16500 Raincoats Distribution Ceremony for Mumbai Police

It was a great privilege and an honour to have the experience and opportunity to host a Mumbai Police event held on 10th June, 2016 at Police Club, Near Azad Maidan, Fort.

The event was called "Distribution Ceremony of 16500 Raincoats for the Mumbai Police"

The purpose behind giving away these raincoats was to shield police personnel from the upcoming monsoons so that they can perform their duties with ease and continue to protect citizens.

The event was chaired by Mumbai Police Commissioner Shri Dattatray Padsalgikar & Joint Commissioner Shri Anup Kumar Singh.

As a small token of appreciation for their persistent services and saluting the true spirit of Mumbai traffic police, Bollywood Actress and Life OK Savadhan India TV anchor Divya Dutta, and CXOs of Dr. Fixit from the house of Pidilite Industries, Central Bank of India, Exim Bank, Union Bank of India, Standard Chartered and Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank joined hands and presented 16500 raincoats to the Mumbai Police Officers.

Giving is Happiness: Aniruddha's Bank for the Blind for Visually Challenged Children .

Aniruddha's Bank for the Blind (ABB) is an organization dedicated to the service of the visually challenged. Functioning like a 'bank', it stores knowledge in the form of audio CDs that record the academic syllabus of educational and technical institutions and makes these CD's available free of cost to visually challenged students.

It is a joint activity/project of the `Shree Aniruddha Upasana Foundation’, ‘Aniruddha Samarpan Pathak’ and ‘Shree Aniruddha Aadesh Pathak’, committed towards offering service to the visually challenged. These entity are non-profit Organizations incorporated in Mumbai, India. 

This project was initiated in July 2004 under the guidance of Dr. Aniruddha Dhairyadhar Joshi, a successful consulting Rheumatologist, M.D., the Project began work in Mumbai and then over the last 8 years, has spread its service network to 19 Indian states providing recorded audio material in 11 Indian languages. It has even been extending its hand of support to beneficiaries in Pakistan,(Springfield School Karachi). It initially began with cassettes and over a period of time, has switched to CDs keeping in mind the durability, the better sound quality and their compactness that enables easy storage.

States Covered

West Zone  : Goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan

East Zone  : West Bengal

North Zone : Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana,[5] Uttar Pradesh, Punjab

South Zone : Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Pondicherry,[6] Tamil Nadu

Central Zone : Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh

Languages Covered

Material for students covered in Marathi, Gujarati, English, Sanskrit, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Punjabi languages.

Beneficiaries

Cds are provided to

• Students of schools
• Colleges
• Universities (post graduate)
• Vocational courses
• Banking
• Public service examination etc.

Overall statistics

Booktionary Publishing House announces free publication of 8 Exponent Group of Journals

Exponent Group of Journals is a ready documentation meant to update us in thought, theory and practical application of knowledge. These journals endeavors to stand true to the word Exponent, which means a person who possesses and demonstrates a particular skill at a very high level or standard. It will contain updated, special and general knowledge in that particular field that is essential for the progress of every individual. The Journals will be available on the website www.exponentjournals.com.

In all there are 8 Journals i.e. Exponent Group of Journals for: 

1. MBA 
2. Professional Medicine 
3. Health & Health Services 
4. Chartered Accountancy 
5. Shares & Stock Market 
6. General Engineering 
7. Information Technology
8. Electronics

After completing 3 successful years now, Booktionary Publishing House has decided to make these Journals available to the readers absolutely free of cost in association with Shree Aniruddha Upasana Foundation.

The knowledge-seeking fraternity may avail this opportunity to cultivate an increasingly pragmatic and practical approach and keep themselves updated.

Kolhapur Medical and Healthcare Camp: Epitomizing compassion towards mankind

Kolhapur Medical Camp: Added meaning to my life experiences

Kolhapur Medical & Healthcare Camp:One of the largest #relief and #rehabilitation camp for poor and #rural masses

Kolhapur Medical & Health Camp: An excellent example of Management, Coordination and Resource Optimisation

Recently i was a part of a noble activity called "Kolhapur Medical and Health Camp 2016" organised by Aniruddha Rehabilitation Center & Dilasa Medical Trust. This is held every year in the month of February. Hats off to Dr. Aniruddha Dhairyadhar Joshi who initiated this project 10 years ago. This project stands an excellent example of ‪#‎management‬, ‪#‎coordination‬ and ‪#‎resource‬ optimisation.

Am so glad I got to experience this amazing activity. Sharing some interesting facts about the camp.

1. Kolhapur is the richest district in Maharshtra but few kilometers inside n poverty and lack of development hits you.
2. The camp is held at Pendakhale around 50 kms from Kolhapur and covers 100s of villages around.
3. Day 2 involves volunteers going around the villages distributing Hygiene material like Water Purifying liquid. Anti scabies and lice lotions, Dental Powders, washing powders, combs, nail cutters, old but wearable clothes, new 9 yard sarees for Grannies, sweaters and toys
4. Day 3 involved students from 137 schools coming to Pendakhale Camp for medical check up including eye n dental. They are provided with two sets of uniforms made from yarn spun by Aniruddha followers, a pair of foot wear, note books, candles, general tonic, class wise sports kit to name a few. Students are provided transportation for coming and going from the Camp.
• Couple of accompanying teachers I enquirer with gave this feedback-
• School dropout rate has gone down.
• Hygiene levels have gone up. Infact kids are now teaching their parents about cleanliness.
• Girl students post puberty who used to drop out due to lack of proper cloths n girls toilets has been stopped.
• Students are aspiring to grow. One of the earlier camp student last year participated as Doctor in last year's camp.
• Hemoglobin levels have gone up over the years.
5. Apart from Students the camp is open to all and has extensive OPDs and a Surgical Room as well as Pathology n Pharmacy. Dental and Opthalmalogy OPDs work beyond the scheduled hours.
6. Serious and major ailment afflicted villagers are referred to hospitals and followed by local volunteers.
7. Everyone coming to the camp is offered a simple but nutritious full meal of rice, daal, sabji n halwa. Many of the villagers walk tens of kms just to eat this meal. Everyone is served in stainless steel thalis to make them feel valued.
8. Whilst the direct beneficiaries are the villagers and students the camp serves to bring up the volunteers in sensitivity levels, awareness of what actually lies beyond the cities as well as giving an opportunity to serve for the cause.
9. Whilst the local volunteers work around the year for this camp in terms of replenishment of hygiene material, census data etc, volunteers from all over India come once a year for 3 days. This year we saw around 40 volunteers coming from middle-east for this.
10. The best feedback was given by women in one of the villages I visited for distribution. They said alcoholism is on decline, treatment given by men to their women folk has improved, infighting amongst brothers and families has reduced.