Happy to see mail on TMAD anniversary. Thanks for everyone for sending detailed update. Please don't disappoint for inactiveness of any members...just let us go forward with activities we can take forward and hope for the best. Though many people don't respond to regular mails but I could see they responded when help was required.
Congratulations to all members of the group. Divya garu, please come to UK and give us the party :-) On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:12 PM, raghu vineel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All!! > > It was a very great evening being with TMAD members. I am always glad to be > a TMAD member and always used to tell my friends in other organisations > about TMAD and how well organized and planned is it. After moving to hyd > from bangalore, I was a bit hesitant to take volunteership as I was not sure > whether after taking up the responsibility I can make that out or not as I > was occupied with my personal issues. And I was not even sure how others > will feel once I fail to do the same. > > And moreover I didn't want to interfere in the well going activities coming > as a person from no where. But after yesterday's meet I came to know I was > wrong. But these days, I can see that many active people became busy. As > Prasanthi said, lets hope everything will become active as it was before. > I'l try my best to be so. > > Coming to the Annual meet, it was a very great evening. Prasanthi has > almost posted about everythign we discussed over there. Except the last > thing, what we felt about her. Undoubtedly she is a person with unlimited > energy. She has got two jobs. One of is her office and the other is TMAD. I > personally feel that she is the brain and backbone of TMAD. Divya said that > without Prasanthi TMAD wouldn't be survived. Ratan Ji did second that. > > Over all we enjoyed a lot. Some left early and remaining of us had dinner. > I thank Divya for such a nice treat. Looking forward for such treats.:D. > > Thanks and regards, > Vineel. > > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:27 AM, ulprasanthi > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thank you, Harinath garu for taking part in the celebration and also >> for sharing your impressions. >> >> Forgot to add one important point: >> >> Ravi Shankar suggested us to register as voters and if possible to >> encourage others to register. He is very much inspired by Loksatta's ideals >> and the able leadership of JP. He requested to vote for Loksatta if we are >> convinced by its ideals. >> >> Coming to giving money for Mehdipatnam school, we followed a strategy. If >> govt. does not come forward to put 100% money for whatever reason, if we >> compel it to pay 80% by contributing the other 20%, it serves the purpose >> because the children gets class rooms and also a quality class room study >> and learning. The impact of it would be more. There is always a trade off. >> >> How much the govt. has to be spent on each school and what percentage for >> the basic requirements? We need to know these details and there can be >> umpteen number of excuses for the officials for not doing things or >> sanctioning goodies to schools. We have to take a decision on which approach >> would be great given the constraints and limitations. >> >> If we remember we even mentioned that we are not going to spend for >> infrastructure as Govt. has to spend. We followed the same. May be this is >> the first step and as we gain experience, may be we can get to know all the >> possible schemes and options and try to let the govt. spend 100% of the >> money. >> >> Coming to the observation of doing charity only instead of something more >> meaningful and of impact, we conducted awareness sessions on RTI Act. We are >> trying to do our bit. We also need volunteers who buy in an idea so that >> they can take it forward with zeal. We thought that it would be great if >> some of us can spare some time to visit govt. sites, read information on >> different schemes and guide us so that we can maintain a database and will >> be in a better position to take things in the right direction with a correct >> approach. >> >> > > -- Regards, Santhosh http://santhlavvi.googlepages.com http://santhlavvisaraagaalu.googlepages.com
