Vocational school (Gougram-Gurukul) near Mathura

From Vd Srinivas Rao Surabhi<doclosra@gmail.com>
I am happy to inform you all that an initiative to start a Vocational
school (Gougram-Gurukul) near Mathura is being taken up by
GOU-Federation very soon.
(And the same will be extended to Alipur, Tarasa, Muramba and Basar
clusters in the next academic year)

Initial discussions in this direction will be held in Mathura dist
soon after the upcoming UBA meet scheduled for this weekend (13-14
Nov).

Also the Concept note on 'Green Economy' Programme, being prepared by
the CSBE team, will be taken up for discussion and further refinement
on 14th Nov.
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LUCKNOW: Amid row over beef and rising intolerance in the country, UP
government will hold a Cow Conservation fortnight from November 12-25.

With animal husbandry minister Rajkishore Singh claiming that the
number of cows had come down in the state during the BSP regime, the
fortnight's aim is to increase the cow count by bringing good
varieties from other states. The government will also encourage people
to buy good breed cows. He said directives have been issued that no
cow slaughter incidents should take place and claimed that five crore
vaccines have been used this year in the state to protect cows from
any disease.

Plans to mark cow conservation fortnight comes days after chief
minister Akhilesh Yadav's statement at Haldwani in Uttarakhand on
October 18 that the BJP had nothing to do with the cow and that it was
theirs, hinting towards the fact that the Yadavs were mythlogically
associated with rearing of cows. The CM had also accused the BJP and
other parties of stoking communal passions on the issue of cows.

The animal husbandry minister denied any politics behind the cow
conservation fortnight. "Had we been into politics, UP would not have
been declared the best state in the country as far as cow conservation
was concerned," Singh said.

The fortnight would be organized in every district.

Besides the fortnight on cow conservation, the government has also
launched a scheme to encourage cow rearing through Kaamdhenu dairy
scheme, Singh said. He added that dairy farmers who would rear 100
cows and no buffaloes through the scheme would be given a cash reward
of Rs 5 lakh, while those opening dairy farm with 50 cows would get Rs
2.5 lakh and so on.

Under the Kaamdhenu dairy scheme, the UP government pays the interest
on the loan amount for the dairy besides giving other benefits.
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following three major developments
> after the follow-up meet with Dr Vijay Bhatkar ji on 30th Oct @ IIT-D :
>
> (I) Last evening there was a meeting in CRDT Dept of IIT-D to initiate
> drafting a concept note of 'Green Economy' based on the suggestions given
> by Dr Bhatkar ji last week.
> Following members participated in the discussion:
> - Dr Virendra Kumar Vijay (Head, CRDT, IIT-Delhi)
> - Dr SN Naik (Prof, CRDT, IIT-Delhi)
> - Er Subodh Kumar (Advisor, MDS Gosamvardhan Kendra, UP)
> - Brig Rajaram Yadav (Ion Farms, HR)
> - Dr Tejaram (Prof & Head, Dept of Economics, Gurgaon, HR)
> - Vaidya Indrasenji (OVMO, Pondicherry)
> - Adv Rajeev K Deshpande (HVPM & Tilak Vidyalaya, MH)
> - Shri Shripad Dattatreya Borikar (Nagpur, MH)
> - Shri Shabd Prakash (Samarth Trust, Delhi)
> - Er Gajanan Hazare (Chindwada, MP)
>
> And following points emerged from this meet:
> - To constitute a 10-member Core-Committee for the proposed 'Green Economy'
> project under the aegis of UBA & the name of the Committee shall be
> 'Sustainable Bio-Economy Committee'
> (suggested by Prof VK Vijay ji & supported by all other members).
>
> Members for this Core-Committee nominated by Prof VK Vijay ji:
> 1. Prof SN Naik
> 2. Er Subodh Kumar
> 3. Brig RR Yadav
> 4. Prof Tejaram
> 5. Adv Rajeev K Deshpande
> 6. Shri Shripad D Borikar
> 7. Dr Srinivas Rao Surabhi (Convenor)
> 8. Representative from ICAR / Animal Husbandry
> 9. Representative from Dept of Rural Development
> 10. Representative from Dept of Environment, Forestry & Climate Change
>
> This Committee shall draft an initial concept-note on 'Green Economy'
> project within 10 days and present the same before UBA Group on 14th Nov.
>
> (II) Four representative of GOU-Federation (Shri Arun Bansal, Adv Rajeev
> Deshpande, Shri Shripad Borikar & myself) have attended the 2nd meeting of
> Task Force Committee on National Biogas Mission on 2nd Nov at MNRE, New
> Delhi. (And we are grateful to Prof VK Vijay ji for his kindly invitation
> in this regard)
> Amongst the many points discussed, GOU-Federation members contributed
> majorly on these 3 points: (i) drafting Commercially viable projects (ii)
> means for making Biogas slurry a marketable product & (iii) seeking
> NABARD's support for proposed entrepreneurship models.
>
> (III) Meeting with core Sarvodaya leaders on the very first day of 46th All
> India Sarvodaya Samaj Conference @ Gandhi Ashram, Delhi (whole credit goes
> to Adv Rajeev Deshpande ji for arranging to introduce the UBA concept to
> them)..
> - Shri Sankar Kumar Sanyal (President, Harijan Sevak Sangh)
> - Shri Rajnish Kumar (Secretary, Rajghat Samadhi Committee)
> - Shri Mahesh Chandra Shrama (President, Delhi Hindi Sahitya Sammelan)
> - Shri P Maruthi
> - Dr Ramesh Sharma
> - Su Shri Urmila Srivastava
> - Su Shri Veena Behen &
> - Dr Mahesh Sharma
> And the President of Harijan Sevak Sangh has extended full support to make
> Gandhi Ashram as the nodal center for training youth from Alipur block.
For the follow-up of the resolutions made during the recent Seminar at
>>>> Nagpur, a 2-day National Coordinators meet is being held in Delhi from
>>>> tomorrow.
>>>>
>>>> Venue : ICAR Bhavan, Pusa Campus, Rajendra Nagar, New Delhi
>>>> Timing : 2 pm to 5 pm (26th Oct) & 10 am to 1 pm (27th Oct)
>>>>
>>>> Agenda for the meet:
>>>> 1. Follow-up discussions on Nagpur' resolutions
>>>> 2. Finalizing the schedule for next month's Conference (26-29 Nov ::
>>>> Cow-5)
>>>> 3. Convergence of Schemes of different Ministries of GoI for the
>>>> rural-clusters being proposed to be taken up under 'Unnat Bharat
>>>> Abhiyan'
>>>> 4. Fixing the dates for a public event in Delhi for the release of CD
>>>> and Souvenir of the August' Conference held at Vigyan Bhavan. (being
>>>> coordinated by Shri Rajendra Singh Rajpurohit of AWARI, Jodhpur)
>>>> 5. Refining the drafts of  two project proposals (on 'Gavya-Chikitsa' &
>>>> 'Yagya-Therapy') and preparing a budget-estimate for the same.
 Please find the 'Resolutions of Nagpur-Seminar' forwarded herewith:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. To propose and seek approval of following Govt / Non-Govt
>>>>>> Organizations to be included as partnering Institutes of UBA for
>>>>>> Vidarbha
>>>>>> region:
>>>>>> * MGIRI, Wardha
>>>>>> * VNIT, Nagpur
>>>>>> * Govt College of Engineering, Amaravati
>>>>>> * Govt Veterinary College, Nagpur
>>>>>> * Kasturba Health Society, Sevagram
>>>>>> * Shree Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal, Amaravati
>>>>>> * Society for Ethno-pharmacology, Nagpur Chapter
>>>>>> * Centre of Science for Villages, Dattapur
>>>>>> * Sukrut Nirman Charitable Trust, Nagpur
>>>>>> * Gavyam Social Welfare Society, Akola
>>>>>> * Kisan Sahayata Manch, Nagpur
>>>>>> * DMIMS, Sawangi, Wardha
>>>>>> * Govt Ayurved College, Nagpur
>>>>>> * PDKV, Akola
>>>>>> * IGNOU Regional Directorate, Nagpur
>>>>>> * Tilak Vidyalaya, Nagpur
>>>>>> * India International Multiversity, Muramba
>>>>>> * Bharatiya Utkarsha Mandal, Nagpur
>>>>>> * Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Wardha
>>>>>> * Deendayal BahuUddeshiya Prasarak Mandal, Yavatmal
>>>>>> * Shri Krishna Gorakshan, Akola
>>>>>> * Gorakshan Sabha, Dhantoli, Nagpur
>>>>>> * Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, Vidarbha
>>>>>> * Vijnana Bharati, Vidarbha
>>>>>> * Shakti Sangathan, Vidarbha
>>>>>> * Rashtra Sevika Samiti, Vidarbha.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. To nominate MGIRI (Wardha), HVPM (Amaravati), GAC (Nagpur) and
>>>>>> DBPM
>>>>>> (Yavatmal) as Centres-of-Excellence for 'Govidya' (Panchagavya).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. To constitute a Vidarbha-level Committee of 'Gougram Mahasangh'
>>>>>> with representatives from all collaborating organizations to execute
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> Sustainable Rural Development program in proposed Cluster-villages of
>>>>>> Vidarbha region.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Further discussions on the resolutions will be held in the follow-up
>>>>>> events in Delhi (26-27 Oct), Basar (26-29 Nov) & Shegaon (11-12 Jan
>>>>>> 2016).