Symposium on All #ReligiousHarmony and Dawat-e-Iftar

4 July, Hazaribag: NBJK has organized a meeting over All Religious Harmony and Iftar at own premises. The program was started with a group song “Allah-Ishwar Tere Naam…” and the theme was introduced by Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) who called love as the essence of all faiths and praised all prophets or incarnations for their renunciation and sacrifice to show a light to whole world. He specially stressed over need of communal harmony for Hazaribag.

Md. Islam Khan has discussed over resemblance between holy text of  Vedas and Quoran about one, omnipresent and all powerful God without any doubt. Bhaiya Mukesh Kumar has remembered contribution of people from all communities and religions to make India proud. Mr. Lalan Prasad has judged different faiths as smiling flowers in the garden of India. Mr. Gautam Sagar Rana was concerned about some earlier events of communal strain in Hazaribag and expected for the politics to connect society. He expressed full faith in common sense of ordinary people. The meeting was enriched with the presence of community leaders like Mazeed Ansari, Prayag Kushwaha, Prabhunath Sharma, Arjun Yadav, Harish Shrivastava, Dr. Faruki and many more. Iftar  was last part of this function as the end of a day long Roza by Muslim brothers and sisters.

Apprximately 150 Rozedars including women & children with others have participated in this group breakfast. Mr. Rajiv Singh, Md. Nayeem, Mrs. Nilam Sharma, Mrs. Indu Gupta, Ms. Shajahan, Mrs. Rashmi Parwin, Mr. Sujit Mishra have contributed a lot to make this program successful.

Training for DPO Leaders and Volunteers @ActionVillageIn

13-14 June, Hazaribag: Training started for office bearers of Disable People’s Organizations facilitated under Disability Rights program in Jharkhand & Bihar with support of AVI & BLF, UK. First two days were allocated for 36 participants belong to DPOs from Hazaribag, Koderma, Giridih districts (Jharkhand) and on 24-25 June, 24 office bearers of DPOs from Gaya, Nawada districts turned up for the training.

All those were provided important inputs over establishing any such organization. Mr. Shankar Rana (resource person) has shared step wise effort to make any sustainable DPO through proper documentation of its objectives, bye-laws, memorandum, rules & regulations, on line registration etc. Also Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) has attended the training and addressed to participants. He said that making organization is not so tough but to run it, to generate resource for the purpose is not an easy task. He suggested knowing the process for fund raising.

As an initiative to strengthening community’s stake on Disability Rights, 100 selected village volunteers from DSHGs/DPOs have been called for training about their rights & entitlements. They have been provided information about 20 government schemes related to medical support, education, mobility, livelihood and rehabilitation for PwDs. This commenced with trainees from Gaya and Nawada on 15-16 June and concluded on 29-30 June with volunteers from Hazaribag, Koderma and Giridih districts.

World Environment Day & Other Events @lordbuddhahome

5 June, Bodhgaya: Lord Buddha Home for Children, the orphanage founded by SKB, the Netherlands and run by NBJK has observed World Environment Day with full enthusiasm. The children have joined to morning round with play cards, slogans in support of the day and participated in public speaking as well as drawing making around the issue for greater concern. The event was encouraged with presence of Mr. Kumar Sarvjeet (MLA) and Mrs. Jyoti Manjhi (Ex-MLA).

On 11 June, LBHC has organized a dental health camp at Bakraur, a nearby village under Bodhgaya block (Dist-Gaya). Dr. Abhishek Mrinal and Dr. Praveen Kumar (both dentists) have treated 31 people suffering from dental problem. Also the patients have been provided medicines free of cost up to worth Rs. 100 for each. The camp aims for awareness towards dental diseases, handling facility at nearest point and finally to ensure proper treatment for such patients, Mr. Tripurari Prasad Singh (Assistant Manager, LBHC) has informed. Initially started for LBHC children, now dentistry is available for all at the premises on Tuesday & Saturday (10 am-12 noon) with medicines worth Rs. 100 free of cost.

Also all the children have enjoyed a feast together by preparing menu and cooking dishes themselves on 24th June. Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) was invited for the dinner by children to share happy moments with them. LBHC children offered a lot of thanks to Mr. Kshitij, the sponsor and wanted to know more about him.

Shoes Distributed among #SchoolChildren @Plan_India

6 June, Hazaribag: Though school education is a right for all children but it’s a habit also to be promoted by providing them shoes as NBJK and Plan India do under Child Centered Community Development (CCCD) program in Churchu along with other blocks of Hazaribag district.

At Zila (+2) High School, Hazaribag, 383 students have got school shoes in a function organized by NBJK-Plan India in presence of Mrs. Sarita Dadel (District Education Officer, Hazaribag) as the chief guest who appreciated this initiative of shoe distribution among school children. She pointed out about impact of such good deeds around children and encouraged all recipients to take care of others like the very spirit of this event. Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) has explained shoe distribution as a support activity to boost up school turnout as well as caring of needy students. The function was started with welcome address by Md. Ashzad (Principal, Zila School) who thanked NBJK-Plan people for coming with such idea to support school education. From Dec’13, we have covered 1278 schools in 14 blocks of the district and distributed 3 lacs 6 hundred twenty-one pairs of shoes among children under this activity; Mr. Ranjan Kumar (Program Manager, CCCD) has informed during the function.

Shoe distribution ceremony was anchored by Mr. Sukhmangal Singh (Teacher, Zila School) and a support team of Mr. Shivesh Verma (Consultant, Plan India), Mr. Pritam Soni (Delivery In-charge), Mr. Amit Ranjan, Mr. Sunny Kumar (Supervisors) and others has contributed to the occasion.

Performer Trainees awarded at RTC, Bodhgaya

28 May, Bodhgaya: Rojgar Training Center run by NBJK at LBHC premises, village-Silaunja (Bodhgaya) has convoked Award distribution program among it’s trainees of 14^th & 15^th batches in different trades. Satyendra Kumar and Dheeraj Kumar (Mobile Repair), Anil Kumar and Sanjay Kumar (Hospitality), Neha Kumari and Priyanka Bharti (Beautician), Neha Kumari and Munki Kumari (Tailoring) and Mamta Kumari with Apitosh Kumar (Computer) have been awarded with memento with certificate on the occasion. These five trades are available here for youths belong to local villages.

The program was inaugurated by Dr. Abhishek Mrinal and Mr. A. K. Upadhyay (Center In charge) has conducted the ceremony. Mr. Krishna Murari Prasad (Lions Club), Mr. Mithilesh Kumar (Karuna Sachen), Mr. Tripurari Prasad Singh (Asst. Manager, LBHC), Mr. Uma Shankar Prasad (Principal, Komal Pujan Public School), Mr. Santosh K. Gautam (Block Coordinator, PwDs Rights Program), Mr. Shankar Prasad Mehta (District Coordinator, PwDs Rights Program) and many parents have graced the function. Awards were distributed by Dr. Mrinal and others. Mr. Devjeet Banerjee, Mr. Anant Rohit, Anshu Raj, Md. Minhaz Ansari and Ms Snehlata have supported the event.          

Good Result for SPPS Children in CBSE Board Examination

28 May, Chouparan: NBJK managed Surekha Prakash Bhai Public School students have performed well in CBSE examination for 10^th class. There were 75 students appeared for the examination and 9 out of them have scored 10 CGPA while more than two dozen could achieve 9 CGPA as per the result made public on very day.

Kumar Gaurav, Saumya Kumari, Amarjeet Kaushik, Siddhant Bhardwaj, Kunal Kumar, Nikky Kumari, Sandip Kumar, Vishal kumar and Swarnjyoti Kumari are the elites who have made their school proud with such excellent result with successors like Neetu Kumari (9.8), Sumant Kumar & Adarsh Vishwakarma (9.6), Princy Sony (9.4), Manish Kr. Mishra & Alisha Kumari (9.2) and Raunak (9) with others with shining outcome.

Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) has congratulated pass out students, their parents and school management for this delightful moment after hard work. Mr. Gandharv Gaurav (Program Manager) has expressed satisfaction over the board result and wished to add more efficiency in teaching-learning process. Ms. Reena Pandey (Principal) has pointed out that students have broken their own record after 5 years and called the success as a celebration shared among teachers, children and parents. Recently first batch for 12^th class board examination (CBSE) too has shown 80% result by students and 8 girls have secured their place under top 10 in the list.

Reconciliation among Families by #FamilyCounselingCenter @MinistryWCD

26 May, Hazaribag: Family Counseling Center (FCC), the program run by NBJK with support of Central and Jharkhand State Social Welfare Board works for strong family bond since 1993. It stands with women and children in time of crisis and looks for amicable resolution that has saved more than 1500 families in the district. The very case of marital dispute between Rani Devi (wife) and Satish Sharma (husband) has been solved today under the program and family members from both sides have appeared before our Counselors.

Mrs. Meera Gupta (Head Counselor) and Mr. Sanjay Kumar (Counselor) have talked to them separately and together to find out the way out during a number of sessions held on before. It was a typical case of conflicts around ego, generation gap and hegemony among members of a joint family where people have expectations from each other and a proper way of communication matters definitely, especially when you deal with elders. Rani Devi belongs to village-Mandai, Hazaribag and after marriage, she settled to her In-laws place at the locality called River side, Patratu in Ramgarh district. Her mother-in-law helped her to get a job to run an Aanganwadi Center there. About 8 years ago, Rani and Satish were married and blessed with two children. There are two younger brothers of Satish, who work in other cities but their wives live with Rani and rest of the family. These brothers earn more than Satish (who works in a shop) and help their parents frequently.

Ever since Rani became a working lady, they seek for her financial support to the family and of course her mother-in-law expects more gentleness in her behavior as she cared for her. Our counselors have listened to all and facilitated them to hold each other’s hand for their family and old aged parents.

Training on Legislations and Welfare Schemes for PwDs @ActionVillageIn

25 May, Hazaribag: Two days training upon Legislations and Welfare Schemes for People with Disabilities (PwDs) was held for the program team under Rights to PwDs program with support of  AVI-BLF, UK being implemented in Hazaribag, Koderma, Giridih, Nawada, Gaya districts of Jharkhand and Bihar.

Mrs. Sujata Prasad (Program Manager) has initiated the training and said that despite various laws and welfare schemes in interest of PwDs, people find it difficult to access due to lack of proper information. She instructed all trainee staffs to facilitate PwDs and to make them aware of such developments as they are rightful to get concerned benefits.  The program manager asked for knowledge and information dissemination among these less privileged people & their care givers live in remote villages.

The training was started with causes, types, preventive measures for disability and covered PwDs Act 1995, National Trust Act, Rehabilitation Council of India, Right to Education/Information, National Policy of PwDs, Provision for Aids & Appliances, Schemes of Welfare Department, District Level Resources, Formation of Disabled People Organizations (DPOs) etc.

There were 55 staffs including District Program Coordinators like Mr. Vinod Rana (Koderma), Mr. Annu Kumar (Giridih), Mr. Shankar Prasad Mehta (Gaya), Mr. Shambhu Gupta (Nawada), Block Coordinators and all Field Workers those  participated in this residential training.

#MentalHealth Camp at NBJK Premises @WorldSchizophreniaDay

24 May, Hazaribag: A Mental Health Camp was organized at NBJK Coordination Office premises with support of RINPAS (Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry & Allied Sciences), Kanke, Ranchi. RINPAS has sent the team of doctors and support staffs for this outreach camp like every month which is crucial for more than 850 people suffering from different psychotic and neurotic disorders e.g. bipolar, paranoia, insomnia, amnesia, stress, depression, anxiety, epilepsy, schizophrenia, substance abuse etc.

A crowd of carers and patients from not only Hazaribag but other neighboring districts namely Koderma, Chatra, Giridih, Bokaro, Dhanbad or even from border districts of Bihar have come here for treatment. Mr. Guneshwar Rana (village-Churchu, panchayat-Nagwan, block-Hazaribag Sadar) confirms about his successful treatment at the camp as he was a victim of personality disorder but proper medication and his caring wife Mrs. Asha Devi have supported him to defy such deep-rooted crisis. Now he teaches Maths in a private school at his own village.

Its worth mentioning that May 24th is World Schizophrenia Day which reminds us of all the pains suffered and emotional turmoil being felt by such patients or their care givers because of this complicated disease with the fact that only 20 to 30 percent of all schizophrenia patients are able to lead somewhat normal life. Let’s all become sensitive to this disease and help people to come out of it. NBJK appeals for public awareness and to reorganize our school syllabus where mental disorders are left uncovered and untouched widely.

NBJK Coverage in The Indian Telegraph, Australia @TheIndTelegraph

11 May, Sydney: The Indian Telegraph, Sydney (Australia), a leading newspaper among Indian community, has published an article upon Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra. The write up titled as “Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra uplifts Rural Jharkhand” was contributed by Mr. Vish Viswanathan and begins with Jharkhand, the 28^th state in eastern India, it’s neighboring states, cities, natural resources, tribal people and more than 30000 villages where life needs a boost up through collective efforts from not only the government but community organizations like NBJK.

The commentary introduces Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) and elaborates about mission of the organization along with its wide ranging work being done in various fields like education, health, hygiene, disability, socio-economic & livelihood development, support for small voluntary organizations, networking, advocacy and governance with an idea of integrated development. Mr. Viswanathan has covered impact and achievements of such works lucidly and presents a condensed feature for people living abroad but interested to do something for India and her villages. The Indian Telegraph salutes the tireless efforts by Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra (NBJK) for the pioneering social contribution and the force behind the organization Shri Girija Satish, who is a role model for the younger generation. To see full article, please may go to http://theindiantelegraph.com.au/nav-bharat-jagriti-kendra-uplifts-rural-jharkhand/