SADBHAVNA DIWALI OBSERVED ACROSS THE NATION

Mission Bhartiyam, in collaboration with many civil society organizations like Yuva Koshish, Ayodhya ki Awaaz, Buniyaad, UYASD, AFDWOSE, Baal Manch, Soch, Awadh Peoples forum,  Basti Vikas Samiti, Save Humanity Foundation, Anjuman farg-e- Momin, ADAM, Aasra, PLEA, Jai Bharat and Darbhanga Film Society had observed “Sadbhavna Diwali” in many parts of the country.

People of diverse faiths and belief systems had lighted a diya or a candle and hoped that peace and harmony may prevail. In many parts of the country, they had gathered at sites symbolic of “communal harmony” or at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi or even in a mosque.

Sadbhavna Diwali celebrated at the tomb of Amir Khusro in Delhi

In the capital, the festival of lights was celebrated as ‘festival of harmony’ at the Shrine of Amir Khursro in Nizamuddin. Amir Khusro was a 13th Century Sufi poet and is believed to be an ardent supporter of hindu-muslim unity. There was a huge participation by the youth. One of them remarked, “it is a pleasant way to spread the word of communal harmony”.

In a press statement, the organizers remarked that we see the festivals as an occasion of happiness and prosperity and so these occasions must be spread equally and frequently in the society. They should become festivals of love and harmony.

“Diwali is the festival of light that literally mean spreading light, thus light of love and harmony must be spread through this celebration as it is the love that actually works in joining each other and making society prosperous and humane,” said Ravi Nitesh of Mission Bhartiyam.

General Secretary of AFDWOSE, Maaz Khan said, “India was recognized the world-over for its unity and harmony. Today, however, increasingly people are getting suspicious of each other…Today we need people like Lord Ram who are willing to work selflessly and  ready to sacrifice everything.”

Sadbhavna Diwali at Nizamuddin

Shazzada Nashin of Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, Syed Khwaza Afzal Nizami blessed the orgnaisers for planning such programme and wished the countrymen a Happy Diwali.”

Shariq Naqvi of Yuva Koshish added, “For better integration and development of this country, the need of the hour is to promote harmony between Hindus and Muslims.”

Sadbhavna Diwali celebrated in Ayodhya

Shadab Bashar of ‘Buniyaad, Behtar Kal Ki,’ who too participated in the programme said, “Diwali is symbolic of sacrifices that Lord Ram made. At a time when our country is heading towards communal darkness, we need new torch bearers who can better shape the destiny of this country.”

Narrating the couplet of Urdu poet Allama Iqbal, Mohamamd Reyaz of PLEA said, “Mazhab nahi seekhata aapas me bair rakhna (Religions do not teach us differences).” He added, “We should work toward promoting harmony and peace.”

Besides Delhi, Sadhvana Diwali was observed in Aligarh, Ayodhya, Lucknow, Basti, Varanasi, Buxar, Gorakhpur, Allahabad, Patna, Pune, Darbhanga, Hyderabad, Gwalior, Rajasthan and several other places.

At Varanasi, the festival of light was celebrated at a Masjid situated in Bhor Kalan Gaon. The masjid committee has permitted for this celebration. The organizer, Ajay Patel of Aasra remarked, “Festivals are celebrated to gather people and share moments of joy and happiness. We are extending this to everyone, irrespective of their faiths. We are very thankful to the Masjid committee for their support and involvement”.

In Basti, people had gathered at the Gandhi Statue. In Allahabad, it had began with a talk on peace and communal harmony in a public park to spread the word among the common masses.

At Varanasi

At Ayodhya, which had seen communal tensions recently, had celebrated it with a lot of enthusiasm. It was organized by Ayodhya ki Awaaz at Saryu Kunj and Durahi kuan. Shah Alam of Ayodhya ki Awaaz, reamarked, “It was heartening to see the enthusiasm. It turned out to be a simple yet effective way to spread the word for peace and harmony.” Jughal Kishor Shastri added, “Diwali, like any other Indian festival, is a way to spread love and brotherhood. Today, we have added it with an element of communal harmony”.

They had adopted this simple move but with a bigger and stronger motive i.e. to spread the light of love, knowledge, unity, non violence, humanity and peace in our society.

News published at http://twocircles.net/2012nov14/sadbhavna_diwali_observed_across_nation.html

Dainik Jagran, print edition 18th November 2012

Hindustan, print edition 15th November 2012

ORGANIZATIONS OBSERVING NATIONWIDE SADBHAVNA DIWALI TO SEND MESSAGE OF COMMUNAL HARMONY

ORGANIZATIONS OBSERVING NATIONWIDE SADBHAVNA DIWALI 
TO SEND THE MESSAGE OF COMMUNAL HARMONY

In view of the Diwali celebration, organizations announced to celebrate the Diwali to enlighten the hearts of people for Communal Harmony.

In this initiative, named as "Sadbhavna Diwali",  we are organizing the programs at various places of India through the collaboration of organizations.

In the press release of Mission Bhartiyam, it is told that we see the festivals as an occasion of happiness and prosperity and it must be spread equally and frequently among society as a festival of love and harmony . Festivals are there to make our society unite and to extend love and support to each other by joining and gathering. Diwali is the festival of light that literally mean spreading light, thus light of love and harmony must be spread through this celebration as it is the love that actually works in joining each other and making society prosperous and humane. 

In view of this, Hindu and Muslim communities along with members of other religions will be gathered together to celebrate the Diwali for communal harmony and to give the message of harmony and unity.

In Delhi, the people will be gathered at Shrine of Ameer Khusro (at Hazrat Nizamuddin) at 5:30 PM where together they will lit the candles to celebrate festival of light. We selected this place as Ameer Khusro has contributed a lot towards communal harmony. In present scenario, when on one side we are moving towards development and modernity, we through our experience , believe that remembering and practicing the ways to enhance and enrich the communal harmony has become one of the most required thing. We , as a common representative of human being, in recent times faced the riots and tensions due to imbalance and hate against each other and thus we decide to adopt our festivals to celebrate with its real essence and real meaning that is communal harmony. 

At Varanasi, they will celebrate the festival of light at a Masjid situated in Bhor Kalan Gaon. Masjid committee has permitted for this celebration. In Basti, they will be gathered at Gandhi Statue. At Ayodhya, program will be organized at Saryu Kunj , Durahi kuan, At Aligarh, students will organize it in AMU. 

We hope that we, together will spread message of love and harmony and will spread the light of love, knowledge, unity, non violence, humanity and peace in our society.  All of you are invited to join.

List of places (confirmed) alongwith collaborating organizations and contact persons where program will be done is given here:

Delhi : Shrine of Ameer Khusro (Hazrat Nizamuddin) at 5:30 PM , 13 November

            Mission Bhartiyam, Yuva Koshish, AFDWOSE, Buniyaad, Inqualab Zindabad 

            (9212268097, 9650924485, 9911674624) 

U.P. :

Aligarh       : Soch, Alig Welfare Society (contact: 9411803348)

Lucknow   :Bal Manch, The Other News (contact:8090312063 )
Ayodhya     :Ayodhya Ki Awaz, (9454909664, 9451730269)
Basti          : Basti Vikas Samiti (9958907799)

Gorakhpur : Mission Bhartiyam (9807622401)
Allahabad   : Mission Bhartiyam (9559269999)

Varanasi    : Aasra (contact: 9935956075)

M.P. :
Vidisha  : Mission Bhartiyam (7891172089)
Gwalior  : Mission Bhartiyam (9200016005)
Betul     : Mission Bhartiyam (9560697119)

Odisha :
Raigarh : Utkal Youth Development Society (contact: 9778034110)

Rajasthan :
Dausa   : Mission Bhartiyam (7665617050)

Bihar:

Buxar        : Anjuman farg-e- Momin (contact: 9431684664)
Darbhanga : Darbhanga Film Club (contact: 9818461715) 

Patna        : ADAM (contact: 9973268661)

Maharashtra:
Pune   : Save Humanity Foundation (contact: 9850842898)

Andhra Pradesh:
Hyderabad  : Jai Bharat (contact: 9000111969) 

Regards:

Ravi Nitesh, Gufran Khan, Shah Alam, Jugal Kishore Shastri, Bilal Sultan, Rahul Srivastava, Shadab Bashar, Maaz Khan, Meraz, Praveen Srivastava, Sibabprasad, Usha, Shariq Naqvi, Devika Mittal, Saleem Md. Khan, Aftab Fazil, Pankaj Pathak, Aditya Dubey, Sanjeev Mishra, Zaid Kamal, Mahendra Sonwane, Mushtaq, Dinesh Sharma, Arvind Lodi, Mithilesh Pandey, Ashok Lodi, Rupesh Pandey, Aafaq, Himanshu Nigote, Razi Ahmed, Soumya Prakash, Ajay Patel, Ali Hasan, Ajay Pandey, Sunil Tripathi

INVITING PAINTINGS ON INDO PAK FRIENDSHIP

Respected Friends,

As you know, Mission Bhartiyam has already taken an initiative named Aaghaz-e-Dosti towards strengthening Indo-Pak Friendship. In continualtion, we would like to announce our next program under this initiative. 

"Calender for Peace & Love" is planned under which we are inviting paintings for a wall calendar on the theme of Indo Pak Friendship for circulation among the masses of both countries, with the hope that coming year and years will usher in an era of a peaceful and prosperous future together . 

This event is being done in collaboration with Imov Humans-Armaan Khan Foundation of Pakistan. 

Selected paintings from both sides will be part of calendar.  Paintings can be send till 25th November. 

Kindly forward to encourage people to send their paintings and support the Indo Pak Friendship through paint their expressions. It is also requested to send us your support messages for Indo Pak friendship, so that these messages can be incorporated in calendar. 

We also welcome joining hands to make this people's initiative.   

E-mail us:

India: missionbhartiyam@gmail.com, contact: +91-995-8907-799 

Pakistan: imovhumans@gmail.com , contact: +92-300-2657-004

Conclusion of Tree for Harmony and celebration of World Peace Day at India Gate, Delhi

Mission Bhartiyam, A&A, FACT celebrated World Peace Day

In a bid to spread the word of peace, harmony and brotherhood and also awareness about environment, Mission Bhartiyam, A&A (Art and Architecture group) and FACT(Federal Alliances of Creative Talents) had organised a gathering of artists, photographers and musicians, today i.e. 21^st September, in India Gate lawns.

The event involved competitions for painting, sketching, photography and waste material utilization techniques. The themes were environment and peace.

This event was the second gathering of A&A fans in India and had taken place simultaneously in 15 countries. It has to be organized every year to spread awareness about the twin challenges of environment and peace through art.

Prashant Nautiyal, of A&A, remarked that “Art is an effective medium to communicate information to the masses. It is attractive and appeals to anyone.” Rohit Bhardwaj added that “so we used this form to communicate about the twin challenges of environment and peace among the common masses.” 

With this event, FACT, an organisation of young artists, will display their works among the common masses. 

Rajneet Fidato, of FACT, remarked that “this will not only encourage the young talents but it will also make art more effective.”

Paramjeet Singh remarked that “we cannot move ahead without peace and social harmony”.

Harmony Tree at India Gate

With this event, Mission Bhartiyam, an India-based NGO, had also concluded its “Tree for Harmony” event. “Tree for Harmony” event involved planting trees labeled as “harmony trees” to spread the word of peace, harmony and prosperity in South Asia. “Harmony trees” also stood for communal harmony and against discrimination on grounds of caste, class, gender and religion. This event started with the “World Ozone Day” which was on 16^th September and was done in schools, colleges, public places in four countries – India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. 

Aditya Dubey, of Mission Bhartiyam, said that “like trees, which grows freely and in everyone’s house, we should not discriminate against anyone and we should all grow together”. Pankaj Pathak talked about the south asian essence to the event. He remarked, “Without peace with our neighbors, we cannot work for peace and prosperity within our country”.

We had also planted a “harmony tree”. It was planted by eminent poet Kumar Anupam and Satish Mehra, who had been involved with tree plantation for 35 years.

We had organized our event in India Gate lawns because the idea was to spread the message across the common masses and to tell them, what they can do to change the world. We had also distributed pamphlets suggesting simple ways to work for a sustainable environment. Some people had also joined in the effort and participated in the art-based activities related to peace and harmony. 

M.Reza Z. Karfar, an Iranian student in Jamia Miliya Islamiya and a member of A&A concluded with the note that “without peace within our hearts, we cannot talk about world peace”.

Published at:
Two Circles http://twocircles.net/2012sep23/when_young_hearts_beat_fast_peace_and_communal_harmony.html
South Asia Mail
http://www.southasiamail.com/news.php?id=106996

TREE FOR HARMONY 16 SEP (World Ozone Layer Day) - 21 SEP (World Peace Day)

TREE FOR HARMONY 16 SEP (World Ozone Layer Day) - 21 SEP (World Peace Day)

-A South Asian Initiative for Peace, Harmony & Environment

We aim to initiate friendship, brotherhood and peace in the entire South Asia. And for this, we turn to "our evergreen friends" – trees. What can be more symbolic of these values than a tree? A tree grows freely, digs its roots deeply and also gives life to other trees. It is a symbol of stability, growth and prosperity.

A tree also grows freely, without any discrimination. And this is the message that we want to send. Like trees, we should do away with barriers of caste, religion, ethnicity and national boundaries. Like trees, we should grow together. So this event has a national as well as international essence to it.

Mission Bhartiyam proposes "Tree for harmony" event to be held in schools across South Asia. In the event, trees labeled as "harmony trees" will be planted by students. Any other event like a march, a seminar, artistic ways like painting, music etc to spread the word of peace, harmony, brotherhood may also follow/ accompany it. In Delhi (India), Tree for Harmony will be concluded with an event of India Art and Architecture group wherein they will paint to communicate the goals of peace and a harmonious and sustainable environment among the general masses on India Gate. In Bangladesh, a seminar and a human chain/rally will be held in Matamuhuri Degree College. The event will start on 16th September which is also the World Ozone day and will conclude on 21st September which is the World Peace Day. Environment is also a common challenge for all South Asian Countries.

So by this event, the twin challenges of environment and the need for peace will be addressed. By this event, we plan to develop a "South Asian" consciousness.

"Tree for harmony" will be organized in Pakistan under "Aaghaz-e dosti" which is our Indo-Pak initiative and in Nepal under the "Bharat Nepal Paraspar Samvad" which is already in operation.

We invite you/your organization/school to be a part of this drive. We will acknowledge all such partners/supporters who participated in this drive. Please plant trees named as "harmony trees". Any other related event is optional. You can invite local media/persons in your event. Share your experiences , photographs, newsclips etc with us at our email. 

In India, this event is being organised in J&K (Bilal Sultan, Tahir), Orrisa (Sibaprasad Ji), Madhya Pradesh (Ashok Lodi, Rupesh Pandey) & Uttar Pradesh (Raj Shekhar Chandola, Ashutosh, Praveen) and can be extended to all other states as well.

Contact us

Ravi Nitesh(India) +919958907799, Devika Mittal(India) +919582129927, Prashant Nautiyal(India Art and Architecture) + 919555251427

Zeeshan Malik(Dubai) +971554614652, Aitizaz Pirzada(Pakistan) +00923235095854

Mahedi Hasan(Bangladesh) +008801840508522

Niraj Neupane(Students' club of Nepal) 00977-9851071945

INVITATION: HUMAN CHAIN FOR UNITY AND HARMONY: INDIA GATE 26 AUGUST 5:30 PM

HUMAN CHAIN FOR UNITY AND HARMONY at 5:30 PM INDIA GATE

Respected friends,

We were all sitting in our homes relaxed when a part of India was burning but then the flames also started spreading in other parts of India. We are talking about the tragic situation in Assam which ultimately send heat waves across India by forcing the North eastern people to flee back to their native places. The Assam riots had began as a clash between the natives and the settlers and then a  debate between natives and illegal immigrants from Bangladesh in North East and ultimately, got a communal flavor. There were rumours across the country threatening to attack north eastern people and forcing them to go back to their native places.

We, as citizens of this country and as human beings, condemn this. We condemn the shock, the pain, the terror that the North Eastern people have to face. We also condemn these riots and violence in all forms.  

We empathise with the people of North East and to show our solidarity and extend our support to them, we will form a human chain on India Gate on this sunday i.e. 26th August 

We request you to join us. 

Place: India Gate

Time: 5:30 PM

Please bring a message printed on a white sheet and a safety pin to attach it on your t-shirt. 

contact: 9958907799, 9312395984

Bharat-Nepal Paraspar Samvad Yatra

17^th-18^th August Kushinagar(India) to Lumbini(Nepal)

India and Nepal are the two countries in South Asian which truly reflects what being a “South Asian” can mean. With the border that allows people to move freely, it sends out a message of peace, harmony, love and most importantly, trust. This bond, not boundary, also promotes and protects basic human rights and human desire to communicate, interact and travel for the hope of a better life.

Mission Bhartiyam would like to celebrate this bond and send a message to SAARC that such a bond of trust can be extended in the entire South Asian region. For this, Mission Bhartiyam has decided to organize a ‘Bharat- Nepal Paraspar Samvad Yatra’ on 17-18 August from Kushinagar (India) to Lumbini (Nepal) to celebrate this bond and also to send a message that this bond of trust can also be extended in the entire SAARC region. We have chosen Kushinagar and Lumbini because they are Buddhist sites of pilgrimage because that is one of the cultural links that we share and because Buddha and his teachings (Buddhism) promote the feelings of love, peace, non-violence and brotherhood. From this journey, we will formally start our SAARC initiative for peace and harmony and in coming years we will organize such peace marches in other SAARC nations too.

This journey will also extend our support and brotherhood with our neighbor and through this journey we are also giving them faith and assurance that we, the people of India, are always here to support them and to fight with them to combat similar challenges.

Program Details:

17 AUGUST: KUSHINAGAR (INDIA)

10:00 AM: A seminar on the role of India/people in Peace & Harmony among SAARC Nations.

01:00 PM: Lunch

03:00 PM: Press Conference & Start of Journey

Arrival at Lumbini: 11 PM on 17 AUGUST

18 AUGUST: LUMBINI (NEPAL)

10:00 AM: A seminar on the role of India & Nepal in promoting peace & harmony among SAARC Nations, meetings with individuals, activists and distributing pamphlets to support peace and harmony.

01:00 PM: Lunch

03:00 PM: Press Conference & Samvad Yatra Declaration

Information about the places:

Kushinagar: A district in East Uttar Pradesh, an important Buddha pilgrimage as it was here that Gautam Buddha had achieved his Parinirvana(salvation). Railway Station: Kushinagar. Nearest Big City: Gorakhpur (55 Km.)

Lumbini: A place in Rupandehi district of Nepal, where Siddartha Gautam was born.

We invite you or your organization to be a part of this journey.

Send an email at missionbhartiyam@gmail.com, info@missionbharatiyam.org

Visit our website http://www.missionbharatiyam.org/

Or call Ravi Nitesh(Delhi) 9958907799, Devika Mittal(Delhi) 9582129927, Aditya Dubey(Delhi) 9873146393, Pankaj Pathak(Delhi) 9811095895, Ajay Pandey(Kushinagar) 9718439530, Sunil Pandey(Kushinagar) 9838478090, Praveen(Basti) 9918033083.

Saroj Yadav(Kathmandu) 009779813171734 Rajan Srivastava(Kathmandu) 0977984973241

Bharat-Nepal Paraspar Samvad

Borders are always an issue of conflict. Sometimes, due to the desire of a state to expand its territory, they are important to keep a check and maintain one’s sovereignty and being. Everywhere, we find thick physical lines. But in spite of these forced (forced because the human nature, the human “spirit” does not like such boundaries) boundaries imposed upon us, there boundaries are unable to separate us completely. Still it is true that rivers flow from one to another by crossing boundaries, mountains spread over one to another and so are the emotions of human.

In fact, these political boundaries are in a broader view violation of human rights too. It is because, Nature has made no boundaries. ‘We all are born equal and free ‘(stated Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and thus any such restrictions are against human nature. People cross boundaries legally and illegally, sometimes in search of employment, a better education, sometimes in search of a safe haven, in hope of a better life and sometimes just for the leisure of travelling. This reflects the basic nature of humans and thus the right it should have. Though, like all other debates, there will be a certain group of people who will favor the boundary and restriction, however, for a common human being, it is not important and is infact, illogical to be confined.

But there is a border of exception. In the South Asian Region there lies a boundary between two countries, but it gives the message of love, peace and mutual development rather than hate, and restrictions. It is more towards freedom rather than binding a person in a confined political boundary. It is like a bond of trust. This is the border between India and Nepal. India and Nepal are similar in many ways. There is a deep cultural bond that binds people. But the best part of our mutual relation lies in our borders that are free to citizens of both countries. On the other side, Nepal has restricted border with China. Similarly, India too has restricted borders with all other neighbors.

When it comes to movement, it is also observed that movements to/from Nepal/India are quite frequent among the citizens. This free border is not only helpful in trade and economical growth by getting benefit of two different market, but also become helpful in establishing a theme of love and understanding among each other.

At the time when all countries of SAARC are facing the same challenge of development, hunger, poverty, unemployment, illegal migration and others, we have made our borders more restricted for our people. Though, this restriction may act positively for some reasons but this positive effect is limited and affects only one country and certainly will not benefit the whole region. On the other side, if all SAARC countries can join each other towards the path of growth, together, it can definitely benefit all the countries.

Nepal and India border, in these terms, present an example that can not only bring the attention of SAARC region on any such concept but also present a live and successful example of sharing fluid boundaries.

Mission Bhartiyam, an India-based not for profit group, hopes to realize this dream. Since 2007, it has been working for an overall development of society through advocating for Environment, Education, Communal Harmony, Employment, Health, Disaster Management, Women & Child Rights, Human Rights, Youth affairs and other social issues. It has also been a partner organization in a national campaign for Manipuri poet Irom Sharmila who has been on a hunger strike for 11 years. But the mission is really to revive the values of peace, harmony and brotherhood that are revered in South Asian sensibilities, plans to help and build such ties.

We desire for a SAARC with enhanced people to people communication, with love and trust and freedom from hatred and suspicion. We want that no-one should be jailed for the desire of transcending barriers for the good.

Under our SAARC initiative, in the past, in 2011, Mission Bhartiyam was a partner organization in the Indo-pak human chain at Rajghat(New Delhi). We now plan to build stronger ties with Nepal. We would like to work on issues and challenges which are common to both countries. We would like to tell our Nepali brothers that we will always support them and fight along with them to combat similar challenges. We would like to celebrate this concept of border and also to send a message that this bond of trust can also be extended in the entire SAARC region.

Second Workshop of Artists for Cause organized

New Delhi. 15 July. Artists for Cause (an initiative of Mission Bhartiyam) organized its second workshop of Participatory Theatre at New Delhi.

The participants did some activities which would help them in theatre. These included exercises to learn "improvisation", pose activities and some voice exercises.

The participants also discussed various social issues to pick a theme for their street play. Among others topics, 11 years of hunger strike of Irom Sharmila, problems of abuse of powers by security forces and land acquisition were also discussed.

Next workshop will be organized on 21 and 22 july. After some workshops, participants will be ready to perform their final play on streets of Delhi among public.

The concept of this initiative is all about giving an opportunity to youths to be involved to dream, to shape and to act for a social change or towards spreading a message that is beneficial for society through play.

Participants who participated includes Tushar Vashishtha, Vikas, Mukul khurana, Aman, Pankaj Sharma, Soumya Prakash, Rhea Rana, Abhishek Shukla and Shekhar Jain.

This initiative is providing free workshops to youths who are interested to contribute towards the society through acting.

Anybody can contact at:
missionbhartiyam@gmail.com or at info@missionbharatiyam.org
Visit us at:
www.missionbharatiyam.org
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''BHARAT NEPAL PARASPAR SAMVAD'' (भारत - नेपाल परस्पर संवाद )

Dear Friends, 

We are delighted to express about our initiative towards establishing and maintaining relations across the border and to work for common challenges as well as for world peace.

With the commitment towards world peace and non violence , it becomes necessary to maintain relations with our neighbor countries. This relationship can only be maintained in real sense by the people of both the places. 

In view of this, Mission Bhartiyam decided to start its initiative ''BHARAT NEPAL PARASPAR SAMVAD'' (भारत - नेपाल परस्पर संवाद ) , a program that will help us to meet and to talk more frequently, to face the common challenges together and to build the relationship better and better. We will also initiate programs on basic issues together and we , together can set an example while giving message of peace to this world. 

For this program, we are very thankful to Sh. SAROJ YADAV, who is a student of Human Rights and lives in Kathmandu, Nepal. We all , through our series of meetings, decided to start this initiative. 

Sh. Saroj Yadav will be the Convenor of this program in Nepal, while in India, members of Mission Bhartiyam will help in planning and execution of activities alongwith Saroj and his group.    

All of you are welcome to join this initiative. Write us at

info@missionbharatiyam.org  

Thnaks to you all

TEAM- MISSION BHARTIYAM

Contact: 9958907799, 9873146393

PRESS RELEASE 'SADBHAVNA DELEGATION' REACHED AT KOSI KALAN TO SPREAD MESSAGE OF HARMONY

*Delegation distributed pamphlets on peace, members walked on roads singing peace songs and visited all areas including affected areas to spread message of humanity, peace & harmony

Kosi Kalan has become witnessed of communal violence some days ago and this incident affected the normal life of the area where three persons lost their lives and several injured. After this violence, market there was reopened after 22 days on this Friday.

Today on 24th JUNE, when the passenger train from New Delhi arrived at Kosi Kalan Railway Station, just with the tune of engine's noise, people started listening a noise, that was attractive and very much different. They started looking towards the compartment from which a young and energetic team of youths was deboarding on platform. They all were singing 'Insaan ka insaan se ho bhaichara, yahee paighaam hamaara'.

It was a team of young and bright persons named 'Sadbhavna Dal', sent jointly by Mission Bhartiyam, NCHRO & Resident Doctors Association, AMU. The group had youths who belong from Hindu & Muslim communities and includes students, professionals and activists.

During their schedule at Kosi Kalan here, Md. Faizan told that ''we have come here with a message that we should stop such fighting and should live with each other with all love and respect for all. Infact, it is the humanity that has been taught by Quran, Ramayan or any other epic.'' . Ansar from NCHRO told we are youth and it is our duty to make all such efforts to bring harmony in society.

It was quite strange and inspiring to see walking and singing these youths in this hot summers. Infact, this walk itself was giving the message of dedication and commitment towards enriching harmony. They also distributed the pamphlets to general public on roads of Kosi Kalan and Aditya from Mission Bhartiyam recites that our country is the symbol of unity and harmony; and many such examples can be told when people of both communities helped each other with pure heart. Dr. Riyazuddin added that these incidents made us ashamed and we still become helpless to think that why such things are happening in this 21st century world?

During their day long program at Kosi Kalan, this Sadbhavna Delegation victims of both the communities who get affected due to this communal violence came to meet with delegation members. Old aged Muslim Babu Sanab Puli, a rickshaw puller got his house burned by mob. He has Incurred loss of all of thngs collected for marriage of two daughters. (pic1). Shamsher ali resident of karimullahvas also got affected by mob burning d home. Over all about 700 homes n shops got burned of both d communities and 3 persons died. Pandit kishen of Gurushganj also got his cars and home totally burned. These victims themselves told the delegation that they are happy to see such people like you who are working for humanity. They also told that they do not have any hate towards other community and many from other communities are coming to help us.

It was also quite strange that just after arrival of Sadbhavna Delegation and its continuous walk on roads under the scorching heat, Kosi Kala recieved heavy shower from the sky. It seemed that Nature itself extended its support towards this youth team who was here for the message of harmony. A local business group M/s Era Infra Engineering Ltd. also welcomed the delegation on road arranged water and tea voluntary. It all made this visit fruitful in terms of meeting and mixing up with people.

About his experience that Saleem Md. Khan received, he told that it is a beautiful day for me, as I feel that after embarrassing people of both the communities and working for them, i learnt the real way of living in society. Another member of delegation Pankaj Pathak presented his words in lines of a song..Aman ke hum Rakhwale hum sab ek hain........

Other members included Dr. Akhlad, Soumya Prakash, Mofizur Rehman, Dheeraj Pandey, Nadir Ayubi, Shagil Khan and Shamim. 'Their faces were smiling and it seemed that heat cannot stop the air of comfort to pass on, it only requires a Tree nearby.' told a local citizen there, 'and we really need such youths for our society' he added with a smile , mixed with hope and watered eyes.

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मिशन भारतीयम , एन.सी. एच. आर . ओ . एवं रेसीडेंट डाक्टर्स एसोसिएशन (AMU)

संपर्क : Pankaj (9873146393), Aarish (9555999150), Ansar(9718351204), Pankaj (9811095895), Saleem Md. Khan (9411803348), Dr. Reyazuddin (9997258800),

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INVITATION TO JOIN SADBHAVNA DAL VISIT ON 24 JUNE 2012

Kosi Kalan is a place that is situated in District Mathura (U.P.) and not far away from New Delhi.

Recently this place has become witnessed of communal violence and this incident affected the normal life of the area.

Now, when the social harmony is in danger , we feel that as a concerned citizen of this country and as a human being, we have responsibility to do whatever we can as per our capability to spread the message of peace, love and harmony.

Mission Bhartiyam is a group of youths that is already involved in many works in the field of communal harmony, peace, environment and human rights. With our objective and commitment towards the communal harmony , we along with other organizations are hereby proposed to visit Kosi Kalan alongwith 10 member (approx) delegation.

This delegation will include hindus and muslims, and will be named as 'Sadbhavna Dal'. Delegation will include Hindus & Muslims and will visit there to spread message of peace, love, unity and harmony.

Program Schedule:

Date: 24 JUNE 2012 , SUNDAY

Departure:9:00 AM for kosi kalan

Day long program at Kosi Kalan that will include distribution of pamphlets to spread message of humanity, harmony, unity on the road. Members will sing peace songs on the roads of kosi kalan.

Delegation will also try to meet some local activists there, a small meeting with district magistrate.

Till evening at 8 PM on the same day, Delegation will be returned to New Delhi.

*We invite individual/organization who want to be in Sadbhavna Dal to collaborate with us for a joint representation, as this will make the motive more effective towards the cause of humanity.

#Please also send us messages & songs of peace and unity, so that we can use them during our visit.

Thanks to you all

Contact: 9873146393 (Aditya), 9555999150 (Aarish), 9811095895 (Pankaj)

missionbhartiyam@gmail.com, info@missionbharatiyam.org

www.missionbharatiyam.org

E-PAO covers Participatory Theatre

The Press release sent by Mission Bhartiyam about the initiation of Participatory Theatre has been published by E-pao, the prime web portal for Manipuris. 

check http://e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=news_section.Press_Release.Press_Release_2012.Artists_For_Cause_organized_its_first_participatory_Theatre_Workshop_20120618

PRESS RELEASE: ARTISTS FOR CAUSE ORGANIZED ITS FIRST 'PARTICIPATORY THEATRE WORKSHOP'

PRESS RELEASE: ARTISTS FOR CAUSE ORGANIZED ITS FIRST 'PARTICIPATORY THEATRE WORKSHOP'

Date:17 JUNE 2012

Place: New Delhi

Artists for Cause , a social initiative by Mission Bhartiyam organized its first workshop on 'Participatory Theatre' here at Moti Nagar, New Delhi.

Ten persons participated in the workshop and there they learned to be involved in society to identify the social problems in real means.

During the whole interactive and interesting session, facilitated by Saurabh Srivastava, who have experience of more than 20 years in theatre and who worked mostly on grassroot level through theatre, participants became familiar with situations of society , various social evils and the need.

It was also felt that only problem identification should not be the motive instead providing suggestions can work better.

Devika Mittal, masters student at SAARC university and core member of Mission Bhartiyam, described that it is art that touches every heart. Stree theatres are the tools of social reform since long time and we, through participatory theatre , will try to make it more effective where issue on which we will prepare the final play, will also come from side of participant rather than facilitator. In its unique way, we will be able to learn the process of democratization of a concept and will also be able to develop thoughts through debate, discussion etc.

Soumya Prakash who held a degree in Mass Com and presently learning social philosophies through his real participation in social activities found it useful and showed his interests alongwith various inputs.

It was also observed that professionals and students were the persons who became interested in this workshop so that they can contribute to society through theatre.

Vanshree, a masters student in SAARC university raise various issues during workshop that are required to address for a social change.

Megha, an electronics and communications engineer by profession told that she would like to work woth this group as on one hand we have a social responsibility to do for our society,  on another it gives self satisfaction, happiness, positive energy, personality development. Through this, we can spread awareness as well as learn.

In an interesting debate during the workshop,  where every participant has to tell topics on which they would like to make first stree play,  and then his/her topic discussed with all; it was found that various popular issues that were raised and discussed became null and void to be accepted as real problem, instead the real problem discovered.

 

Ankur Loonia, an engineering student at Jamia Millia University, New Delhi stated that he is keen to work through stree theatre. He told that he would like to make people aware to get associated with Artists for cause as this platform is providing you opportunity to create and to dream, to shape a 'free theatre' concept.

At the end, Pankaj Pathak on behalf of Mission Bhartiyam conveyed his sincere thanks to all who participated. He also told that we would like to train people who want to contribute to society through theatre by this initiative.

Artists for cause actually provides a platform to people who want to get involved in social activities and who want to spread message among society through art (theatre, painting, sketching, music etc) . However artists for cause will try to work among general public through their work at public places.

 

Others who participated includes Sulabh Srivastava, Shekhar Jain, Ravi Nitesh, and Mithileesh Pandey. Various issues discussed during this introductory workshop includes corruption, eve teasing, women safety, gender equality, communal harmony, poverty, child labor, disaster, environment, racial descrimination of NE people etc.

 

One topic will be selected in next workshop after a discussion and various aspects of toipcs that will be selected at various parameters. it will be done with participatory exercise with the group.

 

Next workshop will be organized in first week of July. Those who want to participate can write a mail at: info@missionbharatiyam.org or missionbhartiyam@gmail.com

 

Regards

Artists for Cause

http://www.facebook.com/ArtistsForCause 

 

 

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Mission Bhartiyam

(regd under SRA 1860, established and managed by youths)

Website: www.missionbharatiyam.org

Blog: www.missionbhartiyam.blogspot.com

E-mail: missionbhartiyam@gmail.com, info@missionbharatiyam.org

 

*We work for Peace, Human Rights, Communal Harmony, Arts & Culture, Youth Affairs, Environment and other social issues

 

 

PROPOSED VISIT OF 'SADBHAVNA DAL' AT KOSI KALAN, MATHURA (U.P.) TO SPREAD MESSAGE OF LOVE< PEACE< HARMONY & HUMANITY AFTER A RECENT COMMUNAL VIOLENCE REPORTED

Dear Firends,

 

We believe that in the country like India, where harmony and unity among diversity is the basic feature of society and where non violence, peace and love are the values that we learnt since our childhood, its our responsibility to work for the humanity to give efforts towards social integration and to make our society living and cheerful with the objective of happiness for all, whenever this basic feature of society becomes unbalance.

 

Now, when the incidents at kosi kalan shocked the people living in this society, we would like to visit kosi kalan with our 10 member delegation as a ' Sadbhavna Dal', just to spread message of humanity and communal harmony. During our day long visit, we will distribute pamphlets (that will give message of peace, non violence and harmony), we will sing songs of love, peace and harmony. 

 

Delegation will include equal numbers of hindu and muslim members  who are working on communal harmony at grass root level.  Members may belong from Mission Bhartiyam, Sadbhavna Mission, Khudai Khidmatgar and Asha Parivar. We will not be involved in any other activity as the visit will only focus on communal harmony.

 

We hope that this initiative will also help the efforts of district administration towards the peace and harmony.

 

Please note that in case you require, as a security reasons and requirements of district administration, we are ready to provide a list of our proposed members who will visit (with their name and address), we are ready to produce identity cards, we are also ready to provide  our pamphlets that will be distributed and list of songs that will be sung by members.     

 

 * Fax to get permission has been sent at Office of the District Magistrate, Mathura (U.P.). We will visit the affected region as soon as we will get permission. 

Mission Bhartiyam and Khudai khidmatgar facilitated Students during third Save Girl child summit held at Gandhi Darshan, Rajghat, New Delhi on 29-30 May

Dear Members,

We are happy to share with you that few members of mission Bhartiyam participated in recently help convention on save girl child at new delhi.

Our members who participated were :

U.P.:
Basti: Praveen Srivastava, Arun Ji and Vishal
With students Venkatraman and Samriddhi
Lucknow: Ankit Gupta , Ashutosh Srivastava (from Darsh Sewa Sansthan)

M.P.
Vidisha: Ashok Lodi,

Odhisa:
Sibuprasad (from Utkal Youth
Lakshmikant Paikerey
Smruti

Mission Bhartiyam and Khudai Khidmatgar were jointly organized a poster/poem competition in Basti (U.P.) And Essay/paragraph writing in Lucknow (U.P.) On the save girl child subject in the month of May, Where many students participated and some of their creations get selected and were displayed during the summit held at new delhi.

Certificates and medals were given jointly by khudai khidmatgar and Mission bhartiyam to these students:

Venkatraman Bhatnagar for poster (in person)
Samridhi Pandey for poem (in person)
Priyanshi pal
Arpita
Ritu Sharma
Shreya Gupta
Maria Afsar
Jyotsna Pandey
Pooja Pal
Richa Mishra

Certificates to:
Seema Jaisawal
Shivangi Singh
Artika srivastava

'Soldier of change' medal given to:
Praveen Srivastava from Basti
Ankit gupta from lucknow
Ashok Lodi from vidisha

Medal for active participation:
Arun ji
Sibuprasad

Certificates of participation to
Vishal ji
Gandesh lodi
Heamnt srivastava
Amit srivastava

Thanks
Mission Bhartiyam
www.missionbharatiyam.org
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A note on Biomass Energy: Barriers and Pitfalls

 Energy is the key factor on which the economy of the nation is dependent. In a country like India which is a developing country the major dependence of the economy is on industrialization which is in turn dependent on availability of quality power. Indian Power sector has been growing at a good pace but still there has been a significant gap between the demand and supply of electricity. The period post Electricity Act 2003 has witnessed a lot of policy measures from government aimed at providing electricity to all and rationalization of pricing and improvement of efficiency and quality through invoking competition in the sector. Some of the recent highlights of the sector are as follows:

 

 

Total Installed Capacity (As on 30.04.2012) :  2,01,637 MW

Per Capita Consumption                                 : 783Kwh (Global Average2300 Kwh)

 

Coal has been the dominant source of supply in India contributing around 65% of the total share in the total installed capacity. The disadvantage of too much dependence on a single source has recently highlighted the loop holes of the energy security. Changes in the global pricing regulations of coal and availability of domestic coal have nearly brought the sector to a halt. But the question is that whether we have any alternate source to compensate coal. The answer in the Indian context is still no. No doubt solar and wind energy are clean technologies but they are totally dependent on natural phenomenon and have inbuilt disadvantages such as inefficiency in inter state transfer and forecasting.

 

Biomass

 

Biomass has also bee identified as a renewable source of energy by MNRE and several policies have been laid down by government such as CFA and feed in tariff but there has still not been substantial improvement in the sector with huge potential for improvement. The main reason has been the financial viability of the projects being set up under various regulatory schemes of the biomass sectors.

 

Some of the suggestions to improve the viability are as follows;

 

v  The ERCs' and IREDA guided by Section 86(e) of Electricity Act 2003 and Tariff Policy have been laying down policies to promote the renewable energy sector, but the main emphasis has been on Solar and wind technologies. Although biomass has also been backed up with feed in tariff through higher return on equity as compared to conventional tariff but at the same time the issues to be addressed are the initial capital cost of the project and as well as the cost of the fuel used. The fuel price has been fixed by ERCs' on state level but what actually is happening that suppose state A is having a price of fuel lesser than state B thus in order to bring the financial viability to the project the State B imports fuel from state A thus giving rise to increase in demand of fuel in State A accompanied with increase in price of fuel in State A also. The possible mechanism that can address this issue would be an Administered Price Mechanism for the biomass fuel wherein government intervention would be required to fix price of the fuel.

 

v  The wind and solar energy project enjoy a must run status irrespective of the capacity which means that they will not be subjected to Merit Order Dispatch but Biomass plant with capacity above 10 MW are subjected to Merit Order dispatch and in case of the grid disturbance due to their higher tariff these project would be asked to back down leading to loss in generation and revenue for the developer. In the either case if the developer goes for a plant less than 10 MW he will not be able to get the advantage of the Economies of Scale. The biomass project have been approved by MNRE as clean technology therefore they must also be given the status of must run status.

 

v  The Biomass projects also form part of the renewable resources which can be utilized for RPO compliance by distribution utility. Technologies like solar and wind are being given a Generation Based Incentives for generation which has shifted the focus from capacity addition to generation which has significantly contributed to reduction in CO2 emissions in the country. Similar incentives should also be there for biomass plant.

 

SUMMARY OF BIOMASS POWER COGENERATION TARIFF ACROSS STATES  

 (AS ON 31.03.2011)

State	Tariff fixed by Commissions	RP0 %
Andhra Pradesh	@Rs.4.28/kWh,(201011)  (BM)    Rs.3.48/kWh                  (Cogen)	Min. 3.75%
Chhattisgarh	@Rs.3.93/Unit (2010-11)   (BM)	5%
Gujarat	@ Rs.4.40/unit (with accelerated depre.)  (BM) @ Rs.4.55/unit (with accelerated depre.)    for 1st 10 yrs(Cogen)	10%
Haryana	@ Rs.4.00/unit                   (BM)  @ Rs.3.74/unit                  (Cogen)    3%escalation (base year 2007-08)	1%
Karnataka	@Rs.3.66 per unit (PPA signing date)     Rs.4.13 (10th year)          (BM) @ Rs.3.59/unit,  (PPA signing date)    Rs.4.14/unit (10th  Year) (Cogen)	Min.10%
Kerala	@ Rs.2.80/unit                   (BM) escalated at  5% for five years (2000-01)	3%
Maharashtra	@ Rs. 4.98         (2010-11)  (BM) @Rs.4.79/unit (Comm  yr.) (Cogen)	6%
Madhya Pradesh	@ Rs.3.33 to 5.14 /unit paise for 20 yrs. With esc of 3- 8paise	0.8%
Punjab	@Rs.5.05 /unit, (2010-11)   (BM) @Rs.4.57/unit   (2010-11)   (Cogen)escalated at 5% -cogen, & 5%-BM	Min. 3%
Rajasthan	@ Rs.4.72 / unit-water cooled (2010-11)- & Rs.5.17-air cooled(2010-11)-(BM)	1.75%
Tamil Nadu	@ Rs.4.50-4.74/unit(2010-11) –  (BM)@ Rs.4.37-4.49/unit (2010-11)- (Cogen)(Escalation 2%)	Min. 13%
Uttaranchal	@ Rs.3.06/unit. (2010-11) - BM@Rs.3.12/unit (2010-11)- (Cogen) (new projects)	9%
U.P.	@ Rs.4.29 / unit, for existing and 4.38 for new with  escalated at  4 paise/year, base year (2006)	4%
West Bengal	Rs. 4.36/unit fixed for 10 years-BIOMASS	4%
Bihar	Rs. 4.17/unit (2010-11)–BIOMASSRs.4.25/unit (2010-11) – existing  (Cogen)Rs.4.46/unit (2010-11) – new (Cogen)	1.5%
Orissa	Rs.4.09/unit

 

 

 

CFA for Biomass Power Project and Bagasse Cogeneration Projects by Private/Joint/Coop./Public Sector Sugar Mills

	Special Category States(NE Region, Sikkim, J&K, HP & Uttaranchal)	Other States
Project Type	Capital Subsidy	Capital Subsidy
Biomass Power projects	Rs.25 lakh X(C MW)^0.646	Rs.20 lakh X (C MW)^0.646
Bagasse Co-generation by Private sugar mills	Rs.18 lakh X(C MW)^0.646	Rs.15 lakh X (C MW)^0.646
Bagasse Co-generation projects by cooperative/ public sector sugar mills 40 bar & above 60 bar & above 80 bar & above	Rs.40 lakh    * Rs.50 lakh    * Rs.60 lakh    * Per MW of surplus power@ (maximum support Rs. 8.0 crore per project)	Rs.40 lakh         * Rs.50 lakh         * Rs.60 lakh         * Per MW of surplus power@  (maximum support Rs. 8.0 crore per project)

  *For new sugar mills, which are yet to start production and existing sugar mills employing backpressure route/seasonal/incidental cogeneration, which exports surplus power to the grid, subsidies shall be one-half of the level mentioned above. 

 

By:

Syed Saif Abbas Naqvi

Energy Security Division- Mission Bhartiyam

www.missionbharatiyam.org