జనాభా నియంత్రణపై కేంద్రానికి కోర్టు నోటీసులు

దేశంలో నానాటికీ పెరుగుతున్న జనాభాను నియంత్రించాలని భాజపా నేత, న్యాయవాది అశ్విని కుమార్ ఉపాధ్యాయ్ దాఖలు చేసిన వ్యాజ్యాన్ని నేడు విచారించింది దిల్లీ హైకోర్టు. ఈ పిటిషన్పై కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం స్పందించాలని ఆదేశించింది. తదుపరి విచారణ సెప్టెంబర్ 3న జరుపుతామని తెలిపింది.

Published : May 29, 2019, 4:30 PM IST

దేశంలో జనాభా నియంత్రణపై భాజపా నేత, న్యాయవాది అశ్విని కుమార్ ఉపాధ్యాయ్ దాఖలు చేసిన వ్యాజ్యాన్ని విచారించింది దిల్లీ హైకోర్టు. ఈ పిటిషన్పై కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం అభిప్రాయం చెప్పాలని ఆదేశించింది. తదుపరి విచారణ సెప్టెంబర్ 3న చేపడతామని తెలిపింది. ప్రధాన న్యాయమూర్తి జస్టిస్ రాజేంద్ర మీనన్ నేతృత్వంలోని ధర్మానసం ఈ మేరకు హోంమంత్రిత్వ శాఖతో పాటు న్యాయ సంఘానికీ నోటీసులు జారీ చేసింది.

జనాభా నియంత్రణకు కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం తగిన చర్యలు చేపట్టేలా కోర్టు ఆదేశాలివ్వాలని పిటిషనర్ అభ్యర్థించారు. జనాభాను నియంత్రించేందుకు రాజ్యాంగంలో ఆర్టికల్-47ఏను చేర్చాలన్న రాజ్యాంగ సమీక్ష జాతీయ కమిషన్(ఎన్సీఆర్డబ్ల్యూసీ) ప్రతిపాదనను పరిగణనలోకి తీసుకోవాలని కోరారు.

అధిక జనాభా వల్లే దేశంలో నేరాలు, కాలుష్యం పెరగుతున్నాయని, సహజ వనరులు, ఉద్యోగాలు తగ్గిపోతున్నాయని వ్యాజ్యంలో పేర్కొన్నారు.

ఇదీ చూడండి : జనాభా నియంత్రణ వ్యాజ్యం విచారణకు హైకోర్టు ఓకే

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1. 62-year-old amateur caver from Caen Philippe Poisson clipping his snap hook onto harness
2. Mid of Poisson and quarry historian and published author on WWII history of the caves Laurent Dujardin prepping their kits ahead of cave descent
3. Poisson making his way down ladder
4. Dujardin coming down well
5. Dujardin landing on his feet at bottom of well
6. Tracking of Dujardin (right) and Poisson walking through old underground stone quarry
7. Various of Dujardin and Poisson walking inside quarry
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Laurent Dujardin, quarry historian and published author on WWII history of the caves:
"At the front, here, is the first, let's say, 'occupation area' with 17 people living here for several weeks. So how do we know that? Thanks to Yvette Le Thimonnier, a witness whom we brought back down here and who was 12 years-old at the time – 11 at the time. She explained that she slept over in that area."
9. Mid of area where former refugee Yvette Le Thimonnier stayed and slept with her family
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10. Dujardin joining Le Thimonnier at table at his house in Caen
11. Mid of Le Thimonnier laughing
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Yvette Le Thimonnier, 86-year-old retiree who sought refuge in the caves in June and July of 1944:
"In the past, there were two large wooden doors. You would go down a ramp – mud up to your knees! I walked down in my white (communion) dress. That's how we arrived in the quarry and bit by bit, the Saingt family (owners of the brasserie sitting atop the quarry) led those who were passing by inside."
13. Cutaway of Le Thimonnier during interview
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Yvette Le Thimonnier, 86 year-old retiree who sought refuge in the caves in June and July of 1944:
"There were no pillows. It was, a sheet I think. We slept on straw. Rocks, straw and hessian cloth and some sort of blanket because we'd managed to get blankets back at the house. We slept anyway we could. And (there was) headlice, stinkbugs, fleas. There were cockroaches."
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15. Close of doll's head on quarry floor
16. Poisson bending down to look at objects refugees left behind
17. Close-up of corroded fork and spoon
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Laurent Dujardin, quarry historian and published author on WWII history of the caves:
"They brought a certain number of objects with them and go back to their houses when there's a lull in bombings. They brought more objects back. They brought chairs, tables, anything to be more comfortable. They brought chamber pots and cooking equipment. They brought back what they had at home. It's June, so they were starting to find vegetables (in their gardens). June, July. They brought whatever they could've saved – chickens, rabbits, it was a mixed bag."
19. War refugee living unit inside cave
20. Wide of Dujardin and Poisson walking through cave
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21. Various of Avro Lancaster heavy bombers dropping bombs near river Orne with large palls of smoke and fires burning
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Normandy - 1944
22. Various of Saint-Lo after airstrikes
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23. Close-up of Le Thimonnier
24. SOUNDBITE (French) Yvette Le Thimonnier, 86 year-old retiree who sought refuge in the caves in June and July 1944:
"We were so happy. It was my father who led them (Canadian troops) down to the quarry and who sang the 'Marseillaise' (French National Anthem). In the quarry. I will always remember the soldiers who were there and saluted him There were old people there, old-timers as you say, who were refugees like us and they all got up, it was night, they all got up as my father was singing the Marseillaise and everybody sang along. That's a memory that sticks, there's nothing I can do!"
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25. Refugee living unit inside cave with Dujardin in foreground
26. Close-up of a domino
27. Close-up of a corroded stove
28. SOUNDBITE (French) Laurent Dujardin, quarry historian and published author on WWII history of the caves:
"Even if many, were of course, very happy to be liberated, there's this feeling that some of the destruction was uncalled for and too important. That feeling is real. But well, time has passed. But it's a feeling that has endured. It's an ambivalent feeling."
29. Wide of Dujardin and Poisson walking through cave
STORYLINE:
The emotion of being liberated from Nazi occupation was so sweet and intense that French refugees burst into song.
A spontaneous rendition of "La Marseillaise" echoed around the underground network of dank, dark tunnels where they had been sheltering in their hundreds for weeks since D-Day, amid filth, fleas and the rumble of bombs.
Yvette Lethimonnier, a girl of just 11 years of age in the summer of 1944, when the Allied liberation of western Europe began, recalls her memories with vivid clarity.
Men who had previously served in France's military saluted when Canadian troops appeared in the refugees' cavern.
Even the most elderly clambered to their feet, roused by the thrill of sudden freedom.
All their voices joined in belting out the rousing words of the French anthem.
"Such happiness," the now 86-year-old Lethimonnier remembers.
"In fact, every time I hear 'La Marseillaise,' it has an indescribable effect on me.
Because I see my father again, in the quarry, singing it.
Without the huge underground stone quarries in and around the city of Caen, a major objective of the Allied invasion force that landed on beaches to the north on June 6, 1944, the civilian toll of roughly 20,000 French dead in the battle for Normandy would have been steeper still.
When World War II veterans and still grateful former Allied nations gather again in Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day to remember the feats and sacrifices of 75 years ago, there'll also be lower-key ceremonies to honour the civilian dead.
Even now, the work of understanding how Normans suffered through and survived their liberation continues.
Archeologists using laser scanners are mapping the quarry where Lethimonnier and other families found safety in the outskirts of Caen, shedding new light on a long-overshadowed, under-explored piece of D-Day history.
One of the best-preserved makeshift bomb-shelters, the cavern is a 1944 time-capsule, filled with traces of civilians' ordeals: abandoned shoes, a doll's head, broken plates, a rusty key, the long-rotted remains of their straw beds amid puddles and gooey mud.
The extreme precision of laser mapping is allowing programmers to computer-generate 3-D visualisations of the underground space and objects in it, to preserve the history for future generations.
Once posted online, possibly next year, the 3-D modeling will allow viewers to virtually visit the cavern and get a taste of the rat-like existence of refugees forced to shelter there.
"It will enable the public to understand what happened in the quarry, to visit it without actually going down," says Laurent Dujardin, a Caen historian and caver who has spent over a decade documenting wartime role of the quarries.
To dislodge Adolf Hitler's forces from towns and villages of northern France where they had for four years built defenses, the Allies sometimes had to destroy them, dropping tens of thousands of tonnes of bombs, firing salvos from warships at sea, and unleashing the ground forces that battled their way inland from the landing beaches.
St.-Lo, to name just one martyred Normandy town, was all but destroyed and later unflatteringly named "The Capital of the Ruins" by playwright Samuel Beckett.
Allied leaflets dropped before raids urged people to: "Leave now! You don't have a minute to lose."
Caen was heavily bombed and shelled and 2,000 of its inhabitants were killed.
D-Day planners had expected Allied troops to quickly take the city but German resistance was so furious that it instead took six weeks to liberate.
Civilians trapped in the fighting fell back in the network of quarries from which limestone had been extracted for centuries, to build churches and castles and faraway monuments such as the Tower of London and Cologne Cathedral.
Roughly one-third of the city's 60,000 inhabitants took refuge in its underground caverns, the biggest sheltering thousands of people.
During breaks in the fighting, refugees scavenged outside.
Lethimonnier says her father sliced meat for stew off the carcasses of farm animals that had been killed.
She would sneak out, too, clambering up a narrow shaft from the quarry to see the destruction for herself.
On one such escapade, chasing after a rumour that spread among kids in the cave that soldiers outside were distributing chocolate, she was injured by shrapnel from a shell-burst.
"The smells were horrific. There was a smell of burning. You could see a foot, an arm or a body in the ruins," Lethimonnier recalls.
The inevitable vanishing of witnesses from World War II makes the work of preserving the history only more urgent and a race against time.
To help archeologists better understand how refugees organised themselves in the quarry, with latrines in one dark corner, a makeshift kitchen by the entrance, and families marking out spaces for themselves in the dirt, Lethimonnier agreed to go into the dark again, lowered on a rope down the same narrow shaft she'd scaled as a girl.
She says returning to the cave was cathartic.
A picture of innocence when she went down the hole on the morning of D-Day, still wearing the white dress from her first communion two days earlier, Lethimonnier was a changed child when her family finally emerged nearly two months later, with the Allies then heading for Paris and beyond.
Their house was ruined, pockmarked with blast holes.
She remembers her father taking the boots off a German officer's corpse, because he'd lost his own shoes.
But Lethimonnier says she has also come to understand that the destruction unleashed by Allied forces was the price that had to be paid.
"They did what was necessary for us to get back our freedom," she says.
"It was difficult. But the simplest thing is to say, 'Thank you,'" she added.
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