NATIONAL YOUTH CONCLAVE FOR CONSTRUCTIVE WORK , KARGIL. 2017
NATIONAL YOUTH CONCLAVE FOR CONSTRUCTIVE WORK , KARGIL, LADAKH
Someone has aptly said , “ The journey we undertake , meet people from all walks of life and learn from them , is the only biggest achievement we can have .”
The same happened with us in the journey to Ladakh “ The land of happiness” . It was like a dream come true when we were all busy in the prior arrangements to the Kargil visit . With dreams , aspirations , apprehensions and most importantly with excitement and trepidation along we started the journey to a strange land called “ Kargil” . Residue options and pre-conceived notions although helped us to imagine the place we were about to reach but the reality was far far more than the pseudo-imagination we all had . The prior imaginations were like strange people, cold place, unknown atmosphere etc etc. But in reality we met our own reflex. Love , empathy , generosity of the people and calmness of the atmosphere really left all of us astounded .
The trip started on 7july at 8pm from GSDS. We all introduced each other so that we could know everyone better. Everyone were from different parts of the country. We ate dinner at 12.30 am in Haryana. At 5.30 in the morning we reached mukeria and had tea and at 9 we were at Jammu. At 1.30pm we left for our further journey on a new local bus.
At around 3.30 pm near patnitop we had our lunch. The name of the place was sonu da dhaba. We were not allowed to go further due to high security reasons and had to stay at Kashmir for 2hrs. Meanwhile we had dinner at 8.30 pm. At 11.30 pm we started traveling further. Around 6 am in the morning we were at Dal Lake ,srinagar. We saw the natural beauty of Kashmir valley and the very famous shikaras from our bus windows. At 10 a.m we were at Sonamarg. Over there we got freshed up had breakfast .
After that we viewed Sindh river and other places of tourist attraction . We enjoyed a lot as we clicked pictures and created memories. On the further journey we saw zero point , we went through zozilla pass and viewed up the amazing and thrilling mountains. At 6p.m. we reached Drass, the second coldest place in the world. Over there we viewed Kargil War Memorial . We viewed the tiger hill , tolloling , batra pass, museum and amar jawan jyoti .
We saluted the Indian flag and a soldier over there told us the whole story of kargil war. He told us how much difficulties we faced , how many soldiers we lost in the war . How many batalions had put their lives to make a better tomorrow for the nation. We proudly sang national anthem and saluted our Indian flag.At 9:40 we reached our destination (hostel) , Kashmir university campus. They gave us a warm welcome and they allotted us rooms. There were separate blocks for boys and girls. In each girls room there were only 5 participants for a comfortable stay and there were 8 participants in 1 room in boys block. After that we got ourselves officially registered and we got our tshirts, i-cards and bags. We had dinner and slept. Next morning we woke up at 6 got ready but 7 had breakfast and at 8.15 left for the inauguration ceremony. By 9.35 we were at SMM hall , Kargil where the inauguration ceremony was held.
The inauguration ceremony of NATIONAL YOUTH CONCLAVE FOR CONSTRUCTIVE WORK , KARGIL.
DAY1
Kargil National Youth Volunteers Conclave, the three-day workshop from 10th to 12thJuly, 2017 has been organized by ‘Nehru Yuva Kendra Kargil’, ‘Gandhi Smriti and Drashan Samiti’ and Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Kargil (LAHDC). The first day of workshop started with the candle lightening and with a welcome song by the students of Munshi Habibullah Mission Schoolin Kargil. The first session (first half of day) of day 1 workshop grabs attention of audience with different folk songs and dances and presentation of different tribes of Kargil. The cultural representation of Kargil in front of people from across the India somehow bridged the cultural gap and provides an understanding of one culture on the minds of different cultures. The young kids performing in these acts proved to be an inspiration for all.
The first speaker of the session 1, Day 1 workshop, Social activist, Miss Hajira Bano talks about youth volunteerism. She quotes, ‘volunteers do not have time but heart’. Her main topic was women volunteerism; she talked about how women can contribute in volunteerism and how fruitful engaging women in volunteerism would be. She requested Gandhi Smriti to continue working in the area of promoting women volunteerism.
Nelson, one of the participants from Tamil Nadu represents participants by telling what their expectations are and their views on volunteerism. He mentioned two points; one, participants expect to learn different forms of volunteerism by the end of this workshop. Two, their perspective to give back to society through volunteerism for constructive work.
While thanking everyone for making this conclave work, the core member of Peace Gong, Dr. Javed Naqi said, this three-day workshop is a platform for youth to learn volunteerism and then implement it their lives and society. He asked delegates to actively participate in the event to come out with concrete plans for future and make this conclave successful.
Meanwhile, after enjoying traditional songs of Kargil, Social Activist, Miss Marziya Bano recited a beautiful poem of Peace Gong Editor of Pakistan, Syed Romana. The poem, volunteering a noble Art;
Director Regional IGNOU, Dr. K D Prasad while speaking about their volunteerism through IGNOU said, they are going to inaugurate Mahatma Gandhi interpretation center at Kargil, which they established with Gandhi Smriti. He also stated, “IGNOU is going to start volunteering program in which they target to get 5 lakh youth as volunteers around India”.
Director of GSDS Dr. Dipankar while addressing the audience said, “The motive of this event is to inspire new generation through Gandhian Philosophy. From the experiences of the older generation the generation Y will learn and prosper.”
Minister for youths and sports, Govt. of J&K, Sunil Sharma stressed on Volunteerism among youths and regard it as the need of hour and also going to take immediate steps to promote volunteerism in J&K in collaboration with NYK Kargil.
The program reached to its conclusion with the speech of the Chief Guest, Chairman LAHDC Kargil Kacho Ahmad Ali Khan. He said “Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh is a single entity and equal governmental treatment should be given to all the regions.
It is pertinent to mention that Minister for youths and sports inaugurated Mahatma Gandhi Interpretation Centre Kargil for youths.
Session 2nd
The 2nd session started around 2 with the welcome note of Dr. Veda Vyas where experts shared their views on different topics with the participants. Kacho Fayaz Ahmad PhD scholar spoke about Gandhian principles on volunteerism. According to him volunteerism needs a proper understanding of masses, their problems and issues. We need another Gandhi today to fight the hatred and oppression of the contemporary and Youths can be the Gandhi of time.
Vishwas Gautam from Bihar is volunteering for last 8 years in blood donation campaign with his friend who is also working for blood donation, organ donation and anti sucide. He explains everything about blood donation, what blood is and how one can donate blood? He cleared misconceptions related blood donation in his speech.
Stanzin Saldon, an inspiring volunteer spoke about essence of volunteerism. She believes that every individual is a born volunteer and deep inside every youth wants change that can be utilized as a driving force to make this world a better place to live in. She says volunteerism should not be mixed with the feeling of selfishness and ego.
Afterwards participants from different parts of the country share their views on what volunteerism is for them and how they volunteered.
The 2nd was being moderated by Dr Veda Vyas and concluded at around 5.00 PM.
In a conversation with Media team of The Peace Gong, Dr. Dipankar talked about Mahatma Gandhi, his philosophy. He believes that he is the biggest inspiration in India, be it the Chipko Andolan and Satyagrah, every moment reflected the spirit of volunteerism. The solution of the contemporary issues in conflicts lies within the Gandhian Philosophy.
Talking about women volunteerism, he said women can be the best volunteers. Our mothers, sisters are the best examples of volunteers. They will do many initiatives for the promotion of women volunteerism till 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in 2019.
GSDS in collaboration with IGNOU is also going to establish 5 Mahatma Gandhi interpretation centers in days to come to promote the spirit of volunteerism all across the country and in state particularly. These centers are particularly for those students who cannot continue their studies due to various reasons. He also stated that if girls enrolled in large number, they will let it be for females only.
We left for the hostel at 5 pm by bus. We danced and sang songs and clicked pictures. After dinner all the participants and volunteers gathered together and showcased there talents like singing and dancing. Everyone enjoyed a lot and also got to know about other participants as well. Everyone slept at 12.30.
DAY 2
The 2nd day session started with Marzia Bano talking about life skills. Marzia enlightened participants about how life skills enable us to translate knowledge, attitude, and values into actual abilities by helping us to take our day to day decisions. It helps us to recognize self and develops empathy in a person, she added.
The second speaker of the session, a PhD Scholar, Mr. Fayaz discussed volunteerism and M K Gandhi as an inspiration in the area of volunteerism. He talked about Bharat Dharshan by Gandhi Ji, India from the perspective of Mahatma. Gandhi ji used to ask people about their issues, share their problems and advise them how to deal with them. Mr. Fayaz while sharing life incidents of Mahatma Gandhi, he said Gandhi ji used to raise his voice for people who are wronged and desensitize people in trouble or any sort of trauma.
A GSDS member, Mr. Shubham shared his experience of working with an NGO. The “Sanskar Shala”, presently 30 centers of it at different places, is working with poor as well as other privileged children. They provide children with quality education, making them understand different issues in very creative manner.
A young conservationist from the organization Roots, Mr. Muzamil Hussain also shared his experience of working in wild. He talked about brown bears, that how they spotted 6 bears in one day and 3 more other days in an area where they reached after 2 hours of walking. He further talked about oldest animal species on earth i.e. bears and Himalayan brown bears.
Meanwhile after break of an hour and half, the interactive session started around 4 pm. In the next session of day 2, there were 3 speakers; Mr. Zakir, Miss Beenish and Miss Munazah and Mr. Gulshan.
Zakir Zahak gave detailed information on information, communication and technology (ICT), online volunteerism, community radio and social entrepreneurs.
Munazah and Beenish informed about The Peace Gong’s initiative in Kashmir, Happy School. The Happy School program is a communication skills development program for privileged children in Srinagar.
Mr. Gulshan talked about information, education and communication. He also shared online campaign started in Nigeria to inspire participants and make them aware of importance of online volunteerism.
After the session we met with localites of Kargil in tourist facilitation centre. Talked to them about about their locality and culture. We reached our hostel at 7.30 p.m. Again we had dinner and same gathered again and enjoyed and slept.
DAY 3
Field trip to Aryan village.
The third day was specially put for field trip to Darchik, an Aryan Village. Five buses carrying students left early in the morning at 8:00 AM. While travelling the melodious singing with dances through the breathtaking valley made it a memorable 3 hours journey for every participant from across the country.
The ARYANS DID A REALLY WARM WELCOME, the chants of jullay and claps coming out of cute hands added flavor to the aroma of atmospheres, and we could see every participant was looking extremely excited. A formal, entertainment program was organized by the people which included almost every present age group of inhabitants of the valley at the near by Govt. Middle School Darchiks, where everlasting cultural programs were presented with excellent example of hospitality and respect, in which students were taking the lead, after a warming entertainment and joyful laughs, the participants headed inside the village to explore the history and culture of the people and village in its true and best forms. And we witnessed reality of cultural heritage and extremely strong efforts to preserve it which ticked every participants heart.
The mud houses with carvings presented the outlook of houses, but due to lack of time we could not enter the houses. Almost every participant had a selfie with live culture and heritage but could also smell the poor management of waste which excited there spirit of volunteerism and thus started collecting the non biodegradable wastes lying around, with this all the participants filled with information headed towards the buses waiting to reach the TFC and while back to TFC we had a tasty but almost freezed lunch for around at 4 near the awestruck waterfall on the and after that we again geared up to reach back to the facilitation centre. At 7:30 we reached back and the excitement about the happenings was still fresh on the faces of participants.
The closing ceremony started and was for 2 hrs. Many participants were awarded for their work. We had lunch and reached our hostel at 12. We have to leave for Delhi as soon as possible because of security issues. At 11.30am we reached sonamarg and got freshed up and had breakfast. At 2.40pm we were at phalgam and were stopped from going further because of curfew in Kashmir.
So they suggested us to stay at CRPF amaranth camps in mani village of pahalgam. There we stayed at tents and enjoyed the bhandara which had amazing and variety of cuisines. We actually got a new experience and slept there. Next morning at 8.30am we left the place. We had our lunch at a dhaba and reached udhyampur and at 7pm we changed our bus , the Volvo bus and by 9 pmwe reached jammu. At 12.30am we reached mukeria and had our dinner. By 9.30am we were at GSDS and the journey ends there.
We had breakfast at GSDS , collected our certificates and left for our homes.
It was an amazing and thrilling journey where we created memories and build up new relationships .
Anand Sri Krishnan
anandsrikrishnan212@gmail.com
7631230061
MGAHV, Wardha.
Someone has aptly said , “ The journey we undertake , meet people from all walks of life and learn from them , is the only biggest achievement we can have .”
The same happened with us in the journey to Ladakh “ The land of happiness” . It was like a dream come true when we were all busy in the prior arrangements to the Kargil visit . With dreams , aspirations , apprehensions and most importantly with excitement and trepidation along we started the journey to a strange land called “ Kargil” . Residue options and pre-conceived notions although helped us to imagine the place we were about to reach but the reality was far far more than the pseudo-imagination we all had . The prior imaginations were like strange people, cold place, unknown atmosphere etc etc. But in reality we met our own reflex. Love , empathy , generosity of the people and calmness of the atmosphere really left all of us astounded .
The trip started on 7july at 8pm from GSDS. We all introduced each other so that we could know everyone better. Everyone were from different parts of the country. We ate dinner at 12.30 am in Haryana. At 5.30 in the morning we reached mukeria and had tea and at 9 we were at Jammu. At 1.30pm we left for our further journey on a new local bus.
At around 3.30 pm near patnitop we had our lunch. The name of the place was sonu da dhaba. We were not allowed to go further due to high security reasons and had to stay at Kashmir for 2hrs. Meanwhile we had dinner at 8.30 pm. At 11.30 pm we started traveling further. Around 6 am in the morning we were at Dal Lake ,srinagar. We saw the natural beauty of Kashmir valley and the very famous shikaras from our bus windows. At 10 a.m we were at Sonamarg. Over there we got freshed up had breakfast .
After that we viewed Sindh river and other places of tourist attraction . We enjoyed a lot as we clicked pictures and created memories. On the further journey we saw zero point , we went through zozilla pass and viewed up the amazing and thrilling mountains. At 6p.m. we reached Drass, the second coldest place in the world. Over there we viewed Kargil War Memorial . We viewed the tiger hill , tolloling , batra pass, museum and amar jawan jyoti .
We saluted the Indian flag and a soldier over there told us the whole story of kargil war. He told us how much difficulties we faced , how many soldiers we lost in the war . How many batalions had put their lives to make a better tomorrow for the nation. We proudly sang national anthem and saluted our Indian flag.At 9:40 we reached our destination (hostel) , Kashmir university campus. They gave us a warm welcome and they allotted us rooms. There were separate blocks for boys and girls. In each girls room there were only 5 participants for a comfortable stay and there were 8 participants in 1 room in boys block. After that we got ourselves officially registered and we got our tshirts, i-cards and bags. We had dinner and slept. Next morning we woke up at 6 got ready but 7 had breakfast and at 8.15 left for the inauguration ceremony. By 9.35 we were at SMM hall , Kargil where the inauguration ceremony was held.
The inauguration ceremony of NATIONAL YOUTH CONCLAVE FOR CONSTRUCTIVE WORK , KARGIL.
DAY1
Kargil National Youth Volunteers Conclave, the three-day workshop from 10th to 12thJuly, 2017 has been organized by ‘Nehru Yuva Kendra Kargil’, ‘Gandhi Smriti and Drashan Samiti’ and Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Kargil (LAHDC). The first day of workshop started with the candle lightening and with a welcome song by the students of Munshi Habibullah Mission Schoolin Kargil. The first session (first half of day) of day 1 workshop grabs attention of audience with different folk songs and dances and presentation of different tribes of Kargil. The cultural representation of Kargil in front of people from across the India somehow bridged the cultural gap and provides an understanding of one culture on the minds of different cultures. The young kids performing in these acts proved to be an inspiration for all.
The first speaker of the session 1, Day 1 workshop, Social activist, Miss Hajira Bano talks about youth volunteerism. She quotes, ‘volunteers do not have time but heart’. Her main topic was women volunteerism; she talked about how women can contribute in volunteerism and how fruitful engaging women in volunteerism would be. She requested Gandhi Smriti to continue working in the area of promoting women volunteerism.
Nelson, one of the participants from Tamil Nadu represents participants by telling what their expectations are and their views on volunteerism. He mentioned two points; one, participants expect to learn different forms of volunteerism by the end of this workshop. Two, their perspective to give back to society through volunteerism for constructive work.
While thanking everyone for making this conclave work, the core member of Peace Gong, Dr. Javed Naqi said, this three-day workshop is a platform for youth to learn volunteerism and then implement it their lives and society. He asked delegates to actively participate in the event to come out with concrete plans for future and make this conclave successful.
Meanwhile, after enjoying traditional songs of Kargil, Social Activist, Miss Marziya Bano recited a beautiful poem of Peace Gong Editor of Pakistan, Syed Romana. The poem, volunteering a noble Art;
Director Regional IGNOU, Dr. K D Prasad while speaking about their volunteerism through IGNOU said, they are going to inaugurate Mahatma Gandhi interpretation center at Kargil, which they established with Gandhi Smriti. He also stated, “IGNOU is going to start volunteering program in which they target to get 5 lakh youth as volunteers around India”.
Director of GSDS Dr. Dipankar while addressing the audience said, “The motive of this event is to inspire new generation through Gandhian Philosophy. From the experiences of the older generation the generation Y will learn and prosper.”
Minister for youths and sports, Govt. of J&K, Sunil Sharma stressed on Volunteerism among youths and regard it as the need of hour and also going to take immediate steps to promote volunteerism in J&K in collaboration with NYK Kargil.
The program reached to its conclusion with the speech of the Chief Guest, Chairman LAHDC Kargil Kacho Ahmad Ali Khan. He said “Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh is a single entity and equal governmental treatment should be given to all the regions.
It is pertinent to mention that Minister for youths and sports inaugurated Mahatma Gandhi Interpretation Centre Kargil for youths.
Session 2nd
The 2nd session started around 2 with the welcome note of Dr. Veda Vyas where experts shared their views on different topics with the participants. Kacho Fayaz Ahmad PhD scholar spoke about Gandhian principles on volunteerism. According to him volunteerism needs a proper understanding of masses, their problems and issues. We need another Gandhi today to fight the hatred and oppression of the contemporary and Youths can be the Gandhi of time.
Vishwas Gautam from Bihar is volunteering for last 8 years in blood donation campaign with his friend who is also working for blood donation, organ donation and anti sucide. He explains everything about blood donation, what blood is and how one can donate blood? He cleared misconceptions related blood donation in his speech.
Stanzin Saldon, an inspiring volunteer spoke about essence of volunteerism. She believes that every individual is a born volunteer and deep inside every youth wants change that can be utilized as a driving force to make this world a better place to live in. She says volunteerism should not be mixed with the feeling of selfishness and ego.
Afterwards participants from different parts of the country share their views on what volunteerism is for them and how they volunteered.
The 2nd was being moderated by Dr Veda Vyas and concluded at around 5.00 PM.
In a conversation with Media team of The Peace Gong, Dr. Dipankar talked about Mahatma Gandhi, his philosophy. He believes that he is the biggest inspiration in India, be it the Chipko Andolan and Satyagrah, every moment reflected the spirit of volunteerism. The solution of the contemporary issues in conflicts lies within the Gandhian Philosophy.
Talking about women volunteerism, he said women can be the best volunteers. Our mothers, sisters are the best examples of volunteers. They will do many initiatives for the promotion of women volunteerism till 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in 2019.
GSDS in collaboration with IGNOU is also going to establish 5 Mahatma Gandhi interpretation centers in days to come to promote the spirit of volunteerism all across the country and in state particularly. These centers are particularly for those students who cannot continue their studies due to various reasons. He also stated that if girls enrolled in large number, they will let it be for females only.
We left for the hostel at 5 pm by bus. We danced and sang songs and clicked pictures. After dinner all the participants and volunteers gathered together and showcased there talents like singing and dancing. Everyone enjoyed a lot and also got to know about other participants as well. Everyone slept at 12.30.
DAY 2
The 2nd day session started with Marzia Bano talking about life skills. Marzia enlightened participants about how life skills enable us to translate knowledge, attitude, and values into actual abilities by helping us to take our day to day decisions. It helps us to recognize self and develops empathy in a person, she added.
The second speaker of the session, a PhD Scholar, Mr. Fayaz discussed volunteerism and M K Gandhi as an inspiration in the area of volunteerism. He talked about Bharat Dharshan by Gandhi Ji, India from the perspective of Mahatma. Gandhi ji used to ask people about their issues, share their problems and advise them how to deal with them. Mr. Fayaz while sharing life incidents of Mahatma Gandhi, he said Gandhi ji used to raise his voice for people who are wronged and desensitize people in trouble or any sort of trauma.
A GSDS member, Mr. Shubham shared his experience of working with an NGO. The “Sanskar Shala”, presently 30 centers of it at different places, is working with poor as well as other privileged children. They provide children with quality education, making them understand different issues in very creative manner.
A young conservationist from the organization Roots, Mr. Muzamil Hussain also shared his experience of working in wild. He talked about brown bears, that how they spotted 6 bears in one day and 3 more other days in an area where they reached after 2 hours of walking. He further talked about oldest animal species on earth i.e. bears and Himalayan brown bears.
Meanwhile after break of an hour and half, the interactive session started around 4 pm. In the next session of day 2, there were 3 speakers; Mr. Zakir, Miss Beenish and Miss Munazah and Mr. Gulshan.
Zakir Zahak gave detailed information on information, communication and technology (ICT), online volunteerism, community radio and social entrepreneurs.
Munazah and Beenish informed about The Peace Gong’s initiative in Kashmir, Happy School. The Happy School program is a communication skills development program for privileged children in Srinagar.
Mr. Gulshan talked about information, education and communication. He also shared online campaign started in Nigeria to inspire participants and make them aware of importance of online volunteerism.
After the session we met with localites of Kargil in tourist facilitation centre. Talked to them about about their locality and culture. We reached our hostel at 7.30 p.m. Again we had dinner and same gathered again and enjoyed and slept.
DAY 3
Field trip to Aryan village.
The third day was specially put for field trip to Darchik, an Aryan Village. Five buses carrying students left early in the morning at 8:00 AM. While travelling the melodious singing with dances through the breathtaking valley made it a memorable 3 hours journey for every participant from across the country.
The ARYANS DID A REALLY WARM WELCOME, the chants of jullay and claps coming out of cute hands added flavor to the aroma of atmospheres, and we could see every participant was looking extremely excited. A formal, entertainment program was organized by the people which included almost every present age group of inhabitants of the valley at the near by Govt. Middle School Darchiks, where everlasting cultural programs were presented with excellent example of hospitality and respect, in which students were taking the lead, after a warming entertainment and joyful laughs, the participants headed inside the village to explore the history and culture of the people and village in its true and best forms. And we witnessed reality of cultural heritage and extremely strong efforts to preserve it which ticked every participants heart.
The mud houses with carvings presented the outlook of houses, but due to lack of time we could not enter the houses. Almost every participant had a selfie with live culture and heritage but could also smell the poor management of waste which excited there spirit of volunteerism and thus started collecting the non biodegradable wastes lying around, with this all the participants filled with information headed towards the buses waiting to reach the TFC and while back to TFC we had a tasty but almost freezed lunch for around at 4 near the awestruck waterfall on the and after that we again geared up to reach back to the facilitation centre. At 7:30 we reached back and the excitement about the happenings was still fresh on the faces of participants.
The closing ceremony started and was for 2 hrs. Many participants were awarded for their work. We had lunch and reached our hostel at 12. We have to leave for Delhi as soon as possible because of security issues. At 11.30am we reached sonamarg and got freshed up and had breakfast. At 2.40pm we were at phalgam and were stopped from going further because of curfew in Kashmir.
So they suggested us to stay at CRPF amaranth camps in mani village of pahalgam. There we stayed at tents and enjoyed the bhandara which had amazing and variety of cuisines. We actually got a new experience and slept there. Next morning at 8.30am we left the place. We had our lunch at a dhaba and reached udhyampur and at 7pm we changed our bus , the Volvo bus and by 9 pmwe reached jammu. At 12.30am we reached mukeria and had our dinner. By 9.30am we were at GSDS and the journey ends there.
We had breakfast at GSDS , collected our certificates and left for our homes.
It was an amazing and thrilling journey where we created memories and build up new relationships .
Anand Sri Krishnan
anandsrikrishnan212@gmail.com
7631230061
MGAHV, Wardha.
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