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Issue no. 58 | MARCH 2013
PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH Shri. Murlidhar Devidas Amte (BABA AMTE) Udaan mantra: Life is about making choices. You can live several by living for others.
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December 26, 1914 Hinganghat, British India (present-day Maharashtra, India) 9 February 2008 (aged 94) Anandwan, Maharashtra, India Indian Sadhana Amte Dr. Vikas Amte and Dr. Prakash Amte
Dr Murlidhar Devidas Amte, popularly known as Baba Amte, was an Indian social worker and social activist known particularly for his work for the rehabilitation and empowerment of poor people suffering from leprosy. He is the only non-medical person in the world who has received maximum medicine related awards. Early life : Baba Amte was born to Devidas and Laxmibai Amte in the town of Hinganghat in Wardha District of Maharashtra. It was a wealthy family. His father was a British official with responsibilities for district administration and revenue collection. Murlidhar had acquired his nickname Baba in his childhood. He came to be known as Baba not because "he is a saint or any such thing, but because his parents addressed him by that name. As the eldest son of a wealthy landowner, Murlidhar had an idyllic childhood. By the time he was fourteen, Baba owned his own gun and hunted boar and deer. He developed a special interest in cinema, wrote reviews for the film magazine the 'Picturegoer' and even corresponded with Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer. Norma Shearer would become one of his first foreign donors when he began working with leprosy patients. When he was old enough to drive, Baba was given a Singer sportscar with cushions covered with panther skin. Amte never appreciated the restrictions that prevented him from playing with the 'low-caste' servants' children. "There is certain callousness in families like mine." Baba use to say. "They put up strong barriers so as not to see the misery in the world outside and I rebelled against it." Dedicated work : Trained in law, Amte developed a successful legal practice at Wardha. He soon got involved in the Indian struggle for freedom from the British Raj, and started acting as a defense lawyer for leaders of the Indian freedom movement whom the British authorities had imprisoned in the 1942 Quit India movement. He spent some time at Sevagram ashram of Mahatma Gandhi, and became a follower of Gandhism for the rest of his life. He practiced various aspects of Gandhism, including yarn spinning using a charkha and wearing khadi. Amte founded three ashrams for treatment and rehabilitation of leprosy patients, disabled people, and people from marginalized sections of the society in Maharashtra, India. In 1973, Amte founded the Lok Biradari Prakalp to work among the Madia Gond tribal people of Gadchiroli District.
Amte devoted his life to many other social causes, the most notable among which were generating public awareness of importance of ecological balance, wildlife preservation, and the Narmada Bachao Andolan.Dedicated work of family members : In 1946, Amte married with Sadhana Ghule. She actively participated in her husband's social work with equal dedication. Their two sons, Dr. Vikas Amte (born 1947) and Dr. Prakash Amte, and two daughters-inlaw, Dr. Mandakini and Dr. Bharati, are all doctors. All four have dedicated their lives to social work and causes similar to those of the senior Amte. Son Dr. Prakash Amte and his wife Dr. Mandakini Amte run a school and a hospital at Hemalkasa village in the underprivileged district of Gadchiroli in Maharashtra where people belonging to the "Madia Gond" tribe live. After marrying Prakash Amte, Mandakini Amte left her governmental medical job and moved to Hemalkasa to eventually start a hospital, a school, and an orphanage for injured wild animals, including a lion and some leopards. Their two sons, Digant, a doctor, and Aniket, an engineer, have also dedicated their lives to the same causes as their parents. In 2008, Prakash and Mandakini were given the Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership. Baba Amte's elder son Vikas Amte and his wife Bharati Amte run a hospital at Anandwan and coordinate operations between Anandwan and satellite projects. In those days, leprosy was associated with social stigma and the society disowned people suffering from leprosy. There was also a widespread misbelief that leprosy was contagious. Amte strove to dispel the misbelief and once allowed bacilli from a leprosy patient to be injected into him while participating in an experimental test aimed at proving that leprosy was not contagious. Today, Anandwan and Hemalkasa village have one hospital, each. Anandwan has a university, an orphanage, and schools for the blind and the deaf. Currently, the self-sufficient Anandwan ashram has over 5,000 residents. The community development project at Anandwan in Maharashtra is recognized around the world. Besides Anandwan, Amte later founded "Somnath" and "Ashokwan" ashrams for treating leprosy patients. Narmada Bachao Andolan : In 1990, Amte left Anandwan for a while to live along the Narmada River and join Medha Patkar's Narmada Bachao Andolan ("Save Narmada" Movement), which fought against both unjust displacement of local inhabitants and damage to the environment on account of the construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada river. Awards from the Government of India • Padma Shree, 1971 • Padma Vibhushan, 1986 • Gandhi Peace Prize, 1999 • Ramon Magsaysay Award, 1985
PIONEERS IN CIVIL ENGINEER JAIPRAKASH GAUR is an Indian entrepreneur and businessman who were born in Uttar Pradesh. Gaur is the founder and chairman of Jaiprakash Associates and Jaypee Group companies. Gaur has been associated with the construction industry for more than five decades. EDUCATION : Mr. Gaur graduated in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee as overseer in 1950. CAREER : After graduation, Gaur joined the state government's irrigation department as a junior engineer. In 1958 he started his own venture as a civil contractor and two decades later, laid the foundation for the Jaypee Group by setting up Jaiprakash Associates, a civil engineering and construction company. To leave a secure government job and pursue contractorship in 1958, when it was considered to be most prestigious, required courage. In 1967, the same man led and transformed a motley group of persons into a company which took pride in its cable address "Iron Will" and went on to execute: • Sardar Sarovar Dam – India’s largest dam with 7.2 million cum of chilled concrete; larger by 75% in terms of volume than “Bhakra Nangal Dam” • Tehri Rockfill Dam - Asia’s largest rockfill dam • Nathpa Jhakri (Power House) - The largest underground power house in India In 2010 he was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 48th-richest person in India, with an estimated wealth of US$1.5 billion. AWARDS AND HONORS • Doctor of Science by Bundelkhand University in the year 1997, in recognition of his distinguished contribution in the field of Engineering and Technology. • Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishavidyalaya (University of Technology of Madhya Pradesh) in the year 2005, in recognition of his distinguished contribution in the field of Technical Sciences. • "Lifetime Achievement Award" by Builders' Association of India, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Indian Construction Industry in 2005. • "Udyog Ratna Award" by PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry, in recognition of his contribution to Economic Development of the Madhya Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir & Uttaranchal States. • “Entrepreneur of Year Award”, for his exceptional contribution in the Infrastructure & Construction sector by Ernst & Young in 2008. • Bestowed with the Highest Civilian Honour of Bhutan (DRUK KHORLO) by the King of Bhutan. This is the Highest Civilian Honour given to any civilian and person of foreign origin and also happens to be the First Award given by the 5th King to a civilian, apart from our Honorable Prime Minister, Shri Manmohan Singh. • Infrastructure Leader of the Year award, conferred to Shri Jaiprakash Gaur, Founder Chairman by Shri Kamal Nath, the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways during the Essar Steel ‘Infrastructure Excellence Awards 2010’ in association with E18 and CNBC TV18. • "Lifetime Achievement Award" by Merchants’ Chamber of Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur, for creating new milestones in infrastructure development and for his achievement in Corporate Social Responsibility for the year 2010.
ABBOTT HEALTH CARE, Jhagadia Inauguration of Admin Building
JOHN DEERE : Tool box meeting was conducted by Mr. Rajesh Wahane. Mr.Ramesh & Mr.Satish Nanderkar appraised to all staff for completing million safe man hours without accidents.
Gudhipadawa Celebration at John Deere
Meeting at Rohan Mithila
Beijing National Stadium Full name Location Broke ground Opened Surface Construction cost
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National Stadium Beijing, China 24 December 2003 28 June 2008 Grass US$423 million ($451 million in 2013 dollars Herzog & de Meuron China Architectural Design & Ai Weiwei (Artistic consultant) Arup 80,000 91,000 (2008 Olympics) 140 89,102 (Nigeria-Argentina, 23 August 2008)
Beijing National Stadium, officially the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest is a stadium in Beijing, China. The stadium was designed for use throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. History : Located at the Olympic Green, the stadium cost US$423 million. The design was awarded to a submission from the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron in April 2003. The design, which originated from the study of Chinese ceramics, implemented steel beams in order to hide supports for the retractable roof; giving the stadium the appearance of a bird's nest. Leading Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was the artistic consultant on the project. Design and construction : Beijing National Stadium (BNS) was a joint venture among architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Herzog & de Meuron, project architect Stefan Marbach, artist Ai Weiwei, and CADG which was led by chief architect Li Xinggang. During their first meeting in 2003, at Basel, the group decided to do something unlike Herzog and de Meuron had traditionally designed. The stadium consists of two independent structures, standing 50 feet apart: a red concrete seating bowl and the outer steel frame around it. In an attempt to hide steel supports for the retractable roof, required in the bidding process, the team developed the "random-looking additional steel" to blend the supports into the rest of the stadium. Twenty-four trussed columns encase the inner bowl, each one weighing 1,000 tons. Despite random appearance, each half of the stadium is nearly identical .Due to the stadium's outward appearance, it was nicknamed "The Bird's Nest". The phrase was first used by Herzog & de Meuron, though the pair still believes "there should be many ways of perceiving a building." The use is a compliment Li explained, "In China, a bird's nest is very expensive, and something you eat on special occasions." Ground was broken, at the Olympic Green, for Beijing National Stadium on 24 December 2003. At its height, 17,000 construction workers worked on the stadium. Portraits of 143 migrant workers at the construction site were featured in the book Workers (Gong Ren) by artist Helen Couchman. On 1 January 2008, The Times reported that 10 workers had died throughout construction; despite denial from the Chinese government. However, in a story the following week, Reuters, with the support of the Chinese government, reported that only two workers had died. All 110,000 tons of steel were made in China. On 14 May 2008 the grass field of 7,811 square meters was laid in 24 hours. The field is a modular turf system by GreenTech ITM. Beijing National Stadium officially opened at a ceremony on 28 June 2008.
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