GUIDELINES ISSUED

IMPAR issued Muharram guidelines in compliance with the guidelines issued by the Indian government and as proposed by Imamia Medics International as to how to commemorate the holy month of Muharram in times of Covid-19. . The guidelines were issued after the team of IMPAR interacted with 50+ clergies and sending queries pertaining to the same to the authorities of Iraq and Iran and have been formulated in consultation with local and global views of experts, community leaders, religious leaders, health practitioners and stakeholders of the community. The guidelines were issued in English, Hindi and Urdu.

LEGAL ADVOCACY

IMPAR filed a complaint against Sudarshan News Channel and Sh. Suresh Chavhanke, its promoter. Complaint has been filed by Changhez Khan Sahab, IMPAR Legal Team in Police Station Jamia Nagar, Okhla Delhi.

COMMUNICATION WITH THE CONCERNED AUTHORITIES

In its endeavour to establish channels of communication and engage with the administration and political leadership of the country, IMPAR wrote various letters of concern. IMPAR sent a letter to the Vice President and Managing Director of Facebook India Mr. Ajit Mohan concerning the Termination of Ankhi Das, FACEBOOK Content Chief in India for telling her colleagues that punishing violations by politicians from the ruling party would damage the company’s business prospects in the country. IMPAR urges Facebook India to take corrective measures against hate content.

Another letter was written to the Election Commission of India addressing Chief Election Commissioner Sh. Sunil Arora, Election Commissioners Sh. Sushil Chandra and Sh. Ashok Lavasa concerning the ECI’s conspiratorial conduct in disclosing identity of Muslims to the biased Delhi Police which further helped them in witch-hunting students and intimidating them with torturous investigation.

IMPAR also wrote letters in the case of Sudarshan News and Suresh Chavhanke requesting for suspending the sponsorship of Sudharshan News. IMPAR addressed National Commission for Minorities; DM, Gautambudh Vihar,; SSP, Noida; Ministry of Minority Affairs; Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Information and Broadcasting; Secretary, Information & Broadcasting; Secretary Genral, National Human Rights Commission; Chief Secretary, UP; and DGP, UP; Mr R.S.Sodhi; Managing Director GCMMF Limited. As Amul is one of the show’s sponsors,

we requested them to suspend the sponsorship as visibly the program is serving the vested hate laced interests. Given Amul’s glorious contribution in the making of the modern India, sponsoring a show like this would be like undoing the legacy of Amul and becoming a tacit partner in the hate agenda. Therefore, we requested Amul to withdraw the sponsorship.

COMMUNITY WORK

As part of IMPAR’s reforms agenda, cleanliness drive was conducted at Begumpuri Mosque, New Delhi, 14th Century oldest and the biggest mosque of Delhi. Our volunteers laboriously cleaned the mosque compound.

IMPAR team conducted awareness, mask distribution and cleanliness drive at Masjid Mohammadiya, Holambi Khurd, Metro Vihar, New Delhi.

IMPAR cleanliness drive was conducted at Muntazima Committee Masjid Shaide e Islam near Hari enclave (North West Delhi). The volunteers cleaned the madarsa/ mosque compound, and were also engaged with the residents of madarsa on issues of cleanliness, introspection and community.

IMPAR CLEANLINESS PROGRAM is designed for taking up responsibility of our surroundings, to motivate youth towards cleanliness and hygiene and make them responsible. As it is rightly said, “Cleanliness is half Iman”.

IMPAR volunteers ran a drive for IMPAR guidelines on Muharram at four different constituencies after Friday prayer and distributed outside mosques.

WEBINARS HELD

An interactive webinar was held by IMPAR on ‘Muslims in Multicultural Societies in Light of the Teachings of Islam’, delivered by Janab Abu Talib Rehmani Sb. He touched upon issues related to the Muslims in Multicultural societies. it was conducted on August 23rd, 2020.

IMPAR organised another interactive webinar on August 26th, 2020. The theme was ‘Challenge Posed by Political Hate Agenda and the Role of Social Media’. Mr Pankaj Pachauri, Founder and Editor in Chief of GoNews India who also worked with NDTV, BBC, India Today, The Sunday Observer, The Patriot & the Prime Minister’s Office from 2012-2014 was the keynote speaker. Mr Pachauri explains that there is a need to understand its origin which will help us in understanding why it has reached to this fervid stage. Other list of speakers includes Dr Khwaja Shahid, Former Registrar Jamia Millia Islamia, Vice Chancellor MANUU, and Member, Lt Gen Zameer Uddin Shah, Former Vice Chancellor AMU, and Member, Advocate Feroze Ghazi, Secretary General SAMLA, and Member, all are Central Steering Committee Members IMPAR.

Indian Muslims for Progress and Reforms (IMPAR) organised an award ceremony to felicitate individuals and organisations that have rendered their services excellently in terms of finance, food kits, commodities, emotional strengths and last but not the least, arranging last rites as per the religion of the deceased during the national lockdown. The list of people who were honoured by IMPAR is as follows:

1. Red Crescent Society of India headed by Arshad Siddiqui (Chairman) 2. A R Welfare Foundation (Rajasthan- Jaipur) led by A. R Khan ( Retd IAS Officer) 3. Helping Hand foundation headed by Mujtaba Hasan Askari (Founder Trustee) 4. Jamaat e Islami Hind 5. Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind Bangalore 6. Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) headed by Jawahirullah 7. Dr.Taha Mateen 8. Sheeba Aslam Fehmi 9. Shaista Akhtar 10. Safa Baitul Maal 11. Sajad Khan

IMPAR appreciates their work and honoured them with Certificates of Recognition for their contributions in these tough times.

IMPAR launched an SSC Awareness Program on September 3, 2020 to create awareness about SSC exam and how selected candidates are recruited for various posts in the ministries of government of India and in subordinate offices through this exam. As Muslim community is not much aware about the pattern how central government recruit most of its key posts, IMPAR’s SSC Awareness Program offered the youth a chance to become a part of the machinery of world’s largest democracy.

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED

IMPAR issued a press statement denouncing Bangalore violence and expressed serious concern over the way violent mob went on rampage in Bengaluru’s Pulakeshi Nagar area on August 12 night, which resulted in the death of three persons. IMPAR also condemned the vandalisation of two police stations, burning of properties and damaging the residence of Congress MLA Akhand Srinivas Murthy. IMPAR censured the irresponsible behaviour of those who allegedly shared a social media post against Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). IMPAR urges the religious groups and community leaders to condemn the incident as under no condition law should be taken into hands by civilians under the pretext of hurt religious sentiments.

IMPAR issued a press release felicitating individuals and organisations for their contributions in Covid-19 crisis and awarding the Covid19 heroes with Certificates of Recognition. The release got published in English, Hindi and Urdu.

IMPAR welcomed Allahabad High Court Order of Dr. Kafeel Khan’s release and issued a press release pertaining to the same in English, Hindi and Urdu.

IMPAR urges youth to stay focused condemning the hate mongering and divisive agenda of a news channel, seeking cheap popularity by targeting not only the Muslim community but the credibility of the top institutions of the Government, IMPAR urged the youth to stay focussed and work hard for the success in life, adding that vested interests will continue to promote their negative agenda, but we should not fall in their traps.

SOCIAL AND DIGITAL MEDIA ACTIVITIES

 IMPAR addressed the nation by sending greetings on Independence Day in order to dedicate ourselves to the building of a strong India, the India where rational thinking replaces superstition, healthy competition replaces discrimination, vigour replaces lethargy, innovation replaces sealed minds, Science replaces dogma, love replaces hatred, accommodativeness replaces self centric behaviour, tolerance replaces frenzy, light replaces darkness, charity replaces greed, facts replaces fiction.

 IMPAR grieves over the demise of our former President Shri Pranab Mukherjee, great loss of not just a politician but also an intellectual and workaholic.

 IMPAR shared Teachers’ Day greetings.

 IMPAR's monthly report (August) was released in a meeting attended by IMPAR members of the Steering Committee and Executive Committee.

ORGANISATIONAL ACTIVITIES

IMPAR’s brochure was released with amendments. The brochure covers the background to IMPAR, its mission, objectives and the working agenda ahead. It also introduces IMPAR Steering Committee, Executive Committee, and the IMPAR team.

IMPAR decided to develop and launch an in-house digital media channel by the name “ASPIRE” to augment its awareness and advocacy work. The logo has been released.

IMPAR has released the 21 Member IMPAR Media Panel officially. The panel members are drawn mainly from IMPAR Steering Committee and IMPAR Executive Committee, and from all the major cities to help the media houses gain access to eminent experts for informed discussions. With this panel, media houses will have real scholars and experts to participate on any issues ranging from social to cultural, religious, educational, business, economic, strategic or political matters. IMPAR looks forward to a meaningful engagement with the media and the nation for intellectual and informed discussions and creating better understanding among the communities for peaceful and prosperous future.

IMPAR released its organisational film. IMPAR team of 10 members worked over time in the last four months and handled over 110 tasks and launched over 15 important programs to comprehensively address the situation.

GLANCES FROM THE FILM

We, at IMPAR, have to work on finding long term solutions and be a ray of hope to navigate the community to the path of reforms and progress. We hope to further accelerate the speed of output and delivery in the months to come. We would like to seek your support. Hope, our collective efforts make some difference to the situation of our community.

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