Inspiration

An act of bravery by the Superintendent of Police Indira Mukherjee posted at Jhargram, West Bengal. Her prompt action led to the recovery of bulls from armed goons early morning today.

A truck carrying 13 bulls to Dhyan Foundation Chakulia gaushala, Jharkhand was stopped and looted by armed goons in Jambani PS Limits, West Bengal.

These bulls were earlier rescued from the cattle mafia by the Border Security Force at Indo Bangladesh border and handed over to Dhyan Foundation Kishanganj Gaushala for subsequent care. As the gaushala exceeded its keeping capacity, the bulls were being shifted to the NGOs Chakulia Gaushala, which is also the country’s largest Nandi Shala housing over 7000 rescued bulls and cows.

Enroute, the truck driver took a wrong turn and stopped to ask way at Podihati Village. In no time, the locals armed with weapons surrounded the truck, threatened the drivers and took away the cattle.

The drivers somehow managed to escape and enter Jharkhand and complained at Chakulia police station. Jhargram SP, Indira Mukherjee was prompt in action and very soon all the bulls were recovered. They are now safe at the gaushala.

The region is notorious for the activities of the cattle mafia. As per sources, many cattle are hoarded in the local masjid. A similar raid is required to rescue those cattle as well.

Address of masjid 

Parihati masjid, Bakhura district, Jamboni ps limits

About Dhyan Foundation: 

Dhyan Foundation is a spiritual and charitable body of volunteers and sadhaks registered formally as a trust in the year 2002. They teach advanced yogic techniques, mantras and meditation. As a precursor to these practices, Karmic Cleansing is essential. Hence the volunteers devote their time and effort for the service of humans, animals and the environment.

Thousands of people are fed daily through their country-wide food distribution camps. The Foundation run ‘Anand Vidyalayas’ to impart free education to underprivileged children and provide vocational training to empower women. Their work in animal welfare may be summed up as below,

35 plus shelters housing over 40,000 rescued animals including cows, bulls, buffaloes, camels, donkeys, cats, dogs, peacocks, goats, sheep and more. They have gaushalas in nearly every state of India – no milking cows, just bulls and old and infirm cows, all saved from cattle mafia and butchers

Feeding more than 50000 plus stray and wild animals including dogs, cows, monkeys, langurs, birds, squirrels and more through 500 plus feeding points across the country. 24-hour animal emergency helpline and 10 ambulances running round the clock in 6 cities, their efficiency can be judged from the fact that even the MCD directs rescue calls to us.

Treatment of sick and injured animals including plastic removal surgeries, prosthetic limb replacements, vaccination drives, massage and physiotherapy and recovery under the personal care and attention of volunteers.

Emergency relief programs for calamity struck cattle. Some examples include Chitradurg (Karnataka, 2019), Rewa (Madhya Pradesh, 2018), Kollegal (Karnataka, 2017), Mahoba (Uttar Pradesh, 2017), Latur (Maharashtra, 2016), Dausa (Rajasthan, 2016 & 2017), Hingonia (Rajasthan, 2016)

Animal Awareness Programs in schools, colleges, institutions and MNCs. Reflective Neck Belt distribution to prevent stray accidents on roads. They produce and promote products made from cattle wastes to make the gaushalas self-sustainable under the banner of ‘Nandi Products’.

Since November 2018, they are working shoulder to shoulder with the border security force of India to rehabilitate the cattle rescued by BSF at the Indo Bangladesh border and have successfully transported and rehabilitated nearly 50,000 such cattle to date. According to the BSF, they are the ONLY organization that is working for this cause.

Dhyan Foundation is a recognized Animal Welfare Organisation registered with the Animal Welfare Board of India ((ND054/2019)). We are a member of the State (Delhi) Advisory Board for Animal Welfare and of the Goa Animal Welfare Board. We were awarded the 2021 Animal Welfare Protection Award (Jeev Daya) by Minister of Animal Husbandry India and AWBI chairperson; 2019 Goa State Leadership Award for Best NGO; 2018 Jenanne Marchig Animal Welfare Award by the Federation of Indian Animals Protection Organisation and the 2017 ICAR award for contribution towards local cattle germplasm.

Sohan Roy, a Sharjah-based Indian businessman inspired by recent court order by Supreme Court of India, will be compensating wives of his employees for the commitment and work ethic shown during the pandemic.

Hailing from Kerala, Roy, the Founder & CEO of Aries Group of Companies, has been featured as one of the top influential leaders in Middle East 2017, released by Forbes Middle East.

According to UAE-based news website Khaleej Times, Roy’s company is currently creating a database of the spouses of male employees in the company. The monthly salary will be decided based on the number of years an employee worked with the company, the report said. The salary for the wives of the employees of the company will be rolled out soon.

It is payback time for the hard work of the employees and the support provided by their families, which has seen the company during the challenging and uncertain times of 2020, said the report citing Roy.

In 2012, Krishna Tirat, then Indian Minister of Child and Women Development Krishna Tirath had put forward the idea, wanting to give a “more socially empowered identity to housewives”.

Roy was inspired by the Indian Supreme Court’s order in an accident case where it noted that the value of a housewife’s work is no less than her employed husband. He took a leaf out of this and decided to recognise the support of his employees’ spouses during the tough time. 

The company did not sack any of its employees or deduct their salaries during the period. And according to the report, the firm is already paying a pension to the parents of its staff employees who have completed three years of service. It also provides annual scholarships to children of the employees to study.

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AZIM PREMJI, INDIAN BUSINESS TYCOON

The most generous Indian

Wipro’s Azim Premji emerges as most generous Indian in FY20. India’s IT major Wipro’s Azim Premji made donations of Rs 22 crore a day or Rs 7,904 crore in a year to emerge as the most generous Indian in FY20 and top a list of philanthropy.

An Indian business tycoon, investor, engineer, philanthropist and founder of one of India’s finest companies, admired globally for its uncompromising ethics and best practices in business, Azim Hashim Premji is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry.

For a man who makes donations of Rs 22 crores of his wealth every day to improve elementary education in the country, Azim Premji, has been an enigma.

RAVI KALRA, EARTH SAVIOURS FOUNDATION

A home away from home

Earth Saviours Foundation (ESF), also called Gurukul is home to around 450 homeless people, including over 300 mentally-challenged persons.

Founded in 2008 by Ravi Kalra, 49, who was moved to see a beggar child scouring garbage along with street dogs on a busy Delhi road. With all the money he had, he started his foundation and, since then, has dedicated himself to improving the lives of abandoned senior citizens, physically and mentally disabled, victimised women, and people suffering from incurable diseases. “I feel all of them deserve to live with dignity,” he said. The Earth Saviours Foundation runs without any government support, doesn’t have enough beds for the 450 people who reside there, but always has its doors open for the homeless.

An astonishing fact, Kalra has come across beggars who are NRIs, retired army officers, IAS officers who were abandoned by their families in old age.

FARHAN PETTIWALA, AKHAND JYOTI EYE HOSPITAL

Passion to serve

All of 48, Farhan has a distinguished 27-year long career as a serial entrepreneur, a senior corporate executive with MNCs in India, Australia, UAE, Singapore and has been engaged in running forprofit and not-for-profit social organization.

His excellent relations, both in the government and with corporate leaders are testimony of the fact that he has been instrumental in raising donations of over Rs.50 crore every year for the wonderful work done by a little-known organization in the remote Mastichak village in Bihar, Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital
(AJEH), working towards eliminating curable blindness from poorer states like Bihar, and Eastern U.P. and empowering women through “Football to Eyeball” girl education and development program.

Now looking at getting back to the mainstream as a CEO using his experience in both sectors, Farhan has been recognized by The Honourable Prime Minister of India and The President of India as the emerging Business leader of the year. Farhan currently serves as an Honorary Advisor to the Prime Minister of India (PMO).

ANSHU GUPTA, GOONJ

True giving always respects and preserves human dignity

Anshu Gupta, popularly known as the Clothing Man is the Founder of an Indian based nonprofit – Goonj. One of India’s leading social entrepreneurs, Anshu left a corporate job in 1998 and founded GOONJ with a mission to make clothing a matter of concern and to bring it among the list of subjects for the development sector. Anshu is creating a mass movement and raising donations for recycling and reuse of tonnes of waste material by channelising it from the cities to the villages, as a resource for rural development.

Anshu brings to the table an instinctive empathy and connects with people, moving the focus from the conventional – giver’s pride to the unconventional – receiver’s dignity. Asia’s Noble, the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award 2015, conferred to him credited him for ‘his creative vision in transforming the culture of giving in India, his enterprising leadership in treating cloth as a sustainable development resource for the poor, and in reminding the world that true giving always respects and preserves human dignity.

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Martyr Captain Ashutosh Kumar, 25, of Indian Army’s 18 Madras Regiment was martyred in a fierce exchange of fire with terrorists near LoC in J&K’s Kupwara sector on Nov 8th 2020. He gunned down two militants before being hit by bullets.

A bachelor, he leaves behind his parents and two sisters. “I am sad I have lost my son at a young age, but I am proud that he sacrificed his life for the nation. And that’s what he was trained for,” said the proud father of the young martyr.

One of his juniors at school said that he was a brilliant student who could have easily cracked NEET or JEE, but his patriotism and love for the motherland made him join NDA.

We salute the awakened soul and feel proud at the same time, of the patriotic spirit of our citizens.

A Tribute to Our Martyrs
We both left home at 18. You cleared JEE,
 I got recommended You got IIT,
 I got NDA You pursued your degree,
 I had the toughest training Your day started at 7 and ended at 5,
 Mine started at 4 till 9 Some nights also included.
You had your convocation ceremony, I had my POP

Best company took you and Best package was awarded, I was ordered to join my Paltan with 2 stars piped on my shoulders
You got a job, I got a way of life.
Every eve you got to see your family,
I just wished I got to see my parents soon

You celebrated festivals with lights and music,
I celebrated with my comrade in bunkers.
We both married,
Your wife got to see you every day,
My wife just wished I was alive
You were sent to business trips,
I was sent on line of control.

We both returned
Both wives couldn’t control their tears, but
You wiped hers, I couldn’t
Because I was lying in the coffin,
With medals on my chest and
Coffin wrapped with tricolour,
My way of life ended, Your continued
We both left home at 18

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