Koraput, Orissa 

Malkangiri, Orissa 

Acknowledgement

This post is to acknowledge all those people who helped me in one way or other during two months of Organisational Visit.I m writing them here because it was not possible to incorporate all the names in the report which i will be submitting.

At IIFM, Bhopal

Prof P K Biswas(OT Coordinator) and all other faculty members

At SPWD, Delhi
Mr Vijay Sardana
Mr Pramod Tyagi
Ms Vanita Suneja
Mr Ajay Bhan Singh
Mr R P Agrawal
Ms Pooja
Mr Kanishk

At Vasundhara, Bhubaneshwar
Dr Neera Singh
Ms Rekha Panigrahi
Ms Pushpanjali Sathpathy

At RCDC, Bhubaneshwar
Mr Sanjay Pattnaik

At Vasundhara, Kuchinda & Barkote
Mr Rana Ray
Mr Nihar Ranjan Mishra
Ram Chandra
Basil
Malay

At RCDC, Koraput
Mr Rupen Pattanik
Basant

At Pragati, Koraput
Mr Prabhakar Adhikari

At Parivartan, Malkangiri
Mr Nityanand Pradhan
Mr Nakul Khila

At Gram Vikas, Berhampur
Mr Joe Madhiach
Mr M K Mahapatra

At Sahjeevan, Shahdol
Mr Yogesh Shastri
Ms Suvarna Yogesh
Mr Giridhar Mathenkar
Ms Manisha Mathenkar
Mr Prem Mishra

Government & Bank Officials
DFO, Shahdol
RM, Central Bank Of India, Shahdol
LDM, Central Bank Of India, Shahdol
DDM, NABARD, Shahdol
Officials of OPM, Amlai

Mr Shreyas Goyal, TARAhaat, Delhi

People of different villages, cooperatives,SHGs, Federations of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, without whose responses,support, feedbacks, this work could not have been completed.

Friends, @ IIFM and everywhere else for being in touch continuously.

& Above all, GOD, Mummy, Papa and Rohit for everything.

Back To IIFM :)

So, back to IIFM after more then 2 months.The old schedule and classes have started as usual.Right now have to choose electives for the term.also, starting of hindi blog is also pending.

The good thing is,net connectivity after 2 months and the bad thing is Yahoo Messenger is not working :( because of newlly installed firewall in the Network....So bad , cant talk with any of trhe friends :(..

Anyway, after starting of fourth term, its time to get serious abt studies and placement and carrier...

Dilli Ki Garmi.....

I m in Hell..(sorry..Dellhi) since last 10-12 days.. & this has been nothing else except a good torture.Kya garmi hai bhai dilli me....bas Zinda hu is taraha...

Anyway the good thing is...today is second last day of OT..havce prepared the draft report and also submitted...Presesntation is also ready & have to deliver it in evening tomorrow and after that,....to home frm night train...hoorraaayyy one week vacation :)

the problem is , these peopel have also invited of Board of Governers for our presentation and that makes me somewhat nervous...anyway...WILL BE FREE TOMORROW EVENING.

My hometown(Manohar thana) has got some rains and it will definitely be coller then Delhi(Or call it Hellhi)
So looking forward to one week of full masti.......

Bits and Pieces

I have not written anything over here since last don’t know how many days and I m itching to write my experiences of field visit. Was in Shedol from 18 may to 11 june and did not had proper net access there.Now i m in delhi and though have net connection here, But the time has not come yet. because still busy with preparation of report here in delhi.From here will go to home and there is no question of net availability there so it seems that regular upates here will start from 4th july only when I will be back in Bhopal.

Meanwhile…my last days in orissa were just great. I went to konark, puri and chilka…Roamed a lot on sea beaches, bowed in front of bhagwan Jagannath and in Chilka….the mouth where lake and sea joins each other were marvellous…Really enjoyed a lot. those details are also pending to be posted here.
Another thing is…my third term grades are out…and to my surprise…I performed better then my 2nd term…don’t know how it was possible but…really miracles do happen. I got 3.52/4.33 and though it is not very good I even did not expected that.. anyway GOD IS GRAET :)

Now…counting my days in delhi…I did not like this city a bit…don’t know why.. but this is not of my type…m staying here at room of one of my seniors(Goyal sir)…but he is also out of station and I really get bored..

Also the 3 hour up down bus journey from home to office to home is really tiresome feel completely exhausted when I reach back…anyway have to just spend 7-8 more days here…

Back to Bhuwaneshwar

I was in field for last 12-15 days....have travelled across five districts of Orrisa (Devgarh, Sambalpur,Koraput,Malkangiri and Ganjam)..had got a lot of expeinces..met with many people...NGOs, cooperatives, SHGs, people in villages.....have so many things to write..but it willl take some time to sort everything out....will write later...

Here Bhuwaneshwar is HOT like anything...though Kotaput was veru cool and I enjoyed 7 days there...m planning to visit Puri this weekend...

for now...thanx to people of Orrisa who made my visit to filed a very memorable experience...(will wrie names some time later).

Over To Bhuwaneshwar

So..i m here in Bhuwaneshwar, the Capital of Orissa, since Saturday.
nice city...but very humid..., temprature is not much , but humidity is like anything....Khoob Paseena Baha Raha hu :)

Anyway....Was free yeasterday, as it was sunday...utilised it inb roaming around in Bhuwaneshwar...saw some temples here...(will write detail abt that later) also saw the museum....but was not of much intrest to me.

The work for which , came here, started today. Met with Vasundhara as well as RCDC people and really...thos epeople are very cooperative...are helping in all the ways possible from library informations to arrangements in field....really thankful to them.

Will be moving to field tom oroow..oit is around overnight journey frm here(in Sambalpur District). Will be there till sunday and frm there only...will move to Korupet(RCDC field area)...will be there again for 1 week & then probably back to BBSR...dont knowabt that..

Will also have to take one day to visit Puri...cant lkeave that after coming so nera...hope get a call from there (Bhagawan Jagannath) :)....hope he ios listening..

i think will get net after 10-12 days now...

My First Income

Today is last day at Delhi...atleat For Time being..wil leave for Bhuwaneshwar tomorrow.

The good thing for today is ...I got my first pay(more specifically it is stipend)....
Because i will be in field for around 50 days...those peole being generous have given me some advance from stipend and accomodation allowance and other expense(Total amount 16,700/- :D)..thats a good amount and i hope my coming days will pass happily..:)

More From Delhi....

Today was my reporting day at Organisation....Got my project and location details.

So Have not to tolarate delhi for much time...Have to move to Bhuvaneshwar on 22nd .will be there till around 20 May.(dont know..how hot will be that city in peak summers),from There will have to move to Shehdol in MP.

The "what i have to do in project" is that i will be studying the NTFP marketing models followed by some NGOs in Orrisa and works being done by them both at field as well as policy level and try to find their applicability in Shehdol Region of MP(or to suggest some suitable model).

Will be getting my tickets and some advance for 2 months :) by tomorrow but still have to stay in that "Kabootarkhana" of Paharganj :(......(thats what we call life)

Hope coming days will be good fuin and learning.

Dilli

Writing this from a cyber cafe in Chandni Chowk.....

This is my second day in delhi for my first Summer training in PG and how tired i m..from Yesterday till today, i dont know how much kilometers i have travelled and how many times i have asked my way to people..and experienced a lot...OF DELHI.

Ask anybody abt any place...& the answer u will get..
"Bas yaha se seedhe nikal jao...aur aage thodi door jaake phir seedhe chale jaana." :) Not even a single person told to go left or right or turn back...

Firstly i had kept my luggage at Shreyas's Oraganisation's guest house but had to leave that in the evening only & then got this hotel at Paharganj.

Yeasterday..first we strolled at Nizamuddin Ralway Station for two hours to get his Honda Activa which he had booked frm bhopal...And dont forget two hours walk to different area around Nizamuuddin to purchase a helmet...had to walk arond 5-6 Kilometers.:(

The after getting the Gaddi we set out to search for my org..and what a address they have given..just the name of the street...we travelled arnd 30 kilometers & fortunately found the location...but the big task was remaining..we both had to go back to his guest house nad none of us knew where wre we had in which direction we had to go...so againa sking an asking and after travelling 40 kilomerters for a distance which was actually 20 Kilometers and passing thru dont know what what streets...and may other know places like..Rashtrapati Bhawan, India Gate janpath Rajghat ..and so on...somehow reached back...

Then had to move back to Paharganj & finally found this Hotel where i m staying right now.

Free for today also ..just raoming arnd in the streets..went to Jama Masjid..lal Kila...and at presently at chandni Chowk...will see a movie at Night. Or may be evening show.:)

let us see what is in store for tomorrow .

P S - Another thing i hate is to pay for Net...have used to of having unlimited connectivity at IIFM :(

हिन्दी मे लिखने का प्रयास

क़ाफी दिनो से हिन्दी मे लिखने का विचार कर रहा था....नया हिन्दी ब्लोग बनाने का भी इरादा है...पर आज सोचा कि पहले यही पर कोशिश करके देखा जाये...वैसे हिन्दी मे लिखना बदा मुश्किल है...पर यहा से ये काफी आसान हो जायेग... आगे आगे देखिये ...होता है क्या ?

OT Decided.....

So.....the fate of next two months(that is summers) was decided yesterday night....Will be doing a project under SPWD(Society For the Promotion Of Wasteland Development).

The project is on finding markets for some NTFPs and is based in MP only...but will have to report their Delhi Office First.

Getting a Stipend of Rs.4000/- per month :) (that will be my first real earning) + 3000 p.m. as accomodation allowances + AC II class train fare + other incidental expenses. Thats not bad... ;)

Anyway...for now, the biggest pain is End Terms which are starting from tomorrow and i dont know even a damn thing in any subject....Will have to do some real work to get marks in these exams....And for now...writing in Hindi is also postponed till dont know when....

Enjoying Reading Hindi Blogs....

Though nowadays i m deep immersed in assignments...i m addicted to reading hindi blogs.I did not knew that there are so many people writing in hindi over Web....& how cool they write....Some blogs are simply great!!!reading a lot of poems and the good thing is most of them have a desi hindi touch which cannot be found in books.

I m also planning to start a hindi blog very soon...but may be after term exmas......

Links to many Hindi Blogs can be found here.

US Sells F-16 To Pak

This news came last week...I just read this article on rediff on US Policy and what india Shud Do...

"lovely easter gift to india from the US.

moral: proliferate nukes, threaten us interests everywhere, be terror hub, and get rewarded for it. this has been north korea's experience, china's experience, saudi arabia's experience, and pakistan's experience.
suck up to the US, desperately crave its goodwill, allow its odious conversion machine to dictate terms to you, and get slapped on the face. this is india's experience.
simple solution for india: proliferate nuke and missile technology to anybody who wants it, especially taiwan and japan. this will immediately get american respect, much as pokhran-ii did."...

Full Article @

http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/mar/28kanch.htm

 

Field Visit To A Farm Near Siwani-Malwa On 19th March 

India Lost!!!! :(

So…India again lost a match when they were expected to perform under pressure. There are so many questions to be asked & so many to be answered…why did India played only for a draw & not for a Win(when u have so called top class batsman of the world and that too all in form) & just now I read a news…”Laxman & Kumbale out of One Day Squad”…So can anybody tell me what Mr. Ganguly is doing in team…? I think He shud be given some rest & time to think , what his problem is.Let him play some domestic cricket & then he can again make a comeback.
Frm Pakistan’s point of view..they made a great comeback after losing 2nd test ant Kolkata…and the innings by Inzy & Yunus Khan were a pleasure to watch.
In my view man of the series shud have been shared between Sehwag & Yunus Khan.
Sehwag is really becoming Sachin for India…once there was atime when we used to sya..Sachin is gone…that means whole team is gone…the in last few years there were good performnacs frm everyone in the team and team no more depended upon Sachin & now…Its Sehwag…till he is in field runrate moves like anything. Pitch conditions, bowl condition. Lights, sight screen. Pressure…nothing hampers the sharpness of his bat…..!!

Now as one day series in ahead...let us see what India is going to do?

Added On April 1st

Got this in mail just now....

New Maggi Ad:---

• Step 1: Boil one cup of water
• Step 2: As soon as ganguly goes for batting, put the noodles in the boiled water and add the tastemaker.
• Step 3: Stir till ganguly is on the field.
• Step 4: As soon as ganguly is back in pavilion, your noodles r ready to eat.

Days to come....

Was thinking of changing the template since many days...but couldnt get time...even could not write anything here since midterms.This template is OK but i m still not satisfied..will try to change further in coming days.

btw....almost each prof has given loats of assignments.& April first week is going to be full of submissions and presentations...most deadlines are approaching and then there will be exams frn 11th..oh GOD!!!

At present the biggest headache is to decide OT...though it will be finalised on 8th April.....i m still unable to make up my mind whether which sector to choose..:(.I m Confuuuused a lot)

Also...seniors will be departing very soooon.Their last working day is 31st...Tomorrow we(juniors) r giving them farewell...

This saturday will again be consumed by another Field Work in FE...& this time it is 120 km away(total 240)...oh god..that means more then 7 hrs of journey.....Oops!!!

& then ....Holi is coming..planning to visit home again at Holi ;)...thats the advantage u get when u are near ur hometown...while in engineering it used to take me 16 hrs to reach home but now...its just 4 hrs away...:)).we r trying to reschedule classes of 28th..and hope Diro agrees to it.....

Mastiiiiiiiiiii

So Midterms finished just now and i can breath easily..

Dont know how i performed in exams but "I should not look back". Rather see what is ahead of me...

I have to read a lot...watch some movies plus visit home.I missed a lot of Hungama on TV due to thses exams.First Assembly elections then Budget Discussion...but now i will make of all the losses :).

& its party time now. Finally seniors are giving placement party today that means lots of DJ dance+masti.....and that also means preparation of next party...thats farewell which we will give............... so again Dance+Masti...

So i seems i will have a very busy shedule for next week.Oops...forgot studies.. have to submit a lot of assignments next week... :( so will have to work... :(