Dr Abdul Kalam meets Vasantham children

Dr Abdul Kalam with Vasantham children To day (6th December 2012), Dr Abdul Kalam met the mentally challenged special children of Vasantham and interacted with them at Raj Bhavan, Chennai during his short visit to Chennai.   On seeing Dr Kalam sitting in the sofa, one of the children cried in excitement, "hey.  Kalam uncle, whom we used to see in photo is sitting here".  These children got really excited to interact with Dr...

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“I want one line in history” – Munna Kumar Arya

Munna Kumar Arya Munna Kumar Arya (27), hailing from a poor family of East Champaran District of Bihar lost his father when he was 3 years old.  His elder brother could not proceed beyond 7th standard due to poverty.  His elder sister was killed by her own mother-in-law for not bringing in dowry.  Munna Kumar’s family could not even take up this murder with police, due to their poverty. Inspiration drawn from the books of Dr...

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Aum Murugan sets apart 25% of his salary to society

When M. Murugan (51) starts from his house in the morning, his wife Umaa Murugan gives him two packets of food every day. For the past 24 years, before taking his lunch for the day, Murugan ensures that one poor person is also fed. Murugan, popularly known as Aum Murugan, is presently working in Southern Railway and spends one-fourth of his salary for the social cause, with the full support of his family members.   Through 7 centres of...

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Elango turns Kuthambakkam village as a model village

Mahatma Gandhi said that India lived in villages.  He wanted the villages to be developed.  While everybody talks on every platform, nobody takes the serious initiative.   Here is the story of R Elango, a Dalit leader turning his village into a Model village in India. R Elango, born and brought up in Kuthambakkam village, in the adjoining district of Chennai City was involved in the social work right from his childhood.  After...

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‘Mugavari’ Ramesh supports 150 students

After passing the graduation with a Gold Medal, Ramesh hailing from a poor family of Arathi Agraharam village of Salem District joined the articleship for Chartered Accountancy.  In 2002, when he admitted his elder sister for some serious illness at Chennai General Hospital, the indifferent and arrogant attitude of the doctors led to the death of his sister.  That incident sparked in his mind to get a few doctors from his village to...

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Dr Chandra Gupta has completed 600 plus free dental camps

Dr Chandra Gupta (35), when he was studying in a Dental College, Bangalore went to a tribal village for training.  As a student, he was pained to see how the poor people did not care for their dental hygiene.  That prompted him to spend the weekends with the school children promoting the dental hygiene, even after his setting up private practice.  He has also motivated some of his like minded doctors to do this service free of...

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J Prabhakar brought 700 plus small NGOs together

Mr J Prabhakar (58), an artist by profession started his social service by campaigning against the evils of ‘liquor’ in 1985.  He used to visit villages around Chennai then and campaign for values and ethics.  He even brought Anna Hazare in 1989 to some of the villages towards his mission.  At that time Anna Hazare was not popular in the nation and he was doing great service in the Ralegan Siddhi village at Maharashtra.      One...

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Jagadeeswaran gave vision to 1000 blind persons

In 1985, While waiting in a saloon on a Sunday morning, Mr S B Jagadeeswaran of Coimbatore (now aged 58) was scanning the newspapers.  He was reading about  some of the Guinness  record achievers.  In the same page, he also read the story on the plight of blind people.  That triggered a spark in his mind and he realised the purpose of his life.   At He decided to help the blind people restore the vision and contribute...

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Deepali converted the challenges into opportunities to become Asian beauty queen

While everybody is holding a view that only slim girls can become ‘Beauty Queens’, Pune based Deepali Phadnis has proved otherwise.  A tall slim girl Deepali, right from school days, was nurturing the dream of becoming ‘Miss India’.   Being a girl from a middle class, she could not contest due to her priorities of education.  To add to her woes, she met with an accident in 2006 resulting in ligament injury with four major fractures. ...

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Spare 2 hours a week for India 2020

Present trend In our earlier mails to India Vision Group, we have been  writing about the large scale negative vibrations in  like cynicism, skepticism spreading among youth due to various factors. We also see many arm-chair suggestions and cynical comments through social media.  Such phenomenon  will set a dangerous trend and our youth may  lose confidence on the system itself.  They may also lose self-confidence...

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Four MPs honoured with 'Sansad Ratna Award 2012'

Prime Point Foundation, Chennai every year honours the top performing Parliamentarians during April / May for their performance till the end of Part I of Budget Session of that year.   3rd Annual Awards function was held at Indian Institute of Technology-Madras on Saturday the 14th April 2012, to honour the following four MPs with 'Sansad Ratna Award'. Details of the individual performance is given in our earlier posting. 1.  Mr Anandrao...

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Dr Y S Rajan honoured with Padma Sri Award

Dr Y S Rajan, co-author of the book 'India 2020' along with Dr Abdul Kalam was honoured by Indian President Her Excellency Pratibha Patil on 4th April 2012 at Rashtrapathi Bhavan with Padmasri Award.   Dr Rajan has authored several books.  He is now the Honorary Distinguished Professor at ISRO, Bangalore.  He is one of the well known scientists, who has closely worked with Dr Abdul Kalam. The Citation of the Award is given below: YAGNASWAMI...

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