Carpentry Tools distribution at Jehanabad

12 September 2020, Jehanabad (Bihar): On the initiative of Mr. Karuna Sagar (IPS) and by courtesy of Mr. Rattesh Gumbar & Mr. Praveen Kumar from #ITAllianceAustralia NBJK has provided Carpentry tools to Mr. Naveen Kumar (DM, Jehanabad) for 20 reverse migrant carpenters affected by COVID caused lockdown. Also the DDC and the SDC of Jehanabad were present on the occasion.

Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK), Mr. Anand Abhinav (Director, NBJK), Mr. Shankar Rana (Program Manager, NBJK) and Mr. Ashwini Kumar have handed over the tools’ kits to the DM for local carpenters. Each kit was comprised of different tools like Jackplane, Stone, Cutter Blade, Drill Bit, Hand Saw, Adze, Batali with Handle, Kachak with Handle, Battam, Jamura, Hammer, Electric Cutter Machine and Electric Drill Machine.

They arranged 20 tool kits for the needy carpenters through the district administration. The Govt. officers have appreciated the move.

Inauguration of Better Life Farming Center

09 September 2020, Murhu (Khunti): Under the program of #Mission2020LakhpatiKisanSmartVillage by NBJK with support of Tata Trusts @tatatrusts and CInI @cinicell #MurhuNariShaktiKisanProducerCompanyLimited has started Better Life Farming Center. The company is co-opted by Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society @onlineJSLPS also.

BLFC will provide high quality agriculture inputs & technical services, cultivation training, marketing, price transparency and to boost up farmers’ collective bargaining capacity. The farmers will be offered tips for improved seeds, crops safety, drip irrigation, mulching & other technical information at the center. Also they will be facilitated towards market linkage, access to buyers etc in Murhu and other blocks of the district, Mrs. Dayamani Nag (Chairperson, MNSKPCL) and Mr. Abhijit Mal (CEO, MNSKPCL) have briefed on the occasion.

BLFC has technical assistance from Bayer CropScience while CInI-Tata Trusts-NBJK will help the center financially. Mr. Mohit Purty (Branch Manager, NBJK-Khunti), Mr. Somnath Das (Coordinator, CInI-Tata Trusts), Mr. Pankaj Kumar (RPO, JOHAR-JSLPS), Mr. Saurabh Kumar (Bayer CropScience), Mr. Niraj Kumar with many local entrepreneurs & farmers were present in the inaugural ceremony of Better Life Farming Center. Please click at https://publicapp.co.in/video/sp_cqq532p9uk5mb?share=true for more information.

Khunti District Officers Visit Rodo Village in Murhu Block

01September 2020, Khunti: Mr. Shashi Ranjan (DC, Khunti), Mr. Hemant Sati (SDO, Khunti), Mr. Pradeep Bhagat (BDO, Murhu), the Circle Officer of Murhu block and other officers have visited Rodo village of Binda panchayat in Murhu block in Khunti district.

They met farmers and observed their works with NBJK’s #Mission2020LakhpatiKisanSmartVillage with support of Tata Trusts @tatatrusts and Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives-CIni @cinicell the officers have participated in the meeting of Gram Sabha and appealed the villagers to take benefits of Govt. schemes.

The officers have applauded the practices for improved income from agriculture by Farm Producers’ Organizations and interacted with the entrepreneurs engaged with poly houses, piggery, fishery etc under #MurhuNariShaktiKisanProducerCompanyLimited @onlineJSLPS

NBJK Celebrates 74th Independence Day

15 August 2020, Hazaribag: 74^th Independence Day of India was celebrated gracefully at the Coordination Office of Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra. Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) has hoisted national flag and after national anthem, he delivered a short speech.

Currently we are passing through a critical time due to the pandemic COVID-19 but this too will end, Mr. Girija expressed his hope and paid rich tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. He remembered Gandhiji in context of a self-reliant India and said that development of profitable agriculture, dairy, rural industries can develop our villages and it needs support from all stakeholders. NBJK could develop resources for agriculture as involved with rural development for a long time; he pointed out and mentioned about Buniyadi Shiksha by Gandhiji. This one is skill based instead of only bookish knowledge under present education system. Mr. Girija Satish discussed about direction as well as limitation of science and correlated independence with self-reliance.

On this occasion, Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) said that even after 73 years of our independence, more than 10 lakh people are victim of forced migration in Jharkhand only. This is shameful and our rural areas need employment generation programs immediately, he added. Mr. Satish Girija has reminded about 50 years of NBJK and conveyed his best wishes to all workers. Mr. Prabhunath Sharma (Treasurer, NBJK) called the day as pious one to energize us and he appealed for self-appraisal. Also Mr. Gandharv Gaurav and Mr. Anand Abhinav (both Program Directors, NBJK) have addressed the program.

Agriculture Minister Distributes Seeds & Pesticides among Farmers @tatatrusts @cinicell @Bayer

01 July 2020, Khunti: Mr. Badal Patralekh (Agriculture Minister, Jharkhand) has distributed paddy-maize seeds & pesticides among 40 marginalized farmers during a program organized under joint auspices of district administration, Sewa Welfare Society and NBJK.

Murhu Nari Shakti Kisan Producer Company Limited, an apex community institution promoted by NBJK with support of CInI-Tata Trusts has identified about 800 such tillers and many of them are reverse migrant households who are coming back to villages due to COVID-19 pandemic. MNSKPCL encourages them to be engaged with cultivation. The seeds & pesticides were made available by Bayer Crop Science. To strengthen the move, district agriculture department has provided 4 quintals seed of pigeon pea to NBJK for aspirant farmers. The farmers are getting masks also.

The agriculture minister was accompanied by Mr. Arvind Mishra (DDC), Mr. Hemant Sathi (SDM), Mr. Kali Charan Munda, Mr. Mohit Purty and others on the occasion.

As another development, 50 selected farmers from Adki, Murhu, Khunti, Karra and Torpa blocks got training on lemongrass farming and hon. minister dispensed improved seeds to them.

#LokSamiti Celebrates 43rd Foundation Day

30 June 2020, Hazaribag: District Unit of Lok Samiti has organized foundation day program at its office premises. Mr. Girija Satish (National President, Lok Samiti) hoisted organization’s flag in presence of workers and addressed them.

He introduced about Lok Samiti and its founder Loknayak JayPrakash “JP” who used the term Lok Samiti or People’s Committee as a peaceful & non-political body to control the government. JP was invited to communicate with the elected members of Lok Sabha when emergency was over and Janta Party Government came in power, Mr. Girija Satish clarified and said that around the year 1980, we started Lok Samiti in Hazaribag district and soon it expanded in 40 districts of unified Bihar including Chatra, Ranchi and other places. This could increase people’s awareness, they started questioning related to welfare schemes and many small VOs played significant role in the development, though got a setback as the Government has imposed many rules & regulations upon voluntary sector, he stated.

Lok Samiti’s national president said about the significant advocacy like holding of Panchayat election in Bihar-Jharkhand after a gap of 3 decades, liquor prohibition in Bihar and he appealed the Government of Jharkhand to ban liquor in the state. We need a lot of improvements in our administrative, political, judicial systems and still looking for stable solutions, Mr. Girija Satish expressed his deep concern.                                  

On this occasion, Mr. Prabhu Nath Sharma (Founder Member, Hazaribag District Lok Samiti) said that Lok Samiti aims for equality based social structure and our programs are dedicated to bring some societal changes always.

Lok Samiti foundation day event was contributed by Mrs. Meera Gupta, Mrs. Gunja, Mrs. Sunita, Ms Niki Soren, Mr. Anand Abhinav, Mr. Rajeev Singh, Mr. Shankar Rana, Mr. Pawan Lal Gupta, Mr. Mithilesh Kumar, Mr. Amresh Sinha, Mr. Arun Verma, Mr. Sudeep, Mr. Pravesh Singh, Mr. Abhay Kumar, Mr. Surendra, Mr. Kishor, Mr. Anup, Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Mr. Sudhir Upadhyay, Mr. Yogesh and others.

Media Sensitization on COVID Response and RPD Act @CBMIndia @dfat @GiveIndia @HSBC

25 June 2020, Dumka: NBJK organized a media sensitisation event on its response to COVID-19 and about the steps to follow RPD Act 2016. Mr. Anand Abhinav (Program Director, NBJK) addressed a group of local media people and members of DPOs promoted under the program of CBID with support of CBM.

He thanked DPOs’ members those played crucial role in awareness generation upon the issues of mask wearing- soap hand washing and social distancing. The members have stitched and distributed 7449 masks among the community & front-line Corona warriors, he appreciated. Also the DPOs leaders shared their activities during lock down period for Corona prevention and execution strategy of RPD Act 16.

Mr. Anand Abhinav said about the specific campaign of COVID-19 Response, which provided immediate relief to the people affected by Covid and subsequent Lockdown. This includes immediate access of relief materials by the sufferers and mass awareness upon preventive measures for Corona. He informed journalists that the organization has distributed ration-hygiene kits among 2252 people (including PwDs) and demonstrated hand washing with soap before them.

It dispensed food materials among 804 families (744 PwDs), linked 317 persons (114 PwDs) with MNREGA scheme, submitted on-line UDID applications for 1038 PwDs and facilitated livelihood for 653 people including 377 PwDs as with seeds of seasonal vegetables, paddy & maize for farm based activities in time, Mr. Abhinav explained.

NBJK has provided ration-sanitation items for migrant laborers at 2 quarantine centers in Jama block, he said and added that NBJK handed over N-95 masks (100 pcs), surgical masks (500 pcs), surgical gloves (10,000 pcs), sanitizer (107 litres), infrared thermometers (9 pcs), oxygen cylinders (2 pcs), pulse oxymeters (15 pcs) to Dumka sadar hospital & blocks. Besides this, Rs. 5000 for each has been deposited in bank accounts of 21 poor families to rehabilitate the earning hands with their livelihoods.

Mr. Anand Abhinav expressed sincere gratitude to Aditya Birla Capital, Give India, HSBC, CBM and DFAT, the agencies those supported the whole campaign and spent around Rs. 10 lakhs cumulatively. Total 18 media persons and DPOs’ leaders from project locations have participated on the occasion. Team NBJK was contributed by Mr. Sudarshan Pandey (Branch Manager, NBJK-Dumka), Mr. Amrit Paswan (CBID Program Manager), Mr. Tushar Pal (Project Coordinator) and Mr. Rajkumar (Spl. Educator).

Ration Support by Goonj @goonj and AVI @ActionVillageIn to #LordBuddhaHomeForChildren

22-23 June 2020, Silaunja (Bodhgaya): Goonj-New Delhi and Action Village India-UK have provided edibles to orphan children of NBJK run Lord Buddha Home for Children.

Goonj arranged Flour (500 kg), Rice (300 kg), Pulse (80 kg), Mustard Oil (30 litres) and Potato (500 kg) for the orphanage. While AVI supported for Flour (1.5 quintal), Rice (900 kg), Pulse (240 kg), Mustard Oil (90 litres) and Potato (1.5 quintal). The food items have been distributed among house-mothers in presence of Md. Nayeem (Manager, LBHC), Mr. Anil Tripathee (Principal, Komal Pujan Public School) and Mr. Lalan Thakur (Office In-charge, LBHC).

Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) expressed sincere gratitude towards Goonj and Action Village India for the support they made available for orphan children of LBHC during this Corona crisis. The timely support will feed our children for four months; he said and thanked both the organizations. Mr. Satish Girija appealed all individuals & institutional donors for help to run LBHC smoothly as 55 destitute children from marginalized families live here and pursue their school education.

Sub-Committee of #FamilyCounselingCentre Meets @MinistryWCD

19 June 2020, Hazaribag: With support of Central Social Welfare Board, Govt. of India & Jharkhand State Social Welfare Board, NBJK run Family Counseling Centre has called it’s Sub-committee meeting in the premises of Women Police Station, Hazaribag.

Ms Amita Lakra (Deputy Superintendent of Police, Crime Control Room) has presided the meeting and expressed serious concern over rising incidents of family dispute that affected our daily life in urban & rural areas of Hazaribag district. The Sub-committee members have supported her view and constituted a Family Welfare Committee unanimously. The FWC will meet once in a month at Women Police Station to resolve the cases of family disputes. Besides Ms Amita Lakra (Dy. SP), Mr. Krishna Kumar Saha (Officer In-Charge, WPS) and Mrs. Munni K. Devi (AASI), other members of FCC Sub-Committee like Ms Veena Sethi (Advocate), Mr. Tulsi Dubey (Advocate), Mrs. Sheela Kumari (Secretary, Stri Shakti), Mrs. Sharda Devi (Secretary, Sashakt Nari Utthan), Mrs. Meera Gupta (Counselor, FCC) and Mr. Sanjay Kumar (Counselor, FCC) will look after the matter.

In the meeting, Sub-committee members have discussed upon quarterly report (February-April 2020) of FCC. During the period, total 38 cases of family disputes have been registered at FCC. There were cases of Couple Controversy (18), Alcoholic Violence (9), Extra-Marital Relation (1), Differences with Son & Daughter-in-law (9) and Land Dispute (1). Total 26 cases have been settled, Mrs. Meera Gupta informed the members. Also Mrs. Neera Rezina Purti (AASI) and Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) have participated in the meeting.