Project Rainbow Hills under clean India initiative

One of the prime concerns of NCCL is to provide an expression to the potential strength of environment to rejuvenate itself and present it to the people at large as a new dimension of civil liberty to realize harmonious and sustainable development of nature with respect to man. 

We have followed this principle in many of our earlier Missions, a visible example of which has come to be known in Ahmedabad as Mission ENDURE (ENsuring DUst REduction).  Through Mission ENDURE, we established a culture of presenting to people a clean city endowed with good air quality.  It also epitomized our resolve to bring into play the simple principles that are otherwise shrouded in ignorance and callousness. More importantly, we strived to restore popular civil liberty to expect betterment of contemporary life. 

On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, another simple principle has been emerging in our minds to develop  dilapidated houses on small hillocks in the vicinity of Shamlaji (Gujarat). These hills 

comes  both the sides on National Highway No-8 while driving from Ahmedabad to Udaipur. We recognize that the potential of this plan may hold the key to a series of eco-development drives in India . 

To Support Prime Minister Mr Modi’s initiative of Clean India, I along with NCCL team, visited beautiful Shamlaji Hill’s area on 2^nd October-2014 and selected 6 dilapidated houses of village Odhapadia. NCCL will reconstruct these houses and will handover it to the poor residents with toilets and other amenities in few months time as a part of its small contribution to the Nation. We are hopeful that the place will turn into a beautiful landscape worthy of emulation and appreciation.

V K Saxena

President

NCCL

Ahmedabad.

Pictures of Odhapadia:

An affable PM and his affectionate subjects‏

Prime Minister Narendra Modi  is on a high pedestal of people's love.  From Maharani Bagh to Madison Square Gardens, people are lining up the street to see this face of India's future.  In spite of riding the high tide of approval ratings, Mr.Modi remains the man he is - humble and affable, easily hand-shakable. In New York City, In a rare gesture, Mr Modi came out of his huge convoy to greet a large number of Indians who had gathered outside his hotel,  shook hands with  them and walked almost one entire block distance before going back to the hotel.

Let me recall that on 17 September, I attended the MOU signing ceremony at Hotel Hyatt, Ahemdabad, which was witnessed by only selected gathering of Gujarat. Fortunately, I was one of them.  MOUs were signed in the presence of PM Narendra Modi and Chinese Presedent Ji Zingping. Mr Modi arrived 15 minutes before the arrival of Chinese President. He interacted with the people and went upto the last row. People were wishing him Happy Birthday. I was sitting behind the Chinese Dignitaries.  

 On return from the last row, lots of Chinese and Indian guests almost gheraod him and started taking pictures from all sides from their cell phones. The most surprising thing was that Mr Modi called few Chinese Delegates by name and spoke to them in Gujarati and these Chinese officials also responded in Gujarati. There was much warmth and excitement in the Chinese Delegation.

One lady Chinese official who was standing near me asked me "I want to Shake hands with Mr Modi". I asked her to request him directly and as a result, Mr Modi obliged her with shaking hands with her. The woman after shaking hands was totally zapped and could not believe that she shook hands with the Indian Prime Minister and for a few moments, she remained ecstatic. After that she started speaking some thing in Chinese with her fellow delegates in great excitement . After a few minutes, she asked me if I could take her picture with Mr Modi from her Cell Phone. I said why not and asked her to stand near Mr Modi and took the picture from her Cell Phone. 

 What I have written above is just one episode of the ease of approach with the New Prime Minister and how much he loves to make people around him comfortable. We witnessed this euphoria in Japan and are seeing it again in New York and Washington  

Here is a Prime Minister who loves his people.  And at last, people have found a Prime Minister whom they love.  In shaking hands with him, people find the sati.sfaction of shaking hands with their future. The handshake means being in safe hands.  

Nothing stops people from falling in love with an affable Prime Minister - at home and abroad.

 VK Saxena

President ,

NCCL

Ahmedabad