Meeting with the Distinguished Leaders of Nagendrapur Gram Panchayat

On 27^th November 2022 Mukti organized a special meeting at Sridharpur village with the distinguished people of the area who have engaged themselves in the development of the area and are participating actively in the service of the people for the past many years.

The meeting was attended by –

Area	Name
Damkal	Haripada Halder, Prasanta Halder, Bhagyadhar Halder, Panchu Halder, Kalidas Halder, SubolBondhopadhay, Iyasim Gazi, Pachugopal Halder
PurbaSridharpur	Motilal Das, Subrata Kumar, Bijoy Krishna Halder, Dulal Mondal, Chittaranjan Halder, Palan Chandra Sarkar, Raghunath Bairagi
Nagendrapur	Palash Halder, Pradip Mondal, Tapas Modal, KalipadaHazra, Subarna Kar
Nagendrapur Keyoratola	Haradhan Moira
Baradanagar	Sushil Jana, DipuBor, Alok Pore
5 areas	24 members

 

In the first part of the discussion at the meeting, various ideas emerged as characteristics of ideal voluntary organizations –

1. Maintain financial transparency in all activities
2. Maintain an attitude of service
3. Stay away from for-profit business
4. Employees of the organization shall not personally engage in any financial corruption
5. An analysis of the actual needs of the area is required before starting work in the area
6. The foresight of the organization
7. Attitude of cooperation
8. Impartiality
9. A clear understanding of equality and fairness
10. Appropriate skills among employees in terms of work
11. Transparency in operations
12. Inclusion – Participation of people from all walks of life in the development process
13. Structured monitoring process

In view of these characteristics, the members present evaluated the work of Mukti and advised Mukti to be more proactive about inclusion and monitoring processes. All attendees present at the meeting agreed that Mukti has been working on all the above characteristics for the past few years.

Areas suggested to increase scope of work in future are –

1. Work on fishermen’s rights
2. Steps to conserve river embankments/plantation of mangroves
3. Action-oriented education
4. Health services development (increased ambulance services)
5. Agricultural development
6. Youth community development

In the second part of the meeting, the essential qualities of an ideal leader were discussed–free of immorality, endurance, non-corrupt, non-partisan, decision maker, has at least minimal education, philanthropic, spends time for social service, democratic awareness, good public relations, prudence, identifies bias, is neutral, loyal to the cause, patriotic, rises above personal criticism, creates leaders and is capable of self-criticism.

That is, in order to be recognized in society as a real leader, an individual, regardless of gender, must possess these qualities. Those who balance these positive traits in themselves are the only ones who are eligible to be selected as people who can create social development. The attendees expressed their desire to be able to select such a leader by exercising their democratic rights in the upcoming elections, for the sake of the development of the villages of the area.

Important note

This message is being disseminated by Mukti to increase awareness among the public. Mukti does not endorse any citation of Mukti’s work for election campaigning. Mukti is a non-political organization whose main objective is to work for the welfare of people and the environment irrespective of caste, religion, caste, group, creed and ideology.