Some Impeccably Honest And Respectable People In India Today.

[JANASENA]

A torn rug to sit on, a metro bridge for a roof, a patch of wall painted black for a blackboard and a shopkeeper for a teacher. This may look like a scene out of a Hindi movie but is the everyday reality of 39 children from villages near the Yamuna bank.

Rajesh Kumar Sharma (40), started this makeshift school a year ago. Five days a week, he takes out two hours to teach when his younger brother replaces him at his general store in Shakarpur. His students are children of labourers, rickshaw-pullers and farm workers. His three children go to regular schools in Mayur Vihar.

Compelled to quit college in the third year of his BSc due to financial constraints, Sharma says he does not want anyone to meet the same fate. "Whenever I passed by this area, I would notice that children were spending all their time in the fields or playing around," he says. Parents wanted their children to work instead of going to school as they would add to the family income. He argued with the parents and persuaded many of them.

Sharma, who came to Delhi from Aligarh 20 years ago, has been teaching underprivileged children in other parts of the city too. "I mostly taught labourers' children. As they moved from site to site, it got difficult to follow them everywhere," he says.

Sharma starts at the basics and goes on to prepare the children for admission to government schools. He started with approximately 140 students, and 70 of them are in government schools now. "They still come here everyday. I manage to keep them ahead of the school curriculum," Sharma says with pride.

Sharma's students are just as proud of him. "Our teacher has told us that when poverty strikes, you should open your mind, and that can be done only through education," says 15-year-old Abhishek who studies at the local Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya. He enjoys studying English and aspires to become an engineer. He spends two hours in Sharma's class under the bridge and then goes to school at 1 pm. Sharma says once Abhishek even corrected his teacher at school who had not solved a sum correctly.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9NOcyXH05M

 

Haryana does not have the best reputation when it comes to gender ratio. A 31-year-old sarpanch is striving to make a difference to the state. Neelam is a woman and a spirited sarpanch of the village Chhappar in Haryana.

YouTube channel Sortedd TV spoke to her about her experience as a woman sarpanch in Haryana. Neelam first became popular in the village when she waged a war against the 'ghoonghat', or the veil, that suffocated her. She was frowned upon and there was a lot of resistance from her in-laws as she decided to shun this age-old practice in the village.

Watch her talk about how she wants her village to progress. 'You don't need big talks to bring change, all you need is a woman to stand for another one,' is the message the video has for all the women in India.

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http://youtu.be/XlR9QZ1CBQY

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LTT

[manjunath455]

Okka Tripura CM gurinchi matrame vinna ba nenu intaka mundu. Good post

[JANASENA]

Okka Tripura CM gurinchi matrame vinna ba nenu intaka mundu. Good post

 

 

UNTIL I POSTED HERE I NEVER HEARD ABOUT ANY1 OF THEM

[Maximus]

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thnx

[micxas]

J@#D

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Meet Gangadhara Tilak Katnam, a retired railway officer who has spent the last 15 years of his life filling potholes using his own pension money. He has filled over 1125 potholes in Hyderabad so far.

It started in 2010, on a day when he was trying his best to maneuver his Fiat car on a road near his home which ws with full of potholes. As careful and considerate he was to the pedestrians he could not help splashing muddy water from one of the potholes onto the neatly starched uniform of a little girl and hr mother on her way to school. He deeply regretted his mistake and immediately got off the car to express his apology.

He did not rest easy after this incident and immediately ordered 6 truckloads of “moram” paying Rs.4200 from his own pocket and mended the entire road starting from his home.

Soon after this incident on his way to work Tilak had to witness an unfortunate accident in which a very young man lost both his limbs. Another day a collision of an Auto with an RTC bus damaged the auto and severely injuring its occupants. The reason for these accidents were not carelessness or reckless driving. The primary reason was bad roads and driving conditions.

Embracing Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy “Be the change that you wish to see in the world” he embarked on a journey who as comfortably and respectably settled as he was would even care to consider.

Starting on 19th January 2010 filling the potholes became a typical weekend ritual for Tilak. Every Saturday and Sunday morning as soon as he found a pothole he got to the task of repairing the pothole with a crowbar, spade and gravel/tar mix. Thus, he spent his weekends filling the potholes for close to two years. He spent hours speculating what he can do to alleviate the problem of potholes on roads and provide a more safe and secure travel road to every citizen. Once he realized what needs to be done, it was evident his weekend contribution was not adequate to solve the magnitude of the problem – where every busy and non busy road is filled with potholes.

On July 31st 2011, this pothole man quit his job and made filling the potholes his new job so that the roads WE ALL travel are safer. Instead of resentment, indifference, complaining and talking, he choose sympathy, concern, solution and action.

 

[micxas]

Meet Gangadhara Tilak Katnam, a retired railway officer who has spent the last 15 years of his life filling potholes using his own pension money. He has filled over 1125 potholes in Hyderabad so far.
It started in 2010, on a day when he was trying his best to maneuver his Fiat car on a road near his home which ws with full of potholes. As careful and considerate he was to the pedestrians he could not help splashing muddy water from one of the potholes onto the neatly starched uniform of a little girl and hr mother on her way to school. He deeply regretted his mistake and immediately got off the car to express his apology.
He did not rest easy after this incident and immediately ordered 6 truckloads of “moram” paying Rs.4200 from his own pocket and mended the entire road starting from his home.
Soon after this incident on his way to work Tilak had to witness an unfortunate accident in which a very young man lost both his limbs. Another day a collision of an Auto with an RTC bus damaged the auto and severely injuring its occupants. The reason for these accidents were not carelessness or reckless driving. The primary reason was bad roads and driving conditions.
Embracing Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy “Be the change that you wish to see in the world” he embarked on a journey who as comfortably and respectably settled as he was would even care to consider.
Starting on 19th January 2010 filling the potholes became a typical weekend ritual for Tilak. Every Saturday and Sunday morning as soon as he found a pothole he got to the task of repairing the pothole with a crowbar, spade and gravel/tar mix. Thus, he spent his weekends filling the potholes for close to two years. He spent hours speculating what he can do to alleviate the problem of potholes on roads and provide a more safe and secure travel road to every citizen. Once he realized what needs to be done, it was evident his weekend contribution was not adequate to solve the magnitude of the problem – where every busy and non busy road is filled with potholes.
On July 31st 2011, this pothole man quit his job and made filling the potholes his new job so that the roads WE ALL travel are safer. Instead of resentment, indifference, complaining and talking, he choose sympathy, concern, solution and action.

great :)

[JANASENA]

I THINK PEOPLE LIKE them need recognisation in india man. Modi saab aina kaneesam chorava theesukoni ilanti vallaki gurthimpunivvali. recognisation means some kind of awards and rewards. 

[Rahul_Pulka_Gandhi01]

[venkannadora]

nice post

 

[arshad]

Gp