National #IndependenceDay Celebrated at NBJK

15 August, Hazaribag: 70th Independence Day of the nation was celebrated by NBJK with full enthusiasm with the message of Nation First. At Coordination Office, Mr. Prabhu Nath Sharma (Founder Member & Treasurer) has hoisted tricolor in presence of staff members and villagers.

After recital of national anthem, Mr. Sharma has addressed the gathering and called our national flag as a constant source of energy to work for people, the Indians. He said about the dream of Nav Bharat (New India), NBJK is committed for last 45 years through various people oriented programs. Mr. Rajiv Kumar Singh (Program Manager) has stressed upon strengthening of our society that faces challenge of terrorism and extremism of different forms.

In the premises of NBJK Head Office at Chouparan, Mr. Satish Girija (Founder Member & Secretary) was the chief guest of this celebration who led flag hoisting ceremony and emboldened people to contribute for nation building. On this occasion, students of NBJK run Surekha Prakashbhai Public School have presented an attractive parade and organized cultural activities. Independence Day was observed at other branch offices and schools by NBJK also.

Support to Campaign against #Gutkha & Liquor

03 August, Hazaribag: NBJK and Lok Samiti have supported and organized programs for “Gutkha Chhodo” campaign led by Mr. Ashutosh Maanav from Manav Samaj Sewa Sabha, Hilsa (Nalanda, Bihar). Mr. Maanav and his team have addressed students of Lord Krishna High School (Amrit Nagar), Amrit Nagar High School and Government Middle School at Oriya village. They made children and youngsters aware of bad habits of Gutkha, liquor etc. and played street shows to communicate the message. Also the students have taken lifelong oath to discard these things.

Mr. Asutosh Manav has said that children are more sensitive towards social evils and they must have ability to differentiate between good and bad. He informed that our government gets annual revenue of Rs. 8000 crore from Gutkha business that engulfs Rs. 40,000 crore yearly upon treatment of Gutkha caused diseases. He appealed for social support to ban Gutkha and Liquor effectively. This Anti-Gutkha Campaign was welcomed by Mr. Amitabh Kumar (Principal) and Mr. Sumant Upadhayay (Teacher) at Lord Krishna School while Mrs. Jyoti J. Lakra (Head Mistress) and Mr. Ratneshwar Nath pathak (Senior Teacher) have received the team at Govt. Middle School, Oriya. At Amrit Nagar High School, Mr. Indra Kumar Yadav (Principal), Md. Zareeb and other teachers have cooperated to organize the program.

There were more than 500 students participated in the campaign against Gutkha and Liquor at Hazaribag. Mr. Manav and friends have started from Hilsa and travelled through Biharsharif, Rajauli, Koderma before submitting a memorandum to the Chief Minister at Ranchi.

#CarerGroups Hold Annual Seminar @CarersWorldwide

29 July, Hazaribag: Carer Self-help Groups from Sadar, Daru, Ichak, Katkamsandi and Katkamdag blocks of Hazaribag district have come together in a seminar organized under the program of Promoting Carers of PwDs, mentally ill or old aged sick people with support of Carers Worldwide & Commonwealth Foundation, UK. Mr. Raindra Singh Thakur (District Welfare Officer, Hazaribag) was the chief guest who praised multi-dimensional activities of NBJK and called Carers program as the different one that addresses caring of helpless people in much wider perspective. The DWO has assured to link carers with government run social security schemes. He mentioned about Mukhyamantri Ladli Yojna and Vidhwa Samman Yojna for women carers which can support them financially for their daughters’ education and provides regular aid to any poor widow after death of her husband.

Dr. Anil Patil (Executive Director, Carers Worldwide) has focused upon close coordination between government and society to support carers mainly housewives or women struggling with problems of loneliness, poor health and livelihood in their daily lives. The very issue of carers deserves proper advocacy and policy; he opined and appealed UNO to declare a particular day as Carers Day internationally. The seminar was initiated with the welcome speech of Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK). He has briefed about NBJK’s intervention on disability, mental health and agreed with the initiative by Carers Worldwide to achieve the ultimate goal of quality caring via strengthening of carers. Mr. Satish has valued the idea to express voice of a silent and committed community.

In his presentation, Mr. Rajiv Singh (Program Manager) has updated about 4 clusters of 59 SHGs with 828 Carers having group saving of Rs. 4, 09,676. There are Ration Cards for 279 families, Disability Certificates for 43 and monthly pension for 21 dependent PwDs, he informed. Many carers like Mrs. Meena Devi, Mrs. Razia Khatun, Mrs. Lalita Devi, Mrs. Pramila Gupta, Mrs. Usha Devi, Mrs. Lakshmi Devi, Mr. Anil Singh from Maheshra, Bonga, Meru, Oriya, Sarauni, Jinga, Banahapa villages have expressed their views over challenges for caring. On this occasion, Mr. Mahendra Ram (Mukhia, Silwar Panchayat) has suggested for launching of an exclusive govt. scheme for Carers. The seminar was anchored by Md. Nayeem (Asst. PM) and staff team of Mrs. Vimla Rana, Mrs. Pratima Devi, Mr. Kamal Pandey, Mr. Sujit Mishra and Mr. Om Prakash Gupta has worked hard to organize it.                                                                      

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.