In the present socio economic condition a majority of people are literate. The new genres of people become career oriented. These days’ kids with good upbringing are studying hard in their schools and colleges just to secure a respectable and well paid job. The motive is to earn money, instead of developing children into persons with ethics and human values.
Most of the guys are spending their entire life while working and earning money. But seldom we are paying back our debts either to parents who reared us; or to the teachers who taught us in the school or the fellow beings of the village or town among whom we grew to be adults. But here is a person who has broken all such common practices. And the man all we are talking about is *Ratna Ranjan Behera* who was born at Jagannathpur in Dhenkanal districts of Odisha somewhere during the mid-70’s of the last Century.
Ratna is the youngest of all the siblings at home. When he was barely one and half years old his father expired out of heart stroke relatively at a young age of 42 years. Due to the nascent age Ratna don't even remember ever seeing his father's face. His father was working as a Sub-Inspector with excise department. After the demise of his father his mother was mentally shattered. She no more able to manage the state of affairs at home. It was his elder sister she was only 15 years old took the overall responsibility to look after Ratna. When the elder sister got married his third sister looked after Ratna.
His village Jagannathpur is located in the interior of central Odisha i.e. in Dhenkanal district. One side of his village is fenced by Ramiala river, whereas on the other side there is a forest where many species of wild animals are coexisting with nature.Also one side lord Jagannath temple and other side lord Kapileswar shib temple. Ratna attended government run Oriya medium primary school at his village Jagannthpura. He was a well-mannered and sincere kid among all the students of his school. They did not have any school uniform, unlike the trend of what all the English medium private schools are following today. Then children could wear any dress that they have. While hanging a cloth bag on his shoulder filled wit books and a pen he was walking barefoot almost two kilometres through the paddy fields and water streams every day. On completion of primary school as there was no high school, his third sister took him to Nalco Nagar, Angul for his upbringing.
You might be reading this post while sitting in the air conditioned chamber of your office or while lying on the bed with a fan revolving on top of your head. But during the primary and high school Ratna was studying his textbooks under the low luminosity of kerosene lanterns because then his village was not yet electrified. So you could judge yourself under what circumstances that tender boy might have grown up.
He joined in mechanical engineering at Shyamlal Engineering College, Latur in Marthwada region of Maharastra. On acquiring the Engineering certificate he got placement as a trainee engineer at Tata Automotive and Assembly Ltd. It is an ancillary industry of India’s leading automobile manufacturing company Tata Goup. While undergoing training he has submitted many suggestions for the technical improvement on production as a consequence of which he got a lot of their in-house Kaizen rewards.
After working for 6 years in Tata Group he joined Caparo Group. It’s the Indian outfit of the richest NRI Swaraj Paul who is a British national. Now Ratna is working with Mahindra and Mahindra, Nasik plant.
But the reason for occupying the coveted place in this blog is his contribution for the people and the society where he was born and spent his childhood and adolescent age.
Ratna though migrated to Maharashtra in search of livelihood, but his heart traverse in and around his village and district for the welfare of his people. Ratna made his social activities an integral part of his personal life. Before the first birthday of his son they were thinking of doing some noble work to shower the blessing of the almighty on his son. They were searching for an orphanage at Nashik. In the meanwhile the collective consciousness of the Universe responded and a fellow called him from NALCO and told him “Why don’t you forward help to Nabajiban Anathashram which is situated at Balaramprasad in Dist. Angul”? Ratna responded to that Universal call thinking God has responded to his silent prayer. With whole heart he donated meals for around 60 children. With that he did not stop but consistently doing it so, ever since for the past 6 years on the very day of his son’s birthday. At Angul town there is an old age home run by the same Nabajiban Trust. When so ever he gets any requisition from them, he is forwarding help to different old persons depending upon case to case basis.
This person has taken the drive to protect the environment surrounding the place where he is living. Once again he has tied up his personal life with the individual social responsibility by planting different kind of trees at Pune where he is living. On the very first birthday of his son Ratna planted just one tree, but the second year he planted two plants. Likewise every year he keeps on planting one additional sapling as compared to the previous year. This planet would be a worth a living only if every parent take such initiative at least in the name of their children.
By mobilising the youth of his village many times he has conducted blood donation camps and once a worksop for AIDS awareness. During this pandemic period his Foundation is supplying and distributing masks and food items like rice, dal, biscuits, chuda and vegetables at Nabjeevan anath ashram, Angul. Also providing dry fruits, masks and sanitizer two homeless persons on streets.
Ratna was greatly influenced by the
Social work done by his elder brother Chhata bhai who was the President of Angul Cooperative Bank, Jagannathpur; President of Pani Panchayat; President of Jagannathpur village. He is the one who has taken the initiative to set up the high school of his village and subsequently become its first Secretary. In memory of whom Ratna has registered a Foundation by the name *Ama Chhata Bhai Pratishthan Trust* for rendering social activities.
Ratna has initiated a project *AYUSH ENTERPRISES* in Odisha for solid waste management. They will convert the garbage collected from different Notified Area Councils and panchayats of Odisha into organic fertilizer. The end product will not only be environment friendly and cost-effective, but will also produce healthy food grains.
A Shiva temple by the name Sree Kapileswar is now located inside Ramiala river in our village.
. Ratna who extensively collected the data about this Temple from the elderly people of his village and compiled them.
Ratna love nature .Ratna personally experiences many times life in nature. its true clours.it most have brightness and darkness, joy and misery, evil and good .
Ratna is a well know writer and poet.Ratna enthusiast iced by our village people due to write the history of our village Shiva temple. Till date nobody has written history of the seven hundreds old this temple.
*Awards and recognitions*:
One who works for the society without any selfish cause always gets due recognition. Until now Ratna has been felicitated at many big platforms across India for the noble job that he has undertaken without any selfish gole.
6.Suryakheetra Award for social work by Bhagirathi Jena MLA, Ananda pur
Ratan Ranjan Behera
In the present socio economic condition a majority of people are literate. The new genres of people become career oriented. These days’ kids with good upbringing are studying hard in their schools and colleges just to secure a respectable and well paid job. The motive is to earn money, instead of developing children into persons with ethics and human values.
Most of the guys are spending their entire life while working and earning money. But seldom we are paying back our debts either to parents who reared us; or to the teachers who taught us in the school or the fellow beings of the village or town among whom we grew to be adults. But here is a person who has broken all such common practices. And the man all we are talking about is *Ratna Ranjan Behera* who was born at Jagannathpur in Dhenkanal districts of Odisha somewhere during the mid-70’s of the last Century.
Ratna is the youngest of all the siblings at home. When he was barely one and half years old his father expired out of heart stroke relatively at a young age of 42 years. Due to the nascent age Ratna don't even remember ever seeing his father's face. His father was working as a Sub-Inspector with excise department. After the demise of his father his mother was mentally shattered. She no more able to manage the state of affairs at home. It was his elder sister she was only 15 years old took the overall responsibility to look after Ratna. When the elder sister got married his third sister looked after Ratna.
His village Jagannathpur is located in the interior of central Odisha i.e. in Dhenkanal district. One side of his village is fenced by Ramiala river, whereas on the other side there is a forest where many species of wild animals are coexisting with nature.Also one side lord Jagannath temple and other side lord Kapileswar shib temple. Ratna attended government run Oriya medium primary school at his village Jagannthpura. He was a well-mannered and sincere kid among all the students of his school. They did not have any school uniform, unlike the trend of what all the English medium private schools are following today. Then children could wear any dress that they have. While hanging a cloth bag on his shoulder filled wit books and a pen he was walking barefoot almost two kilometres through the paddy fields and water streams every day. On completion of primary school as there was no high school, his third sister took him to Nalco Nagar, Angul for his upbringing.
You might be reading this post while sitting in the air conditioned chamber of your office or while lying on the bed with a fan revolving on top of your head. But during the primary and high school Ratna was studying his textbooks under the low luminosity of kerosene lanterns because then his village was not yet electrified. So you could judge yourself under what circumstances that tender boy might have grown up.
He joined in mechanical engineering at Shyamlal Engineering College, Latur in Marthwada region of Maharastra. On acquiring the Engineering certificate he got placement as a trainee engineer at Tata Automotive and Assembly Ltd. It is an ancillary industry of India’s leading automobile manufacturing company Tata Goup. While undergoing training he has submitted many suggestions for the technical improvement on production as a consequence of which he got a lot of their in-house Kaizen rewards.
After working for 6 years in Tata Group he joined Caparo Group. It’s the Indian outfit of the richest NRI Swaraj Paul who is a British national. Now Ratna is working with Mahindra and Mahindra, Nasik plant.
But the reason for occupying the coveted place in this blog is his contribution for the people and the society where he was born and spent his childhood and adolescent age.
Ratna though migrated to Maharashtra in search of livelihood, but his heart traverse in and around his village and district for the welfare of his people. Ratna made his social activities an integral part of his personal life. Before the first birthday of his son they were thinking of doing some noble work to shower the blessing of the almighty on his son. They were searching for an orphanage at Nashik. In the meanwhile the collective consciousness of the Universe responded and a fellow called him from NALCO and told him “Why don’t you forward help to Nabajiban Anathashram which is situated at Balaramprasad in Dist. Angul”? Ratna responded to that Universal call thinking God has responded to his silent prayer. With whole heart he donated meals for around 60 children. With that he did not stop but consistently doing it so, ever since for the past 6 years on the very day of his son’s birthday. At Angul town there is an old age home run by the same Nabajiban Trust. When so ever he gets any requisition from them, he is forwarding help to different old persons depending upon case to case basis.
This person has taken the drive to protect the environment surrounding the place where he is living. Once again he has tied up his personal life with the individual social responsibility by planting different kind of trees at Pune where he is living. On the very first birthday of his son Ratna planted just one tree, but the second year he planted two plants. Likewise every year he keeps on planting one additional sapling as compared to the previous year. This planet would be a worth a living only if every parent take such initiative at least in the name of their children.
By mobilising the youth of his village many times he has conducted blood donation camps and once a worksop for AIDS awareness. During this pandemic period his Foundation is supplying and distributing masks and food items like rice, dal, biscuits, chuda and vegetables at Nabjeevan anath ashram, Angul. Also providing dry fruits, masks and sanitizer two homeless persons on streets.
Ratna was greatly influenced by the
Social work done by his elder brother Chhata bhai who was the President of Angul Cooperative Bank, Jagannathpur; President of Pani Panchayat; President of Jagannathpur village. He is the one who has taken the initiative to set up the high school of his village and subsequently become its first Secretary. In memory of whom Ratna has registered a Foundation by the name *Ama Chhata Bhai Pratishthan Trust* for rendering social activities.
Ratna has initiated a project *AYUSH ENTERPRISES* in Odisha for solid waste management. They will convert the garbage collected from different Notified Area Councils and panchayats of Odisha into organic fertilizer. The end product will not only be environment friendly and cost-effective, but will also produce healthy food grains.
A Shiva temple by the name Sree Kapileswar is now located inside Ramiala river in our village.
. Ratna who extensively collected the data about this Temple from the elderly people of his village and compiled them.
Ratna love nature .Ratna personally experiences many times life in nature. its true clours.it most have brightness and darkness, joy and misery, evil and good .
Ratna is a well know writer and poet.Ratna enthusiast iced by our village people due to write the history of our village Shiva temple. Till date nobody has written history of the seven hundreds old this temple.
*Awards and recognitions*:
One who works for the society without any selfish cause always gets due recognition. Until now Ratna has been felicitated at many big platforms across India for the noble job that he has undertaken without any selfish gole.
6.Suryakheetra Award for social work by Bhagirathi Jena MLA, Ananda pur
Bhubaneswar
Odisha
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