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Monday, October 8, 2012

thanks note from Prasad Joshi

It’s been great to be in Panchgani in this season. Asia Plateau is a most beautiful spot in Panchgani. And five days stay at such place is really heavenly. In this serene surrounding you are allowed to unwind and to look inside into your personality and try initiate the change. Normally such initiatives as shared by earlier participant give results to nearly extreme moral response and may result as life changing experience.Certainly our esteemed Municipal Commissioner have something different in mind. He never expects such extreme responses as rightly put up time to time by Dr. Kshirsagar Sir (Deputy municipal Commissioner) but expects us to be more sensitized about ethical issues. In US , such issues about ethics are considered even during the military operation. We are certainly not involved in war like situation but may have dilemma in real life decision making process. These decisions are for the benefit of our own citizens. Then certainly we are expected to be ethically sensitive in such decisions
The workshop has certainly helped us to evolve into a better person. The emphasis was to focus on a individual than on a group for Initiative of change. We had very inspiring presentations from eminent persons like Dr. Hegde and Mr. Sudhir Gogte. A steady and gentle but forceful push from course director Mr. R.Rajgopalan and Mr. Dilip Patel pushed us to think about our personality from inside and to amend wherever felt necessary. Prabhat Kumar Sir, Rajpal Sir gave us courage to face real life situations in daily working.
Morning Tea Ceremony, Service, Wash-up and trekking to table top once increased our sense of belonging to the whole group. Thanks to Dr. Kshirsagar saheb, there was no awkwardness in interpersonal relationship among participants. Instead there was a kind of responsible (a very rare) openness in the group. Certainly officers working with him can be considered more lucky.
One of the unexpected phenomenon of all 48 participants right on the dot for all sessions surprised our course directors and was well appreciated by them. A full participation of family groups in group activities is very well appreciated. No untoward incidence and a responsible behavior of all officers during the course has changed the opinion of MRA staff towards municipal staff. The food served was absolutely fantastic . I am not disclosing the daily routine but I can assure next batches that the time will not be available for any extra activity other than course.
I must thank first to Shri Kunte saheb for giving such opportunity and improve our moral and ethical values in personal life. Thanks to all fellow participants and specially to room partner Sahebrao Gaekwad who is incidently my college mate also.Thanks to Sanjog Kabre Sir and Kshirsagar saheb for making the journey to panchgani a most memorable. And thanks to MRA for making us Friend of Moral Re-armament. And as the focus was on individual I assure myself and others to deposit more and more to rebuild the character bank of India and to contribute to ethical governance in Mumbai.
Thank You !

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