Wednesday, October 24, 2007

THANKS PRM 25

hi friends,



you all must be reading the mails about our work. may be bored of it .

this mail is not about asking money and helping us financially. its not that i do not need that but its better when we are one to one on net/phone etc.



we are moving on with our dreams to make bihar a developed state. to be frank, initially there was no clue at all what we are going to do with BDT. both of us were clueless. we keep doing what we were getting. so we did the voter awareness programme. very crucial for us. it was our first event and we were shit scared. but it turned out be successful in local context and gave us confidence. then we moved ahead with our vermicompost study for pradan.

the first three months were very crucial as we were uncertain. then it was only prm 25 who supported us financially. you know who gave us money to survive. we were really scared when things stopped after vermicompost study. we were not getting any assignments and were not able to move forward.

we were frozen with fear. it was support of you prm 25 in that crucial time that kept us going. mantri,sandy and pankaj really played a huge role in just keeping me propped up.

they were present physically with me and most of you were on phone with me. thanks a lot for that.

we have done some good work in flood relief due to private bihari efforts. you all must be amazed to know that there are lots of BIHARI e groups who are active a lot and there is support available.



only issue is of trust. slowly slowly i am moving towards gaining the support of key biharis in those e groups . most very professional with all lineage you can think of . they will loosen the purse strings when they gain total confidence on us.



ya issue of fraud and cheater tag do haunted us and hurt us. most of people were too skeptical. there was a case of too gud to be true. here are two people well settled and well educated jumping into murky world of bihar development sector. everything is not good in the world. but world is composed of people like us. its we who make it worse for living and its we who will make it a better place of living. so initial insults and opposition were pouring and again it was prm 25 who was standing with us like pillars.



it was a journey of selfdiscovery for us. our conviction itself was shaky in the beginning and as we are moving on, it has grown a lot and we are becoming convinced that bihar is a oppurtunity waiting to be unfolded. the hidden half lotus of IRMA will unfold before your eyes. just keep supporting and watching us. so we are moving ahead. each day our conviction gets increase by gettings mails from unknown people who wants to contribute and support us.unknown people whom i have never met have helped us then more than few of friends whom i knew. there is a guy named varun who shared his first salary after joining as MT in tata chemicals. his innocent trust touched my heart.

then, there is prm 5 irman, prof raghunath(IITK,IRMA) who listened patiently to me when i visited tapmi. i was amazed and too happy when he told me that he has saved all crap mails that i wrote and was very happy. he said that your BDT is being discussed with great hope among senior IRMANs and we are watching you. Go ahead but be careful. He gave 15000 not as loan but future equity which shows his trust that definitely we will reach the phase when we will incorporate the microfinance operation as NBFC.

Me and dev ji has experienced a personal catharsis and self development over last seven months which has strenghtened the belief in humanity. Lot of good things has been happening and will be happening in near future.

There are talks of incorporating a non profit in USA for fund raising for BDT. so we may be in USA (not physically) by the year 2008.

one more thing, do keep keeping a close watch and criticising us where you know we are making mistakes.

we want to be a total professional transparent organisation which brought the bihar on top with support of not only biharis but fellow indians and yes PRM 25 is going to play a big role in it.



Thnks a lot

luv u all



Ravi Chandra

Dev Kumar Dubey