Tatas Vs Turtles

Children Learn What They Live.......

If children live with criticism they learn to condemn...

If children live with hostility they learn to fight...

If children live with ridicule they learn to be shy...

If children live with shame they learn to feel guilty...

If children live with tolerance they learn to be patient...

If children live with encouragement they learn to be confident...

If children live with praise they learn to appreciate...

If children live with fairness they learn to be just...

If children live with security they learn to have faith...

If children live with approval they learn to like themselves...

If children live with acceptance they learn to love the world...

courtesy http://www.chordindia.org/ (Child Welfare and Holistic Organisation For Rural Development)

Transforming rural India

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme not only provides a stable economic base to households but is also directing capital investment to rural areas and creating valuable assets that are changing the rural landscape. Following are some of the highlights::

* The guarantee of 100 days of wage employment
* The programme has enabled children to go to school, improved nutrition within the family, increased wages, reduced indebtedness and migration and significantly, even empowered the poor.
* Asset Creation::
- Lands transformed into productive farming units
- water tables have risen in “backward” districts
- drinking water wells save time and effort of women
- water-harvesting structures, minor irrigation tanks, community wells, land development, flood control, plantations and so on.
- Contrary to construction of roads which are washed away with each monsoon.
* This is also of special relevance today with greater concern for water, global warming and climate change.
* If sustained over the years, will have a visible impact on the landscape of rural India.
* The poor possess more than 15 million hectares of land — government assigned, ceiling surplus and bhoodan, as recorded tenants, lands restored to tribal communities. At present, these lands are often left fallow or produce one crop with a low yield. Such lands invariably have no source of irrigation, are away from the village and are undeveloped. But they share an important feature — they are invariably in compact blocks and are therefore suitable for integrated development packages. These holdings could therefore be transformed into productive farming units, often with irrigation from wells, tanks, other water harvesting structures, lift irrigation schemes.
* This can be extended to watershed development, drinking water, agriculture, horticulture, farming systems, fisheries, handlooms, handicrafts — each can synergise with the employment guarantee, enhance production from rural areas ...

There has been an aggressive urgency in attracting overseas capital to India; can a similar concern also be shown for a programme of capital investment that we ourselves have initiated, and one which has great potential and meaning for the nation’s development?

Complete Article @ http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/05/04/stories/2008050450010100.htm

A retired civil servant, the author is a former Director General of the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, Ministry of Rural Development, Govt of India.Email: lalitmathur45@yahoo.com

My friend's experience ..

Folks,

Word of advice from the now experienced: whenever you get married, consider getting the marriage registered, a part of the rituals and get it done on the same day you tie the knot!!! All you need is:
- invitation cards from both - bride and groom's side
- age proof for both
- residence proof for both (i.e. before marriage)
- marriage photos
- 3 witnesses
AND
- loads of patience

The whole process should ideally takes about 5 -10 mins max!!!

Figure out before hand, at which registrar office you need to get the marriage registerd! This will typically be the same office where your house is registered! And if possible, go and invite that particular office's sub-registrar to the marriage! It'll help!

Evarikaina eppudaina ... (If at some point of time.. someone...)

One of my friend has been to this place and she says .. its actually very impressive ...

5th ...

June 14th 2006 (Moto-camp)
October 31st 2006 (ZPHS - Banswada camp)
April 4th 2007 (Moto-camp)
August 28th 2007 (NIMS)
March 8th 2008 (Usha Mullapudi Cardiac Center)

my 5th blood donation .. this time also it was for a friend's father's surgery .. hoping that he recovers soon ...

cheers
Suman.

Not Mine !!!

Recently I have been interacting with some organizations and I am surprised at the kind of attitude I have seen !!! ....

I used to see this in movies, the government employees lacking a sense of responsibility and the general public facing issues with such behavior. I always thought i was an exaggeration of the reality because my father who is also a government employee has been amazingly responsible, in fact he even works late hours and rushes to work even on sundays (the only day off) to get things done and for the public not to suffer... and apart from him I have known some of his colleagues too who are very sincere. So i was under the impression that there is a minority of this workforce which is creating this impression !!...

To my surprise I am not sure if it is a coincidence, all my interactions with many organizations have been pathetic !.. it started off when I was traveling , the immigration check ... he wanted some money for me to move ahead !! .... then the corporation bank (unfortunately our company's account) credit card application ... it has been 5 months and they have no idea about where the card is ... it took me not less than 40-50 follow ups to ask them to cancel it(not yet done!) !! ....
Then the SBI .. I had to transfer some money to my brother ... the head office says the online banking is working in cyber towers branch .. and the cyber towers branch says it is not .. and they are not sure in which branches it is working and which it is not !! ...
BSNL .. one of my colleagues had applied for a connection and there is only one mantra that he has got to hear .. "this week" ...
The phone store in our office, the person says "No stock" , but when I escalate the issue, the stock is there !!

Everyone is doing their so called "duties" .. it is not the SBI person's duty to inquire where it is working and tell me .. and it is not the BSNL officer's duty to dig the line !! :-) ...

What is lacking is a "sense of ownership" !!! ....
We keep shouting and cribbing that computerization of everything is reducing the employment opportunities !!! ... but what is the reason that we are moving towards computerization !! ?? :-) ... our very own attitude towards work.

No human being likes uncertainty .. when I step in to an office I am not at all confident that I am going to get what I am looking for ... I am not sure if they are telling the truth ... which makes me very uncomfortable ... so i look forward for something very definite ... I prefer automation ...

This is a clear scenario of hitting our own legs .. :-) ..
Enjoi madi ... we are all set .. and moving in the right direction to get automated :D ... and lose lots and lots of jobs ...
Everyone can sit happily in your homes and enjoi ... :D

~A very irritated soul

kannepillavani kannulunnavani

kanepillavani kannulunnavani ennenni vagalu potunnave chinnarii
chinna navvu navvi vannelanni ruvvu ennenni kalalu rappinchave ponnarii

sangeetham nuvvaitee
saahityam nenavutaa

swaramu neevai
swaramuna padamu nenai
gaanam geetham kadaa

kavini nenai
nalo kavita nevai
kavyamainadi .... talupo paluko manasoo

http://www.raaga.com/channels/telugu/movie/A0000002.html

awesome song ..