03-13-2006, 06:32 PM
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State board chief assaulted for insult to Tukaram
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The state education board chairman was assaulted by some Warkaris â a religious sect â over a question in the Marathi paper of the HSC exams saying it showed Sant Tukaram in bad light.
<b>In the concerned question, students were required to answer questions from a paragraph. In one of the passages, Sant Tukaram was allegedly quoted as saying that he is mad, illiterate and a villager. This section of the paragraph angered the Warkaris, who worship Tukaram as a saint. </b>
The exam was held on Tuesday. On Friday, about 150 of them, reportedly including doctors, accountants, MA graduates, went to the board office in Shivaji Nagar, Pune and demanded to meet Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education chairman Vasant Kalpande to voice their protest.
A delegation of 15-20 people who hail from Alandi village were permitted to meet Kalpande.
The delegation objected to the way the saint was portrayed in the question paper.
While voicing their protest in chaste English, one member of the delegation who was carrying a staff assaulted Kalpande. He collapsed under the impact.
Kalpandeâs peon, V D Takale, intervened to save Kalpande who escaped and locked himself up in his ante room.
Takale suffered the brunt of the Warkarisâ rage.
They thrashed Takale before leaving the board office shouting slogans and demanding action against the person responsible for the âinsultâ to the saint. Deccan Police Station Senior Inspector B R Patil said they have registered a complaint against the attackers.
Suresh Pawar, regional joint secretary (Pune), MSBSHE said the board would investigate the matter and assured action against the person who set the question paper.
He also said that the board would see to it that the mistake was not repeated.
⢠âThe board will investigate the matter and action will be taken against the person who set the question paperâ
â Suresh Pawar, regional joint secretary (Pune), MSBSHE
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Warkaris in Kalyan go to war on Tukaram
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Warkari community âknown as ardent followers of Saint Tukaram âis on the warpath after an incident which they believe is a slur on Maharashtraâs revered saint.
On Monday evening, over 200 Warkaris from Kalyan and nearby areas staged a protest at the tehsildarâs office against the higher secondary education board for casting aspersions on the 17th century saint in the HSC Marathi question paper on February 21.
<b>The Marathi paper set for HSC students this year had a passage on page four which said that Tukaram belonged to the business community known as Vani in Maharashtra. The protestors dismissed this as completely wrong information and said the saint did run a shop but was not a Vani, and by birth was a Maratha.
The first line in the passage said Tukaram was a rustic who knew nothing of business. The passage claimed that Tukaram chose to became a saint and recite abhangs (devotional song form) after he ran huge losses in his business. The passage also said this catapulted Tukaram to fame.</b>
A delegation of the protesters handed over a memorandum to the tehsildar, the chief minister, the home minister and the education minister.
They demanded strict action be taken against the person who wrote the passage and higher secondary education board chairman Dr Vasant Kalpande for insulting the saint and hurting the sentiments of Warkaris.
âIf the state government does not take action against people responsible for the insult to the great saint, we will start Jail Bharo andolan throughout the stateâ said Padmakar Lele from the Kalyan Bhajan Mandali.
âThey (the board) are misguiding the new generation by writing this rubbish about saintsâ said 70-year-old Dattatray Derwankar, member of the Kalyan Bhajan Mandali.
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TOI:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Taking serious cognisance of the lapse, board chairman Vasant Kalpande ordered an inquiry. He released a statement saying that an inquiry committee had been set up under Dada Gore, convenor of the Marathi language academic board, to look into the matter.
"Stern action will be taken against those responsible for including the paragraph in the paper," Kalpande said. A three-member team of Marathi subject experts, drawn from different divisions of the state board, was assigned the task of setting the paper.
Each member will now be heard by the Gore panel, which will also inquire into other related evidence prior to reaching a conclusion<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
State board chief assaulted for insult to Tukaram
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The state education board chairman was assaulted by some Warkaris â a religious sect â over a question in the Marathi paper of the HSC exams saying it showed Sant Tukaram in bad light.
<b>In the concerned question, students were required to answer questions from a paragraph. In one of the passages, Sant Tukaram was allegedly quoted as saying that he is mad, illiterate and a villager. This section of the paragraph angered the Warkaris, who worship Tukaram as a saint. </b>
The exam was held on Tuesday. On Friday, about 150 of them, reportedly including doctors, accountants, MA graduates, went to the board office in Shivaji Nagar, Pune and demanded to meet Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education chairman Vasant Kalpande to voice their protest.
A delegation of 15-20 people who hail from Alandi village were permitted to meet Kalpande.
The delegation objected to the way the saint was portrayed in the question paper.
While voicing their protest in chaste English, one member of the delegation who was carrying a staff assaulted Kalpande. He collapsed under the impact.
Kalpandeâs peon, V D Takale, intervened to save Kalpande who escaped and locked himself up in his ante room.
Takale suffered the brunt of the Warkarisâ rage.
They thrashed Takale before leaving the board office shouting slogans and demanding action against the person responsible for the âinsultâ to the saint. Deccan Police Station Senior Inspector B R Patil said they have registered a complaint against the attackers.
Suresh Pawar, regional joint secretary (Pune), MSBSHE said the board would investigate the matter and assured action against the person who set the question paper.
He also said that the board would see to it that the mistake was not repeated.
⢠âThe board will investigate the matter and action will be taken against the person who set the question paperâ
â Suresh Pawar, regional joint secretary (Pune), MSBSHE
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Warkaris in Kalyan go to war on Tukaram
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Warkari community âknown as ardent followers of Saint Tukaram âis on the warpath after an incident which they believe is a slur on Maharashtraâs revered saint.
On Monday evening, over 200 Warkaris from Kalyan and nearby areas staged a protest at the tehsildarâs office against the higher secondary education board for casting aspersions on the 17th century saint in the HSC Marathi question paper on February 21.
<b>The Marathi paper set for HSC students this year had a passage on page four which said that Tukaram belonged to the business community known as Vani in Maharashtra. The protestors dismissed this as completely wrong information and said the saint did run a shop but was not a Vani, and by birth was a Maratha.
The first line in the passage said Tukaram was a rustic who knew nothing of business. The passage claimed that Tukaram chose to became a saint and recite abhangs (devotional song form) after he ran huge losses in his business. The passage also said this catapulted Tukaram to fame.</b>
A delegation of the protesters handed over a memorandum to the tehsildar, the chief minister, the home minister and the education minister.
They demanded strict action be taken against the person who wrote the passage and higher secondary education board chairman Dr Vasant Kalpande for insulting the saint and hurting the sentiments of Warkaris.
âIf the state government does not take action against people responsible for the insult to the great saint, we will start Jail Bharo andolan throughout the stateâ said Padmakar Lele from the Kalyan Bhajan Mandali.
âThey (the board) are misguiding the new generation by writing this rubbish about saintsâ said 70-year-old Dattatray Derwankar, member of the Kalyan Bhajan Mandali.
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TOI:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Taking serious cognisance of the lapse, board chairman Vasant Kalpande ordered an inquiry. He released a statement saying that an inquiry committee had been set up under Dada Gore, convenor of the Marathi language academic board, to look into the matter.
"Stern action will be taken against those responsible for including the paragraph in the paper," Kalpande said. A three-member team of Marathi subject experts, drawn from different divisions of the state board, was assigned the task of setting the paper.
Each member will now be heard by the Gore panel, which will also inquire into other related evidence prior to reaching a conclusion<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->