Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra
Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra
Workshop on #Climate Change & #Sustainable Development @INECCindia
17-18 August 2015, Ranchi: Jharkhand possesses only 8% forest as remains with increasing carbon emission and unexpected change in climate here is a part of the global challenge posed for our eco system, economic development and the society as a whole, said Mr. H. S. Gupta (Chairman, Jharkhand Tribal Development Society) as the chief guest in the workshop on Climate Change & Sustainable Development organized by NBJK (Ranchi) with support from INECC and LAYA. He called for an eco friendly system on development to make the world safe for all. The program was initiated with the welcome note by Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) who has introduced the theme and discussed over Jharkhand Action Plan on Climate Change. This vital and complex issue needs proper attention of policy makers to be addressed urgently with a vision for future, he said. Ms Ajita Tiwary (INECC) has regretted over negligence on climate change in Jharkhand despite industrialization and found a key role for CBOs to fill the gap. Mr. Sanjay (CANSA, Delhi) has correlated nature caused disasters with climate change and Mr. Madhukar (Senior Journalist) has suggested to think for farmers as they are victims of the development with deforestation. Prof. R. Sharan has warned about the danger as trend of extremes occurs frequently in every season. Mr. Sanjay Basu Mallik pleaded for promotion of indigenous knowledge with farmers. 20 grass root organizations have participated in the workshop. Mr. Rajeev Singh and Mr. Rakesh Singh (NBJK program managers) have worked together to organize the event.
Independence Day Celebration at NBJK @PMOIndia
15 August 2015, Hazaribag: Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra has celebrated 69th Independence Day of the nation with tricolor hoisting by Mr. Girija Satish (President) at coordination office amid national anthem. During his address, he praised the contribution of freedom fighters to make India as a sovereign and democratic country. Only economic prosperity does not work and we need inclusive development with a change in our mindset to defeat poverty, diseases and superstitions, pointed out Mr. Girija Satish after recent incidents of witch hunting in Jharkhand. He referred equality as well as decentralization like foundation stones for any democratic set up and considered relevance of Mahatma Gandhi to move forward as a nation. NBJK president has reiterated the vow to reach people in need and greeted all staff members on the day. At Surekha Prakashbhai Public School (Chouparan), the national flag was unfurled by Mr. Girija Satish and students have performed a disciplined salutation parade. Their cultural show was inaugurated by the NBJK president and Mr. Gandharv Gaurav (Director, SPPS) jointly. This was a good composition with a number of theme based ballet, group dance and individual presentations. The students of class VII, IX, X and junior sections have been widely acknowledged for their show. Child artists like Baby Nisha Raj, baby Riya and Mr. Indrajit Sharma (teacher) have earned special acclamation from the audience.
NBJK in East Zone #Network Partners Meet with Sense India @senseindia
10 – 11 August 2015, Patna: a regional network meeting was organized by Sense International India at Sewa Kendra, Patna and partner VOs from West Bengal, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa have sent their teams including parents of deafblind children. The meeting was organized under Abhiprerna & Prayas network. NBJK works with deafblind children in Hazaribag, Ramgarh and Ranchi districts of Jharkhand. Its team was represented by project staff and parents of such children from the districts. Mr. Deepak Sharma (Senior Network Officer, Sense) has explained the importance of network and weighed for advocacy to minimize the problems with deafblind children. He stressed over the need of organizing local network linked with the families of db cases to be a voice still unrepresented. Ms Mallika Das (In-charge, Abhiprerna-east zone) and Ms Annapurna Maruvda (Counselor) have focused upon activities and behaviors to deal with any db child. They shared important information needed in this field of a delicate intervention and ensured demonstration of some of the activities by participants also. NBJK group was comprised by Mr. Paras Kumar Mahto, Mr. Gopal Ram (Hazaribag), Mr. Abhay Kumar, Mr. Mukesh Kumar Mahto, Mrs. Sunita Devi (Ramgarh), Mr. Mahendra Kumar Sinha and Mr. Krishna Chandra Mahto (Ranchi).
NBJK Participates in Training on #Documentation and Use of #Social Media @OxfamIndia
5 -7 August 2015, Patna: Mr. Parabhunath Sharma (Treasurer, NBJK) has ensured his participation in the training on Effective Documentation and Use of Social Media organized for partner VOs of Oxfam, Patna. On 5 August, the presentation by Ms Adya Gupta (Oxfam India) on How NGO can Use Social Media (to showcase work & create public engagement) has covered the subject judiciously and introduced it for partner organizations. She was down to earth and demonstrated various tools for online communication. Due to increasing number of net users, it became unavoidable to share the platform, she has justified. The training has covered relevance to be net friendly for promotion of cause and fund raising. This provided a micro explanation about Facebook, Twitter, their usage and protocols. On 6 – 7 August, Mr. Anindo Banerjee and Ms Nancy Priya (Praxis, Patna) have conducted a workshop on Effective Documentation that dealt with its importance for transparency, advocacy and a social insight. This was a live interaction around format & medium, contents, process, style, issue, message, reliability with many more under domain of effective documentation. Mr. Prabhunath Sharma has shared the documentation measures NBJK implements at present.
Sub-Committee Meeting of #Family Counselling Centre@IndiaGovtOnline
28 July 2015, Hazaribag: NBJK run Family Counselling Centre has organized its Sub-Committee meeting at Women’s Police Station, Hazaribag and members have reviewed the performance of FCC which gets support from CSWB, New Delhi through JSSWB, Ranchi to help out women & children suffering from family dispute or domestic violence in Hazaribag district. The sub-committee members have considered previous report, suggestions and their observance by FCC. Mrs. Meera Gupta (Counsellor) has informed the members about village awareness meeting against domestic violence, impartial information gathering and better coordination with police as compliance to previous suggestions. She has tabled the quarterly report (May – July, 2015) during the meeting which referred to registration of 27 cases of family disputes (marital 10, liquor 06, land 02, In-laws 04, molestation 02, widow eviction 01, desertion 01 and superstition 01) with reconciliation for 07 cases (marital 03, liquor 02 and In-laws 02). The counsellors have assured to settle the pending cases shortly. The members have recommended for prompt information to women police station in case of obscene calls and to call on 9431706325 for immediate help to victims of sexual abuse. Sub-committee members like Mrs. Ameltina Ekka (In-charge, women’s police station), Mrs. Saloni Soe (ASI-WPS), Mr. Satish Girija (NBJK), Mr. Tulsi Dubey, Mr. Arvind Jha, Ms Veena Sethi (all advocates), Mrs. Yashoda Devi, Mrs. Urmila Ekka, Mr. Nandlal Saw (all mukhiyas), Dr. H. L. Saha, Baba Shamshaad Alam, Sr. Rosily (all social workers) and delegates of two local NGOs were present in the meeting.
Mini Library for #Children at LBHC @lordbuddhahome
15 June 2015, Bodhgaya: Now the children of Lord Buddha Home for Children have more books to enjoy. LBHC, the orphanage by NBJK with support of SKB (the Netherlands) has added this facility to promote love for good books among youngsters. A library has been started here with necessary items like cupboards, sign board, carpet, battery, inverter and computer. It has purchased 197 books in English from Pratham Books, 113 in Hindi from Eklavya Prakashan and 100 other books like autobiography, motivational, stories, comics and periodical magazines initially to compete with the interest of adolescent readers. LBHC children use to visit their library, feel the dignity of good books and like to be upgraded with the enormous knowledge they possess. The library has a time-table to visit and younger children go there on every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday for two hours. Since the children are growing and they need good friends as the books at this point, said Mr. Pawan Lal Gupta (Manager, LBHC) after opening of the library.
Convention on Carers’ Day at Hazaribag @CarersWorldwide
4 August 2015, Hazaribag: A convention of Carer SHGs was held at NBJK coordination office on Carers Day with support of Carers Worldwide and Commonwealth Foundation, UK. 75 representatives from SHGs of Carers promoted by NBJK were present in the convention inaugurated by Dr. Dharmveer Prasad (Civil Surgeon, Hazaribag) and Dr. Anil Patil (Founder & ED, Carers Worldwide) jointly. Dr. Dharmveer has greeted the program for carers by NBJK with support of Carers Worldwide and called this as an innovative measure in service of hidden service providers in our homes and villages. He has assured for the assistance possible within his prerogative and conveyed best wishes to the program. Dr. Anil Patil (ED, Carers Worldwide) has drawn attention over the pitiable condition of carers and called for support to mitigate their health and livelihood related problems they meet in daily lives additional to taking care for their family members suffering from disability, mental illness or old age. Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) has welcomed all guests and participants in the convention and defined Caring for Carers as a visionary program in villages from Sadar, Daru, Ichak, Katkamsandi and Katkamdag blocks of Hazarribag district. He has briefed about stake of Carers in programs like Rights to PWDs, their skill development and Mental Health & Development by NBJK. Around 97% identified carers are women and their empowerment is a key concern for us, he pointed out. Mr. Girija Satish has suggested for a Carers Home in Hazaribag and skill development training to them for livelihood support. There were carers like Md. Umar, Rajkumari Devi, Kishori Kumari, Girija Devi, Sunita Devi, Anuradha Sharma and others who shared their experience in caring of their relatives and asked for the support. The program team of Mrs. Vimla Rana, Mrs. Pratima Devi, Mr. Kamal Pandey, Mr. Sujit Mishra, Md. Nayeem and Mr. Rajeev Singh (team leader) has organized the Carers’ Convention.
Lok Samiti Footing in Madhya Pradesh @FreedomCommons
19 July, Chhatarpur: Lok Samiti, the people’s organization founded by veteran Sarvodaya leader Jaiprakash Narayan, has expanded its wing in Madhya Pradesh also. Mindful citizens have taken initiative and a meeting was held at Gandhi Smarak Bhawan, Chhatarpur on 19 July under leadership of Mr. Ramcharan Awasthi, a freedom fighter and follower of Mahatma Gandhi. The meeting was observed by Mr. Kaushal Ganesh Azad (National Coordinator) and Mr. Ashok Sharan (Member, National Executive) to see the procedure and further task of organizational expansion for Lok Samiti in Madhya Pradesh. This resulted as the formation of Madhya Pradesh Lok Samiti and names of the office bearers have been declared as Mr. Bhupendra Tripathi (President), Mr. Rajendra Namdev (Secretary), Prof. S. R. Paul (Treasurer) and Mr. Ravi Prakash Shukla (Spokesperson). While Mr. Sanjay Singh, Mr. Brij Bihari, Mr. Prabhat Tiwari, Mr. Lal Singh Gaud, Mr. Yatindra Kaushik and Mr. Ankit Mishra are members of state executive committee. The state committee has released a list of district coordinators as Mr. Prabhat Tiwari (Chhatarpur), Mr. Lal Singh Gaud (Tikamgarh), Mr. Vinod Niranjan (Panna), Quazee Ekhtyar Hussain (Shahdol), Mr. Sanjay Bishwas (Anup Pur) and Mr. Dashrath Singh (Sagar). Newly elected president of MPLS Mr. Bhupendra Tripathi has expressed commitment for democratic values and mass awareness on the issues of reform in election system & judiciary, prohibition to liquor & superstitious practices, agriculture, governance and communalism. He assured for formation of executive committee in all districts and a state level convention till December 2015.
500 Cases of Diabetic Retinopathy at LNJPEH @WorldDiabetesF
NBJK run Loknayak Jaiprakash Eye hospital, Bahera (Chouparan, Hazaribag) has treated 500 patients of diabetic retinopathy successfully since launching of the special program on preventive and curative measures for the disease in July 2013 with support of World Diabetes Foundation, Denmark. Mr. Aseem Ali (Asst. Manager, LNJPEH) has informed about awareness drive in 100 villages and quiz competition in 50 schools over diabetic retinopathy by the hospital. He referred the data by WDF about 170 million diabetic people worldwide with assumed number of 366 million by the year 2030 while 1.85 million people are currently suffering from the blindness namely diabetic retinopathy caused by diabetes. It’s significant that with support of World Diabetes Foundation, LNJPEH could serve such patients with modern equipments and remarkable precision at the small village of Bahera as most of the people are unable to afford proper treatment of this sort of sightlessness at distant places. Mr. Ali has added further about growing number of diabetic patients in villages also where people are supposed to be hard workers manually. The eye hospital organizes screening camps in remote villages to access people in dire need of eye care and provides them all possible medical help immediately with the objective of quality service at low cost.
Dawat-e-Iftar and All Faiths Meet by NBJK #CommunalHarmony
Dawat-e-Iftar and All Faiths Meet by NBJK: Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra and Lok Samiti have organized Dawat-e-Iftar at Hotel Akashdeep, Hazaribag on 9th July. The event was participated by around 150 Rozedars from all sections of society and Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) has greeted them on the occasion in this holy month of Ramadan. After Magrib namaz, a Sarvadharm Sambhaav meeting was held there and many prominent citizens have shared their views upon religious understanding and discussed the ways to harmonize people. The program is solely devoted to peace and fraternity in society and all great personalities of different religious faiths have shown us the way we should live, said Mr. Girija Satish during his welcome address for the meeting. He expressed concern over the worldwide disputes in the name of religions that compel us to involve millions of security forces as unproductive and purchase of armaments at the cost of poor people. Md Islam Khan has praised India as the great land where ancient Hindu scriptures have called that God as formless and the cause behind all causes. Sardar Jaswant Singh has appealed to realize the different systems of worship the One, the omnipresent. Father Seletry has correlated eternal values of kindness and compassion for all with any religion. Mr. Swarupchand Jain was for control over desires as the base for rituals and valued Indian democracy with enough space for followers of diverse faiths. Dr. Faruqui has called the God as most merciful and described renunciation as the guiding spirit for any religious activity. Prof. R. S. Ambasttha has matched humanity with religions while all the great messengers are not known by their portraits but by the characters, opined Prof. Subodh Singh Shivageet. Mr Gautam Sagar Rana, Md Khalid, Mr Ghulam Zilani, Mr Satish Girija, Mr Ashok Yadav, Mr Arjun Yadav, Mr Razi Alam, Mr K G Azad, Mr Shamsher Alam, Mr Dungarmal Jain and Mr Shyam Kishor Singh were present in the all faiths meet.