According to a very recent WHO report India will be losing a whopping 54 billion US Dollars or more than two lakh crore rupees in the year 2015 due to lifestyle diseases like diabetes, stroke and cancer. And you know why – because of unhealthy workplaces.
Add to this the unhygienic conditions in which our poor live. On one hand they do not get enough to eat and whatever they get can not be guaranteed to be healthy and clean. What about the water that is being used? Earlier one could find wells and just lift some water and drink – one could just take the water from a flowing river, but no more. All this is so much contaminated. Still one is using it and getting sick – may be not immediately. No calculations can be made for the monetary loss and the life loss.
WE will have to improve the living conditions in our cities and towns particularly. Travel by a train and see the dirty living conditions along the track, particularly near the towns/cities. Have you ever given a thought as to what is the cost of health on the citizens of India because of this? We do not have a choice. Start today to cleanse this rot.No readymade solutions. However, each one of us should be concerned and realize that if we do wake up today and act we will also be affected. Let ideas be shared – who knows your idea may just click.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Social Work is Helping Nation Building
I was sitting with a group of friends and a few ladies asked that they want to do social work but don’t know what to do. Many suggestions came, which centered around that one could join some social organization or the other. A few said that they had tried this, but did not find the work interesting, or did not like the working environment there and so on.
To me it looked as if a few were just giving excuses for not working but their were certainly a few who genuinely wanted to do some work for the society.
In developing countries, and specially in a country like ours we can do so much. (To my global viewers I may inform that I am from India.) And, it is not necessary that one has to go to some social organization to help in nation building.
At the outset, if one has a genuine intention of doing social work – this itself is a first step manifesting your contribution to nation building. Staying at home and doing your bit for saving the environment too, is a great social work. Driving with responsibility and observing traffic rules again is a great social work. Paying your taxes genuinely, observing the laws of the land, not doing any act which can harm the others – are all great social work. And by this you are doing your bit to help build the nation.
Don’t ever consider that only the soldier posted on our borders is serving the nation. All of us cannot join the army nor can become the great Mahatma Gandhi but if I am a teacher, a scientist, a businessman, an accountant, an engineer, or even a housewife and do my job properly I am serving the community and contributing to the cause of serving the nation.
To me it looked as if a few were just giving excuses for not working but their were certainly a few who genuinely wanted to do some work for the society.
In developing countries, and specially in a country like ours we can do so much. (To my global viewers I may inform that I am from India.) And, it is not necessary that one has to go to some social organization to help in nation building.
At the outset, if one has a genuine intention of doing social work – this itself is a first step manifesting your contribution to nation building. Staying at home and doing your bit for saving the environment too, is a great social work. Driving with responsibility and observing traffic rules again is a great social work. Paying your taxes genuinely, observing the laws of the land, not doing any act which can harm the others – are all great social work. And by this you are doing your bit to help build the nation.
Don’t ever consider that only the soldier posted on our borders is serving the nation. All of us cannot join the army nor can become the great Mahatma Gandhi but if I am a teacher, a scientist, a businessman, an accountant, an engineer, or even a housewife and do my job properly I am serving the community and contributing to the cause of serving the nation.
Monday, May 05, 2008
Death On Roads
Every day in the morning open the newspapers and one can find reports of deaths on the roads in India because of vehicle accidents. Though no accurate data is available but thousands surely die. Overcrowding in the buses, or the maxi-taxis add to the problem. It is high time that concentrated efforts be made not only by the Government but also by the voluntary organisations to take remedial actions. A public information campaign highlighting the different aspects of this should be undertaken.
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