MoS I&B participates in Facebook Q&A

07-May-2016 11:23 IST

Col. Rathore interacts with netizens 

Asks them to stay connected with the Government

I'm here for the next one hour to take your questions, so ask away.

मैं आपके सवालो का जवाब देने के लिए यहां फेसबुक पर हूं।

Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting, Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore has participated in a live Facebook Q&A with the public and replied to questions fielded by people from different parts of the country. Emphasizing the need to stay connected, the Minister requested the citizens to interact with the government on Mygov.in and NaMo App on a regular basis, to send questions and topics to Prime Minister’s Mann Ki Baat, and to stay connected with all Ministers on their respective social media pages. 

Sharing with the citizens Government’s vision on development and communication, Col. Rathore reiterated that the present government under the visionary leadership of Shri Narendra Modi strives to reach out to every individual through every means possible, to empower them with relevant information on Government policies and schemes, and to bring their feedback to the government to make schemes more effective. 

During the one-hour interactive session which began at 9.30 in the night, Col. Rathore answered questions on various aspects of information and broadcasting, media ethics, crisis communication, public policy, Defence preparedness, border security, cyber threats, Olympics, skill development and employment generation. The Minister also received many suggestions and ideas from people on a wide variety of subjects during the live interaction. 

At the end of the session, the Minister appeared Live on Facebook Video and thanked all the people who interacted with him. He also said that as it was an interesting and important means of reaching out and staying connected with the people, he would request other Ministers also to use social media platforms for similar real time interactions. 

In his first Facebook Q&A, the Minister could answer 65 questions in English and Hindi out of a total of 1453 queries received during the hour-long session. Col. Rathore’s live video on Facebook received more than 12 thousand views and around 6 thousand likes within a short span of time. 

The Q&A event was jointly organized by the social media team of Press Information Bureau, New Media Cell of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, and Facebook. The entire Q&A event is accessible on the following link: 

https://www.facebook.com/Rathore/posts/1783832128506184

Industry and commerce must occupy religious places

 Our society shall be facing more divisions

When the state failed to correctly establish educational and training places, people from industries and commerce came forward and occupy the place and now we have got better schools, colleges and training institutions.  Now the people having faith in religions are facing some difficulties and therefore, time has come when people from industry and commerce come forward and occupy religious places so that these institutions too must run properly.  When religious places too shall run by these institutions, we shall be having complete accounts, issue of receipts, auditing work and the people for services shall be recruited on merits and there shall be no family rule over these institutions.  The learned people shall be telling us things which are acceptable by the modern society and a sense of unity shall come into being.  The present system when people with low education are occupying these institutions, the people are learning fundamentalism, terrorism and rioting from these institutions  and so many new sects are being established and our society shall be facing more divisions.

Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate, 

District Courts, Patiala-Punjab-147001

Love cannot be defined//Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate

 It remains alive even after the deaths of lover and beloved

I was married.  I had got a son who was in 6th class.  My husband was well established in profession and had got good reputation.  I too was holding a high post.  All was going on well.  I was leading a good family life.  I was having good position at my work place.  My colleagues were having good relations with me and this work-place was like my family.  I had got love, affection, regard for all and all were responding well.

                    There were three people who were holding the same status which I was holding.  We all were spending our free time together.  One of them was transferred and another man from another office came and joined our batch.  His name was Rohit Sharma.  He was well qualified and belonged to a reputed family well established in industry.  He had joined service because he wanted to serve the people of India.  Within days I started sitting with him.  As and when I had got some spare time with me, I went to his room and started spending some time with him.  We had been talking on administrative matters, on political matters and sometime, we had been discussing on family matters.  I was surprised to note that this man was fully conversant with all the matters and was in a position to assist me even in my office work.  He was so nice that as and when I entered his room, he stood up and welcomed me with smiling face.  I never saw him in a serious  mood.    He too was married and had got two children.  I had invited me to his house and we all visited his house.  His wife was so nice and she welcomed us all.  She had started calling me, ' my dear sister' and it is on record that she often visited our house.  She had got no objections on my relations with her husband.  He was calling me ' madam' and I was calling him,' sir'.

                  As and when I was absent in my room, even the staff people were having information that I could be found in the room of Rohit.  People from my house were also known to Rohit and they never objected on my relations with him.

              Rohit had been with us for four years.  Then he got promotion and left us.  He gave a long lecture at the time of his fare-well party and I too spoke,"  I could not understand what type of relations I could develop with this man.  He had been my brother and I can declare that he is more than my brother.  I had got no hesitation and I had been discussing with him all matters and at times, I could sha re with him what I could not share even with members of my own family.  This mand had been an open note book for me where I could write what I had been feeling and all had been done without any restriction, reservation and hesitation.....".  I had been speaking for half an hour and our head also spoke.  Some people from the staff also spoke and Rohit left our work place.  He is away, but as and when he comes to this station, he did not fail to visit my house and meet us all.  It is on record that he has become a member of my family and I had been calling him on marriages of my children and he too had been calling us on marriages of his children.  It is on record that when his wife died, I was present by his side and when my husband died, he was also there and was having me in his arms and was consoling me.  My children were calling him,'  uncle- maamaa ji'.

                  We are still meeting and sharing our problems and all that.  Till date, I am not in a position to understand as to what type of relations were there between us.  Rohit had said once,' love takes its birth in two hearts at one and the same time and once such a love takes its birth, it never dies.  It remains alive even after the deaths of lover and beloved.'  and these words of his are often in my mind as and when I recall times spent with Rohit.    

Please give me comments on dalipsinghwassan@yahoo.co.in.

Sahibzaade Baba Ajit Singh ji

Strong, Intelligent and a Natural leader-Dilpreet Singh
Sahibzaade Baba Ajit Singh ji de janam diwas diyan lakh lakh vadhiyaan 

When Guru Gobind Singh Ji returned with the family to Anandpur where Sahibzada Ajit Singh Ji was brought up in the approved Sikh style. He was taught religious texts, philosophy and history, and had training in the manly arts such as riding, swordsmanship and archery. He grew up into a handsome young man; strong, intelligent and a natural leader of men.
Brief account of Baba ji in Battles field:
The Ranghars of Nuh
Soon after the creation of the Khalsa on 13 April 1699, he had his first test of skill. A Sikh Congregation ('Sangat') coming from the Pothohar region of northwest Punjab, was attacked and looted on the way by the Ranghars (a Muslim tribe) of Nuh, a short distance from Anandpur across the River Satluj. Guru Gobind Singh Ji sent Sahibzada Ajit Singh Ji, then barely 12 years old, to that village. Sahibzada Ajit Singh Ji along with a 100 men reached the spot on 23 May 1699, punished the Ranghars and recovered the looted property.

Taragarh and Nirmohgarh
A harder task was entrusted to Sahibzada Ajit the following year when the hill chiefs supported by imperial Mughal troops from Lahore and Sirhind attacked Anandpur. Sahibzada Ajit Singh was made responsible for the defence of the Taragarh Fort, which became the first target of attack on 29 August 1700. Ajit Singh, assisted by Bhai Udai Singh, a seasoned soldier, repulsed the attack. He also fought valiantly in the battle of Nirmohgarh in October 1700. On 15 March 1701, a Sikh Sangat coming from the Darap area (near Sialkot) was waylaid by Gujjars and Ranghars. Sahibzada Ajit Singh led a successful expedition against them.

Restoring a Brahmin's wife
In March 1703, Dewki Das, a Brahmin came to Anandpur and requested the Guru to help him in getting back his wife whom Chowdhry Jabar Khan, the chief of Dera Bassi, had taken away forcibly; the Guru asked Sahibzada Ajit Singh and Bhai Udey Singh to help the Brahmin. On the 7th of March 1703, both of them, joined by about one hundred Sikhs, went to Bassi Kalan; they put siege to the village and sent a message to Jabar Khan to return the Brahmin's wife; but Jabar Khan, instead of returning the Brahmin’s wife, asked his soldiers to attack the Sikhs; it was followed by a full-fledged battle, in which Jabar Khan was killed; the Brahmin's wife was restored to him. When this news reached the people, they praised the Sikhs for their role

Battle of Chamkaur 
Sahibzada Ajit Singh led one of the sallies and laid down his life fighting in the thick of the battle. Gurdwara Katalgarh now marks the spot where he fell, followed by Sahibzada Jhujhar Singh who led the next sally. - Wiki.

Social media is a wonderful platform

But an ugly side also

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Social media is a wonderful platform to discuss various issues and share your creative works. At the same time there is an ugly side to it. Some people use it for spreading hatred and wrong information is circulated. 

There is abundance of such post where the information has no factual basis eg comparative prices of oil in different countries, amount of Indian black money in Swiss banks....so on and so forth.

Saw some gory pictures posted as atrocities by India on north eastern people, Dalits and tribals etc, which are actually pictures of Tamils killed in last few years by Srilankan army.

No one says wrong things are not happening in India and that we should not discuss; but the information needs to factual and authentic. Otherwise poster's own motive and integrity will become questionable.