Unusually, this is not going to be a hard hitting post whipping the social mediocrity, but a positive, lively and motivating piece of work that may contribute a drop to the huge thirsty ocean awaiting the seer from countless Indians like me.
Enough of speaking about the ideologies, about the things to be done, this time I'm sharing my first hand experience on working at the grassroot level.
No confusion must exist on rural empowerment being the need of the hour. The 2011 census results may be awaited for the proposed concept to gain more credibility.
The real and more populous India dwells in villages. Despite the IT revolution, India largely depends on agricultural exports. Hence, the point is clear. The HDI, GDP and more such jargons will reflect India shining only when rural India shines.
It's not more than a month since when I've started working for AIREP (Avbodh IQG Rural Empowerment Program) - a joint venture by two NGOs Avbodh and IQG (Innovative Quality Groups). I won't bore the readers by going deep into the history. Do visit www.aireprogram.blogspot.com for more details.
Three pillars of rural development have been identified.
- Education
- Vocation
- Healthcare
AIREP has identified eight villages in the radius of 30km from Ahmedabad. The work has started with the village called Paldi Kankrej. Please visit http://aireprogram.blogspot.com/2010/05/introducing-paldi-kankrej-and-way-airep.html before reading further.
I'm sorry, if you found the above mentioned blog written as an advertisement, because it's for the first time, that I really relished writing about some organization.
The concept is simple - Spend one day a week for the country.
AIREP has started working towards Rural Empowerment, you may work for urban development, women empowerment, eradication of social evils (dowry, untouchability, racial discrimination to name a few).
But, while working; expect nothing but satisfaction. Satisfaction of having performed your fundamental duty to some extent, not of having done some great social work.
As the founders of AIREP rightly state: Work without the expectation of monetary gains, name or fame.
As the readers might like to go through the previous post in the same blog http://ashutoshjani.blogspot.com/2009/08/distribute-luck-rather-share-luck.html , there should be no ambiguity in accepting the FACT that working for the country is our moral duty and not some obligation.
I hope, this blog will be taken in the right spirit and all the readers will realize the debt, we owe towards our country and start doing some constructive work.
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