Notes:
1. NDTV never allowed Gen. Bakshi to complete his points, they rather provoked him to wrangle. A soldier who knows what exactly is happening, couldn’t resist himself. Point to be noted that he is a soldier and not an orator.
2. NDTV anchor Nidhi Razdan happens to be the fiancée of J&K CM Omar Abdullah. She also won the Jammu and Kashmir State government award for excellence in journalism.
3. What is happening in North East is very much under control but situation is at the boiling point.
4. Media, NGO is claiming that unlike the situation in early 80-90s, situation of J&K has changed. True. It was possible only because of AFSPA, if it is revoked, state will be thrown back to earlier situation.

The school where Avinash studies is meant for the children of Paradhi and other nomadic tribes, many of which the British had branded “criminal tribes” because they were the most militant in the anti-colonial struggle. Even today, people belonging to these tribes suffer from extreme poverty and social exclusion, and rank lowest in formal school education. However, it would be naïve to think their minds are uneducated. As I discovered during my recent visit to Yamgarwadi, their children have amazing knowledge of the environment around them. These boys and girls knew the medicinal properties of the locally grown “weeds”. They could identify different birds with their sounds. They could name the stars in the night sky. In a little room that served as the “science laboratory” in the school, all the various types of snakes, crabs and scorpions kept in specimen jars had been caught by the children themselves. And how incredibly talented they all were in singing, dancing, playing local sports, and using their magical hands to create things of beauty in wood, mud and grass!

Avinash and his friends are lucky because they found a place in this RSS-inspired school founded by Girish Prabhune, a social activist and author whose lifelong and widely acclaimed work for the social uplift of the nomadic tribes in Maharashtra deserves far greater governmental support than he has got so far. But I doubt if the formal primary and secondary school education system, rigidly and unimaginatively structured as it is today, can either open its doors to, or meaningfully benefit, all the children belonging to the diverse communities in rural India.

My thoughts on this subject are provoked by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s address to the nation on Thursday on the historic occasion of enshrining education as a fundamental right of every child between the ages of six and 14. He made a fervent appeal for the fulfillment of this “national commitment to the future of India”. Noble and well-intentioned words. However, it must be said that our governments, Central as well as state, have not got their act right on either of the two crucial aspects of the Right to Education in rural India—access and content.

The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has no doubt succeeded in enlarging access to primary education. However, as many as eight crore children who come out of primary schools find their path blocked to further schooling because there simply aren’t enough secondary schools in the country—a reality that has prompted many educationists to comment that these children are not “dropouts” but “pushouts”. The Central government’s Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan remains a woefully inadequate response to remove the bottleneck in secondary education.

But a far more debilitating shortcoming is the quality and content of the education imparted in our village schools. Apart from the well-recognised fact that the system demands rote learning that impairs children’s creativity, it also attaches little importance to either the local knowledge resources or the specific development needs of India’s diverse communities. It functions under the premise that education is only that which is rammed into young minds by text books and guidebooks. By corollary, those who are out of the school system or have underperformed are deemed uneducated, with all the negative sociological and psychological consequences. The relevance of much of what is taught in schools does not become apparent to rural children. Conversely, what is relevant to them and their communities is not taught to them. For example, isn’t it astounding that agriculture is not a subject in secondary schools in rural areas, although most students studying in these schools come from kisan families? Similarly, the school curriculum completely bypasses the native skills, traditionally acquired learnings, and the rich artistic-literary heritage of our various “backward” castes and tribes in rural India. No wonder, children belonging to these communities perform poorly in the formal school system and end up swelling the ranks of the “uneducated” and “semi-educated”.

For RTE to become meaningful to these communities, and for it to make its fullest contribution to the realisation of a progressive vision for the “Future of India”, big and innovative changes are needed in the school education system, especially in our rural schools. Smart kids like Avinash abound in India’s villages. What they need is not just the right to education, but also the right education.

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For, from a distance one could easily mistake Rajawat, an articulate, computer-savvy woman, for a frontline model or at least a Bollywood actress.

But she is sarpanch of Soda village, 60 kilometres from Jaipur, in backward Rajasthan and the changing face of growing dynamic rural India.

Thirty-year-old Rajawat, India’s youngest and the only MBA to become a village head — the position mostly occupied by elders, quit her senior management position with Bharti-Tele Ventures of Airtel Group to serve her beloved villagers as sarpanch.

Rajawat participated in a panel discussion at the two-day meet at the UN on March 24 and 25 on how civil society can implement its actions and spoke on the role of civil society in fighting poverty and promoting development.

It is necessary to re-think through various strategies of action that includes new technologies like e-services in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in an era where resources have become limited, she told the delegates of the international conference.

“If India continues to make progress at the same pace as it has for the past 65 years since independence, it just won’t be good enough. We’ll be failing people who dream about having water, electricity, toilets, schools and jobs. I am convinced we can do it differently and do it faster. In the past year alone, I and the villagers in Soda have brought about a radical change in the village purely through our own efforts. We have had no outside support – no NGO help, no public, nor private sector help,” she said.

On achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Rajawat said she sought full support from outside agencies and the corporate world.

“I thank United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP) which had deputed its senior adviser in India Mr Babu Lal Jain to visit Soda and extend all support in the opening of the first bank in the village. That made all the difference.”

“In three years I will transform my village. I don’t want money. I want people and organisations to adopt projects in my village as often projects fail owing to lack of a local connect and that is what I am here to provide by bridging that gap. I want the conference to help bring about faster change so that this generation can enjoy that kind of life that I – and you in this audience – take for granted,” she said to thunderous cheers from the delegates.

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There cannot be many professionals in Indian cities who have not, at one time or another in the last 25 years, possessed either a Fabindia shirt, kurta, bed cover, dhurrie or napkin. More than any arrivistefashion dictator, social marketing whiz kid or aggressive foreign retail chain, Fabindia has defined the look of the Indian middle class. It has succeeded in doing so by adhering steadfastly, in four decades of planned growth, to principles of quality, fair pricing and customer satisfaction. But, above all, in its overriding commitment to provide work to thousands of village weavers and artisans, in more than a dozen states, who produce handwoven and handprinted fabrics, often solely for Fabindia.

A couple of unusual aspects of the Fabindia success story distinguish it from other Indian export cum retail enterprises. Although it began in 1960 exclusively as an exporter of fabrics, Fabindia never went into direct manufacture. Without the draining costs of infrastructure and the encumbrance of labor unions, prices stayed low and profit margins were tight. Unlike many export houses in the formative decades of the 1970s and 1980s who burnt their fingers in retail markets, or grew so fast in exports that they grew out of touch, Fabindia’s retail business steadily overtook its exports. “In the late 1960s, if we managed to sell fabric worth Rs. 3,000 locally we considered it a boom month,” recalls Meena Chowdhury, who joined Fabindia’s American founder John Bissell as a part-time dogsbody on a salary of Rs. 150 a month in 1962 and is now a senior shareholding director in the company. Today, Fabindia’s total turnover is Rs. 250 million and its retail outlets continue to grow apace.

Philosophy

• Fabindia was founded with the strong belief that there was a need for a vehicle for marketing the vast and diverse craft traditions of India and thereby help fulfill the need to provide and sustain employment. We blend indigenous craft techniques with contemporary designs to bring aesthetic and affordable products to today’s consumers.

• Our endeavor is to provide customers with hand crafted products which help support and encourage good craftsmanship.

• Our products are sourced from all over India. Fabindia works closely with artisans by providing various inputs including design, quality control, access to raw materials and production coordination. The vision continues to be to maximize the hand made element in our products, whether it is handwoven textiles, hand block printing, hand embroidery or handcrafting home products.

View Fabindia’s commitment to creating jobs in the rural sector at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting – 2007.: www.fabindia.com

Apart from the “parent body”—a nucleus of four famous shops in Greater Kailash market in south Delhi—and a three-storey outlet in the suburb of Vasant Kunj, Fabindia now has shops in Bangalore and Chennai. A 250-square-meter twin outlet opened in Pali Hill in Mumbai in September, taking Fabindia’s retail floor space to a total of nearly 2,230 square meters nationally. That was not the future Bissell could have imagined when he started his one-man export company in two small rooms adjoining his bedroom in his Golf Links flat. He called it Fabindia Inc. and incorporated the modest venture in his hometown of Canton, Connecticut, thousands of kilometers away.

Two women provided the initial impetus that eased Fabindia’s birth and changed the direction of Bissell’s life. Not long after he came to India his grandmother died in Connecticut, leaving him a legacy of $20,000 that he used as start-up capital. And the day after he landed in Delhi he met Bim Nanda, whom he fell in love with and eventually persuaded to marry him, and who, in turn, persuaded him to stay on.

Two remarkable business partnerships, one Indian, the other British, also developed in the restless 1960s, as the sandyhaired American plowed through the dusty, small towns and villages of north India, knocking on doors, showing swatches to weavers and coaxing entrepreneurs to produce the flat weaves, pale colors and precise weights in handloom yardage and cotton carpets that he wanted. After many trial and error starts in Panipat—not then the boom town it is now—he forged a link with the Khera family, a connection that flourishes to this day. In 1964 he also met Terence Conran, progenitor of the Habitat chain that ushered in a furnishings revolution in Europe, who believed that Fabindia’s Bissell embodied the honesty and clarity of purpose to source the right materials out of India.

The business model of Fabindia is fairly simple and profitable for people who actually sweat! Its fully owned subsidiary, with venture funds, facilitates setting up of manufacturing units that are owned by funds (49%), by artisans themselves (26%) , private equity (15%), and rest by employees. Fabindia also in turn acts as the principal buyer, but the units are free to sale their goods to other buyers as well. The profits after taxes are shared yearly amongst the equity holders. So, the artisans earn in more than just one way as their share-value  also grows as the sales go up!! : Fabindia: A success story

Like any business venture, Fabindia was susceptible to the winds of sweeping political and economic change but it prospered by abiding by the rules. In 1975-76, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency regime, Fabindia was forced out of its second premises in a house on Mathura Road. Bim Bissell recalls that, later on, John would laugh and say that he owed Sanjay Gandhi thanks for effecting the rule that barred commercial establishments from operating in residential properties because that is what prompted Fabindia to open its first big showroom
in Greater Kailash market. “It was my father’s belief that retail outlets should move to suburbs rather than the city center to service the needs of the newer and younger householders,” says William Bissell, John’s 32-year-old son, who has been pushing Fabindia’s growth in other cities since he joined the business and will soon be introducing a Fabindia line in children’s clothing.

In compliance with a Reserve Bank diktatof the early 1970s instructing foreign companies to reduce their foreign equity to 40 percent of the total, Bissell offered shares in Fabindia to close family members and associates. Madhukar Khera, son of a Punjabi refugee family resettled in Panipat who helped his father run a small, struggling carpet business, had decided early on to manufacture for Fabindia. When Bissell’s letter offering the shares came in 1976, Khera, by then a key figure in Fabindia’s success, bought them for Rs. 45,000. Today, he reckons, they are worth at least 400 times as much. That letter, thumped out on Bissell’s trusty Olivetti portable, set down the company’s simple, heartfelt credo: “In addition to making profits, our aims are constant development of new handwoven products, a fair, equitable and helpful relationship with our producers and the maintenance of quality on which our reputation rests.”

Throughout his life Bissell remained a prolific letter-writer—notes, memos and accounts flowed from his Olivetti with the same regularity as pithily voiced observations and opinions, some bitingly funny, others astutely argued, all usually helpful. (After his stroke, he began again from scratch—first painfully holding chalk to slate, then pad and pencil, before graduating to a PC with enlarged lettering.) Almost anyone connected with the Fabindia story—and there are hundreds—has lovingly preserved every scrap received from Bissell, as if, says his daughter Monsoon Bissell, “we were all being invited to participate in some great unfolding adventure story.”

In addition to making profits, our aims are constant development of new hand-woven products, a fair, equatable helpful relationship with our producers and the maintenance of quality on which our reputation rests.     : John Bissell,  Founder, Fabindia

It was also his custom to personally type the company’s annual report, which he would then dispatch to shareholders, employees, friends and—much to the irritation of Fabindia managers—to the company’s competitors. Bissell espoused transparency in all business affairs just as he held on to [Ernst Friedrich] Schumacher’s small-is-beautiful theory of development economics—he hated the office paraphernalia of peons and secretaries and everyone in Fabindia even now prepare their own invoices and make their own tea.

Working for endless hours on Fabindia’s annual financial report, Meena Chowdhury remembers that Bissell would shout across the dividing screen to ask: “How many people do we now employ? One year I said 20, the next year it was 40 and the year after that, I think, I said 82.” A dead silence would follow this exchange, so Meena would go over to assure him, and find the same look of exasperation, worry and unanswered questions writ on his face. “…Meena,” Bissell would say year after year. “How did we grow this big?”

Reference: Fabindia, SPAN Magazine

The UN Industrial Development Organisation (Unido) and the Kudumbashree State Mission for poverty eradication and women empowerment have decided to expand cooperation in the development of agri-business value chains. Farm experts from Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Sri Lanka had flown down to take part in a workshop at Thanneermukkom, a remote village in Alappuzha district, to pick a few lessons about various value chains practised by local women groups.

FUTURE COLLABORATION

Unido and the Kudumbashree have decided to pursue opportunities of future collaboration in fruits and vegetables processing, setting up of training centres and development of training and entrepreneurship curricula. The international workshop on ‘Analysis and design of pro-poor value chain development projects in Asia” was held from March 1 to 4 with financial support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Thirty delegates representing the participating countries learned about the ‘Marari mushroom’ value chain development project run by Kudumbashree, an official spokesman said here.

MILKY MUSHROOMS

This is an initiative where women groups engage in production of mushrooms under controlled environments, a process that requires technical skills and inputs and made available by the Tropical Botanical gardens and Research Institute of India. The product, ‘milky mushrooms,’ is marketed through the Marari Marketing Company owned by the community groups.

The second value chain to be featured was of garments, in which Kudumbashree supported garment production and marketed through a community-owned company. These projects have helped to improve the livelihoods of more than 600 women across various districts in Kerala, the spokesman said.

UNIQUE EXPERTISE

“Unido has been keen to understand the Kudumbashree model that manifests unique expertise in community development and poverty eradication, particularly among rural women,” said Mr Frank Hartwich of the agri-business unit of Unido. This is an important ingredient in support programmes which should not only focus on efficiency in business and chain organisations but also design programmes that benefit the poor and vulnerable members of the rural society, particularly women.

PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE

The workshop also produced a practitioners’ guide on ‘Pro-poor agro value chain development: 25 guiding questions for successful project design and implementation.’

Mr T. Vijaya Kumar, Joint Secretary, SGSY (Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna) and Mission Director, National Rural Livelihoods Mission, inaugurated the workshop in the presence of Mr Antonios Levissianos of the Unido Regional Office in New Delhi, and Ms Sarada Muraleedharan, Executive Director, Kudumbashree.

The state government has tried to ban this centuries-old form of transport

The gentle tinkling of its traditional bell sounds delightful amidst the cacophony of Calcutta traffic – with its ever increasing numbers of cars, taxis, lorries and motorbikes, all seeming to compete to blare their horns loudest and longest.

But turn around and the sight that greets you is far from delightful. A skinny, often elderly, usually barefoot man dragging a hand-pulled rickshaw – a shafted cart with a high seat atop two giant wooden wheels.

It is the same India portrayed in the film City of Joy, made in the slums of Calcutta in 1991, but it is not an image the new India wants the world to see.

The central character of the film was a rickshaw-puller, one of the city’s fleet of tens of thousands of “human horses”, as they are called.

They have been banned worldwide, including in the rest of India. And yet, 20 years on, there are still as many as 20,000 of them – 6,000 licensed, the rest illegal but officially ignored in exchange for the odd bribe – still pounding the treacherous streets of Calcutta.

$2 a day

Laxman Ran is one of them. His story is typical – he is around 50 years old, he thinks, but looks a good decade older.

He came here in 1983 from a town on the border of Bihar, India’s poorest state.

Laxman admits he is struggling with the work as he gets older

He and his young wife and child could not survive there – he could not even earn 50 pence ($0.80) a day.

So he followed the path of so many from Bihar to Calcutta. Not that he is a lot better off now.

Like all the pullers, Laxman rents his rickshaw from an owner, a rich man you never get to meet.

Rent has just gone up from 30 to 50 rupees a day, [around £0.70 or $1] but Laxman splits that with another puller, so he pays 25, and on most days earns 100 rupees [about £1.40 or $2].

Somehow from that, he told me, he manages to send home about 1,000 rupees a month.

It leaves him little to live on. Breakfast that day was a handful of the local, cheap, filling snack – puffed rice and a cup of chai. Cost – five rupees.

But he is one of the luckier ones. Many sleep on the streets beside their rickshaws, burning rubbish to keep warm. Laxman has a mat and a space on the floor of a shared room and he has a pair of shoes.

It did not look good for a government of the left to be seen to be putting the poor out of work

Despite these “comforts”, Laxman admits he is finding the work harder and harder as he gets older.

“When I first came here,” he said, “I was young and fit and could run all day. Now I feel sick and weak a lot of the time.”

But he cannot stop yet.

In the early days, all the spare rupees were put aside for his first daughter’s dowry. Now he is saving for the second.

What a life, and yet, when the West Bengal government tried to ban hand-pulled rickshaws five years ago, Laxman joined the strike against it and the government caved in.

It did not look good for a government of the left – West Bengal has the longest-serving elected communist government in the world – to be seen to be putting the poor out of work.

And they did not have an alternative plan.

The rickshaw pullers’ union – yes, they do have one, and it is quite powerful – said they would support the ban if the government produced a rehabilitation programme for the rickshaw-pullers. No plan, no ban.

Monsoon season

That might soon change.

West Bengal is due to go to the polls in May and all predictions are the communist government will lose power.

I asked Laxman what he would do if the new government did actually bring in the long-promised ban and put him out of work.

Sometimes the rain is too deep even for the hand-pulled rickshaws

He rubbed the rough side of the building next to him. “I would have to do this – mortar walls on a building site,” he said.

“But why don’t you do that now?” I asked him. “Surely working on a building site, plastering, would be easier than pulling a rickshaw?”

“Oh no,” he said. “On [a] building site, you must work eight hours, all at once, never stop. Now, when passenger come, I work, but no passenger, then I rest.”

In fact, Laxman may not have to worry just yet about losing his job, whoever wins the election, because there is another reason these hand-pulled rickshaws are still here.

After the May polls will come the June monsoon. Nowhere do these torrential annual rains hit harder than in West Bengal.

The water runs so deep on the streets, the yellow Ambassador taxis and the three-wheeled motorised rickshaws do not venture out.

Private cars are moved to higher safer ground. Even the cycle rickshaws struggle.

Only the hand-pulled rickshaws, with their high seats on giant wheels can get through.

Ironically, it is Calcutta’s rich who have lobbied hard to keep this apparently shameful legacy of the past.

As for Laxman, during the monsoon, he may have to wade through waist-high water so his well-heeled passengers can keep their smart suits and saris dry, but he can put up his prices tenfold and put away quite a bit more for his daughter’s dowry.

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As usual at the end I shall come to the Indian Wall

But I will explain nothing..

The area under work in the above photo is a small natural pond which is taken under this NREGA programme for renovation.  This pond is not of particular use, nor used by the villagers as a source of irrigation.  At the most it would hold some water for few months during rainy season and would dry for the rest of the period.

So what do we observe in the above photos?  Some around 30-40 workers in the area.  Few were sitting under trees, and few were sitting on the spot of work, and few were doing something.

What is the work done?  To scratch the surface of the pond.  And in my memory, the same pond was cleaned some few months ago, by the same workers.

So, what is the purpose of this work?  WHo knows?  Who wants to care?  As per the NREGA policy, the workers were to be given some work.  That’s all.

So we understand that the above NREGA work does not have even fundamental base value.  Now When all the workers in the villages are just sitting and scratching the surface here, how will the farmers get labourers to do work in their field?  Who cares?  Farmers are NOT votebanks.  But workers are.

A personal account of mentality of NREGA workers:

One of my relative, did not get a chance to enroll in this NREGA programme so far, and hence she was going to regular works to the farm fields.  Since most other workers went to this NREGA scheme, she along with few others (of about 10-15 workers) were in demand by the farmers.

But this week, she somehow had enrolled herself to this NREGA scheme.  and the reason she says is that when those who going to this NREGA work simply sits and gets the wages, why should she work hard in the farm fields, for the same amount of wages?

Next, a rumour (or may be truth) was prevalent, that those long term NREGA workers are to be treated as government worker and chance that they are made permanent.  Can any one resist this temptation?

With the remaining workers also moving to NREGA, the entire village is stripped of labours.  Do you think, they will be able to do any agriculture?

I heard that a group of farmers from Tanjore had petitioned the Tamilnadu CM, that NREGA programme is creating extreme hardships to them and that due to non-availability of labour they could not do any farm works.  But it seems, the CM’s reply is that he cant do anything.

Every year, we used to plant rice crop during the october / november season.  Till last year we did.  But this year, there is no labour available for any of the farm works.  We had just given off farming.  So as many other farmers.  Many shifted to horticulture, planting coconut.

The attitude of the workers are also changing.  The government gives rice at Rs.1 per kg, and the workers get wages for atleast 100 days.  And the tamilnadu CM had given free colour televisions to all families.  Free Electricity to Dalit colonies (whether they are rich or not, it doesnt matter).  When they have everything to enjoy their life at leisure, why should they strain themselves to work in fields?

NREGA Funding so far:

The NREGA website has a report about fund allocations for this programe given below.

• FY – 2010-11 – Rs. 14752 Crore  ( as of now.. ie, for half year..  it will exceed beyond 30,000 crore at the end of this Financial year.
• FY-2009-10,  – Rs. 20692 Crore
• FY -2008-09 – Rs. 11514 crore

So more than 60,000 crore has been spent so far, just to destroy the entire rural society across india.  This amount has been a waste, and NOT useful even to the workers themselves.

No one is there to question the government, on what is the rationality in spending such huge tax payers money, just to make those hard working farm labourers to sit idle in some unproductive jobs.

Outcome of this Programme:

The farming sector is already under heavy stress due to globalisation, and money power attacking the rural area.  The industries took away considerable number of labours from villages.  The farmers were some how managing these extreme hardships without any government support.  The village economy some how functioned.

Today, the extreme imbalance of money power, has skyrocketed land prices even in distant villages.  Already villagers were demotivated to farming, because of this negative money flow.

In such circumstances, the NREGA is the last straw to break the rural society.  Farmers will stop doing agriculture, and food production will decrease, which will increase food prices.

Is NREGA a conspiracy?

Its known, right from independance, congress has extreme contempt for anything rural.  Nehru believed, rural india is a liability.  And today MamMohan singh also says the same and asks farmers to move out of farming.  Chidambaram says, in US only 1% of people in agriculture, and here in india more than 60% are in farming, and that’s why we could not develop.

Next, the government officials who formulated this NREGA programme are NOT ignorant persons, but a well trained IAS officers.  It is a basic common sense, that if workers are lured away from farmers, the farming will collapse because of lack of labour.  Inspite of this, the government persists with this disastrous programme.

Considering all these, its evident that NREGA is a secret Conspiracy ( ofcourse, conspiracies should be secret ) to destroy the rural india.  Why for?  To force corporate sector in to farming.  As of now, large agri population is a barrier for this corporatisation, where government could not directly take over land.  Hence they are devising ways to drive farmers out, and then take the land.

I predict, that in the coming years, the government will cite food crisis as a reason, and then propose establishing Special Agri Zone, for facilitating corporate companies.

The National Rural Eradication programme will serve its full purpose at that time.

I had an interesting debate long back in this post about NREGA, and most of the people there hailed this programme as something a saviour of rural india.    This is what the opinion of the english eduated urbanites so far.  For them, corporatisation is the only window to everything in life, with money, markets, consumerism taking centre stage.  It would be a doubt, if they could understand the rural society even a bit.  And it is they who have all the influence at the policy making circles.

Its a bane on india, that those who dont even have an ioto of idea about farming is taking policy decisions for rural india, and the real farmers had no say in it.

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