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Finally at the end of second day of Vibrant Gujarat Summit-2011, total "7936 MoUs were signed worth Rs. 20.83 lakh crore Rupees or 450 bullion U.S. dollar".
Now talking about implementation rate, whenever any company sign MOU with central Govt and other Govt, conversion rate is 13-15%, while in Gujarat official figure is more than 55% and unofficial figure is 35%.................so whatever it may be ultimately Gujarat will be benefited.
Those who are talking about environment other things, Gujarat is also top in Agriculture with over 9.6% rate (national rate is 2.5% only), also Gujarat is top in Mangroves plantation (78 mangroves planted in Gujarat only out of 100 nationwide), Govt policy has been strict to tree plantation, removal and suaze treatment norms.......................................So with these figures shut mouth of such psuedo environmentalists.
There are many more constraints/objections/views/interpretation/own judgments and against it there are real facts/figures/ground realities/clarification, which I will talk later in separate post.
I had talked about many things in last post. In this post I will try to give you some more updates, insights and progress report. Don’t forget to express your views after reading and clicking on Goog ads so that we can earn bread for the mentally retired people as mentioned in “A request” portion.
In this post I have covered two new things like Sanskrit Swarnim MahaKumbhat Somnath and International Bird Watching event held at Khijadiya near Jamnagar last week.
Now, lets take each one step by step;
Sanskrit MahaKumbh:This one is new for me. Modi had vision to have at least 2 lakh Gujarati student with very good proficieny in Sanskrit Language. Last 3rd December, he has done that with this event at Somnath Location. There is one Sanskrit University and college there, where many senior person(some were above 100, Sanskrit visharad) got facilitated by CM. See this invitation card.
More then 700 visitors had participated in the conference, around 100 visitors around the world and around 450 national bird watching enthusiast from across the India had been into Jamnagar during 25 to 30Nov.
Two new bird watching towers are now ready for the bird watchers, Khijadiya - a 600 Acre wetland near the salty plains serves around 250 species of migratory birds, this wetland has specialty of salt and fresh water reservoirs. Gujarat Tourism Department has organized this conference to attract visitors across the globe.
You can have more details at this location also: http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/dna-daily-news-analysis-mumbai/mi_8111/is_20101202/post-birders-meet-khijadiya-map/ai_n56408723/
Gunotsav: This is not the new initiative. It has been going on since last 2-3 year. Main point is that they have made it more and more effective with detailed planning and methodology. This year though actual three day program will be starting from 9th onwards, Modiji has interacted with all the officers who are going for the same through videoconferencing. Some excerpts of whole program and intentions and achievement.
See how prepared they are. A special site with reporting interface on daily base.
“Chief Minister said that government administration spend most of its time in handling files and in meetings, but go out and in people to know their culture, also give motivation. Results, Gujarat has achieved in last decade, is an example of the miraculous success that can be achieved with the pre-planning and total commitment to pro-people programs, he said.
First program of Gunotsav in the field of education has filled the gap of past 30 years. Contribution of each government employee is crucial as their work, if done in completeness can bring turnaround results, he said.
Chief Minister pointed out that drop-out ratio in primary school has been reduced to two percent only with the campaigns like 'kanya kelavani'. This, he said, is something that government mechanism can take proud of.
Initiatives like Gunotsav will take government administration to villages and will link 'government files' with 'human life', Chief Minister said.
Shri Hasmukh Adhiya, Principal Secretary, Education Department, said that around 3000 officials of class-1 and class-2 cadre are participating in 'Gunotsav' program during December 9 to 11. It is the program in the right line as it has brought good results. Out of 32,000 primary schools in Gujarat, 9,000 have got grading rating, he said.
Secretary to Primary Education Shri R.P.Gupta said that Gunotsav has acted like catalyst and brought both quantitative and qualitative changes in primary education. Gunotsav held during previous year traced poor results among 25-lakh students in primary schools. Rectification programs, then, were carried out which had changed the performance of around 85% of students, he said.
Smt.Vijyalakshmi Joshi, Principal Secretary to Health Department, gave details of 'School Health Checkup' program and said that it will cover more than 1.5-crore children in the state and around 3,03,888 health officials will give their services.”
Actually above one is official version, but I have so many friends working as teachers, said that this is effective program and results has been already started. You can read some of them here, here in this link one of the primary teacher is using blog
Khel Mahakumbg: Earlier there were some confusion about this program and its format. But now much has been published about it daily news papers. It is initially district level completion and running well in each district, more than 2 L participants in each district across various events and age groups.
One thing I would like to show that, during any event, any topic, say it photography, sankrit, Art, Teachers, Books…………………………..during every Government Function, Modi has facilitated some 30-40 person in group, which includes very senior person in that field(above 80s), some middle age person (50-80) and young blood also. This thing is totally unusual, because such senior person has been never appreciated by Government in past in such large scale and appropriate time.
I will update more about Ahmedabad coming events like Kankaria carnival, riverfront marathon etc in coming posts. Also I will update about GIFT project and Vibrant Gujarat 2011.
Today I have visited again Mahatma mandir location, which is the venue for next Vibrant Gujarat event 2011. I have posted updates about it this post which for this purpose only.
Today I am going to narrate my experience of visiting Gujarat Govt Official Teacher’s Day Celebration at Townhall, Gandhinagar. As I am basically from Gandhinagar itself, kindly bear some old memories of mine. You will read here how was the audinace, ambiance, small events which made big impacts, all 26 question and answers in detail word by word, and some personal observations. I am sure you will enjoy a lot, kindly write your comment at the end.
So, this time Teacher’s day comes on Sunday (5th Sep), so at last moment Govt decided to organize the same on 4th Sep (Saturday). There were some quick rearrangements, but everything was fine, you could not judge last moment change.
Agenda of the Program
Official (ઔપચરિક): Inauguration speech by Education Minister, Governor, Chief Minister, To honor best teachers-principals, closing.
Unofficial (અનૌપચરિક) : Question and answer by 26 students (district wise), some other felicitation of teaching word experts, guidelines defining and other.
There was a jam-packed town hall, official time was 10:00 AM, I was there by sharp 9:45, it was already pack but I secured one seat anyhow. But within 5-10 min situation is like that, people seat on the steps, many are standing in corners and some of them standing outside the hall where there was arrangement of big screen. There were mostly teachers, aged persons, visitors like me and students of surrounding schools.
I write last sentence specifically because I remember that, during my school days we were forced to attend such function to show the presence in the hall, very few outsiders and typical half an hour to one hour program. Current function is totally different in that sense. You can say there are 50% teachers, 30% outsiders, 20% student.
Some quick highlights of the program.
Time written in newspaper was 10:00 AM and it started at 10.30AM, which is quite normal, as everyone settled down and there will be no chaos when guest comes. Please don’t criticize at this point.
There was a continuous very good music going on by teachers themselves. There was a group which sung some very good and known Gujarati cultural songs, Rashtriya songs, and finally Balgits (children songs). They all are teachers from various parts of Gujarat, indeed there was a very good cooperation between them. Two singer, one table guy, one piono guy. They have maintained their rhythm till the Guest comes.
Education department has made arrangement to send individual photograph of teachers to their address who are going to be honored. They had announced the same so that their relatives don’t rush to front of stage when they are honored by Modiji or Kamlaji.
Modiji arrived first and got standing ovation, immediately Kamlaji (Our Governor) arrived and they both went to our first president Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan’s statue. Modi has taken out his sandal first and then made vandana to statue.
Now Govt has decided to greet each guest with book instead of bouquet (બુકે નહિ બુક) during current “Vanche Gujarat” drive,so all four ministers and Governor greeted with book.
There were total 7 person on stage, 4 minister (including modiji), 2 govt official and a Governor.
There were agenda of program put on the table in front of each individual on stage, but only modi has gone through for 2-3 minutes of that agenda file. Our Governor followed the same after 2 min, but it was clearly formality for few seconds.
This program was broadcasted live to all the Govt, granted schools across the state through BISAG studio ( almost 1.5 crore student across state), also it was webcasted online also.
Education minister mentioned some key points where like India first and some real achievements like, dropout ratio down to 2.9% from 36% due to Kanya Kelvani and Shala Praveshotsav since last 8 years.
Vidhyasahayak’s online enrollment and allotment through centralized, online system within 27 days
They have made at least one science stream school and college within each Taluka, including tribal and coastal areas.
They have honored around 30 teachers and principal, not in typical style with only name and school name, but they announce individual achievements when they are accepting Shawl and very good prashasti-patra (letter). Their achievements includes tree plantation, ras-garba, scout activity,science exhibition, youth activities, school building, library work, sports and many more things.
Modi has mentioned in his speech that Chanakaya the great loves to be identified as “TEACHER” only, and this parampara continued to Dr. Radhakrishnan who also want to be identified as teacher only though he has got highest post.
Modi has mentioned that this program is unique in its nature as all the school boys and girls see his teacher to be honored live thorugh BISAG and webcast. He wished that this system replicates within India so that teacher and students both got moral boost.
Gujarat is first in India which has taken insurance of each and every student from std 1st to graduate or post graduate level.
He has emphasized more to implement mid day meal scheme under direct supervision of Teachers of individual schools, so that maximum children got benefitted.
He has narrated one incident during last Gunotsav (2009), where one lady teacher cried during Modi’s visit to school, she thinks that there is something missing in themselves so that modi needs to come to school personally (અમારામાં જ કૈક કચાશ રહી છે જેથી તમારે પોતે અહી આવવું પડ્યું). Now some teachers work on Sunday also with own interest.
He wished to extend Gunotsav to District and Taluka level. He want every children to take part in coming KHEL-KUMBH so that they can be physically fit.
KAMLAJI- our Governor gave importance go woman and elder education, educate sarpanch(specially woman)
On this occasion he launched one website which teste your genera knowledge about Gujarat. There are 5000 questions on that website in different section, levels so that student as well elders can also participate. It is called GQ test. Please visit below link and participate.
He has also inaugurated almost 2650 website on various trades through Gujarat Technological University.
Modi’s speech was full of new ideas and fact-figures of already implemented ideas, while Kamlaji’s speech was typical one where she emphasized on typical problems with no clear ideas. Main differences was
Modi: We have done this and that, we have to work on this particular idea, learning should be there in teaching, talks about future and solutions. Definite vision and solution.
Kamlaji: These are the problems, in these much areas, we have to eliminate this, we have to work upon it, talks about past and problems, no solution and vision
Kamlaji left after honoring session. There was police band during both the time and our national anthem was sung when she arrives and leaves. I have interacted with many teachers, and they all in single voice said that there is a lot of change during last few years. Most of them feel motivated and satisfied.
In next session, modi has done live interaction in the form of question answer with 26 children (district wise). I have noted down each and every question and answer. I will post the same in next post, keep replying. It was the best part as some are direct questions like how you manage your time, how you remember long speech and figures without paper and many more.
Main thing of whole program was, there was totally out of box thinking, all teachers have listened very well and seriously. Even if they implement or even think over it, students will definitely going to be benefitted.
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