Contents:
Topic Page
Editorial 02
Anganwadi 04
Indra Nooyi 07
MYH, Indore 09
Indian Coffee House 12
Vagamon 13
Poem 15
“The divine sprit of “Positivism”
The word positivism comprises of ten devine letters, they stand for ten virtues of par excellence.P—stands for purity ,O---Stands for obeisance, S---for sincerity ,I---Intelligence, T---Truth, I---Intuition, V---Virtues, S---Simplicity and M---Magnanimity. The stipulated virtues combined together build positivism. Posivitism is the very bedrock of triumph in life. Positive dreams will pave way for positive thoughts, Positive thoughts lead us t o positive acts, positive acts will accomplish success in our own way. Positivism is a spirit of dynamic nature. We have to make ssupreme effort to put only positive thought in our memory bank. Michael Lebece stated “The world in your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What is largely a reflection of your own attitude and beliefs. Life will give you , what you attract with your thoughts. Think and act and talk. Think and act and tal negatively and your world will be negative. Think and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results”.
Positive frame of mind is a pre-requisite to ascend ourselves to the dizzying heights. IT is said that there is nothing good or bad but thinking make it so. Nothing is unattainable in the vast world of ours, if we imbibe the basic bedrocks of life. Our thoughts, feelings and actions should connivance with one another for reaping the real success.
Jan Ash ford thing as can’t, only won’t. If you are qualified all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish to make change. Go forward, go backward. What ever it takes. You can’t blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people”. Choose the goal and put supreme effort to attain it with positive waves. Thomas Alva Edison claimed “Nothing happened to me by accident; none of my inventions are the results of accidents. All my inventions have been, work and more work”.
Anganwadi
Anganwadi was created under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme.
It's the world’s largest integrated early childhood programme, with over 40,000 centres nationwide. Since its inception in 1975.
Today anganwadi reaches out to 4.8 million expectant and nursing mothers and 22.9 million children (under six years of age). Of these, 12.5 million children (three to six years of age) participate in centre-based pre-school activities. The network consistes of 4,200 projects, covering nearly 75 per cent of the country's community development blocks and 273 urban slum pockets.
How it helps
The Anganwadi, literally the courtyard play centre, is a childcare centre, located within the village or the slum area itself. Anganwadi is the focal point for the delivery of services at the community level, to children below six years of age, pregnant and nursing mothers, and adolescent girls. Anganwadi centre also serves as the meeting place for women's groups, mothers' clubs and mahila mandals promoting awareness and joint action for child development and women's empowerment.
Services provided by the AWC(AnganWadi Centre)
* Supplementary Nutrition to 6 months – 6 years children, pregnant and lactating mothers.
* Immunization to children and women.
* Health check-up to children and women.
* Referral services to children and women.
* Nutrition and Health Education to mothers and Adolescent Girls.
* Non-formal pre-school education to 3 years – 6 years children.
* Supply of IFA & Deworming tablets to Adolescent Girls.
Objectives of AWC Services
* To improve the nutritional and health status of children of age group 0-6 years.
* To lay the foundation for proper Psychological, Physical and Social development of the child.
* To reduce the incidence of Mortality, Morbidity, Malnutrition and School dropouts.
* To achieve effective co-ordination of policy and implementation amongst the various departments to promote child development and
* To enhance the capacity of mother to look after normal health and nutritional needs of the child through proper nutrition and health education.
The efforts of anganwadi helps millions of childrens in India the basic inputs for them to take a plunge into life. As the anganwadi works with the lower stratus of the society, which is the most needy of help, it helps build a better community and in the process building a stronger India. It's time that we all recognize the important role played by anganwadi, in country's development.
Indra Nooyi
Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi (born October 28, 1955 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, the world's fourth-largest food and beverage company. On August 14, 2006 she was named the next to succeed Steve Reinemund as chief executive officer of the company.
She received a bachelor's degree from Madras Christian College in 1974, and immediately entered the PGDBA (Business Diploma) program at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Her Mantara for Sucess:
Indra's advice for success:
* Aim high and put your heart into it
* never stop learning
* keep an open mind
* be yourself- Live by you values
* Take care of yourself"
- Surround yourself with stong and good people.
- Stop feeling guilty
- Treat yourself occasionally.
It's through the positive attitude and undetering faith, that she raised up the corporate ladder.
There ain't any short cuts, it's through her unflinching hardwork that she got to where she is now.
Maharaj Yashwantrao Hospital, Indore
Scene 1:
Year 1994. Plauge scare in Indore, following reports of plauge in neighbouring city of Surat.
People of Surat approach the Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital. The one time largest goverment hospital in Asia was in no way capable of helping the needy. Infact it was home to thousands of rats itself.
Scene 2:
Year 2007. People shifting to this hospital from private nursing homes. And what they say, "not only is the treatment good but also cheap. Patients no matter how poor are not turned back'.
So what brought about this change?
When Plauge scare spread and people of Indore found out that their, once largest hospital in Asia, could not handle the situation, drastic steps had to be taken. A committee of over 100 persons came into existence in November 1994 and was known as `Rogi Kalyan Samiti’ (RKS) or `Patient’s Welfare Committee’. It consisted of people from every walk of life and was monitoring the entire process
As a first step of clean up, the hospital was vacated and cleaned. 150 truck loads of garbage and junk were removed. Nearly eleven thousand rats were killed.
It started with two rupees for the OPD ticket, which now costs Rs.5/-. Even the specialised services of the ICCU are charged as low as Rs.150 per bed. The monthly collection through user charges come to around Rs.6 lakhs, when earlier it was nil.
Today, RKS involve themselves in
1.Ensuring regular maintenance, repairs and necessary construction/expansion of the physical facilities in the hospitals.
2.Ensuring cleaning, security, hospital waste management, MIS and other services of the hospital throughprivate agencies.
3.Providing improved facilities by addition or upgradation of OT complexes; sonography, burn unit; ICCU;pediatric (ICU); CAT-scan units; centralized pathological set up etc.
4.Purchase of equipment, chemicals, furniture and other necessities for efficient running of the hospitals.
5.Providing improved medical facilities through purchase of modern equipment through the donationreceived and if required through loans from financial institutions.
6.Providing a better atmosphere, facilities for attendants and ensuring improved medical facilities in general.
7.Introduction of appropriate methods of disposal of medical waste.
8.To provide medical care to the poor and needy free of cost or highly subsidized rates ascompared to private hospitals.
This positive step could be emulated in almost all of the government hospitals in India. Madhya pradesh has taken the lead and has incorporated this in it's policy.
Indian Coffee House:
The Indian Coffee house is a chain of Coffee shops serving hot coffee and good quality eateries at affordable rate for the common people.
Founded by Kerala's legendary communist leader AKG in 1958 in Thrissur, the Indian Coffee Workers Co-Operative Society Federation today has 52 coffee shops and 1,809 employees in Kerala. And its strong presence across India, especially in Calcutta, has gained ICH a nation-wide recognition among tourists.
The Indian coffee house is completely owned and managed by its employees. The society is governed by an eleven member managing committee elected from the employees. Since the 50's
The legend of the Indian coffee house began when the dismissed employees from the India Coffee Board registered the India Coffee Board Workers’ Co-Operative Society with its office in Thrissur
The ICH is a embodiment of enduring resilience, to have a better future no matter what the circumstance hold out for you. The dynamic leadership of AKG moulded the energy of the dismissed workers to what is now a brand, a cult; the Indian Coffee House.
Vagamon:
Vagamon is an ideal tourist spot surrounded by the greenery of tea gardens, beautiful meadows, deep puzzling valleys and dales is located some 250 KM from Thiruvananthapuram, the State Capital of Kerala. The enchanting hill station dotted with tea gardens is expected to be one of India's foremost eco-tourism centre.
Vagamon is also known as the 'Scotland of Asia', with its rolling grass lands and with a history of the bygone British era with cool climate during most parts of the year.
Features:
All the trekking enthusiasts will enjoy climbing this 1100 metres tall hill.
Vagamon also has to offer Para gliding. Kerala Tourism in association with Adventure Sports and Sustainable Tourism Academy (ASSTA) has identified and is promoting Vagamon as point of influx for para gliders.
The Indo-Swiss cattle Project and Kurisumala Ashram are two other feature which welcomes you to this land.
Grass covered hills, velvet lawns and the cool mountain air make Vagamon a perfect holiday retreat. A curious blend of religious mysticism and European legacies, this hillside village is a haven of tranquility. The chain of three hills - Thangal Hill, Murugan Hill and Kurisumala - is a mark of religious harmony.
With dedicated people like Gopan and Jose Rajan behind ASSTA, Vagamon is all set to caputure glory.
Check with http://www.paraglidingkerala.com/ for more details.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
