Bihar Flood Relief – Your Contribution will save life

Bihar is facing its worst ever disaster in recent times and the koshi floods (river of sorrow) has ravaged the lives of millions (almost 50 lakh people) in the state. It’s impossible to even estimate the magnitude of the damage caused, lives that has been lost in the last few days as millions are stranded in marooned areas where no relief effort has reached.

Folks who have been carrying out rescue operations in the state have been in touch and the situation on ground is really heart wrenching. We are trying to supply some relief material and work with the agencies and NGO’s to provide support.

What is our focus?
Our focus is on providing clean water, Life Jacket and Plastic sheet for temporary shelter. Availability of clean drinking water is necessary to prevent any epidemic breakdown. Your donations are required for buying medicines & Plastic. You can also help us in purchasing these medicines by providing contacts.
These medicines will be delivered to Chandan Singh who is part of our team and based out of Patna. Chandan will take care of its further distribution. Distribution will be through some of the good NGOs working in the relief operations.

People behind this initiative
This initiative is driven by people from multiple bihar based groups. We have executed similar projects in past through these yahoo groups. Some of the projects that we have executed in past can be found at http://www.bihari.org/ , http://1bihar.blogspot.com/ & http://coolbihari.blogspot.com/

How these medicines will be distributed?
Last year also the group had worked for the flood relief operation and drive details are available on http://biharfloodrelief.blogspot.com/ .This year’s efforts are updated on http://biharfloodrelief2008.blogspot.com/

Transparency
Your donations will be acknowledged and account statements will be published regularly, you can track the development by this blog. Donations collected and purchases done will be displayed & it will be updated regularly.

How to transfer donation?

There are three ways you can support the flood relief activity.

1) By sending your donation to below account numbers. The funds collected will be used to purchase necessary items (Our team working at ground zero keep sending us list of items which they need for flood relief work). Items thus purchases are send to Chandan who is leading the efforts from Patna.

Online –Transfer your donations to ICICI bank
Name: Ashok Kumar Sharma,
A/C Number: 005301022273,
Branch: Jayanagar/Bangalore

ICIC0000053

ICICI BANK LTD

BANGALORE - JAYANAGAR

80-7 ELEPHANT ROCK ROAD 3RD BLOCK JAYANAGAR BANGALORE. 560011

Please mention flood relief and your name in remarks section while transferring funds
Also mention your name in the comments (will help us track).
After transfer send an email with the transfer details to ashok.1857@gmail.com
We will send you a confirmation for the same.
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Sending donations through NGO (Prayaas).
Institutional Donor and as well as individual can donate via our Sister NGO PRAYAAS
http://www.prayaas.org/

Please mention flood relief and your name in remarks section while transferring fund. Mention your name in the comments (will help us track)
Send an email with details to: Amitesh.Bharti@in.bosch.com
make a CC to: ashok.1857@gmail.com

Account in on the name of: M/S Prayaas
Current Account No. : 10447347087
Bank Address : State Bank of India, Indiranagar, Bangalore
Bank Code : 3301
IFSC code: SBIN0003301
Routing Number (Swift No.) : SBI NIN BB 147A
MICR number : 560002021

Prayaas Official Address:
Mr. Amitesh Bharti,Prayaas(r),
C1-201, GreenWood Regency,Doddakannahalli village,Carmelaram
PO, Adj. Wipro,Sarjapur Road,Bangalore – 560035, India.

If you want to send a cheque/DD:Please send the crossed A/c Payee cheque in favour of,"SBI, A/c Prayaas, Current A/c No. 10447347087"

Donar seeking Tax exemption under section 80G, please donate via PRAYAAS
The certificate & the receipt of your contribution will be dispatched by Prayaas. To get the certificate & the receipt of your contribution, Please email your name and address along with detail of your contribution to Amitesh at Amitesh.Bharti@in.bosch.com
make a CC to: ashok.1857@gmail.com

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2) We keep updating our blog for the list of items which are required at ground zero. You can buy those items and send them directly to Chandan and his team.

You can find the contact details of our team in the blog. Feel free to ask them how you can send relief materials directly to Chandan and his team.

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3) Sending money directly to CHIEF MINISTER RELIEF FUND.

Bihar Chief Minister Relief Fund
Write a cheque to
A/C Name: "Chief Minister Relief Fund, Bihar"
A/C No: 10839124928
Bank: State Bank of India, Secretariat Branch, Patna.
Branch Code: 153
Address: 'SINCHAI BHAWAN'
City/State: PATNA, BIHAR
Pincode: 800015
Swift Code: SBININBB156
IFSC Code: SBIN0000153
Phone: (0612) 2206684, 2224889
Email: sbi.00153@sbi.co.in
Put your Phone number, name and address on the back of the cheque.Deposit the cheque to the nearest State Bank of India cheque drop box
Disaster relief State Control Room Number:: 91-612-2217305/2215027/6452572

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NOTE: Kindly note that any left over money (In case we are not able to spend donated money) will be send to CM Relief fund. All donors will be updated accordingly when we decide to send money to CM Relief Fund.

Bihar Chief Minister Relief Fund

Write a cheque to
AA/C Name: "Chief Minister Relief Fund, Bihar"
A/C No: 10839124928
Bank: State Bank of India, Secretariat Branch, Patna.
Branch Code: 153
Address: 'SINCHAI BHAWAN'
City/State: PATNA, BIHAR
Pincode: 800015
Swift Code: SBININBB156
IFSC Code: SBIN0000153
Phone: (0612) 2206684, 2224889
Email: sbi.00153@sbi.co.in
Put your Phone number, name and address on the back of the cheque.
Deposit the cheque to the nearest State Bank of India cheque drop box.

NGO PRAYAAS

http://www.prayaas.org/

Institutional Donor and as well as individual can donate via our Sister NGO PRAYAAS

Please mention flood relief and your name in remarks section while transferring funds Please mention your name in the comments (will help us track) Send an email with details to: Amitesh.Bharti@in.bosch.com also make a CC to: ashok.1857@gmail.com

http://www.prayaas.org/donation.php

Account in on the name of: M/S Prayaas
Current Account No. : 10447347087
Bank Address : State Bank of India, Indiranagar, Bangalore
Bank Code : 3301
IFSC code: SBIN0003301
Routing Number (Swift No.) : SBI NIN BB 147A
MICR number : 560002021

Prayaas Official Address:
Mr. Amitesh Bharti
Prayaas(r)
C1-201, GreenWood Regency
Doddakannahalli village,
Carmelaram PO, Adj. Wipro
Sarjapur Road,
Bangalore - 560035
India

If you want to send a cheque/DD:
Please send the crossed A/c Payee cheque in favour of,
"SBI, A/c Prayaas, Current A/c No. 10447347087"

Tax exemption under section 80G
Donors in India can get tax exemption under section 80G, the certificate & the receipt of your contribution will be dispatched by Prayaas. To get the certificate & the receipt of your contribution, Please email your name and address along with detail of your contribution to Amitesh at Amitesh.Bharti@in.bosch.com

also make a CC to ashok.1857@gmail.com

Help Bihar Flood Victims

Help for Bihar Flood Victims
Contact
Vivek Kumar
Hyderabad
Email: vivek.learner@gmail.com

Chandan Singh
Patna
Mob: 9931763070
Email :csingh@gmail.com

You can contact Chandan for any operation support .
24 hour helpline at Patna
91-612 6450916
Mr. Rajkumar will answer calls in absence of Chandan

Red Cross Patna

You can donate cash, food items, and other items like bed-sheets and blankets
Those who wanted to contribute towards the relief operation, they could directly contact Red Cross Patna officials at following numbers:
9234741100,
9334102385,
9334102385,
9334172767,
9931705627,

0612- 2201035, and 0612-2234869 to make a pledge

You can send Relief Material to Red Cross, Patna at following address:

Mr. S.P. Singh, IAS (Retd.)
Honorary Director
Bihar State Branch
Indian Red Cross Society
North of Gandhi Maidan
Patna - 800001
Phone No: 0612 -2201035/6/7; 2226267

Beneficiary Name: I R C S Bihar State Branch.

(I R C S stands for Indian Red Cross Society)

A/C Number : 10217217506

Bank : State Bank of India

Branch : Raj Bhawan

IFS Code : SBIN0006917

URL: http://www.indianredcross.org/east-india.html

Venus in the daytime..

Make love..with forest... stop logging, start....

....get the drift ?

This is 'knotty' stuff...gud work :)

Bihar floods

Environmental awareness camp, sasaram

Gidar / Siyar killings ..why ?

We are driving down the Ara-Vikramganj road. Its been raining.. a lot. Looks like the area has been receiving a lot of rainfall.

The fields look flooded... water level almost kissing the embankment.

We cross what looks like a road kill.. dead dog…looks like a dead dog.

But I know it aint…just know.


We stop & reverse.


It’s a wild jackal or “siyar” (Canis aureus)

The poor thing had been killed somewhere else and thrown on the highway. Its hind legs had been tied, a tell tale patch of skin is amiss from his left chest.. and a deep gash underneath it ..I had some of these medicinal kills as a young boy in munger.

That was.. like ages ago.

Shit.

So this fckuing practice of killing these wild jackals to cure eczema is still alive.

I feel like puking.

This poor creature must have been trapped and killed.

Killed cause of the folklore that thrusting ur eczema infected hand in the chest of a juvenile jackal is going to cure it.



That’s just one of the causes that folks around kill a jackal ..

They are also killed to get what folks call " siyar singhi" "Siyar" (Jackal) does not have horns. But a small bunch of hair with horn emerges from its forehead when it hoots facing downwards. This is called "Siyar Singhi".If "Siyar Singhi" is kept in the house, it is said to ward off evil spirits, bestow good luck and wealth, help overcome enemies, and achieve success in law suits. It is always kept in vermillion (Sindoor) in a silver box in the pooja room. Its hair grows automatically. ..a part of the animal that is supposed to increase the inflow of wealth into one dwelling.

That " siyar singhi" is supposedly present only on alpha males of the pack.
But to sell fake " siyar singhi" you have to have a jackals carcass and some halfcooked hard seller to sell.

Do not but any of these sickening stuff please.

Tell them to shove it up.

Will help the cause immensely.

Rajgir

The Cobra; Naja naja

Bloodsucker portrait

Bloodsucker portrait, originally uploaded by scorius.

Indian Garden Lizard, locally known as "Girgit"
Photographed at Boring Road, Patna

Butterfly

Transformation from a small larva to a
large butterfly..

• Timeline 21 days
• No of subjects :8
• Hatched :one,

Giant Swallowtail butterfly(Papilio
cresphontes)

In its early stages, the larva looks like
a bird dropping. to evade its predators..

..after its first molting. it turns into a better looking caterpillar..having huge false eyes on its upper side to evade predators. its real eyes are much below..near its mouth.It sticks out its antennae when threatened,and its a pretty uncommon sight...but my caterpillar showed its red feelers to me..and I captured them..

This changes into a large caterpillar..this creature has grown over 3000 times its initial size....


The mature caterpillar transforms into a pupae..

..and finally emerges our as a beautiful butterfly..

Seven more pupae will mature by this weekend..hopefully I can photograph them all :)

Spring bloom..

Resurgent Bihar-NRB meet.

'Gauravshali Bihar'

ग़ौरवशाली बिहार

One of the best projects that I have been associated with.It was a challenging but highly satisfying job. The book is an example of how the world has indeed become flat. The only thing you need is the determination to pursue your goals, and all other things seem to fall into place. As said by Paulo Coelho in his bestseller The Alchemist ''If you want something real bad..the whole world conspires to get you that''.

The book is out in the market and for sale. The price of this a4 size 225 page book is Rs.390(in India) and US $ 19.00( outside India). You can place an order for the same by sending an Order Email or by visiting this website and ordering from there.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !

Patna..as u circle down..

Gandhi maidan,Maurya hotel, biscoman, gol ghar...

 

Patna, as you circle down..

The vast vast ganges..gandhi maidan, gol ghar and S.k. Memorial hall..