Stand up for your Rights

Dear Sanjay,

The only other choice we have is wait for someone to erupt from another planet and course correct.

And for all those who are perpetually mixing Duties with rights have a simple question: Are you failing in your duty thus far? If not then it is time to stand up and own both opportunities and threats and demand rights else the gap is bound to widen and cause distrust and damage.

It is simple if you are performing your part of duties. By Exercising your rights you are only demanding that others entrusted with various responsibilities as well do the same. The only other solution that may be available is wait for someone else to come from another planet and get things in order.

WE MUST STAND UP FOR OUR RIGHTS BUT IT MUST BE RIGHT.

Hi to all here and on the other side of the divide :-)

It was the duty of the laborers at the Union Carbide Plant to see that things were clean, spic & span and running without any fault. What they got from Dow Chemical was a defunct plant which had a flawed design. The laborers kept complaining about small leaks that kept happening again and again. Even after one person was killed their seniors dint provide them with a better designed plant and storage system. The supervisors kept asking them to do their duty by stating “These things do happen in chemical plants. Don’t worry. Do your duty. Etc. Etc.”. Now the laborer who died had a RIGHT to live. His RIGHT to life would have been taken care of if the owners of company dint give the Indians a faulty plant. Right to life is greater than Doing the Duty. I can do my duty only when I live.

Please take not of this:-

One takes up a job or a profession (either on his own volition or because of circumstances) and the work he or she must do towards fulfilling the task assigned is considered to be his duty. (Please note that a son taking care of his aged parents is not the son’s duty but his responsibility). To fulfill ones duty one need not like or not like his/her task.

Also in most cases the following is not taken proper care of –

-              Safety (as for labor in mines, electricity department, sewage workers, etc.)

-              Risk factor (Electricity Department, Sewage, Private Security, Fire personnel, etc.)

Where as it is the RIGHT of these personnel to be provided with the requisite safety equipment by their superiors / employers (not faulty bullet proof vest as provided to Mumbai Police some time ago). It is also their RIGHT to ensure (by checking and rechecking) these safety equipments are working properly.

The personnel at the Union Carbide were just pointing out the faulty and often leaky plant to their supervisor as it was their RIGHT to work in a safe environment. To ask them to do their duty in a deadly environment (without providing adequate safety) amounts to homicide.

Hence, there is a thin line separating “Duty First” and “Right First” and RIGHT wins out.

Yes absolutely you are Mr.Sachin Kumar.

Thanks for the referral

i am in complete agreement with Sachin.i value such an argument.

Rightly said Mr Sachin. Thanks for the referral.

Yes, everyone must stand up for their rights and as well ensure to respect other peoples rights.

"My right has no right to become a wrong for someone else".

If politicians, bureaucrats and people in power could understand this India surely would have been much more prosperous and for long time. We continue to suffer because the power is misunderstood, mishandled and allowed to, gets mostly used for self benefit and not the purpose for which it was bestowed.

We must all stand up for our rights..but before that it is very important to what our rights are. We must learn to question everything that comes our way...this way only we get can justice.

i am fully agreed with sachin....

Respect other people's rights first. Then the chances are you wont have to stand up for yours. They will be respected automatically.

Often, though guaranteed by even law, rights are socially meant to be earned by proper behaviour. The worst thing one can do is to take them for granted and demand them as obviously yours.

I am in agreement with Sachin on the subject but at the same time as Sachin said one should not forget that with every right there is a duty to the nation. Very well said Sachin.

Yes, Stand up and fight for your Rights. Also, fight for that which is Right. 

But don't take it too far and stamp on other's rights when fighting for your rights, like some do. For example, Forced "Bunds" or "Hartals" have lost their meaning and for the sake of few many others suffer. Like daily wage earners, people traveling, etc., etc. If the Bus Union call for a strike for the sake of a few 100 or 1000 bus company employees, millions of common public suffer. So the Bus Company Employees are correct, in their opinion, to fight for their Rights where as the general public are getting stamped. 

Well such examples can go on and on ...

of course we should stand up for our rights...... but many are not aware of their rights that is the problem with Indians, So educate them their rights, then they will fight for it........