Spreading Patriotism

Spreading Patriotism with human virtue now the need of the hour
Prabhakar JP
In the fast moving world, there are very few people who spare their valuable time for the social cause. Even, most of the people are very much pre-occupied with their own works and hardly get time to socialise and devote time for others. Here is a man in his early 50s Prabhakar JP, a resident of Chiranjiv Vihar, who is on a mission to spread patriotism among the people of all age groups. He uses his own methodologies to educate people by emphasising the need to follow Indian culture.

Respect Indian Values
Prabhakar JP has very valid reason for that. "If a foreigner never hesitates to follow his culture then why should we as Indians be ashamed of following our own values and traditions? We should speak English wherever it is necessary and prefer to talk in Hindi because it's our national language," he added. He feels that if one wants to do something for the society he doesn't need extra time but the most important thing is time-management. "You plan your daily engagement in a way that you get time for other things. I am associated with Central Excise and Service Tax Ghaziabad as a consultant despite that I do lot of things for the society. I am associated with a number of institutions and take part in all the activities. As a member of all the institutions wherever I go I try to create awareness among the masses about education, national feelings, Indian culture, civic sense and traffic sense," he informed.

Educating the deprived
This social worker is associated with the organisations like Bharat Vikas Parishad, All India Management Association, Poorvanchal Samajik Avam Kalyan Samiti, Lions Club and TULSI (Traffic-Transport and Urban Life System Improvement Institution) and many more. He shared that under the different forums he does different activities. "Under Bharat Vikas Parishad, I am imparting free education to maid children, rickshaw pullers and labourers in Raj Nagar. While educating the children my emphasis is to spread patriotism among youngsters. Even, personally I visit various schools in Ghaziabad and address the assembly session highlighting the need to be more patriotic because each one's success depends on the success of the country. I also try my best to satisfy the queries of students. I feel that they must be given proper answers otherwise they will never get motivated," he felt.

Creating awareness
When asked what the responses of the people in and around him are, Prabhakar JP said, "If you are on a social mission, you should be ready to hear criticisms as well as acclamations. I have to hear both. But such criticisms will never obstruct me from my path. For creating awareness, I don't need an assembly or conference; I do it in parks or in a small group of people. I usually tell people to do little bit extra things apart from their primary job. Initially, people look at me differently but after sometimes they realise the need and appreciate my efforts."

Inculcating traffic sense
The one most important thing that he undertakes is creating awareness among the students and the common men about the traffic sense. "The regular accidents on roads really frustrate me. The reason for road accidents is not that the roads are very shorter and the number of vehicles has increased. Such things are happening because the motorists are not following the traffic rules. They lack traffic sense. I visit the schools and informed the students that as they need Roti (bread), Kapada (clothes), Makan (House), they also need Sadak (Road). So, behave well on the roads. We take them on the roads so that they can see physically how the traffic norms can be followed.

He is a Gujarati but still prefers to write and speak in Hindi. He said, "As a national language, we should respect it. Besides, I am ready to go anywhere if invited for creating awareness about the patriotism."