts of the world. For now however the priority for authorities is to trace the biological parents of all of these stolen children, a task that is blowing the lid off the ugly face of adoption in India.
 
Dhanalaxmi, Alphonse Xavier
India
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