Two Days Training for VOs @breadfortheworld @bread4theworld

21 October 2021, Amritnagar (Hazaribag, Jharkhand): Under NBJK run program of Support to Small Initiatives with help of Bread for the World-Germany, Chief Executives of 21 small voluntary organizations from Jharkhand & Bihar have participated in a 2-days capacity building training held at NBJK Coordination Office premises on 19-20 October 2021.

During the training, Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) got feedback of the intervention by VOs across their operational areas and discussed about future sustainability through programs. The VOs’ representatives have briefed about the support they provided to common people against tough time of Covid pandemic and shared about benefits of the efforts pertaining to food security, betterment of farmers, employment generation activities as well as their improved income.

In order of the training, Mr. Rajeev Singh (Program Manager) has decribed about financial aid from companies/business houses as Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR for philanthropic works by VOs. Also he focused upon updated rules & regulations related to foreign contribution under FCRA, provisions like 12A & 80G for income tax relaxation, registration with Niti Ayog etc.

In the final stage of training, all participant representatives of VOs have presented their future work plans. Mr. Shankar Rana (Asst. Program Manager) played active role in organizing the event.

Tribal Focused Usha Silai School Training @UshaIntl @ushasilaischool

18 October 2021, Dumka: Under NBJK run #UshaSilaiSchool program, 9 days residential training upon Sewing Machine Maintenance & Tailoring started at NBJK, Dumka.

The training is exclusively for ST community and 20 tribal women from villages of Dumka Sadar, Masaliya and Kathikund blocks have joined the program as trainees. Besides getting skills to fix faults in sewing machine and making of different dresses, they are attending personality development sessions also to improve their customer relation as promising entrepreneurs. Mrs. Pammi Devi and Mrs. Renu Devi are trainers for this batch. The training will last on 26 October 2021.

Mr. Felix Tirkey (Program Officer, Usha International), Mr. Shailesh Kumar (Program Coordinator, NBJK) and Mr. Rajesh Sharma (Program Coordinator, NBJK) played active role to organize the training.

Followers Celebrate 119th Birth Anniversary of #LoknayakJayPrakash

11 October 2021, Hazaribag: Today the members of Hazaribag District Lok Samiti, ’74 Chetna Manch and social workers have celebrated 119th birth anniversary of Loknayak Jay Prakash Narayan, who was a renowned freedom fighter, sarvodaya leader and pioneer of students’ movement in year 1974.

On this occasion under leadership of Mr. Swarup Chand Jain (senior advocate & agitator of ’74 movement), garlands have been offered upon photograph of JP put over grave site where his ashes buried.

Mr. S. C. Jain said about ’74 movement when after appeal from JP, students & youths have sacrificed everything to make a new system and it was like second freedom movement, he remembered. Mr. Jain has saluted JP for the movement which saved Indian democracy. Mr. Shamsher Alam valued social harmony during ’74 movement that mobilized the mass to think above caste, faith in favour of our nation-society and still we need that very unity.

Mr. Shankar Rana (Co-ordinator, Jharkhand State Lok Samiti) said that JP himself established Lok Samiti in 1979 that enables us to raise voice upon issues those affect common people and we demand for JP statue here by people & administration jointly. Dr. Vishwanath Azad was concerned about beautification of JP Grave Site and Mr. Krishnaram Thakur called for safety measures.

These followers of JP have visited Hazaribag Central Jail also where an attractive statue of JP has been erected already, they met Mr. Ail Kumar Prithwi the artist who made this statue and gifted him a book upon JP.

Inauguration of #VimlaRamkrishnaBajajEyeHospital @JBFMumbai @BajajElectricals

10 October 2021, Deoghar (Jharkhand):  At Bilasi turning near Canara bank inside Deoghar, Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra (NBJK) has initiated Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital with support of Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation, Mumbai. Shri Shekhar Bajaj (CMD-Bajaj Electricals Ltd. & Director-Bajaj Group of Companies), the grandson of late Shri Jamnalal Bajaj and a son of late Smt. Vimla-Shri Ramkrishna Bajaj was chief guest of this event who inaugurated the hospital online from Mumbai. He appreciated NBJK for initiative to ensure proper treatment of needy eye patients and expected for relief to poor people. Also he saw live footage of the eye hospital and conveyed best wishes for success.

Before this, Shri Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) greeted all visitors present during inaugural ceremony and called Vimla Ramkrishna Eye Hospital as a gift to the people from Bajaj Family. He shared sincere gratitude to Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation for construction support to the hospital and co-operation to Anti-liquor campaign in Jharkhand.

On this occasion, Shri Ramnandan praised the motive of deprived people’s welfare behind establishment of Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital at Deoghar. Dr. Alok Agrawal (Senior Ophthalmologist) provided basic information upon eye care, said about modern equipments & techniques for treatment of vision complexities and asked for similar eye hospitals in every district. Shri Ghanshyam (Judaw-Madhupur) said that the eye hospital will benefit patients from not only Deoghar but from other nearby districts also. Shri Alok Kumar (Representative, Chamber of Commerce) has thanked the donors and thrusted for availability of infrastructure & communication facilities at Deoghar. Shri Sadanand and Smt. Rani Singh have valued the social works being done by NBJK.

At end of the program, Shri Girija Satish (President, NBJK) has expressed gratefulness to the chief guest Shri Shekhar Bajaj, Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation, all participants and assured for efficient service to more people by Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital.

There were more than 100 persons present in the inaugural ceremony and Shri Anand Abhinav (Program Director, NBJK), Shri Jitendra Kumar (Program Manager, NBJK), Shri Shahab & other staffs have contributed to the event as members of organizing team.

It’s noteworthy that Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital has 30 beds, 3 eye surgeons, 30 paramedical staffs, modern equipments-operation theatre, glasses shop, medicine shop and a competence for treatment of different eye problems. This will take care of eye patients from districts other than Deoghar like Giridih, Jamui and Banka also from Jharkhand-Bihar.

Quick Heal Foundation @QuickHealFoundation Donates Ambulance to #LokNayakJayPrakashEyeHospital

06 October 2021, Bahera (Chauparan), Hazaribag: Mr. Ajay Shirke (Program Director-CSR, Quick Heal Foundation, Pune) has arrived at LNJP Eye Hospital, Bahera and flagged off the ambulance donated to the eye hospital from Quick Heal Foundation. He reached to the hospital with Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) and received by the Team LNJPEH-Bahera warmly.

Mr. Shirke distributed medicine kits among the eye patients after their cataract surgery and launched the Ambulance Service for their conveyance. After that a short meeting held in honour of Mr. Ajay Shikre and Mr. Gandharv Gaurav (Program Director, NBJK) invited him on the dais. Mr. Gaurav praised Quick Heal Foundation for the support as an ambulance and said about its requirement for transportation of the patients from remote rural areas.

On this occasion, Mr. Ajay Shirke spoke about Quick Heal, a major software company from India with net worth of about Rs. 3,000 crore, global presence and its support to social cause. Mobile Medical Van is quite useful for our rural population and it ensures deprived people’s access to health facility, he added. Mr. Shirke has suggested to share people’s grief for way out and to facilitate them towards better lives. He responded to the queries raised by local media persons. It is important that QHF is supposed to contribute 3 more ambulances to LNJPEH.

In his address, Mr. Satish Girija described about Quick Heal Foundation and valued the faith it shown towards NBJK. Also he briefed upon Eye Care program by the organization and said that there is no such Govt. service at block level where poor transportation facility exists already. There are around 30 to 35 eye disorders being dealt at LNJPEH which offers treatment at subsidized rate or free of cost with support of sponsors and the hospital contributes significantly to eradicate needless avoidable blindness, Mr. Satish Girija pointed out and expressed sincere gratitude to QHF.

Also Dr. Alok Agrawal (Sr. Ophthalmologist) was present in the program. Mr. Santosh Puri (MIS Officer) delivered vote of thanks while Mr. Vikant Singh and others have managed the event successfully.

3rd Annual General Meeting of MNSKPCL

30 September 2021, Khunti: Third annual general meeting of #MurhuNariShaktiKisanProducerCompanyLimited held at local town hall. MNSKPCL  has been promoted as a producer company under Mission 2020: Lakhpati Kisan-Smart Village, the program by NBJK with support of CInI @cinicell & Tata Trusts @tatatrusts Mr. Arun Kumar Singh (DDC, Khunti) has inaugurated the AGM by lighting the lamp. Also Mr. Shailesh Ranjan (DPM, JSLPS), Mr. Shrishendu Paul (Regional Manager, Tata Trusts), Mr. Mohit Purty (BM, NBJK) and Ms Garima Kumari (CInI-Tata Trusts) ave graced the event as special gusts.

In his inaugural address, the DDC said that though women are working in every district of Jharkhand but the women of Murhu are walking extra miles. The work by MNSKPCL is appreciable and its turnover is better than other companies comparatively, he pointed out.

Mr. Vipin Bihari (Program Director, JOHAR-JSLPS) commended the company and shared detail information about JOHAR with Didis present in the meeting.

Mr. Shrishendu Paul praised the Didis of MNSKPCL in association with Lakhpati Kisan project, have made 2100 families as Lakhpatis in a naxal affected block like Murhu within a short period of three years only. He assured that the company will initiate many new activities and updated about establishment of Nursery Protray Making Machine as well as processing units of Finger Millet & Lac in progress.

Mr. Shailesh Ranjan has asserted that JSLPS will cooperate to the new interventions by MNSKPCL, valued the work by didis and conveyed his best wishes to them for a bright future.

It is significant that MNSKPCL was established in the year 2018, its turnover reached to Rs. 3 Crore 7 Lakh till March 2021 and 2835 shareholder women are associated with the company. It involves with the works like high value agriculture, lac cultivation, piggery, goatery, poultry, fishery etc. It ensures agriculture based Geo Tag Data Collection with 9 Polyhouses, 9 piggery entrepreneurs, 1 solar cold storage, Better Life Farming Center, Cropping and the company is linked with the projects like Lakhpati Kisan, JOHAR too.

After report submission during this third Annual General Meeting, the company’s shareholders have selected Mrs. Dayamani Nag as the new director second time unanimously. She said that remaining farmer didis of Murhu will be connected with MNSKPCL soon.

Mr. Pravin Kumar (CEO, MNSKPCL) stated that we have set the target of Rs. 5 Crore as our turnover this year which is no doubt challenging but at the same time nothing before zeal of our didis. Mr. Anil Hassa and Ms Roshni Topno have anchored the dais.

#FamilyCounselingCenter @ministryWCD organized its Sub-Committee Meeting

30 September 2021, Hazaribag: The Family Counseling Center (FCC) run by NBJK with support of Central Social Welfare Board-New Delhi & Jharkhand State Social Welfare Board-Ranchi has organized it’s Sub-Committee meeting at the office of Anupam Mahila Chetna Samiti, Ravindra Path, Hazaribag.

The meeting was chaired by Mrs. Usha Devi (Secretary, AMCS) who suggested for increasing the number of cases at FCC and for inviting the Mukhiya of concerning village with objective to resolve rural disputes locally. Mr. Umesh Kumar from Holycross has recommended for a campaign by the members of sub-committee to sortout backlog cases from all blocks of Hazaribag district. Mr. Arvind Jha (Advocate) advised to publicize the activities of FCC to intervene and solve more cases of domestic unrest.

Mrs. Meera Gupta (Counselor, FCC) has tabled the quarterly work report of FCC before Sub-committee members and said that total 35 cases of familial disputes have been registered during this period as Husband-wife clash (12), Alcohol born violence (7), Mental-physical torture (6), Row with in-laws (7) as well as Others (3) and 22 cases have been patched up overall.

Also Ms Mamta Kumari, Mr. Chandan Kumar (Stri Shakti) and Mr. Sanjay Kumar (Counselor, FCC) have participated in the meeting.

Orientation & Training for Teachers of #RemedialCoachingCentres @actionvillageindia @ActionVillageIn

25 September 2021, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag): Today an Orientation & Training camp held for the teachers of Remedial Coaching Centres (RCCs) under Girls’ Education Program by NBJK with support of Action Village India, UK.

The teachers of RCCs running at Gurhet, Marheta, Sarauni, Badasi, Khutra, Pabra, Kanchanpur, Banha, Khapariyawan, Sultana, Mayatu with other villages from Hazaribag Sadar, Katkamdag and Katkamdag blocks of Hazaribag district have participated in this training focused upon the academic compensation due to disturbance by Covid pandemic, modified syllabus and new strategy for students’ preparation keeping view of this changed situation. The teachers have shared their experiences in terms of easy way to understand the contents of the subjects like Math, Science & English at higher classes.

It is remarkable that total 621 girl students of class VIII, IX & X are enrolled at the RCCs in 17 villages under the program and they avail extra classes on these three subjects free of cost there to achieve good result.

Ms Niki Soren (Asst. Program Manager) and Mr. Abhay Kumar have played significant role to organize the training while the teachers like Mr. Shahbaz Ansari, Mr. Rajkumar Sahoo, Mr. Sajan Kumar Ravi, Mr. Chandar Kumar Yadav, Mr. Anant Ram and Md. Jawed have contributed to syllabus analysis and explained about uncomplicated methods to solve the problems of students.

As the special invitee, Mr. Prabhu Nath Sharma (Founder Member & Treasurer, NBJK) has encouraged the trainee teachers and requested them to develop a lifelong learning attitude.         

#LiquorProhibitionConvention @JBFMumbai by Ramgarh District Lok Samiti

23 September 2021, Ramgarh: Under joint auspices of Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra-Hazaribag and Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation-Mumbai, Ramgarh district unit of Lok Samiti has organized a convention upon Liquor Prohibition at local Sahoo Dharmshala/hospice.

As the keynote speaker Mr. Girija Satish (President, National Lok Samiti) said about the need of awareness from villages to state capital and from individuals to groups if we want liquor prohibition in Jharkhand. He justified democratic pressure upon the State Govt. to ban liquor as this is an important issue for common people and said about pre-election written consent in favour of liquor prohibition from the candidates wish to be our representatives. Mr. Girija Satish said that in foreign, people prefer to live individual lives without families but in India keeping view of the importance of family & society, strict ban upon liquor is required. We need a liquor-free society for safety of women-girls, not a single scripture has supported liquor consumption and our constitution has directed the state to restrict alcoholism which is a major hindrance to our socio-economic development, he pointed out. Mr. Girija Satish has supported the ban upon liquor on moral ground initially bu followed by the legal measures later.

On this occasion, Mr. Kaushal Ganesh Azad (National Coordinator, Lok Samiti) stated that in Bihar, women have made liquor prohibition as people’s concern and pressurized the state government to frame a comprehensive law against this menace. He referred many historical rulers those stopped alcohol intake during their regimes, remembered Mahatma Gandhi for his strong opposition to liquor strongly and appealed the audience to achieve deaddiction at personal level firstly.                                 Mr. Shankar Rana (Coordinator, Jharkhand State Lok Samiti) has briefed about Anti-liquor conventions held in different districts recently, people’s anger and their memorandums to the state government.    Mr. Arun Kumar Patel (President, Ramgarh District Lok Samiti) has presided the program and said that we all take a pledge to end this social evil and demand to the state government for such prohibition legally.

Also Mr. Pradeep Poddar, Mr. Shailendra Kumar Mishra (President, Ranchi District Lok Samiti), Mr. Motilal Mahto (RDLS), Mrs. Preeti Diwan (Social Worker), Mrs. Manju Devi (Ex-Mukhiya), Mrs. Subhadra Agrawal, Mr. Mahendra Sinha, Mr. Kundan Kumar have expressed their views during the convention. Mr. Nagendra Prasad anchored the dais while Mr. Ravindra Kumar was responsible for management. The program was participated by around 135 women, youths & social workers who supported for prohibition passionately.

Training to Teachers of Satellite Silai School @UshaIntl @ushasilaischool

11-16 September 2021, Khunti-Bandgaon-Palkot: Tailoring training to future teachers of Satellite Silai Schools has been organized under NBJK run #UshaSilaiSchool program with support of Usha International-Delhi. Its objective was to provide skill development opportunity to 60 tribal women from Khunti, West Singhbhum and Gumla districts.

The training held at NBJK-Khunti branch office on 11-12 September, at Catholic Church-Bandgaon (West Singhbhum) on 13-14 September and at Mahila Vikas Samiti, Baghima (Palkot, Gumla) on 15-16 September 2021. This was 2-days residential training for 20 participants at each place and they learnt about cutting & stitching of pant-shirt, skirt, blouse, mask etc.

At Khunti, Mr. Mohit Purti (Branch Manager, NBJK-Khunti) and Mr. Manohar Tuti (Staff, NBJK-Khunti) have supported the event while Ms Paulina Tuti and Mrs. Asmati Devi helped at Bandgaon & Palkot respectively. As resource persons Mrs. Pammi Devi and Mrs. Renu Devi imparted their expertise with learners at all the three places.

After completion of their training, the trainees have received certificate, tailoring guidebook and signage board to initiate their own sewing schools. Mr. Shailesh Kumar (NBJK-Hazaribag) and Mr. Felix Tirkey (Usha International) played key role in organizing team and monitored the arrangement.