(THE ULTIMATE TRUTH PREACHING MISSION)
Society Registration No : SR/MZ-86 of 29.03.2000.
FCRA Registration No. : 304340003
ANNUAL REPORT
2013-2014
THE ULTIMATE TRUTH PREACHING MISSION
Contact Address:
Shanti Niketan Bouddha Vihara, Tuichawng,BPO:Tuichawng,Lunglei Dist,Mizoram-796730 Website: www.tutpm.org
E-mail: esdip@hotmail.com
Mobile: 9863873175/9612602899
ANNUAL REPORT
[The Ultimate Truth Preaching Missim] 2013-2014
INTRODUCTION :
The Ultimate Truth Preaching Mission (TUTPM) has emerged in the year 1999 to serve the poor, rural and tribal people of Mizoram and especially to the chakma people. The initiatives was taken by a few educated chakma youths, who have completed their education but decided to organize the poor rural and needy chakma people initially within the Lunglei District and later move out from the district boundaries and covered entire state of Mizoram.
These youths have also contacted the elders and priests of the Santi Niketan Bouddha Vihara for guidance and later decided to form an association of people to transfer their thoughts into practical implementation. Therefore, the youth group has involved few more motivated and experienced persons in the team and thereby decided the name of the Association as THE ULTIMATE TRUTH PREACHING MISSION(TUTPM) and thereby applied for registration under section XXI of societies Registration Act 1960 and got desired legal status for introducing planned development initiatives for extending organised development actions under the stated banner of the Mission.
The Registrar, Societies Registration Act 1860 was kind enough to register the Mission on 29th March 2000 and since then the Mission is actively engaged in extending its various developmental services for the promotion of the needy, poor, rural and tribal people of Mizoram by putting special focus on the development of the youths & women of the chakma tribes in its operations.
Therefore, the Mission is basically represents the voice of the poor, needy rural and tribal people, especially the chakma tribes of Tuichawng area of Lungsen Rural Development Block. The Mission is now fully engaged in the process of establishing some common development plat form on which community based welfare and development activities may be performed like social, economic and other welfare oriented interventions.
In this direction, the Mission interested in organizing the poor, needy, deprived, rural and tribal people with special focus on the chakma tribes in its operational areas and also wants to provide necessary supports and services for their social, economic and cultural up-liftment. It also interested to assist for their total empowerment to have a peaceful & harmonious life-style.
The Mission has started introducing its development activities on low-scale and based on the resource mobilized from and within the communities. The promotional efforts of the Mission was came into light when it has successfully supported few students and provided support for some welfare activities for the needy, poor, rural and tribal people and made them visible before the community.
Later, the community has started more and more such activities by mobilizing the resources from the community.
Now, majority of its developmental activities are always be suggested by the community with due consideration of their actual needs and the Mission utilizes its
human resources for their proper executions. The Ultimate Truth Preaching Mission has become established as a community based development institution after facing lots of troubles and difficulties to get accepted and extends its services after mobilizing required resources from the community.
Therefore, the Mission is now representing a complete democratic platform for the development of the people, which in other words quoted like By the people, For the people. The community stands for the Mission and the Mission stands for community based development actions and has reached the stage to achieve this status by standing for each others on development.
However, to balance its development interventions, the Mission has started some specialized skills-upgradation trainings for the rural and tribal people interested to undertake some feasible income generation activities as a part of their self-employment towards ensuring a regular income for adoption of a life-style and move towards their sustainable livelihoods.
The Mission therefore, started organizing some vocational training with major emphasis on skill-upgradation, management and marketing of their finished products to have reasonable income for their labours, time and investment. The Mission has also utilizes its available resources in the form of educated youths to provide coaching to the dropouts and general students for their better education and make them a good citizen of the state and country.
To assist the needy poor, rural and tribal people the Mission has also given its emphasis on health and health related issues and organised its action to generate awareness for having better health and health life. It has also assessed their health problems and started introducing health-camps to assist the patients in the treatments, medicines and other related expenditures. The Mission is also taking initiatives to educate people on taking up preventive measures to avoide large medical expenses, spending time and face problems occurs due to non-availability of finance on income during the particular time.
However, the growing experiences of extending various welfare and developmental activities the Mission have been now enabled to organize its interventions by utilizing professional approaches whenever and wherever it is possible. In accordance to the above, the Mission has decided to set targets oriented development interventions on six strategic and sectoral progrrames as mentioned below.
Educational Programmes.
2. Health Programmes.
3. Environmental Programmes.
4. Livelihood Development Programmes.
5. Women Empowerment Programmes.
6. Religious Programmes.
The Mission has also kept the cultutal programmes separate from its strategic interventions considering this as having no direct relation with the livelihoods development programmes.
Rather, the Mission has decided to focus more on the Women Empowerment Programmes considering it as the lowest and effective ways to
uplift the most deprived community and bring them in the lights of sustainable development. In this direction, the Mission has started organizing women folk inclusive of the chakma and other communitites and decides for undertaking planned development activities.
Therefore, the Mission has started organizing the women groups inclusive of the chakma tribal women in the style of Self-Help-Hroups (SHGS) and imparting vocational and skills trainings for improving their skills. The Mission is also extending its support and services for the women to produce quality products in bulk to have reasonable prices for their efforts.
However, due to lack of financial experiences, the Mission was unable to link these SHGS with credit sources and now the Mission is looking forward to avail some external resources to extend necessary supports to these SHGS for their total empowerment. The external support, the Mission is looking forward is the sponsorship of the Programmes/Schemes either from any Govt department or from any Funding Agencies who are working for the development of the people of Mizoram and encourage Self-Help movement.
The Mission is also interested to organize and re-structure the behaviour and character of the people by giving moral education through religion they believe in order to help them eradicate irrational beliefs & thoughts and keep themselves a lot from antisocial activities encouraging rational beliefs & thoughts to bring peace in them and as well as in the community.
OPERATIONS :
The development operation of The Ultimate Truth Preaching Mission are basically focusing towards education of the needy rural poor, deprived tribal children with special attention to the chakma tribal children and also towards empowerment of the needy rural poor, deprived and tribal people with special attention to chakma tribes and who are interested to stand on their own feet for their sustainable livelihoods.
The Mission is putting all its developmental efforts initially to improve their individual and group skills for adoption of suitable income generation activities to provide alternative means for their sustainable livelihoods development.
STRATEGIES :
The Mission normally adopts its operational strategies for its developmental interventions are based on promotion of social. Economic and educational development with special emphasis on giving early child care and education to the underprivileged poor chakma children and also on skill upgradation using of local materials and resources. And seeking market to sale finished product and extends required support services to have better health, environment for peaceful and harmonious livings. It also promotes sectoral interventions with the activities related to the health, education, environment and livelihoods.
INTERVENTIONS :
The Mission organizes its developmental interventions to achieve its sets target by utilizing its adopted strategies in following six sectoral activities.
Educational Programmes.
b) Health Programmes.
c) Environmental Programmes.
d) Livelihood Development Programmes.
e) Women Empowerment Programmes.
f) Religious Programmes.
More details of these planned development initiatives are placed here.
PROGRAMME & ACTIVITIES :
1. Education Programmes:
The Ultimate Truth Preaching Mission feels that, spreading education is one of the most important activities under its developmental interventions. The education programmes play a greater role in human life and helps in creation of various development opportunities among the tribals and children.
Since the Mission is focusing towards working for the tribals and children in the rural areas for their upliftment. This education programmes of the Mission gets high priority for implementation then any other development programmes as it considers the involvements of the nation building process.
Therefore, the education programmes of the Mission is comprise of three types of activities :-
Running of the AHIMSA SCHOOL .
Coaching for drop-outs in secondary level.
Coaching for poor & needy students in elementary level and providing of books & prizes to the meritorious students.
Ahimsa School. : The Ahimsa School is run smoothly. The enrolment of the school has gone upto 70 in this academic year from classes K.G.-1 to class-iv. Four teachers and one peon-cum chowkidar have been providing voluntary services with a very small honourarium. The school building has been constructed with pucca structure with the donation received from Mr. Mahendra Sagar of India Charitable Foundation and Dr. Sachi G. Dastidar of Probini Foundation. Toilets for both boys & girls also constructed separately. A retaining wall spending more than Rs. 80,000/- has been constructed as foundation of the school.
(ii) Coaching for the drops-out :
The objectives of the coaching for drop-out students by the Mission is mainly to spread the education among the poor, rural and tribal students have tried their best for acquiring education but due to some reasons unable to continue their studies in school and drop-out. The Mission considers this is a responsibility of their educated youths to help these drop-out students to continue their studies by overcoming their respective problems and get educated for their better future.
Since the Mission is engaged in various development programmes in the village areas, it also collects information about those students are not going their regular school for education. Later, the Mission
discussed with both parents & students together and then brings them at coaching centre to help in reducing gap in their studies to enable them to go to schools.
This year, the Mission has enrolled 34 drop-out students in its three coaching centres from eight different villages and 40 students are successfully sent back in their schools for continue of their studies.
(iii) Coaching (General) :
The objective of running the general coaching centre of the Mission is to help the needy poor, rural students in their studies. This programme is generally meant for extending required support services for spreading of education among the school going children/students.
The Mission runs these coaching centres considering the needs of the students and period and frequencies of these coaching are depend upon the requirements of the students. To run these coaching centres, the Mission takes support from the community to spare the accommodation for the coaching centres and the educated youths of the Mission are volunteering for extending the coaching for the needy poor school going children.students.
This year, the Mission has successfully run five such free coaching centres to cover 51 students from class ii to class viii from six neighbouring villages of its operational areas. The Mission also organises programmes and activities both to help the needy poor students with books and prizes for continuation of their studies.
(iv) Legal Awareness :
The Mission emphasis on generation of legal awareness among the common people, educate people for realizing the needs of right information to stop unwanted quarrels in the family, community and have life with dignity. This will not only stop getting exploited but also to stop exploit others. The impact of the programme was visualize to people one step ahead to know things first and start taking action to reduce normal quarrels/exploitation.
2. HEALTH PROGRAMMES :
The objective of the health programmes of The Ultimate Truth Preaching Mission is to have better health and befit for working to earn livelihoods for him/her self and for their respective families. The major components of the health programmes are devided the two forms of services as stated below:
(a) Awareness Generation Programmes:
Awareness Generation on various health aspects with diseses, their symtoms and information of their preventive measure before they severly attack human life and cause huge medical expenses. The Mission therefore organises these AGPs on health aspects in the remote villages to educate the tribal people with major focus on the women folk.
The Mission organizes special awareness drives on health for the children to educate them, their mothers/parents/families to know about early action to stop spreading of such diseses and speedy recovery.
Some of those common diseses affecting people are malaria, diarrhea, gastric, anaemia, asthma and skin diseses. The medical team also suggested some preventive measures to be adopted. The health AGPs helps the people to know the symptoms of these diseses to enable them to take immediate medical attention for their family members and reduce the possibilities of larger health disorder and enable the patients to get speedy recovery over the disease.
(b) Health Camps :
Helath Camps for free health checkup for the poor patients resides to remote areas and unaware of the modern medical facilities and services. The other motto to organize these health camps is to convey the message of medical facilities and services available for the poor patients from various governments and these patients must avail such services for their better health and healthy family life.
Therefore, this year, the Mission has organized five such health camps in five remote villages of its operational areas and able to extend its medical services over two hundred eighty patients during the year as mentioned below:-
Sl.No.Name of VillagesDate of CampPatients Attended01.Tuichawng04.07.2013.6002.Tuichawngchhuah08.09.2013.4003.Bawrkawl10.10.2013.3504.Siminasora06.01.2013.6205.Matrisora05.02.2013.45TOTAL PATIENTS TREATED=242
3. ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMMES:
The Mission organizes its environment development programmes with the objectives to have green surroundings and protect environment from its destroy. Since inception, the Mission is taking its regular initiatives for promotion and protection of environment as part of its social responsibilities.
The Mission therefore, has tried to organize its environment interventions in two basic
programmes as below :
(i) Awareness Generation Programme on Environment: The Mission has organized environment awareness camps in six separate villages and ten schools to educate the common people and school going children for having minimum knowledge on environment. The ignorance of the people on environment has led them towards misusing the valuable natures gifts without knowing their values.
The Mission wants to educate people on environment and enable them to take necessary action to protect environment for having healthy lives. The Mission also has organized public meetings, cleanliness-drives and also discussed environment in some specialized meeting organized for these purposes.
(ii) Plantation of Evergreen Trees : The Mission has undertaken planting of evergreen trees in the villages of its operational areas for having a green Mizoram. It has planted more than 300 ( three hundred ) evergreen trees in the villages Tuichawng, Tuichawngchhuah, Bawrkawl, Siminasora and Matrisora during the last year. People cuts trees for their needs but never think to replace them by planting a new one. Therefore, to ensure availability of the evergreen trees to help the villages have better environment and better lives, the Mission has taken this initiatives.
4. LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES :
The Ultimate Truth Preaching Mission considers livelihood development interventions is one of the most important activities for economic upliftment. The Mission therefore, introduced The Chakma Tribal Handicrafts Project with its cluster headquarters at Tuichawng, in 2011 and placed the same before the Development Commissioner, Handicrafts, Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India, New Delhi through proper channel. The Developemnt Commissioner was pleased to approve the Project.
The Mission had already received the re-imbursement amount of Rs. 84,531/- for 15 days Design & Technical Development Workshop conducted in January 2012 and Rs. 90,500/- for Baseline survey for formation & mobilization of 88 SHGs conducted from January to March 2012 in the month of july 2013 and has utilized the amount properly for which it was sanctioned.
The Mission has conducted 2 (two) 15 days Design & Technical Development Workshops in February 2014 in Tribal Textiles and Dry Flower crafts and which was sponsored by the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts) Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India, New Delhi.
In which 15 prototypes (2 sets of each) have been developed by 60 artisans (30 srtisans for each workshop) under the supervision of the appointed Designers. Mr. Darduna S.D.O. (civil) Tlabung, Lunglei District, Mizoram was invited as Chief Guest to inaugurate the workshop and Miss. Jagyaswory Devi Handicrafts Promotion Officer, Office of the Development
Commissioner (Handicrafts) Marketing & Service Extension Centre, Zohanco Building, Chaltlang Aizawl attend as Guest of Honour to have inspection of the work carried out in the workshop.
5. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMMES :
The women empowerment programmes of The Ultimate Truth Preaching Mission are exclusive development initiatives to promote the poor and tribal women interested to stand on their feet. The Mission mainly focused on provide them basic guidance and direction to regain their due rights in the society and thereby get their social and economic status in the respective village, community and society.
The Mission is therefore, initiated its actions to undertake some exclusive activities for organizing the poor women inclusive of young girls who have been left by their husbands and are in search of their livelihoods.
The Mission is trying to provide some economic activities based on their existing skills and capacity for starting income generation activities to earn their total empowerment.
The women are basically manages their respective families within available and limited resources and tries to satisfy all the family members and the Mission has decided to use this management capacities for their development and provide them suitable means and platform for their right growth.
Therefore, the Mission has started its development interventions in different ways as mentioned below.
(a) Awareness Campaign on AAM ADMI BIMA YOJONA:
The Mission in collaboration with the Life Insurance Corporation of India, Aizawl Branch, have conducted Awareness Programmes in the villages Tuichawng, Samuksury, Ugudasury, Tuikawi, Malsury and Bindya Sora on AAM ADMI BIMA YOJONA and enrolled 105 members to get benefits by their families at the events of
their death.
(b) Promotion of Self-Help-Groups (SHGS) :
The 44 (forty four) SHGs formed earlier are given good guidance and supervision inorder to keep the SHGs active. The SHGs are working hard to stand on their own feet. They are asked to participate in the Design & Technical Development Workshops and skill upgradation training conducted by the Mission from time to time for upgradation of their skills in the crafts they have been practicing. Now, they have started to make good quality of products which are sold in the local market at a reasonable price. The women are helping their husbands to bring sustainable livelihood of their family. Their small income really help to support their families.
The 44 (forty four) SHGs formed earlier are given below:-
Sl.
No.Name of SHGSAddress of the SHGSMembersSaving
PmMajor Activities1.JironiTuichawngchhuah1330/-Tribal Textile2.LagorsomarBelpei (Matisora)1330/-Tribal Textile3.RongsongyeBelpei (Matisora)1330/-Tribal Textile4.RizumTuichawng1430/-Artistic Textile5.MalokkiTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile6.SamanTuichawng1330/-Artistic Textile7.LungokTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile8.SadakTuichawng1330-Artistic Textile9.SajoniTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile10.ZuniTuichawng1330/-Artistic Textile11.JunoporBelpei (Matisora)1330/-Dry flower12.HabilTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile13.Jimit JamatBelpei (Matisora)1330/-Tribal Textile14.SalamTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile15.SuktaraTuichawng1330/-Artistic Textile16.DonsombodTuichawng1330/-Dry flower17.GobinTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile18.RajnuniTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile19.JoljollyaTuichawng1330/-Dry flower20.RanjoniTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile21.Joli udokTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile22.MiloniTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile23.SahajiBelpei (Matisora)1330/-Tribal Textile24.PorsodokBelpei (Matisora1330/-Tribal Textile25.KemotaloyBelpei (Matisora)1330/-Tribal Textile26.SawzaakBelpei (Matisora) 13 30/-Artistic Textile27.PogodhangTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile28.Ribeng KudoBelpei (Matisora)1330/-Tribal Textile29.Potpottya PawrBelpei (Matisora)1330/-Tribal Textile30.RegaTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile31.AjarBelpei (Matisora)1330/-Tribal Textile32.Cit DigolTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile33.RanjuniTuichawngchhuah1330/-Tribal Textile34.Satbon TaraTuichawng1330-Tribal Textile35.KushiBelpei (Matisora)1330/-Tribal Textile36.SujukBelpei (Matisora)1330/-Artistic Textile37.AlaamTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile38.KusiTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile39.TriratnaTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile40.Jalat BorTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile41.SombolTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile42.UnnotiTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile43.PhorTuichawng1330/-Tribal Textile44.GozenTuichawng1330/-Tribal TextilePage-11
6. RELIGIOUS PROGRAMMES :
The Ultimate Truth Preaching Mission, feels that the poor Chakma Tribal People are not yet familiar with the ultimate reality of nature ( SADHAMMA) and its happenings around them. Due to this ignorance they still practice in some irrational beliefs and faiths which are very old outdated concepts. Their habits & customs are not at all match with the ultimate reality preached by the Buddha and also does not match with the modern world. To bring them into light all these irrational beliefs & faiths needed to be eradicated from their mind. Therefore, the Mission believe that it is possible through religion, and the Mission is firmly determined to make them familiar with the ultimate reality-the four noble truth taught by the Buddha 2600 years ago-The sufferings, arising of sufferings. Once they become familiar, they will immedicately change their mind and will try to root out the irrational beliefs & faiths from their mind and thereby start adaption of rational beliefs and thoughts and gradually they will be able to come out of these ignorance and be focus in the light of modern world to undertake activities of rational beliefs & faiths and soon shall be enable to develop themselves socially, economically and educationally. The Mission therefore undertake the following Religious Interventions :
(a) Running of Shanti Niketan Bouddha Vihara :
The Mission, since its establishment have been giving its full supports & services in running the Bouddha Vihara. An efficient monk is appointed as Viharadhyaksha
( Princilpal) to preach the four Noble Truth taught by the Buddha who along with his disciples who teach and propogate the poor tribal chakma Buddhist people to adopt rational beliefs & thoughts in them.
Perfoming of Buddha Puja :
Buddha puja is performed in every fullmoon days in the Vihara where most of
the chamkma Buddhist people participate andhave dhamma talks from the monks.
(c) Perfoming of Khatin Cibor Dhana :
The Buddhist Tribal people perform the Khatin Cibor Dhana Function (the hard way to give monks robes) once a year in the monk last week of October and upto 2nd week of November. In this function a large number of Buddhist Tribal Chakma people participate from the neighbouring Villages. They bring offer (Dhana) for the Bhikkhu Sanghas (Order of monks )according to their ability and earn countless merrits (Punya) by offerings and hearing Dhamma discourses preach by the monks. This function continues 3 to 4 days.
Gana Sramana Programmes ( Mass Ordination of Novice Monks:
This programme is held once in three or four years. Gana sramana means mass ordination of novice monks.
In this programme a large number of tribal Buddhist people from far and nearcom and take ordination for a period of 7 or 9 days.
Buddhist scholars monks from India and abroad are invited in this programme who continuously preach the four Noble Truth and Noble eight fold path to the novice monks and lay devotees who very patiently and attentively listen discourses and earn knowledges of ultimate reality and adopt rational beliefs and thoughts which is very beneficial for their maternal spiritual development.
FUTURE PLANS:
The Ultimate Truth Preaching Mission always tries to undertake need based planned interventions together with community. Since major development resourses are coming mainly from the community. It considered the needy rural poor and tribal people as its target people for introduction of various development initiatives under six sectoral programmes and activites as below:
Education Programme:
The mission will continue to run the Ahimsa English School upgrade the
same from elementary to higher secondary status since the local are giving supports to it. The mission will try to find doner from within India and abroad to get sponsore for the extention of school building. The mission will also give its full efforts to build and run Hostel for the poor and deprived Children to provide them free and quality education. It will also help them in building of good character and positive thinking the mission will also continue its coaching felicitation programmes for the general and drop out students.
Health Programmes :
The Mission is continue with both awareness generation, preventive
measures and organizing practical health camps to help the needy poor patients for their better health. The Mission is looking for more resources for organizing such health camps and opening of a health clinic in future and actively in search of them.
Environment Programmes :
The Mission is interested to introduce awareness generation and plantation activities more planned manner. It also trying to organize in such a manner that, it can able to provide a regular earnings to the poor people.
(d) Livelihoods Programmes :
The Mission is interested to introduce area-based or cluster based development programmes for planned interventions for better livelihoods of the poor and tribal people with special focus on the chakma tribes.
The Mission wants to put more emphasis on the agriculture, service, handloom and hadicrafts based activities both for individual and group initiatives.
The Mission has submitted proposals for 10 (ten) skill-upgradation trainings and 5 (five) Design & Technical Development Workshop to the Development Commissioner Handicrafts, Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India, New Delhi who has given assurance to sponsore the said interventions to cover 350 artisans. The Mission will start implementating the same as soon as grant-in-aid is allotted.
(e) Women Empowerment Programmes :
The Mission is interested to introduce both short and long term developmental programmes and activities for the promotion of the women specially the tribal women of its operational areas.
The Mission is also interested to take help of the Self-Help-Group concept to organize the women and thereby lead them for their social and economic-upliftment. The Mission tries to introduce a series of development activities in the area that can help them to become self-sufficient and have better life-style.
(g) Religious Programmes :
The Mission desires to organize more function, seminars etc. for the poor chakma tribal Buddhist people to enable them eradicate or root out irrational beliefs & faiths from their mind and help them adopt rational beliefs & thoughts and develop good character and enjoy a righteon way of life-a purposeful Buddhist way of life. The Mission is also looking for resources to build pagodas, stupas and Bouddha Viharas in the coming years.
