Association for India’s Development September,

Delhi Chapter Newsletter 2007

Table of Contents From the Editor’s Desk

The month of September 2007 at AID. I’d rate
this as the fastest of 2007 with so much of activities
From the editors desk 1 happening around. One greatest thing and I’d rate the
biggest achievement in our three and half year journey is
Project Updates the “Mass Canlde Vigil” which we are going to do on
Aashayen 2 2nd October 2007. This event has not only gathered
AID Gurgaon 2 people to show its solidarity towards farmers but also
AID Prayas 3 has go a lot of AIDers together.
Parichay 3
Nai Disha 4 AID follows the principle of Sewa, Sangarsh
and Nirman but AID delhi was more active on the Sewa
part since most of our projects were child education
Articles related. Infact lots of volunteers who are with AID
A Tiller ‘Abased – Tamseel Hussain 4 Delhi were not aware of what does “Sangarsh” exactly
Culture and Creed of India means and to what extent it really creates a difference.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow This Mass Candle Vigil has really opened the eyes of
- Shilpa Singla 5 many.
Impact of Delhi Metro on Life of a common
man – Vikas Happa & Venu Kapoor 6 I’m able to see a set of new people coming
forward and work for the Agrarian Crisis issue and one
Volunteer Speak thing is for sure, they are not here because of the
My volunteer experience and why you sympathy but it’s because of the responsibility. They
should you volunteer too! – Nandeeta Seth 7 have started to feel it which they never did earlier. That
is the change we’ve achieved and it might seem like a
Toon of the Month 8 small change today but it has an impact tomorrow
which we all will notice one day.
Children’s Corner
Barsat ka Mausam – Bulbul, Parichay 9 I’m able to recall the couple of weeks back
exactly when the discussion started with a mail from US,
Photo of the Month – Deepika Pant 10 we only three people were discussing on it. From there
on the fire started to glow and spread across and now
its almost at every corner of AID. We had 20 odd
Information Corner – Selva 11 people attend a meet for the preparation of Vigil which
is normally thrice the attendance of a CSH.
Contact us 11
A few more things I’d like to add is that we’ve
learnt a lot by doing this campaign about what are all
the issues that the farmers and their families are really
facing. Infact before a month I didn’t have this much
knowledge on this issue what I have now. I might have
read a few articles here and there but within a month I
feel like I’ve done some research and will do more. The
same is the feel that every AID Volunteer who is
involved in the campaign has got.

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A few people were doubtful that what difference can a
“petition” really make?, but once we discussed with
them and shared the amount of research we’ve done
and shared the resources we’ve got they were
convinced and got sensitized. Also they’ve extended
their support to such extent that they will be with us
for the entire campaign after the candle vigil event.
So here we go “Come One” was how it started
and now it has become “Come All”. Lets all join
hands to show our solid solidarity towards our farmers
who reaps our food for tomorrow.
I wish the next newsletter will share
the success story of our Vigil. Happy Reading!
-Selva
- Publications Coordinator,
- AID Delhi,
- aid.selva@gmail.com
- 9891358457
Project Updates: Aashayen
There has not been any major event during the
month although the classes have remained as innovative
and inventive as ever. There have been constant efforts
on our part to know where the education system of
these kids lacks and also how keen are their teachers to
teach these kids. As a part of this, two of the volunteers
went on a nearby MCD school survey and tried to know
the problems these children as well as the teachers were
facing and the teachers have agreed on paying individual
attention to the list of kids we provide them with.
Besides this, a new volunteer has joined in place of
another volunteer who has shifted. Individual child
profiling is being done to have a complete database of
those children and we can concentrate on weak
students.
Eureka kit for these kids would be introduced in
a couple of days with some more innovations.
Efforts are on to get a better and a larger place
for classes.
- Sona,
- Coordinator, AID Aashayen
- sona4poochie@gmail.com
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Project Updates: AID Gurgaon
As always, the month of September was also
filled with lots of activities for AID Gurgaon. Unnati
School has been running successfully for the last few
months and the number of regular students enrolled in
Unnati has increased to 35 from 25 in the previous
month. Further, five children from Unnati are
regularly attending the Government School of Jharsa.
Last month, we tried to involve more and more
children from Bastis in the Unnati Project. The school
has twenty odd children who are not motivated
enough to attend the school on regular basis. We are
trying to work out a solution for this problem.
The quality of education at the Government
School of Jharsa is inferior as compared to the school
run by Literacy India. Hence, we are planning to
enroll 10-12 bright children of Unnati School in
Literacy India rather than in the Government School.
We had a lot of discussions regarding this amongst the
volunteers and with Indraniji (of Literacy India)
regarding this new initiative.
The number of Bastis located in the vicinity of
Unnati School and their potential in terms of children
who can pursue education is huge. We are in the
process of tapping this potential by starting two
batches of children with 20-25 children in each batch.
Sumanji, the teacher of the children will conduct two
batches in a day for two hours each. This initiative
will involve more children in the Unnati project
without affecting the quality of education that we are
providing.
- Pallavi Tyagi,
- AID Gurgaon
- pallavi.tyagi@evalueserve.com
 Project Updates: AID Prayas
Prayas Team: Ruchi, Neha, Anuradha, Sudha, Nikhil,
Darshan, Anand Bhai, Rajat, Kanan, Arun
New Volunteers: Sapna, Anika, Rashi, Pratiksha,
Ratika
As some great people have said, if you do any
activity with the love for it, then you shall never fail at it
! So then we have picked up this project with all our
heart and said - We have to achieve a lot for OUR
CHILDREN. Our aim now clear and refined that the
focus is on succesfully clearing our 25 children out of
their current classes and get them promoted.
This month at AID Prayas we are doing a
restructuring of the processes informal processes
followed within our team. We implemented an effective
failover plan - where each volunteer will failover in duo
with another. I, Arun Raj have taken up all
administrative responsibilities for the project and
Darshan will be key in-charge for Academic Activities.
This has been effectively implemented and we have had
a regular set of four team members coming in to train
the children on every saturday & sunday.
We also kept a target as on September 3rd that
we will have standardized and put to a structure all our
activities at Prayas by December 3rd. Towards, this we
are working on a volunteer orientation workshop, to
enable them to train and teach the children better.
We faced one major challenge this month of
getting the children to attend the exams at their school.
This was largely unsuccessful because the children
seemed to not understand the importance of giving
exams. To make them understand we felt that the root
of it was the parents who did not understand
the relevance themselves. We have decide to soon have
a session with the parents soon to orient them about the
importance of school and learning assesments.
To sum up we have now a clear vision now at
Prayas for this academic year - Our children attending
school will achieve successful academic performance by
the end of this academic year.
-Arun Raj, AID Prayas
- submit2arun@yahoo.co.in
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Project Updates: Parichay
• Parichay registered a sale of Rs 10,480 at
STMicroelectronics and Rs. 2600 (approx) at
IIT, Rendezvous.
• A team from FMS visited Parichay last month.
They are working on the marketing front.
• Kritika and Anubha, our internal volunteers,
have taken up the documentation work and
have been working dedicatedly on it.
• Raminder donated a sum of Rs. 1500/- toward
electric fittings and certain other expenses for
the new room. Many thanks to you, Raminder!!
• Naval took a keen initiative in helping us finalize
a stall in Noida. We are planning to put up the
stall in the month of November.
• Our heart-felt thanks to Akanksha for donating
a colour monitor to us. Again Naval stepped
forward in delivering it to Parichay.
• We have reserved last Sunday of every month to
introduce cuisine of different states. This time
Selva helped prepare dosas for the kids.
Everyone relished the dosas and had loads of
fun with him.
• Another book ‘Ankahi’, featuring stories and
articles on the community, is ready to be
published. We are soon planning to organize a
story-telling event to project this book.
Celebrations at Parichay
Krishna visited Parichay last Friday and will soon host a
lunch for kids and community people. The kids had a
gala time with Krishna and his wife.
Active Volunteers: Kritika ( Miranda College ),
Anubha ( Miranda College ), Omnipresent Selva, Naval,
Raminder (IIT) Puneeta, Navneet
Inactive Volunteers: Pow, Shashank
- Puneeta
- Coordinator, Parichay
- puneetac@gmail.com
- 9818361122
 Project Update : Nai Disha
Computer lab classes were taken for
Class 4 students. The kids learnt how to create a
wordpad file and how to save it. They also practiced
how to write a few lines in PC. Since, the exams have
started for the students, they were taught the subjects in
which they required some help. Ex Nai-disha students
who are in secondary classes also come to study maths.
Also, we managed to solve the volunteer crisis issue at
nai disha. Let's hope that we don't have to face it again.
-Rajat Maheshwari,
Coordinator, Nai Disha..
- rajat.maheshwari@st.com
- 9810994596
Article : A Tiller ‘Abased
Tamseel Hussain
A broken house, a broken man, a vacuous
earthen stove with no food to cook, a brown face with
fine wrinkles that spell of sweat and years of hard work.
A brief outlook to a life of a slackened Indian farmer.
There are more than 700 million Indians who depend
on agriculture for their food and shelter. The rest of us
depend on them for our food.
If one looks into a farmer’s enfeebled forehead.
One can feel his cry .It has been more than 50 years of
our independence. Our demands have increased and so
has our income.
But there are many still suffering from a rotten
disease called ‘poverty’. This has been an issue longing
for more than decades now. Our land was known has
the ‘Golden Nightingale, during the imperialism and
victimization era and now it has attained a future spot
for a super power.
Our people have survived many economic ups
and downs but some due to many reasons haven’t so
they commit suicide and most leave their families alone
to handle themselves.
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There was a conference recently held in
Dehradun where more than 250 organic farmers
participated. Since Organic food is gaining popularity all
over India and these farmers are much at ease. They
reached many conclusions for these innumerable
suicides committed by these farmers.
“The organic farmers believe that much of the
cases of suicides committed by farmers are due to the
use of spurious fertilizers and pesticides which has lead
to crop failure. In such cases the farmers are unable to
pay back the loans and become debt-trapped.
Therefore, the alternate way is to go for organic farming
which is less expensive, environment friendly and
ensures higher yields.”
There are certain steps to be taken by us
regarding the above issue since the death toll is
increasing day by day and so are the many seldom
families. A few points that we ought to cover are:
• Provide a guaranteed Minimum Support Price
that is more than the cost of production
• Waive debt currently owed to private money-
lenders
• Set up a committee, with proper representation
from farmers and people's groups, to carefully
analyze the current situation, and
implementation of Government relief packages,
in suicide prone region and make real numbers
of farmer's suicides public.
• Increase grants and provide training to farmers
who wish to move away from mono-cropping
to multi-crop, or organic agriculture – this will
serve to increase food and livelihood security.
• Set up a system of checks and balances in the
marketing of seeds, and make available at the
time of sowing, good quality seeds.
• Support farming of traditional Jowar and Ragi –
this will not only provide local access to
nutrition, but will also provides a source of
fodder for cattle that were part of your previous
relief package

• Explicitly make agriculture a permissible work
under the NREGA – this will allow farmers,
who want to make the shift to low-external
input, sustainable farming, to hire the help they
need for activities such as mulching, sowing,
weeding and composting. Such a move would
address aims of the NREGA as stated in section
1.1 of the NREGA, 2005 – protecting the
environment as well as reducing rural-urban
migration.
It’s true that the present government has
recognized the fact that farmers are committing suicides
and have also taken steps in mitigating their distress and
destitution. The path taken by the government to solve
the agricultural crisis, however, takes the same route of
liberalization, providing more credit to farmers,
deregulating the seed sector and promoting export-
oriented crops. In our view, this is not the lasting
solution. This would put the farmers off their fields by
making agriculture less remunerative and increasing
unemployment.
In order to save these farmers and their trodden
families we need to stand up , we need to awaken each
corner. They need our help and one must save his/her
‘broken home’. After all we all our Indians and we all
bread and survive on the same land. Lets take this cause
as our own and help India prosper and attain its goal as
a super power soon. Let’s save our ‘broken home’. Let’s
fill in the earthen pot.
On 2nd October its Gandhi Jayanti. Mahatma
Gandhi has been a profound support to farmers during
his era and has always considered them as a part of our
forgotten ‘Grassroot Democracy’. On this occasion
there is a candle vigil organized .to support the above
causes kindly participate as they need you in the form of
a silent protest with a burning flame on wax.
- Tamseel Hussain
- AID Delhi,
tamseel.hussain@gmail.com
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Article: Culture and Creed of India
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Shilpa Signla
India has always been known over the
world for its rich culture, creed and heritage. Over the
years, norms of India have been changing, thus affecting
its culture and creed significantly. This change is drastic
and began in yester years with the coming of invaders
and immigrants to India. Today, media and
globalization are playing a huge role in bringing western
culture to our country. Many people have concerns
today to preserve Indian culture for our future
generations, for our tomorrow.
Since the tenth century, India has been greatly
affected by Persian, Arabic, Turkic and British
dominations. We learnt various cultural practices,
languages and absorbed new customs, traditions and
beliefs from them. While our roots are vastly influenced
by foreigners, why do people think that today with
globalization and growth of India, our culture and creed
are fading away? And while talking about Indian culture
and creed, one must make sure to specify whether they
are talking about North India or South, East or West,
Cities or Villages.
No one can deny the fact that being a huge
country, India has a huge diversity and people belonging
to different religions and regions have different norms.
That’s a different thing that we all consider ourselves
Indians, as part of one country and respect values of
various societies formed among ourselves. This
represents the real culture of India. In spite, of diverse
groups and beliefs of people, Indians have an acceptable
attitude and are open to adopt the best from the past
and the west. This culture has come from the past and is
still ongoing.
The real values, ethics and traditions are still
prevalent among the new generations. Even today when a
desktop or laptop comes in household, people welcome it
by putting Tilak and breaking coconuts. When they buy a
car, the first place they drive to is a religious place.
 If Indians have accepted Valentines and
Friendship days from west, they stepped ahead and
brought Mothers day and Fathers day to the country.
While accepting to go on a faster track and bring home
Metro in New Delhi, they don’t forget to empty their
seats for elderly and women.
Some customs have been changing with
globalization, but that is definitely for growth of our
country. Adopting English from west as an official
language has helped our people to spread their piece of
knowledge all over the world. Indians have no problem
moving across different nations. It is our open culture
and creed that has made the biggest secular state a
survivor.
The world and times are changing and values
will continue to change and so would culture and creed.
But it is up to us to decide what we wish to change and
what can help our country to continually progress.
- Shilpa Singla
- AID Chicago, Delhi, Chandigarg
- shilpa.singla@gmail.com
Article : Impact of Delhi Metro on Life of
a common man
Vikas Happa & Venu Kapoor
As cities grow in size, the number of vehicular
trips on road system goes up. . It has been observed that
in developed countries, planning for mass transit system
(metro rail) starts when city population size exceeds 1
million; the system is in position by the time the city
population is 2 to 3 million and once the population
exceeds 4 million or so, planned extensions to the Mass
Rapid Transit Systems is vigorously taken up. In
developing countries including India, because of paucity
of funds, planning and implementation of rail based
Mass Rapid Transit Systems has been lagging far behind
the requirements. The city of Delhi with a population of
round 12 million should have had an MRTS network of
at least 100 KM by this time, whereas actually it is still at
the take-off stage.
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With an increase in the population, the number
of motor vehicles has also shown an upward trend from
5.4 lakhs in 1981 to 30 lakhs in 1998 and is projected to
go beyond 40 lakhs very soon. The number of motor
vehicles in Delhi is now more than that of Mumbai,
Calcutta, Chennai put together. Keeping this situation in
mind the govt. of India and Delhi incorporated A
COMPANY called DMRC.
WELL!!! Delhi metro up till now has covered a
lot of areas which were actually in a need of some kind
of transport reform; but still Delhi metro's HIGH
FARE and inconvenience of being available
everywhere(which will obviously take time) is what is
reducing its popularity and charm . The main aim of
Delhi metro should be to take cars off the road which is
why this highly capital intensive transport reform is
being encouraged in wide metropolitan city like DELHI
i.e. to reduce the rush load on peak hours. Since in cities
cars are easily affordable therefore to attract the car
travelers toward metro factors like .
EXCLUSIVITY,SPEED,FREQUENCY,AVAI
LABLITY ETC. should be kept mind. The bare fact is
that the upper middle class doesn't want to rub
shoulders (both figuratively and literally) with the great
Indian unwashed. It doesn't mind to the public as long
as it is traveling with people similar to her; and she is
willing to pay a premium for it. She may not mind
standing in a crowded bus full of people like her.
However, sitting next to a laborer is not done. In other
words, she is willing to pay more to keep out the
common man. Making comfortable travel accessible to
public is a noble intention. Have a premium ordinary
class by all means, just the way we have divided classes
in Mumbai local trains. Price it low enough to make it
accessible. However, please have a "first class" that is
exclusive. Else the roads will remain congested.
The fact is that construction of Delhi metro rail line
needs a lot of time and would cause inconvenience to
the travelers but the end benefit of it will go the public
(who else).There are already arousing cases for instance;
protests by students of LSR and BLUEBELLS
SCHOOL regarding the noise pollution that the
construction and the following traffic congestion will
affect their right to study in peace. But there are some
very serious cases also; there have protests by the
residents of many slum areas which would be
demolished for the purpose of construction,
where the govt. is providing alternative accommodation
only for half of the homeless population (the rest half
seems to be of no business to the govt. anymore).
The life of common man can be made easy if this
transport revolution shows positive results and proves
its very purpose of reducing traffic congestion and not
homelessness and inconvenience which the common
man is already suffering due to various other factors
prevailing.
- Vikas Happa & Venu Kapoor
- AID Delhi
- vikasravihappa@yahoo.co.in
- venu_i_kapoor@yahoo.co.in
My volunteer experience and why you
should volunteer too!
Nandeeta Seth
I have not worked as extensively in this field as
perhaps a lot of AID volunteers, so I am not sure if I
am the best person to ask you to volunteer! But the
involvement I have had has made a big difference to the
person I am; it means a lot to me and that’s why I love
to talk about it!
I started getting involved with children’s issues
in my first year in college – through the compulsory
NSO program! But I soon got very enthusiastic about
the work, and am still involved after I graduated as well.
I wanted to make my engagement more intensive and so
I decided to get involved with mentoring the children
who work on New Delhi railway station.
These children are mostly runaways from
abusive or poverty-stricken homes; a majority is
addicted to drugs and needs intensive counseling. This
involvement has been an intense emotional rollercoaster
and a tremendous learning experience. It helped me
realize that most of us live blissfully unaware of the
many worlds that lie on our very doorsteps, and are thus
often forgetful of this issue that begs attention. The
saddest part of a chronic societal issue like this one –
homeless children working on the street – is that they
often become part of the background of our cities,
always there but not something anyone pays any
attention to.
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Before this experience, the railway platform was
just a platform for me; you get on to the platform, get
into the train, and continue on your merry journey.
Now I look upon this place with new eyes; I know that
beneath the dirt and the grime all of us crib about is a
world full of people, who are so admirable in their
courage to maintain true joy despite their circumstances.
Living with these kids, talking to them has made me
realize that relationships and connecting with people is
more important and more fulfilling than anything else I
could ever do. These children are so used to being
marginalized that they respond with immense love when
someone speaks to them with any affection. I hope and
pray that I have been able to, in some small way, make a
difference to their lives.
But I often feel that my interaction with these
children has taught me much more than I have ever
been able to give to them. I think I have become more
aware of the very ‘blinkered’ life I have led; so protected
that I did not know what lives people led down the
road. I have become more human, more humane, and
more sensitive to everyone around me. I used to worry
about everything in my life; my job, my career, my
family; and then I used to look at these kids who are so
positive and strong, living each day one at a time,
surviving on faith. It made me feel that whatever I was
worrying about was pointless and I should be grateful
for what I have instead of worrying about what I hope
to get..
I think the biggest thing I realized was that
beneath circumstances and superficialities all of us have
so much in common; everybody has the same
insecurities and worries; everybody needs the same love
and affection. I am a better person for having
volunteered – I think you should do it too!
- Nandeeta Seth,
- AID Delhi
- nandeetaseth@gmail.com
 Toon of the Month

News: AID Delhi celebrates Teachers day in all of its projects ☺

- Toon : Kalindi Sharma,

- Coordinator, AID Aashayen,
- sona4poochie@gmail.com

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 Bulbul is the eldest school going girl of Parichay and she is almost managing Parichay now a
days in the absence of Vijay Bhaiya. I can see a leader in her and she along with Moni and
others at Parichay will lead their community and their surroundings to a great height a few
years down the line.

Photo of the Month: Deepika Pant

Event : Parichay’s Stall at IIT Delhi Rendezvous 2007

Photographer: Deepika Pant
Description: We organized a Parichay stall at IIT Delhi cultural festival Rendzvous. A sale of Rs. 2400/- was
registered. It was a good fun to be at stall with lot of AID Volunteers actively participating in it.

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Right to Emergency Care:

Date Of Judgment: 23/02/2007.
Case No.: Appeal (civil) 919 of 2007.

The Supreme Court has ruled that all injured persons especially in the case of road traffic accidents, assaults, etc.,
when brought to a hospital / medical centre, have to be offered first aid, stabilized and shifted to a higher centre /
government centre if required. It is only after this that the hospital can demand payment or complete police
formalities. In case you are a bystander and wish to help someone in an accident, please go ahead and do so. Your
responsibility ends as soon as you leave the person at the hospital.

The hospital bears the responsibility of informing the police, first aid, etc.

- information from Ritesh Kumar

- ritesh.kumar@newgen.co.in

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