once case omnibus stood which became
Mahon looked enter Kagan man in Agra
corpse of co-star punch bhakti Sharad
Yadav say boy bought the mesh car on a
bright day a 25 year old girl she visits
the house of all the villagers now she
was approaching them she sees a man
coming close to her he comes he grabs a
hundred rupee note as a token of love
and affection he gives it to her and the
evening when this girl goes back to her
home her favorite meal was prepared but
she refused to eat it because deep
inside she knew that the man who gave
her 100 rupees his family was sleeping
hungry that night so it was on this
first day of my confessing when I’ve
walked 12 kilometres barefoot my
conception of what of villages
completely changed when I came back to
India I was completely blank and it’s a
negative word blank blank in a sense
like how could I best serve my country
people who have no say people who are
invisible nobody would even care to stop
by and look who these people are and
people who actually watch this so when
these elections came up deep inside I
knew that I wanted to do something for
the society but what open up an NGO to
float an idea some good idea but that
was not my cup of tea so I thought yes
when these elections are announced I
have had a smile on my face and I knew
that taste this is what I wanted to do I
consulted my family the elder man from
the village they approached they came to
my grandfather and asked we need bhakti
as a serpent they wanted an educated sir
punch and I being a master’s in
political science in college topics like
yeah things are very easy for me I can
easily handle each and everything what I
have these projects I want to go and
transform each and everything but I was
looking at all these things
from an urban mindset and trying to
reform that rural structure it was the
first thing where I was wrong so when I
see our policymakers they always say we
want to link the rural areas with the
urban mainstream who are we to call
ourselves as mainstream when we still
live in a country with 65% of the people
living in those rural areas so today
being responsible for some 500
households in five villages under me
when my conception and my experiment
says that if all the common policies are
actually implemented with this effective
team with an iron will we can start
seeing green shots so whatever little we
have done as for the government policies
are 100 percent financial inclusion to
the John’s and yours no hundred percent
ration cards made for all odf panchayat
social housing schemes solar
streetlights community halls the roads
made under our tenure are 9 to 12 inches
in crust and a dozen of youth today in
so after all these things I could manage
to be in the hundred women achievers of
India but the other side of the picture
is very very different see it’s a female
and it’s a serpent a male bastion
position so I will tell you some things
that will actually surprise you how does
it feel when an educated grade-a
official asks you serpents yeah pay up
capital G who’s the serpent you or your
father you know what I said
so let me clear Oh he’d heart hunger
easy to Athena yeah you know so I I
stand and I was like sir do you see a
Serpent’s Barbara Starr punch bhai on my
left or my right if not so this means I
am don’t sir punch or when the villagers
think the discuss you know by the shaadi
Karogi do signature is I didn’t convert
you know I should be you know give word
to her she’s gonna go to she’s gonna get
married and go somewhere or in the
panchayat sector do you think she’s an
educated girl how she’s gonna handle all
these things so I’m gonna handle all the
first Finney family interferes in each
and everything you do or when you don’t
use your family’s name and still the
government officials would say I didn’t
come to curry though you’re gonna give a
chair or above all when you’re actually
giving everything from your pocket and
still those government officials expect
to slice out of it it is then you know
that success doesn’t come in a goodie
box wrapped up well Candace try and
strive hard with all your ideas and work
over there and let me tell you when
you’re working for the villagers we
should keep one thing very clear in our
mind if you’re working for that segment
that is actually not literate so it is
one of the biggest challenge the way how
do they look at life the ideas and
they’re the motives of dealing with each
and everything the nuances of coming out
of the comfort zone so after
considerable perseverance is not today
when people hear about Burke Harry you
know what clicks their mind the first
thing cast is not a barrier over there
this futile mindset I think you short
story there was this very well to draw
the water and it had two parts obviously
divided on the basis of cost so that
night we demolish one of them so next
one when people came this show there is
only just one area from which they could
actually draw the water there two
options first one to draw the water from
that area second to go back empty-handed
trust me that shows the first one
because we could actually convince them
that the water inside that vent is the
same it won’t be divided oh my god
you’re from the upper class the waters
gonna come there you got a more cast
world come come from there this futile
mindset is just the beaming we’re trying
to remove it and today at social
gatherings with people would sit with us
you won’t even know who’s from which
cast who’s serving and who’s eating the
second thing is you know we’re braving
the strong bias against the girl child
it’s not only in India but worldwide let
me be very clear
so if come up with new concept of giving
my two months third punch honorarium to
the women who gives birth to a girl
child so at least that is kind of a
motivation for these people and
continuously sitting in arms Abbas and
listing each and every house today is a
condition that from past one and half
ear there’s not been a single case of
domestic violence or harassment against
the third thing is if you actually this
game actually gives me a lot of
satisfaction that the the youth over
there it’s now more inclined towards the
or diverted towards the progressive
pursuits of life like they’re into
sports and the skill development they’re
just satsang so maturity of the youth
today is not into any kind of drug or
alcohol intake so this gives me a laugh
and a piece the fourth thing is in our
country in all the villages we have this
big issue of medical facilities
that’s not provided the way it should be
so if you’ve been keen on constantly
working with such NGOs voluntaries
providing services who have given us
free surgeries free medical checkups and
free medicines so this is something that
the villagers actually want today be it
the counseling sessions by the way 100%
school enrolment in our panchayat the
NSS camp awareness rallies counseling
sessions on the cleanliness sanitation
hygiene parent-child relation banking
facilities all this has been possible
because it has been 100 percent
involvement of all the villages of there
we actually have done our own survey to
know the positions of each and every
household we know what is the income
what is the expenditure how much do they
save so all this has given us an insight
we’ve come up with a particular strategy
and how we need to work on these village
issues and today we try and reconsider
our strategies to achieve a pre agreed
objectives one of the favourite things
are like is the rural urban interaction
so the youth over here just ask you a
single question how many of you think or
you’ve seen that is a common sight to
see somebody milking a cow it is a
common sight today and not know so it’s
like not even 3 4 percent why is this so
because there’s been lot of you know a
lack of interaction between the urban
and as well that is led to a big divide
so we asked the college students and the
school students to spend a day or a week
in our panchayat contribute to the
village
but in return learned from them how to
utilize not consumed learn from them how
to be happy in small things learn from
them to be in joint families we teach
them how does a panchayat works that if
always read in your in CRT notebooks
that’s it
so no practical research so this is
something to give them an intake about
how a village panchayat actually is or
how the village is so this is actually
boosted a lot of confidence in the kids
of the of the village of the panchayat
actually and environmental is a big
concern so in each in every house over
there they have this groundwater
recharge with the help of the rainwater
harvesting and in one of our villages we
have a small philosophy like how many
daughters we have in a home equal to the
number of trees you should plant in your
own home four days from today after four
days I’m going to complete two years of
being a star punch so the first thing
that I’m working is I want the youth
over there in the village itself to
acquire leadership positions in the next
coming elections especially they’re
mentioned girls being a girl I would
never want a position like a serpent Bob
or a serpent
pittha or a serpent spy to exist if the
girl is the serpent she is the serpent
the second thing is which working for
creating financial hubs in deep insight
itself two years back when I became the
serpent it was very easy for me to go
and ask any NGO to provide me with some
10 swing machines and they would have
happily done that and educated serpent
you see you know and with a lot of
exposure so they would have done that
but but then would that think would have
actually solved the problem that we have
the women or the girls I would say from
16 to 25 years of phase they would have
had a swimming machine they would have
learned it but they’ve left get that
ring machine into the house fell upon
some a cage or 2 kg dust that was not
what I wanted because they would then be
skilled but not employed
today when I see that yes they have the
skin interest in doing something soon of
him as one of the angels to provide us
with sewing machine which training and
alters raw material so that they’re
employed not for a month-to-month or
just to have that in the newspapers but
at least for the years or generations to
come because that’s what the contract
says some more ideas that we are walking
upon the three one I’m gonna give you is
first one it’s about the community and a
college collaboration that how many is
needed now how could this be done all
the big colleges or small universities
companies bigger small they have many
seminars and conferences over the year
and then we provide these people the
guests coming with some kind of gifting
accessories how we’re having them from
the village itself I mean if we provide
skill and training to the villagers and
the raw material that is jute so we can
have jute folders jute bags cloth bags
and many such kind of creative things so
this would actually be for a college is
gonna be a startup in his research
center because we have these fertile
minds in each and every college but the
innovation is not being used so why not
to make community as your lab and start
working over there the second thing is I
wish to promote your rural tourism you
know we go to these jungle resorts and
we spend a lot of money over there but
the end of the day they’re all man-made
how about coming to work area Birla
staying at a person’s home having your
meals and basic facilities over there
that would be regulated by the panchayat
and you can have the actual essence of
what rural life is all about so this is
something that’s really amazing and I
really want do it so that the youth
should know that there’s a u-turn you
can take and come back to the village
and start serving what a piece of the
camps are have wanted the third thing is
every village every village they have
their own skills if I take example of
Bhopal we have 526 panchayat one hundred
and 187 punch outs and 526 villages over
there and when you come to Delhi we have
this very beautiful place called Chandni
Chowk and the poop alley but it was a
very famous now however I didn’t find
this girl from
religion asking some kind of an and ifts
to produce or promote a particular
design that is acceptable globally so
that’s gonna be something that’s really
very cost effective and it’s gonna give
employment you cannot even imagine to
enormous number of women and houses
they’re actually staying in the villages
it’s a third thing the fourth thing
actually in the most important is that
we’ll be collaborating with hotels and
the three-star hotels and four stars so
that they need a lot of flowers and
decorative stuff like that we’re gonna
promote flower cultivation to the
farmers and other side the women would
be empowered because they would know how
to decorate them and how to make those
bouquets out of it so when I use this
word financial hubs or clusters is
actually means that we need a set of
five to ten panchayats they should be
linked and the basic facilities like
school education health care facilities
and above all that’s the the employment
opportunities should be provided to them
over there this is actually to stop the
rural migration towards the urban areas
that is one of the major problems we are
facing in our country today nobody
having a one-acre five ten twenty acres
of land
wants to come to the urban areas be a
laborer over her live a life that’s not
he actually has they want to be
dependent on their own self they want to
be self-sufficient and self-reliant and
they want to live a dignified life so I
have to conclude I would just say that I
really wish to nurture the rural and the
urban leadership the enterprises and
institutions with continuous interactive
sessions with them so as to attain
something that’s called sustainable and
interdependent living thank you so much
Jai Kisan Jeff [Applause]