Seva Mandir Udaipur..........Seva in true scence.

Seva Mandir ,NGO in true sence .


...For a greater cause

SEVA,SADHNA,KRANTI...the motto

Seva Mandir, Udaipur. Rajasthan

Thanks to Dr.Mohan Sinha Mehta ,The founder.

.........serving the humanity since 12.02.1968


Seva Mandir is transforming lives through democratic and participatory development.




Seva Mandir works for water harvesting by making anicuts in forest areas.




Seva Mandir works for Education,Environment

 Seva Mandir works in Udaipur and Rajsamand districts of southern Rajasthan.The work area encompasses 626 villages and 56 urban settelments.In total the organisation reaches 70,000 households, influencing the life of approximately 360,000 persons.

Seva Mandir works for upliftment or rural masses by providing them employment and protecting forest.

Seva Mandir also runs a creash /playschool for babies of working women .

Seva Mandir helps Adivasi villagers lead a good life and works for child welfare

Sadhna a subsidery of Seva mandir sells cloths made by rural ladies, you can buy good hand crafted shirts, kurtas etc. and sell them thru exebitions and its outlet in Delhi ,Jaipur and udaipur and use the funds for women empoverment and rural upliftment and environment restoration...

  Seva Mandir focuses on :

Enhancing people’s capabilities for self development by working for improved literacy levels, better health status and sensitization against oppressive gender relations.
Creating sustainable improvements in the livelihoods base by revitalizing the natural resource base of communities.
Strengthening village institutions by creating an alternative paradigm of power structures and community interactions that reinforce the positive forces of cooperation ,transparency ,equity, justice and responsible citizenship.
Bringing rural women to the mainstream ...

 Educate the rural masses and orgnise them socially and economically facilitate rural product by giving them market free of middleman...

Seva Mandir organises gram sabha regularly ,helps in improving senitation facility in villages.
helps in community farming or cooperative farming.rural women empowerment

Please donate at Seva Mandir and help.

desi daru acchi hai.

Felix Padel ,the great grandson of Charles Darwin finds unadulterated mahua better than scotch .he is a visiting professor of anthropology at IRMA.

well lot of people agree to his theory but than too the fascination with foreign things and difficultly procure material is too high in this country that's why consumption and marketing of local products is less.
the government is not keen for the marketing and production of local and authentic product .
home made Indian wine is very rare and is very good but is not available in local market most of us are even not aware of it .

in olden days royal houses or each princely state use to have there own wine which was locally made and rich in ingredients like sauf ,ilachi kesar etc .and were very rich in taste.

 now when foreigners are appreciating it we should legalise and standardise the process of making local or Desi wine .

Daar ke peeche kya hai ?

Everyone knows that “Daar ke aage jeet hai “ but no one is aware what is before daar ? Lets try and find out daar ke pahle kya hai?

Have you ever seen any kid or girl with a bamboo in hand struggling on a rope to balance .
You must have seen a begger with a hunter hurting himself on the back to entertain us .
In fairs we usually see people playing with dangerous animals or try to balance themselves on a bike in a well normally called ‘Mout ka kuan.

All of them have conquered there fear and have came ahead of Daar towards jeet .
Do u know how this journey for conquering daar started they must be somewhere before daar.
And that very point or circumstance which forced them to conquer there fear is hunger.
Hunger of there kids ,mother and beloved ones .to conquer this hunger they fight the fear and become fearless in due course of time .

Now I came to know that..

Daar ke peeche Bhookh thi…aur usi ko bhagane ke liye jeetna padta hai…….

a lesson to learn..

A person was going with a bag full of Rasgulla sweet .In the way some juice of sweet dripped . A squrrill ran towards it and started eating ,seeing the squrrill a cat ran for squrrill .Meanwhile a dog chased and the cat ran .seeing the dog chasing for cat, another dog ran and both the dogs started barking at eachother.Suddenly the masters of dog arrived and both started a fight for the animal,mob started to build up .as both the masters of the dog were from different community the mob started to fight and a communal raiot started everyone started to harm public property too.
lot of people died.carfue was imposed for seven days by administration.meetings held for communal harmony and peace.a teacher in the meeting asked "why did the riot brokeout ,why did people started the fight?
everyone started to look at each other.nobody knew the actuall cause for the riot .Then the enquiry started and when the root cause of raiot was known everyone was ashamed......

on knowing the incident everyone felt ashamed that drop of juice of sweet is thicker than blood ......  

yeh bin mausaam ki barsaat....

आज कई लोगो के विवाह कार्यक्रम है मगर बरसात ने विघ्न बरपा दिया अतः बिन मौसम बरसात के कई नुक्सान है गरीब को रोज़ ही परेशानी होती है परन्तु सर्दी में बरसात जो की अनायास ही बरस जाती है बड़ी कष्टप्रद है क्योकि इसमें रक्षा हेतु बचाव का इंतजाम भी नहीं हो पाते है .बिमारी का भी ज़ोर रहता है.

गाव मे इस बरसात से उन्ही किसानो को फ़ायदा है जिनकी फसल खलिहान से निकल गई और गेहू की फसल को बोये हुए दस दिन बीत चुके हो अन्यथा नुक्सान ही नुक्सान है.

शादी ब्याह वालों को प्रीतिभोज मे ५०० की जगह १०० व् १००० की जगह ४०० महमानों के आने से सभी इंतजाम व्यर्थ साबित हो गए अन्न का नुक्सान हुआ वह अलग .
इस हाड कप कपा देने वाली सर्दी से पशु पक्षी भी हैरान परेशान होंगे बच्चो का तो बुरा हाल होगा बीमारी से .
क्या यही रोंगटे खड़े करने वाली सर्दी है क्या इस बार प्रकृति हमें जाता रही है की उससे छेड़ छाड़ करने का बुरा खामिअजा भुगतने को तैयार रहे ?

yeh sardi ke din...

Shivering kids,dew droplets on front glass of car in morning,sleeping blanket cladded .... Winters have started fullfledge.The best time of course for almost everyone as we can enjoy parties ,marriages ,late night coffee with friends ,Rum time for happy go lucky people .

winters are often associated as a season for enjoying all things weather its dressing up for any occasion ,eating anything  and so on.

People are energised in this season .The productivity of a person rises in winters that's why many new inventions and targets for companies and even examinations scheduled in winter season show nice results.

In rural India bonfire is the most common feature in winter evenings and has become a meeting point for villagers in evening ,even in urban parts people have made bonfire an important events for evening parties at various occasions.

Have u ever tried a kulfi in a chilling winter night ?
Sleeping late night in a winter Sunday morning also is a great experience.

One must learn to enjoy this lovely time to its fullest.

double standards!

yesterday a news or rather scoop was there in television about Barkha Dutta a prominent reporter indulging herself into bargain between two political parties .but today the news was marginilised by almost every national and local newspaper .why dont these media people act responsibally and give the news without any bias?
what massage are they giving to the nation !

people will not ,rather are not taking any news seriously just because they are getting aware of the business part of it .in older days journlism was like social service but now glamour ,compitation etc have spoilt the real purpose  of this proffession.

i can only pitty on them and the nation .

God save and please spare my country.

my childhood memories....

Recently a class seventh boy ran away from school with a note kept behind .
This incident reminded me of my childhood .thou it haunts but memories are memories .I was accompanied with two best friends ,we three went to same school in same bus.
The bus use to come at stop,what we use to do was we hide at a plot where there was lot of shrubs and grass.the driver would horn thrice and leave and then we three friends after an hour sitting in that haunted plot with grass and mud underneath, come out and with our bags on our shoulders roam here and there. The whole day ,weather a garden or in front of girls school.One day while we were standing in front of St Marrys a girls school ,a peon from our school by chance saw us and recognised us by our dress, He took us to principal and we got a nice scolding and were told to bring parents the next day .
Another incident was also of the same period when i use to be in class 3rd .i resided at udaipur with my bhua and fufosa ,every saturday my bhua's husband that is my fufosa helped me in taking  bath he used some tools like a stone,a dead veg which was kept in sun and was like a scrubber and ,here u should know i am and was born with dark complexion .I suppose he wanted that i should look fair which was his dream never came true.
those were very good days ..........

infact.. as Bryan Adams say those were the best days of my life.

our niglected Hindi

यारो हमारी मात्र भाषा हिंदी है. फिर भी हम अंग्रेजी में बोल कर गर्व क्यों महसूस करते है .कही ऐसा तोह नहीं की हमें भाषा का ज्ञान नहीं ? तो उसके लिए.......

क ख ग घ ड
च छ ज झ ण
त थ द ध न
प फ ब भ म
य र ल व् स
श ष ह
अ आ इ ई उ ऊ ए ऐ ओ औ अं अ:

क्या मुझे सही कर सकते है आप लोग..

Baal divas .....celebrating with a cause.

Children's day is celebrated today .There are lots of underprivileged children in India ,who if given chance can make the world proud .government with the help of many NGO's is working for the upliftment of them ,but its not enough.

On Baal divas we listen lots of lectures on radio and television about children and keep holiday , is that enough !shouldn't we individuals take one step forward and make arrangements for making at least one kid from slums or anywhere to study at school. it costs just 3000 rupees an year at government school .it could change the feature of one child .Every youngster should come forward for this cause and give his small contribution for nation's prosperity.

Interested people can go to nearby government school and talk to the Principal.

So friends today we should take a pledge to make at least one underprivileged child study to make his feature bright and make our contribution to the progress of our Bharat Mata .This  will be our homage to Chacha Nehru and celebrating Children's Day in true sense.

Baal divas ki shubhkaamnao ke saath.........

The newsmakers for wrong reason....

There are lot of news for wrong reason but no one act for fixing them up ....

Shri Andimutthu Raja, the telecom minister of India is in news for wrong reason as he had allotted 2g spectrum at a low rate and had caused loss of Rs1.76 lakh crore to government and he is still the minister .The comptroler and auditor general of India Mr vinod rai had submitted the detailed report criticizes TRAI and blaming Raja .

The government is believed to be under immense pressure from raja's party DMK.

In an action against its corrupt member the government had sacked one of its chief minister for misusing its powers for Adarsh housing society.Than why they are not acting firmly for this 2g spectrum case?

The rani of controversy is again in news. Rakhi Sawant ,yesterday a man committed suicide because rakhi abused him at a show Rakhi ki adalat in front of the nation and thus he committed suicide .

There are many such wrong acts which people come to know but never follow them as they feel it is not there cup of tea or rather they don't have time to fix them up or even lack of courage,thats the reason why these wrong acts are committed more and more and almost by everyone .we should stand up against such act and save the nation and ourselves.

corruption the curse..

corruption is a sour on democratic functioning of govt.In India people have mastered the art of corruption .If u want to make your work done the tact is you should act corrupt and the work will progress.Indian administration is tinted with scandals.In 2004 a report suggested India is among 55 of the 106 countries where corruption rampant.
Corruption is caused as well as increased because of the change in value system ,tolerance of people towards corruption and lack of intense public outcry against corruption.
Here i want to draw your attention at an advertisement where a father wants his son's admission and is suggested to buy degree without studies.
To eliminate corruption from grass root is a tough job and everyone should pledge to eradicate it.foolproof laws should be made where there should be no room for discretion for anyone whether it is fodder king laloo stamp champ telgi or a road side romeo .esponsiveness ,accountability and transparency are must for a clean system.Bureaucracy the backbone of good governance should be made more citizen friendly.students should be tought about values ,subjects like Moral sciences should be made compulsory subjects .Studies should be value and knowledge oriented and not job and money oriented.Than only we can do something constructive about eliminating this cancer of corruption from our Indian society.

in this hectic life

Personality development classes are flourishing with jam packed sessions at lot of venues .they teach how a person can keep his cool in all uneven circumstances.A person should be pleasant and smart with a smile as it enhances the personalty.

 Hypertension is the main cause for lots of disease caused by tension which is high as the pressure to excell in all field is there .a kid is pressurised by his parents unknowingly for getting good marks in school .when he gr owes up his boss keeps him under target pressure and family pressure for consumerism to get all high tech gazettes .due to this at a very young age the person start developing different disease which is the main cause for a low life expectancy rate.

In a personality development class the teacher teaches how to cope up with this work pressure by different techniques like breathing technique and yoga even jogging at eairly morning helps. 

   

yoga the oldest form of living healthy is popular in this jet age because it have this power to keep the person calm energatic and enhance his capablities. 

The after effects.....

Diwali the festival of lights was celebrated with great enthuse and fervor .This year the monsoon was good there were lot of rains and everyone is hoping for  good days with prosperity ahead.The sensex which is the index of growth was also too high on Diwali.  So lot of people did huge shopping,crackers were busted.These crackers are bad for environment and also for health as they could cause diseases like asthma and hearing impart.

This year lot of decorative lights instead of deepak were also used to decorate buildings  which helped in wasting electricity.Also crackers enhanced the garbage and lead level with sound pollution which is alarming.
But above all Diwali has emerged as forth national festival as it was celebrated by all communities and all around the country with same josh!

once again a very happy Diwali and a prosperous new year.

shubh deepavali to all

deepotsav ki hardik badhai.

Deep jalao deep jalao aaj divali hai;

hashi khushi sab mil kar gao aaj divali hai.

                                                                                                                 

shubh deepavli

Markets have been ready with lightings

i shall be celebrating pollution free
Diwali,less fireworks,more lights

Pagarkhi..........the footwear.

                                                    

                                                      
Pagarkhi,Jooti,Mojari is still a matter of necessity in rajasthan ,it dominates as the most popular footwear and has charm and grace of its own.Pagarkhis or Jootis or Mojaris are leather shoes or slippers worn by both men and women of all community.
Traditionally Jooti or Mojari is made from camel leather as it is very soft.The Pagarkhi made from sheep and goat leather is stronger and is worn by men while working in fields and travelling.The footwear's upper part is decorated with embroidery on velvet or patch work these beautiful looking mojaris are worn in celebrations like marriages and festivals.
Pagarkhi is mostly tight fitting and triangular at the front end though,in some rare case they may even be rounded.the communities like the Regar,Bhambi and Mochi prepare the leather ,from where the mojari is made.

The process of production starts with cutting leather with sharp knife both for upper and lower sole.Stuck together with home made glue,they are stiched with cotton or leather thread.the upper is then embroidered.Bright colour motifs and contemporary designs are the themes.Bead work or gem stone is used to further enhance the beauty of Pagarkhi.

Mojaris meant for women were traditionally open from behind so it doesn't hurt on there feet .The feet get hurt because of the leather to avoid it men apply some oil at the inner part of the footwear.
these footwear have been exported and even the tourists purchase them with great respect and love to wear them.