Dear friends, 

I am in the final year of petroleum engineering from PDPU, Gandhinagar. I have my ambitions in business and social work. I want to help the poor and rural population of India to raise their life standard. I spend lot of my time contemplating over new and sustainable ideas that can be applied for the batterment of poor and uneducated indians.

I want you to have a concern over the point mentioned below.

I think the reason of being poor, uneducated and unemployed is the lack of awareness in people. In India we have lots of opportunities but we dont have the proper awareness.

for exa:

My university has been established near the Raisan village, gandhinagar. Many times I have seen so many children (upto the age of 12 to 14 or 15) consuming some form of tobbaco. They are going to schools too. For consuming tobbaco, they get punishments from their parents as well as their faculties but still continuing the addiction.

Now you emagine how many such poor and uunawared children would be there in all over Gujarat. From their child hood they are using some form of "NASHA". By the time this habbit will become the addiction and that person wont be able to have a happy and satisfactory life. This problem which seems to be some what personal type is not just that because ultimately it influences the society in terms of health concerns, unemployment, robbery and other tough stuffs. Lot many zones of society are there which are very prone to this hazzard.

Government's present efforts are very much sustainable but some little addtions to them could make them the best practises.

I have seen in my college, many of collegemates are indulged with these stuffs because they think that this is the fashion. some times they use to discuss about abstaining all these things but as being very practical towards life I have experienced that these things have only one way journey of startup, hardly anyone can leave them completely. As the India is growing and economy is expanding, the competition is getting tougher day by day. These things gives an easy and lazy approach to a youth.

Up to this point I was reminding you about the problem.

Now I have some of the solutions for it. In this blog my total concern is about the "Children consuming soome form of tobbaco".

In our present education system we dont have any awareness program particualrly towards children health and IF it is there, then it needs some new innovative ideaes, a bit different approach of implementation.

1. "The awareness styles which have been adopted in the hospitals must be adopted in schools and colleges too".

2. We can have such an awareness program with our other health program as "PULSE POLIO ABHIYAN". As already people are going to almost every home specially for children, this is a bit easy approach to make aware them.

3. We can have a startup of a compulsory course which includes all these matters too much then further we can add other cultural problems, terrorism concerns, corruption concerns. This course will be as simple as other courses but it would have a great influence over the things in future.

4. Make aware by using posters and putting the tobbaco consumption hazzards pics at the back of books.

These are just few small ideas but if implemented and given a contemplation, these will definately produce surprising results and will ultimatly satisfy us with the thought of "A RESPONSIBLE INDIAN".

If A child at his 8 year age goes through all these awareness matters, he will definately have a different approach towards life and will be able to seperate the right or wrong. This will not only be profitable in terms of health concerns but will also have a gr8 effect on basic psychology of youth which is presently going towards western cultural.

We cannot help someone personally if he/she is addicted but being a responsible citizen of India, I feel we can protect the coming generation from these life hazards by awaring them at their age of learning and understanding the world.

Akshat Gupta

BTECH PETROLEUM ENGINEERING,PDPU.