"LOVE FOR TREE" - A Success Story

Government District Hospital started in the District in 2006. This is located in a very dry and arid area. There is no tree around. So people have to face a really tough time during summers. So, Bhagirathi made up his mind to plant a tree on the occasion of Independence Day 2008 (15-82008). He says, "It gives me a deep sense of pleasure. Whenever I pass by this area, I get down from my bicycle and have a look at the plant. In summer I make it a point to water it regularly. I am happy to see that the plant has grown up very first." The people of the locality appreciate Bhagirathi for this noble deed. It is worthy to mention that Bhagirathi has raised a small forest near the residential colony. Thus, he has become a face in the crowd. In other words, he has become an example for the young as well as old in the town.
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Area Coordinator in Janjgir-Champa district of Chhattisgarh .He started his career as a Community Organizer in the organisation during 2006. He hails from Janjgir-Champa district. As usual he was assigned to prime jobs like self help group formation, loan disbursement and recovery, capacity building & facilitating the group members towards fulfilling the Vision and Mission of BISWA. A special programme namely Reproductive Child Health (RCH) was being implemented in the 14 villages of the district. At that time Bhagirathi was the only person involved in this programme. He used to organize awareness meetings, ensure that the pregnant women consult the doctors through ANM / ASHA workers, see that they are taking Calcium and Iron tablets regularly and going to the hospital for safe delivery. There is another attribute to his personality. In these years he had developed a great love for trees. In fact, his wife is also a tree-lover. So whenever they get time; they utilize its in gardening. In other words he has a deep urge for environmental conservation. Barrister Thakur Chhedilal Poddar

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Earlier another workshop on Right to Information was organised by Office of The Panchayat Samiti, Dhankauda at its conference hall on February 6th, 2009 in the chairmanship of Sri Sahadeb Samadia, Block Development Officer Dhankauda. Sri Pramod Mishra, ABDO-Dhankauda; Sri Purnachandra Pattnaik, GPO(I/C); Sri Sadananda Pradhan, Assistant Engineer; Sri Sanjay Tripathy, CO; Ms Gopalaxmi Hota, ACO; Sri Jatindra Sahu, MemberSambalpur Zilla Parisad & Sri Hiralal Behera, Member-Dhankauda Block Samiti graced the dais as the officials. Sri Shiv Prasad Meher, Manager- Public Relations & Sri Bhawani Shankar Mishra, ManagerHealth participated in it as resource persons and put up presentation on Right to Information with covering much intricate technical parts of it.
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Erik Geurts, Senior Equity Investment Officer of Triple Jump, Amsterdam Netherland visited Sambalpur for two days, February 9th & 10th. He participated in a staff meeting after his initial discussion with Mr. K.C. Malick, Chairman BISWA on day one. The meeting was organised at BISWA Training Institute in the Chairmanship of Mr.Malick. At the outset Mr. Shiv Prasad Meher, Manager-Public Relations welcomed the guest. Each participating staff introduced himself as per the tradition of BISWA. Speaking to the occasion Mr. Malick presented a brief profile of the organisation and emphasised on the purpose of long term loan by BISWA to use it to reduce prevailing poverty here. The loan fund is also used to address the affects of climate changes in India. He also spoke on vision, mission of the organisation with linking its' activities to millennium development goals (MDGs) as on today. He detailed on employment

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generation activities with social development programmes operated by BISWA. In an answer to a question on ethnic violence in Odisha and particularly in Kandhamal district recently, he said our self help group members are functioning as the peace ambassadors there. Moreover such groups are having members from various religion based

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communities and functioning in harmony, so any ethnic conflict is ruled out there. He explained the role clarity of managers in BISWA and said there is no confusion at all in this matter. He informed that the availed loan fund is appropriately invested with insurance, hence it is secured. Problems and interventions are interlinked, he remarked. Mr. Erik expressed his pleasure and said it is his first visit to India that gives him some thrilling experiences. "I am highly impressed with its peaceful co-existence of different ethnic groups here & it is a
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Resource Mobilisation
Development process in India in these years is yet to percolate into its rural sector upto its expected level. The lobe-sided urban development has taken its toll on rural sector as it is still languishing in abject poverty and backwardness. It is a matter of satisfaction that once known as third world country, India is in the race with some of the developing countries. But this development process cannot strike a balance unless the rural sector is developed unto its optimum level. Then what is the impedance in its way? It is just the lack of resource that is coming in its way. Unfortunately our internal resources are not enough to reach there due to its paucity. More over the government is unable to mobilise enough resources for this purpose. Then some non government organisations (NGOs) have voluntarily shouldered the responsibility to develop the much neglected rural sector. And in that case the fund earmarked by the government for rural development is proved insufficient to meet the need. In that case the onus is on these NGOs to mobilise resources for the task they have shouldered. In such a scenario, it is obvious to mobilise resource from outside the country to meet the demand. But it is not within the reach of each & any NGO. One has to extend its reach beyond the boundary of the country for such arduous task of resource mobilisation and it takes times & expertise to attain that height. Fortunately organisations like BISWA has attained that position after it's rigorously struggle to establish itself in the NGO sector. It has earned its credibility to that extent not only within the country but also outside its boundary, and that is too in a bonafide way. Such an achievement should be appreciated by one & all, as this entire exercise is attributing to the over all development of this country.

AGBM of IRCS

Bicycle Rally by NCC

further. Sri Meher went to Jujumura to know the situation earlier that day and confirmed their arrival at Bhawanipali in the afternoon. As soon as the rally reached Bhawanipali on National Highway No.42, they were greeted with welcome slogans and hand

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The Annual General Body

Meeting (AGBM) of Sambalpur district branch of Indian Red Cross Society took place on February 4th , 2009 at the Conference hall in the Collectorate at 3.00 pm. Sri Pradipta Kumar Pattnaik, District Magistrate & Collector, Sambalpur graced the chair as the president of district branch of IRCS. He was accompanied by Sri Rabinarayan Naik MLA Kuchinda, Sri Nirmal Chandra Satpathy, ADM Sambalpur; Sri Julius Lakra, PD DRDA Sambalpur, Dr. P. K. Agrawal, ADMO (Medical) & Sri Joy George, Honorary Secretary in the dais. The discussion took place on adoption of annual report for the year 2007-08, the

audit report for the year 2007-08 and appointment of auditor for the year 2008-09 as per the agenda. Besides the agenda the discussion also covered on issues like eye care & eye donation and posters & hoardings at district headquarters hospital & nursing homes for public awareness. It was also decided there that a separate meeting is to be convened to initiate procedure to establish an unit for iron component separation from donated blood either at district headquarters hospital, Sambalpur or at medical college hospital, Burla. Sri Shiv Prasad Meher, Manager- Public Relations; Sri Bhawani Shankar Mishra, Manager- Health; Dr. Diptibala Pattnaik, Consultant & Dr. Rajaram Sarangi Assistant ManagerHealth participated in it on behalf of BISWA.

A bicycle rally
by NCC cadets were received and welcomed by BISWA at its Bhawanipali ADC Office on February 13th, 2009 in the afternoon. The three day bicycle rally came from all along Athamallik and its destination was Burla, from there it went back to its place. Forty cadets in the leadership of their NCC teacher voluntarily participated in it and their objective was to evoke awareness on various health & social issues with raising slogans and displaying placards among the citizens they met all along their route. The three days movement of the rally was well planned and coordinated. BISWA was entrusted to receive the rally at Bhawanipali on their route and take care of their welfare there. Sri Shiv Prasad Meher, ManagerPublic Relations was present there with a team of staff members from Bhawanipali ADC office of BISWA. He was assisted by Sri T.K. David, Additional District Coordinator of Bhawanipali. The bicycle rally took their lunch at Jujumura and took a rest for time before it proceeded

shakes. They were made to take some rest and entertained with some light snacks & tea. Some of the team members showed their talents in expressing and explaining the objectives of the rally. It was recorded in video cameras and telecasted in the local cable channels in the evening that day. The team members bid goodbye with all good wishes for their further journey.

beauty in the unity of diversities" he said. He said his company, Triple Jump, is an equity based Investment Company and engage by SNS Real Bank as a consultant in connection with its programme in BISWA. Hence Triple Jump shares its concerns with BISWA. Sharing his experiences on micro finance institutions (MFIs) he said its developments could be observed in three stages. Showering praises on BISWA, he said it is a pool of talents & qualified professionals. I am assigned to send correct analyses on BISWA and that is why I am here. He appreciated the activities of BISWA in micro finance and remarked that micro finance cannot alone eradicate poverty. He was overwhelmed with the felicitation given to him in the presence of all staff members in that meeting. He was made to meet Mr. Duryodhan Mallick, Deputy General Manager; Mr. Prasant Sahu, Assistant General Manager (Operation); Mr. Pabitra Mishra, Assistant General Manager (Planning), Sri J.C.Mishra, Chief Manager Concurrent Audit & Mr. Bhawani Shankar Panda, Chief ManagerAudit & Accounts to discuss the official procedures here. He also discussed with officials from IT, Human Resources, Insurance, Office Administration & Programme departments & visited some self help groups of BISWA with meeting its' members to take the stock of situations. Officer, Principal Information Officer & Assistant Principal Officers took part in it. Sri Bhawani Shankar Mishra, ManagerHealth, BISWA participated in it as a resource person and shed light on different critical technical aspects of RTI Act. He satisfied the queries of the participating officials with explaining the very implications of the act.
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BISWA mourned the untimed demise of Ms Sarita Debangan on

February 14th, 2009, one of its staff members posted at Dhamtari and died in an accident there that day. The condolence meeting was convened in the chairmanship of Sri K.C.Malick, Chairman BISWA at BTI conference hall. Sri Shiv Prasad Meher, Manager- Public Relations, brought the condolence proposal with informing the house about the sudden demise of the deceased. A brief silent prayer for the peace of the bereaved soul was observed. A similar condolence meeting was organised by the staff members of BISWA earlier on January 28th, 2009 to mourn the untimed demise of Sri Ashok Das in a road accident the previous day.
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Workshops on RTI

was organised by the Sambalpur district administration on February 10th 2009 at Collectorate Conference Hall. Sri Pradipta Kumar Patnaik, District Magistrate & Collector, Sambalpur presided over the function. It was coordinated by Sri Nirmal Chandra Satpathy, Additional District Magistrate. Almost all the district level officials including District Develop-ment
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A workshop on Right to Information