NATIONAL IDEATION DAY
Mission: To utilize the human potential of India to make India a developed country (Economical and Humanity) and make this world a better place.
Vision: To make every Indian as problem solvers rather than problem cribbers.
Background:
India’s population will overtake China’s by 2028. India is the youngest country in the world with more than 65 percent population under 35 years of age. India’s population is a threat as well as an opportunity.
Threat is when we are unable to create jobs to this huge youth population, the same youth will hit the roads and create chaos because they are not engaged in any work. Sadly, there are already a significant number of youngsters who have already taken up these activities on a regular basis.
These are some of the effects if we don’t solve the problem of unemployment:
1) Political instability. 2) Civil unrest. 3) Exploitation of labour. 4) Industrial disputes. 5) Social problems. 6) Increase in poverty. 7) Loss of human resources. 8) Diversion of interests to easy money & crimes. 9) Migration of population to foreign countries.
Opportunity is when we are able to create jobs to such huge population, India’s rise as a super power and developed country is just a formality as majority of population is engaged in some kind of meaningful work.
How we can create jobs?
The only way by which we create jobs is by putting seeds of ideas in minds of our youth and children.
The people’s president Dr. Kalam famously said, “The ignited soul compared to any resource is the most powerful resource on the earth, above the earth and under the earth”
The missile man has emphasized on the utilization of human potential for bolstering India’s development. Dr. Kalam represents a powerful Idea called as ‘DEVELOPED INDIA’. He envisaged Vision 2020. For him, developed India was not only about economic development but also about human values development.
Can we achieve his vision 2020?
It has already been 70+ years since independence and we are still miles away from being developed. India is blessed with abundant human resources. If we can tap these human resources for ideation, development will be an eventuality.
Development is two-way exercise and is only possible if people actively reciprocate to the efforts put on to them by the government. Unfortunately, we still see people not reciprocating to the one of the finest initiatives ‘SWATCH BHARAT’. We still see people spitting and throwing litter on the roads.
Then, how we can develop India?
The thought of ‘IDEATION FOR DEVELOPMENT’ must be imbibed into the minds of people. Most people are looking for freebies in spite of having the capacity to come out of their distress through ideation. For a population whose mind is blunted by populism, the only saviour evident to them is the government. This thinking is prevailing in the majority of Indian Population.
We request for your support on declaration of Dr. Kalam’s birthday (15th October) as ‘NATIONAL IDEATION DAY’. It will be a fitting tribute to this great man whose life was dedicated to the development of India.
This declaration will create massive impact in this country. This single day will give a window to the people to think about the solutions through ideation about the problems in this country. This will pave a path for the shift from Populism to Self-Reliance.
Few points on 'NATIONAL IDEATION DAY'
1) This idea will enable people to realize the power of ideation giving them self-belief that they can solve their own problems.
2) Schools, colleges, universities, and communities will participate and ideate the whole day which eventually brings out millions of ideas on that single day.
3) It will inculcate the spirit of entrepreneurship that will be pivotal for job creation.
4) Rewards and support can be given to the people sustaining their idea for more than a year.
5) Corporate, NGOs, and other social organizations can come up with workshops to encourage ideation among people.
6) Village panchayats can collaborate with the ideation teams & help bring out simple & economic ideas of the villagers on developing their localities.
7) Social media platforms can create a path for putting in new ideas, steps for economic schemes & promoting patents of individuals.
8) Skill development centres can help in raising the number of voluntary members regarding ideation & its sessions.
Let the Kalam’s dream percolate to every nook and corner of this country through this ‘NATIONAL IDEATION DAY’.
Declaration of this day will change the course of our history, inspiring numerous people to create wonders with their ideas and script the story of developed India.
How NID works:
1)First the formal declaration of National Ideation day will make people to think about the concept of ‘National Ideation Day’ and how they can contribute their thinking for self and society development. We need to sprout the thinking in minds of people that their mind has potential to come up with ideas that can be useful and relevant. Declaration of National Ideation day will pave path to such thinking that will lay foundation for developed India that Dr.Kalam and majority of people dream of.
2) Involvement of Government machinery to communicate, allocate funds, and celebrate ‘National Ideation Day’ in all schools, colleges, universities and other relevant institutions in all across India.
3) Encouraging corporate to conduct ideation sessions in their campuses, schools and colleges.
4) Government can also declare rewards for the best ideas from each district to encourage people from all districts to participate in this Idea festival. Best ideas can also be given assistance from the government. The best idea rewards can also be declared in national, state, district, city, town, village, area, street, etc. level. The main purpose is to maximize the participation through rewards.
5) The problems that people can solve might be divided into different levels. It might be a local problem, state problem, national problem or international problem. Ideator can select any problem that he/she wants to solve
6) Bureaucrats, MLAs, MPs, Sarpanches, and other relevant public servants can conduct ideathons in their respective places. They can give relevant problems that the respective places are facing and can get solutions to those problems.
7) For state level, MLAs can discuss and come up with relevant problems that can be ideated upon by the people in the assembly. Those problems can be given to the public to come up with solutions. It applies the same to the country where Mps can discuss the problems that can be given to the public in the parliament and they can give those problems to get solutions from the public.
Some of the works done by the Team National Ideation Day for the declaration of October 15th as National Ideation Day
* Team NID met Sri Kishan Reddy, explained him thoroughly about the objectives and goals of National Ideation Day and sought his support
* As the youth of our Nation play a prominent role in this, Team NID started ‘NIDinteract’ in which Team NID will visit certain educational institute and will explain staff and students of that institute “What NID is and how it works”.
As a part of NIDinteract, we visited Bhavan’s Vivekananda College of Secunderabad and enlightened the students about the power of ideation and its role in the development of nation.
* Sri V.V. Lakshminarayana has been supporting NID since its beginning
And will be launching a program “Dr.Kalam Innovation Festival” on October 15th, 2019 (on the occasion of Dr. Kalam’s Birth Anniversary)
* The idea of declaration of National Ideation Day is taken forward through the Non-profitable Organization called “Team Jatayu”.
Team Jatayu is a Non-Governmental Organization run by a team of youngsters that mainly concentrates of social issues etc.,
Some of the activities of Team Jatayu include #StandForOrphans, #MenstrualAwareness, Support the affected people during Titili cyclone etc.
Picture 1: Team Jatayu conducting Menstrual Awareness Program and distributing free sanitary napkins Picture 2: Team Jatayu took the responsibility of renovating a damaged room of a school Picture 3: Team Jatayu helping people who were affected by Cyclone Titili.
Picture 4: Team Jatayus’s #StandForOrphans campaign
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A single powerful idea has the potential to create a million jobs; it doesn't matter where the idea is born from! Days like these give the thought about the power of an idea which can transform the country to accelerate faster towards development.
Let’s build our nation through ideation.
#JaiHind
- Team National Ideation Day