Astitva… a vision against odd
It
started on the eve of 14th August, 2011 when a student, frustrated for not
doing anything for the nation, decided to do something, something that is
meaningful. He started teaching a child labor who used to work at TIC,
Pantnagar at his own room and when the employer of that shop denied to let him
go to the hostel, that student did something unusual.
Right from the next day, he
started teaching that child at TIC itself.
Then, he persuaded other shop owners to send all child labors working on
those shops for studying. It was unusual because this time someone was not
cursing the system; someone was not begging for a change but was trying to make
a contribution for the desired change.
Aur bas esi trah karva banta gya.. And
today we are 20 students dedicated and determined to work for the betterment of
society. We are working on a no. of projects but mainly we are concentrating on
a good and equitable education to every child irrespective of one's economic
and social status. Our motive is to prepare ourselves for the greater role of
nation building.
A
number of questions are being asked to us that why we, Astitva, are working in
this direction. The answers are simple:
1.
Social
responsibility: We all are consuming resources of our nation.
The government and society is fulfilling our daily requirements. So now, it is
our responsibility to give it back.
2.
A chain of
inspiring/enlightening must continue:
We are the people who are inspired enlightened to work for the society by
someone and we would like to continue this chain by doing something that inspires
others.
3. We are optimistic and believe in our small contribution: Blaming govt., bureaucrats, police and politicians is of no use. We ourselves have to become an instrument of change. We strongly believe that only small- 2 contributions made by everyone have the power to improve the present abysmal condition and materialize the dreams of our great leaders.
4. We all are interdependent: "If your neighbor is not happy then you won't be happy for long". For example, we are getting food because a farmer is in a condition to produce it. And as time is passing things are becoming more difficult for him and in this way in future we won't have any food. The same case is with labors riksha puller, hawkers, sweeper so we can't feel alienated from their pressing problems.
Many students have asked us to be a part of
"Astitva”. Now we would like to expand it and everyone is welcomed.
The people we are looking for:
Many
people appreciate us, but we don't need them. Some are willing to give money
but sorry we don't need them too. We don't need the most intelligent or a
computer geek, we don't need someone who believes that Es desh ka kuch nhi
ho sakta, ya mai akela kya kr lunga, ya es college ka administration system
bhot khrab hai and hum students kya okhad lenge.
The first and foremost thing that
we require is A TRUE INTENTION, WILLINGNESS TO WORK and COURAGE TO SACRIFICE
WITHOUT ANY DESIRE OF RECOGNITION.
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Generally,
everyone does have an excuse of not having any
platform, so here is the solution. We are providing a platform to you to
implement whatever idea you have and to give us a hand for the common good. Now it’s your time to take a step on your
behalf for the betterment of society. Let’s together try to make a difference
by doing something constructive and meaningful. We, the Astitva family, invite all
of you to please come forward and at least try to find out what actually it
is...
We
don't want to stick to only a single problem but to create a more sensitive and
innovative environment in our university at first and in whole nation in the
long run. So at least give a try and let's see what we together can do.
"There are problems not because of misdeeds of bad people but because of the inactivity of good people"
BE THE PART OF CHANGE
