PANCHAAMRITAM 298
(pancha is five in
samskritam; amritam is nectar)
Poornima /
Kali Yugabda 5118 / Durmuki Vaikasi 8 (May 21, 2016)
Posted on
May 25 2016.
ONE
Hindus
in Mauritius with active support from Mauritius Government have built a
Ramayana Centre in the capital city Port Louis to restore human values and peace.
The Government has not only provided land for the Centre by duly passing an Act
in the Parliament but also bears the recurring expenses. The roots of the
project lie in the beginning of a Ramayana programme at Mauritius Radio in 1982
under the title ‘Manthan’. This Hindi programme continues even today. The basic
Ground floor Plan is in form of a Tortoise, which has high regards in
Mauritius. The government provided 1.5 acre land near Airport and the funds
were raised by people collectively. “In the Learning Complex classes are
conducted on Ramayana every day. There is a big hall with the capacity of 1,000
people. On top floor of the building Sri Ram Temple has been built. Now the construction work of the temple is at
final stage and it is expected to be inaugurated by early next year. We are
carrying idols from India to be installed there,” says Shri Rajendra Arun who
has been associated with the project since beginning. Shri Arun’s wife Smt
Vinoo Arun is working on developing a ‘Ramayana Circuit’ to connect people from
world over to the places associated with Ramayana in India. (Based on a report by Shri Pramod Kumar in ORGANISER,
May 22, 2016).
TWO
The
2,700 residents of Devagiripatnam (Telangana,
Bharat), are not worried about drought. Not just that, they also raise two
crops a year. Making all this possible are
250 ponds dug by the villagers in their fields that harvest rainwater.
And, when not raising crops, some of these farmers use their little ponds to
grow fish for sale in nearby local markets. The sarpanch is Vankudotu Chandi.
She said that the village began
suffering acute water shortage some 60 years ago. With black cotton soil
covering majority of area, most farmers grow cotton during the Kharif season
following the monsoons and during Rabi, usually switch to growing chillies.
While most farmers said there usually is not a problem for kharif, the rabi
season is dependent on rains during January and February. With no groundwater
reserve in the village, the farmers resorted to digging small ponds as a
community initiative. In most cases, a group of farmers, usually related to one
another, join hands along with sharing the costs of the digging and lining the
bottom with layers of crushed stone and sand. Once the pond is filled during
the monsoon, as and when needed, the farmers take turns to irrigate their land
so everyone in that group gets to share the water. the neighbouring
Kasimdevipeta, Three neighbouring villages are now following the Devagiripatnam
model. Based on a report in THE TIMES OF INDIA, May 15, 2016.
THREE
In
a year’s time, Jamshedpur (Jharkhand, Bharat) will become our country’s first
city to become a zero sewerage discharge city. Jamshedpur is located at the
confluence of Kharkai and Subarnarekha Rivers. Subarnarekha is the principal
river of Jamshedpur. Zero water discharge, usually referred as Zero Liquid
Discharge (ZLD), is an innovative system for the total elimination of waste
water discharging into the rivers. The ZLD System removes dissolved solids and
other waste and returns distilled water to the process, basically recycling it.
‘The initiative to recycle and reuse 100 per cent waste water (sewerage water)
has already begun. Work is well in progress to achieve the milestone,’ Deputy General Manager (Water Management) Shri
Rabindra Kumar Singh of Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company Limited (JUSCO),
a 100 per cent subsidiary of Tata Steel, said. If things go as per plan, JUSCO
could reuse the 40 million litres recycled water per day for industrial
purposes in the city in the next one year's time. For all this, Jamshedpur is
the only 10 lakh plus city in India without a municipal corporation. In 1980s
when the state government proposed a law to end the Tatas' administration of
Jamshedpur and bring the city under a municipality, the local populace rose in
protest and defeated the government's proposal. Based on a report by Smt
Surabhi Nijhawan in http://www.indiatimes.com,
May 19, 2016.
FOUR
Mamta
Kumari (14) from Hapamuni village in Gumla (Jharkhand, Bharat), took the help
of the district legal service authority (DLSA) to realize her dream of pursuing
education. Police said the Class IX student of Ghaghra High School wrote a
letter to the DLSA through one of her teachers and expressed her desire to
study further and not get married as her parents are planning. The DLSA
secretary shot it to the SP Gumla who asked Ghaghra police to take action. The
police reached the village and brought the girl before the child welfare
committee (CWC) Gumla on Febuary 2, 2016. Precisely at that time the groom’s
family too reached Mamta’s house for the wedding. The state government
sanctioned one lakh rupees to her for her resolve to pursue education. Eventually,
Mamta was worried about the her father’s difficulty in repaying the loan he had
taken for her wedding. Now she is admitted to Kasturba Government Residential
School in Baghima, Palkote whereas she had to trudge 6 kms to school earlier.
She is at class 9 now and she will get books, dress and boarding free upto claas 12 (A report in BIRSA HUNKAR, Jagaran Patrika,
Ranchi, February 28, 2016).
FIVE
Ten year old girl Kavibharathi
of Balakrishnan Street, Mambalam, Chennai (Tamilnadu, Bharat) has decided to
provide relief to people from the
scorching summer heat in her own way. She arranges an earthen pot full of cool
drinking water at the gate of her house. As the sun ascends, she stands nearby
and calls out at passersby to quench their thirst. It is the month of May and
Kavibharathi spends her summer vacation in this manner for the last three
summers. She is now at class 5. Mostly courier delivery boys, auto drivers,
hand cart pullers, sweepers – all who toil in the sun - regularly benefit by
her seva. Not simply cool water, Neer Mor
(dilute buttermilk) too forms
part of her menu. She serves over 75 littres of it on any day. Her thoughtful mother
Smt Sreenithya procures organic milk at a higher price, converts it into curds,
adds herbs and prepares Neer Mor for distribution by her beloved daughter.
Otherwise it is just Aavin milk for domestic use by the family. Kavibharathi quite often treats people to
juicy water melon and Nungu. The funds? Kavibharathi has permission from her
father Shri Kumar to empty her piggy bank every May for the purpose. Her
classmates as well as her relatives pitch in with contributions. Other girls in
the neighbourhood join her in distributing Neer Mor. Heartfelt blessing by the
beneficiaries “nee nalla irukkanum thayee” (all the best, dear) is the constant
inspiration for the family to continue the service year after year. (Based
on a report by Shri L Murugaraj (murugaraj@dinamalar.in),
in DINAMALAR, May 7, 2016).
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