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Page 1: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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Dear Friends

We are delighted to present our Bihar webzine which truly showcases the efforts of our people for our

people

Itrsquos an earnest attempt to connect Bihar to world and rest of world to Bihar Our inspiration and guiding

sources are the greats of Bihar like Ashoka Chanakya and Lord Mahavira to name a few We take great

pride in our past and also look forward to usher into Bihar 30 which we believe will lead the country and

world at large

Our webzine truly represents the collaborative passionate and committed efforts from friends of Bihar

We aspire to set new standards in our attempt to showcase the best which Bihar has to offer Inspired by

Constantin Brancusi Romanian sculptor quote Create like a goddess Command like a queen Work

like a slave we believe this effort will strengthen our sincere resolution in scripting a new story of

progressive Bihar and a better world

Do share your feedback with us it will extremely valuable in our journey

Team Bihar

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CONTENT

Bihar Society- An introduction 4

How to connect the fellow Biharis 7

Want to contribute to this magazine 7

Want to advertise in this magazine 7

Editorial Board 7

Dasrath Manjhi - A symbol of Bihari resilience 8

Right to education 10

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes 12

Nalanda and the pursuit of science 13

Education sector 17

Babu Kunwar Singh 18

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy 19

Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage 20

Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo 23

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011 24

Development of SSI sector in Bihar 25

बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता 28

पयावरण बचान क13 महम 30

Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR grouphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip32

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revivalhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip33

Seasons ndash a Poemhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip35

य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहहhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip36

PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together 37

World Class University amp Research 40

Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company 24

Volunteer Jobshelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip43

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Bihar Society- An introduction

Bihar Society is a non-profit organization based in New York and promoted by non resident Biharis from all over the

world to promote Bihar interest not only within Bihar and India but also outside India in the International arena

Bihar Society is inspired by Ashoka (httpwwwashokaorg) Asia Society( wwwasiasocietyorg ) Japan Society

(httpwwwjapansocietyorg) Wikipedia( wwwwikipediaorg ) OpenSource AIF and similar global organizations

that have made a significant impact on the lives of people around the world

At Bihar Society our goal is to work to strengthen relationships and promote understanding between Bihari and

International leaders people and institutions We seek to increase knowledge and enhance dialogue encourage

creative expression and generate new ideas across the fields of arts and culture policy business and education In

this pursuit Bihar Society would like to contribute towards making Bihar the Knowledge cultural social and

entrepreneurial hub of the world as it once was in yore

Founded in 2007 Bihar Society is a nonpartisan nonprofit educational institution with offices in Patna ( as Karma

Society) Europe Singapore New York Mumbai Bangalore Chennai San Francisco and Washington DC

The symbol of the Asia Society is the the ruins of the Gloripus Nalanda University which once was the knowledge

capital of the World

The vision is to make Bihar Society a leading organization both within and outside Bihar on similar line the Asia

Society in Ney Your Bihar Society wants to become what Asia Society is for Asia on world stage

It mission is not only to promote the brand Bihar on international level but also to make it a premium Brand which

excites one and all in its own unique way It also wants to connect Bihar and its stakeholders

Why Bihar Society

After Bihars darkest days in last few decades Bihar has been bouncing back in the area of governance There has

been a surge of political cultural and economic revival in Bihar and civic society needs a glocal ( Global+Local)

platform to help connect the million mutinies taking place in Bihar and rest of world Most civic society efforts

have been event focussed or a cause focussed or person focussed When that person or group goes through

cyclical changes in status those efforts die down Many times those isolated efforts could have a greater impact if

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were orchestrated and co-ordinated via an umbrella organization Bihar Society can fill that void by emerging a

network of networks (people orgs and causes) to reap the benefits of synergy

I am not from Bihar why should I care

If you care about world then Asia is the largest in terms of population and within that India China and Japan are

the three largest economies and populations Bihar is the heart mind soul of Asia

a) Worlds biggest ideas people and contributions in the area of artscienceculturereligion In short much of

Indias glorious heritage has origins in Bihar have come from Bihar

Yogasutra of Patanjali

Gautam Buddha of Bodh Gaya

Mahavir (Jainism) of Pawapuri

Democracy by Licchivis in Vaishali

Astronomy (Aryabhatta Patna

Political Economy (Arthashastra by Chanakya) Patna

Sikhism (Guru Gobind Singh) Patna

Largest Empire (Ashoka) based in Patna

Chandragupta Maurya based in Patna

Worlds oldest and larges University Nalanda

Indias Freedom Struggle (18571947) at Bihar

First President and Father of Constitution Rajendra Prasad Jiradei Siwan

Total Revolution to removed Indiras Emergency by Jai Prakash Narayan Patna

Hence like all great societies Bihar has gone from a glorious past to a complete collapse It has started bouncing

back and the world needs to help it re-emerge

I am already part of many social causes why should i help or join Bihar Society

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Worlds biggest problems also have their epicenter in Bihar

Malaria

Polio

Poverty

Malnutrition

Unemployment

Water

Energy

Who is funding Bihar Society

Bihar Society was conceived and started by Atul Kumar with the help of various friends of Bihar who came to know

each other via various online yahoo-groups mailing lists events causes alumni groups social and professional

networks and projects It was also inspired by world class social organizations like Wikipedia Asia Society

Ashokaorg AIF

What will Bihar Society do

Become an agent instrument and platform of Soical-cultural-scientific economic change agents with stake in

Bihar We will connect ideaspeoplemoney and other resources to each other We will have city and country

specific chapters besides working groups in areas of Education Healthcare Agriculture Water Energy

Governance Industry Art amp Culture etc

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How to connect the fellow Biharis

Please join us on Facebook

1 Facebook Bihar Communityhttpwwwfacebookcomhomephpsk=group_153744714660549ampap=1

2 Bihar Society Org on Facebook- httpwwwfacebookcombiharsociety

3 Bihar Society on LinkedIn httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsmostPopular=ampgid=36628amptrk=myg_ugrp_ovr

Want to contribute to this magazine

Please send your artcile to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Want to advertise in this magazine

Please send your advertisement to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Editorial Board

Editor in Chief - Santosh Pandey ( email santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Blog httpsantosh-pandeyblogspotcom

Executive Editor - Atul Kumar (email atultechgmailcom )

Blog httpatultechblogspotcom

Consulting Editor - Thakur Vikash Sinha (email tvsinhagmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Mayank Krishna (email mayankkrishnagmailcom)

Consulting Editor - Manoj Pandey ( email manojpandeycmagmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Sarvesh Upadhyay ( email sarveshkgmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Anirudh Kumar ( email anirudhhclgmailcom )

Consulting Tech Editor - Samir Mishra (email samirmishragmailcom )

Design amp Creative Editor - Sanjay Prasad ( email prasadcom2gmailcom )

Blog httpwwwfreewebscomsanjayprasad

Associate Editor - Bhartendu Kumar Das ( email bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

Associate Editor - Vivek Kumar (email viveklearnergmailcom )

Blog httpvisionvivekblogspotcom

Associate Editor - Ankit Kumar (email ankit4jecgmailcom )

Editor - Ajit Chouhan (email ajitchouhangmailcom )

Blog httpcoolbihariblogspotcom

Editor Prashant Kumar ( email zimbo77gmailcom )

Consulting Guest Editor - Mrunalini Chembrolu (email mrunalinigmailcom )

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Dasrath Manjhi - A symbol of Bihari resilience

His eyes were moist with

enchantment as he stood there

watching the road through the pass

without batting his eyelid Today his

resolve had borne fruit His resolve

could only be compared with that of

the legendary Bhagirath who

chiseled the mighty Himalayas to

bring the holy Ganges to earth Then

he looked at his palms and started

to ruminate For the last twenty two

years he had been chiseling away at

the mountain single-handedly and

today his effort had borne fruit

Then in a flash his tears of happiness

became those of sorrow and started

to fall on the rocks in a stream His

mood turned somber as he

remembered his departed wife It

was her suffering that had made

him take this seemingly impossible

task of creating a path through the

mountain all by him It was she who

was his inspiration for achieving the

impossible task Alas she had passed

away before the task could be

completed Perhaps this is what HE

had willed

Then the stream of tears came to an

abrupt halt The weight of sorrow

on his heart lifted slowly and he

started to smile to himself So what

if his wife was not there to savour

this moment His village folks would

now traverse 80 km less to reach

the town through his path It was

true that he had taken up this

Herculean task by seeing the

shadow of helplessness on his dear

wifes face but then wasnt he

already feeling impatient at the

sufferings of his people The path

had to be made and he had made it

He jolted himself to return to the

real world from his dream world and

started to walk to the point where

he had started his chiseling His joy

knew no bounds as he traversed

through the rocky path that he had

created alone This great soul was

Dasrath Manjhi a resident of the 25

house hamlet of Gehlaur in the Gaya

district of Bihar His is a name in the

tradition of the great saint Kabir

who was also illiterate like

Dasrath Manjhi and had a great

desire to break the shackles of

sufferings for the masses

One day a thirsty Manjhi was

impatiently waiting for his wife to

fetch him water from the other

side of the mountain The

unforgiving summer of Gaya had

parched his throat dry as the sun

beat down mercilessly and he

anxiously waited for her to fetch

the life giving water She had taken

longer than usual Then he saw the

silhouette of his wife in the

distance coming back empty

handed He asked in a tone of

hopelessness mixed with surprise

Why are you coming back empty

handed What happened to the

earthen vessel

Wife could barely control herself as

she replied with sorrow written all

over her face that she could not

fetch water for him as she slipped

and fell down In the process the

earthen pot broke and she had to

return empty handed She could

neither fetch water for him to

quench his thirst nor could she

save the pot itself He saw the grief

and helplessness on his wifes face

Guilt ridden helplessness was

streaming out in the form of tears

from her eyes This image got

etched on his mental screen

Dashrath Manjhi started to

contemplate My god this hill is

standing like a mountain in the

path of my people for generations

This is coming in the way between

our thirst and water It has to be

removed He kept thinking for days

on end His manliness got aroused

and one day he decided to cut it

out of the way He took a vow that

he would not sit idle till he had cut

a path through the mountain He

took the chisel and the hammer in

his hand and started his expedition

And thus started the resolve to

capture the mountain ndash the

mountain of Gilhaur in Gaya

district Some people would

ridicule him Some would look with

utter amazement at his gargantuan

effort to chisel the mountain away

But he was not concerned by either

praise or ridicule He just kept at

his work chiseling the mountain

alone He even shifted his hut near

the mountain so that he need not

waste his time in moving back and

forth

After twenty two long years of

unbroken effort he had managed

to dig a pathway ndash fifteen to

twenty feet broad and an amazing

three hundred and sixty feet long

And this path would reduce the

distance with the nearest town by

80 kilometers The villagers would

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not have to go around the

mountain to reach Wazirgunj again

This is not the only instance of the

steely resolve of Dasrath Manjhi

He once decided to go to Delhi He

did not have enough money to

undertake the journey So he

decided to walk all the way a

distance of over one thousand

kilometers During this unique

journey he took the signature of

the station masters of the railway

stations along the way in his diary

This man of single minded

determination wished to have a

hospital opened at his village on a

five acre plot When he met the

Chief Minister of the state

Mr Nitish Kumar Nitish felt so

overwhelmed that he got up from

his chair and asked Dasrath Manjhi

to sit there As the old saying goes

a man is known by his deed Indeed

the illiterate Dalit from Gilhaur has

shown his sublime character by his

steely resolve and his

determination to bring

development to his impoverished

people The district administration

honored him with a special award

Post script The last few days

of Dasrath Manjhi was spent

fighting cancer He passed away on

August 18 at the age of 80 years

He was given a state burial by the

Government of Bihar

This article was originally written

by Udai Narayan Choudhury in

Hindi the then speaker of Bihar

assembly and was published in the

book ldquoGauravshali Biharrdquo released

by ONE BIHAR English translation

is done by TV Sinha (TV Sinha is a

senior executive with a software

company and based in Mumbai he

can be can be reached at

tvsinhagmailcom)

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Right to education

The first task has to spread

awareness about the legislature

amongst following stakeholders

a Schools ndash Government and

private

b Parents and Students

c Local authorities enforcing and

implementing

d State government

e Central government

f Teachers

g NGOs

h Allied agencies

Following is the list of highlighted

sections from the legislation and

what are the questions that we

need to answer while evaluating

and assessing the implementation

of RTE

Section 1(2) Has RTE been

implemented all across in Bihar

(Considering that we are taking

Bihar as our population and a

smaller set of districts inside Bihar

as the sample set for our study)

Section 3(1) Percentage of

coverage of children in the defined

age bracket in the defined area

Section 3(2) Is any fee (or any

other expenses) being charged by

the schools from students Are

disabled students treated like the

other students What are the

various forms of discriminations

against them

Section 4 Is appropriate training

being provided to students who are

inducted for the first time in a class

based on their age What is the

quality of the training and how is it

conducted and evaluated Is

education being provided to those

children who are more than 14

years of age and have not

completed elementary education

(This might not be in place right

now so the focus will also be on

evaluating the plans that the

educational institutions have on

implementing it Also the

associated NGOs which have been

already working in this area needs

to be assessed to find out their plan

of action to help implement this)

Section 5 Is speedy transfer of

child from one school to another

being done properly or not What

are the problems children facing

due to formalities like transfer

certificates

Section 6 What is the spread of

the schools Are local authorities

setting up schools in the region

with a target of 3 years in

mind(Definition of a neighborhood

school would change for different

terrains Eg in hills this need to be

seen according to the difficulties

the students face in reaching their

destinations Also assessing the

social and demographic aspects of

an area like how far some

conservative families will send their

girls for education)

Section 7(6) What is the national

curriculum that the central

government has formed is it being

usedimplementedduplicated in

the state as well

(The need for education in local

languages has been said again and

again Assessing the need and

possibility for the same and also

finding localnational players that

can help with this)

What are the standards that are

formed for the training of

teachers What is the enforcing

mechanism for the same Are the

teachersrsquo trainers following these

standards or not

(Need to assess the teacher

training modules at all levels

Creating an assessment module

specifically for teachers to gauge

their knowledgeskill and

motivation levels After assessment

is completed creating training

`

modules in coordination with

government authorities like DIET to

create robust and state specific

teacher training module)

What are the technical support and

resources provided by the

government for promoting

innovations research planning and

capacity building

Section 8 What are the

enrollment attendance and

completion rates

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

Is there discrimination against the

children belonging to weaker

sections or disadvantages group

What is the status of infrastructure

in the terms of availability of

essentials like rooms power

toilets TLM mid-day meals

teaching staff etc

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

How the selection and admission

being done and is it confirming to

prescribed standards

(Major focus for this will be private

schools in cities and towns The

intent behind this is ensuring that

no one is denied quality education

because of lack of financial support

and also ensuring no financial

bullying by schools This would

require assistance with NGOs

working in citiestowns on

education and RTI)

Does quality of education meet the

norms specified in schedule

Section 12 Reimbursement to

private school against

reservations

Section 13 Capitation fees and

Screening processes Is punishment

against contraventions enforced

Section 14 Are children denied

admission due to lack of

documentation

Section 15 Is admission allowed

during any time of the year

Section 16 The law prevents

school to fail or expel a student

What changes schools are making

in their evaluation system to

integrate this scheme in their

system

Section 21 Has the school formed

school management committee

What is the composition for the

same What are its functions and

how is it documented

(This would again need assistance

of the local NGOs and local

authorities for a regular vigil In

spite of just creating a rule It can

be made binding on the schools to

submit monthly information about

the activities and meetings of the

school management committee)

Section 23 Conformance to

minimum qualification

Section 25 What is the teacher-

pupil ratio What was it last year

(Historical data analysis to be done

for the same This would also

include assessment of single

teacher teaching multiple classes

and its impact)

What are the other non-

educational works that the teacher

is involved in Who would do them

if the teacher doesnrsquot

Section 29 How the curriculum is

being set is the agency taking care

of all the mentioned points in the

section If yes how If no why

Section 30 Are there board exams

in the state board or school

Certificate of elementary

education(Schools like DAV have

national level board exams in class

eight which is prohibited now)

copy Kumar Ankit ndash Kumar Ankit is

currently studying at XLRI

Jamshedpur and is founder amp

Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

`

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes

If achievement lies in being the

best greatness is acquired by

remaining the best However true

greatness is bestowed on those

selected few who remain the best

forever There has been no other

Indian athlete whose record

remained unsurpassed for more

than three decades now except

Shivnath Singhrsquos national record in

Marathon made in 1978

Born on July 11 1946 in the

Manjaria village of Buxar district of

Bihar Shivnath Singh joined army

at an early age where he developed

a liking for long distance running

particularly 5000 meter and 10000

meter A gold medalist in 5000

meter in Tehran Asiad (1974) and

recipient of Arjuna Award same

year the best in Shivnath was

however to be seen in the longer

version of race ie Marathon two

years later where he came a

remarkable 11th

in a very strong

line up and in an Olympic Game

which was not marred by any

major boycotts Remarkably he ran

this most enduring race (42195

km) for the first time only in the

trial of Montreal Olympics India

Today in its obituary to the great

runner wrote ldquoHe finished 11th in

the Montreal Olympics in a race

that included Lasse Viren and Frank

Shorter Indian athletics would give

its limbs for a performance of the

same kind todayrdquo

For a better perspective it may be

mentioned that post Shivnath

Singh no other Indian athlete has

even qualified for the main event

of Marathon in the Olympics till

date Later in Jalandhar in 1978

Shivnath clocked 21200 a most

significant national record which

still stands intact

The most noteworthy thing about

Shivnath Singhrsquos running was that

he ran barefoot Barefoot running

even long distance is not

uncommon particularly among

amateurs However at such high

competition level Shivnath Singh

was the only athlete with such

preference It may be mentioned

here that the greatest ever

marathon runner of the world

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia two times

Gold medal winner in Rome (1960)

and Tokyo (1964) Olympics also

ran marathon barefoot in Rome

Olympics Bikilas winning time

21516 was a World Record and

still it is the second fastest barefoot

marathon The world record for the

fastest barefoot marathon

(21200) is held by this humble

Bihari Naib-Subedar of Indian

Army from Buxar Shivnath Singh

The great athlete died at the age of

57 years in Jamshedpur on June 6

2003 One of his fellow athletes

while recollecting the kind soul

said ldquoThis generous athlete once

divided the Rs10000 he received

from the Bihar government for his

achievements among his team-

mates He handed over half the

amount to colleague Satpal Singh

who had finished second in a

marathonrdquo He remains the only

recipient of Presidents Vishesh

Seva Medal among athletes of

Jharkhand and Bihar

Written by --- Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu works for Reserve Bank

of India and can be reached at

bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

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िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

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क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

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न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

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यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

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एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

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उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

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लगी ह

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हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

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का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

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वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 2: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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Dear Friends

We are delighted to present our Bihar webzine which truly showcases the efforts of our people for our

people

Itrsquos an earnest attempt to connect Bihar to world and rest of world to Bihar Our inspiration and guiding

sources are the greats of Bihar like Ashoka Chanakya and Lord Mahavira to name a few We take great

pride in our past and also look forward to usher into Bihar 30 which we believe will lead the country and

world at large

Our webzine truly represents the collaborative passionate and committed efforts from friends of Bihar

We aspire to set new standards in our attempt to showcase the best which Bihar has to offer Inspired by

Constantin Brancusi Romanian sculptor quote Create like a goddess Command like a queen Work

like a slave we believe this effort will strengthen our sincere resolution in scripting a new story of

progressive Bihar and a better world

Do share your feedback with us it will extremely valuable in our journey

Team Bihar

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CONTENT

Bihar Society- An introduction 4

How to connect the fellow Biharis 7

Want to contribute to this magazine 7

Want to advertise in this magazine 7

Editorial Board 7

Dasrath Manjhi - A symbol of Bihari resilience 8

Right to education 10

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes 12

Nalanda and the pursuit of science 13

Education sector 17

Babu Kunwar Singh 18

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy 19

Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage 20

Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo 23

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011 24

Development of SSI sector in Bihar 25

बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता 28

पयावरण बचान क13 महम 30

Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR grouphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip32

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revivalhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip33

Seasons ndash a Poemhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip35

य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहहhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip36

PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together 37

World Class University amp Research 40

Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company 24

Volunteer Jobshelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip43

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Bihar Society- An introduction

Bihar Society is a non-profit organization based in New York and promoted by non resident Biharis from all over the

world to promote Bihar interest not only within Bihar and India but also outside India in the International arena

Bihar Society is inspired by Ashoka (httpwwwashokaorg) Asia Society( wwwasiasocietyorg ) Japan Society

(httpwwwjapansocietyorg) Wikipedia( wwwwikipediaorg ) OpenSource AIF and similar global organizations

that have made a significant impact on the lives of people around the world

At Bihar Society our goal is to work to strengthen relationships and promote understanding between Bihari and

International leaders people and institutions We seek to increase knowledge and enhance dialogue encourage

creative expression and generate new ideas across the fields of arts and culture policy business and education In

this pursuit Bihar Society would like to contribute towards making Bihar the Knowledge cultural social and

entrepreneurial hub of the world as it once was in yore

Founded in 2007 Bihar Society is a nonpartisan nonprofit educational institution with offices in Patna ( as Karma

Society) Europe Singapore New York Mumbai Bangalore Chennai San Francisco and Washington DC

The symbol of the Asia Society is the the ruins of the Gloripus Nalanda University which once was the knowledge

capital of the World

The vision is to make Bihar Society a leading organization both within and outside Bihar on similar line the Asia

Society in Ney Your Bihar Society wants to become what Asia Society is for Asia on world stage

It mission is not only to promote the brand Bihar on international level but also to make it a premium Brand which

excites one and all in its own unique way It also wants to connect Bihar and its stakeholders

Why Bihar Society

After Bihars darkest days in last few decades Bihar has been bouncing back in the area of governance There has

been a surge of political cultural and economic revival in Bihar and civic society needs a glocal ( Global+Local)

platform to help connect the million mutinies taking place in Bihar and rest of world Most civic society efforts

have been event focussed or a cause focussed or person focussed When that person or group goes through

cyclical changes in status those efforts die down Many times those isolated efforts could have a greater impact if

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were orchestrated and co-ordinated via an umbrella organization Bihar Society can fill that void by emerging a

network of networks (people orgs and causes) to reap the benefits of synergy

I am not from Bihar why should I care

If you care about world then Asia is the largest in terms of population and within that India China and Japan are

the three largest economies and populations Bihar is the heart mind soul of Asia

a) Worlds biggest ideas people and contributions in the area of artscienceculturereligion In short much of

Indias glorious heritage has origins in Bihar have come from Bihar

Yogasutra of Patanjali

Gautam Buddha of Bodh Gaya

Mahavir (Jainism) of Pawapuri

Democracy by Licchivis in Vaishali

Astronomy (Aryabhatta Patna

Political Economy (Arthashastra by Chanakya) Patna

Sikhism (Guru Gobind Singh) Patna

Largest Empire (Ashoka) based in Patna

Chandragupta Maurya based in Patna

Worlds oldest and larges University Nalanda

Indias Freedom Struggle (18571947) at Bihar

First President and Father of Constitution Rajendra Prasad Jiradei Siwan

Total Revolution to removed Indiras Emergency by Jai Prakash Narayan Patna

Hence like all great societies Bihar has gone from a glorious past to a complete collapse It has started bouncing

back and the world needs to help it re-emerge

I am already part of many social causes why should i help or join Bihar Society

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Worlds biggest problems also have their epicenter in Bihar

Malaria

Polio

Poverty

Malnutrition

Unemployment

Water

Energy

Who is funding Bihar Society

Bihar Society was conceived and started by Atul Kumar with the help of various friends of Bihar who came to know

each other via various online yahoo-groups mailing lists events causes alumni groups social and professional

networks and projects It was also inspired by world class social organizations like Wikipedia Asia Society

Ashokaorg AIF

What will Bihar Society do

Become an agent instrument and platform of Soical-cultural-scientific economic change agents with stake in

Bihar We will connect ideaspeoplemoney and other resources to each other We will have city and country

specific chapters besides working groups in areas of Education Healthcare Agriculture Water Energy

Governance Industry Art amp Culture etc

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How to connect the fellow Biharis

Please join us on Facebook

1 Facebook Bihar Communityhttpwwwfacebookcomhomephpsk=group_153744714660549ampap=1

2 Bihar Society Org on Facebook- httpwwwfacebookcombiharsociety

3 Bihar Society on LinkedIn httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsmostPopular=ampgid=36628amptrk=myg_ugrp_ovr

Want to contribute to this magazine

Please send your artcile to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Want to advertise in this magazine

Please send your advertisement to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Editorial Board

Editor in Chief - Santosh Pandey ( email santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Blog httpsantosh-pandeyblogspotcom

Executive Editor - Atul Kumar (email atultechgmailcom )

Blog httpatultechblogspotcom

Consulting Editor - Thakur Vikash Sinha (email tvsinhagmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Mayank Krishna (email mayankkrishnagmailcom)

Consulting Editor - Manoj Pandey ( email manojpandeycmagmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Sarvesh Upadhyay ( email sarveshkgmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Anirudh Kumar ( email anirudhhclgmailcom )

Consulting Tech Editor - Samir Mishra (email samirmishragmailcom )

Design amp Creative Editor - Sanjay Prasad ( email prasadcom2gmailcom )

Blog httpwwwfreewebscomsanjayprasad

Associate Editor - Bhartendu Kumar Das ( email bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

Associate Editor - Vivek Kumar (email viveklearnergmailcom )

Blog httpvisionvivekblogspotcom

Associate Editor - Ankit Kumar (email ankit4jecgmailcom )

Editor - Ajit Chouhan (email ajitchouhangmailcom )

Blog httpcoolbihariblogspotcom

Editor Prashant Kumar ( email zimbo77gmailcom )

Consulting Guest Editor - Mrunalini Chembrolu (email mrunalinigmailcom )

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Dasrath Manjhi - A symbol of Bihari resilience

His eyes were moist with

enchantment as he stood there

watching the road through the pass

without batting his eyelid Today his

resolve had borne fruit His resolve

could only be compared with that of

the legendary Bhagirath who

chiseled the mighty Himalayas to

bring the holy Ganges to earth Then

he looked at his palms and started

to ruminate For the last twenty two

years he had been chiseling away at

the mountain single-handedly and

today his effort had borne fruit

Then in a flash his tears of happiness

became those of sorrow and started

to fall on the rocks in a stream His

mood turned somber as he

remembered his departed wife It

was her suffering that had made

him take this seemingly impossible

task of creating a path through the

mountain all by him It was she who

was his inspiration for achieving the

impossible task Alas she had passed

away before the task could be

completed Perhaps this is what HE

had willed

Then the stream of tears came to an

abrupt halt The weight of sorrow

on his heart lifted slowly and he

started to smile to himself So what

if his wife was not there to savour

this moment His village folks would

now traverse 80 km less to reach

the town through his path It was

true that he had taken up this

Herculean task by seeing the

shadow of helplessness on his dear

wifes face but then wasnt he

already feeling impatient at the

sufferings of his people The path

had to be made and he had made it

He jolted himself to return to the

real world from his dream world and

started to walk to the point where

he had started his chiseling His joy

knew no bounds as he traversed

through the rocky path that he had

created alone This great soul was

Dasrath Manjhi a resident of the 25

house hamlet of Gehlaur in the Gaya

district of Bihar His is a name in the

tradition of the great saint Kabir

who was also illiterate like

Dasrath Manjhi and had a great

desire to break the shackles of

sufferings for the masses

One day a thirsty Manjhi was

impatiently waiting for his wife to

fetch him water from the other

side of the mountain The

unforgiving summer of Gaya had

parched his throat dry as the sun

beat down mercilessly and he

anxiously waited for her to fetch

the life giving water She had taken

longer than usual Then he saw the

silhouette of his wife in the

distance coming back empty

handed He asked in a tone of

hopelessness mixed with surprise

Why are you coming back empty

handed What happened to the

earthen vessel

Wife could barely control herself as

she replied with sorrow written all

over her face that she could not

fetch water for him as she slipped

and fell down In the process the

earthen pot broke and she had to

return empty handed She could

neither fetch water for him to

quench his thirst nor could she

save the pot itself He saw the grief

and helplessness on his wifes face

Guilt ridden helplessness was

streaming out in the form of tears

from her eyes This image got

etched on his mental screen

Dashrath Manjhi started to

contemplate My god this hill is

standing like a mountain in the

path of my people for generations

This is coming in the way between

our thirst and water It has to be

removed He kept thinking for days

on end His manliness got aroused

and one day he decided to cut it

out of the way He took a vow that

he would not sit idle till he had cut

a path through the mountain He

took the chisel and the hammer in

his hand and started his expedition

And thus started the resolve to

capture the mountain ndash the

mountain of Gilhaur in Gaya

district Some people would

ridicule him Some would look with

utter amazement at his gargantuan

effort to chisel the mountain away

But he was not concerned by either

praise or ridicule He just kept at

his work chiseling the mountain

alone He even shifted his hut near

the mountain so that he need not

waste his time in moving back and

forth

After twenty two long years of

unbroken effort he had managed

to dig a pathway ndash fifteen to

twenty feet broad and an amazing

three hundred and sixty feet long

And this path would reduce the

distance with the nearest town by

80 kilometers The villagers would

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not have to go around the

mountain to reach Wazirgunj again

This is not the only instance of the

steely resolve of Dasrath Manjhi

He once decided to go to Delhi He

did not have enough money to

undertake the journey So he

decided to walk all the way a

distance of over one thousand

kilometers During this unique

journey he took the signature of

the station masters of the railway

stations along the way in his diary

This man of single minded

determination wished to have a

hospital opened at his village on a

five acre plot When he met the

Chief Minister of the state

Mr Nitish Kumar Nitish felt so

overwhelmed that he got up from

his chair and asked Dasrath Manjhi

to sit there As the old saying goes

a man is known by his deed Indeed

the illiterate Dalit from Gilhaur has

shown his sublime character by his

steely resolve and his

determination to bring

development to his impoverished

people The district administration

honored him with a special award

Post script The last few days

of Dasrath Manjhi was spent

fighting cancer He passed away on

August 18 at the age of 80 years

He was given a state burial by the

Government of Bihar

This article was originally written

by Udai Narayan Choudhury in

Hindi the then speaker of Bihar

assembly and was published in the

book ldquoGauravshali Biharrdquo released

by ONE BIHAR English translation

is done by TV Sinha (TV Sinha is a

senior executive with a software

company and based in Mumbai he

can be can be reached at

tvsinhagmailcom)

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Right to education

The first task has to spread

awareness about the legislature

amongst following stakeholders

a Schools ndash Government and

private

b Parents and Students

c Local authorities enforcing and

implementing

d State government

e Central government

f Teachers

g NGOs

h Allied agencies

Following is the list of highlighted

sections from the legislation and

what are the questions that we

need to answer while evaluating

and assessing the implementation

of RTE

Section 1(2) Has RTE been

implemented all across in Bihar

(Considering that we are taking

Bihar as our population and a

smaller set of districts inside Bihar

as the sample set for our study)

Section 3(1) Percentage of

coverage of children in the defined

age bracket in the defined area

Section 3(2) Is any fee (or any

other expenses) being charged by

the schools from students Are

disabled students treated like the

other students What are the

various forms of discriminations

against them

Section 4 Is appropriate training

being provided to students who are

inducted for the first time in a class

based on their age What is the

quality of the training and how is it

conducted and evaluated Is

education being provided to those

children who are more than 14

years of age and have not

completed elementary education

(This might not be in place right

now so the focus will also be on

evaluating the plans that the

educational institutions have on

implementing it Also the

associated NGOs which have been

already working in this area needs

to be assessed to find out their plan

of action to help implement this)

Section 5 Is speedy transfer of

child from one school to another

being done properly or not What

are the problems children facing

due to formalities like transfer

certificates

Section 6 What is the spread of

the schools Are local authorities

setting up schools in the region

with a target of 3 years in

mind(Definition of a neighborhood

school would change for different

terrains Eg in hills this need to be

seen according to the difficulties

the students face in reaching their

destinations Also assessing the

social and demographic aspects of

an area like how far some

conservative families will send their

girls for education)

Section 7(6) What is the national

curriculum that the central

government has formed is it being

usedimplementedduplicated in

the state as well

(The need for education in local

languages has been said again and

again Assessing the need and

possibility for the same and also

finding localnational players that

can help with this)

What are the standards that are

formed for the training of

teachers What is the enforcing

mechanism for the same Are the

teachersrsquo trainers following these

standards or not

(Need to assess the teacher

training modules at all levels

Creating an assessment module

specifically for teachers to gauge

their knowledgeskill and

motivation levels After assessment

is completed creating training

`

modules in coordination with

government authorities like DIET to

create robust and state specific

teacher training module)

What are the technical support and

resources provided by the

government for promoting

innovations research planning and

capacity building

Section 8 What are the

enrollment attendance and

completion rates

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

Is there discrimination against the

children belonging to weaker

sections or disadvantages group

What is the status of infrastructure

in the terms of availability of

essentials like rooms power

toilets TLM mid-day meals

teaching staff etc

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

How the selection and admission

being done and is it confirming to

prescribed standards

(Major focus for this will be private

schools in cities and towns The

intent behind this is ensuring that

no one is denied quality education

because of lack of financial support

and also ensuring no financial

bullying by schools This would

require assistance with NGOs

working in citiestowns on

education and RTI)

Does quality of education meet the

norms specified in schedule

Section 12 Reimbursement to

private school against

reservations

Section 13 Capitation fees and

Screening processes Is punishment

against contraventions enforced

Section 14 Are children denied

admission due to lack of

documentation

Section 15 Is admission allowed

during any time of the year

Section 16 The law prevents

school to fail or expel a student

What changes schools are making

in their evaluation system to

integrate this scheme in their

system

Section 21 Has the school formed

school management committee

What is the composition for the

same What are its functions and

how is it documented

(This would again need assistance

of the local NGOs and local

authorities for a regular vigil In

spite of just creating a rule It can

be made binding on the schools to

submit monthly information about

the activities and meetings of the

school management committee)

Section 23 Conformance to

minimum qualification

Section 25 What is the teacher-

pupil ratio What was it last year

(Historical data analysis to be done

for the same This would also

include assessment of single

teacher teaching multiple classes

and its impact)

What are the other non-

educational works that the teacher

is involved in Who would do them

if the teacher doesnrsquot

Section 29 How the curriculum is

being set is the agency taking care

of all the mentioned points in the

section If yes how If no why

Section 30 Are there board exams

in the state board or school

Certificate of elementary

education(Schools like DAV have

national level board exams in class

eight which is prohibited now)

copy Kumar Ankit ndash Kumar Ankit is

currently studying at XLRI

Jamshedpur and is founder amp

Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

`

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes

If achievement lies in being the

best greatness is acquired by

remaining the best However true

greatness is bestowed on those

selected few who remain the best

forever There has been no other

Indian athlete whose record

remained unsurpassed for more

than three decades now except

Shivnath Singhrsquos national record in

Marathon made in 1978

Born on July 11 1946 in the

Manjaria village of Buxar district of

Bihar Shivnath Singh joined army

at an early age where he developed

a liking for long distance running

particularly 5000 meter and 10000

meter A gold medalist in 5000

meter in Tehran Asiad (1974) and

recipient of Arjuna Award same

year the best in Shivnath was

however to be seen in the longer

version of race ie Marathon two

years later where he came a

remarkable 11th

in a very strong

line up and in an Olympic Game

which was not marred by any

major boycotts Remarkably he ran

this most enduring race (42195

km) for the first time only in the

trial of Montreal Olympics India

Today in its obituary to the great

runner wrote ldquoHe finished 11th in

the Montreal Olympics in a race

that included Lasse Viren and Frank

Shorter Indian athletics would give

its limbs for a performance of the

same kind todayrdquo

For a better perspective it may be

mentioned that post Shivnath

Singh no other Indian athlete has

even qualified for the main event

of Marathon in the Olympics till

date Later in Jalandhar in 1978

Shivnath clocked 21200 a most

significant national record which

still stands intact

The most noteworthy thing about

Shivnath Singhrsquos running was that

he ran barefoot Barefoot running

even long distance is not

uncommon particularly among

amateurs However at such high

competition level Shivnath Singh

was the only athlete with such

preference It may be mentioned

here that the greatest ever

marathon runner of the world

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia two times

Gold medal winner in Rome (1960)

and Tokyo (1964) Olympics also

ran marathon barefoot in Rome

Olympics Bikilas winning time

21516 was a World Record and

still it is the second fastest barefoot

marathon The world record for the

fastest barefoot marathon

(21200) is held by this humble

Bihari Naib-Subedar of Indian

Army from Buxar Shivnath Singh

The great athlete died at the age of

57 years in Jamshedpur on June 6

2003 One of his fellow athletes

while recollecting the kind soul

said ldquoThis generous athlete once

divided the Rs10000 he received

from the Bihar government for his

achievements among his team-

mates He handed over half the

amount to colleague Satpal Singh

who had finished second in a

marathonrdquo He remains the only

recipient of Presidents Vishesh

Seva Medal among athletes of

Jharkhand and Bihar

Written by --- Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu works for Reserve Bank

of India and can be reached at

bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 3: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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CONTENT

Bihar Society- An introduction 4

How to connect the fellow Biharis 7

Want to contribute to this magazine 7

Want to advertise in this magazine 7

Editorial Board 7

Dasrath Manjhi - A symbol of Bihari resilience 8

Right to education 10

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes 12

Nalanda and the pursuit of science 13

Education sector 17

Babu Kunwar Singh 18

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy 19

Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage 20

Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo 23

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011 24

Development of SSI sector in Bihar 25

बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता 28

पयावरण बचान क13 महम 30

Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR grouphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip32

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revivalhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip33

Seasons ndash a Poemhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip35

य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहहhelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip36

PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together 37

World Class University amp Research 40

Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company 24

Volunteer Jobshelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip43

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Bihar Society- An introduction

Bihar Society is a non-profit organization based in New York and promoted by non resident Biharis from all over the

world to promote Bihar interest not only within Bihar and India but also outside India in the International arena

Bihar Society is inspired by Ashoka (httpwwwashokaorg) Asia Society( wwwasiasocietyorg ) Japan Society

(httpwwwjapansocietyorg) Wikipedia( wwwwikipediaorg ) OpenSource AIF and similar global organizations

that have made a significant impact on the lives of people around the world

At Bihar Society our goal is to work to strengthen relationships and promote understanding between Bihari and

International leaders people and institutions We seek to increase knowledge and enhance dialogue encourage

creative expression and generate new ideas across the fields of arts and culture policy business and education In

this pursuit Bihar Society would like to contribute towards making Bihar the Knowledge cultural social and

entrepreneurial hub of the world as it once was in yore

Founded in 2007 Bihar Society is a nonpartisan nonprofit educational institution with offices in Patna ( as Karma

Society) Europe Singapore New York Mumbai Bangalore Chennai San Francisco and Washington DC

The symbol of the Asia Society is the the ruins of the Gloripus Nalanda University which once was the knowledge

capital of the World

The vision is to make Bihar Society a leading organization both within and outside Bihar on similar line the Asia

Society in Ney Your Bihar Society wants to become what Asia Society is for Asia on world stage

It mission is not only to promote the brand Bihar on international level but also to make it a premium Brand which

excites one and all in its own unique way It also wants to connect Bihar and its stakeholders

Why Bihar Society

After Bihars darkest days in last few decades Bihar has been bouncing back in the area of governance There has

been a surge of political cultural and economic revival in Bihar and civic society needs a glocal ( Global+Local)

platform to help connect the million mutinies taking place in Bihar and rest of world Most civic society efforts

have been event focussed or a cause focussed or person focussed When that person or group goes through

cyclical changes in status those efforts die down Many times those isolated efforts could have a greater impact if

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were orchestrated and co-ordinated via an umbrella organization Bihar Society can fill that void by emerging a

network of networks (people orgs and causes) to reap the benefits of synergy

I am not from Bihar why should I care

If you care about world then Asia is the largest in terms of population and within that India China and Japan are

the three largest economies and populations Bihar is the heart mind soul of Asia

a) Worlds biggest ideas people and contributions in the area of artscienceculturereligion In short much of

Indias glorious heritage has origins in Bihar have come from Bihar

Yogasutra of Patanjali

Gautam Buddha of Bodh Gaya

Mahavir (Jainism) of Pawapuri

Democracy by Licchivis in Vaishali

Astronomy (Aryabhatta Patna

Political Economy (Arthashastra by Chanakya) Patna

Sikhism (Guru Gobind Singh) Patna

Largest Empire (Ashoka) based in Patna

Chandragupta Maurya based in Patna

Worlds oldest and larges University Nalanda

Indias Freedom Struggle (18571947) at Bihar

First President and Father of Constitution Rajendra Prasad Jiradei Siwan

Total Revolution to removed Indiras Emergency by Jai Prakash Narayan Patna

Hence like all great societies Bihar has gone from a glorious past to a complete collapse It has started bouncing

back and the world needs to help it re-emerge

I am already part of many social causes why should i help or join Bihar Society

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Worlds biggest problems also have their epicenter in Bihar

Malaria

Polio

Poverty

Malnutrition

Unemployment

Water

Energy

Who is funding Bihar Society

Bihar Society was conceived and started by Atul Kumar with the help of various friends of Bihar who came to know

each other via various online yahoo-groups mailing lists events causes alumni groups social and professional

networks and projects It was also inspired by world class social organizations like Wikipedia Asia Society

Ashokaorg AIF

What will Bihar Society do

Become an agent instrument and platform of Soical-cultural-scientific economic change agents with stake in

Bihar We will connect ideaspeoplemoney and other resources to each other We will have city and country

specific chapters besides working groups in areas of Education Healthcare Agriculture Water Energy

Governance Industry Art amp Culture etc

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How to connect the fellow Biharis

Please join us on Facebook

1 Facebook Bihar Communityhttpwwwfacebookcomhomephpsk=group_153744714660549ampap=1

2 Bihar Society Org on Facebook- httpwwwfacebookcombiharsociety

3 Bihar Society on LinkedIn httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsmostPopular=ampgid=36628amptrk=myg_ugrp_ovr

Want to contribute to this magazine

Please send your artcile to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Want to advertise in this magazine

Please send your advertisement to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Editorial Board

Editor in Chief - Santosh Pandey ( email santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Blog httpsantosh-pandeyblogspotcom

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Blog httpatultechblogspotcom

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Blog httpwwwfreewebscomsanjayprasad

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Editor - Ajit Chouhan (email ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Dasrath Manjhi - A symbol of Bihari resilience

His eyes were moist with

enchantment as he stood there

watching the road through the pass

without batting his eyelid Today his

resolve had borne fruit His resolve

could only be compared with that of

the legendary Bhagirath who

chiseled the mighty Himalayas to

bring the holy Ganges to earth Then

he looked at his palms and started

to ruminate For the last twenty two

years he had been chiseling away at

the mountain single-handedly and

today his effort had borne fruit

Then in a flash his tears of happiness

became those of sorrow and started

to fall on the rocks in a stream His

mood turned somber as he

remembered his departed wife It

was her suffering that had made

him take this seemingly impossible

task of creating a path through the

mountain all by him It was she who

was his inspiration for achieving the

impossible task Alas she had passed

away before the task could be

completed Perhaps this is what HE

had willed

Then the stream of tears came to an

abrupt halt The weight of sorrow

on his heart lifted slowly and he

started to smile to himself So what

if his wife was not there to savour

this moment His village folks would

now traverse 80 km less to reach

the town through his path It was

true that he had taken up this

Herculean task by seeing the

shadow of helplessness on his dear

wifes face but then wasnt he

already feeling impatient at the

sufferings of his people The path

had to be made and he had made it

He jolted himself to return to the

real world from his dream world and

started to walk to the point where

he had started his chiseling His joy

knew no bounds as he traversed

through the rocky path that he had

created alone This great soul was

Dasrath Manjhi a resident of the 25

house hamlet of Gehlaur in the Gaya

district of Bihar His is a name in the

tradition of the great saint Kabir

who was also illiterate like

Dasrath Manjhi and had a great

desire to break the shackles of

sufferings for the masses

One day a thirsty Manjhi was

impatiently waiting for his wife to

fetch him water from the other

side of the mountain The

unforgiving summer of Gaya had

parched his throat dry as the sun

beat down mercilessly and he

anxiously waited for her to fetch

the life giving water She had taken

longer than usual Then he saw the

silhouette of his wife in the

distance coming back empty

handed He asked in a tone of

hopelessness mixed with surprise

Why are you coming back empty

handed What happened to the

earthen vessel

Wife could barely control herself as

she replied with sorrow written all

over her face that she could not

fetch water for him as she slipped

and fell down In the process the

earthen pot broke and she had to

return empty handed She could

neither fetch water for him to

quench his thirst nor could she

save the pot itself He saw the grief

and helplessness on his wifes face

Guilt ridden helplessness was

streaming out in the form of tears

from her eyes This image got

etched on his mental screen

Dashrath Manjhi started to

contemplate My god this hill is

standing like a mountain in the

path of my people for generations

This is coming in the way between

our thirst and water It has to be

removed He kept thinking for days

on end His manliness got aroused

and one day he decided to cut it

out of the way He took a vow that

he would not sit idle till he had cut

a path through the mountain He

took the chisel and the hammer in

his hand and started his expedition

And thus started the resolve to

capture the mountain ndash the

mountain of Gilhaur in Gaya

district Some people would

ridicule him Some would look with

utter amazement at his gargantuan

effort to chisel the mountain away

But he was not concerned by either

praise or ridicule He just kept at

his work chiseling the mountain

alone He even shifted his hut near

the mountain so that he need not

waste his time in moving back and

forth

After twenty two long years of

unbroken effort he had managed

to dig a pathway ndash fifteen to

twenty feet broad and an amazing

three hundred and sixty feet long

And this path would reduce the

distance with the nearest town by

80 kilometers The villagers would

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not have to go around the

mountain to reach Wazirgunj again

This is not the only instance of the

steely resolve of Dasrath Manjhi

He once decided to go to Delhi He

did not have enough money to

undertake the journey So he

decided to walk all the way a

distance of over one thousand

kilometers During this unique

journey he took the signature of

the station masters of the railway

stations along the way in his diary

This man of single minded

determination wished to have a

hospital opened at his village on a

five acre plot When he met the

Chief Minister of the state

Mr Nitish Kumar Nitish felt so

overwhelmed that he got up from

his chair and asked Dasrath Manjhi

to sit there As the old saying goes

a man is known by his deed Indeed

the illiterate Dalit from Gilhaur has

shown his sublime character by his

steely resolve and his

determination to bring

development to his impoverished

people The district administration

honored him with a special award

Post script The last few days

of Dasrath Manjhi was spent

fighting cancer He passed away on

August 18 at the age of 80 years

He was given a state burial by the

Government of Bihar

This article was originally written

by Udai Narayan Choudhury in

Hindi the then speaker of Bihar

assembly and was published in the

book ldquoGauravshali Biharrdquo released

by ONE BIHAR English translation

is done by TV Sinha (TV Sinha is a

senior executive with a software

company and based in Mumbai he

can be can be reached at

tvsinhagmailcom)

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Right to education

The first task has to spread

awareness about the legislature

amongst following stakeholders

a Schools ndash Government and

private

b Parents and Students

c Local authorities enforcing and

implementing

d State government

e Central government

f Teachers

g NGOs

h Allied agencies

Following is the list of highlighted

sections from the legislation and

what are the questions that we

need to answer while evaluating

and assessing the implementation

of RTE

Section 1(2) Has RTE been

implemented all across in Bihar

(Considering that we are taking

Bihar as our population and a

smaller set of districts inside Bihar

as the sample set for our study)

Section 3(1) Percentage of

coverage of children in the defined

age bracket in the defined area

Section 3(2) Is any fee (or any

other expenses) being charged by

the schools from students Are

disabled students treated like the

other students What are the

various forms of discriminations

against them

Section 4 Is appropriate training

being provided to students who are

inducted for the first time in a class

based on their age What is the

quality of the training and how is it

conducted and evaluated Is

education being provided to those

children who are more than 14

years of age and have not

completed elementary education

(This might not be in place right

now so the focus will also be on

evaluating the plans that the

educational institutions have on

implementing it Also the

associated NGOs which have been

already working in this area needs

to be assessed to find out their plan

of action to help implement this)

Section 5 Is speedy transfer of

child from one school to another

being done properly or not What

are the problems children facing

due to formalities like transfer

certificates

Section 6 What is the spread of

the schools Are local authorities

setting up schools in the region

with a target of 3 years in

mind(Definition of a neighborhood

school would change for different

terrains Eg in hills this need to be

seen according to the difficulties

the students face in reaching their

destinations Also assessing the

social and demographic aspects of

an area like how far some

conservative families will send their

girls for education)

Section 7(6) What is the national

curriculum that the central

government has formed is it being

usedimplementedduplicated in

the state as well

(The need for education in local

languages has been said again and

again Assessing the need and

possibility for the same and also

finding localnational players that

can help with this)

What are the standards that are

formed for the training of

teachers What is the enforcing

mechanism for the same Are the

teachersrsquo trainers following these

standards or not

(Need to assess the teacher

training modules at all levels

Creating an assessment module

specifically for teachers to gauge

their knowledgeskill and

motivation levels After assessment

is completed creating training

`

modules in coordination with

government authorities like DIET to

create robust and state specific

teacher training module)

What are the technical support and

resources provided by the

government for promoting

innovations research planning and

capacity building

Section 8 What are the

enrollment attendance and

completion rates

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

Is there discrimination against the

children belonging to weaker

sections or disadvantages group

What is the status of infrastructure

in the terms of availability of

essentials like rooms power

toilets TLM mid-day meals

teaching staff etc

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

How the selection and admission

being done and is it confirming to

prescribed standards

(Major focus for this will be private

schools in cities and towns The

intent behind this is ensuring that

no one is denied quality education

because of lack of financial support

and also ensuring no financial

bullying by schools This would

require assistance with NGOs

working in citiestowns on

education and RTI)

Does quality of education meet the

norms specified in schedule

Section 12 Reimbursement to

private school against

reservations

Section 13 Capitation fees and

Screening processes Is punishment

against contraventions enforced

Section 14 Are children denied

admission due to lack of

documentation

Section 15 Is admission allowed

during any time of the year

Section 16 The law prevents

school to fail or expel a student

What changes schools are making

in their evaluation system to

integrate this scheme in their

system

Section 21 Has the school formed

school management committee

What is the composition for the

same What are its functions and

how is it documented

(This would again need assistance

of the local NGOs and local

authorities for a regular vigil In

spite of just creating a rule It can

be made binding on the schools to

submit monthly information about

the activities and meetings of the

school management committee)

Section 23 Conformance to

minimum qualification

Section 25 What is the teacher-

pupil ratio What was it last year

(Historical data analysis to be done

for the same This would also

include assessment of single

teacher teaching multiple classes

and its impact)

What are the other non-

educational works that the teacher

is involved in Who would do them

if the teacher doesnrsquot

Section 29 How the curriculum is

being set is the agency taking care

of all the mentioned points in the

section If yes how If no why

Section 30 Are there board exams

in the state board or school

Certificate of elementary

education(Schools like DAV have

national level board exams in class

eight which is prohibited now)

copy Kumar Ankit ndash Kumar Ankit is

currently studying at XLRI

Jamshedpur and is founder amp

Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

`

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes

If achievement lies in being the

best greatness is acquired by

remaining the best However true

greatness is bestowed on those

selected few who remain the best

forever There has been no other

Indian athlete whose record

remained unsurpassed for more

than three decades now except

Shivnath Singhrsquos national record in

Marathon made in 1978

Born on July 11 1946 in the

Manjaria village of Buxar district of

Bihar Shivnath Singh joined army

at an early age where he developed

a liking for long distance running

particularly 5000 meter and 10000

meter A gold medalist in 5000

meter in Tehran Asiad (1974) and

recipient of Arjuna Award same

year the best in Shivnath was

however to be seen in the longer

version of race ie Marathon two

years later where he came a

remarkable 11th

in a very strong

line up and in an Olympic Game

which was not marred by any

major boycotts Remarkably he ran

this most enduring race (42195

km) for the first time only in the

trial of Montreal Olympics India

Today in its obituary to the great

runner wrote ldquoHe finished 11th in

the Montreal Olympics in a race

that included Lasse Viren and Frank

Shorter Indian athletics would give

its limbs for a performance of the

same kind todayrdquo

For a better perspective it may be

mentioned that post Shivnath

Singh no other Indian athlete has

even qualified for the main event

of Marathon in the Olympics till

date Later in Jalandhar in 1978

Shivnath clocked 21200 a most

significant national record which

still stands intact

The most noteworthy thing about

Shivnath Singhrsquos running was that

he ran barefoot Barefoot running

even long distance is not

uncommon particularly among

amateurs However at such high

competition level Shivnath Singh

was the only athlete with such

preference It may be mentioned

here that the greatest ever

marathon runner of the world

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia two times

Gold medal winner in Rome (1960)

and Tokyo (1964) Olympics also

ran marathon barefoot in Rome

Olympics Bikilas winning time

21516 was a World Record and

still it is the second fastest barefoot

marathon The world record for the

fastest barefoot marathon

(21200) is held by this humble

Bihari Naib-Subedar of Indian

Army from Buxar Shivnath Singh

The great athlete died at the age of

57 years in Jamshedpur on June 6

2003 One of his fellow athletes

while recollecting the kind soul

said ldquoThis generous athlete once

divided the Rs10000 he received

from the Bihar government for his

achievements among his team-

mates He handed over half the

amount to colleague Satpal Singh

who had finished second in a

marathonrdquo He remains the only

recipient of Presidents Vishesh

Seva Medal among athletes of

Jharkhand and Bihar

Written by --- Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu works for Reserve Bank

of India and can be reached at

bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 4: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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Bihar Society- An introduction

Bihar Society is a non-profit organization based in New York and promoted by non resident Biharis from all over the

world to promote Bihar interest not only within Bihar and India but also outside India in the International arena

Bihar Society is inspired by Ashoka (httpwwwashokaorg) Asia Society( wwwasiasocietyorg ) Japan Society

(httpwwwjapansocietyorg) Wikipedia( wwwwikipediaorg ) OpenSource AIF and similar global organizations

that have made a significant impact on the lives of people around the world

At Bihar Society our goal is to work to strengthen relationships and promote understanding between Bihari and

International leaders people and institutions We seek to increase knowledge and enhance dialogue encourage

creative expression and generate new ideas across the fields of arts and culture policy business and education In

this pursuit Bihar Society would like to contribute towards making Bihar the Knowledge cultural social and

entrepreneurial hub of the world as it once was in yore

Founded in 2007 Bihar Society is a nonpartisan nonprofit educational institution with offices in Patna ( as Karma

Society) Europe Singapore New York Mumbai Bangalore Chennai San Francisco and Washington DC

The symbol of the Asia Society is the the ruins of the Gloripus Nalanda University which once was the knowledge

capital of the World

The vision is to make Bihar Society a leading organization both within and outside Bihar on similar line the Asia

Society in Ney Your Bihar Society wants to become what Asia Society is for Asia on world stage

It mission is not only to promote the brand Bihar on international level but also to make it a premium Brand which

excites one and all in its own unique way It also wants to connect Bihar and its stakeholders

Why Bihar Society

After Bihars darkest days in last few decades Bihar has been bouncing back in the area of governance There has

been a surge of political cultural and economic revival in Bihar and civic society needs a glocal ( Global+Local)

platform to help connect the million mutinies taking place in Bihar and rest of world Most civic society efforts

have been event focussed or a cause focussed or person focussed When that person or group goes through

cyclical changes in status those efforts die down Many times those isolated efforts could have a greater impact if

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were orchestrated and co-ordinated via an umbrella organization Bihar Society can fill that void by emerging a

network of networks (people orgs and causes) to reap the benefits of synergy

I am not from Bihar why should I care

If you care about world then Asia is the largest in terms of population and within that India China and Japan are

the three largest economies and populations Bihar is the heart mind soul of Asia

a) Worlds biggest ideas people and contributions in the area of artscienceculturereligion In short much of

Indias glorious heritage has origins in Bihar have come from Bihar

Yogasutra of Patanjali

Gautam Buddha of Bodh Gaya

Mahavir (Jainism) of Pawapuri

Democracy by Licchivis in Vaishali

Astronomy (Aryabhatta Patna

Political Economy (Arthashastra by Chanakya) Patna

Sikhism (Guru Gobind Singh) Patna

Largest Empire (Ashoka) based in Patna

Chandragupta Maurya based in Patna

Worlds oldest and larges University Nalanda

Indias Freedom Struggle (18571947) at Bihar

First President and Father of Constitution Rajendra Prasad Jiradei Siwan

Total Revolution to removed Indiras Emergency by Jai Prakash Narayan Patna

Hence like all great societies Bihar has gone from a glorious past to a complete collapse It has started bouncing

back and the world needs to help it re-emerge

I am already part of many social causes why should i help or join Bihar Society

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Worlds biggest problems also have their epicenter in Bihar

Malaria

Polio

Poverty

Malnutrition

Unemployment

Water

Energy

Who is funding Bihar Society

Bihar Society was conceived and started by Atul Kumar with the help of various friends of Bihar who came to know

each other via various online yahoo-groups mailing lists events causes alumni groups social and professional

networks and projects It was also inspired by world class social organizations like Wikipedia Asia Society

Ashokaorg AIF

What will Bihar Society do

Become an agent instrument and platform of Soical-cultural-scientific economic change agents with stake in

Bihar We will connect ideaspeoplemoney and other resources to each other We will have city and country

specific chapters besides working groups in areas of Education Healthcare Agriculture Water Energy

Governance Industry Art amp Culture etc

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How to connect the fellow Biharis

Please join us on Facebook

1 Facebook Bihar Communityhttpwwwfacebookcomhomephpsk=group_153744714660549ampap=1

2 Bihar Society Org on Facebook- httpwwwfacebookcombiharsociety

3 Bihar Society on LinkedIn httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsmostPopular=ampgid=36628amptrk=myg_ugrp_ovr

Want to contribute to this magazine

Please send your artcile to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Want to advertise in this magazine

Please send your advertisement to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Editorial Board

Editor in Chief - Santosh Pandey ( email santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Blog httpsantosh-pandeyblogspotcom

Executive Editor - Atul Kumar (email atultechgmailcom )

Blog httpatultechblogspotcom

Consulting Editor - Thakur Vikash Sinha (email tvsinhagmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Mayank Krishna (email mayankkrishnagmailcom)

Consulting Editor - Manoj Pandey ( email manojpandeycmagmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Sarvesh Upadhyay ( email sarveshkgmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Anirudh Kumar ( email anirudhhclgmailcom )

Consulting Tech Editor - Samir Mishra (email samirmishragmailcom )

Design amp Creative Editor - Sanjay Prasad ( email prasadcom2gmailcom )

Blog httpwwwfreewebscomsanjayprasad

Associate Editor - Bhartendu Kumar Das ( email bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

Associate Editor - Vivek Kumar (email viveklearnergmailcom )

Blog httpvisionvivekblogspotcom

Associate Editor - Ankit Kumar (email ankit4jecgmailcom )

Editor - Ajit Chouhan (email ajitchouhangmailcom )

Blog httpcoolbihariblogspotcom

Editor Prashant Kumar ( email zimbo77gmailcom )

Consulting Guest Editor - Mrunalini Chembrolu (email mrunalinigmailcom )

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Dasrath Manjhi - A symbol of Bihari resilience

His eyes were moist with

enchantment as he stood there

watching the road through the pass

without batting his eyelid Today his

resolve had borne fruit His resolve

could only be compared with that of

the legendary Bhagirath who

chiseled the mighty Himalayas to

bring the holy Ganges to earth Then

he looked at his palms and started

to ruminate For the last twenty two

years he had been chiseling away at

the mountain single-handedly and

today his effort had borne fruit

Then in a flash his tears of happiness

became those of sorrow and started

to fall on the rocks in a stream His

mood turned somber as he

remembered his departed wife It

was her suffering that had made

him take this seemingly impossible

task of creating a path through the

mountain all by him It was she who

was his inspiration for achieving the

impossible task Alas she had passed

away before the task could be

completed Perhaps this is what HE

had willed

Then the stream of tears came to an

abrupt halt The weight of sorrow

on his heart lifted slowly and he

started to smile to himself So what

if his wife was not there to savour

this moment His village folks would

now traverse 80 km less to reach

the town through his path It was

true that he had taken up this

Herculean task by seeing the

shadow of helplessness on his dear

wifes face but then wasnt he

already feeling impatient at the

sufferings of his people The path

had to be made and he had made it

He jolted himself to return to the

real world from his dream world and

started to walk to the point where

he had started his chiseling His joy

knew no bounds as he traversed

through the rocky path that he had

created alone This great soul was

Dasrath Manjhi a resident of the 25

house hamlet of Gehlaur in the Gaya

district of Bihar His is a name in the

tradition of the great saint Kabir

who was also illiterate like

Dasrath Manjhi and had a great

desire to break the shackles of

sufferings for the masses

One day a thirsty Manjhi was

impatiently waiting for his wife to

fetch him water from the other

side of the mountain The

unforgiving summer of Gaya had

parched his throat dry as the sun

beat down mercilessly and he

anxiously waited for her to fetch

the life giving water She had taken

longer than usual Then he saw the

silhouette of his wife in the

distance coming back empty

handed He asked in a tone of

hopelessness mixed with surprise

Why are you coming back empty

handed What happened to the

earthen vessel

Wife could barely control herself as

she replied with sorrow written all

over her face that she could not

fetch water for him as she slipped

and fell down In the process the

earthen pot broke and she had to

return empty handed She could

neither fetch water for him to

quench his thirst nor could she

save the pot itself He saw the grief

and helplessness on his wifes face

Guilt ridden helplessness was

streaming out in the form of tears

from her eyes This image got

etched on his mental screen

Dashrath Manjhi started to

contemplate My god this hill is

standing like a mountain in the

path of my people for generations

This is coming in the way between

our thirst and water It has to be

removed He kept thinking for days

on end His manliness got aroused

and one day he decided to cut it

out of the way He took a vow that

he would not sit idle till he had cut

a path through the mountain He

took the chisel and the hammer in

his hand and started his expedition

And thus started the resolve to

capture the mountain ndash the

mountain of Gilhaur in Gaya

district Some people would

ridicule him Some would look with

utter amazement at his gargantuan

effort to chisel the mountain away

But he was not concerned by either

praise or ridicule He just kept at

his work chiseling the mountain

alone He even shifted his hut near

the mountain so that he need not

waste his time in moving back and

forth

After twenty two long years of

unbroken effort he had managed

to dig a pathway ndash fifteen to

twenty feet broad and an amazing

three hundred and sixty feet long

And this path would reduce the

distance with the nearest town by

80 kilometers The villagers would

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not have to go around the

mountain to reach Wazirgunj again

This is not the only instance of the

steely resolve of Dasrath Manjhi

He once decided to go to Delhi He

did not have enough money to

undertake the journey So he

decided to walk all the way a

distance of over one thousand

kilometers During this unique

journey he took the signature of

the station masters of the railway

stations along the way in his diary

This man of single minded

determination wished to have a

hospital opened at his village on a

five acre plot When he met the

Chief Minister of the state

Mr Nitish Kumar Nitish felt so

overwhelmed that he got up from

his chair and asked Dasrath Manjhi

to sit there As the old saying goes

a man is known by his deed Indeed

the illiterate Dalit from Gilhaur has

shown his sublime character by his

steely resolve and his

determination to bring

development to his impoverished

people The district administration

honored him with a special award

Post script The last few days

of Dasrath Manjhi was spent

fighting cancer He passed away on

August 18 at the age of 80 years

He was given a state burial by the

Government of Bihar

This article was originally written

by Udai Narayan Choudhury in

Hindi the then speaker of Bihar

assembly and was published in the

book ldquoGauravshali Biharrdquo released

by ONE BIHAR English translation

is done by TV Sinha (TV Sinha is a

senior executive with a software

company and based in Mumbai he

can be can be reached at

tvsinhagmailcom)

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Right to education

The first task has to spread

awareness about the legislature

amongst following stakeholders

a Schools ndash Government and

private

b Parents and Students

c Local authorities enforcing and

implementing

d State government

e Central government

f Teachers

g NGOs

h Allied agencies

Following is the list of highlighted

sections from the legislation and

what are the questions that we

need to answer while evaluating

and assessing the implementation

of RTE

Section 1(2) Has RTE been

implemented all across in Bihar

(Considering that we are taking

Bihar as our population and a

smaller set of districts inside Bihar

as the sample set for our study)

Section 3(1) Percentage of

coverage of children in the defined

age bracket in the defined area

Section 3(2) Is any fee (or any

other expenses) being charged by

the schools from students Are

disabled students treated like the

other students What are the

various forms of discriminations

against them

Section 4 Is appropriate training

being provided to students who are

inducted for the first time in a class

based on their age What is the

quality of the training and how is it

conducted and evaluated Is

education being provided to those

children who are more than 14

years of age and have not

completed elementary education

(This might not be in place right

now so the focus will also be on

evaluating the plans that the

educational institutions have on

implementing it Also the

associated NGOs which have been

already working in this area needs

to be assessed to find out their plan

of action to help implement this)

Section 5 Is speedy transfer of

child from one school to another

being done properly or not What

are the problems children facing

due to formalities like transfer

certificates

Section 6 What is the spread of

the schools Are local authorities

setting up schools in the region

with a target of 3 years in

mind(Definition of a neighborhood

school would change for different

terrains Eg in hills this need to be

seen according to the difficulties

the students face in reaching their

destinations Also assessing the

social and demographic aspects of

an area like how far some

conservative families will send their

girls for education)

Section 7(6) What is the national

curriculum that the central

government has formed is it being

usedimplementedduplicated in

the state as well

(The need for education in local

languages has been said again and

again Assessing the need and

possibility for the same and also

finding localnational players that

can help with this)

What are the standards that are

formed for the training of

teachers What is the enforcing

mechanism for the same Are the

teachersrsquo trainers following these

standards or not

(Need to assess the teacher

training modules at all levels

Creating an assessment module

specifically for teachers to gauge

their knowledgeskill and

motivation levels After assessment

is completed creating training

`

modules in coordination with

government authorities like DIET to

create robust and state specific

teacher training module)

What are the technical support and

resources provided by the

government for promoting

innovations research planning and

capacity building

Section 8 What are the

enrollment attendance and

completion rates

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

Is there discrimination against the

children belonging to weaker

sections or disadvantages group

What is the status of infrastructure

in the terms of availability of

essentials like rooms power

toilets TLM mid-day meals

teaching staff etc

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

How the selection and admission

being done and is it confirming to

prescribed standards

(Major focus for this will be private

schools in cities and towns The

intent behind this is ensuring that

no one is denied quality education

because of lack of financial support

and also ensuring no financial

bullying by schools This would

require assistance with NGOs

working in citiestowns on

education and RTI)

Does quality of education meet the

norms specified in schedule

Section 12 Reimbursement to

private school against

reservations

Section 13 Capitation fees and

Screening processes Is punishment

against contraventions enforced

Section 14 Are children denied

admission due to lack of

documentation

Section 15 Is admission allowed

during any time of the year

Section 16 The law prevents

school to fail or expel a student

What changes schools are making

in their evaluation system to

integrate this scheme in their

system

Section 21 Has the school formed

school management committee

What is the composition for the

same What are its functions and

how is it documented

(This would again need assistance

of the local NGOs and local

authorities for a regular vigil In

spite of just creating a rule It can

be made binding on the schools to

submit monthly information about

the activities and meetings of the

school management committee)

Section 23 Conformance to

minimum qualification

Section 25 What is the teacher-

pupil ratio What was it last year

(Historical data analysis to be done

for the same This would also

include assessment of single

teacher teaching multiple classes

and its impact)

What are the other non-

educational works that the teacher

is involved in Who would do them

if the teacher doesnrsquot

Section 29 How the curriculum is

being set is the agency taking care

of all the mentioned points in the

section If yes how If no why

Section 30 Are there board exams

in the state board or school

Certificate of elementary

education(Schools like DAV have

national level board exams in class

eight which is prohibited now)

copy Kumar Ankit ndash Kumar Ankit is

currently studying at XLRI

Jamshedpur and is founder amp

Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

`

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes

If achievement lies in being the

best greatness is acquired by

remaining the best However true

greatness is bestowed on those

selected few who remain the best

forever There has been no other

Indian athlete whose record

remained unsurpassed for more

than three decades now except

Shivnath Singhrsquos national record in

Marathon made in 1978

Born on July 11 1946 in the

Manjaria village of Buxar district of

Bihar Shivnath Singh joined army

at an early age where he developed

a liking for long distance running

particularly 5000 meter and 10000

meter A gold medalist in 5000

meter in Tehran Asiad (1974) and

recipient of Arjuna Award same

year the best in Shivnath was

however to be seen in the longer

version of race ie Marathon two

years later where he came a

remarkable 11th

in a very strong

line up and in an Olympic Game

which was not marred by any

major boycotts Remarkably he ran

this most enduring race (42195

km) for the first time only in the

trial of Montreal Olympics India

Today in its obituary to the great

runner wrote ldquoHe finished 11th in

the Montreal Olympics in a race

that included Lasse Viren and Frank

Shorter Indian athletics would give

its limbs for a performance of the

same kind todayrdquo

For a better perspective it may be

mentioned that post Shivnath

Singh no other Indian athlete has

even qualified for the main event

of Marathon in the Olympics till

date Later in Jalandhar in 1978

Shivnath clocked 21200 a most

significant national record which

still stands intact

The most noteworthy thing about

Shivnath Singhrsquos running was that

he ran barefoot Barefoot running

even long distance is not

uncommon particularly among

amateurs However at such high

competition level Shivnath Singh

was the only athlete with such

preference It may be mentioned

here that the greatest ever

marathon runner of the world

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia two times

Gold medal winner in Rome (1960)

and Tokyo (1964) Olympics also

ran marathon barefoot in Rome

Olympics Bikilas winning time

21516 was a World Record and

still it is the second fastest barefoot

marathon The world record for the

fastest barefoot marathon

(21200) is held by this humble

Bihari Naib-Subedar of Indian

Army from Buxar Shivnath Singh

The great athlete died at the age of

57 years in Jamshedpur on June 6

2003 One of his fellow athletes

while recollecting the kind soul

said ldquoThis generous athlete once

divided the Rs10000 he received

from the Bihar government for his

achievements among his team-

mates He handed over half the

amount to colleague Satpal Singh

who had finished second in a

marathonrdquo He remains the only

recipient of Presidents Vishesh

Seva Medal among athletes of

Jharkhand and Bihar

Written by --- Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu works for Reserve Bank

of India and can be reached at

bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 5: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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were orchestrated and co-ordinated via an umbrella organization Bihar Society can fill that void by emerging a

network of networks (people orgs and causes) to reap the benefits of synergy

I am not from Bihar why should I care

If you care about world then Asia is the largest in terms of population and within that India China and Japan are

the three largest economies and populations Bihar is the heart mind soul of Asia

a) Worlds biggest ideas people and contributions in the area of artscienceculturereligion In short much of

Indias glorious heritage has origins in Bihar have come from Bihar

Yogasutra of Patanjali

Gautam Buddha of Bodh Gaya

Mahavir (Jainism) of Pawapuri

Democracy by Licchivis in Vaishali

Astronomy (Aryabhatta Patna

Political Economy (Arthashastra by Chanakya) Patna

Sikhism (Guru Gobind Singh) Patna

Largest Empire (Ashoka) based in Patna

Chandragupta Maurya based in Patna

Worlds oldest and larges University Nalanda

Indias Freedom Struggle (18571947) at Bihar

First President and Father of Constitution Rajendra Prasad Jiradei Siwan

Total Revolution to removed Indiras Emergency by Jai Prakash Narayan Patna

Hence like all great societies Bihar has gone from a glorious past to a complete collapse It has started bouncing

back and the world needs to help it re-emerge

I am already part of many social causes why should i help or join Bihar Society

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Worlds biggest problems also have their epicenter in Bihar

Malaria

Polio

Poverty

Malnutrition

Unemployment

Water

Energy

Who is funding Bihar Society

Bihar Society was conceived and started by Atul Kumar with the help of various friends of Bihar who came to know

each other via various online yahoo-groups mailing lists events causes alumni groups social and professional

networks and projects It was also inspired by world class social organizations like Wikipedia Asia Society

Ashokaorg AIF

What will Bihar Society do

Become an agent instrument and platform of Soical-cultural-scientific economic change agents with stake in

Bihar We will connect ideaspeoplemoney and other resources to each other We will have city and country

specific chapters besides working groups in areas of Education Healthcare Agriculture Water Energy

Governance Industry Art amp Culture etc

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How to connect the fellow Biharis

Please join us on Facebook

1 Facebook Bihar Communityhttpwwwfacebookcomhomephpsk=group_153744714660549ampap=1

2 Bihar Society Org on Facebook- httpwwwfacebookcombiharsociety

3 Bihar Society on LinkedIn httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsmostPopular=ampgid=36628amptrk=myg_ugrp_ovr

Want to contribute to this magazine

Please send your artcile to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Want to advertise in this magazine

Please send your advertisement to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Editorial Board

Editor in Chief - Santosh Pandey ( email santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Blog httpsantosh-pandeyblogspotcom

Executive Editor - Atul Kumar (email atultechgmailcom )

Blog httpatultechblogspotcom

Consulting Editor - Thakur Vikash Sinha (email tvsinhagmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Mayank Krishna (email mayankkrishnagmailcom)

Consulting Editor - Manoj Pandey ( email manojpandeycmagmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Sarvesh Upadhyay ( email sarveshkgmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Anirudh Kumar ( email anirudhhclgmailcom )

Consulting Tech Editor - Samir Mishra (email samirmishragmailcom )

Design amp Creative Editor - Sanjay Prasad ( email prasadcom2gmailcom )

Blog httpwwwfreewebscomsanjayprasad

Associate Editor - Bhartendu Kumar Das ( email bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

Associate Editor - Vivek Kumar (email viveklearnergmailcom )

Blog httpvisionvivekblogspotcom

Associate Editor - Ankit Kumar (email ankit4jecgmailcom )

Editor - Ajit Chouhan (email ajitchouhangmailcom )

Blog httpcoolbihariblogspotcom

Editor Prashant Kumar ( email zimbo77gmailcom )

Consulting Guest Editor - Mrunalini Chembrolu (email mrunalinigmailcom )

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Dasrath Manjhi - A symbol of Bihari resilience

His eyes were moist with

enchantment as he stood there

watching the road through the pass

without batting his eyelid Today his

resolve had borne fruit His resolve

could only be compared with that of

the legendary Bhagirath who

chiseled the mighty Himalayas to

bring the holy Ganges to earth Then

he looked at his palms and started

to ruminate For the last twenty two

years he had been chiseling away at

the mountain single-handedly and

today his effort had borne fruit

Then in a flash his tears of happiness

became those of sorrow and started

to fall on the rocks in a stream His

mood turned somber as he

remembered his departed wife It

was her suffering that had made

him take this seemingly impossible

task of creating a path through the

mountain all by him It was she who

was his inspiration for achieving the

impossible task Alas she had passed

away before the task could be

completed Perhaps this is what HE

had willed

Then the stream of tears came to an

abrupt halt The weight of sorrow

on his heart lifted slowly and he

started to smile to himself So what

if his wife was not there to savour

this moment His village folks would

now traverse 80 km less to reach

the town through his path It was

true that he had taken up this

Herculean task by seeing the

shadow of helplessness on his dear

wifes face but then wasnt he

already feeling impatient at the

sufferings of his people The path

had to be made and he had made it

He jolted himself to return to the

real world from his dream world and

started to walk to the point where

he had started his chiseling His joy

knew no bounds as he traversed

through the rocky path that he had

created alone This great soul was

Dasrath Manjhi a resident of the 25

house hamlet of Gehlaur in the Gaya

district of Bihar His is a name in the

tradition of the great saint Kabir

who was also illiterate like

Dasrath Manjhi and had a great

desire to break the shackles of

sufferings for the masses

One day a thirsty Manjhi was

impatiently waiting for his wife to

fetch him water from the other

side of the mountain The

unforgiving summer of Gaya had

parched his throat dry as the sun

beat down mercilessly and he

anxiously waited for her to fetch

the life giving water She had taken

longer than usual Then he saw the

silhouette of his wife in the

distance coming back empty

handed He asked in a tone of

hopelessness mixed with surprise

Why are you coming back empty

handed What happened to the

earthen vessel

Wife could barely control herself as

she replied with sorrow written all

over her face that she could not

fetch water for him as she slipped

and fell down In the process the

earthen pot broke and she had to

return empty handed She could

neither fetch water for him to

quench his thirst nor could she

save the pot itself He saw the grief

and helplessness on his wifes face

Guilt ridden helplessness was

streaming out in the form of tears

from her eyes This image got

etched on his mental screen

Dashrath Manjhi started to

contemplate My god this hill is

standing like a mountain in the

path of my people for generations

This is coming in the way between

our thirst and water It has to be

removed He kept thinking for days

on end His manliness got aroused

and one day he decided to cut it

out of the way He took a vow that

he would not sit idle till he had cut

a path through the mountain He

took the chisel and the hammer in

his hand and started his expedition

And thus started the resolve to

capture the mountain ndash the

mountain of Gilhaur in Gaya

district Some people would

ridicule him Some would look with

utter amazement at his gargantuan

effort to chisel the mountain away

But he was not concerned by either

praise or ridicule He just kept at

his work chiseling the mountain

alone He even shifted his hut near

the mountain so that he need not

waste his time in moving back and

forth

After twenty two long years of

unbroken effort he had managed

to dig a pathway ndash fifteen to

twenty feet broad and an amazing

three hundred and sixty feet long

And this path would reduce the

distance with the nearest town by

80 kilometers The villagers would

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not have to go around the

mountain to reach Wazirgunj again

This is not the only instance of the

steely resolve of Dasrath Manjhi

He once decided to go to Delhi He

did not have enough money to

undertake the journey So he

decided to walk all the way a

distance of over one thousand

kilometers During this unique

journey he took the signature of

the station masters of the railway

stations along the way in his diary

This man of single minded

determination wished to have a

hospital opened at his village on a

five acre plot When he met the

Chief Minister of the state

Mr Nitish Kumar Nitish felt so

overwhelmed that he got up from

his chair and asked Dasrath Manjhi

to sit there As the old saying goes

a man is known by his deed Indeed

the illiterate Dalit from Gilhaur has

shown his sublime character by his

steely resolve and his

determination to bring

development to his impoverished

people The district administration

honored him with a special award

Post script The last few days

of Dasrath Manjhi was spent

fighting cancer He passed away on

August 18 at the age of 80 years

He was given a state burial by the

Government of Bihar

This article was originally written

by Udai Narayan Choudhury in

Hindi the then speaker of Bihar

assembly and was published in the

book ldquoGauravshali Biharrdquo released

by ONE BIHAR English translation

is done by TV Sinha (TV Sinha is a

senior executive with a software

company and based in Mumbai he

can be can be reached at

tvsinhagmailcom)

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Right to education

The first task has to spread

awareness about the legislature

amongst following stakeholders

a Schools ndash Government and

private

b Parents and Students

c Local authorities enforcing and

implementing

d State government

e Central government

f Teachers

g NGOs

h Allied agencies

Following is the list of highlighted

sections from the legislation and

what are the questions that we

need to answer while evaluating

and assessing the implementation

of RTE

Section 1(2) Has RTE been

implemented all across in Bihar

(Considering that we are taking

Bihar as our population and a

smaller set of districts inside Bihar

as the sample set for our study)

Section 3(1) Percentage of

coverage of children in the defined

age bracket in the defined area

Section 3(2) Is any fee (or any

other expenses) being charged by

the schools from students Are

disabled students treated like the

other students What are the

various forms of discriminations

against them

Section 4 Is appropriate training

being provided to students who are

inducted for the first time in a class

based on their age What is the

quality of the training and how is it

conducted and evaluated Is

education being provided to those

children who are more than 14

years of age and have not

completed elementary education

(This might not be in place right

now so the focus will also be on

evaluating the plans that the

educational institutions have on

implementing it Also the

associated NGOs which have been

already working in this area needs

to be assessed to find out their plan

of action to help implement this)

Section 5 Is speedy transfer of

child from one school to another

being done properly or not What

are the problems children facing

due to formalities like transfer

certificates

Section 6 What is the spread of

the schools Are local authorities

setting up schools in the region

with a target of 3 years in

mind(Definition of a neighborhood

school would change for different

terrains Eg in hills this need to be

seen according to the difficulties

the students face in reaching their

destinations Also assessing the

social and demographic aspects of

an area like how far some

conservative families will send their

girls for education)

Section 7(6) What is the national

curriculum that the central

government has formed is it being

usedimplementedduplicated in

the state as well

(The need for education in local

languages has been said again and

again Assessing the need and

possibility for the same and also

finding localnational players that

can help with this)

What are the standards that are

formed for the training of

teachers What is the enforcing

mechanism for the same Are the

teachersrsquo trainers following these

standards or not

(Need to assess the teacher

training modules at all levels

Creating an assessment module

specifically for teachers to gauge

their knowledgeskill and

motivation levels After assessment

is completed creating training

`

modules in coordination with

government authorities like DIET to

create robust and state specific

teacher training module)

What are the technical support and

resources provided by the

government for promoting

innovations research planning and

capacity building

Section 8 What are the

enrollment attendance and

completion rates

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

Is there discrimination against the

children belonging to weaker

sections or disadvantages group

What is the status of infrastructure

in the terms of availability of

essentials like rooms power

toilets TLM mid-day meals

teaching staff etc

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

How the selection and admission

being done and is it confirming to

prescribed standards

(Major focus for this will be private

schools in cities and towns The

intent behind this is ensuring that

no one is denied quality education

because of lack of financial support

and also ensuring no financial

bullying by schools This would

require assistance with NGOs

working in citiestowns on

education and RTI)

Does quality of education meet the

norms specified in schedule

Section 12 Reimbursement to

private school against

reservations

Section 13 Capitation fees and

Screening processes Is punishment

against contraventions enforced

Section 14 Are children denied

admission due to lack of

documentation

Section 15 Is admission allowed

during any time of the year

Section 16 The law prevents

school to fail or expel a student

What changes schools are making

in their evaluation system to

integrate this scheme in their

system

Section 21 Has the school formed

school management committee

What is the composition for the

same What are its functions and

how is it documented

(This would again need assistance

of the local NGOs and local

authorities for a regular vigil In

spite of just creating a rule It can

be made binding on the schools to

submit monthly information about

the activities and meetings of the

school management committee)

Section 23 Conformance to

minimum qualification

Section 25 What is the teacher-

pupil ratio What was it last year

(Historical data analysis to be done

for the same This would also

include assessment of single

teacher teaching multiple classes

and its impact)

What are the other non-

educational works that the teacher

is involved in Who would do them

if the teacher doesnrsquot

Section 29 How the curriculum is

being set is the agency taking care

of all the mentioned points in the

section If yes how If no why

Section 30 Are there board exams

in the state board or school

Certificate of elementary

education(Schools like DAV have

national level board exams in class

eight which is prohibited now)

copy Kumar Ankit ndash Kumar Ankit is

currently studying at XLRI

Jamshedpur and is founder amp

Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

`

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes

If achievement lies in being the

best greatness is acquired by

remaining the best However true

greatness is bestowed on those

selected few who remain the best

forever There has been no other

Indian athlete whose record

remained unsurpassed for more

than three decades now except

Shivnath Singhrsquos national record in

Marathon made in 1978

Born on July 11 1946 in the

Manjaria village of Buxar district of

Bihar Shivnath Singh joined army

at an early age where he developed

a liking for long distance running

particularly 5000 meter and 10000

meter A gold medalist in 5000

meter in Tehran Asiad (1974) and

recipient of Arjuna Award same

year the best in Shivnath was

however to be seen in the longer

version of race ie Marathon two

years later where he came a

remarkable 11th

in a very strong

line up and in an Olympic Game

which was not marred by any

major boycotts Remarkably he ran

this most enduring race (42195

km) for the first time only in the

trial of Montreal Olympics India

Today in its obituary to the great

runner wrote ldquoHe finished 11th in

the Montreal Olympics in a race

that included Lasse Viren and Frank

Shorter Indian athletics would give

its limbs for a performance of the

same kind todayrdquo

For a better perspective it may be

mentioned that post Shivnath

Singh no other Indian athlete has

even qualified for the main event

of Marathon in the Olympics till

date Later in Jalandhar in 1978

Shivnath clocked 21200 a most

significant national record which

still stands intact

The most noteworthy thing about

Shivnath Singhrsquos running was that

he ran barefoot Barefoot running

even long distance is not

uncommon particularly among

amateurs However at such high

competition level Shivnath Singh

was the only athlete with such

preference It may be mentioned

here that the greatest ever

marathon runner of the world

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia two times

Gold medal winner in Rome (1960)

and Tokyo (1964) Olympics also

ran marathon barefoot in Rome

Olympics Bikilas winning time

21516 was a World Record and

still it is the second fastest barefoot

marathon The world record for the

fastest barefoot marathon

(21200) is held by this humble

Bihari Naib-Subedar of Indian

Army from Buxar Shivnath Singh

The great athlete died at the age of

57 years in Jamshedpur on June 6

2003 One of his fellow athletes

while recollecting the kind soul

said ldquoThis generous athlete once

divided the Rs10000 he received

from the Bihar government for his

achievements among his team-

mates He handed over half the

amount to colleague Satpal Singh

who had finished second in a

marathonrdquo He remains the only

recipient of Presidents Vishesh

Seva Medal among athletes of

Jharkhand and Bihar

Written by --- Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu works for Reserve Bank

of India and can be reached at

bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

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अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

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ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

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हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

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ववधता को उजागर कर सक

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घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

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Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 6: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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Worlds biggest problems also have their epicenter in Bihar

Malaria

Polio

Poverty

Malnutrition

Unemployment

Water

Energy

Who is funding Bihar Society

Bihar Society was conceived and started by Atul Kumar with the help of various friends of Bihar who came to know

each other via various online yahoo-groups mailing lists events causes alumni groups social and professional

networks and projects It was also inspired by world class social organizations like Wikipedia Asia Society

Ashokaorg AIF

What will Bihar Society do

Become an agent instrument and platform of Soical-cultural-scientific economic change agents with stake in

Bihar We will connect ideaspeoplemoney and other resources to each other We will have city and country

specific chapters besides working groups in areas of Education Healthcare Agriculture Water Energy

Governance Industry Art amp Culture etc

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How to connect the fellow Biharis

Please join us on Facebook

1 Facebook Bihar Communityhttpwwwfacebookcomhomephpsk=group_153744714660549ampap=1

2 Bihar Society Org on Facebook- httpwwwfacebookcombiharsociety

3 Bihar Society on LinkedIn httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsmostPopular=ampgid=36628amptrk=myg_ugrp_ovr

Want to contribute to this magazine

Please send your artcile to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Want to advertise in this magazine

Please send your advertisement to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Editorial Board

Editor in Chief - Santosh Pandey ( email santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Blog httpsantosh-pandeyblogspotcom

Executive Editor - Atul Kumar (email atultechgmailcom )

Blog httpatultechblogspotcom

Consulting Editor - Thakur Vikash Sinha (email tvsinhagmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Mayank Krishna (email mayankkrishnagmailcom)

Consulting Editor - Manoj Pandey ( email manojpandeycmagmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Sarvesh Upadhyay ( email sarveshkgmailcom )

Consulting Editor - Anirudh Kumar ( email anirudhhclgmailcom )

Consulting Tech Editor - Samir Mishra (email samirmishragmailcom )

Design amp Creative Editor - Sanjay Prasad ( email prasadcom2gmailcom )

Blog httpwwwfreewebscomsanjayprasad

Associate Editor - Bhartendu Kumar Das ( email bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

Associate Editor - Vivek Kumar (email viveklearnergmailcom )

Blog httpvisionvivekblogspotcom

Associate Editor - Ankit Kumar (email ankit4jecgmailcom )

Editor - Ajit Chouhan (email ajitchouhangmailcom )

Blog httpcoolbihariblogspotcom

Editor Prashant Kumar ( email zimbo77gmailcom )

Consulting Guest Editor - Mrunalini Chembrolu (email mrunalinigmailcom )

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Dasrath Manjhi - A symbol of Bihari resilience

His eyes were moist with

enchantment as he stood there

watching the road through the pass

without batting his eyelid Today his

resolve had borne fruit His resolve

could only be compared with that of

the legendary Bhagirath who

chiseled the mighty Himalayas to

bring the holy Ganges to earth Then

he looked at his palms and started

to ruminate For the last twenty two

years he had been chiseling away at

the mountain single-handedly and

today his effort had borne fruit

Then in a flash his tears of happiness

became those of sorrow and started

to fall on the rocks in a stream His

mood turned somber as he

remembered his departed wife It

was her suffering that had made

him take this seemingly impossible

task of creating a path through the

mountain all by him It was she who

was his inspiration for achieving the

impossible task Alas she had passed

away before the task could be

completed Perhaps this is what HE

had willed

Then the stream of tears came to an

abrupt halt The weight of sorrow

on his heart lifted slowly and he

started to smile to himself So what

if his wife was not there to savour

this moment His village folks would

now traverse 80 km less to reach

the town through his path It was

true that he had taken up this

Herculean task by seeing the

shadow of helplessness on his dear

wifes face but then wasnt he

already feeling impatient at the

sufferings of his people The path

had to be made and he had made it

He jolted himself to return to the

real world from his dream world and

started to walk to the point where

he had started his chiseling His joy

knew no bounds as he traversed

through the rocky path that he had

created alone This great soul was

Dasrath Manjhi a resident of the 25

house hamlet of Gehlaur in the Gaya

district of Bihar His is a name in the

tradition of the great saint Kabir

who was also illiterate like

Dasrath Manjhi and had a great

desire to break the shackles of

sufferings for the masses

One day a thirsty Manjhi was

impatiently waiting for his wife to

fetch him water from the other

side of the mountain The

unforgiving summer of Gaya had

parched his throat dry as the sun

beat down mercilessly and he

anxiously waited for her to fetch

the life giving water She had taken

longer than usual Then he saw the

silhouette of his wife in the

distance coming back empty

handed He asked in a tone of

hopelessness mixed with surprise

Why are you coming back empty

handed What happened to the

earthen vessel

Wife could barely control herself as

she replied with sorrow written all

over her face that she could not

fetch water for him as she slipped

and fell down In the process the

earthen pot broke and she had to

return empty handed She could

neither fetch water for him to

quench his thirst nor could she

save the pot itself He saw the grief

and helplessness on his wifes face

Guilt ridden helplessness was

streaming out in the form of tears

from her eyes This image got

etched on his mental screen

Dashrath Manjhi started to

contemplate My god this hill is

standing like a mountain in the

path of my people for generations

This is coming in the way between

our thirst and water It has to be

removed He kept thinking for days

on end His manliness got aroused

and one day he decided to cut it

out of the way He took a vow that

he would not sit idle till he had cut

a path through the mountain He

took the chisel and the hammer in

his hand and started his expedition

And thus started the resolve to

capture the mountain ndash the

mountain of Gilhaur in Gaya

district Some people would

ridicule him Some would look with

utter amazement at his gargantuan

effort to chisel the mountain away

But he was not concerned by either

praise or ridicule He just kept at

his work chiseling the mountain

alone He even shifted his hut near

the mountain so that he need not

waste his time in moving back and

forth

After twenty two long years of

unbroken effort he had managed

to dig a pathway ndash fifteen to

twenty feet broad and an amazing

three hundred and sixty feet long

And this path would reduce the

distance with the nearest town by

80 kilometers The villagers would

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not have to go around the

mountain to reach Wazirgunj again

This is not the only instance of the

steely resolve of Dasrath Manjhi

He once decided to go to Delhi He

did not have enough money to

undertake the journey So he

decided to walk all the way a

distance of over one thousand

kilometers During this unique

journey he took the signature of

the station masters of the railway

stations along the way in his diary

This man of single minded

determination wished to have a

hospital opened at his village on a

five acre plot When he met the

Chief Minister of the state

Mr Nitish Kumar Nitish felt so

overwhelmed that he got up from

his chair and asked Dasrath Manjhi

to sit there As the old saying goes

a man is known by his deed Indeed

the illiterate Dalit from Gilhaur has

shown his sublime character by his

steely resolve and his

determination to bring

development to his impoverished

people The district administration

honored him with a special award

Post script The last few days

of Dasrath Manjhi was spent

fighting cancer He passed away on

August 18 at the age of 80 years

He was given a state burial by the

Government of Bihar

This article was originally written

by Udai Narayan Choudhury in

Hindi the then speaker of Bihar

assembly and was published in the

book ldquoGauravshali Biharrdquo released

by ONE BIHAR English translation

is done by TV Sinha (TV Sinha is a

senior executive with a software

company and based in Mumbai he

can be can be reached at

tvsinhagmailcom)

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Right to education

The first task has to spread

awareness about the legislature

amongst following stakeholders

a Schools ndash Government and

private

b Parents and Students

c Local authorities enforcing and

implementing

d State government

e Central government

f Teachers

g NGOs

h Allied agencies

Following is the list of highlighted

sections from the legislation and

what are the questions that we

need to answer while evaluating

and assessing the implementation

of RTE

Section 1(2) Has RTE been

implemented all across in Bihar

(Considering that we are taking

Bihar as our population and a

smaller set of districts inside Bihar

as the sample set for our study)

Section 3(1) Percentage of

coverage of children in the defined

age bracket in the defined area

Section 3(2) Is any fee (or any

other expenses) being charged by

the schools from students Are

disabled students treated like the

other students What are the

various forms of discriminations

against them

Section 4 Is appropriate training

being provided to students who are

inducted for the first time in a class

based on their age What is the

quality of the training and how is it

conducted and evaluated Is

education being provided to those

children who are more than 14

years of age and have not

completed elementary education

(This might not be in place right

now so the focus will also be on

evaluating the plans that the

educational institutions have on

implementing it Also the

associated NGOs which have been

already working in this area needs

to be assessed to find out their plan

of action to help implement this)

Section 5 Is speedy transfer of

child from one school to another

being done properly or not What

are the problems children facing

due to formalities like transfer

certificates

Section 6 What is the spread of

the schools Are local authorities

setting up schools in the region

with a target of 3 years in

mind(Definition of a neighborhood

school would change for different

terrains Eg in hills this need to be

seen according to the difficulties

the students face in reaching their

destinations Also assessing the

social and demographic aspects of

an area like how far some

conservative families will send their

girls for education)

Section 7(6) What is the national

curriculum that the central

government has formed is it being

usedimplementedduplicated in

the state as well

(The need for education in local

languages has been said again and

again Assessing the need and

possibility for the same and also

finding localnational players that

can help with this)

What are the standards that are

formed for the training of

teachers What is the enforcing

mechanism for the same Are the

teachersrsquo trainers following these

standards or not

(Need to assess the teacher

training modules at all levels

Creating an assessment module

specifically for teachers to gauge

their knowledgeskill and

motivation levels After assessment

is completed creating training

`

modules in coordination with

government authorities like DIET to

create robust and state specific

teacher training module)

What are the technical support and

resources provided by the

government for promoting

innovations research planning and

capacity building

Section 8 What are the

enrollment attendance and

completion rates

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

Is there discrimination against the

children belonging to weaker

sections or disadvantages group

What is the status of infrastructure

in the terms of availability of

essentials like rooms power

toilets TLM mid-day meals

teaching staff etc

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

How the selection and admission

being done and is it confirming to

prescribed standards

(Major focus for this will be private

schools in cities and towns The

intent behind this is ensuring that

no one is denied quality education

because of lack of financial support

and also ensuring no financial

bullying by schools This would

require assistance with NGOs

working in citiestowns on

education and RTI)

Does quality of education meet the

norms specified in schedule

Section 12 Reimbursement to

private school against

reservations

Section 13 Capitation fees and

Screening processes Is punishment

against contraventions enforced

Section 14 Are children denied

admission due to lack of

documentation

Section 15 Is admission allowed

during any time of the year

Section 16 The law prevents

school to fail or expel a student

What changes schools are making

in their evaluation system to

integrate this scheme in their

system

Section 21 Has the school formed

school management committee

What is the composition for the

same What are its functions and

how is it documented

(This would again need assistance

of the local NGOs and local

authorities for a regular vigil In

spite of just creating a rule It can

be made binding on the schools to

submit monthly information about

the activities and meetings of the

school management committee)

Section 23 Conformance to

minimum qualification

Section 25 What is the teacher-

pupil ratio What was it last year

(Historical data analysis to be done

for the same This would also

include assessment of single

teacher teaching multiple classes

and its impact)

What are the other non-

educational works that the teacher

is involved in Who would do them

if the teacher doesnrsquot

Section 29 How the curriculum is

being set is the agency taking care

of all the mentioned points in the

section If yes how If no why

Section 30 Are there board exams

in the state board or school

Certificate of elementary

education(Schools like DAV have

national level board exams in class

eight which is prohibited now)

copy Kumar Ankit ndash Kumar Ankit is

currently studying at XLRI

Jamshedpur and is founder amp

Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

`

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes

If achievement lies in being the

best greatness is acquired by

remaining the best However true

greatness is bestowed on those

selected few who remain the best

forever There has been no other

Indian athlete whose record

remained unsurpassed for more

than three decades now except

Shivnath Singhrsquos national record in

Marathon made in 1978

Born on July 11 1946 in the

Manjaria village of Buxar district of

Bihar Shivnath Singh joined army

at an early age where he developed

a liking for long distance running

particularly 5000 meter and 10000

meter A gold medalist in 5000

meter in Tehran Asiad (1974) and

recipient of Arjuna Award same

year the best in Shivnath was

however to be seen in the longer

version of race ie Marathon two

years later where he came a

remarkable 11th

in a very strong

line up and in an Olympic Game

which was not marred by any

major boycotts Remarkably he ran

this most enduring race (42195

km) for the first time only in the

trial of Montreal Olympics India

Today in its obituary to the great

runner wrote ldquoHe finished 11th in

the Montreal Olympics in a race

that included Lasse Viren and Frank

Shorter Indian athletics would give

its limbs for a performance of the

same kind todayrdquo

For a better perspective it may be

mentioned that post Shivnath

Singh no other Indian athlete has

even qualified for the main event

of Marathon in the Olympics till

date Later in Jalandhar in 1978

Shivnath clocked 21200 a most

significant national record which

still stands intact

The most noteworthy thing about

Shivnath Singhrsquos running was that

he ran barefoot Barefoot running

even long distance is not

uncommon particularly among

amateurs However at such high

competition level Shivnath Singh

was the only athlete with such

preference It may be mentioned

here that the greatest ever

marathon runner of the world

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia two times

Gold medal winner in Rome (1960)

and Tokyo (1964) Olympics also

ran marathon barefoot in Rome

Olympics Bikilas winning time

21516 was a World Record and

still it is the second fastest barefoot

marathon The world record for the

fastest barefoot marathon

(21200) is held by this humble

Bihari Naib-Subedar of Indian

Army from Buxar Shivnath Singh

The great athlete died at the age of

57 years in Jamshedpur on June 6

2003 One of his fellow athletes

while recollecting the kind soul

said ldquoThis generous athlete once

divided the Rs10000 he received

from the Bihar government for his

achievements among his team-

mates He handed over half the

amount to colleague Satpal Singh

who had finished second in a

marathonrdquo He remains the only

recipient of Presidents Vishesh

Seva Medal among athletes of

Jharkhand and Bihar

Written by --- Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu works for Reserve Bank

of India and can be reached at

bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 7: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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How to connect the fellow Biharis

Please join us on Facebook

1 Facebook Bihar Communityhttpwwwfacebookcomhomephpsk=group_153744714660549ampap=1

2 Bihar Society Org on Facebook- httpwwwfacebookcombiharsociety

3 Bihar Society on LinkedIn httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsmostPopular=ampgid=36628amptrk=myg_ugrp_ovr

Want to contribute to this magazine

Please send your artcile to the Editor Santosh Pandey ndash email santoshpandeycagmailcom

Want to advertise in this magazine

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Dasrath Manjhi - A symbol of Bihari resilience

His eyes were moist with

enchantment as he stood there

watching the road through the pass

without batting his eyelid Today his

resolve had borne fruit His resolve

could only be compared with that of

the legendary Bhagirath who

chiseled the mighty Himalayas to

bring the holy Ganges to earth Then

he looked at his palms and started

to ruminate For the last twenty two

years he had been chiseling away at

the mountain single-handedly and

today his effort had borne fruit

Then in a flash his tears of happiness

became those of sorrow and started

to fall on the rocks in a stream His

mood turned somber as he

remembered his departed wife It

was her suffering that had made

him take this seemingly impossible

task of creating a path through the

mountain all by him It was she who

was his inspiration for achieving the

impossible task Alas she had passed

away before the task could be

completed Perhaps this is what HE

had willed

Then the stream of tears came to an

abrupt halt The weight of sorrow

on his heart lifted slowly and he

started to smile to himself So what

if his wife was not there to savour

this moment His village folks would

now traverse 80 km less to reach

the town through his path It was

true that he had taken up this

Herculean task by seeing the

shadow of helplessness on his dear

wifes face but then wasnt he

already feeling impatient at the

sufferings of his people The path

had to be made and he had made it

He jolted himself to return to the

real world from his dream world and

started to walk to the point where

he had started his chiseling His joy

knew no bounds as he traversed

through the rocky path that he had

created alone This great soul was

Dasrath Manjhi a resident of the 25

house hamlet of Gehlaur in the Gaya

district of Bihar His is a name in the

tradition of the great saint Kabir

who was also illiterate like

Dasrath Manjhi and had a great

desire to break the shackles of

sufferings for the masses

One day a thirsty Manjhi was

impatiently waiting for his wife to

fetch him water from the other

side of the mountain The

unforgiving summer of Gaya had

parched his throat dry as the sun

beat down mercilessly and he

anxiously waited for her to fetch

the life giving water She had taken

longer than usual Then he saw the

silhouette of his wife in the

distance coming back empty

handed He asked in a tone of

hopelessness mixed with surprise

Why are you coming back empty

handed What happened to the

earthen vessel

Wife could barely control herself as

she replied with sorrow written all

over her face that she could not

fetch water for him as she slipped

and fell down In the process the

earthen pot broke and she had to

return empty handed She could

neither fetch water for him to

quench his thirst nor could she

save the pot itself He saw the grief

and helplessness on his wifes face

Guilt ridden helplessness was

streaming out in the form of tears

from her eyes This image got

etched on his mental screen

Dashrath Manjhi started to

contemplate My god this hill is

standing like a mountain in the

path of my people for generations

This is coming in the way between

our thirst and water It has to be

removed He kept thinking for days

on end His manliness got aroused

and one day he decided to cut it

out of the way He took a vow that

he would not sit idle till he had cut

a path through the mountain He

took the chisel and the hammer in

his hand and started his expedition

And thus started the resolve to

capture the mountain ndash the

mountain of Gilhaur in Gaya

district Some people would

ridicule him Some would look with

utter amazement at his gargantuan

effort to chisel the mountain away

But he was not concerned by either

praise or ridicule He just kept at

his work chiseling the mountain

alone He even shifted his hut near

the mountain so that he need not

waste his time in moving back and

forth

After twenty two long years of

unbroken effort he had managed

to dig a pathway ndash fifteen to

twenty feet broad and an amazing

three hundred and sixty feet long

And this path would reduce the

distance with the nearest town by

80 kilometers The villagers would

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not have to go around the

mountain to reach Wazirgunj again

This is not the only instance of the

steely resolve of Dasrath Manjhi

He once decided to go to Delhi He

did not have enough money to

undertake the journey So he

decided to walk all the way a

distance of over one thousand

kilometers During this unique

journey he took the signature of

the station masters of the railway

stations along the way in his diary

This man of single minded

determination wished to have a

hospital opened at his village on a

five acre plot When he met the

Chief Minister of the state

Mr Nitish Kumar Nitish felt so

overwhelmed that he got up from

his chair and asked Dasrath Manjhi

to sit there As the old saying goes

a man is known by his deed Indeed

the illiterate Dalit from Gilhaur has

shown his sublime character by his

steely resolve and his

determination to bring

development to his impoverished

people The district administration

honored him with a special award

Post script The last few days

of Dasrath Manjhi was spent

fighting cancer He passed away on

August 18 at the age of 80 years

He was given a state burial by the

Government of Bihar

This article was originally written

by Udai Narayan Choudhury in

Hindi the then speaker of Bihar

assembly and was published in the

book ldquoGauravshali Biharrdquo released

by ONE BIHAR English translation

is done by TV Sinha (TV Sinha is a

senior executive with a software

company and based in Mumbai he

can be can be reached at

tvsinhagmailcom)

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Right to education

The first task has to spread

awareness about the legislature

amongst following stakeholders

a Schools ndash Government and

private

b Parents and Students

c Local authorities enforcing and

implementing

d State government

e Central government

f Teachers

g NGOs

h Allied agencies

Following is the list of highlighted

sections from the legislation and

what are the questions that we

need to answer while evaluating

and assessing the implementation

of RTE

Section 1(2) Has RTE been

implemented all across in Bihar

(Considering that we are taking

Bihar as our population and a

smaller set of districts inside Bihar

as the sample set for our study)

Section 3(1) Percentage of

coverage of children in the defined

age bracket in the defined area

Section 3(2) Is any fee (or any

other expenses) being charged by

the schools from students Are

disabled students treated like the

other students What are the

various forms of discriminations

against them

Section 4 Is appropriate training

being provided to students who are

inducted for the first time in a class

based on their age What is the

quality of the training and how is it

conducted and evaluated Is

education being provided to those

children who are more than 14

years of age and have not

completed elementary education

(This might not be in place right

now so the focus will also be on

evaluating the plans that the

educational institutions have on

implementing it Also the

associated NGOs which have been

already working in this area needs

to be assessed to find out their plan

of action to help implement this)

Section 5 Is speedy transfer of

child from one school to another

being done properly or not What

are the problems children facing

due to formalities like transfer

certificates

Section 6 What is the spread of

the schools Are local authorities

setting up schools in the region

with a target of 3 years in

mind(Definition of a neighborhood

school would change for different

terrains Eg in hills this need to be

seen according to the difficulties

the students face in reaching their

destinations Also assessing the

social and demographic aspects of

an area like how far some

conservative families will send their

girls for education)

Section 7(6) What is the national

curriculum that the central

government has formed is it being

usedimplementedduplicated in

the state as well

(The need for education in local

languages has been said again and

again Assessing the need and

possibility for the same and also

finding localnational players that

can help with this)

What are the standards that are

formed for the training of

teachers What is the enforcing

mechanism for the same Are the

teachersrsquo trainers following these

standards or not

(Need to assess the teacher

training modules at all levels

Creating an assessment module

specifically for teachers to gauge

their knowledgeskill and

motivation levels After assessment

is completed creating training

`

modules in coordination with

government authorities like DIET to

create robust and state specific

teacher training module)

What are the technical support and

resources provided by the

government for promoting

innovations research planning and

capacity building

Section 8 What are the

enrollment attendance and

completion rates

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

Is there discrimination against the

children belonging to weaker

sections or disadvantages group

What is the status of infrastructure

in the terms of availability of

essentials like rooms power

toilets TLM mid-day meals

teaching staff etc

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

How the selection and admission

being done and is it confirming to

prescribed standards

(Major focus for this will be private

schools in cities and towns The

intent behind this is ensuring that

no one is denied quality education

because of lack of financial support

and also ensuring no financial

bullying by schools This would

require assistance with NGOs

working in citiestowns on

education and RTI)

Does quality of education meet the

norms specified in schedule

Section 12 Reimbursement to

private school against

reservations

Section 13 Capitation fees and

Screening processes Is punishment

against contraventions enforced

Section 14 Are children denied

admission due to lack of

documentation

Section 15 Is admission allowed

during any time of the year

Section 16 The law prevents

school to fail or expel a student

What changes schools are making

in their evaluation system to

integrate this scheme in their

system

Section 21 Has the school formed

school management committee

What is the composition for the

same What are its functions and

how is it documented

(This would again need assistance

of the local NGOs and local

authorities for a regular vigil In

spite of just creating a rule It can

be made binding on the schools to

submit monthly information about

the activities and meetings of the

school management committee)

Section 23 Conformance to

minimum qualification

Section 25 What is the teacher-

pupil ratio What was it last year

(Historical data analysis to be done

for the same This would also

include assessment of single

teacher teaching multiple classes

and its impact)

What are the other non-

educational works that the teacher

is involved in Who would do them

if the teacher doesnrsquot

Section 29 How the curriculum is

being set is the agency taking care

of all the mentioned points in the

section If yes how If no why

Section 30 Are there board exams

in the state board or school

Certificate of elementary

education(Schools like DAV have

national level board exams in class

eight which is prohibited now)

copy Kumar Ankit ndash Kumar Ankit is

currently studying at XLRI

Jamshedpur and is founder amp

Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

`

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes

If achievement lies in being the

best greatness is acquired by

remaining the best However true

greatness is bestowed on those

selected few who remain the best

forever There has been no other

Indian athlete whose record

remained unsurpassed for more

than three decades now except

Shivnath Singhrsquos national record in

Marathon made in 1978

Born on July 11 1946 in the

Manjaria village of Buxar district of

Bihar Shivnath Singh joined army

at an early age where he developed

a liking for long distance running

particularly 5000 meter and 10000

meter A gold medalist in 5000

meter in Tehran Asiad (1974) and

recipient of Arjuna Award same

year the best in Shivnath was

however to be seen in the longer

version of race ie Marathon two

years later where he came a

remarkable 11th

in a very strong

line up and in an Olympic Game

which was not marred by any

major boycotts Remarkably he ran

this most enduring race (42195

km) for the first time only in the

trial of Montreal Olympics India

Today in its obituary to the great

runner wrote ldquoHe finished 11th in

the Montreal Olympics in a race

that included Lasse Viren and Frank

Shorter Indian athletics would give

its limbs for a performance of the

same kind todayrdquo

For a better perspective it may be

mentioned that post Shivnath

Singh no other Indian athlete has

even qualified for the main event

of Marathon in the Olympics till

date Later in Jalandhar in 1978

Shivnath clocked 21200 a most

significant national record which

still stands intact

The most noteworthy thing about

Shivnath Singhrsquos running was that

he ran barefoot Barefoot running

even long distance is not

uncommon particularly among

amateurs However at such high

competition level Shivnath Singh

was the only athlete with such

preference It may be mentioned

here that the greatest ever

marathon runner of the world

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia two times

Gold medal winner in Rome (1960)

and Tokyo (1964) Olympics also

ran marathon barefoot in Rome

Olympics Bikilas winning time

21516 was a World Record and

still it is the second fastest barefoot

marathon The world record for the

fastest barefoot marathon

(21200) is held by this humble

Bihari Naib-Subedar of Indian

Army from Buxar Shivnath Singh

The great athlete died at the age of

57 years in Jamshedpur on June 6

2003 One of his fellow athletes

while recollecting the kind soul

said ldquoThis generous athlete once

divided the Rs10000 he received

from the Bihar government for his

achievements among his team-

mates He handed over half the

amount to colleague Satpal Singh

who had finished second in a

marathonrdquo He remains the only

recipient of Presidents Vishesh

Seva Medal among athletes of

Jharkhand and Bihar

Written by --- Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu works for Reserve Bank

of India and can be reached at

bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 8: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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Dasrath Manjhi - A symbol of Bihari resilience

His eyes were moist with

enchantment as he stood there

watching the road through the pass

without batting his eyelid Today his

resolve had borne fruit His resolve

could only be compared with that of

the legendary Bhagirath who

chiseled the mighty Himalayas to

bring the holy Ganges to earth Then

he looked at his palms and started

to ruminate For the last twenty two

years he had been chiseling away at

the mountain single-handedly and

today his effort had borne fruit

Then in a flash his tears of happiness

became those of sorrow and started

to fall on the rocks in a stream His

mood turned somber as he

remembered his departed wife It

was her suffering that had made

him take this seemingly impossible

task of creating a path through the

mountain all by him It was she who

was his inspiration for achieving the

impossible task Alas she had passed

away before the task could be

completed Perhaps this is what HE

had willed

Then the stream of tears came to an

abrupt halt The weight of sorrow

on his heart lifted slowly and he

started to smile to himself So what

if his wife was not there to savour

this moment His village folks would

now traverse 80 km less to reach

the town through his path It was

true that he had taken up this

Herculean task by seeing the

shadow of helplessness on his dear

wifes face but then wasnt he

already feeling impatient at the

sufferings of his people The path

had to be made and he had made it

He jolted himself to return to the

real world from his dream world and

started to walk to the point where

he had started his chiseling His joy

knew no bounds as he traversed

through the rocky path that he had

created alone This great soul was

Dasrath Manjhi a resident of the 25

house hamlet of Gehlaur in the Gaya

district of Bihar His is a name in the

tradition of the great saint Kabir

who was also illiterate like

Dasrath Manjhi and had a great

desire to break the shackles of

sufferings for the masses

One day a thirsty Manjhi was

impatiently waiting for his wife to

fetch him water from the other

side of the mountain The

unforgiving summer of Gaya had

parched his throat dry as the sun

beat down mercilessly and he

anxiously waited for her to fetch

the life giving water She had taken

longer than usual Then he saw the

silhouette of his wife in the

distance coming back empty

handed He asked in a tone of

hopelessness mixed with surprise

Why are you coming back empty

handed What happened to the

earthen vessel

Wife could barely control herself as

she replied with sorrow written all

over her face that she could not

fetch water for him as she slipped

and fell down In the process the

earthen pot broke and she had to

return empty handed She could

neither fetch water for him to

quench his thirst nor could she

save the pot itself He saw the grief

and helplessness on his wifes face

Guilt ridden helplessness was

streaming out in the form of tears

from her eyes This image got

etched on his mental screen

Dashrath Manjhi started to

contemplate My god this hill is

standing like a mountain in the

path of my people for generations

This is coming in the way between

our thirst and water It has to be

removed He kept thinking for days

on end His manliness got aroused

and one day he decided to cut it

out of the way He took a vow that

he would not sit idle till he had cut

a path through the mountain He

took the chisel and the hammer in

his hand and started his expedition

And thus started the resolve to

capture the mountain ndash the

mountain of Gilhaur in Gaya

district Some people would

ridicule him Some would look with

utter amazement at his gargantuan

effort to chisel the mountain away

But he was not concerned by either

praise or ridicule He just kept at

his work chiseling the mountain

alone He even shifted his hut near

the mountain so that he need not

waste his time in moving back and

forth

After twenty two long years of

unbroken effort he had managed

to dig a pathway ndash fifteen to

twenty feet broad and an amazing

three hundred and sixty feet long

And this path would reduce the

distance with the nearest town by

80 kilometers The villagers would

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not have to go around the

mountain to reach Wazirgunj again

This is not the only instance of the

steely resolve of Dasrath Manjhi

He once decided to go to Delhi He

did not have enough money to

undertake the journey So he

decided to walk all the way a

distance of over one thousand

kilometers During this unique

journey he took the signature of

the station masters of the railway

stations along the way in his diary

This man of single minded

determination wished to have a

hospital opened at his village on a

five acre plot When he met the

Chief Minister of the state

Mr Nitish Kumar Nitish felt so

overwhelmed that he got up from

his chair and asked Dasrath Manjhi

to sit there As the old saying goes

a man is known by his deed Indeed

the illiterate Dalit from Gilhaur has

shown his sublime character by his

steely resolve and his

determination to bring

development to his impoverished

people The district administration

honored him with a special award

Post script The last few days

of Dasrath Manjhi was spent

fighting cancer He passed away on

August 18 at the age of 80 years

He was given a state burial by the

Government of Bihar

This article was originally written

by Udai Narayan Choudhury in

Hindi the then speaker of Bihar

assembly and was published in the

book ldquoGauravshali Biharrdquo released

by ONE BIHAR English translation

is done by TV Sinha (TV Sinha is a

senior executive with a software

company and based in Mumbai he

can be can be reached at

tvsinhagmailcom)

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Right to education

The first task has to spread

awareness about the legislature

amongst following stakeholders

a Schools ndash Government and

private

b Parents and Students

c Local authorities enforcing and

implementing

d State government

e Central government

f Teachers

g NGOs

h Allied agencies

Following is the list of highlighted

sections from the legislation and

what are the questions that we

need to answer while evaluating

and assessing the implementation

of RTE

Section 1(2) Has RTE been

implemented all across in Bihar

(Considering that we are taking

Bihar as our population and a

smaller set of districts inside Bihar

as the sample set for our study)

Section 3(1) Percentage of

coverage of children in the defined

age bracket in the defined area

Section 3(2) Is any fee (or any

other expenses) being charged by

the schools from students Are

disabled students treated like the

other students What are the

various forms of discriminations

against them

Section 4 Is appropriate training

being provided to students who are

inducted for the first time in a class

based on their age What is the

quality of the training and how is it

conducted and evaluated Is

education being provided to those

children who are more than 14

years of age and have not

completed elementary education

(This might not be in place right

now so the focus will also be on

evaluating the plans that the

educational institutions have on

implementing it Also the

associated NGOs which have been

already working in this area needs

to be assessed to find out their plan

of action to help implement this)

Section 5 Is speedy transfer of

child from one school to another

being done properly or not What

are the problems children facing

due to formalities like transfer

certificates

Section 6 What is the spread of

the schools Are local authorities

setting up schools in the region

with a target of 3 years in

mind(Definition of a neighborhood

school would change for different

terrains Eg in hills this need to be

seen according to the difficulties

the students face in reaching their

destinations Also assessing the

social and demographic aspects of

an area like how far some

conservative families will send their

girls for education)

Section 7(6) What is the national

curriculum that the central

government has formed is it being

usedimplementedduplicated in

the state as well

(The need for education in local

languages has been said again and

again Assessing the need and

possibility for the same and also

finding localnational players that

can help with this)

What are the standards that are

formed for the training of

teachers What is the enforcing

mechanism for the same Are the

teachersrsquo trainers following these

standards or not

(Need to assess the teacher

training modules at all levels

Creating an assessment module

specifically for teachers to gauge

their knowledgeskill and

motivation levels After assessment

is completed creating training

`

modules in coordination with

government authorities like DIET to

create robust and state specific

teacher training module)

What are the technical support and

resources provided by the

government for promoting

innovations research planning and

capacity building

Section 8 What are the

enrollment attendance and

completion rates

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

Is there discrimination against the

children belonging to weaker

sections or disadvantages group

What is the status of infrastructure

in the terms of availability of

essentials like rooms power

toilets TLM mid-day meals

teaching staff etc

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

How the selection and admission

being done and is it confirming to

prescribed standards

(Major focus for this will be private

schools in cities and towns The

intent behind this is ensuring that

no one is denied quality education

because of lack of financial support

and also ensuring no financial

bullying by schools This would

require assistance with NGOs

working in citiestowns on

education and RTI)

Does quality of education meet the

norms specified in schedule

Section 12 Reimbursement to

private school against

reservations

Section 13 Capitation fees and

Screening processes Is punishment

against contraventions enforced

Section 14 Are children denied

admission due to lack of

documentation

Section 15 Is admission allowed

during any time of the year

Section 16 The law prevents

school to fail or expel a student

What changes schools are making

in their evaluation system to

integrate this scheme in their

system

Section 21 Has the school formed

school management committee

What is the composition for the

same What are its functions and

how is it documented

(This would again need assistance

of the local NGOs and local

authorities for a regular vigil In

spite of just creating a rule It can

be made binding on the schools to

submit monthly information about

the activities and meetings of the

school management committee)

Section 23 Conformance to

minimum qualification

Section 25 What is the teacher-

pupil ratio What was it last year

(Historical data analysis to be done

for the same This would also

include assessment of single

teacher teaching multiple classes

and its impact)

What are the other non-

educational works that the teacher

is involved in Who would do them

if the teacher doesnrsquot

Section 29 How the curriculum is

being set is the agency taking care

of all the mentioned points in the

section If yes how If no why

Section 30 Are there board exams

in the state board or school

Certificate of elementary

education(Schools like DAV have

national level board exams in class

eight which is prohibited now)

copy Kumar Ankit ndash Kumar Ankit is

currently studying at XLRI

Jamshedpur and is founder amp

Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

`

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes

If achievement lies in being the

best greatness is acquired by

remaining the best However true

greatness is bestowed on those

selected few who remain the best

forever There has been no other

Indian athlete whose record

remained unsurpassed for more

than three decades now except

Shivnath Singhrsquos national record in

Marathon made in 1978

Born on July 11 1946 in the

Manjaria village of Buxar district of

Bihar Shivnath Singh joined army

at an early age where he developed

a liking for long distance running

particularly 5000 meter and 10000

meter A gold medalist in 5000

meter in Tehran Asiad (1974) and

recipient of Arjuna Award same

year the best in Shivnath was

however to be seen in the longer

version of race ie Marathon two

years later where he came a

remarkable 11th

in a very strong

line up and in an Olympic Game

which was not marred by any

major boycotts Remarkably he ran

this most enduring race (42195

km) for the first time only in the

trial of Montreal Olympics India

Today in its obituary to the great

runner wrote ldquoHe finished 11th in

the Montreal Olympics in a race

that included Lasse Viren and Frank

Shorter Indian athletics would give

its limbs for a performance of the

same kind todayrdquo

For a better perspective it may be

mentioned that post Shivnath

Singh no other Indian athlete has

even qualified for the main event

of Marathon in the Olympics till

date Later in Jalandhar in 1978

Shivnath clocked 21200 a most

significant national record which

still stands intact

The most noteworthy thing about

Shivnath Singhrsquos running was that

he ran barefoot Barefoot running

even long distance is not

uncommon particularly among

amateurs However at such high

competition level Shivnath Singh

was the only athlete with such

preference It may be mentioned

here that the greatest ever

marathon runner of the world

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia two times

Gold medal winner in Rome (1960)

and Tokyo (1964) Olympics also

ran marathon barefoot in Rome

Olympics Bikilas winning time

21516 was a World Record and

still it is the second fastest barefoot

marathon The world record for the

fastest barefoot marathon

(21200) is held by this humble

Bihari Naib-Subedar of Indian

Army from Buxar Shivnath Singh

The great athlete died at the age of

57 years in Jamshedpur on June 6

2003 One of his fellow athletes

while recollecting the kind soul

said ldquoThis generous athlete once

divided the Rs10000 he received

from the Bihar government for his

achievements among his team-

mates He handed over half the

amount to colleague Satpal Singh

who had finished second in a

marathonrdquo He remains the only

recipient of Presidents Vishesh

Seva Medal among athletes of

Jharkhand and Bihar

Written by --- Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu works for Reserve Bank

of India and can be reached at

bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

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Required

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bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

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Benefits

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Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

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Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

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Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

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Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

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Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

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productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

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wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

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5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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not have to go around the

mountain to reach Wazirgunj again

This is not the only instance of the

steely resolve of Dasrath Manjhi

He once decided to go to Delhi He

did not have enough money to

undertake the journey So he

decided to walk all the way a

distance of over one thousand

kilometers During this unique

journey he took the signature of

the station masters of the railway

stations along the way in his diary

This man of single minded

determination wished to have a

hospital opened at his village on a

five acre plot When he met the

Chief Minister of the state

Mr Nitish Kumar Nitish felt so

overwhelmed that he got up from

his chair and asked Dasrath Manjhi

to sit there As the old saying goes

a man is known by his deed Indeed

the illiterate Dalit from Gilhaur has

shown his sublime character by his

steely resolve and his

determination to bring

development to his impoverished

people The district administration

honored him with a special award

Post script The last few days

of Dasrath Manjhi was spent

fighting cancer He passed away on

August 18 at the age of 80 years

He was given a state burial by the

Government of Bihar

This article was originally written

by Udai Narayan Choudhury in

Hindi the then speaker of Bihar

assembly and was published in the

book ldquoGauravshali Biharrdquo released

by ONE BIHAR English translation

is done by TV Sinha (TV Sinha is a

senior executive with a software

company and based in Mumbai he

can be can be reached at

tvsinhagmailcom)

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Right to education

The first task has to spread

awareness about the legislature

amongst following stakeholders

a Schools ndash Government and

private

b Parents and Students

c Local authorities enforcing and

implementing

d State government

e Central government

f Teachers

g NGOs

h Allied agencies

Following is the list of highlighted

sections from the legislation and

what are the questions that we

need to answer while evaluating

and assessing the implementation

of RTE

Section 1(2) Has RTE been

implemented all across in Bihar

(Considering that we are taking

Bihar as our population and a

smaller set of districts inside Bihar

as the sample set for our study)

Section 3(1) Percentage of

coverage of children in the defined

age bracket in the defined area

Section 3(2) Is any fee (or any

other expenses) being charged by

the schools from students Are

disabled students treated like the

other students What are the

various forms of discriminations

against them

Section 4 Is appropriate training

being provided to students who are

inducted for the first time in a class

based on their age What is the

quality of the training and how is it

conducted and evaluated Is

education being provided to those

children who are more than 14

years of age and have not

completed elementary education

(This might not be in place right

now so the focus will also be on

evaluating the plans that the

educational institutions have on

implementing it Also the

associated NGOs which have been

already working in this area needs

to be assessed to find out their plan

of action to help implement this)

Section 5 Is speedy transfer of

child from one school to another

being done properly or not What

are the problems children facing

due to formalities like transfer

certificates

Section 6 What is the spread of

the schools Are local authorities

setting up schools in the region

with a target of 3 years in

mind(Definition of a neighborhood

school would change for different

terrains Eg in hills this need to be

seen according to the difficulties

the students face in reaching their

destinations Also assessing the

social and demographic aspects of

an area like how far some

conservative families will send their

girls for education)

Section 7(6) What is the national

curriculum that the central

government has formed is it being

usedimplementedduplicated in

the state as well

(The need for education in local

languages has been said again and

again Assessing the need and

possibility for the same and also

finding localnational players that

can help with this)

What are the standards that are

formed for the training of

teachers What is the enforcing

mechanism for the same Are the

teachersrsquo trainers following these

standards or not

(Need to assess the teacher

training modules at all levels

Creating an assessment module

specifically for teachers to gauge

their knowledgeskill and

motivation levels After assessment

is completed creating training

`

modules in coordination with

government authorities like DIET to

create robust and state specific

teacher training module)

What are the technical support and

resources provided by the

government for promoting

innovations research planning and

capacity building

Section 8 What are the

enrollment attendance and

completion rates

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

Is there discrimination against the

children belonging to weaker

sections or disadvantages group

What is the status of infrastructure

in the terms of availability of

essentials like rooms power

toilets TLM mid-day meals

teaching staff etc

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

How the selection and admission

being done and is it confirming to

prescribed standards

(Major focus for this will be private

schools in cities and towns The

intent behind this is ensuring that

no one is denied quality education

because of lack of financial support

and also ensuring no financial

bullying by schools This would

require assistance with NGOs

working in citiestowns on

education and RTI)

Does quality of education meet the

norms specified in schedule

Section 12 Reimbursement to

private school against

reservations

Section 13 Capitation fees and

Screening processes Is punishment

against contraventions enforced

Section 14 Are children denied

admission due to lack of

documentation

Section 15 Is admission allowed

during any time of the year

Section 16 The law prevents

school to fail or expel a student

What changes schools are making

in their evaluation system to

integrate this scheme in their

system

Section 21 Has the school formed

school management committee

What is the composition for the

same What are its functions and

how is it documented

(This would again need assistance

of the local NGOs and local

authorities for a regular vigil In

spite of just creating a rule It can

be made binding on the schools to

submit monthly information about

the activities and meetings of the

school management committee)

Section 23 Conformance to

minimum qualification

Section 25 What is the teacher-

pupil ratio What was it last year

(Historical data analysis to be done

for the same This would also

include assessment of single

teacher teaching multiple classes

and its impact)

What are the other non-

educational works that the teacher

is involved in Who would do them

if the teacher doesnrsquot

Section 29 How the curriculum is

being set is the agency taking care

of all the mentioned points in the

section If yes how If no why

Section 30 Are there board exams

in the state board or school

Certificate of elementary

education(Schools like DAV have

national level board exams in class

eight which is prohibited now)

copy Kumar Ankit ndash Kumar Ankit is

currently studying at XLRI

Jamshedpur and is founder amp

Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

`

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes

If achievement lies in being the

best greatness is acquired by

remaining the best However true

greatness is bestowed on those

selected few who remain the best

forever There has been no other

Indian athlete whose record

remained unsurpassed for more

than three decades now except

Shivnath Singhrsquos national record in

Marathon made in 1978

Born on July 11 1946 in the

Manjaria village of Buxar district of

Bihar Shivnath Singh joined army

at an early age where he developed

a liking for long distance running

particularly 5000 meter and 10000

meter A gold medalist in 5000

meter in Tehran Asiad (1974) and

recipient of Arjuna Award same

year the best in Shivnath was

however to be seen in the longer

version of race ie Marathon two

years later where he came a

remarkable 11th

in a very strong

line up and in an Olympic Game

which was not marred by any

major boycotts Remarkably he ran

this most enduring race (42195

km) for the first time only in the

trial of Montreal Olympics India

Today in its obituary to the great

runner wrote ldquoHe finished 11th in

the Montreal Olympics in a race

that included Lasse Viren and Frank

Shorter Indian athletics would give

its limbs for a performance of the

same kind todayrdquo

For a better perspective it may be

mentioned that post Shivnath

Singh no other Indian athlete has

even qualified for the main event

of Marathon in the Olympics till

date Later in Jalandhar in 1978

Shivnath clocked 21200 a most

significant national record which

still stands intact

The most noteworthy thing about

Shivnath Singhrsquos running was that

he ran barefoot Barefoot running

even long distance is not

uncommon particularly among

amateurs However at such high

competition level Shivnath Singh

was the only athlete with such

preference It may be mentioned

here that the greatest ever

marathon runner of the world

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia two times

Gold medal winner in Rome (1960)

and Tokyo (1964) Olympics also

ran marathon barefoot in Rome

Olympics Bikilas winning time

21516 was a World Record and

still it is the second fastest barefoot

marathon The world record for the

fastest barefoot marathon

(21200) is held by this humble

Bihari Naib-Subedar of Indian

Army from Buxar Shivnath Singh

The great athlete died at the age of

57 years in Jamshedpur on June 6

2003 One of his fellow athletes

while recollecting the kind soul

said ldquoThis generous athlete once

divided the Rs10000 he received

from the Bihar government for his

achievements among his team-

mates He handed over half the

amount to colleague Satpal Singh

who had finished second in a

marathonrdquo He remains the only

recipient of Presidents Vishesh

Seva Medal among athletes of

Jharkhand and Bihar

Written by --- Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu works for Reserve Bank

of India and can be reached at

bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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Right to education

The first task has to spread

awareness about the legislature

amongst following stakeholders

a Schools ndash Government and

private

b Parents and Students

c Local authorities enforcing and

implementing

d State government

e Central government

f Teachers

g NGOs

h Allied agencies

Following is the list of highlighted

sections from the legislation and

what are the questions that we

need to answer while evaluating

and assessing the implementation

of RTE

Section 1(2) Has RTE been

implemented all across in Bihar

(Considering that we are taking

Bihar as our population and a

smaller set of districts inside Bihar

as the sample set for our study)

Section 3(1) Percentage of

coverage of children in the defined

age bracket in the defined area

Section 3(2) Is any fee (or any

other expenses) being charged by

the schools from students Are

disabled students treated like the

other students What are the

various forms of discriminations

against them

Section 4 Is appropriate training

being provided to students who are

inducted for the first time in a class

based on their age What is the

quality of the training and how is it

conducted and evaluated Is

education being provided to those

children who are more than 14

years of age and have not

completed elementary education

(This might not be in place right

now so the focus will also be on

evaluating the plans that the

educational institutions have on

implementing it Also the

associated NGOs which have been

already working in this area needs

to be assessed to find out their plan

of action to help implement this)

Section 5 Is speedy transfer of

child from one school to another

being done properly or not What

are the problems children facing

due to formalities like transfer

certificates

Section 6 What is the spread of

the schools Are local authorities

setting up schools in the region

with a target of 3 years in

mind(Definition of a neighborhood

school would change for different

terrains Eg in hills this need to be

seen according to the difficulties

the students face in reaching their

destinations Also assessing the

social and demographic aspects of

an area like how far some

conservative families will send their

girls for education)

Section 7(6) What is the national

curriculum that the central

government has formed is it being

usedimplementedduplicated in

the state as well

(The need for education in local

languages has been said again and

again Assessing the need and

possibility for the same and also

finding localnational players that

can help with this)

What are the standards that are

formed for the training of

teachers What is the enforcing

mechanism for the same Are the

teachersrsquo trainers following these

standards or not

(Need to assess the teacher

training modules at all levels

Creating an assessment module

specifically for teachers to gauge

their knowledgeskill and

motivation levels After assessment

is completed creating training

`

modules in coordination with

government authorities like DIET to

create robust and state specific

teacher training module)

What are the technical support and

resources provided by the

government for promoting

innovations research planning and

capacity building

Section 8 What are the

enrollment attendance and

completion rates

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

Is there discrimination against the

children belonging to weaker

sections or disadvantages group

What is the status of infrastructure

in the terms of availability of

essentials like rooms power

toilets TLM mid-day meals

teaching staff etc

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

How the selection and admission

being done and is it confirming to

prescribed standards

(Major focus for this will be private

schools in cities and towns The

intent behind this is ensuring that

no one is denied quality education

because of lack of financial support

and also ensuring no financial

bullying by schools This would

require assistance with NGOs

working in citiestowns on

education and RTI)

Does quality of education meet the

norms specified in schedule

Section 12 Reimbursement to

private school against

reservations

Section 13 Capitation fees and

Screening processes Is punishment

against contraventions enforced

Section 14 Are children denied

admission due to lack of

documentation

Section 15 Is admission allowed

during any time of the year

Section 16 The law prevents

school to fail or expel a student

What changes schools are making

in their evaluation system to

integrate this scheme in their

system

Section 21 Has the school formed

school management committee

What is the composition for the

same What are its functions and

how is it documented

(This would again need assistance

of the local NGOs and local

authorities for a regular vigil In

spite of just creating a rule It can

be made binding on the schools to

submit monthly information about

the activities and meetings of the

school management committee)

Section 23 Conformance to

minimum qualification

Section 25 What is the teacher-

pupil ratio What was it last year

(Historical data analysis to be done

for the same This would also

include assessment of single

teacher teaching multiple classes

and its impact)

What are the other non-

educational works that the teacher

is involved in Who would do them

if the teacher doesnrsquot

Section 29 How the curriculum is

being set is the agency taking care

of all the mentioned points in the

section If yes how If no why

Section 30 Are there board exams

in the state board or school

Certificate of elementary

education(Schools like DAV have

national level board exams in class

eight which is prohibited now)

copy Kumar Ankit ndash Kumar Ankit is

currently studying at XLRI

Jamshedpur and is founder amp

Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

`

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes

If achievement lies in being the

best greatness is acquired by

remaining the best However true

greatness is bestowed on those

selected few who remain the best

forever There has been no other

Indian athlete whose record

remained unsurpassed for more

than three decades now except

Shivnath Singhrsquos national record in

Marathon made in 1978

Born on July 11 1946 in the

Manjaria village of Buxar district of

Bihar Shivnath Singh joined army

at an early age where he developed

a liking for long distance running

particularly 5000 meter and 10000

meter A gold medalist in 5000

meter in Tehran Asiad (1974) and

recipient of Arjuna Award same

year the best in Shivnath was

however to be seen in the longer

version of race ie Marathon two

years later where he came a

remarkable 11th

in a very strong

line up and in an Olympic Game

which was not marred by any

major boycotts Remarkably he ran

this most enduring race (42195

km) for the first time only in the

trial of Montreal Olympics India

Today in its obituary to the great

runner wrote ldquoHe finished 11th in

the Montreal Olympics in a race

that included Lasse Viren and Frank

Shorter Indian athletics would give

its limbs for a performance of the

same kind todayrdquo

For a better perspective it may be

mentioned that post Shivnath

Singh no other Indian athlete has

even qualified for the main event

of Marathon in the Olympics till

date Later in Jalandhar in 1978

Shivnath clocked 21200 a most

significant national record which

still stands intact

The most noteworthy thing about

Shivnath Singhrsquos running was that

he ran barefoot Barefoot running

even long distance is not

uncommon particularly among

amateurs However at such high

competition level Shivnath Singh

was the only athlete with such

preference It may be mentioned

here that the greatest ever

marathon runner of the world

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia two times

Gold medal winner in Rome (1960)

and Tokyo (1964) Olympics also

ran marathon barefoot in Rome

Olympics Bikilas winning time

21516 was a World Record and

still it is the second fastest barefoot

marathon The world record for the

fastest barefoot marathon

(21200) is held by this humble

Bihari Naib-Subedar of Indian

Army from Buxar Shivnath Singh

The great athlete died at the age of

57 years in Jamshedpur on June 6

2003 One of his fellow athletes

while recollecting the kind soul

said ldquoThis generous athlete once

divided the Rs10000 he received

from the Bihar government for his

achievements among his team-

mates He handed over half the

amount to colleague Satpal Singh

who had finished second in a

marathonrdquo He remains the only

recipient of Presidents Vishesh

Seva Medal among athletes of

Jharkhand and Bihar

Written by --- Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu works for Reserve Bank

of India and can be reached at

bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 11: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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modules in coordination with

government authorities like DIET to

create robust and state specific

teacher training module)

What are the technical support and

resources provided by the

government for promoting

innovations research planning and

capacity building

Section 8 What are the

enrollment attendance and

completion rates

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

Is there discrimination against the

children belonging to weaker

sections or disadvantages group

What is the status of infrastructure

in the terms of availability of

essentials like rooms power

toilets TLM mid-day meals

teaching staff etc

(This will require partnering with

Pratham (ASER department) for

most of this information Also doing

some primary surveying in the field

for the same)

How the selection and admission

being done and is it confirming to

prescribed standards

(Major focus for this will be private

schools in cities and towns The

intent behind this is ensuring that

no one is denied quality education

because of lack of financial support

and also ensuring no financial

bullying by schools This would

require assistance with NGOs

working in citiestowns on

education and RTI)

Does quality of education meet the

norms specified in schedule

Section 12 Reimbursement to

private school against

reservations

Section 13 Capitation fees and

Screening processes Is punishment

against contraventions enforced

Section 14 Are children denied

admission due to lack of

documentation

Section 15 Is admission allowed

during any time of the year

Section 16 The law prevents

school to fail or expel a student

What changes schools are making

in their evaluation system to

integrate this scheme in their

system

Section 21 Has the school formed

school management committee

What is the composition for the

same What are its functions and

how is it documented

(This would again need assistance

of the local NGOs and local

authorities for a regular vigil In

spite of just creating a rule It can

be made binding on the schools to

submit monthly information about

the activities and meetings of the

school management committee)

Section 23 Conformance to

minimum qualification

Section 25 What is the teacher-

pupil ratio What was it last year

(Historical data analysis to be done

for the same This would also

include assessment of single

teacher teaching multiple classes

and its impact)

What are the other non-

educational works that the teacher

is involved in Who would do them

if the teacher doesnrsquot

Section 29 How the curriculum is

being set is the agency taking care

of all the mentioned points in the

section If yes how If no why

Section 30 Are there board exams

in the state board or school

Certificate of elementary

education(Schools like DAV have

national level board exams in class

eight which is prohibited now)

copy Kumar Ankit ndash Kumar Ankit is

currently studying at XLRI

Jamshedpur and is founder amp

Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

`

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes

If achievement lies in being the

best greatness is acquired by

remaining the best However true

greatness is bestowed on those

selected few who remain the best

forever There has been no other

Indian athlete whose record

remained unsurpassed for more

than three decades now except

Shivnath Singhrsquos national record in

Marathon made in 1978

Born on July 11 1946 in the

Manjaria village of Buxar district of

Bihar Shivnath Singh joined army

at an early age where he developed

a liking for long distance running

particularly 5000 meter and 10000

meter A gold medalist in 5000

meter in Tehran Asiad (1974) and

recipient of Arjuna Award same

year the best in Shivnath was

however to be seen in the longer

version of race ie Marathon two

years later where he came a

remarkable 11th

in a very strong

line up and in an Olympic Game

which was not marred by any

major boycotts Remarkably he ran

this most enduring race (42195

km) for the first time only in the

trial of Montreal Olympics India

Today in its obituary to the great

runner wrote ldquoHe finished 11th in

the Montreal Olympics in a race

that included Lasse Viren and Frank

Shorter Indian athletics would give

its limbs for a performance of the

same kind todayrdquo

For a better perspective it may be

mentioned that post Shivnath

Singh no other Indian athlete has

even qualified for the main event

of Marathon in the Olympics till

date Later in Jalandhar in 1978

Shivnath clocked 21200 a most

significant national record which

still stands intact

The most noteworthy thing about

Shivnath Singhrsquos running was that

he ran barefoot Barefoot running

even long distance is not

uncommon particularly among

amateurs However at such high

competition level Shivnath Singh

was the only athlete with such

preference It may be mentioned

here that the greatest ever

marathon runner of the world

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia two times

Gold medal winner in Rome (1960)

and Tokyo (1964) Olympics also

ran marathon barefoot in Rome

Olympics Bikilas winning time

21516 was a World Record and

still it is the second fastest barefoot

marathon The world record for the

fastest barefoot marathon

(21200) is held by this humble

Bihari Naib-Subedar of Indian

Army from Buxar Shivnath Singh

The great athlete died at the age of

57 years in Jamshedpur on June 6

2003 One of his fellow athletes

while recollecting the kind soul

said ldquoThis generous athlete once

divided the Rs10000 he received

from the Bihar government for his

achievements among his team-

mates He handed over half the

amount to colleague Satpal Singh

who had finished second in a

marathonrdquo He remains the only

recipient of Presidents Vishesh

Seva Medal among athletes of

Jharkhand and Bihar

Written by --- Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu works for Reserve Bank

of India and can be reached at

bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

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लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

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काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

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Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

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श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

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बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 12: THE BIHAR 1st edition

`

Shivnath Singh the greatest among the Indian athletes

If achievement lies in being the

best greatness is acquired by

remaining the best However true

greatness is bestowed on those

selected few who remain the best

forever There has been no other

Indian athlete whose record

remained unsurpassed for more

than three decades now except

Shivnath Singhrsquos national record in

Marathon made in 1978

Born on July 11 1946 in the

Manjaria village of Buxar district of

Bihar Shivnath Singh joined army

at an early age where he developed

a liking for long distance running

particularly 5000 meter and 10000

meter A gold medalist in 5000

meter in Tehran Asiad (1974) and

recipient of Arjuna Award same

year the best in Shivnath was

however to be seen in the longer

version of race ie Marathon two

years later where he came a

remarkable 11th

in a very strong

line up and in an Olympic Game

which was not marred by any

major boycotts Remarkably he ran

this most enduring race (42195

km) for the first time only in the

trial of Montreal Olympics India

Today in its obituary to the great

runner wrote ldquoHe finished 11th in

the Montreal Olympics in a race

that included Lasse Viren and Frank

Shorter Indian athletics would give

its limbs for a performance of the

same kind todayrdquo

For a better perspective it may be

mentioned that post Shivnath

Singh no other Indian athlete has

even qualified for the main event

of Marathon in the Olympics till

date Later in Jalandhar in 1978

Shivnath clocked 21200 a most

significant national record which

still stands intact

The most noteworthy thing about

Shivnath Singhrsquos running was that

he ran barefoot Barefoot running

even long distance is not

uncommon particularly among

amateurs However at such high

competition level Shivnath Singh

was the only athlete with such

preference It may be mentioned

here that the greatest ever

marathon runner of the world

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia two times

Gold medal winner in Rome (1960)

and Tokyo (1964) Olympics also

ran marathon barefoot in Rome

Olympics Bikilas winning time

21516 was a World Record and

still it is the second fastest barefoot

marathon The world record for the

fastest barefoot marathon

(21200) is held by this humble

Bihari Naib-Subedar of Indian

Army from Buxar Shivnath Singh

The great athlete died at the age of

57 years in Jamshedpur on June 6

2003 One of his fellow athletes

while recollecting the kind soul

said ldquoThis generous athlete once

divided the Rs10000 he received

from the Bihar government for his

achievements among his team-

mates He handed over half the

amount to colleague Satpal Singh

who had finished second in a

marathonrdquo He remains the only

recipient of Presidents Vishesh

Seva Medal among athletes of

Jharkhand and Bihar

Written by --- Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu works for Reserve Bank

of India and can be reached at

bhartendu_351rediffmailcom )

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

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दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

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अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

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यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

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पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

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हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

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You can reach Nalanda Multi

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9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

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Step A (Awareness amp Team

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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Nalanda and the pursuit of science

lsquoNalanda stood for the passion of

propagating knowledge

understanding Amartya Sens

keynote address at the 98th Indian

Science Congress in Chennai on

January 4

The subject of this talk is Nalanda

and the pursuit of science but

before I go into that rather

complex issue I must say

something about Nalanda itself

since it is still an obscure entity for

most people in the world Since the

university is being right now re-

established under a joint Asian

initiative the fact that Nalanda was

a very ancient university is

becoming better known But how

does it compare with other old

universities in the world

Well what is the oldest university

in the world In answering this

question ones mind turns to

Bologna initiated in 1088 to Paris

in 1091 and to other old citadels of

learning including of course Oxford

University which was established in

1167 and Cambridge in 1209

Where does Nalanda fit into this

picture ldquoNowhererdquo is the short

answer if we are looking for a

university in continuous existence

Nalanda was violently destroyed in

an Afghan attack led by the

ruthless conqueror Bakhtiyar Khilji

in 1193 shortly after the beginning

of Oxford University and shortly

before the initiation of Cambridge

Nalanda university an

internationally renowned centre of

higher education in India which

was established in the early fifth

century was ending its continuous

existence of more than seven

hundred years as Oxford and

Cambridge were being founded

and even compared with the oldest

European university Bologna

Nalanda was more than six

hundred years old when Bologna

was born Had it not been

destroyed and had it managed to

survive to our time Nalanda would

be by a long margin the oldest

university in the world Another

distinguished university which did

not stay in existence continuously

either viz Al-Azhar University in

Cairo with which Nalanda is often

compared was established at a

time 970 AD when Nalanda was

already more than five hundred

years old

That is enough vaunting of age (as

you know in India we take age

quite seriously) and I hope you

have got the point we are talking

about the oldest university in the

world by a long margin that is if

we do not insist on continuous

existence The university is being

re-started right now and since I

happen to have the difficult task of

chairing its interim governing body

I am finding out how hard it is to

re-establish a university after an

800 year hiatus But we are getting

there This meeting here gives me

an opportunity to recollect the

pursuit of science in old Nalanda

which will inspire and guide our

long-run efforts in new Nalanda I

say long run because mainly for

cost reasons mdash indeed entirely for

cost reasons mdash we cannot start the

science faculties immediately

(physical and biological sciences

cost much more money than the

humanities and the social sciences

do) The recollection mdash and more

challengingly assessment mdash of the

scientific tradition in old Nalanda

are important right now partly

because we have to start thinking

about the long run (even as we try

to raise money for initiation and

expansion) but also because a

scientific attitude and disciplined

thought are important for the

entire conception of new Nalanda

including the teaching of mdash and

research in mdash humanities (such as

history languages and linguistics

and comparative religion) as well

as the social sciences and the world

of practice (such as international

relations management and

development and information

technology) Let me identify a few

questions about the pursuit of

science in Nalanda First was the

old Nalanda sufficiently large to be

a factor in whatever pursuit it

might have been championing

Was it not merely a drop in an

ocean of superstition and

ignorance that some people see as

the characteristic feature of the

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

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Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

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5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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Indian old world you only have to

read James Mills ldquoHistory of Indiardquo

which was obligatory reading for all

British civil servants sent off to run

the Raj to see how firm and

politically important this

conception of the past was in

keeping modern India in check

Well Nalanda was an old centre of

learning that attracted students

from many countries in the world

particularly China and Tibet Korea

and Japan and the rest of Asia but

a few also from as far in the west

as Turkey Nalanda a residential

university had at its peak 10000

students studying various subjects

Chinese students in particular such

as Xuanzang and Yi Jing in the

seventh century wrote extensively

on what they saw and what they

particularly admired about the

educational standards in Nalanda

Incidentally Nalanda is the only

non-Chinese institution in which

any Chinese scholar was educated

in the history of ancient China

It is also important to recognize

that while Nalanda was very

special it was still a part of a larger

tradition of organised higher

education that developed in that

period in India mdash in Bihar in

particular In addition to Nalanda

there were in the vicinity other

such institutions such as

Vikramshila and Odantapuri

Indeed Xuangzang wrote about

them too even though he himself

studied in Nalanda There was a

larger social culture to which

Nalanda belonged and this is

important to recollect in thinking

about the tradition of Nalanda

The second question to ask is the

difficult one about the room for

science in what was after all a

religious institution Nalanda was a

Buddhist foundation as were

Vikramshila and Odantapuri and

surely the central focus of these

institutions were studies of

Buddhist philosophy and practice

The point to remember here is that

by the nature of the philosophy of

Buddha whose focus of preaching

was on enlightenment (the name

given to Gautama viz Buddha

itself means ldquoenlightenedrdquo) there

was a basic epistemic and ethical

curiosity in the tradition of

intellectual Buddhism that sought

knowledge in many different fields

Some of the fields were directly

related to Buddhist commitments

such as medicine and healthcare

others went with the development

and dissemination of Buddhist

culture such as architecture and

sculpture and still others linked

Buddhist intellectual queries with

interest in analytical discipline

Let me comment briefly on the last

mdash not specifically with reference to

Nalanda but as a way of

understanding better the Buddhist

intellectual impact One of the

connections on which evidence of

intellectual connections between

China and India is plentiful is the

impact of Buddhists in general and

of adherents of Tantric Buddhism

in particular on Chinese

mathematics and astronomy in the

seventh and eighth centuries in

the Tang period Yi Jing who was a

student of Nalanda and to whom I

referred earlier was one of many

translators of Tantric texts from

Sanskrit into Chinese Tantrism

became a major force in China in

the seventh and eighth centuries

and had followers among Chinese

intellectuals of the highest

standing Since many Tantric

scholars had a deep interest in

mathematics (perhaps connected

at least initially with Tantric

fascination with numbers) Tantric

mathematicians had a significant

influence on Chinese mathematics

as well

Indeed as Joseph Needham notes

ldquothe most important Tantrist was I-

Hsing (+672 to +717) the greatest

Chinese astronomer and

mathematician of his timerdquo

Needham goes on to remark that

ldquothis fact alone should give us

pause since it offers a clue to the

possible significance of this form of

Buddhism for all kinds of

observational and experimental

sciencesrdquo Yi Xing (or I-Hsing to use

Needhams spelling) who was in

fact never a student of Nalanda

but belonged to a tradition of

which Nalanda was one of the

results was fluent in Sanskrit (I

request the audience to be careful

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

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हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

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biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

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dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

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In response to fundraising

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new technology not every

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figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

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we believe is an incorrect way

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offline actions or buildling

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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of the distinction between Yi Xing

the mathematician and Yi Jing the

intellectual trained in Nalanda who

was among other things

interested in medicine) As a

Buddhist monk Yi Xing was familiar

with the Indian religious literature

but he had acquired a great

expertise also on Indian writings on

mathematics and astronomy

Despite his own religious

connection it would be a mistake

to assume that Yi Xings

mathematical or scientific work

was somehow motivated by

religious concerns As a general

mathematician who happened to

be also a Tantrist Yi Xing dealt with

a variety of analytical and

computational problems many of

which had no particular connection

with Tantrism or Buddhism at all

The combinatorial problems

tackled by Yi Xing included such

classic ones as ldquocalculating the

total number of possible situations

in chessrdquo Yi Xing was particularly

concerned with calendrical

calculations and even constructed

on imperial order a new calendar

for China

Calendrical studies in which Indian

astronomers located in China in the

eighth century along with Yi Xing

were particularly involved made

good use of the progress of

trigonometry that had already

occurred in India by then (going

much beyond the original Greek

roots of Indian trigonometry) The

movement east of Indian

trigonometry to China was a part of

a global exchange of ideas that also

went West around that time

Indeed this was

also about the time when Indian

trigonometry was having a major

impact on the Arab world (with

widely used Arabic translations of

the works of Aryabhata

Varahamihira Brahmagupta and

others) which would later

influence European mathematics as

well through the Arabs (Gherardo

of Cremona would make the first

Latin translation of Arab

mathematical texts that reported

on Indian work in 1150 just before

the time when Nalanda would

come to its sudden end)

It is this general intellectual

animation including animation in

analytical and scientific questions

that we have to appreciate in

interpreting what was going on in

old Nalanda I take the liberty of

mentioning here that it is not of

course unique to Nalanda that as a

religious foundation it

nevertheless pursued general

intellectual and scientific studies

the products of which were of

great interest also to people who

were not religious or did not share

the religion of the foundations

involved Isaac Newton was

religious mdash indeed very mystically

oriented mdash and while he

revolutionized the nature of

physics mathematics and optics

he had no problem with his (and

as it happens mine and Venky

Ramakrishnarsquos) colleges (that is

Trinitys) the-then religiosity and

did not raise the kind of questions

about compatibility that some later

Trinity-men like Henry Sidgwick

would with powerful arguments

The mixture of religion and science

was by no means unique to

Nalanda and to illustrate with

another example it was the

Christian university of Padua mdash one

of the earliest of the extant

universities in the world mdash that

produced Galileo Galilei (I was

incidentally amused when while

receiving an honorary doctorate at

Padua I heard Paul Ricoeur

another recipient chastising the

University of Padua for not

standing up sufficiently for Galileo

Ricoeurs arguments were

impeccable though it seemed a

little unfair to blame the current

Rector of Padua for Paduas lack of

support for Galileo) To what

extent such conflict arose in

Nalanda I do not know but as

more documents come to light we

may well find out whether there

were tensions in the relation

between science and religion in

Nalanda What is however

absolutely clear is that this

Buddhist foundation made much

room for the pursuit of analytical

and scientific subjects within the

campus of Nalanda University

A third question concerns the

subjects that were actually taught

in Nalanda Here we do have a

problem since the documents in

Nalanda were indiscriminatingly

burnt by Bakhtiyar and his

conquering army We have to rely

therefore of the accounts of

students of Nalanda who wrote

about what they had seen and

given the reticence of Indians to

write about history (a subject of

interest in itself) we have to rely

mostly on the accounts of outsiders

who did not share that reticence

such as Xuangzang and Yi Jing We

do know that among the subjects

taught and on which there was on-

going research were medicine

public health architecture

sculpture and astronomy in

addition to religion history law

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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and linguistics Nalanda such as Yi

Jing and Xuangzang were not

involved in mathematical studies

Those in China who were deeply

involved in Indian mathematics

such as Yi Xing did not train in

Nalanda There may have been

others in India or China or

elsewhere from Nalanda who were

involved in mathematics (a subject

that was flourishing in India in this

period) and whose documents

have been lost However we do

know from Indian accounts that

logic was a subject that was taught

in Nalanda and my guess is that

eventually evidence would emerge

on this part of the curriculum in

Nalanda as well

(Xuangzang a Tang dynasty famous

Chinese Buddhist monk who visited

Nalanda)

What about mathematics As it

happens the Chinese chroniclers

from Further indirect evidence in

the direction of the presence of

mathematics in Nalanda curriculum

was the inclusion of astronomy in

Nalanda Xuangzang comments on

that and refers elegantly to the

observational tower that seemed

to rest among the cloudy fog high

up and provided an eye-catching

sight in the Nalanda campus In

that period the progresses in Indian

and Chinese astronomy were

closely linked with developments

with mathematics particularly

trigonometry Indeed all the Indian

experts that the Chinese brought to

China for astronomical work were

mathematicians (one of these

Indian mathematicians became the

Director of the official Board of

Astronomy of China in the 8th

century) We do not know enough

about the ancestry of the Indian

mathematicians who went to China

to decide whether any of them had

Nalanda connections but we do

know that from early fifth century

Kusumpur in nearby Pataliputra

(Patna) was the place where the

mathematicians doing front-line

innovative work on the subject

were congregating

I end with two final remarks The

first one concerns an aspect of the

intellectual life of Nalanda that

emerges powerfully from the

accounts we do actually have about

Nalanda from Chinese as well as

Indian scholars The faculty and the

students in Nalanda loved to argue

and very often held argumentative

encounters I have discussed

elsewhere how deep this

argumentativeness is in Indian

intellectual history but I want to

add here that it is a part of the

scientific tradition as well to seek

arguments and defences refusing

to accept positions and claims on

grounds of faith There were plenty

of organised argumentative

matches going on in Nalanda and

this too fits in a very general way

into the scientific connections of

Nalanda

The final remark concerns the

passion for propagating knowledge

and understanding that Nalanda

stood for This was one reason for

its keenness to accept students

from abroad Xuangzang as well as

Yi Jing mentions the warm

welcome they received as they

arrived in Nalanda from China

Indeed Xuangzang used this

commitment in an argument with

the faculty in Nalanda when he was

asked mdash and pressed mdash to stay on

as a faculty member in Nalanda

after he had completed his studies

He mentioned his commitment

and here he invoked Buddha

himself to spread enlightenment

ldquoto all landsrdquo He asked the

rhetorical question ldquoWho would

wish to enjoy it alone and to forget

those who are not yet

enlightenedrdquo If the seeking of

evidence and vindication by critical

arguments is part of the tradition

of science so is the commitment to

move knowledge and

understanding beyond locality

Science has to fight parochialism

and Nalanda was firmly committed

to just that

(Dr Amartya Sen who won the

Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

and was awarded the Bharat Ratna

in 1999 is Professor of Economics

and Philosophy at Harvard

University in the US and chairman

of the Interim Governing Board of

Nalanda University)

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 17: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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Education sector

Education sector is one of the most

neglected sectors in the economy

In 1950rsquos when education sector

had an 8 share in the budget and

the government promised to

provide free and compulsory

education to all children literacy

rate was a meager 15

Subsequently over the years the

share of education sector has

reduced to an abysmal 27 in the

current budget plan outlay Though

overall literacy rate has increased

to 65 there is a lot to be desired

There is huge disparity among

literacy levels for men (75) and

women (52)

Over the years there have been

several government schemes and

plans in the form of National

Literacy Mission Sarva Siksha

Abhyan and now finally we have

the Right to Education Act But

somehow all these schemes have

failed to reach their objective

Several NGOrsquos have also come

forward to the cause with some of

the prominent names as Pratham

campaigns like Teach India But as

very rightly quoted ldquoIndia is a

country of big problems so we

need big solutions as wellrdquo It is

even more revealing that even the

children who are enrolled and

studying in class 5 are unable to

read class 8 students are unable to

do simple arithmetic

So we come to analyze why India

has not able to provide good

quality education to its children

There are many problems and

causes which have led to the

abysmal situation Some of the

prominent ones are listed as

follows Government allocates very

less of budget to education and

the amount allocated is skewed

towards higher education Rural

schools and education gets a

meager 26 and the rest 74 is

for urban and development of

higher education

a) Lack of infrastructure and basic

amenities in schools Most of the

schools donrsquot have requisite

teaching aids lack basic

infrastructure in the form of

school building Most of the

schools donrsquot have toilets

b) Teachers They are in short

supply not given proper salary

most of them are not serious

about teaching and remain

absent from schools

c) Caste system It leads to huge

disparity and humiliation for the

so-called untouchables and they

constitute 16 of our population

and because of the humiliation

kidrsquos dropout

d) Syllabi The syllabus is not

relevant for kids in primary

schools

e) Lack of books in local language

f) Most of the school buildings are

used for non-school purposes in

villages

There are many more problems

which can be listed down But as

we can see in the above problems

there is a huge gap Now the gap

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to fill the gap

a) RTE provides great opportunity

for private entrepreneurs to

work in PPP model with the

government to implement RTE

They can work to set up new

schools construct school

buildings revive old schools and

provide basic amenities

b) The mid-day meal scheme also

provides opportunity for

entrepreneurs to work in PPP

model with the government to

implement the schemes

c) Entrepreneurs can also look in to

work in syllabi development

teaching methodology with more

focus towards vocational

learning teaching aids as per

local needs

copy Kumar Ankit

(Kumar Ankit is currently studying

at XLRI Jamshedpur and is founder

amp Executive Director at Green Leaf

Energy Private Limited a startup

company in the area of renewable

and green power energy He can be

contacted at ankit4jecgmailcom

)

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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Babu Kunwar Singh

Kunwar Singh epitomises not only

the spirit of liberty but also

unparalleled courage and the will

to resist injustice at all costs and

under any circumstances He

played a major role in the First

War of Independence of 1857

(A stamp issued by government of

India)

Babu Veer Kunwar Singh (1777ndash

1858) one of the leaders of

the Indian rising of 1857belonged

to a royal PARMAR Kshatriya

(Rajput) house of Jagdishpur

currently a part of Bhojpur

district Bihar state India At the

age of 80 years during Indiarsquos First

War of Independence (1857) he

actively led a select band of armed

soldiers against the troops under

the command of the East India

Company and also recorded

victories in many battles

Kunwar Singh king of Jagdishpur

was born in 1777 Jagdishpur

near Arrah in the state of Bihar He

belongs to PanwarParmar (gurjar

royal race) His ancestors belong to

great Raja Vikramadity Raja Bhoj

of malwa

Babu Kunwar Singh was nearly

eighty and in failing health when he

was called upon to take up arms

The great warrior that he was he

gave a good fight and harried

British forces for nearly a year and

remained invincible till the end

Kunwar Singh assumed command

of the soldiers who had revolted

at Danapur on July 5 Two days

later he occupied Arrah the district

headquarters Major Vincent Eyre

relieved the town on August 3

defeated Kunwar Singhs force and

destroyed Jagdishpur Kunwar

Singh left his ancestral village and

reached Lucknow in December

1857 In March 1858 he

occupied Azamgarh However he

had to leave the place soon

Pursued by Brigadier Douglas he

retreated towards his home

in Bihar On April 23 Kunwar Singh

had a victory near Jagdishpur over

the force led by Captain Le Grand

26 April 1858 he died in his village

The mantle of the old chief now fell

on his brother Amar Singh who

despite heavy odds continued the

struggle and for a considerable

time ran a parallel government in

the district of Shahabad In October

1859 Amar Singh joined the rebel

leaders in the Nepal Terai

In his last battle fought on April 23

1858 near Jagdishpur the troops

under the control of the East India

Company were completely routed

While crossing the Ganges on way

to his ancestral seat at Jagdishpur

Babu Kunwar Singh was wounded

in the arm Undaunted Babu

Kunwar Singh severed the injured

limb and flung it into the river

Ganges as is was his last offering to

the Ganges Soon after he

completely routed the British

forces in the battle on 23 April

1858 and died the next day (24

April 1858)

To honour his memory and his

contribution to Indiarsquos freedom

movement the Republic of

India issued a commemorative

stamp on 23 April 1966 Veer

Kunwar Singh University named

after him was established

by Government of Bihar near

his birth place The ICSE board has

in its Hindi text-book (Ekanki

Suman) a play (by the name of

Vijay Ki Bela (literally Moment of

Victory) on the later part of Kunwar

Singhs life starting from the time

he was crossing the Ganges and

finishing with his death

Contributed by Santosh Pandey

(Santosh is a Chartered Accountant

and currently lives in Czech

Republic and can be reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 19: THE BIHAR 1st edition

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

For a State growing at around 10

per annum Biharrsquos power

requirement is expected to be

around 8000 mega watts in the in

next 5 years Bihar has a power

generation capacity of 584MW

compared with a demand of

around 2500MW The deficit is

made up by accessing the central

pool quota of 1200MW of which

the supply is around 700MW As a

result frequent and prolonged

power outages are common across

the state

In recent times State has approved

many power projects and also

worked towards increasing the

production capacity of existing

plants Bihar is to set up three new

thermal power plants to generate

3960 MW of energy The plants of

1320 MW each will be set up at

Kajra in Lakhisarai Piparpainti in

Bhagalpur and Chusa in Buxar

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lie

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection

other areas which also needs

special attention

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abun

year and has surplus biomass could

become self

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

61

36

3

Central Allocation Thermal Power Plants

Gydel Orhers

Empowering Bihar through renewable energy

districtsBihar continues to suffer

due to Power deficiency one of the

biggest challenges lies in the area

of distribution and coverage Last

mile connectivity issues

maintenance and collection are

other areas which also needs

special attention Greenpreace

recently ran campaign in the state

to create awareness for developing

models for renewable energy and

developing local self sustaining

models of power generations to

fuel the growth and growing need

of power in rural Bihar

Its public manifesto to make Bihar

power self sufficient has the idea of

Decentralized Renewable Energy

(DRE) model works on the principle

of producing electricity through

renewable energy near the source

of use or consumption For

example a village which receives

abundant sunshine throughout the

year and has surplus biomass could

become self-sufficient in energy by

producing power through a

combination of renewable energy

technologies such as solar energy

andor biomass and manage the

system locally

The model ensures

democratization of the process of

power production and secures

access to reliable and quality

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

ldquoEmpowering Bihar

success story of

System amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Currently Bihar Government

support schemes for bio

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for develo

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

m

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get asso

exciting journey of empowering

Bihar

Contributed by Ajit Cho

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom

energy for the community via

utilization of locally available

resources Successful case studies

of the DRE model titled

Empowering Biharrdquo showcases the

success story of Rice Husk Power

amp Tripolia Hospital Solar

Research center

Bihar Government does

support schemes for bio-gas

development SPV systems of

LanternsHome lighting

systemsstreet lighting systems

and wind mills Bihar Government

policy on private sector

participation for developing non

conventional energy sources is

available on

httpwwwbshpcltdcompolicyht

Given the unique growth trajectory

and need for power it would be a

great opportunity for private

players to get associated with this

exciting journey of empowering

by Ajit Chouhan (Ajit

an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur

and currently works as HR BU

partner in one of Indiarsquos leading IT

company He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom )

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

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About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 20: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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Bhojpuri Cinemarsquo a declining phase for lack of patronage

As far as I know unlike Bengali

cinema Tamil cinema Malayalam

cinema etc there was nothing

called Bhojpuri cinema in the first

place There was no film making

culture in Bihar there only were

sporadic films in Bhojpuri that were

made by producers from Bollywood

who came from eastern UP and

Bihar Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari

Chadhaibo Laagi Nahin Chhoote

Raam and Balam Pardesia are

examples of that Later on too

some decent films were made in

Bihar like Dulha Ganga Par Ke and

Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon and they

did good business

Then came the era of downfall of

Bihar And I think the downfall of

Bhojpuri cinema has a lot to do

with the downfall in the image and

content of Bihar Politics education

and employment sector in Bihar

started deteriorating and people

started leaving the state These

were the people who would

otherwise patronize good cinema

in Bhojpuri The image of Bihar kept

on deteriorating and Biharis living

in other states would feel ashamed

of declaring that they are from

Bihar Then not only those who

lived in other states but also those

who lived in Bihar stopped talking

in Bhojpuri Speaking in Bhojpuri in

a public place was somehow

considered to be below standard

People almost disowned the

language to the extent that they

would not speak to their children in

Bhojpuri In private they would

communicate in Hindi peppered

with Bhojpuri words And in public

the educated Biharis who lived

outside the state did everything

possible to hide their Bihari

identity We canrsquot blame them

though All this happened because

Bihar had gradually come to

represent everything that an ideal

society should not be

The great migration started Those

who couldnrsquot leave Bihar out of

compulsion were the poor who had

no resources to move out the

Bihar Government employees and

those who could not leave their

land unattended for fear of illegal

capture by local politicians or their

goons Anyone who could send

their children out of the state for

educationjob sent them

So there was hardly anybody left in

Bihar or outside Bihar to patronize

Bhojpuri cinema The only people

who were still speaking to their

children in Bhojpuri were those

from the lower strata of the society

ndash the poor the uneducated This

was the class that would watch

films just to forget their sorrow and

not because they wanted to watch

a film-makerrsquos perspective on a

social issue inflicting the society

Non-serious movies were still being

made in Hindi but they went out of

reach of this class due to

emergence of multiplexes and

disappearance of the low-cost

theaters

The entrepreneur in Manoj Tiwari

identified this class and started

making movies that suited their

taste and pocket The target

audience started watching these

movies and much more came

Manoj Tiwari never made these

movies for PLU (people like us)So

it is clear that quality Bhojpuri

cinema went through a declining

phase for lack of patronage

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 21: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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What is the way forward

We need not worry about lsquoPanditji

Batain na Biyah kab hoirsquo kind of

movies at all They are meant for a

specific audience and such an

audience does and will always exist

in any society so there will also

exist film-makers who will make

films for them Ab in filmon ka

dusprabhav saare samaj par na

pade iske liye humein apni lakeer

ko unki lakeer se lamba karna

padega

It cannot be denied that Culture amp

Art play an important role in the

development of any society

Cinema too is an apt medium to

educate the society A well-made

and forward-looking Bhojpuri film

will not only regain the audience

that it had lost over time but it

would also promote the Culture

Art amp Music of Bihar outside the

state Bihar will gain respect

through its cinema It will help

attract tourists to the state of Bihar

which will generate employment

for thousands But the question is

how do we sustain the culture of

quality-film making in Bhojpuri

One thing is clear corporatisation

will not help There is a difference

between our objective and their

objective Through our films we

want to reconstruct the Bihari

society and promote Bihari art and

culture whereas all the investing

corporate would be interested in is

revenue So that is out The only

answer lies in the theory of

demand and supply There is an

unending appetite for good cinema

in Bihari audiences But there is no

supply So if a good cinema in

Bhojpuri is supplied it WILL be

watched If it has a strong script to

hold audiences from the beginning

to the end it WILL be watched If

patterns and treatments are not

repeated it WILL be watched and

liked Even in languages such as

Hindi Bengali or Tamil quality

cinema is in short supply Bhojpuri

also has the advantage of numbers

According to a recent government

estimate some 15 crore people

speak Hindi and Bhojpuri in UP and

Bihar So I can only hope that our

member Nitin Chandrarsquos work

lsquoDeswarsquo will mark

the rebirth of good Bhojpuri

cinema rather birth of Bhojpuri

cinema that will establish itself over

time as a genre From whatever

little I have heard about the subject

it deals with I hope it will taste

decent success at the box office

Once that happens more people

will be attracted to making quality

cinema in Bhojpuri And when

people will have a choice of quality

over quantity they will go for the

former

But good films will not come up just

because there are good intentions

Something more is required to

sustain this trend One Nitin

Chandra is not enough We need

more professionals from Bihar as

Film makers The current film

makers in Bhojpuri Cinema are not

trained professionals thatrsquos why

they pay attention to making cheap

movies

Then we also will need to improve

the insecure conditions of the

cinema halls in the interiors of the

state which has also resulted in the

decreasing rate of cine viewers B-

grade theatres can afford only B-

grade movies Here the govt

needs to pitch in by giving them

subsidies It is the governmentrsquos

responsibility to help in offering

low-cost entertainment (as

opposed to cheap entertainment)

to its people a deluge of cheap

films will only corrupt and

manipulate the youth who will

determine the future of the state

The government can also consider

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 22: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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giving a tax holiday for the next five

years to films made in Bihar This

will attract good filmmakers with

meager resources to making films

on socio-political issues in Bhojpuri

that in turn will create jobs for

locals

The most important thing is that a

Film Training Institute somewhere

near Patna must be set up This

should be followed by setting up of

a film studio It will launch a film-

making culture in Bihar which will

automatically result in production

of good Bhojpuri cinema

Universities in Bihar too should

offer subjects on film making so

that the young generation can

become interested in this art I am

sure if these measures are taken

Bhojpuri cinema will evolve sooner

rather than later

PS Only last week the UP tourism

department has sent a proposal to

the CEO of Gorakhpur Industrial

Development Authority (GIDA) to

allocate 110 acres of land for

setting up a film city and a film

training institute for Bhojpuri

movies near Sahjanwa town in the

district Is it a signal for Bihar

Tourism dept to act fast

Author Rakesh Srivastava

(Rakesh works for a leading

software consulting company in

India and currently lives in New

Delhi He can be reached at

rakeshtcsgmailcom)

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 23: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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Collaboration of ldquoDeswardquo and ldquoBrand Biharrdquo

The young film director and one of the members of

our group Mr Nitin Chandra whose first directorial

venture a Bhojpuri feature film ldquoDESWArdquo

proposed to launch the ldquoDESWArdquo merchandize for

promotion of the film In this regard Nitin

contacted the team ldquoONE BIHARrdquo (ONE BIHAR is an

organization of Biharis who are focused on many

BIHAR related non for profit projects through their

personal collaboration) to launch a joint T-Shirt

with print of ldquoDESWArdquo in the front and a famous ldquo I

AM BIHARrdquo slogan created by ONE BIHAR and in

particular Mayank Krishna a team member of the

ONE BIHAR

Soon you will see a T-shirt launched by team

DESWA which will feature the Deswa photo (above

left) on the front and I AM BIHAR poetry on the

back

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

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मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

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हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

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लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

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वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

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भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

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व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

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स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

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श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

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अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

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अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 24: THE BIHAR 1st edition

Launch of Blissful Bihar Campaign- The

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

Mr Ajit Chouhan conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

photographs of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

organized as an event on Facebook

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

cultural amp social legacy Hopefully this calendar will

remind the world of its glorious past amp promising

future that lies ahead We will be releasing the

The Blissful Bihar desktop calendar for 2011

On the eve of new year 2011 one of our members

conceptualized designed and

launched a one man branding exercise for Bihar

Ajit designed a desktop calendar using 12 different

of Bihar from his personal photo

collection The launch of this calendar was

Blissful Bihar is an attempt to showcase Biharrsquos rich

Hopefully this calendar will

st amp promising

We will be releasing the

monthly calendar every month

event page This Calendar is free to circulate can

be printed amp shared with anyone with

to Mr Ajit Chouhan

Campaign launched by by Ajit Ch

(Ajit Chouhan is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

ajitchouhangmailcom)

monthly calendar every month on our Facebook

Calendar is free to circulate can

anyone with due credits

Ajit Chouhan

is an Alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur and

currently works as HR BU partner in one of Indiarsquos

leading IT company s He can be reached at

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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Development of SSI sector in Bihar

There is lot of buzz about state

government making efforts for

reopening of sugar mills and also

on various industrial projects

including food processing units

However for alleviation of poverty

and creating employment

opportunities potential of small

industries is yet to be assessed and

tapped properly The small scale

industries (SSI) and also small and

medium enterprises (SME) have

huge potential to tap local

entrepreneurial skills of

enterprising people These sectors

are labour intensive with high ratio

of labour to capital employed

Since they require a certain

desired skill level this results in

better wages to the poor

population In Bihar 90 of GDP

comes from agriculture and service

sectors therefore the potential of

manufacturing sector remains

unutilised There is a need to

identify local level initiatives and

reaching out to them by providing

all possible assistance with regard

to finance marketing

infrastructure etc

It has been acknowledged by many

expert groups committees that to

ensure proper growth of SSI SME

sectors a cluster based approach

is the most convenient and

practical approach A cluster is a

group of related manufacturing

service units located in a common

geographical area Identification of

such clusters would result in better

bank-industry linkage as well as

better market access If the

clusters are provided appropriate

improvement in infrastructure for

the financing banks it results in

reduction in transaction costs as

well as mitigation of risk Presently

there are 388 SME clusters in India

identified by United Nations

Industrial Development

Organisation (UNIDO) out of which

only three are located in Bihar ie

Barauni for Engineering and

Fabrication Muzzafarpur for Food

products and Patna for Brass and

German Silver utensils It can be

seen that cluster development has

remained largely underdeveloped

in Bihar and many traditional

business activities like Lac industry

Sericulture leather art

(Madhubani Painting) dairy etc

have remained untapped One can

also add Cinema Education

coaching Textile Fruits and

Fisheries etc in the potential list

The UNIDO Focal Point is currently

based in New Delhi and is

responsible for interacting with

each cluster assist the local actors

in preparing and implementing

their action plans and linking them

with relevant institutions at the

regional national and

international level monitoring

local initiatives and encouraging

exchange of experiences among

different clusters State

Government needs to work in co-

ordination with the UNIDO for

identification and development of

new clusters in various other

geographical areas One good

development in this regard is that

recently the Associated Chambers

of Commerce and Industry in India

(Assocham) has proposed to

partner Bihar government to

develop 14 industrial clusters for

an estimated cost of Rs450 crore

for employment and revenue

generation The challenge however

remains in early execution of the

projects and building upon the

momentum so generated

There is a new interest being

shown by most of the big retailers

in resurgent Bihar recently Apart

from the above opening up of FDI

in retail is also on the cards which

will ensure availability of high end

marketing acumen and significant

growth in the consumer spending

State Government will do well to

develop the clusters of SSI SME

sectors that can be positioned in

the supply chain of these big global

marketers The preparedness in

this regard will help automatic

linkage of these retail chains with

the artisanssource and will

provide the SSI SME sectors a

worldwide market and great

employment opportunities

Though the clusters may not have

specific registered brands of their

own they can have huge

recognition value informally in the

wholesale market We have

examples of hosiery of Ludhiana

Sports goods of Jalandhar

matchsticks crackers of Shivkasi

locks of Aligarh diamond

processing of Surat etc With

specific efforts by State

Government and other agencies

our clusters can also make their

presence felt nationally and even

internationally NABARD and SIDBI

have scope for providing market

exposure to artisans and their

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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clusters by way of sponsoring

events melas and also by

imparting training Unfortunately

the funds allotted by these

agencies for this purpose are very

meagre and even those funds in

many cases remain unutilised

State Government may engage

itself with these institutions at

appropriate forums and even offer

to supplement their efforts so as

to enable these clusters find bigger

markets

The commercial banks have been

given targets to meet priority

sector lending which include micro

and small enterprises Out of this

separate sub-targets are given for

lending to small tiny sectors

However these are all India

targets which come in the way of

inclusive economic growth of

different geographical areas in our

country Though an all India target

for overall priority sector lending

may be a practical approach to

protect the competitiveness of

these lending institutions state-

wise sub targets for small tiny

sectors for these banks will go a

long way towards improving

entrepreneurial skills

environment in neglected areas

State Government needs to take

up this matter with Central

Government and other

appropriate authorities Apart

from the above the data of banks

regarding achievements of priority

sector targets particularly the sub

targets of small and tiny sectors

need to be monitored by some

kind of social audit through

random sampling of branches

Most of the underdeveloped

states have this common

complaint against all the banks

their region that the financial

resources collected from the state

are used for lending in already

developed states In financial

terms the complaint is about low

CD ration ie low loan disbursal

compared to collection of

deposits The bankers always

respond by arguing about adverse

credit environment and lack of

viable proposals etc

Unfortunately a genuine concern

of a poor society is always lost in

the jungle of technical jargons

Some pro active measures by the

State Government towards

creating better infrastructure for

local industries by way of providing

good law and order situation

roads electricity training market

exposure will go a long way in

meeting the demands of bankers

Similarly bankers also need to

ensure that the lending targets to

specific sectors and also the

annual target as per Government

policies are met and data with

regard to such achievements are

subjected to stringent audit

process for cleansing the same

Instead of repeating the same

arguments about increasing CD

ratio in every meeting of the State

Government and bankers some

out of the box initiatives and a two

way approach will definitely bring

the desired results

Scope for small agro industries

need to be explored by various

agencies involved A unique

feature of Biharrsquos agriculture

production is that it produces

almost equal percentage of all

India produce in all the major

crops ie Rice Pulse and wheat (5

to 7 percent) No other state has

such distinction as they specialise

in the production of either one or

two Instead of this being a

positive feature or a reflection on

the dietary habits of local

population it reflects more upon

the large scale subsistence farming

prevailing among the farmers

which prohibits them from moving

to lsquocomparative advantagersquo

farming

This non-pragmatic conservative

approach is a major contributory

factor to continuation of large

scale poverty in Bihar particularly

in rural areas Small land holding in

rural areas also prohibits corporate

farming which adversely affects

per hectare yield and resultantly

profitability of agriculture

Absentee ownership also results in

low investments and low

productivity However the

example of local agriculturists and

businessmen in Kishanganj is

worth noting where they have

taken to growing of tea in last few

years This has resulted in Bihar

now producing approx 4 million kg

tea annually as against approx

1000 million kg produced in India

Many may find it unbelievable that

Bihar produces close to half

percent of Tea in India but it is true

and the figure can grow

substantially in future One of the

major features of this industry is

that it provides direct employment

to large number of poor To

further this initiative the sector

would require tea processing plant

in close proximity which is lacking

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

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Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

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supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

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In response to fundraising

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new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

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we believe is an incorrect way

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offline actions or buildling

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wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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and the only such plant in the area

is presently closed State

Government may look for its role

towards encouraging the cash crop

culture in one of the poorest areas

of Bihar

Many people have this feeling that

there is no real change on the

ground rather it is only the

perception that has changed

Whatever may be the case the

importance of change in

perception canrsquot be ignored as it is

one of the pre requisite for

attracting private capital Time has

come to capitalize on this changed

perception

Contributed by ndash Bhartendu Kumar

Das

(Bhartendu K Das is working with

the Reserve Bank of India and can

be reached at Emailgmailcom )

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

Qयग दखamp

ldquoभोज भोजपर जईऽहऽ मत

जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

Ocircआरा जला घर बाऽ

कौन बात क डर बाऽ

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अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

बीघ मamp िसफ पोदना क13 खती होती ह आप

उनक शान मamp कोई ऽट िनकाल सकत ह=

तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

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561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

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and Washington DC working to

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Occasionally our password

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supportcausescom and dont

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usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

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In response to fundraising

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new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

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we believe is an incorrect way

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offline actions or buildling

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wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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बहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधताबहार क भाषाओ क13 ववधता

आज़ाद भारत मamp बहार जस रा(य क

रहन वाल को हद भाषी घोषत कर

दया गया शायद समय क13 यह माग

थी हम लोग तज़ी स हद सीखन

लग पर1त हमार दश क13 अनक

4ऽीय भाषाए थी भोजपर मिथिल

मगह नगपरया अिगका व(जका

इltयाद यद म= खद का उदाहरण द

तो मर घर पर यह पाब1द थी क म=

अपन माता पता और भाई स हद मamp

ह बात कB भोजपर या मगह मamp

नह मर माता पता को ऐसा लगा क

अगर सबस िसफ ःथानीय भाषा मamp ह

बात चीत कय तो मर हद कमजोर

रह जायगी इसका नतीजा यह हआ

क म= अपन नाना-नानी मामा-मामी

स भोजपर मamp और अपन दादा-दाद

फआ और चाचा स पलाम क13 भाषा मamp

बात करता था पर माता पता और

भाई स हद मamp य तो साठ क दशक

क अितम वषH स सIर क दशक क13

बात ह पर दखत दखत हमार परवश

मamp इतना बदलाव आया क13 लोग

ःथानीय भाषाओ को बलकल छोड

हद या अमजी पर उतर आय अब क

अिभभावक को शायद अपन बMच पर

य पाब1द लगानी होगी क वो घर पर

मगह या भोजपर मamp बात करamp

हद सीखना तो बहत अMछO बात ह

पर ःथानीय भाषाए भलना एक बहत

बड़ भल ह भाव क अिभQयR क13

जो ववधता इन ःथानीय भाषाओ मamp

ह वो हद मamp बहत मकल ह और

अमजी मamp तो कतई नह म= अपन इस

लख मamp ऐस कछ भाव ःतत करना

चाहगा जो हमार इन भाषाओ क

ववधता को उजागर कर सक

मगह मamp एक शSद ह ओर जो खपड़ल

घर क कोन को दशान क िलए

Qयवहार मamp आता ह जाहर ह ओर

स जल का िनकास कह अिधक होगा

अतः ओर क नीच बरसात क दन मamp

काई जम जाती ह जसक िलए शSद

ह पMछल जस Ocircओरया क िनMच

पMछल हईऽOtilde अब इस आप हद मamp

फसलाऊ कह तो सकत ह= पर बात

वो नह ह इसी कार यद बतन बहत

ग1दा हो जाय और ठOक स मलन स

भी साफ़ नह हो तो उस खरकZटल

कहत ह= Ocircतसलवा खरकZटल हईOtilde का

या अनवाद होगा फर हम आत ह=

OcircगतगतOtilde पर मगह क इस शSद का

मतलब होता ह धीर धीर जस कोइ

व_ QयR बोल क13 Ocircलईकन सब त

कदक क चहप गईलन आ हमिनय

गतगत पहिचए गईलीOtilde

Oonomatopoeia का जो भाव गतगत

स आता ह वो या धीर धीर स आ

सकता ह खपडा फरवाना को आप

श_ हद मamp या कहampग OcircजवारOtilde और

OcircबाईबीOtilde जस वपरताथक शSद ज़रा

ढढ तो दखamp कस भाषा मamp िमलता ह

अगोरना एक और अनठा शSद ह

मसलन आप कहampग Ocircकaपटर अगोर क

बठल हवऽ का द जीबी क फाइल

जbद डाउनलोड हो जतवऽOtilde

अब भोजपर पर आए िसफ दद को

दशान क िलए आधा दज़न स (यादा

शSद ह= टसऽता पराऽता बऽथऽता

टभकऽता दखाऽता टटाऽताऽ

मरोड़ऽताऽ अइठताऽ आद आद और

सबस खास बात क13 इन सब शSद क

अथ मamp थोड़-थोड़ िभ1नता ह लकन

गोड टटाएगा पकला (पस स भरा

पीला घाव जो बरसात मamp होता ह)

टभकगा और पट मरोडगा

एक अeत शSद ह िनयर जसका

अमजी और भोजपर दोन मamp एक ह

अथ ह और इसी शSद का एक Bप ह

िनयराइल यानी अब बस पहचन वाल

ह= जस Ocircगाड फलवार छोड दल बया

पटना जशन िनअराइल बाऽOtilde कछ

और शSद दखamp महतार शाSदक तौर

पर माताजी हो तो सकती ह= पर

ममltव थोडा आिधकारक नह हो

जायगा और OcircलोरOtilde को आस स बदलamp

तो वषाद क13 या वह अनभित

िमलगी िनमgह या अltयाचार ह

नवीन भोजपरया जी न इया दशान

वाल कई शSद मझ बताय इरखा

दाजा-दाजी जोaह आद अब दखय

क13 अगर एक बMच न दसर को दख

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कोई काम कया जसम इषा नह ह

तो वो हःका हसक13 होगा जस

Ocircलगड़ा क काह चलताडऽOtilde

Ocircका कह चMचा हःका हसक13 मamp एक

पोरसा तडप गईिन आ गोड मjक

गईलOtilde लकन गोितया क मोटर गाड

दख क दाजा दाजी मamp करािनयो जी

गाड ल लहलन

सबस स1दर भाव दोह और कहावत

मamp आता ह य भाव दखamp जो Ocircतसलवा

तोर क13 मोरOtilde स दशाया जा सकता ह

अब जरा भोजपर जला क लोग पर

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जईह त खईऽहऽ मत

खईल त सितहाऽ मत

आ सत गईलऽ त रोइऽहऽ मतrdquo

और भोजपर वाल अपन बखान मamp

बोलampग

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बावन बीघा मamp पोदना बाऽOtilde

अब आप बताइए क13 जनक यहा बावन

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तो आइय हम अपन इस अमbय धरोहर

को सर4त करamp अपन बMच और बMचय

को इन भाषाओ क13 वःतत जानकार द

कर

Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

दिनयावाल दोचार ह= इस मl को लकर

दिनया जहान मamp जबरदःत चचाए हो रह

ह=

कछ दश न पयावरण सर4ण को लकर

पहल भी क13 ह फर भी धरती का

तापमान (य का ltय बढ़ता ह जा रहा ह

mलिशयर खltम होन क कगार पर ह= सच

ह क सार यास हमशा नीितगत ःतर पर

हए ह=

जमीनी सतह पर कसी भी दश क13 नीित

कारगर नह हा कोिशशamp जBर जार ह=

रहन दजए दश व दिनया क13 बातamp आज

हम आपको पयावरण को लकर सतह तौर

हो रह काम क13 जानकार दना चाहampग

सबस पहल चलत ह= हम बहार क

भागलपर मamp नवगिछया का धरहरा गाव

इस मामल को लकर इन दन चचा मamp ह

यह गाव पयावरण सर4ण क मामल मamp

दिनया क सामन एक िमसाल ह य

और बात ह क गाव क बार मamp सब क

बाहर रहन वाल को कम ह जानकार ह

धरहरा गाव क13 खािसयत यह ह क बट

पदा होन पर लोग जn मनात ह= दश क

दसर हःस मamp बट ज1मन पर माताओ

का या हौ होता ह आप लोग को मालम

ह ह खर धरहरा गाव मamp उन दन उltसव

का माहौल होता ह इस गाव मamp लोग

कसी भी िलहाज स बट को बोझ नह

समझत ह= यहा क13 रवायत ह क एक

बट पदा होन पर लोग कम स कम 10

फलदार पड़ लगात ह= इन पौध को गाव

क आसपास या खत क13 पगडडय पर

लगाया जाता ह= इसस होन वाली आमदनी

को सहज कर रखा दया जाता ह बाद मamp

बट क13 ववाह क दौरान इन पस का

इःतमाल कया जाता ह जतनी आमदनी

होगी शाद मamp खच भी उतनी ह लोग करत

ह चाह बट क13 Sयाह जस घर मamp य

ना हो गाव क लोग का मानना ह क

लड़क13 क13 ज1म होन स गाव और घर म

खषहाली आती ह इसिलए मामीण

पौधारोपण कर इस सलीट करत ह= इस

था न पर गाव को एक नई दषा द द ह

और वकास क तमाम दरवाज खोल दए

ह खास बात यह ह क गाव क13

लड़कया अपना ज1मदन भी पड़ क नीच

मनाती ह और इस मौक पर पड़ क13 छाव

मamp खाना बनाकर महमान को खलाती ह

इस कदम क बहआयामी भाव स गाव मamp

खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

पलायन बरोजगार और पयावरण असतलन

गाव क13 फजा स कोस दर ह नवगिछया

का यह इलाका जहा बाढ़ और सख क

मकड़ जाल मamp फसा रहता ह वह इस गाव

मamp ऐसी कोई भी समःया नह ह पर

भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

ऐसी नह ह खास बात यह ह क

चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

मामीण क मताबक चमगादड़ सख और

समs का तीक होता ह इ स गाव क

बजग को इस बात का इbम रहा होगा क

mलोबलवािमtग जसी समःया पर वव क

िलए खतरा उltप1न कर सकती ह तभी

ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

य कदम पर वव क िलए अनकरणीय ह

इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

रह गए उ1हन इस माडल को बहार क

दसर जल मamp भी अपनान क13 बात कह

ववास याऽा क

दौरान नीतीष कमार जहा भी गए सभी

सभाओ मamp लोग स धरहरा माडल को

अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

क13 अपील क13 मvयमऽी क दौर क बाद

गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

पर छान लगा ह

अब इस गाव स िनकल कर चलत ह=

मधपरा जला यहा क भपampि नारायण

मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

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561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

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global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

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joke We have processed over

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In response to fundraising

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figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

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we believe is an incorrect way

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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Contributed by TV Sinha

(TV Sinha is a senior business

executive and currently based in

Mumbai He works for a leading

software company he can be

reached at tvsinhagmailcom)

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मडल यिनविसट न धरहरा माडल को

Qयावहारक पाyयबम मamp षािमल कर िलया

ह वाइस चासलर डा आर पी ौीवाःतव

न नोटस जार कर सभी छाऽ क िलए

पौधारोपण करना अिनवाय कर दया ह

यिनविसट मamp अब दाखला लन स पहल

सभी छाऽ को पौघारोपण और दखभाल स

सबिधत माण पऽ स|पना होगा वरना

दाखला नह द जाएगी गौरतलब ह क

यिनविसट मamp 40 हजार स (यादा छाऽ ह=

इस महम मamp एक एक छाऽ भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो धरती क13 हरयाली को बचान मamp

एक कारगर पहल जBर होगी

यहा स िनकलकर चलत ह= अब राजा

रजवाड़ क षहर मamp इस षहर को भारतर

उःताद बःमbलाह खा का गहनगर होन

का भी गौरव हािसल ह इस इलाक मamp भी

लोग पयावरण को बचान क13 महम चला

रह ह= कौरान सराय पचायत क कचिनया

गाव वािसय न पौधारोपण कर जल का

नाम रोषन कया ह यह वजह ह क आज

इस गाव क13 पहचान वनोबा वन स होन

लगी ह

वनोबा 99 एकड़ भ4ऽ मamp फला ह

पयावरण क बचान क िलए मामीण क13

सामहक यास का य षानदार नतीजा ह

हाल ह मamp मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार इस वन

4ऽ का मआयना कर लौट ह= इसस

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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पयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महमपयावरण बचान क13 महम

बढ़त पयावरण दषण िसमटत जगल चढ़त

तापमान और पानी क13 कbलत स

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खषहाली का आलम ह गरबी भखमर

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भागलपर का जलःतर 14 फ13ट नीच चला

गया ह लकन धरहरा मamp सरत ए हाल

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चमगादड़ गाव को ह अपना बसरा बनाया

ह लोग का मानना ह क चमगादड़ वह

रहत ह= जहा पयावरण सतिलत रहता ह

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ऐसी था क13 नीव डाली गई होगी सचमच

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इस महम मamp अगर आप भी भागीदार

िनभाए तो बहतर कल का िनमाण कर

सकत ह= गाव वाल क13 इस अनोखी पहल

क बार मamp सनकर अल क दसर हuत मamp

मvयमऽी नीतीष कमार न गाव का दौरा

कया ःवय वकास क13 इस बहतरन

िमसाल को दखकर मvयमऽी भी चकत

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अपनान और इस महम को आग बढ़ान

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गाव सखय मamp ह और वw क मानिचऽ

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

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का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

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वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 31: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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भावत होकर सरकार न सहयोग क साथ

साथ अनदान दन का भी एलान कया ह

दोःतो यहा पर कहन क िलए अब कछ

नह बचा ह मझ लगता ह क इन इलाक

का दौरा करन क बाद अब आप भी इस

महम मamp षािमल होन का मन बना रह

हग अगर इसी सोच क साथ दश का हर

नागरक गाव -घर और पयावरण को बचान

मamp योगदान द तो हम बहतर माहौल मamp

वाकई सास ल सकamp ग उaमीद ह क िनचल

ःतर पर दिनया बचान क िलए जार

महम एक

दन जBर रग लाएगी

Contributed by Hasan Jawed (

Hasan Jawed is an Alumni of AJK

Mass Communication Research

Centre Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi he has experience in TV amp

Radio Journalism and specializes in

sharing of Human Communication

with though Film Making

Broadcasting and Reporting on

Human Conditions Hasan also has

been travelling extensively to

understand developmental issues

in rural India He has visited about

six hundred villages of Kerala

Karnataka Maharashtra besides

BiharJharkahnd Haryana Uttar

Pradesh and North Bengal In

Vidarbha and Marathwada he has

worked with PRIs and denotified

tribes has also made a

documentary Film separately on

their issues The film has been

critically well acclaimed He

belongs to Kishanganj Bihar

Currently Hasan is working with a

Delhi based news channel as a

news producer He can be reached

at - hasanroohanigmailcom)

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 32: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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Institution of Facebook youth ICON OF BIHAR by Facebook BIHAR group

The Idea behind the institution of Facebook youth

ICON of Bihar was conceived and floated by

Santosh Pandey in the month of Dec 2010

The purpose of this award of recognition is to

recognize the effort of young Biharirsquo s in various

fields who are doing inspiring and admirable jobs in

promoting the cause of Brand Bihar For the very

first award the Name of Ranjan Rituraj Singh also

popularly known as ldquoMukhiya jeerdquo in the virtual

worlds was proposed Ranjan Rituraj Singh was

voted and selected with unanimous popular choice

as being the first to receive this prestigious award

amp recognition bestowed in him by Facebook Bihar

Community

Ranjan Rituraj Singh hails from Gopalganj district of

Bihar and works as a professor in a leading private

engineering college in National Capital Region He

has contributed significantly to improve the image

of Bihar during the Dark Lalu-Rabri regime and has

also taken head on against the Bihar biased Indian

Media He writes a very popular blog called

Daalaan (wwwdaalaanblogspotcom ) The YOUTH

ICON AWARD or recognition will be awarded

quarterly and members of the group can nominate

any person they think has done or is involved in

doing a commendable job for advancement and

upliftment of BRAND BIHAR

The nominations for the second YOUTH ICON OF

BIHAR will be opened from 1st

February till 28th

February Subsequent to the nomination a jury of

members will decide the award based on the

popular vote and after objective evaluation of the

contribution made of any such nominee

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 33: THE BIHAR 1st edition

A forgotten temple of Knowledge- waiting for its revival

Bihar in the ancient time had two

most reputed universities in the

world These universities were

like modern day Havard and Yale

of Old world In recent years with

commendable effort from the

then President of India Abdul

Kalam and Government of Bihar

and many multilateral agencies

and International level

governmental cooperation (

cooperation with China Japan

Singapore Thailand Sri Lanka

and other countries) a serious

effort is being made to restore

the once glory of Nalanda

University

But in this piece I am not talking

about Nalanda University rather

I want invite your attention that

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and wa

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the

with

Vikramaśīla

King

response to a su

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā

renowned

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak

waiting for its revival

there is another sister University

of Nalanda called Vikramshila

University which was also located

in the ancient Bihar and was

equally famous and recognized

world over

Vikramaśīla University was one of

the two most important centers

of Buddhist learning in India

during the Pala dynasty along

with Nālandā University

Vikramaśīla was established by

King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in

response to a supposed decline

in the quality of scholarship at

Nālandā Atisha the

renowned pandita is sometimes

listed as a notable abbot

Vikramasila (village

Antichak district Bhagalpur

Bihar) is located at about 50

east of Bhagalpur

13 km north-east of

railway station on Bhagalpur

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

through 11 km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ancient Bengal

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

out Vikramaśīla

university of the era

past its prime but still

illustrious Somapura

Bihar) is located at about 50 km

Bhagalpur and about

east of Kahalgaon a

railway station on Bhagalpur-

Sahebganj section of Eastern

Railway It is approachable

km long motorable

road diverting from NH80 at

Anadipur about 2 km from

Kahalgaon (which is not in a very

good condition)

A number of monasteries grew

up during the Pāla period in

ngal and Magadha

According to Tibetan sources

five great Mahaviharas stood

Vikramaśīla the premier

iversity of the era Nalanda

past its prime but still

Somapura

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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Odantapurā and Jaggadala The

five monasteries formed a

network all of them were under

state supervision and there

existed a system of co-

ordination among them it seems

from the evidence that the

different seats of Buddhist

learning that functioned in

eastern India under the Pāla

were regarded together as

forming a network an interlinked

group of institutions and it was

common for great scholars to

move easily from position to

position among them

Vikramaśīla was founded

by Pāla king Dharmapala in the

late 8th or early 9th Century AD

It prospered for about four

centuries before it was destroyed

by Bakhtiyar Khilji during fighting

with the Sena dynasty along with

the other major centers

of Buddhism in India around

1200 CE

Vikramaśīla is known to us

mainly through Tibetan sources

especially the writings

of Tāranātha the Tibetan monk

historian of 16th-17th Century

AD

Vikramaśīla was one of the

largest Buddhist universities

with more than one hundred

teachers and about one

thousand students It produced

eminent scholars who were often

invited by foreign countries to

spread Buddhist learning culture

and religion The most

distinguished and eminent

among all was Atiśa Dipankara a

founder of the Sarma traditions

of Tibetan Buddhism Subjects

like philosophy grammar

metaphysics Indian logic etc

were taught here but the most

important branch of learning

was tantrism

The remains of the ancient

university have been partially

excavated at village Antichak in

the Bhagalpur district

Bihar state India and the

process is still underway

Meticulous excavation at the site

was conducted initially by Patna

University (1960ndash69) and

subsequently by Archaeological

Survey of India (1972ndash82) It has

revealed a huge square

monastery with a

cruciform stupa in its centre a

library building and cluster of

votive stupas To the north of

monastery a number of scattered

structures including a Tibetan

and a Hindu temple have been

found The entire spread is over

an area of more than one

hundred acres

Although the site of the

university has been widely

excavated and under care of

Archaeological Survey of India

there has not been any effort to

create more awareness about

this great university so far From

the tourism perspective also

government and Archaeological

Survey of India has not done

enough to promote the site of

the University Although

Bhagalpur the nearest city is

connected by train with major

cities and airports in India there

is still no functional airport in

Bhagalpur The infrastructure has

also been ignored and no

coordinated effort has been

made so far to facilitate the

tourist arrival to this site I

sincerely hope that this great

university will also see a day

when we all will take a call to

restore it to its original glory

(This article is contributed by

Santosh Pandey Santosh Pandey

is a chartered accountant and

working with a leading global

MNC He is currently based in

Czech Republic and can be

reached at

santoshpandeycagmailcom )

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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Seasons ndash a Poem

As winter unfoldshellip

The blooms wither away

Trees shedding flowers shiveringhellip

Chilly winds flattering the beauty serene

Loud screeches of owlrsquos mailhellip

Nasty outcomes of foulrsquos play

The snail race losing to the harehellip

The crocodilersquos stab to the monkeyrsquos care

Winter profoundly sums up allhellip

Manifesting the beauty and its toil

The heart stuck in the marshy swamphellip

Folding the cold cause stumped around

Mastering the hate with loyal scalehellip

Endearing to straighten the dogrsquos tail

Whispering lullaby into the monsterrsquos earshellip

Maneuvering the gasp of emotions in string let of

tears

Winter passeshellipand spring dawns with sunshinersquos

prickhellip

Crimson lavender turquoise hues marvels the red

bricks

Long locks of creepers grow along the tree thickhellip

The frozen glaciers melt along flowing with broken

twigs

The redness of sun brings warmth in the airhellip

Flowers blossom profusely like a corolla fair

The breeze plays with princessrsquo hairhellip

And birdsrsquo chirping foretells the saga of splendor

share

Springs of love pure the hearthellip

First showers of rain drowns the hatersquos cart

Beacons to an enticing starthellip

It hits the bullrsquos eye in the game of dart

Summer arrives playing a harmonious tunehellip

Kids at beach have fun with the sand dunes

The stars go blue and the burnish of the moonhellip

The heat gets strong by the month of June

Love defines a new meaning to its folkshellip

Life changes with foes attempting towards peace

talk

Inner remorse burns to break the heartrsquos lockhellip

Miracle shines with diamonds sparkling from rocks

Summer bygone a new season fallshellip

Itrsquos time we welcome the autumnrsquos call

The branches without leaves stand tallhellip

Another storm comes and the soul buildrsquos a wall

Seasons do rounds in a circling moundhellip

Same as after every night comes the dawn

With every hate follows lovehellip

And after every lament happiness kisses the dove

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

About the author Samridhi Shandilya

(Samridhi is a software engineer currently working

with one of the biggest software company of India She

is a Bihari to the core and a very sentimental poet who

writes about experiences around her in her prose and

poetry )

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजारयहा पर जीना बजार हहहह |

हर रग हर आकार हर दाम क इतहार ह= |

िसफ बचन का ह सब काम य इतहार ह= |

कभी शहर हआ करता था यहा मर दोःत

पर अब कछ बचा नह हर तरफ इतहार ह= |

जो याद मamp बसा वोह परानी गिलया और कछ

मजील ह=

जो आख क सामन ह वोह िसफ इतहार ह |

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कभी बःती थी यहा सादगी और सोच

अब जो रहता ह यहा वोह अनचाहा सा इतहार ह |

रग गए ह= दवार घर सब

छत पर गड़ डड क सहार

वोह जो दख रह हो कछ और नह

बदरगा सा कमबvत इतहार ह |

या और कतना बच रह ह= सब

ना जान यहा कतन बीमार ह=

य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

कला सःकित क13 तो बात ना करना |

वचार िचतन क13 कोइ रात ना करना |

और सोच पायोगी भी कस यक जो छप गया

इस दमाग मamp वोह इस शहर का इतहार ह |

पर ह तो शहर अपना चाह कछ भी कहलamp

मन मसोस क रह जाता ह य सोचकर क13

फर भी य शहर नह इतहार ह यहा जीना बजार ह |

By Nitin Chandra

(Nitin is a a film maker by profession and dedicated

his life to Bihar He runs a film making comany called

Champaran Talkies and has made documentary

films on Bihar like BRING ABCK BIHAR and my latest

is BOYA PADE BABOOL KAA it is about politics of

flood in north Bihar His first fiction is called DESWA

which is totally shot in Bihar with Bihari actors along

with Hindi film actors and singers like sonu nigam

shreya ghoshal sharda sinha and many more Is

scheduled to be released in 2011He can be reached

nitinchandra25gmailcom)

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

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Tourism Bihar

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World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

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Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 37: THE BIHAR 1st edition

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PRACHIN BHARAT -Bringing History and Technology together

Prachin Bharat is dedicated to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology

We believe that India as a country

has a lot to offer to rest of the

world through its culture and

history By showcasing our history

and heritage through the use of

technology we intend to promote

a tourism eco system which will

give the very best experience to

tourists and provide abundant

opportunities for the local people

The main objectives of Prachin

Bharat are

bull Recreating historical locations

through Multimedia Museums

bull Help people relive the past

using models of Historical

places

bull Providing consulting on Tourism

Development options

bull Help local people in tourism

sector gain access to the service

sector through a local economy

bull Advertising and Marketing

campaigns using web 20

methods

Prachin Bharat opened its first

Multimedia center in Bodh Gaya in

the first week of January 2010 His

Holiness The Dalai Lama visited

the Museum on 4th January 2010

and blessed it

Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum is

located right next to the

Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya

The Museum takes visitors back

2500 years to the age of Buddha

Visitors get to see the life of

Buddha story of the Bodhgaya

temple places of interest around

Bodhgaya and Teachings of

Buddha The Museum provides the

historical and Geographical

context for the life of Buddha

through a set of multimedia films

and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of Buddha from his birth to

enlightenment and

Mahaparinirvan The movie also

covers the history of Mahabodhi

temple starting from the time

Ashok built it to 2002 when the

temple was declared as a UNESCO

heritage site

Geographical In this section

visitors learn about the

geographical importance of

Bodhgaya and its links with other

important places like Pataliputra

and also the places in the Silk

route Visitors will get to see a

guided video documentary with

video clips of historical places

around Bodhgaya with narration

about stories associated with the

place

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

accounts of Bodhgaya through a

short presentation with rare

photographs and audio visuals of

Bodhgaya and Mahabodhi temple

One gets to know the good and

bad times the Mahabodhi temple

has seen over 2000 years of its

existence its sad state before the

restoration efforts in late 18th

century which resulted in the

Mahabodhi temple you see today

and the current management

structure

Thoughts of Buddha This section

covers the key aspects of

Buddhism and Buddhas teachings

including the Universal Truths The

Eight Fold Path or The Middle Path

to Nirvana through an easy to

follow and crisp audio visual

presentation

NALANDA MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM

When the modern technology

mingles with the grandeur of the

past history comes alive in a new

perspective A Multimedia

museum next to the splendid ruins

of the Nalanda University is a

shining example of that

The Museum takes visitors

through a virtual journey of the

times gone by Visitors get to see

and experience Nalanda University

at its prime and glory three

thousand years ago travel through

its various eras of existence and its

sad demise It is a touching

experience which stirs up various

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Tourism Bihar

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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emotions in viewers as they are

taken through eras of Budha

Sariputta and destruction during

times of Muslim Invasions

SECTIONS

The Museum provides the

following perspectives of Nalanda

University through multimedia

films and 3D Animation movie

3D Animation Movie The

animation movie narrates the

story of the university since its

inception to its prime days during

the period of Buddha to the time it

was vanquished by Bakhtiyar Khilji

in the medieval period

Geographical In this perspective

a visitor learns about the

geographical importance of

Nalanda and its links with other

important places nearby like

Biharisharif Pawapuri and

Rukministan

Historical This section depicts the

archaeological and historical

perspective of Nalanda It shows

the layout of the ruins significance

of different parts of the ruins and

details of what structures

originally existed such as Pillars

Ovens Student quarters etc

Revival This section describes the

recent efforts to revive Nalanda

with help from Buddhist countries

in Asia and its importance to Bihar

India and rest of Asia

HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM

Nalanda is about 90 Kms from

Patna the capital of Bihar By road

it takes about two and half to

three hours Our museum is

located about 100 meters from the

ruins site on the way to Huen

Tsang Memorial For the best

experience we recommend that

you visit the museum understand

the history of Nalanda university

and then visit the ruins This will

make your visit to the ruins very

meaningful as you will be able to

relate and appreciate every

structure you will see there

You can reach Nalanda Multi

Media Museum at 91-

9801399926

(Prachin Bharat has been founder

by Mr Naveen Sharma to

showcasing lesser known gems

from Indias History and Heritage

through technology he can be

reached at

naveenshargmailcom you can

also visit Prachin bharatrsquos website

wwwprachinbharatcom )

)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Tourism Bihar

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 39: THE BIHAR 1st edition

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Tourism Bihar

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

World Class University amp Research

Some of us have raised concern

that ldquohowrdquo creating or

supporting a cause help in

attracting world class university

in Bihar Here is how

Join this cause here

httpwwwcausescomcauses

561734-world-class-university-

and-research-centre-in-

biharaboutm=479842ba

Step A (Awareness amp Team

Building)

1 Creates awareness at a

global level

2 Gathers support from a wide

range of profiles who might

just share their support to

the cause and nothing more

or less

3 Creates a separate forum for

discussion content creation

for that specific cause

a If we want then can also

raise funds which can be

raised to raise awareness

hire a team to support the

cause (at this time we

want to avoid fund raising

for many reasons will be

explained later)

b It also helps build a team

focused on the cause and

that may include people

who might literally

hatedislike each other

but are united for that

cause

Step B (Planning amp Execution)

1 We will brainstorm together

for next steps

2 We will develop a business

plan case

3 Take the plan to investors

government education experts

4 Raise Funds hire a team

5 Execute

Some examples below from a

causersquos discussion forum

We assure you Causes is no

joke We have processed over

$10 million in donations to

nonprofits and we have a

dedicated staff in Berkeley CA

and Washington DC working to

make this platform happen

Occasionally our password

retrieval email gets caught in

spam filters so if you have

problems signing in email

supportcausescom and dont

forget to check your spam We

usually return emails very

promptly (within 2 days) but we

have a small team so feel free to

follow-up with urgent requests

In response to fundraising

through Causes as with any

new technology not every

nonprofit who has a cause has

figured out the key to

fundraising success Many

nonprofits have - and they

arent just giant nonprofits or

ones with big budgets But to

say that a cause has failed

because it has a lot of members

but not a lot of dollars donated

we believe is an incorrect way

of measuring the success of a

cause Some causes are not

trying to fundraise but are

trying to identify a community

of people who care about an

issue Others are focused on

offline actions or buildling

relationships with supporters

but not donations And many

have not tried setting

fundraising goals matching

donations or compelling

campaigns so we are trying to

do more and more to provide

resources ideas and best

practices for hose that want to

fundraise but havent Our

blogresource center is at

wwwcausescom for more

information

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 41: THE BIHAR 1st edition

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Green Leaf Energy Pvt Ltd ndash an integrated renewable energy company

Green Leaf Energy Private Limited

(GLE) was setup by Kumar Ankit

under the guidance of XLRI

Entrepreneurship Development

Centre GLE is based on a

sustainable development model for

alleviation of poverty creating new

employment opportunities and

reducing Green House Gases

emissions

GLE is presently working on

Pongamia (Biodiesel yielding crop)

plantation and has set up a nursery

growing 125 lakh saplings and has

identified wastelands in Gaya and

nearby areas carried out

awareness programs for the

farmers and has entered into a

contract with 1000 farmers for

2000 acres of wastelands

It has completed plantation over

300 acres of wastelands and is

looking to expand the plantation

area over 1 Lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar which will

impact the lives of more than 50000

farmers The project will help in

reducing migration by creation of

employment in rural areas and

bring in investment in Bihar The

project has several stages in its

operation The company has

employed youth from villages to

aware farmers about the benefits of

Pongamia plantation and conducts

awareness training and

development camps in rural areas

of Bihar It sets up Nursery to grow

saplings of Pongamia plants

( Ankit with the Farmers)

GLE will help the farmers to take

up Pongamia plantation in their

wastelands and provide technical

support for the same The company

has a Buy-Back agreement with

farmers and will purchase the

seeds from farmers The seeds will

be crushed to produce crude

Pongamia Oil and residual Oil

cakes Now the crude Pongamia Oil

will produce Biodiesel Glycerine

from the Transesterification

process Glycerine Biopesticides

Oil cakes are produce in huge

quanitities as Byproducts and they

have significant medicinal

properties both for Human and

Plant usage GLE also plans to

produce power from biogasification

of Pongamia shells

GLE is getting support from General

Carbon Worldrsquos leading carbon

advisory company to get carbon

credits for plantation bio-diesel

production and clean energy

generation

(Pongamia plantation in Gaya) The

Government of Bihar has agreed to

implement NREGA under the

project for plantation of Pongamia

on wastelands of BPL families

SCST small and marginal farmerrsquos

lands GLE will get material and

labour costs for all the plantation

activities and will also get 100

funding to cover all plantation

activities The Government of Bihar

has approved Rs 26700acre and

given GLE a contract to farm 1 lakh

acres in Bihar So total funding

under NREGA amounts to Rs 267

crores The project will generate

167 lakh mandays to cover

plantation over 1 lakh acres of

wasteland in Bihar

This will be a major thrust to reduce

migration considering National

average of 48 days and Bihar

average of 8 days of employment

under NREGA against a minimum of

100 days

The next target for the company is

to set up a nursery and plantation

to cover 29500 acres in the next

phase in 6 major districts Gaya

Nawada Aurangabad Kaimur

Banka and Jamui There will a third

phase of setting up nursery and

plantation to cover 70000 acres to

achieve our target of 1 lakh acres of

wastelands in Bihar The fourth

phase of the project will be to

establish biodiesel production

industrial unit and biogasifier unit

to produce power The project will

be able to produce 91000 KL of

biodiesel and 20 MW of power at

full capacity annually The company

has got joint venture offers from

Indian Oil and BPCL to set up

biodiesel value chain in Bihar

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

Page 42: THE BIHAR 1st edition

Volunteer Jobs

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

scaling our non-profit start-up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per you

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

months the organization grows

Immediate Roles

bull CTO Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of

bull Virtual Assistant Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

bull Event Manager Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

bull Social Media Expert manage Facebook Twitter Bl

bull Executive Assistant Help the founding team manage time

Required

bull Access to Internet amp Cell

bull Web Savvy or can be trained

bull Social Media Expertise will be preferred

bull AgeSex not a barrier but college students or recent graduates will be preferred

bull Newport Jersey City or Manhattan preferred

bull Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Benefits

bull Work from home flexible hours

bull Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

bull Opportunities to network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

bull Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

up Volunteer roles and titles can be chosen per your experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

Attracting retaining and developing social entrepreneurs of diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

Organizing and participating in events prepare summary reports

manage Facebook Twitter Blogs and other web presence

Help the founding team manage time expenses calls email network

Social Media Expertise will be preferred

ge students or recent graduates will be preferred

sey City or Manhattan preferred

Virtual Assistants can be anywhere in world

Will be paid for expenses on actual (with prior approval)

o network with world class people that may convert in paid jobs

Stipend opportunities also available for few special cases

Smart energetic driven and innovative people with a passion to change the world Helping run operations and

r experience VP Director

Manager Volunteer Intern etc Will give it structure later These roles might become paid roles in few weeks or

diverse profiles globally

Manage the calendar ( appointments events meetings) Research people orgs

network

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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Couple of other areas where we need leaders are

a) Social Media Lead (FBTwitterYouTubeBlogs etc)

b) Publications (Magazine Newsletters etc)

d) Media amp PR (Traditional amp Social Media Relationships)

e) Finance amp Accounting (Record to Report Infrastructure)

f) IT Infrastructure (Storage Security Communication)

g) Philanthropy

h) Events ( Social and Professional - Bihar Day Holi Magazine Launch Patna Marathon

i) Awards amp Recognition ( Youth Icon Entrepreneurship Sports etc)

j) Legal (US India and global)

k) Webmaster SEO

l) Consulting (Non-profit consulting etc)

m) Design (Org design Graphic Design etc)

n) Networks and Partnership (AIF Asia Society TIETED etc)

o) Bihar Entrepreneurship Network (BEN)

p) Youth ampOr Students and Kids (Education Culture Sports)

q) GirlsWomen Issues (Empowerment)

r) Branding (Creative Logo Slogan and other branding efforts)

s) Think Tank

t) Media (Youtube channels TV Channels)

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=pwG6IxsY5eA

u) Training amp Knowledge Management

v) Content Creation (Youtube Picassa Flickr Mashup etc)

About Bihar Society

wwwfacebookcombiharsociety

Bihar Society pitch

Bihar Society is a global forum which aims to inspire greater engagement between Bihar and rest of the world

Bihar Society views the establishment of Bihar as an active participant in global processes as the natural

fulfillment of various Indian identities It seeks to foster intellectual inquiry cultural understanding and social

awareness about issues that confront Bihar today Bihar Society will seek to combine existing traditions both

local Indian and foreign with newer developments in economics politics law and the sciences to strengthen

fundamental rights and

personal liberties

2011 Goals (proposed)

1 Bihar Day celebration in major cities Globally with significant Bihari population

2 Publish a magazinewebzine every quarter starting Jan2011

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 30 License

3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul

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3 Patna Marathon in 2011

4 Promote Bihari FilmsMediaMusic via supporting events at major cities (At least 3 major

productspersonalities)

5 Global Investor and Networking Meet to promote investment in Bihar

6 Health Camps Civic Sense Employability training projects

7 Global Launch of English Edition of Gauravshali Bihar (गौरवशाली बहार(

2012 Goals (proposed)

1 Global Bihar Meet (TradeCommerce Tourism Agri-business Energy etc in 3 global cities

NYCLondonSingapore and via livestream in major cities of India and world

2 Establish endowment fund for sponsoring scholarship for Bihari students in major universities of India

and World

3 Connect all Bihar related local communities globally (at country level and city level)

4 BEN (Bihar Entrepreneurship Network) on the lines of Tie as a standalone or in partnership with

TieTedNasscom

Long Term Goals

1 Bihar Welcome amp Support Centre with low priced guest house in major cities that are port of entry of

migrant population

2 Bihar themed museumartculturepaintingmusic centre in major cities

About IIM Society

Charter of IIM Alumni Society

1 Networking Platforms via web-based networks and also social and professional events in various cities of the

world

2 Strengthening IIM Brand amp Increasing the footprint in mainstream via pro-active PR amp more engagement

with Media

3 Entrepreneurship support via helping Connect Ideas with Talent Capital Expertise and partner organisations

like Tie Nasscom AIF and others

4 Social Events in respective cities to integrate the alumni and family together

5 Think Tank amp Publications on major management issues ranging from World peace Environment Poverty

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Compassionate Capitalism Philanthropy Future of Work Globalization

6 Career Support System for current students Alumni seeking change of location roles industry career path

7 Support System for alumni and family relocating to a new citycountry

8 Philanthropy Giving back to causes and institutions in India IIMs Alumni and the local community

wherever we are

9 Contributing to our respective IIM fund raising to become self-financing and upgrading infrastructure (soft

and hard)

Some projects that we are working to develop

1 Global Newsletter Webzine within 30 days

2 Global Conference within 1 year

3 Global Placement Assitance Center

4 Global Relocation Assistance (spousesfamily etc)

5 Research Publications

Atul Kumar +1 2039874452 ID atultech httpsgistcomatul