Revitalization of Rivers in India Draft Policy - Isha Guru Jaggi Vasudev

Revitalization of Rivers In India
Draft Policy Recommendation
1. 0 - 10 minutes: Introductory Questions - What would be the student’s perception of
an organization that is ideal in character?
2. 10 - 20 minutes: Personalized Questions - Role the case participants, as individuals,
should play in creating and sustaining a organization that is close to their ideal
3. 20 - 30 minutes: Summing up the content of the case
4. 30 - 55 minutes: Case Discussion Question 1
5. 55 - 80 minutes: Case Discussion Question 2
6. 80 - 90 minutes: Wrap-up and Conclusion
ANALYSIS TO THE QUESTIONS POSED
1.
The core competency of Isha is mobilizing people. The role of Greenhands was to mobilize
people in large scale, especially people from the rural areas, towards a green endeavor.
Farmers from rural parts of India were undergoing tremendous suffering, and a number of
suicides were getting reported. Farmers had been drained of hope in their own occupation.
Project Greenhands wanted to bring back hope to the teeming millions in rural areas.
There was also the drastic degradation in environment with water tables going down and
variations in rainfall. While there had been many environmental initiatives, many such
initiatives lacked a cohesiveness and community spirit. Many initiatives were more or less
mechanical in outlook. Unlike many other tree plantation projects, Greenhands adopted a
holistic approach to environmental restoration. Project Greenhands wanted to bring about
a community spirit, nurture plants and bring in hope to farmers.
Addictive behavior is prevalent among many people in the villages of India and this
creates disharmony in the village life. Through its service activities, Isha Foundation is
trying to disengage people from narrow feelings like caste and communal feelings and
addictions like alcoholism and drug abuse and engage them in productive activities like
village festivals and sports events, which brought people together. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
has said that the fundamental goal of all activity on the planet is human well-being and
that there is only one business on the planet and that is of human well-being. Isha has
been aiming to promote individual and societal well-being through Greenhands too.
Isha believes that connection with nature would disconnect one from the negativities an
individual is associated with.
Isha Foundation was using trees as a tool to bring about a connection – the connection
between man and his origin. The belief that drove Greenhands was ‘If Love can be
established inside, it can be established outside’. More than tree plantation, Greenhands
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