To mark the 58^th Republic Day 2007 Urban Development Department, Ranchi Municipal Corporation and Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra jointly showcased their achievements as colorful Jhanki and marched across the Morabadi ground, Ranchi on 26^th January’07. His Excellency The Governor-Jharkhand State Janab Syed Sibte Razi Saheb ensured his presence as “Guard of the Honour” during the Republic Day Function. The Jhanki mainly outlaid the theme “Public-Private Partnership” through its Clean Jharkhand Project “A Community Based Solid Waste Management Programme”. It displayed the various  aspects  towards  proper  way  of  Solid   Waste

Management such as doorstep collection of waste, transportation, waste disposal, resource recovery and awareness generation to community & school children. Apart from this the projected model plan of the city centre in Ranchi including the establishment of market complex and Indoor stadium was also demonstrated in the Jhanki.

Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra being empanelled as consultant to Solid Waste Management by Urban Development Department of Jharkhand State took the task of preparing Detailed Project Report (DPR) on Solid Waste Management for Hazaribagh, Chas & Lohardaga Municipality in the month of October-Novemeber’06. The preparation of DPR involved three phases. The first phase focused on field research and preparation of inception report, the second phase was ground truthing i.e. to share the findings with the municipal staffs and preparation of Preliminary Project Report (PPR) & third phase included conducting stakeholder workshop and submission of DPR. The Detailed Project Report has been submitted in Hazaribagh Municipality on 23^rd January’07 and Chas Municipality on 27^th January’07.

In compliance to the Resolution of recently held meeting of District Advisory Committee (PNDT) in Gumla, a District Level Sensitization workshop was organized, which was attended by DC, DDC, SDO, LRDC cum DSO/DPRO and all BDOs, CDPOs and BSSs on 31st January 2007.

In this workshop, an action plan has been worked out, in context of achieving 100 % Birth Registration across the district and preparing community for discouraging sex determination leading to female foeticide. This action plan has a deadline to achieve the portrayed milestones i.e. March 31, 2007 which was ordered to be followed strictly. To achieve this targeted deadline, Kopal Project did commitment to support the district in desirable IEC activities and capacity building of personnel in collaboration of district administration. Further a massive drive would be launched to target the sa me through line department in collaboration of Kopal Project across the district from 15t^h February to 15^th March 2007. This drive would be reviewed immediately after its accomplishment. To succeed this campaign, team of man power to be utilized would be local welfare personnel, local Community Based Organization, Block officers and PRI members along with persons from education stream.
 

Jharkhand posts a declining Female - Male ratio. Use of modern technology has made pre-birth sex determination and selection easier. Organization's Kopal program is a campaign against female foeticide. Doctors, government officials and local community are regularly mobilized to curb the vice. Aim is to raise the level of awareness on evils of female infanticide and work at policy level for proper implementation of Pre-conception and Pre-natal diagnostic Techniques Act of 1994 that prohibits use of ultrasound technology to determine sex of the foetus.

Mr. V. Nagrajan paid visit to NBJK with an objective to provide consultancy on development of standard accounting system. In this regard he had initial round of discussions with Mr. Girija Satish, Executive Director, NBJK and concerned organizational staff.

Name of Ms. Jasmine Pavri, Program Officer, Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, also added to this month's visitors list. She visited the organization to monitor the agency funded ongoing project. Both field visit and in house discussions were carried out in this process. Detailed discussions were carried to chalk out future strategies of the project.