10th Vedanta VachaspatiRadhaNathPhukan Memorial Lecture

India has made rapid strides in space research within a short span of time, and we can expect significant breakthroughs in the near future.

Today, the world recognizes India’s capacities in this field, which was not the case earlier. This was one of the views expressed by distinguished scientist DrJitendraNathGoswami recently. 

Delivering  the 10th Vedanta VachaspatiRadhaNathPhukan Memorial Lecture – ‘From a Fishing Hamlet to Moon and Mars’ – organized by the Vivekananda Kendra Institute of Culture, he said that there is a whole range of technology that ISRO has mastered in the area of space exploration through the dedication of its scientists, many of whom are women. 

Working in six or more separate areas they have come up with ideas and inventions which have been synergized to develop technology for producing both satellites and launch vehicles. Many of the technologies were created indigenously because those could not be purchased by India from foreign countries which own them. 

The success of the Chandrayaan 1 has shown that India is capable of planetary exploration containing many challenges. “Space exploration, including one like Chandrayaan Mission is unforgiving. There is no scope for error.” 

On ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission he said that its success is significant, because India achieved it through relatively modest budget, and did it on the very first attempt. Currently many nations have come forward to collaborate with India taking the country’s space technology very seriously.  

Today ISRO’s payload delivery system is so reliable that many other countries and foreign companies use its launch vehicles put their satellites in orbit.

He said that sending a space craft beyond Mars would present some hurdles. The propulsion system needed to carry them over very long distances would have to be very sophisticated and unlike those which are currently available with India. A foreign country will not easily sell such a technology to us. 

The occasion was also marked by the release of the book, Development Through Culture written by eminent thinker S. Gurumurthy. Published by VKIC, the volume focuses on the traditional cultural strengths of India being used to create and sustain comprehensive economic development in the country. 

Earlier Dipok Kumar Barthakur, Chairman of VKIC delivered the welcome lecture and spoke about the institution’s activities, which centre around protecting and promoting the culture of Indigenous communities of N E India and showing the commonalties they have with the rest of India.

From Food Security to Distorted values of Modern Science

Sir Albert Howard was the founder of the Organic farming movement. Incidentally, he worked for 25 years in India as an agricultural investigator. His 20 page booklet ‘An Agriculture Testament’ covers everything you need to know about organic agriculture. In this issue, we have given a few of his quotable quotes on the subject.

Shri.N.Krishnamurthi covers the related topic of ‘Food, Diet, Nutrition and Food security’ by way of dialogue between the Ostrich, Parrot and Swan.

In happenings section, we have covered training programmes in Bio-pesticides preparation, Terrace garden, Community water management, Bio-methanation plants and Varma Chiktsa etc.

In the wisdom section, Mexican planner Jose Maria Sbert writes that “Man is just one among many forms of life” while Environmental activist Dr.Vandana Shiva beautifully defines “Re-source as Reciprocity along with Regeneration” and finally Claude Alvares an Environmentalist tells us that millions of ordinary people reject the idea of living by the distorting (and distorted) values associated with modern science. For reading the newsletter, please click here

Special Medical Health Camp & Awareness Programme

A free Special Medical Camp and Awareness Programme “VIVEKANANDA AROGYA MELA” was organized at Naveen Samudaik Swasthya Kendra, Mandi Bamora on 27th November’ 2016 Sunday from 10:00 AM to 03:00 PM in association with the Social Workers of Mandi Bamora.

In this programme 813 patients were consulted by Doctors. During the camp necessary investigations & medicines were dispensed free of cost. In the camp following investigations were done

Blood Pressure: Blood Pressure of all the visitors having age more than 10 years, were checked and 02 were detected to have problem of high BP.

Hemoglobin: Hemoglobin of all the visitors was checked and 05 were detected to have significant anemia.

Height & Weight: Height and Weight of all the visitors have also been checked.

Random Blood Sugar (RBS): RBS of all the visitors having age more than 40 years were checked and 13 patients were detected having diabetes.

Eye Checkup: 85 patients were examined; 21 patients were detected with the problem of vision due to cataract and 41 had refractory error.

Chief Guest: Adarniya Pooran Singh Raghuvansi, Sr. Social Worker and businessman of Mandibamora was Chief Guest of the programme.

Guest of Honor & Dignitaries: Regional businessman and respected personality of Mandibamora Shri Umashankar Agarwal, Shri Jagdish Prasad Tiwari, Shri Rajendra Dabri, Shri Naveen Paliwal were present as guest of honor at this medical camp.

Address by Chief Guest : Adarniya Pooran Singh Raghuvansiji wished to improve the health standard of the residents of the Mandibamora through this type of medical camps and awareness programmes and requested the VK BORL Hospital management to conduct more camps in future in this area.

Address by Medical Superintendent: Dr Rajkumar Kayal, Medical Superintendent said that the situation of the people of this area is vulnerable because of lack of education and public health awareness. He further said that the key challenges in the health care domain are poor accountability, low-quality care, lack of health awareness and limited access to health facilities. Medical Superintendent expressed that VK BORL Hospital, Bina took the initiative of introducing the Health Camp & Awareness Programme “VIVEKANANDA AROGYA MELA” with the aim to educate rural India and make them aware of how to take proper care of their health. This programme is focused towards general checkup of people addressing issues of personal health care, vaccination, hygiene, blood donation illness prevention etc.

Lightening of the Ceremonial Lamp & Felicitation of Dignitaries and Doctors: Shri Pooran Singh Raghuvansi and other dignitaries lighted the ceremonial lamp at 11:00 AM and inaugurated the event. All the guests, dignitaries and doctors were felicitated with Vivekananda Literature, Shrifal & Garland on this occasion. Acharya Shri Ram Sharmaji, Saraswati Sisu Mandir, Mandibamora welcomed all the guests and dignitaries.

Programme Details: Shri Sourabh Marathe, Medico Social Worker gave a brief detail of CSR activities of BORL and VK BORL Hospital, Bina, Smt Rakhi Garewal and Ku Jagruti Bundela presented a song “Seva Hai Yagn Kund”, Smt Sunita Pandey compared the whole event of stage. Dr Rajesh Pastor, delivered vote of thanks to all for active participation and making it a success. Shri Girish Kumar Pal, Rahul Udainiya gave some awareness tips on health & hygiene and Yoga meditation. Shri Goldi Arora, presented audio visual programme for the beneficiaries and motivated all for blood donation. Smt Sangeeta Ahirwar managed the sale counter of Vivekananda Kendra literature at the venue.

Participants:

Doctors of VK BORL Hospital, Bina: Dr Rajkumar Kayal, Medical Superintendent & Sr Consultant Paediatrician, Dr Subrat Adhikary, Sr Consultant Physician, Dr S N Upadhyay, Sr Medical Officer, Dr Deepali Kayal, Sr Medical Officer, Dr Braj Biharee Soni, DM OHC-BORL, Dr Alok Tyagi, GDMO, Dr Ashish Tiwari, AMO consulted patients.

Doctors from Bina: Dr Ajab Singh Thakur, (President-IMA) Sr Consultant Paediatrician, Dr Suvarna Achwal, Consultant Gynecologist, Dr Jay Shree Sahu, Consultant-ENT, Dr Priyank Agarwal, Consultant Orthopedics, Dr Rajesh Pastor, Medical Officer (PHC Mandibamora) consulted patients.

Paramedical Staff: Smt Rajni Massey, Shri Dhanna Lal Prajapati, Jogendra Sharma, Treeza Pinto, Neeraj Jain, Krishna Kumar Sahu, Hullamani Rudrawa, Nand Kishore Raut, Usha Prajapati checked the patients.

Security Guard : Ramavtar Yadav, Kamal Parihar, Khusilal Prajapati managed the crowd and other things.

Office Staff : Shri Girish Kumar Pal, Rahul Udainiya, Sourabh Marathe, Sunita Pandey, Rakhi Garewal, Jagruti Bundela, Ritesh Rastogi took part in overall management.

Support Staff: Anand Chadar, Poonam Raikwar, Harshita Deoskar, Neelam Gour, Bharti Lodhi, Sangeeta Ahirwar, Kunwar Raj, Kamal Rajak, Manju Kushwaha, Rashmi Ahirwar, Pramod Sahu, Pankaj Kurmi, Arun Agnihotri, Sunita Ahirwar, , Dushyant Thakur, Jamuna, Shivshankar provided registration, investigative and other management services in the medical camp.

Transportation Services: Shri Satish Agnihotri, Agnihotri Enterprises, Bina provided one Tavera vehicle for transportation of staff from Bina to Mandi Bamora free of cost. Arvind Thakur, Dharmendra Thakur, Ravi Yadav, Balveer Singh were drivers in the vehicles used for transportation of staff and medical equipments.

Pharmacy Services: Shri Manas Mani Tiwari, Bhagwati Medical Store supported in dispensing of medicines with the help of Vipin Dubey & Asif Khan.

Dr Rajesh Pastor, I/c of Samudik Swasthya Kendra, Mandi Bamora, Shri Naveen Paliwal, Social Worker and Shri Badri Prasad, Advocate played an important role in coordination and management of whole event. This Vivekananda Arogya Mela was organized for the sake of people of Mandibamora. Everybody took part enthusiastically and made it a great success.

Patient Statistics: 

Sr. No.

	Perticulars	Male	Female	Total
1	General Age Group	204	297	483
2	Children	77	69	146
3	Senior Citizen Above 60 Yrs.	107	77	184
.	Total	388	425	813

Geeta Jyanti Program in Ludhiana

Vivekananda Kendra Ludhiana organized fourth Geeta Jyanti Program.

It was organized in Vishwanath mandir, metro road, Jamalpur, Ludhiana. Appx 50 people gathered there. Today, What is Bhagwat Geeta, who should study Geeta, why/how should we study Bhagwat Geeta, was discussed along with introduction of Vivekanand kendra.

At last keertan mandali agreed to chant 5 shloks of Geeta every Tuesday. Our team member Ms Richa and Mr. Mohit will be touch with them regularly.

Matri Sammelan at Sisiborgaon, Assam

We conducted MATRI Sammelan on 29th Nov at Sisiborgaon. 27 Mothers were present. Sri Kondinya inspired mother's to work for the society. Discussion  on the topic  all round development of child, Pranayam and games  was part of the sammelan. Sammelan concluded with formation of a MATRI Manch.