Ambedkar Jayanti@ashram

Although we forgot to mention this person when engineers from Rihand Nagar and Shakti Nagar gathered at Ashram. The day (14 April 2011) was really auspicious.

I always wished all with social inclination should visit places where development work is going on by people filled with compassion. Sewakunj Ashram provides such opportunity for the engineers working at NTPC Rihand Nagar, Shakti Nagar and Vindya Nagar.

Suman and his friends (all were ET-10 batch) came from Shakti Nagar. They all felt homely and got involved with children and enjoyed with them. Alok Dubeyji and Upendra Mishraji, both came with their wives. All of them were quite happy.

Center of service is run by the goodness of people in society, but simultaneously it also helps in making people good. Confidence in goodness gets stregthened by seeing live examples.

GM wishes students for their well being

Ashram felt privileged to honour P. Ramesh, General Manager of NTPC, Rihand Nagar. After many years of interval the GM has visited the Ashram. He was invited as the Chief guest for the Volley ball tournament going on there in Ashram compound.

GM Sir congratulated the final winning team and hounored them by offering track suite. Milan Kumar (DGM, HR(edc)), G.C. Pandey (DGM, TS) and Kanwaljeet Singh came with GM. After the game and related ceremony, all of them walked around the Ashram and visited hostels and met children.

I felt privileged and proud for getting chance to explain about ashram to the GM. I told him about the importance of Ashram and its contribution towards the development of tribal community of Sonbhadra district. He was happy to know about the performance of students. He also noticed the cultured life of children and wished to extend his helping hand for the betterment of Ashram.

Smash Volley Ball @ Sewa Kunj

Volleyball Match!

Teams from 9 villages of Sonbhadra District participated in the match which was organized at Sewa Kunj Ashram by Khel Pradhikaran, Uttar Pradesh. Contrary to the facilities available in cities, all these villages are devoid of basic amenities of life. Due to lack of connectivity and development activities in these areas villagers have to make their ends met mainly from locally available resources. Moreover some villages in these are also not well connected by proper roads. Sorry to mention, due to insensitivity of doctors and teachers, these areas are also lacking basic need of education and medical facilities.

Although players' lives are full of struggle, they all played with high spirit and the level of their performance are no lesser than what played under the guidance of coaches in big cities. People from surrounding villages, some engineers from Hindalco and reputed personalities were present to watch the match. The greatest charm was the presence of General Manager of NTPC Rihand.

This was an unique initiative by Government of Uttar Pradesh to develop game spirit among the villagers of Naxal Affected areas. Earlier this was executed as show case in the presence of higher authorities in district head quarters. No officers dare to go in villages to organize these games there.

But this time the scene is different. Current official is very dynamic to take initiative to go in villages and organize these programs. Earlier they faced problems as they have no local connection and due to age long neglect of Government they also lacked sympathy from villagers. Sewa Kunj Ashram took charge of this hindrance and became the middle men and this way games now are played in remote villages.

I will write about the meeting of GM with children of Sewa Kunj Ashram in next Blog not distracting the readers' interest in village game.