Internship for PGDRD Students from IRMA @IRMAOfficial79

28 November 2018, Dumka & Hazaribag: 11 students of PGDRD from Institute of Rural Management Anand or IRMA (Gujrat) have completed their internship at NBJK successfully. They started since 11 October as two teams for Dumka as well as Hazaribag branches of NBJK and spent their time at Virajpur, Nurui Bathan, Meru, Oriya and Rola villages in both the districts.

The IRMA students have collected a lot of information regarding land, agriculture, revenue, inhabitants, their occupation/employment and Government schemes. Also they studied about NBJK’s intervention in these villages with programs on Eye Care, Disability, Micro Credit, Livelihood Plan Development etc. There were 4 students at Dumka and 7 among them have preferred for Hazaribag. The students have worked hard, they lived in the villages and made an effective rapport with the people to complete their assignments.

Mr. Sudhir Kumar Upadhyay (Program Manager, NBJK) was their Reporting Officer while the entire program was monitored and evaluated by Mr. Anand Abhinav (Program Director, NBJk), an alumni of IRMA. The students participated in the internship were Ms Akshata Kar, Ms Nikita Sarin, Mr. Mrityunjay Kr. Pandey, Mr. Tanmay Ghoshal, Ms Priya Agrawal, Ms Neha Ray, Ms Varsha Katela, Mr. Abhey Kumar, Mr. Ashish Toppo, Ms Priti Verma and Ms Bhoomi RK Prajapati. All these youths belong to Rajsthan, Bihar, Bengal, Odisha, UP and Jharkhand. The Internship was concluded with presentations before Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK), who observed the findings and blessed the youths for their bright future.

#SBIGramSeva’s #CommunityInformationCenters Make #DigitalVillages @SBI_FOUNDATION

05 November 2018,  Chakai (Jamui) & Deoghar: Community Information Centers (CICs) inside villages by SBI Gram Seva project proved a tool to initiate digitalization of the people in need of mainstreaming. In Chakai block of Jamui district (Bihar), 5 villages under Ramchandradih panchayat have established own CICs  and these are well equipped with computers and internet connectivity. Many village children & youths are enrolled there to learn basic knowledge of computers & net surfing. There are 72, 67, 36, 36 and 62 students at Heth Chakai, Patjori, Garhi, Mamtadih and Chhachudih villages based CICs respectively, who joined computer classes there. Likewise in Barsatiya, Gadi, Nawadih, Ramaldih and Sahri villages of Andhrigadar panchayat under Deoghar Sadar block (district-Deoghar), such CICs are catering 17, 15, 17, 13 & 12 children/youths there in order. These centers are making people hopeful and serving them at their door step.

All these CICs are part of an itegrated project for community development as SBI Gram Seva, an CSR initiative of State Bank of India. There are services like making photocopies, scanning & access to important documents as Adhar/Ration/PAN Cards/Passport Size Photograph/Color Print Out, linkage to the Govt. Schemes like Old Age Pesion/Ujjwala Gas/Kisan Credit Card/Crop Insurance/Diesel Subsidy, Mobile Recharge, Money Transfer etc. available at CICs and they provide other Internet based facilities like searching website, youtube or e-mail also. The youths come here to know train time-table, journey reservation or to fill online application also. In evening time, villagers sit together at CIC premises and watch TV programs upon agriculture or any social issue.

These CICs were initiated in April 2018 but took few months to be fully functional and now became a hub for smooth communication as well as exchange of information timely. Earlier the village people from these panchayats used to go to Chakai or Deoghar about 10-15 km from their places but now they enjoy most of the new age technology at own village. The CICs are facilitating digital literacy in rural areas and people responded well.

#HDBFS Officials amid Students of #RemedialCoachingCenter @hdbfsl

02 November 2018, MandaiKhurd (Hazaribag): State level officials of HDB Financial Services, Mumabai, have visited Remedial Coaching Center (RCC) at village–MandaiKhurd (Hazaribag Sadar Block) to see the students and their activities. Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK), Mr. Prabhu Nath Sharma (Treasurer, NBJK), Mr. Vikram Kumar, Mr. Pintu Kumar (Project Staffs) and Mr. Yogendra Prasad (RCC Teacher) accompanied them on the occasion in presence of 33 girls students from Govt. Middle School, DAV High School, St. Robert’s Girls School and Aarakshi Girls School (Mandai & Hazaribag) enrolled in the RCC.

These girls and their teacher greeted the guests and organized painting & song competitions along with revealing individual talent in sketching, dance etc. For painting on the themes of Sanitation and Water Harvesting Ms Anisha, Ms Kajal and Ms Hina Parveen won first, second & third prizes while the songs by Ms Hina, Ms Stuti and Ms Rupa have awarded them with the same positions.

HDFS Officials have distributed Lunch Box, Pencil Box, Sketch Pens for each student and provided Football (02 nos.) and Skipping Rope (06 nos.) also for groups. During interaction with the students, Mrs. Ruchi Raj (HR RM – Patna) encouraged them and said that over foundation of student life, we can shape our future brightly. Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) cautioned about the hazards of Child Marriage as harmful effects upon body & mind if such marriage takes palce. Our daughters must be saved from this social evil, he suggested. Mr. Prabhu Nath Sharma (Treasurer & Project In-charge) recommended for Childline’s toll-free number 1098 to be contacted in case of any unexpected problem with the children / students.

HDFS visitors team was included with Mrs Ruchi Raj (HR-RM, Patna), Mr. Amarnath Gupta  (Culuster Manager-CV, Ranchi), Mr. Manish Kumar Sharma (Area Manager-CV, Ranchi), Mr. Sachin Kumar (Collection Manager, Ranchi), Mr. Mukesh Kumar Mahto (Area Sales Manager, SF-Ranchi), Mr. Samir Ranjan Srivastava (Territory Manager, CV-Hazaribag), Mr. Anuj Kumar Singh (Senior Sales Officer, CV-Hazaribag), Mr. Dilip Kumar Dubey (Territory Manager, CV-Jhumritelaiya), Mr. Pranay Sahay (Area Manager, CV-Patna) and Mr. Ankit Kumar (Sales Officer, CV-Patna).

Its noteworthy that with support of HDB Financial Services, Mumbai, NBJK runs 30 RCCs in villages of Sadar and Churchu blocks of Hazaribag district. The very program caters about 1000 girl students of class 8, 9 & 10 and offers them special classes for Science, Maths and English to make their schooling better.

#MagadhDivision #Farmers’Convention by #LokSamiti

27 October 2018, Silaunja (Bodhgaya): Under auspices of Bihar Pradesh Lok Samiti, a convention of farmers from Magadh Division was held at the premises of Lord Buddha Home for Children in Silaunja village near Bodhgaya (Gaya). The program was presided by Mr. Girija Satish, President, Rashtriya Lok Samiti. During opening speech, Mr. Kaushal Ganesh Azad (National Coordinator, Lok Samiti) has thrown light over the adverse situation being tolerated by farmers and pointed out that Minimum Support Price is for these people only while other producers can decide the price of their products. This equation must be changed, Mr. Azad said.

As the chief guest of this farmers’ convention, Mrs. Kusum Kumari (Vice-Chancellor, Munger University) opined that the issues like agriculture, education, unemployment are interconnected and people should question over misuse of public/govt. money. She described skill development, student focused education, self-reliance as need of the time and appealed for women’s participation. Mr. Ray Madan Kishor (Ex-Dy. Dev. Commissioner) was the guest of honour who expressed concern above less contribution from agriculture to our GDP and a larger population’s dependence to this sector. He suggested to implement the recommendations by Swaminathan Committee which includes land reform, assured irrigation, water conservation, easy loan etc. From chair, Mr. Girija Satish suggested for major reforms in agriculture policy of the governmeent and a special drive to boost our farmers. He supported for alternatives, 90% subsidy for irrigation and strong organization for them. The national president of Lok Samiti said that agriculture development schemes should be planned by farmers themselves.

There were community delegates like Mrs. Godavari Devi, Mr. Vishnu Singh, Mr. Jagannath Singh, Mr. Dhananjay Singh, Mr. Ram Sagar Bhai, Mr. Parmeshwar Yadav, Mr. Nagendra Sinha, Mr. Ram Vilas, Mr. Upendra Prasad, Mr. Vishnudev Paswan, Mr. Angrej Kumar, Mr. Raj Kumar, Mr. Kailash Prasad, Mr. Sanjay Kumar from Aurangabad, Jehanabad, Alwar, Barachatti, Nawada who demanded for industry like category for agriculture, water conservation and speedy way out for local issues. Also they proposed for a strong vote bank of farmers as the community. Mr. Sheoji Singh (General Secretary, Bihar Pradesh Lok Samiti) has anchored the dais while Mr. Saudagar (Coordinator, BPLS) thanked all the guests, participants, media  people and supporters at the end. There were about 150 farmers attended the convention.

#CompleteLiquorBan in @Jharkhand: A #Symposium

22 October 2018, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag): A symposium upon Complete Ban to Liquor in Jharkhand was held under joint auspices of NBJK and Hazaribag Jila Lok Samiti. Mr. Suresh Khairnar (President, Rashtra Sewa Dal) from Pune was the chief guest & speaker of this program. In his address, Mr. Khairnar put the issue of liquor ban as a priority for the state government whom he suggested to implement during 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The RSD President called liquor as a result of materialistic attitude and correlated terrorism with liquor & drugs. Mr. Khairnar named Panjab & north-eastern states of India as the victim of  such trend that destroyed social fabrics and enflamed anti-women crimes there. He offered full support to NBJK – Lok Samiti for the effort to make Jharkhand as a liquor free state.  Mr. Shahid Kamal (General Secretary, Rashtra Sewa Dal) focused upon women’s crucial support for liquor ban and said about activities of Rashtra sewa Dal among youths.

Initially in his welcome address, Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK & National Lok Samiti) mentioned about the trouble being faced by women due to liquor that thwarts our development. He alleged liquor for moral deterioration of our society and rejected the claim about revenue from liquor as it causes more expenditure for treatment of related diseases. He expressed deep concern for youths  under addiction of liquor/drugs  and appealed the government to control it efficiently.

Mr. Harish Shrivastava (State Spokesperson, RJD)  has supported for a Jharkhand fully prohibited from all addictions and this must be initiated from family, he said. Ex-Mukhiya Mr. Nandlal Saw warned about the increasing trend of alcoholic welcome for guests in families and  wanted for a forceful social reform movement. Mr. Shamsher Alam cursed liquor as Haraam by  Islam while Mr. Gautam Sagar Rana (Ex-President, State RJD) has remembered late Karpuri Thakur (Ex-CM, Bihar) for his sincere effort to liquor prohibition in united Bihar. Mr. Rana supported current government of Bihar over liquor ban and demanded for a separate chapter in school syllabus about No to Liquor. All have supported his demand. He said that liquor spoils our religious festivals and stands behind sorry state of tribal people. He suggested to meet the Hon. Chief Minister with a proposal to ban liqquor by the law. Mr. Arjun Yadav insisted to raise budget for education and health by the governments and Mr. Bateshwar Mehta offered his participation for any anti liquor movement in villages.

Prof. (retd.) R. S. Ambashtha chaired the symposium and said that liquor represents western civilization in the conflict of civilizations. He suggested for mentality change also with legal barrier. Mr. Shankar Rana (Coordinator, State Lok Samiti) has anchored the proceedings and concluded with vote of thanks. There were about 80 men-women from nearby villages those attended the meeting.

177 #DifferentlyAbledYouths attended #JobFair @RandstadNL @VSOIndia @India_NCS

09 October 2018, Ranchi: A Job fair for the differently abled youths was organised under the program of SAHYOG with support of VSO India Trust, New Delhi and Randstat India, Chennai. The event took place under the aegis of Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra and National Career Service (NCS), an initiative by Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt. of India. The Job Fair or Rojgar Mela held at the National Career Service Centre, Ranchi.  

The job fair was supported by the corporate sector as well as the civil society. The focus was on introducing different employers with vacancies and training institutes to the differently abled and the other way around. If the contestant was interested in the company and his vacancy, he or she could immediately go for a job interview.

There were total 177 differently abled youths present at the Job fair. 5 companies including Reliance Retail, Nimbus BPO and Black Cobra have offered their placements for the aspirants. For the attendees those were looking to be skilled, also training institutes were present like Youth4jobs, the largest organisation in India that focuses on skilling and placing youth with disability in jobs.

At the end of the day almost 50% of the attendees were in a selection procedure with one of the employers or training institutes. Some of them got directly selected and found a job on the day self, others got shortlisted for the second round and invited by the company for a second job interview.

The job fair proved like an effective way to bring different kind of companies, vacancies and a lot of job seekers together. As the output, differently abled youth found jobs and companies get motivated employees. The smiling faces of differently abled youths have made the day special.

Seminar on #116thBirthAnniversary of #JayprakashNarayan

11 October 2018, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag): A seminar was organized under joint aegis of Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra and Hazaribag Jila Lok Samiti on the occasion of 116th birth anniversary of legendary freedom fighter & Sarvodaya leader Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan aka JP.

Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK & National Lok Samiti) has introduced a short life sketch of JP before the audience and praised for his renunciation in service of our nation. JP sacrificed everything for his motherland during the freedom movement and contributed a lot to the independent India with his active leadership on mass related issues like Sarvodaya, Bhudaan, Drought Relief, Peaceful Solution of Naxal Problem, Students Movement, Opposition of Emergency and Strengthening of Grassroots Democracy, he opined. Mr. Girija Satish mentioned about the suffering of imprisoned JP under atrocious British rule and his miraculous abscondence from Hazaribag jail also. JP was deeply concerned with the problems of India and his support to NBJK is unforgettable as he provided Bhudan land and other helps to the organization initially, NBJK President recalled.

Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) said that JP used to believe in common people and led the youths amazingly despite his old age. Also he pointed out about Magsaysay Award (1965) and Bharat Ratna (1999) to JP as an acknowledgment to his immense contribution for a better society. Mr. Prabhu Nath Sharma (Treasurer, NBJK) recollected about simplicity as well as time management of JP and the person behind as Mrs. Jayprabha (his wife) who cared JP, made his life memorable and supported him to maintain lifelong celibacy.

Mr. Pravesh Singh (Asst. Manager-Finance, NBJK) has thrown light over the modusoperandi of the VOs founded by JP and appealed to follow the great personality who devoted everything to make India. The seminar was anchored by Mr. Rajeev Kumar Singh (Program Manager, NBJK) and many people like Messrs Mithilesh Kumar, Arun Verma, Sanjay Sinha, Sudhir Upadhyay, Sumit Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Surendra Kumar, Kishor Prasad, Santosh Sinha have attended the program.

A #Symposium on 150th Birth Anniversay of #MahatmaGandhi

02 October 2018, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag): NBJK and Hazaribag district Lok Samiti have celebrated 150^th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi to remember Father of the Nation benevolently. A symposium was organized on this occasion and Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK & National Lok samiti) introduced about importance of the day before an audience of more than 100 women, men & children from nearby villages. He said that Mahatma Gandhi is such a towering personality who deserves to be called much more than the father of the nation or a leader of freedom movement merely. He accepted the challenge to live with values and evolved many ideas like Sarvodaya, Trusteeship to establish socio-economic justice in India, NBJK president opined. Gandhiji outlined about a model life for any individual as well as for a nation and campaigned against social evils with focus upon women & untouchables, he explained. Mr. Girija said that there is no way except Gandhi, if we want to make a better world.

Mr. Bateshwar Mehta (political leader) has branded Gandhi as the symbol of truth, non-violence and sanitation who represented our humanity. Mr. Arvind Jha (advocate) talked about the empathy Gandhi Jee felt for all, also he demanded for a Gandhi Study Center at Vinoba Bhawe University in Hazaribag.  Mr. Shamsher Alam (businessman) identified Gandhi with India and insisted to strengthen his ideology. Mr. Nandlal Saw (ex-mukhiya, Oriya) mentioned about hurdles with honesty and appealed to support genuine social workers. Prof. K. P. Sharma (retd. head, PG dept. of Pol. Sc., VBU) praised Mahatma Gandhi for developing a philosophy after practice only to bring change and guided for a new social order with dignity of labour, service & self-reliance. Dr. Prasanna Mishra (Bureau Chief, Hindustan) called Gandhi Jee an all time global personality and put forth the value of self-examination. Mr. Awdhesh Pandey (social worker) appealed for communal harmony, an all time issue for Gandhiji. Mr. Arjun Yadav (political leader) requested educated people to be responsible and asked about the gap between their words & actions. Md. Islam Khan (ex-defence officer) described him as a worshiper of humanity who won with love and needs to be followed. Md. Khalid (Murda Kalyan Samiti) termed love and non-violence as eternal legacy from Gandhi.

From the chair, Prof. R. S. Ambashtha (ex-head, PG dept. of Philosophy, VBU) said that Mahatma Gandhi perceives human life as a whole and aims for inner change possible through love only. Mr. Shankar Rana (Coordinator, Jharkhand State Lok Samiti) anchored the dais and thanked all at the end. The meeting was participated by the people from villages like Amrit Nagar, Oriya, Singhani, Nutan Nagar, Baihri, Rola etc.

#Plantation at #NBJK Premises on Birthday

19 September 2018, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag):  Mr. Gandharv Gaurav (Program Director, NBJK) has celebrated his 32^nd birthday by planting five Papaya seedlings inside the coordination office campus at Amrit Nagar, Hazaribag. Most of the office staffs were present on this occasion and they conveyed their best wished to Mr. Gaurav.

The event was blessed by Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) who welcomed the tradition of plantation being revived now-a-days on such joyful events. We must make plantation like a religious practice at the time of rituals  like birthday or worship etc. to bestow our best wishes to the people we love from the core of our heart, he said. Our children should know the importance of plants & trees to maintain even human relationship as witness of our love, NBJK President explained and appealed the people to adopt plantation as a measure towards protecting environment currently in bad state due to heavy deforestation.

This different birthday was concluded with sweets distribution and Messrs Prabhu Nath Sharma, Anand Abhinav, Pravesh Singh, Rajeev Kumar Singh, Sudhir Kumar Upadhyaya, Surendra Kumar, Santosh Kumar Sinha, Mithilesh Kumar, Sartaz Ahmad, Dhananjay Kumar Singh, Shatrughan Thakur and others have attended the function.

#TrainingOfTrainers for #RozgarTrainingCenters @AxisBank

17 – 19 September 2018, Ranchi: Under Axis Bank Foundation, Mumbai supported Program of Sustainable Livelihood to Youths, 3 days training of trainers (ToT) was organized at NBJK, Ranchi. Mr. N. V. Satyanarayana Rao from Hyderabad was the resource person for the training who is a Life & Career Coach, Mentor & Motivational Speaker with a background in behavioural psychology. Mr. Rao has 15+ years experience of the field and he deals with a number of employers, corporate houses and NGOs as his clients.

On first day, he focused upon SWOT analysis, Sunconscious Mind & Habits and Goal Setting after introduction, training expectations and about Self-Awareness with some icebreaker excercises. The second day was initiated with Recap and covered the topics like Decision Making, Communication Skills, Time Management and Team Building along with Icebreakers. While the last day was intended to discuss Facilitation Skills among the faculties of Rozgar Training Centers from Ranchi, Hazaribag, Ramgarh, Khunti, Koderma, Dumka, Giridih, Dhanbad and Jamshedpur.

There were 24 participants in the training and Mr. Ankit Kumar (State Program Manager, PSLY) has coordinated the traning.