ANNUAL HALL FUNCTION ORGANIZED BY SIR ZIAUDDIN HALL, AMU

(Report By- Md Arsalan)

Pic. 1: Arsalan interacting with the media.

Pic. 2: Mr. Javed Abdi along with other guests at the stage

On 2^nd May, 2015, Sir Ziauddin Hall, AMU organized its Annual Hall Function. The Annual Function included two days programme. On 1^st May, Cultural evening was celebrated in which intra-hall cultural events like Singing Competition, Just a minute and Add. Mad Show was conducted. Out of 611 students of the hall more than hundred students participated in the events making the evening a grand success.

Mr. Vivek Bansal, an Ex-MLC, AMU Aluminous and National Congress Spokesperson was the chief guest whereas, Mr. Shahrukh Khan, a social worker and member of National Council of Minorities and SC/ST Development Trust and Director of BK College of Technology and Management was the guest of honour for the day one programme.

Followed by the Cultural evening the next day on May 2^nd, by the enormous efforts of the Senior Hall - Mr. Waseem Ahmad Rana, Senior Food - Mr. Farhan Azdani, Provost - Prof. Imran Saleem and fifty other volunteers of the hall, very peacefully Hall Dinner was organized.

Pic. 3: Mr. Javed Abdi receiving the bouquet from Prof. Imran.

Mr. Javed Abdi, President of the Pollution Control Board, UP and an eminent politician and social worker presided over the programme. Firstly he paid a lot of tribute to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan by his words, “It’s all because of Sir Syed that I am standing over here and it is because of him you all are here”, said Mr. Abdi. He praised the students and encouraged them to work hard for their future. He further told that getting good government jobs by the students can only curb the milli issues.

Whereas, the District Judge Mr. Allah Rakhe Khan motivated the students to go for judicial services as it is an important tool in the decision and policy making of the country. Another guest of honour Mr. Khalid Masood, UP State Minister and former president AMUSU, came up on the stage and shared his past experiences and memories of his days at the university.

After the interaction of the guest, a token of gift was presented to them by the provost, which was followed by the distribution of mementos to 29 post holders and 35 Achievers, who brought laurels for the hall in respective fields.

Pic. 4: Prof. Imran Saleem interacting with the media.

Provost- Prof. Imran Saleem, in a very jolly way praised the students and filled them with lots of enthusiasm. “I am very much curious and keen to promote cultural activities inside the hall.” Said, Prof. Saleem. The Senior Hall- Mr. Waseem, Presented the Hall report for the academic session 2014-15. And finally Senior Food- Mr. Farhan Azdani, gave a vote of thanks to all the Guests, Provost, Wardens, Senior students, Staff and Student members of the hall for cooperating in all ways possible and maintaining the decorum of the programme.

Finally around 1800 students and staffs including guests had their dinner in an open lawn, enjoying the essence of AMU tradition and Culture.

AMU Students Organized Blanket Donation Camp.

Pic1. Students, Staff and Faculty Members engaged in distribution work.

Pic 2. Needy people standing in queue for there turn.

Report By- Md Arsalan

06^th Jan, 2014 – Students of Aligarh Muslim University organized blanket donation camp at Bab-e-Syed in which more than one thousand blankets were distributed among the poor and needy people. Blankets were mainly contributed by the AMU Students, Staff and Faculty Members.

At the camp Pro VC Brigadier Syed Ahm

Pic 3. Blankets ready for distribution.

ad Ali, AMU-EC Member Prof. Hafiz Iliyas, Dr. Shahid - Ex AMU-EC Member and Dr. Sher Afghan – ZHCET Principle made their presence. They appreciated the noble efforts of the students and encouraged them to work more for good causes. PRO VC told the students that these initiatives are the part of Sir Syed’s dreams. Prof. Hafiz Ilias also expressed his sympathy to thousands of poor people present over there. He shared his past experience in activism and assured the students to take guidance from him whenever required. A fortnight back these students also donated warm clothes to the slum dwellers at AMU Purani Chungi Gate.

The donation drive was mainly supervised by Syed Umer Qadri – Former VP AMUSU, Sayed Avesh – Student Activist and Shahab Shabbir – Research Scholar.

 Other students who volunteered were Parvez Alam (Ph.D), Mohd. Faraz (Ph.D), Khurshid Alam (Ph.D), Sadique Ahmad (Ph.D), Md Ahsan Khan (Ph.D), Dr. Ammar, Dr. Sameer, Tarique Pasha, Md Anas Ansari, Shoeb Ahmad, Mohd. Saquib, Moinuddin, Md Arsalan, Shahbaz Khan and Junaid Ahmad.

Faisal Khan a man of Inspiration

Faisal Khan turns out to be a true Alig and a real citizen of India. His social works for the social upliftment is incredible. Faisal Khan has dedicated his life in sorting out the problems of common and poor people. He is a man who is spreading the message of humanity and love. His dedication of work towards the society and country is amazing. He lives a very simple and decent life. Faisal Khan is working with NAPM and other organizations for decades. Association for Communal Harmony in Asia (ACHA) honored Faisal Khan with the ACHA Peace Star Awards 2010, in recognition for his works for communal harmony and peace across the country. Faisal Khan was also declared as TCN person of the year 2011. Inspired by the Gandhiyan ideology of non-violence and satyagrah, on January 20th, 2011, on the occasion of Frontier Gandhi’s 23rd death anniversary, fifty volunteers under the leadership of Faisal Khan, took the initiative of reviving Khudai Khidmatgar, by taking the oath to serve the humanity without seeking any worldly desire.Khudai Khidmatgar was a movement started by Frontier Gandhi, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, in 1930s to fight British rule through Satyagraha (Non-Violent struggles). But when Badshah Khan’s message of peace and Non-Violence, was forgotten by Pathans, Muslims and India, Faisal Khan in 2009 decided to revive the movement by adapting it to today’s Indian context. Faisal Khan’s most popular movement is “Beti Bachao Andolan” in respect to the women empowerment.

In the Muzaffarnagar riot hit areas Faisal Khan has put in his lots of efforts to save and help the victims by winter cloth collection and opening of school in the camp side areas and many more.

 To boost up the communal harmony Faisal Khan recently took initiative for a padyatra- 

“दिल जोड़ो, नफरत छोड़ो यात्रा, journey for love and harmony” from Bu-Ali-Shah-Qalandar, Panipath to Parmarth Ashram, Rishikesh. Covering almost 50 riot hit areas of Muzaffarnagar. Faisal Khan is an example of true Alig. We must learn from him.

SLUMS DWELLERS

The origin of the word slum is thought to be the Irish phrase 'S lom é (pron. s'lum ae) meaning "it is a bleak or destitute place. Literally slum refers to a kind of society which is lacking basic needs like food, clothes, shelter etc. In a country like India poverty is a great hindrance for development. Poverty restricts human resource, which beers a great importance in development.

There are thousands of problems which are caused due to poverty like lack of nutritional intake, inflectional and water borne diseases, poor health of women, unhealthy food, high infant mortality rate, low life expectancy, improper medical facilities, illiteracy etc. Overall one can say that there life is completely a mess.

In India government is making a good effort in removing poverty. In recent years government has adopted several plans for poor like MANREGA, Indira Aavaas, Pradhan Manatry Roozgar Yojna etc. All these government schemes are helping out poor to attain proper wealth in lieu to their efforts, these schemes are providing guaranteed employment with proper wages and implemented labour laws, some schemes like Indira Aavaas is providing a particular sum of money to the poor to build their houses. On another hand also some subsidies in rations are being provided to the people who come under below poverty line. Some health centers are also being built in the remote areas for proper check-up. Moreover government is on a track to promote education by making it compulsory for children up to fourteen years of age and many more such things.

These are some of the initiatives taken by the government to heal this problem of poverty. Though it will take time as all these things in practice doesn’t work smoothly. Some barriers like corruption etc. comes which are again a threat. Anyway, we should be optimistic and hope for a poverty free India.

-Arsalan Mohammad

5 Environmental Problems Faced By Human Beings

                                             

                                                      Mohammad Arsalan
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In lieu of this very alluring topic, I would like to put my humble points regarding the fact that has not only contaminated the environment but has created an alarm of human extinction. It’s not plague, it’s by which plague is created, and most of the diseases known. It’s pollution. Not only the pollution we see in daily life but the pollution which had penetrated into land, in water and in air.

There is not a single area left which is not affected by these villainies of human creations. With the creation of more modern tools came more dangerous and more vicious threat in front of the creator himself. The advent of factories led to the arrival of water and air infectivity. The nature has the power to cure herself but to what extent? Are we not standing on the edge of nature’s vexation which may lead to our own extinction? The water we drink, the air we breathe are so affected by these waste that it had led to water and air born diseases like cholera, typhoid, jaundice, malaria and many more. These death threatening diseases do not only spread to oneself but most of the diseases spread through air and affect more and more number of people. The cause and carrier are same.

Another very talked about environmental disaster is global warming. It is defined as the increase in the average temperature of the earth near surface, air, and ocean since the mid 20th century and its projected continuation. There is a lot of heat caused to the earth due to the green house gasses that get rapt in the sun’s rays thereby causing global warming. Higher temperatures are expected to be accompanied by changing patterns of precipitation frequency and intensity, changes in soil moisture and a rise of the global sea level. To assess current examples relating to global warming, an examination is first needed on these examples; Sea levels could rise six feet and up in future centuries. The entire Amazon rainforest will be lost if the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases by more than 50%. But no matter whatever action the world takes to stop global warming, sea levels are set to rise and wipe out several island nations. The worst news is that whatever governments do to cut emissions, sea levels will rise by at least 2 meters over the next few hundred years. Low-lying farmland and cities occupied by hundreds of millions of people will also be engulfed.

As we become more technologically advanced, we produce materials that can withstand extreme temperatures, are durable and easy to use. Plastic bags, synthetics, plastic bottles, tin cans, and computer hardware- these are some of the products that make life easy for us. But what we forget is that these advanced products do not break down naturally. Plastic bags are difficult and costly to recycle and most end up on landfill sites where they take around 300 years to photo degrade. They break down into tiny toxic particles that contaminate the soil and waterways and enter the food chain when animals accidentally ingest them. But the problems surrounding waste plastic bags starts long before they photo degrade.
 

When we dispose them in a garbage pile, the air, moisture, climate, or soil cannot break them down naturally to be dissolved with the surrounding land. Our planet is becoming increasingly contaminated by our unnecessary use of plastic carry bags. Big black bin liners, plastic carrier bags carrying advertising logos, clear sandwich bags, vegetable bags and a variety of other forms used to carry our daily food items and other items are all polluting our environment. Just take a look around you. Plastic bags can be seen hanging from the branches of trees, flying in the air on windy days, settled amongst bushes and floating on rivers. They clog up gutters and drains causing water and sewage to overflow and become the breeding grounds of germs and bacteria that cause diseases.

Solid Industrial Waste creates hazardous gasses to reach atmosphere and thereby also making them accessible in common place and in result affecting more number of people.   One of the main problems in dealing with studies on landfill sites is the distinction between sites for municipal solid wastes and sites for other wastes. The definition of different types of waste is far from being standardized across the world. The terms hazardous, special, toxic, industrial, and commercial, etc, are variously applied in different countries and time periods to designate non-household wastes. In earlier time periods definitions were even less clear and some disposal sites may have switched categories (e.g. if they used to take industrial waste they may now only take municipal waste). Solid waste is discarded materials other than fluids. In addition enormous tonnages of food residues, yard trimmings, textiles, plastics, and sludge formed in sewage treatment were produced. Although the amount of the increase has been slowed somewhat by recycling and composting programs and improvements in packaging, the amount of solid waste continues to increase annually.

Lastly we will discuss the eco-environmental effect of mining. I am categorizing the following thing into points so as to make the understanding more clear and apparent.

• ü  Induced geological disasters.
• ü  Changes in hydrological and geological conditions and water pollution.
• ü  Soil degradation and pollution due to mining.
• ü  Mine solid residue.
• ü  Increased soil erosion.
• ü  Loss of biodiversity.

Conclusion: There is a requirement for more severe and stern policies, which have to be applied to remove the ill-effect of the progress in regard of progress, and then, we can truly achieve the pinnacle for which technology was created.

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