Changes in My Life

I wrote these lines after i reviewed myself 

My life was going fine….

With no faults and no crime …

I would be happy at any cost ….

But didn't realize that I was lost.

I had so many friends around,

Who used to charge me in the ground.

A day I realized, I m being bullied,

Life’s so harsh, I was still pleased.

I framed my pain and made a phrase,

Used to ask, Will I win d Race?

Suddenly life went on another track,

I asked my self, is this another stack?

Months passed and so on years,

Felt lonely with no tears.

I continued writing, and expected to be praised,

But you know what!  It was going waste…

I have a friend, who boosted my moral,

The one who told me, “Hey that’s your Level”.

We have never met, but we do share,

And slowly it happened, life got easier.

I thank God, for all his blessings,

Well that’s life, an unpredictable thing.

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MAD Volunteers Clean Tamsa Stream ( DEHRADUN )

On May 19, 2013 (Sunday), MAD headed towards Tamsa Stream passing by Tapkeshwar Temple (Ancient Holy Place in Doon). Their cleanup drive was also covered by media and accompanied by local residents, 

Famous news Paper "The Tribune" appreciated their deed...  

Making a Difference (MAD), an association of 800 youngsters in Dehradun, has taken up the cleaning of dwindling streams which have been choked due to excessive pollution and gross neglect by people as well as the government.

Many of the erstwhile perennial streams are now beyond any scope of revival. It is certain that the streams flowing below the Bindal bridge and below the Rispina bridge are dead with all their biodiversity.

From east canal to west canal, Dehradun has no canals. MAD has now resolved that it would not allow those few streams to meet the same fate. Last year in May, they had zeroed in on the Tamsa stream which comes from the Bijapur dam to Dakra and is filled with the filth on the Tapkeshwar temple premises. It is the only stream which is the source of water supply for the town. Concerned over this, MAD volunteers held a mega clean-up drive and an awareness campaign on the premises of the Tapkeshwar temple on May 13 last and collected over 15 quintals of assorted garbage.

On hearing that people continue to pollute the stream, a team of 40 MAD volunteers were back in action yet again today. These included students from Summer Valley School, Brightlands, Doon University, the Dehradun Institute of Technology and Graphic Era University.

The Mahant of the Tapkeshwar temple extended full cooperation and support for this drive and provided them with some spades and also organised tea for young volunteers.

Wearing gloves, gumboots and masks, the youngsters started their work to clean the dried-up stream full of polythene and other pollutants.

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Garbage Disposal Report

A letter that was written to "MUKHYA NAGAR NIGAM ADHIKARI" bY "MADians on April 3, 2013.... 

To 
The Mukhya Nagar Adhikari,
Nagar Nigam,
Dehradun.
SUBJECT: REQUESTING YOUR CONSIDERATION ON MAD’S GARBAGE DISPOSAL REPORT FORWARDED TO YOU BY THE HONORABLE CHIEF MINISTER OF UTTARAKHAND.
Respected Sir,
This is with reference to Making a Difference-By being the Difference (MAD)’s report on the improper garbage disposal system in the city. In January this year, a delegation of Making a Difference volunteers met the Honorable Chief Minister Shri. Bahuguna to submit to him our documented research work on the fast falling hygine levels in the city. This 76 page report which contained all relevant details about over 16 places in DehraDun city which have become garbage hotspots also contained a series of valuable solutions as recommendations for the Government as well as the Municipality to tackle the problems identified and enumerated.
The report was forwarded by the Honorable Chief Minister to the Urban Development Department wide letter VIP(M)/291/XXX-V-1/2013(i) requesting them to evaluate our findings. The same report was then forwarded to you wide letter 386/IV(2)Sh.Vi.-13-02(vividh)/07 by the Department, requesting you to act on the report’s submissions..

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Feed The Needy

I feel really glad sharing this with all.
MAD has come up with something that would bring a real change to the people of Dehradun..and i am sure, to the people of our country as well. After the completion of the clean-up drive next to Krishna Palace, MAD has now decided to switch over their drive and do something that would give a ray of hope and satisfaction to the people who are living ... i am sorry.. it actually who are passing their lives in the slum areas, where they don't have any one who could sit with them and tell them what they would be if given a chance.

Coming back to What difference is gonna be done on 16/12/12 i.e. on Sunday, 16 December 2012.

Sunday Morning at 1045 hrs every MADian is supposed to gather at Astley Hall, Rajpur Road (Dehradun, Uttarakhand). Everyone is appealed to get Aloo ke Parantheys with them, i would request all that you may get any thing that you think would be useful for them. Its not just about feeding them with food, its just to feed them with their needs. 

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