2368 OPD from 126 Villages at #COVIDCareRuralOutreachCamps

06 July 2021, Hazaribag: With support of GiveIndia @GiveIndia US GiveIndia Foundation, Skoll Foundation @SkollFoundation and Linde @LindeIndia @LindeIndia1, NBJK run program of COVID Care Rural Outreach Camps is providing a doorstep medical care service for the people live at remote villages.

During such 32 outreach camps in between 15 June-03 July, total 2368 persons from 126 villages of Sadar, Daroo & Katkamdag blocks have turned up for their checkup of BP, Sugar, Oxygen Level, Fever, Cold-Cough/Throat Infection etc. 185 & 386 have been identified with high BP and high sugar respectively.

In these camps, around 85% people have got free medicines as per symptoms of diseases, as prescribed by the doctor during the camps. Till 3rd July, 36 Rural Medical Practitioners have received Infrared Thermometer, Oximeter & Sanitizer for each to improve their service.

Two teams comprised of 1 Program Manager, 2 drivers, 2 ANMs, 2 mobilizers and 2 MBBS doctors are working tirelessly to make these Covid Care outreach camps a success.

The program aims to reach about 9000 people in 430 villages of Hazaribag with a clear message to defeat COVID.

#FamilyCounselingCenter @MinistryWCD @NIPCCD Organizes Its Sub-Committee Meeting

03 July 2021, Hazaribag: With support of Central Social Welfare Board-New Delhi and Jharkhand State Social Welfare Board-Ranchi, NBJK run Family counseling Center (FCC) has organized its Sub-committee meeting.

The meeting held at the premises of Women Police Station (WPS), Hazaribag on 28th June and chaired by Mrs. Binu Kodiyar (Officer I/c, WPS). She suggested for formation of a body as Pariwar Kalyan Samiti (PKS) linked to WPS with members of FCC Sub-committee to co-operate in settlement of the cases with PKS & FCC, so that more families can be saved from breakup. Also she advised to hold monthly meeting of PKS.

In the meeting, Sub-committee members have expressed serious concern over mobile phone caused growing trend of criminality among youths and they appealed the parents for healthy interaction with their wards to correct them on time.

During the meeting, Mrs. Meera Gupta (Counselor, FCC) has tabled the quarterly report (April-June’21) of FCC before the members and said about registration of total 34 cases at FCC for this period. Out of these cases, marital dispute (14), separation from son & daughter-in-law (7), familial unrest by liquor (8), dispute with mother/father-in-law (3) and extra-marital relation (2) have been attended by FCC and we could be able resolve 19 cases, she informed.

Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK), Mr. Tulsi Dubey (Advocate), Mrs. Sheela Kumari (Secretary, Stri Shakti), Mrs. Usha (Anupam Mahila Chetna), Mrs. Sharda Devi (Sashakt Nari Utthan), Mr. Umesh Kumar Saw, Mrs. Roli Kumari, Ms Asima Lakra and Mr. Sanjay Kumar (Counselor, FCC) have participated in the meeting.

#LokSamiti Organizes 44th Foundation Day

30 June 2021, Khardiha (Deo, Aurangabad): Bihar Pradesh Lok Samiti has organized its 44th Foundation Day at the birth place of late Tripurari Sharan (Ex-President, National Lok Samiti). On 28th June, his 8th death anniversary was deeply mourned by his followers. This resulted as a Workers Convention and Mr. Jagannath Singh (President, BSLS) was on the chair. This began with lighting of lamp and by offering garlands, flowers over picture of Tripurari Babu. Also Lok Samiti’s flag hoisting ceremony took place and people have expressed their condolences for all the friends who left this world because of Covid or some other reasons may be. Mr. Girija Satish (President, National Lok Samiti) and Mr. Anand Shankar Singh (Hon. MLA, Aurangabad Sadar) have inaugurated the convention jointly.

In his address, Mr. Girija Satish remembered Tripurari Babu’s life is an ideal example of creative struggle, talked upon his contribution to Khadi sector and mentioned about farmers’ compulsion to sell their produces below cost price and lack of purchase centers. He appealed for support to anti-liquor law.

Mr. Anand Shankar Singh (Hon. MLA) praised late Tripurari Sharan as a social heritage, guide, Gandhian worker and a virtuous, dutiful person. He said about the multi-purpose spinning wheel developed by Tripurari Babu.

Mr. Kaushal Ganesh Azad (National Co-ordinator, Lok Samiti) has demanded for a life size statue of late Tripurari Sharan and a school in village Khardiha and restoration of Mandi system with guaranteed MSP to farmers. Mr. Ajay Shrivastava (Ex-president, district Khadi Gramodyog) recalled Tripurari Babu as a synonymous to Khadi and his devotion to JP. Mr. Shivji Singh (GS, BSLS) anchored the dais.

Also Mr. Girija Satish, Hon. MLA, Mr. Jagannath Singh, Mr. KG Azad & Mr. Shivji Singh have sown two plants of Mango & Banyan in memory of late Tripurari Babu. During the convention, Mr. Girija Satish has honored Smt. Dulari Jee (widow of late Ramswaroop Bhai, an old associate of Gaya Lok Samiti) with shawl while other recipient of this admiration, Shri Ram Sharan Jee (Bhagalpur LS) couldn’t join the program.

About 100 people including Mr. Nagendra Sinha (G. Secretary, BSLS), Mr. Shriram Singh (Secretary, dist. LS), Dr. Arun Maji (Advocate-Supreme Court & President, Delhi State LS), Mr. Sajjan Kumar (GS, Delhi LS), Mrs. Bindu Singh, Mrs. Meena Devi (Baadh LS), Mr. Upendra Singh, Mr. Parmeshwar, Mr. Kishori Yadav, Mr. Vishnudev Paswan, Mr. Sujeet (Rohtas LS) have participated in the convention.

#MemoriesOfEmergency 25 June 1975: A Symposium

30 June 2021, Hazaribag: On 25th June a symposium on “Memories of Emergency 25 June 1975” held at NBJK co-ordination office. Mr. Swarup Chand Jain (Advocate) has chaired the event.

Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK & National Lok Samiti) introduced the theme and said that Emergency regime was a form of dictatorship which permitted arbitrary actions of the Government to torture common people. He called kindness, collective decision and honor to people’s views as vital ingredients of any democratic system and to restore these values we must get rid of the prejudices related to caste, religion, race, region, language etc.

Mr. Gautam Sagar Rana (Ex-MLA) who led anti-emergency movement in Hazaribag during his young age, appreciated NBJK for organizing this meeting and said about the conflict between State Power & People’s Power that resulted as defeat of State Power.

Also Mr. Murari Singh (Environmentalist), Mr. Umesh Pratap (Secretary-BJJK, Ichak), Prof. Pramod Kumar (Teacher, Dept. of Political Science, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag), Mr. Krishna Ram Thakur (Ex-Teacher), Mr. Bateshwar Prasad Mehta (Politician), Prof. Subodh Singh Shivgeet (Teacher, Dept. of Hindi, VBU), Dr. Prasann Mishra (Journalist) and Mr. Shamsher Alam (Social Worker) have shared their views.

From the chair, Mr. Swarup Chand Jain clarified that disagreement with or protest to the ruling power can’t be termed as sedition. He named mob lynching as black spots on our democracy. Mr. Jain called for people’s stake to improve our democratic setup and thanked NBJK for the seminar.

Covid Relief Materials Distributed @goonj.org @goonj

29 June 2021, Amrit Nagar-Bahera Ashram (Hazaribag): With support of Goonj-Delhi, NBJK has distributed Food items among the people worried due to second wave of COVID-19 pandemic.

At Amrit Nagar based co-ordination office of NBJK, Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) and Mr. Suresh Kumar (Representative, Goonj) have distributed Relief Kits among 40 needy people from villages like Pelawal, Romi, Harhad, Mandai, Dumranw, Khirgaon, Harina, Sulmi, Alakhdiha etc. The recipients include many Madarsa teachers & Persons with Disabilities.

Likewise at Bahera Ashram (NBJK Head Office)-Chauparan, Mr. Satish Girija and Mr. Suresh Kumar handed over the Relief Kits to families of 110 COVID deceased persons & PwDs from Bahera, Iguniya, Mangarh, Machla, Singhrawan, Jhapa and other villages. Each Kit consisted with 10 kg Rice, 10 kg Flour, 2 kg Lentil Pulse, 1 kg Gram, 1 litre Mustard Oil & 2 pcs of Soap.

Mr. Ajit Kumar (Goonj) & NBJK staffs as Mr. Rajeev Singh, Mr. Shankar Rana, Mr. Shailesh Kumar, Mr. Rajkumar Gupta, Mr. Ayodhya Bharti, Mr. Virendra Sinha, Mrs. Maya Mishra, Mrs. Poonam Kumari, Mr. Narayan Rajak, Mr. Brijnandan Singh, Mr. Navratna Pandey have contributed to the event.

#COVIDCareRuralOutreachCamps @SkollFoundation @GiveIndia @LindeIndia @LindeIndia1

24 June 2021, Hazaribag: With support of GiveIndia, US GiveIndia Foundation, Skoll Foundation and Linde, NBJK is organizing COVID Care Rural Outreach Camps in rural areas at panchayat level.

During 15-23 June, such outreach camps have covered 66 villages of 16 panchayats in Hazaribag Sadar, Daroo, Ichak, Vishnugarh blocks of the district. These attended 976 OPD with sugar test for 233 and identified cataract with 51 & pterygium with 6. NBJK run LNJP Eye Hospital, Bahera (Chauparan, Hazaribag) will take care of the people suffering from eye problems under its Rural Eye Health program with support of Sightsavers @SightsaversIndia @SightsaversIN

At the camps, medicines are being distributed among patients of cough, cold, throat infection and 16 Rural Medical Practitioners have received the sets of Oximeter & Infrared Thermometer to improve their easily accessible service for villagers.

There is a 10 members team consisted to hold Covid Care Rural Outreach Camps. Dr. (Mrs.) Megha Sinha and Dr. Krishna Kumar are the physicians with the team.

COVID Relief Materials to Needy Families @azimpremjifoundation

21-23 June 2021, Hazaribag: With support of #AzimPremjiPhilanthropicInitiativesPvtLtd NBJK has started distribution of COVID relief materials among poor families. The ration & food stuffs received by each beneficiary are as follows – Rice-25 kg, Gram Pulse-1 kg, Lentil Pulse-1 kg, Chilli-200 gm, Salt-1 kg, Flour-10 kg, Potato-5 kg, Onion-1 kg, Margo Soap-2 pcs, Mask-2 pcs, Mustard Oil-1 kg and Turmeric-200 gm.

The recipients belong to Hazaribag town and adjacent villages. On 21st June, 111 people from Korra, Babugaon, Nutan Nagar, Amrit Nagar have received the relief materials while on 22nd June, 153 identified persons from Hazaribag Sadar, Rola, Amrit Nagar, Jinga, Goplo, Sarauni, Silwar, Jhumra, Daroo, Meru, Sindur, Siyari, Khirgaon areas got the same.

Today on 23rd June, 125 people of Hazaribag Sadar, Ichak, Katkamdaag, Meru, Daroo, Jhumra, Silwar and Sarauni villages have come to Amrit Nagar based Coordination Office of NBJK to collect the relief materials.

Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) said that these relief materials are being distributed among 600 plus families. Besides this, with support of Goonj @goonj.org @goonj soon we will provide dry ration kit to 150 Persons with Disabilities in Chauparan block of Hazaribag district, Mr. Girija Satish adds.

#COVIDCare Rural Outreach Camp @SkollFoundation @GiveIndia @LindeIndia @LindeIndia1

15 June 2021, Silwar (Hazaribag): With support of GiveIndia, US GiveIndia Foundation, Skoll Foundation and Linde, NBJK has organized the maiden event of COVID Care Rural Outreach Camp at Govt. Middle School, Silwar premises.

The camp was inaugurated by Mr. Manish Jaiswal @Manishjhzb @ manishjaiswalbjp Hon. MLA from Hazaribag Sadar seat. He mentioned about various post COVID complications and appreciated NBJK for organizing camps in rural areas for basic health checkup & treatment to villagers. Hon. Member of Legislative Assembly-Jharkhand praised the organization for providing Oximeter & Infrared Thermometer to Rural Medical Practitioners also and appealed the people to take vaccine without paying any attention to rumor mongers. He handed over Oximeters & Infrared Thermometers to local RMPs like Mr. Kedar Prasad, Mr. Sunil Kumar and Mr. Meghan Prasad.

Before this, Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) welcomed Hon. MLA and said about the program which aims to access minimum 9000 people in 450 villages of Hazaribag district. This will provide medicines to villagers suffering from cold-cough-fever or COVID after their checkup. Besides that, checkup of blood pressure-blood sugar-cataract will be available for the persons of 40-50 years age group and NBJK run LNJP eye hospital, Bahera (Chauparan) will conduct their cataract surgery free of cost, he informed. Also we started a COVID Care Center at LNJPEH which offers free of cost complete treatment for severe patients of COVID-19 with facility of 30 Oxygen supported beds, Mr. Satish Girija pointed out. He added that NBJK will equip RMPs with Oximeter & Infrared Thermometer to ensure proper treatment in rural areas and talked about the pamphlet issued by NBJK regarding advices & support upon COVID-19 cases NBJK Secretary thanked Dr. (Mrs.) Medha Sinha and Dr. Krishna Kumar for providing their services during outreach camps and reiterated that if any family has lost its main earning member due to Corona, such family members can get one month’s ration and Rs. 15,000 as support amount from the organization.

On this occasion, Mr. Mahendra Ram (Mukhiya, Silwar panchayat) has appreciated NBJK for relief works and health care support to the people. He remembered the organization’s work done in last year.

At the end, Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) has thanked Hon. MLA for inaugurating the camp and requested people to get vaccine as well as to follow guidelines if we want to defeat third wave of COVID-19.

Another outreach camp held at Library building of Meru village. Both the camps have ensured health checkup & medicines for total 92 persons.

Mr. Rajeev Kumar (Mukhiya, Meru panchayat), Dr.(Mrs.) Medha Sinha, Mr. Anjani Kumar Sinha, Mrs. Sunita Kumari, Ms Neelam, Mr. Ajay, Mr. Sudhir Kumar were present in the camps.

NBJK Organizes COVID Care Camp @schrodersgo.sg @Schroders

04 June 2021, village-Bongiya, Barachatti: NBJK has organized a COVID Care Camp at Bongiya village of Mohanpur block. The camp was inaugurated by Honorable MP from Gaya, Mr. Vijay Manjhi.

First of all he has gone through the checkup of his own Oxygen Level, Temperature & Pulse Rate. After that, he said about preventive measures to be taken to stay away from COVID. He insisted for Mask and Vaccine for all. The Member of Parliament pointed out that still our people are being influenced by a whirl of fallacies and become superstitious when someone poses themselves as Dev Pari (God Fairy) and COVID will go if we drink the water from their hands while some people go by the idea of Cow Dung-Urine as a remedy for Corona. Mr. Manjhi opined that we must get rid of such false notions.

In his brief address, Hon. Lok Sabha member has praised NBJK & Lok Samiti for continuous efforts to make people’s lives better and during this time of a dreadful pandemic too, they came forward with such substantial campaign against COVID. He thanked the members of Team COVID Care Camp from NBJK.

On this occasion, Mr. Kaushal Ganesh Azad (National Coordinator, Lok Samiti) said that even though the Corona cases have reduced now but to take precautions is still important. He has suggested to keep distance from the people spreading rumors. Also Mr. Rajendra Prasad, Mr. Badri Paswan (Lok Samiti), Mr. Arjun Manjhi, Mr. Baleshwar and many other important figures of the locality were present there.

The members of Team COVID Care Camp as Mr. Karunanidhi (I/C, LNJPEH), Mr. Praveen Kumar, Ms Seema Kumari, Ms Anjali Kumari and Mr. Sanjay Raj have played important role in health assessment of villagers like measurement of oxygen level, fever, pulse rate and distribution of medicines among them.

Outreach Covid Screening Camps @schrodersgo.sg @Schroders

14-22 May 2021, Chauparan (Hazaribag): With support of Schroders-Singapore, NBJK organizes outreach screening camps in rural areas of Chauparan block where people don’t have much health facility to fight with COVID-19.

NBJK team provides Oximeter & Thermometer to Mukhiya (Headman)/Teacher/Village Health Worker in villages so that the people have access to monitor their SpO₂ (Oxygen) level or temperature and in any case of abnormality they can be admitted timely in hospital. The team arranges necessary checkup and distributes medicine kit among villagers.

Till date the team has organized 14 screening camps in 14 villages like Prajapat Nagar, Mangarh, Pasai, Kutlu, Karma, Daihar with others and ensured checkup for 658 people. Mr. Anand Abhinav (Program Director, NBJK) says that we aim to reach inside 300 villages of the block through this campaign and he expresses sincere gratitude to #Schroders for timely support to the needy people.