Dear Pavanaja,
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
You have received an annual compensation of about *17 Lakhs* last year
(that also excludes travel and other reimbursements) as per the declaration
made by Vishnu on the talk page of this proposal [1]. This came from the
funds granted to CIS that was received from WMF through FCRA. And this will
be increased by 20% for this year?
Further, for Kannada alone, *12.3 Lakhs* seem to be set aside out of which
you seem to be the primary beneficiary. [2]
And all this while, you have been a columnist for Prajavani.
This seems to be a clear violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act
as outlined by Srikanth on the copied email.
Regards,
[1] -
On 13 May 2014 22:29, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <rsrikanth05(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Pavanaja,
as per the FCRA:
3. (1) No foreign contribution shall be accepted by any- (g) association
or company engaged in the production or broadcast of audio news or audio
visual news or current affairs programmes through any electronic mode, or
any other electronic form as defined in clause ® of sub-section (I) of
section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 or any other mode of mass
communication; (h) correspondent or columnist, cartoonist, editor, owner of
the association or company referred to in clause (g).
Writing a weekly column, as a freelancer makes one a columnist.
On 13 May 2014 15:52, Pavanaja U B <pavanaja(a)vishvakannada.com> wrote:
Hi,
There is a factual error. I am not employed with Prajavani. I write just
one column per week as freelancer.
Regards,
Pavanaja
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Hi all, I have one important question here.
The Foreign Contribution Regulatory Act prohibits money received from
abroad to be used as payments or salaries to anyone employed with the press
or media.
I believe Dr. Pavanaja is a columnist for Prajavani. How does this work
out?
It's just a preemptive question.
On 12 May 2014 17:45, Hari Prasad Nadig <hpnadig(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Fellow Wikimedians,
As you all know, Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore has sought
funding of about *1.8 Crores* through the FDC process from Wikimedia
Foundation to carry out work on seven local language projects in India that
includes Kannada, Telugu among others. [1]
The funds primarily cover the salaries of the people belonging to the
CIS-A2K team among other administrative expenses and other expenses as
outlined on their proposal page.
The proposal was up for Community review and comments until April 30th
and many have recorded their response about it [2]. Several community
members have come forward in pointing out that the staff salaries being
paid and that being proposed - are quite on the higher side (which is up to
2.4 Lakhs per month per person).
Apart from the concerns on extremely high salaries for Indian norms of
the team members of CIS-A2K team, there have been some serious concerns
raised about some apparent Conflict of Interest [3] and non-compliance with
the local laws (mainly Karnataka Societies act and the Foreign Contribution
Regulation Act).
However, looks like the proposal has moved forward through the FDC
process for funding despite the concerns raised and has gotten through to
the next stage.
More concerns have now been raised by several community members on the
Staff Assessment discussion page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/…
I invite you to participate in the discussion and help steer this in the
right direction.
[1] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_C…
[2] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/…
[3] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_J…
Thank you,
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