Swasthya Siksha Unnayan (Health, Education and Development) is the organ of pro-people initiatives, creativities and movements mainly on health, education, development, science, culture and environment. It focuses its main activities in West Bengal and other states of Eastern and North – Eastern India. It tries and vows for study, analyze, research, contribute, support, share, participate, co-ordinate, develop and enrich these pro-people events for better outcome and impact on livelihood, entitlement and aspiration of the people with special attribute to down trodden, underprivileged, neglected, marginalized and challenged population.
It publishes a tri-monthly magazine in Bengali language both as hard copy and e-version and also time to time publishes popular publications on important classical and contemporary pertinent subjects.
It fights and facilities for universal health and education coverage; food, employment, life insurance and pension guarantee for elderly persons; emancipation of women, dalits, adivasis, refugees, destitute and minorities as well as vows and pledges for essential eco-friendly low-cost high yield inclusive and sustainable agriculture, industry and development. It extends solidarity to ongoing pro-people and democratic people’s initiatives and movements. It is a completely voluntary organization where its volunteers are rendering contributions and services completely voluntarily in addition to their familial, professional, individual, group and / or organizational activities with happiness and satisfaction.
Our Meetings
The Editorial Board, Production Team, friends and well wishers of ‘Swasthya Siksha Unnayan (SSU)’ met together on 28.05.2016. Despite pan-election violence and terror in several parts of West Bengal, our friends from different parts of the state including Jharkhand participated. Another encouraging feature is that the leading organizers of on-going people’s science and rationalist movement of our state also participated in the meeting.
Naturally an elaborate discussion on prospects and challenges of people’s science and rationalist movement in present situation, where fundamentalist religious terrorist forces backed by the big capital and kowtow states are on rampage, was held with a call to strengthen and co-ordinate the movements. The meeting reiterated the resolutions and programmes of the meetings of 27 February and 26 March 2016; condemned the arrest and harassment of our colleague Dr. Saibal Jana, a people’s doctor and The Director, Shahid Hospital, Chhattisgarh and hailed the initiatives of our colleagues to develop sustainable health services in the remote islands of Sundarban and peoples’ science initiatives in North 24 Parganas, Nadia, Coochbehar and Paschim Medinipur.
Amidst unholy money-snatching networks comprising corporate and private hospitals – dishonest doctors – dishonest health workers – touts etc. as well as non-functioning, shabby and patient-unfriendly environment in government hospitals some of our friends would like to prepare a directory of health institutes where low – cost and / or rational treatment can be availed by common people. Wide variation of prices of drugs in different outlets, non availability of essential drugs, suspicious activities of Govt. sponsored ‘Fair Price Shops’, fallacies of so called ‘Free Treatment’, efficacy of drugs sold in the market in different ways, corruption from Big Pharma up to procurement and distribution set up etc. and their aftermath to the health and economy of common people were seriously discussed. And it was decided that a popular updated and interesting booklet on ‘Manusher Chikitshar Jonyo Osudh, Na Brihat Puji O Mafiader Laver Jonyo Osudh’ and an updated edition of the booklet ‘ Health System of West Bengal – Availabilities and Opportunities’ will be published from our Publication Wing. Our publisher and printer friends are also taking an excellent initiative to arrange proper display and sale of different little magazines.
Next issue of SSU will be published in September, 2016 and all are requested to collect suitable articles and fund from our friends and well wishers. The house decided to strengthen the education component in the magazine. Topics, detail lay out and distributions of job for the next issue were discussed. Editorial Board and Publication Team will meet regularly. Next General Meeting will be held on 27.08.2016.
Our Well Wishers
South Bengal
Amit Bandopadhaya: S 18 Vidyasagar Bhavan, 10 Raj Krishna Street, Kolkata 700006
Arun Sen: Sundarban Sramajibee Haspatal, Sarberia, South 24 Parganas 743329
Basudeb Mukhopadhaya, Pavlov Institute, 98 M.G. Road, Kolkata 700009
Bhabani Prasad Sahoo: Ghole, Chaulkhola, Purba Medinipur 721455
Bijon Bhattacharya: Railway New Market, Canning, South 24 Parganas 743329, bijonjsscng@gmail.com
Debasish Dutta: 8 Raja Gurudas Street Kolkata 700006
Debasish Bhattacharya, Shramajibi Swasthya,, 388 Dakhindari Road, Kolkata 700048
Jiban Kumar De, 1 D.N. Ghosh Lane, Kolkata 700027
Jnan Sil: 11/2/1A Becharam Chatterjee Road Kolkata 700034
Kamalendu Chakrabarty: 233, Pirgacha, Bamunmura Road, PO Badu, North 24 Parganas 700128
Mukunda Gayen, Dayapur, Gosaba, South 24 Parganas 743370
N. Zulfikar, Dipan, Ronia – Thakuraniberia, South 24 Parganas 743376
Nirmalendu Nath, 108 Banerjee Road, Naihati, North 24 Parganas 743165
Prabir Paul: 19/2 Bhola Nath Nandi Road Howrah 711104
Punyobrata Gun: HA 44, Salt Lake, Sector III, Kolkata 700097
Rajashri Das Gupta, 218 B Lake Terrace Extension, Kolkata 700029
Sanjib Mukhopadhaya: 38 U Sultan Alam Road, Kolkata
Susanta Roy, 44/18/1 Brindaban Mallik Lane, Howrah 711101
Suvendu Das Gupta, 49/24/2 Prince Golam Md. Shah Road, Kolkata 700033
Swapan Jana, 501 Dumdum Park, Kolkata 700055
Tushar Chakrabarty, D 629 Lake Gardens, Kolkata 700045
Birbhum-Murshidabad- Nadia-Bardhaman-Hooghly Region
Bibartan Bhattacharya: Kanthalpuli, PO Chakdah, Nadia 741222
Binayak Sen, B 1 / 152, Kalyani, Nadia 741235
Biswanath De, Koras Theatre Group, Kandi, Murshidabad
Joydeb De, 585 Ajoy Banerjee Road, Binodnagar, Kanchrapara, N 24 Paraganas 743145
Kunal Kumar Dutta, 3 Abinash Ch. Banerjee Road, Rishra, Hooghly 712205
Moinak Mukhopadhaya: Kundupukur Burdwan 713101
Phani Bhattacharya: Sramajibee Haspatal, 5 G. T. Road, Howrah 711202
Rupak Ghosh: Paschim Palli, Shantiniketan, Birbhum 731235
Sanat Roy Chowdhury: Fulpukur, Chinsurah, Hooghly 712101
Sitangsu Kumar Bhaduri, 11A/2, Dr. P. N. Mukherjee Street,
Chatra, Serampore, Hooghly, 712 204 sitangsukumar@gmail.com
Subir Bandopadhaya: 8 / 3 Samabay Path, PO: Nabanagar, Hooghly 712246
Sunil Soren: Lalkuthi Para, Siuri, Birbhum 731101
Sudeshna Roy Chowdhury: 19 / 1 / B A. C. Road, Indraprastha, Baharampur, Murshidabad 742103
Sumana Gupta: 36/1 A Madhupur Road, Baharampur, Murshidabad 742101
Asansol-Bankura-Purulia-Paschim Medinipur Region
Joya Mitra: A. S. 3 / 28 / 2 Kalyanpur Housing Board Asansol 713305
Kamal Chakrabarty: Bhalopahar, PO Lata, Bandowan, Purulia 723129
Partha Roy, Professor Colony, Lalbandh, Bishnupur, Bankura – 722122
Pijush Sarkar: Amader Haspatal, Fulberia, Bankura 722136
Ranjan Acharya: Rabindra Pally, North Lake Road, Purulia 723101
Samir Das Gupta, Nivedita Sarani, 4/1 Sarat Palli, Durgapore, Bardhaman 713206
Saranan Panda: Eral, Sabang, Paschim Medinipur 721144
North Bengal Region
Anita Mazumder: 25 D. L. Roy Sarani, Mahanandapara, Siliguri, Darjeeling 734001
Jatiswar Bharati, Sukhsagar Apartments, Sialpara, Jalpaiguri – 735101
Jayanta Bhattacharya: Tulshitala, Raigunj, Uttar Dinajpur 733134
Monidipa Kirtania, Dakshin Chak Bhavani, Balurghat, Dakshin Dinajpur 733101
Partha Pratim Das Gupta, Esan Apartments, Englishbazar, Maldah 732101
Pradipan Gangully: T/3 New Milan Pally, Siliguri Bazar, Darjeeling 734005
Purba Bandopadhaya: Naren Sen Sarani, Balurghat, Dakshin Dinajpur 733101
Subrata Saha: Post Office More, Mathabhanga, Coochbehar 736146
Sudeb Saha: Milanpara, Raigunj, Uttar Dinajpur 733134
Suman Goswami: College Road, Alipurduar Court, Alipurduar 736122
Suvam Bhattacharya: Gitanjali Market, Balurghat, Dakshin Dinajpur 733101
Tapan Das, Susrut Seva Kendra, Badurbagan, Coochbehar 736101
Tripti Santra: Air view Complex, Maheshmati, Englishbazar, Maldah 732101
Other States
Jagannath Chatterjee, B/L 76, VSS Nagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751007
Prabir Chatterjee, SHRC, Bijli Chowk, Kalibadi, Raipur, Chhattisgarh 492001
Samit Kumar Carr, 1011, Satluj Vijayas Shatabdi Sarani, Jamsedpur, Jharkhand 831011
Shyamal Bhattacharya, Lenin Sarani, Akhaura Road, Agartala, Tripura
Somen Chakrabarty: P 53 Suruchi Apartments, Dwarka, New Delhi 100075
Abroad
Bimal Maity, 13 Oakwood Drive, Keysborough, Victoria 3172, Australia
Claudio Schuftan, 121 A 38 Street, Binh Trung Tay, District 2, Saigon Vietnam
Dilip K. Som: 19706 Maycrest Way, Germantown, MD 20876, USA, 301-512-1295, dksom2013@gmail.com
Kausik Sen: Sporting Club Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Rahul Mukhopadhaya: B 95 S.S. Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Brisley Green East, UK