A BETTER TOMORROW_IMI NEW DELHI

A BETTER TOMORROW_IMI NEW DELHI

A better tomorrow

Under the Education Umbrella, the group seeks to foster the hunger for learning and understanding in everyone through Balwadis for primary education to deliver high-quality primary education, official universities in the form of Aditya Bal Vidya Mandirs, girls education and adult education programs. Their objective in health care is to provide the finest services through their clinics to individuals in villages. The group fulfills this task through primary health care facilities, initiatives for mom and child care, immunization program with a focus on polio eradication, visually impaired and physically challenged health care and preventive health through awareness programs. The focus for sustainable living is on the creation of women's self-help groups, vocational training through Aditya Birla rural technology parks, agriculture development and better farmer focus, watershed development and partnership with industrial training institutes.

The group seeks to provide the needed services that are pillars of sustainable development through infrastructure growth. The group has established fundamental infrastructure, housing, secure drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services and also focuses on renewable energy sources. The group operates specifically on social issues such as dowry fewer marriages, Widow marriage and many awareness programs on anti-social problems have also been effectively conducted. Many other programs and campaigns on de-addiction and moral values are being performed as part of their efforts to bring about social change. Their rural development activities are distributed throughout the main fields listed above and they work with a objective to assist build model villages that can maintain themselves. The group's efforts to build a better viable society were recognized and rewarded by the group. Madura Clothing won the 2013 Golden Peacock Corporate Social Responsibility Award and UltraTech won the 2013 Intel-AIM Corporate Responsibility Award and Governance and Society: Asian CSR Awards for its job among the most underprivileged and highest governance levels.

My message today is titled Life is hard” and it’s about how to live a great life despite the fact that life is difficult.

Everybody wants to be happy in life. We all want to live a perfect life. We want that great job or a successful business. We want to be married to Mr. Right or Mrs Perfect. We want to have great kids. We want to have friends that stick by us come rain or shine. We want to be able to have all the material things life has to offer and have all our problems just disappear.

Everybody wishes for good life. It may be at different levels. One person may define a good life one way and another may describe it another way. For one person a good life may be just having three meals a day and a roof over their head. For another it may be having a huge mansion and a couple of million dollars in the bank.

There are different levels and meanings to what a good life is. But whatever you definition of it, there is perhaps one thing that you may have in common with many other people. You might want that good life stress free. You would like to have it without having to work so hard or struggle so much for it. That is a normal human expectation. Nobody likes to struggle through life.

Unfortunately, that is also what may be stopping you from having that great life. The thought of all that work, all that planning, overcoming hurdles and resistance is enough to make a lot of people give up before they even start. It can all seem too overwhelming, and for many it all just doesn’t seem be worth it. It’s like being drained of energy just at the thought of running a marathon. Before you are even at the starting line the thought of all that running just scares you and tires you so much mentally you just decide not to go for it. It’s just too hard.