BHARAT UDAY MISSION USACHAPTER MEET 2006
Moderator BharatUdayMission
BHARAT UDAY MISSION USACHAPTER MEET 2006
20th
and 21st May 2006 at Doherty Hall 1102, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
The minutes of the meeting
for the Bharat Uday Mission, USA chapter meeting session hosted by the
Pittsburgh Chapter.
1. The following work were on the agenda for the Meet of BM, USA chapter
Activity summary:
- Welcome note by Ravikanth Pathak, Pittsburgh Chapter.
- Formal Introduction of Members belonging to the US Chapter.
- Current development within USA Chapter: Ravikanth Pathak
- Project Identification
- Education reforms in India (EDUCENTER, by Ganesh Indian)
- Karma Yogi Ashram – A working model formulated by Ravikanth Pathak from the essence of both simplistic and Idealistic life.
- Soap Industry – A cottage culture – Vishnu
- Existing off-shore projects carried out by Members.
- Kyari village project.
- Significance of Vedic Culture in Contemporary era – by Dr. Yadunath
- Goal Setting for BM_USA
- Goal setting and Core strategy planning.
- Point of focus identification.
- Discussion on the Nature of projects to be promoted within BM USA.
- Closing thoughts - Abhinav Kalamdani
2. Summary for each of the
section is given in this section
We started the BM_USA meeting with prayers 1) humako man ki shakti dena…; 2) Itani shakti humen dena data…
The welcome note by Ravikanth
Pathak, provided the original idea of Bharat Uday mission and how it
is different from other committed organization in India to promote the
development in India. The talk enlightened us and made each of us believe
we as the son of soil share responsibility to awaken India through a
new freedom struggle to fight the corruption within politics and attain
power through service.
The next session, was the formal introduction of the members, where each of the members shared their experience based on their background, the area which, in future they would concentrate and their feeling towards the whole movement of the Bharat Uday Mission.
The members were from various fields, viz. Consultants, Academicians, Students and Professional from various parts of USA like New Jersey, Arizona, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania.
List of participants:
- Ravi Kant r...@andrew.cmu.edu 412-2686023 (O), 412-683 1315 (R)
- Himanshu Sharma suno...@yahoo.com
- Ganesh Naik ganesh...@rediffmail.com
- Gaurav Bharadwaj gaur...@yahoo.com
- Deepak Gupta dgup...@yahoo.com
- Sunil Sheoran sunil....@efficientbiz.com
- Rupesh Garg rupesh...@gmail.com
- Kamesh Tenneti kame...@yahoo.com
- Reetesh Gupta 732-752-4144
- Yadu Moharir dry...@yahoo.com
- Pudarikaksha Baruah bar...@gmail.com
- Abhinav Kalamdani kala...@gmail.com
- Niti Garg nnit...@gmail.com
- Malola Prasath malola...@yahoo.com
- V Karthik vkar...@yahoo.com
- Vishnu vcha...@andrew.cmu.edu
- Kumar Gautam reach...@gmail.com 201-621-2900
- Geetu gee...@gmail.com
- Madhavi
mad...@prithvisolutions.com
3. Current feasible projects
- Edu center: A center for learning: A center for learning for students, which establishes a library, tutorial center, social and environmental project centre and career builder center to contribute to the betterment of the present educational system. The project brings educational and spiritual development within the Youth of the coming generations. The project is currently formulated by the Post doc student Ganesh from BM Pittsburgh Chapter, who calls himself with pride as 'Ganesh Indian' and will be implemented in the city of Mumbai and later to the rest of India.
- A second project that goes hand in hand with the Educenter and library set up is the paper Re-cycling the paper by first collecting it from various sources from where the wasteful paper is generated.
- Village based Soap manufacturing, A novel cost effective solution was proposed by Vishnu with one time fixed investment which gives a good return.
- Ravikanth Pathak later shared his formulation of the Ideal Karma Yogi Ashram, to set an example to this world that we can still live an harmonious life practicing the sage culture.
- The Kyari village project was presented by Himanshu Sharma, (Session was postponed to the next day due to elaborate discussions). This was a real life experience shared by Sharma who gave the about the Plantation and the educational projects implemented in the residential area, which have stayed as revolution. The project involves the following activities
- Interaction with teachers to help them on books, career counseling.
- Develop tree plantation in City of Hinduan, Rajasthan which has a population of about 85,000 people and village of Surauth with 10,000 people.
- The organization spreads with the ideology of the setting an example to the society
- The organization uses an unique method of communication – " Kyari", which has brought people under one roof.
4. Dr. Yajunath, gave an enlightening
speech by bringing out what is hidden within the Vedas that are applicable
to the current day. He discussed the essence of "shri- sukta" and
the mechanism which had been driving the ancient society, which he proved
to be applicable till date. He brought in the practices nurtured by
the vedic culture and gave us the confidence, that living the way described
by the Vedas, is the way by which, we can live great life.
5. Goal Setting
With the ideology of setting
up the office and move much beyond. Sunil and Gaurav Bharatwaj, laid
the foundation of the BM's Organizational commitments, where the group
members came up with the aspect of the point of focus of each of the
member for the following aspects
- Financial aspects: Self Contribution, Separate from Non-Government Organization, develop self sustainable projects. These challenges are taken by Ravi, Deepak and Ritesh
- Propagation: US Student Co-ordination, awareness and task force development by Gautam, Ravi, Ritish and propagation within India is taken by Rupesh, Gaurav, Sunil and Barua
- Market Pulse: Taken by Sunil, Abhinav and Ravi
- Policy Issues: Ravi, Gaurav
- Internal structure: Ravi, Yadu, Himnshu Sharma (core guidelines)
- Information portal: Karthik, Vishnu, Abhinav , Niti and Malola Prasath
- Guidelines of the Communication Channel: Ravi,
** the highlighted and underlines
name is the person responsible for driving the team
core team members of BM USA
- Ravi – Funds and guidelines for funds raising and coordination with BM India
- Deepak – Funds and propagation
- Gautam - US Student Co-ordination, awareness and task force development
- Abhinav – Market pulse/general research on
- Gaurav – BM USA policies
- Himanshu - Internal structure of BM USA
- Malola Prasath – Information Portal, website and other information stuff
Their responsibilities:
- Ceaseless propagation and efforts to find responsible people/patriots who are valuable for our motherland and this mission. But using right means only. We need quality not quantity at this point.
- Convincing, awakening people to join mission and financially contribute
- Take responsibility to form local chapter of BM at your place in USA and keep it active, by regular meetings, discussing sensitive and enlightening issues and collecting regular funds and maintaining record.
- Holding position in main BM India central teams
- Getting in touch with coordinators of local BM city chapters in USA and local BM chapters in India
- Putting all means to implement the BM ideals into practice
High Lights
- New Jersey BM chapter would be initiated by Deepak Gupta. He will lead the BM New Jersey chapter and bring more and more patriots under umbrella of BM.
- All members will strive for self-purification so that they can practice the ideals of the mission. People must do self-analysis and avoid violence and lies/frauds in their daily life. They can adopt 'simple living high thinking' notion of living. Many BMUSA members are anyway doing it.
- BM USA will have the culture of daily contributions and it is moral responsibility of BM USA member to do these contributions daily, whatever small! ($1/day or quarter/day) This is an exercise for disciplined membership and essential to keep members devoted. If people fail to do this simple act their devotion and love for motherland may be just words.
- In this meet we recognized many potential people who wish to anything for their country. We embrace them like our brothers and sisters (family members). And we consider BM as one family.
Some messages from non-participants
- Kiran kumar, the person who really started the BMUSA yahoo group, send the message of affection, encouragement and success over phone.
- Message from BM Riverside:
VANDE MATRAM !!
We at BM riverside passionately feel that for the rise of our great nation, India, a movement is needed. A movement which does not only talks or preaches but also works at ground level. We understand that for the fundamental changes in the system, we need to be the part of policy making. We also understand that current political climate in India is not conducive for the overall development of India and also does not encourage people with nationalistic passion and vision to join it. So we at BM Riverside in concurrence to the theme of BM as a whole, envision that one day we will be the part of mainstream policy making by directly participating in the democratic electoral process. This is a massive task requiring not only passion but also tremendous effort and time. So BM riverside is a step towards that. It is a small step forward but we strongly believe in the saying that to win a WAR you have to win small battles. We hope BM as a whole will grow and become stronger and one day we will be in the position of changing the things. JAI HIND *" Bharat Uday Mission, Riverside Chapter, California, USA.
- Message from Drawarka Srinivas from Indianapolis:
I am having a good time in India and hope the arrangements for the First BM meet
in USA is well in progress. I am really going to miss that.
I met with the BM_HYD chapter members and there are an enthusiastic bunch of people. I
liked them a lot and the way they are working.
My ideas so far :
Regarding the Village Development Program, I feel that one thing that is missing
badly in villages is the sanitation. Also, I feel that every village is famous for
something or the other, i.e every village has a speciality of its own. One example
I can give is, I visited a place called 'Kadiyam', which is near Mandapet in East
Godavari District of AP. That village, it seems is very famous for the nursery and
plantations. So, that village can be developed on that lines.
Regarding the corruption in India, I feel that it is still rampant because the
punishment for bribery is severe in India, like if any one is caught, he loses his
job. Unlike this, i feel it would be more effective if we can minimize the
punishment and make it more prevalent, like demoting the officer who took bribe
and promoting his subsequent subordinate to his position. I don't know if thats a good
idea.
This is all I could think of. Even though my contribution is small, I hope it is
useful. I sorry that I could not make any power point pres.
I will call you as soon as I arrive at Indianapolis.
Thanks,
Dwaraka
- Message from Arun Punnaswamy
Reason to Join BM: The faith over BM that it will save India from the clasps of mean,
uncivilized and stupid politicians who are still looting and dividing
our country.
My Favorite Quote:
When you are inspired by some great
purpose, some extraordinary
project,
all your thoughts break their bonds;
your mind transcends all limitations
your consciousness expands in every direction,
and you find yourself in a new
great and wonderful world.
Dormant forces, faculties and talents
become alive, and you discover yourself
to be a greater person by far
than you ever dreamed
yourself to be.
-Patanjali-
Appeal to All BM USA
members
BM USA Meet was A GREAT success, as reflected in minutes. Core team was decided. This Meet was a foundation stone of BM USA. It is no more was just an e-group. It is band of dedicated patriots who have seriousness to re-build the nation with great Indian values (moral and material development hand in hand). Now, we appeal all BM USA e-group members to search their hearts and realize their role in BM USA. Please do not remain just spectator in the group. This is against the spirit of the mission. We really need karmayogis (selfless action oriented person) in the group, but we realize all can not be karmayogis initially. So please strive hard to become one. Let us make the culture of $1/day or quarter/day. This is minimum expected from a real member of the group. Please search your heart that why are you in this group if you can not do at least this much. We realize that in the age of internet, many members join the group for the sake of it, which in turn spoil the culture of the group. Few very essential steps for every member:
- Enter your personal details in the group as soon as possible: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bm_usa/database?method=reportRows&tbl=1
- Enter your daily contributions (whatever small) in the table:
This is simplest act each one
is expected to do. If people still remain inactive then those members
possess no dignity in the group. They would be considered just as the
junk emails, because if a soldier in an army is inactive, he/she is
equivalent to dead. Morally they have no right to express their views
or emails on the group, though we still respect their individuality
and harbor no ill feelings against them. BM USA is governed by moral-self-rule.
It is a call to your conscience.
- Since all members would be responsible (after steps 1) & 2) above), please take responsibility of propagating the mission around you in USA and India. The message of mission going through human chain will bring quality members only. Such propagations will also enhance our faith in service and hard earned success. Let us do it for motherland.
- We appeal more and more dedicated members to come forward and take their role in BM USA core team.
- Every city chapter coordinator must be member of core team.
- BM USA has various other teams in the BMUSA database; more members are expected to participate. Please come forward!!
- This time to form new city chapters, in USA. All enthusiastic members please come forward and initiate formation of new chapters.
Other developments and actions
will be rigorously followed up and we hope for bringing more and more
Indian patriots under the umbrella of BM USA. With this we close BM
USA Meet 2006.
Acknowledgements
In true sense, every effort
put in making this meet possible does not require any acknowledgements
as everything was in the service of motherland. But in cultural sense,
we thank one and all from the bottom of our hearts. Jai hind!
-In service of motherland
BM Pittsburgh team
May 24, 2006, Pittsburgh, USA
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"We have only one Passion
The Rise of a Great Nation."
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