WINTER INTERNSHIP PEOPLE’S UNION

FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES

PERIOD OF INTERNSHIP – 18th January- 16th February 2019

NAME- HIMANGI SHARMA
COLLEGE- S.S. Jain Subodh Law College, Jaipur
COURSE NAME- B.A. LL.B.
SEMESTER – 1st
18 January
Today was my first day of internship I reached PUCL Office at 9 a.m. and interacted with coordinator
Ravi Kiran Shukre who helped me to register and then I interacted with Pappu Sir who explained me
further procedure of writing joining application and getting my registration done. I along with my co-
interns were assigned the work to visit Mahila Thana at Gandhi Nagar where we were supposed to visit
child care unit and Mahila Suraksha and Salah Grah and understand its functioning by interacting with
people and staff over there , after completion of our work we headed towards PUCL office.

19 January
Today we reached around 10. Me along with my team was assigned the work to find the news related
to human rights in the newspaper and to separate it category vice and arrange them in files . We also
saw practice of Nukkad Natak. Later we were also a part of meeting at PUCL office by Mamta ma’am
and Naseer sir.

20 January
This day a meeting was held at the PUCL Office, headed by Kavita Ma’am. She asked for the feedback
from the various schools and colleges that we went to and guided us regarding the program to be held
in 30th January. We also discussed Gandhiji’s ideas on Cow slaughter and why didn’t he wanted it to be
banned. He believed that no one can be stopped from following their religious beliefs and as cow
slaughter is believed to be holy in the Muslim religion, we should not stop such acts. Then we went to
the Kisan Bhawan in a conference where we saw a documentary on the Dalit women rights. the
documentary was all about the movement by the Dalit women demanding their rights. We were given a
chance to review the film also and many suggestions were made as to how could movie be enhanced. It
was a good way to let the people know what the suppresses caste women go through and what can be
done to improve their condition and give them their rights.

21 January
We were told to complete all the required information about the colleges and schools who were invited
for the 30th January programme. Later, we had the discussion about Gandhi's view on cow slaughter. I
agree with Gandhiji on the part that we cannot stop anybody from following their religion as nobody
can stop us. As Muslims cannot stop us from worshipping idols, similarly we cannot stop them from
consuming beef. Later in the afternoon, we watched a movie named 'Gandhi', an Oscar winner. The film
is about how Gandhi followed the path of nonviolence and peace to make India free from the Britishers
and all his struggle in doing so. It also shows Gandhi's views on making of the Indian constitution. The
film shows Gandhiji as the 'real hero' who let this county get freedom and made the people of this
country learn brotherhood and fight against injustice. Overall the film was a deep insight into Gandhi's
life struggles.

22 January
We all had a discussion regarding the coming week programme i.e. the Constitution week. The Nukkad
team and the Gandhi play team were to perform at different places and the groups were formed
respectively. Then we watched a video on difference between Hinduism (Hindu dharma) and Hindutva.
Hinduism is a religion which he people follow but Hindutva is a political agenda. Different characteristics
of Hinduism were explained by Mr. Joshi and he also explained how it is confused with Hindutva. The
second lecture was about the RSS ideologies and its origin. The video explained how the RSS people and
ABVP cam into being and how their ideologies are against Muslim people.

23 January
We all gathered at the PUCL Office to see a series named ‘Samvidhan’, which is based on making of the
Indian Constitution. We saw an episode which strives towards the making of the constitution and how
and what amendments were demanded in the preamble by the people of the constituent assembly. It
tells us that the making of the preamble was not an easy task and many things had to be taken into
consideration as it is the soul of the constitution. Further, we saw an episode that focussed on the
making of the fundamental rights and it showed us the need for various fundamental rights for the
citizens of India.

Post Lunch, we all were divided into teams to make posters and the other props to be used for the
program for the constitutional week and also did song practice.

24 January
We all gathered at the Bhawani Niketan Girls college for the first event of the constitutional week. First,
they welcomed us gracefully with NCC claps. We showed them the episodes of ‘Samvidhan’ to show
them how the constitution if India came into being, followed by a discussion with Kavita Ma’am. We
also sang songs there and performed a Nukkad Natak there, to let the girls know the girls know the
value of their decisions and how they should fight for their rights. Later in the afternoon, we all went to
the Vinobha Gyan Mandir to watch the screening for the Movie ‘Ammi’, directed by Mr. Sunil. The
movie is based on a boy named Nazeeb Ahmed, a student of Jawahar Lal Nehru University, Delhi, who
disappeared 15 days after taking admission into the college. It also showed how the ABVP supporters
tried to politicize the Delhi Police with their ideologies. They also tried to portray Nazeeb as a terrorist.
The movie beautifully shows the protests done by the close friends and relatives of Nazeeb and most
importantly his mother. The director of the film, when asked about the difficulties faced during the
making of the film told us that handling the tears a Mom who has lost her child was the most difficult
part.

25 January
On this day, we went to the Indira Gandhi Panchayat Sansthan for a discussion on
“Rajasthan Jawabdehi Kanoon”. The session discussed the implementation of Rajasthan Accountability
Bill in the upcoming Budget Session. The Panel consisted of various prominent members like Aruna Roy
Ma’am, Mr. Harsh Mander, Mr. Nikhil Dey among others. Also me along with some others were
assigned the work to sell diaries by Aruna Roy ma’am money from which was to be used for charitable
work.

We heard the grievances from various farmers and Government workers with issues regarding pending
pensions and other pending benefits from other government schemes. The honourable Chief Minister
of Rajasthan, Mr. Ashok Gehlot also visited the event listening to the grievances of the people and
promising to solve the issues. After the event, we performed a Nukkad Natak on atrocities against
Women in the society. It was a great and informative session and a good experience.
26 January
On the eve of Republic Day, we all the pucl interns went to Amar devi school. The flag was hoisted by
Advocate Prem kishan Ji followed by National Anthem. The students of class nursery to 8th gave dancing
and singing performances. The students also narrated poems. In the end Prem Kishanji gave a speech.
After the republic day celebration, we performed nukkad natak on the streets on Majdoor Nagar which
was liked and appreciated by the localities. Post this, we had our play practice in the central park.

28 January
Since, we are celebrating Constitutional and Democracy week, we were divided in groups and our group
went to St. Edmund’s school. We showed them samvidhan and then the resource person (Kavita
Srivastava) gave speech and had interacting session with the children and also sang song over there.
After that, we went to Ravindra Manch where Parallel Literature Festival (PLF) is going on. The speaker
was Seemaji who discussed about the condition of people in the jail. She told us that the jail for male
prisoners is much more cleaned than that of the women. She also told us that the mentality of the
prisoners doesn’t change and they are not guilty of what they had done. It was a good session with her
and to know the reality of prisoners condition. After attending her session, we did our play practice.

29 January
This was the last second day of our Constitution and Democracy week. We had another program at SV
Public School. We started our program by 11:45 am and acknowledged the student of therein about our
constitution and at the end we had our nukkad natak which was the most appreciated by them a lot.
Then we went to office at 5 pm for the planning of our last day of constitution and democracy week.

30 January
We all gathered at Gandhi Circle by 9 30 am . There we put up our exhibition and managed all the
posters and children. We had a great program, anchored by Pragati Mot and ended by me through a
shapath. I was also part of play on Gandhi’s view on Cow Slaughter and poetries and speeches recited by
my fellow interns. Then we had night walk which started at 7 30 pm in which me along with my some
fellow interns were assigned Albert Hall area.

31 January
Our day started at Vinobha Gyan Mandir at 9 30. We had a session with Ram Punyani sir who came far
away from Hyderabad just to take our session . He talked about hatred between Hindu and Muslim are
fake and was a stunt played by Britishers. He talked about secularism and how we as a youngster the
upcoming generation should understand that there is only 10% violence and the rest is Communal
Politics. I am honoured to do internship herein as this internship helped me face the reality. Then we
had a condolence meeting of Frank Van Aalst. I feel very sorry that I could not meet such a nice person
and he is also no more with us. He was a nice person who broke all the boundaries of caste religion and
gave his life to our Nation.

1st February
We went to S.M.S school for the program. We showed them the Gauhar Raza video on constitution and
samvidhaan series. After that had an interactive session with them. It was good. Then me along with
some co-interns went for street medicine programme at Vidyadhar Nagar.
2nd February
We went to family court on the 2nd of February. It was a great experience for us. We spoke to a lot of
people regarding their case. We met the judge spoke to him briefly as he was really busy. We learnt a
lot about the law as we spoke to the advocates. We did several case studies as well.

Then we went to the Ambedkar circle for a protest against the the illegal arrest of Dr. Anand. The police
came and we were told to shut down. But we did not and it continued for some more time. Then we left
the place and went to meet Prem kishan Ji. We told him about the day and he spoke to us about the
courts.

4th February
We went to the district court at around 10:30am. There we observed court room procedure in the
magisterial court ADJ/ DJ court. We visited the court primiere video conferencing room, the library and
we also met bar association members. We also visited DLSA, Lok Adalat mediation centre and
examination their records and cases and met the chairperson. The courts were crowded and there were
a lot of people in the court at once. But it was an eye opening experience for us.

Then we went to meet prem kishan ji and shared our experience. He listened and told us about his
experiences too.

5th February
We went to the High court at around 10:30 am and got the passes as we were allotted the respective
courts to with the proceedings. We got into the courts and saw how the litigation is done and we saw
several cases like on rape, and a case on black money. After that I met justice K.S. Ahluwalia. He gave us
ideas and guided us for our future in law field. He guided us with his experiences. The behaviour needs
to be really sophisticated in a court. The proceedings went in an organised manner. Then we went to
prem kishan ji’s house. He listened to our experiences in the various courts and shared his thoughts too.

6th February
We reached PUCL Office at 10 am. We went to the mahila thana and CWC. In CWC we talked to the
coordinator of the place and asked them questions and gained knowledge. The session was informative.
Then we went to Bhatta Basti to do case study of Sikander’s murder who is a 51 year old man and also a
resident of Bhatta Basti there we interacted with his daughter and family.

7th February
We went to the office in the morning and Mr Govind Beniwal ji and discussed about Juvenile justice. He
also told us that in Rajasthan we have separate department for children. He also told us that how a
minor should be treated. Then after a long discussion, we gave a vote of thanks to him and we went to
Birla auditorium for an event in respect of Subarav on the occasion of his birth anniversary.

Then we went to IDS (Institute of development and studies) where the current problems face by girls
was going on. They also stated the issues in schools and colleges faced by female students. In today’s
world people don’t want to address these issues and avoid it. Also a session was conducted by professor
Apoorvanand regarding communal issues in India.It was a memorable experience for us.
8th February
We went to the Juvenile Justice Board. We were give a questionnaire. We divided ourselves and spoke
to the clients, asked then the questions. Filled the questionnaire. Very few clients were ready to share
their experience. But some clients spoke and told us about their cases.

Then we went to the office where Radha Kant Ji came for a special session. Then I along with Kunal went
for street medicine at vidyadhar nagar area.

9th February
We went to the government school Sanganeer. There we hosted the program for constitutional week.
We showed them samvidhan and then the resource person (Kavita Srivastava) gave speech and had
interacting session with the children. It was good experience as it was my first time in a government
school.

Then after lunch and evening we did our nukkad natak practice.

10th February
We prepared the games for the one billion rising event in the morning then after lunch we went to JKK
to check the stalls and plan the game stalls accordingly. After that we did our nukkad natak practise.

11th and 12th February

There was an exhibition and event hosted by one billion rising in JKK. We all reached at JKK by 9am in
the morning. As we set up the stalls it had several numbers of game like voice recognition, logo
recognition, constitution quiz and hitting the glass pyramid. Several girls from government school came
at the JKK and visited several other stalls as ours. There were others stalls of handmade bags, self-
defence learning, driving learning stalls and many other products to sell. We kept a pen as a token of gift
for the participants of the games. We were provided with lunch and snacks in the morning and evening.
On 12th we put up the stalls again and we started the games. We had our nukkad natak to perfome on
the stage and heard a brilliant speech by Kamla Bhasin. She talked about women empowerment and a
few lines of poem and also about her daughter who passed away due to clinical depression. Then we
headed to Udaipur by a train from Jaipur at 10:30 pm.

13th February
We all reached Udaipur and from there we all headed towards Kotda and reached there in evening .
There we interacted with people at Astha Sansthan and we were divided in groups to do our work.

14th February
I along with Vibhuti were allotted the work at Kocha village near Kotda. We went there along with our
resource person Ramesh ji . There we interacted with people at village who listed their problems. After
that we again reached Astha Sansthan at Kotda.

15th February
Today again after having breakfast I along with Vibhuti went to Kocha where we interacted with
Villagers over there. They live in absolute poverty with no water supply and electricity. We finished our
work and reached Kotda from there we caught a bus to Udaipur and went to Astha Sansthan at Bedla
Udaipur.
16th February
Today we submitted our reports at Astha Sansthan , Fathepura where we met Shyam ji and discussed
our experience at various villages with tribes over there and discussed major issues they were dealing
with. Then we headed towards Jaipur via train from Udaipur at 10:20 pm.