Health Camp by AK Mishra Foundation in association with AIIMS and Healthy Aging India to empower senior citizens at Vinoba Bhave University

AK Mishra Foundation in association with Healthy Aging India and Department of Geriatric Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi will organize a free health camp for senior citizens on 18^th and 19th February at Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand. Vinoba Bhave University is a renowned university in Jharkhand which provides impeccable education opportunities to students at Hazaribagh. The event will go from 9am to 5pm on 18^th February and 8am to 2pm on 19^th February. It has always been a proud supporter of the social causes as well under the able guidance of Dr. Prashun Chatterjee, Faculty, Department of Geriatric Medicine, AIIMS.

The programme aims at supporting the senior citizens with comprehensive health checkup. A team of doctors from the premier medical institute, AIIMS, accompanied by medical consultants, nurses, and volunteers will conduct this camp.

Mr Mishra, also known as the ‘success Guru’ and the brain behind the AK Mishra Foundation said, “Our society is generally apathetic towards its elderly and so is the healthcare system. I am glad that AIIMS and Healthy Aging India, both pioneering organizations in their fields, have come together with us to support this maiden initiative of our Foundation. I am proud to have one of the most esteemed institutions of Jharkhand, Vinoba Bhave University, as our partner in this programme. I thank Prof.  (Dr.) Gurdeep Singh for all his support.“

With the motive to create sensitivity towards the needs of senior citizens, the camp will also host a lecture on ‘Inter-generational empowerment – a win-win situation for the society’ by Dr. Prasun Chatterjee on 19^th February. The occasion will be graced by the presence of Prof.  (Dr) Singh, VC, Vinoba Bhave University.

About:

AK Mishra Foundation is a non-profit organization whose core ethos is centered around social empowerment of the youth and elderly. It works towards the welfare, social justice, and empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society.

Healthy Aging India is a national non-profit organization, working for the better health care and quality life for the geriatric (60+) population of the country. The organization provides health awareness camp and health care support to the elderly population of the country by Intergenerational Empowerment.

Ways to handle failure in Civil Services Mains result 2016

Before and after the Civil Services Examination result, don’t you all get bombarded with the range of emotions? A paralyzing lump in your throat, those shaking limbs, a pressure-cooked mind and a pacing heartbeat - you must accept that like often don’t quite work the way we plan. One should essentially accept that we all get bad grades, and more often than usual, we don’t see it coming – the worse side of examinations.

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According to UPSC’s official site, the numbers of applications per year are increasing, and at the same time, the selections are declining every year.

Despite the wavering nature of UPSC results, we tend to expect the best out of them. Every candidate has a specific imagination about the quality of subjective answers he/she has written in the Civil Services Examination and the staggering long essays that the candidate end up jotting down about the bewildering subjects. And all the candidates feel that they put all their hard work in making the examination a success story for them and keenly wait for the results of their churning battle in Civil Services Exam.

The Problem

The way we cannot change the bizarre list of things we’ve done in our lives, similarly, the candidates cannot change the kind of answers, whether right or wrong, they have written in UPSC– but they surely can control the way they react to it or to the results for that matter. One can always learn from the mistakes and make the best use of those learning in future; and not to forget UPSC gives the liberty to appear in the examination multiple times, 4 times to be precise, as UPSC understands the importance of learnings we get from the past mistakes.

You should understand – no exam’s result is as important as the contribution you’re making to the self-learning and growing as a person. One must acknowledge that humans have always had a messed-up life, but in the recent times how we perceive failures has a long and fascinating truth.

Let’s see how failure attacks us in an individual level. You set a realistic goal and you expect it to be elegant and perfect by the time you finish it. You wake up every day with full of hope and energy, ready to crack the code to reach the top of your goal. In your mind, you have such a vivid and clear idea of how you want to acquire the goal, with steps already built in your mind and road shoes already laced up; you work harder than you’ve ever worked – you toil with the struggle, but you somehow make it till the end, with a finished product right on your grip.

More than often, you fail and that’s how things are in a realistic world. You get disgusted by the lack of achievements, and the only thing you can think after that is a huge gap that exists between what you wanted and what you’ve got done. It might feel like your goals are way ahead than your abilities – that’s when mediocrity hits you. That’s when you become sad and the disparity between your ambitions and achievements become tangible.

The solution

Getting sad is easy –  and the enormous despair is inevitable. We need to know the first rule of creativity is to ignore the horrors of the first round. We all should affirm the importance of not hurrying and building a bit at a time. One should keep a timetable and abide by it with full honesty and be always hopeful for his/her work. You should work in a similar fashion for days, months and years and one day, eventually, your abilities will be aligned to your goal.

Stop the game of Comparison

You shouldn’t blame yourself for not outperforming your peers in the civil services examinations. Since the entire process comprises of multiple steps – the direct comparison doesn’t essentially make sense. You should greet the thought that your friends have a different path to follow, and as an aspirant, you should have yours.

Accept the reality

You didn’t expect what has come out – in fact, your name is absent from the list. It’s not a good news – but you should also accept that it’s not the end of the world. Failure means different for different human beings and just the fact that human life is full of failures – this shouldn’t surprise you – better accept it.

Discover your options

A good way to start is by looking out for the advisory from the people who have successfully made the journey. Analyze where you’re lacking, get a list of resources accessible to you and do the best you can do with your tools. Whatever you have, wherever you are – just start for your next step. Understand – you’ve a lot of options but giving up is not one of them. Learning from your past mistakes is the best you can do.

7 tricky Questions to have the taste of IAS Interviews

It’s a nightmare to appear for the interview after clearing Civil Services Preliminary and Mains exam for most of the candidates, especially for those candidates who are not good with words and cannot turn around a question. The good part is – you have cleared the first two stages of UPSC, both the prelims and mains. Looking at the current trend – you’re going to successfully clear your interview as well.

So, start with the basics -- train your wandering mind to stay calm – inject the positive tonic in it, hone the confidence and polish your skills, and most importantly – be honest. It’s not a problem if you don’t understand the question or not know the answer at all. The problem would come only if you handle it like a socially awkward cat – just blankly staring back at them, don’t! Nothing works like an honest reply, like – ‘Yes, I don’t know the answer’.

Being that said, here are our top selections of tricky questions – to give you the flavor of an IAS interview. Here you go:

Ques. 1 – In a hole of 3-ft deep, 6-ft long and 4-ft wide, how much dirt is there?

Candidate’s Answer – None, or else there wouldn’t be a hole in the first place.     

                                  

Ques. 2 – How many times can you subtract 100 from 1000?

Candidate’s Answer – Only once, since, on the next turn you’ll have to subtract from 100 from 900.

Ques. 3 – If you have a matchbox, and you enter a cart with a candle, a fireplace, and a lamp, which one would you light first?

Candidate’s Answer – Matchbox.

Ques. 4 – Do you know which mountain was the highest before Mt. Everest was discovered?

Candidate’s Answer – Mt. Everest, it just wasn’t discovered.

Ques. 5 – In a wild stormy night, you are driving in your car. Then you suddenly cross a bus-stop – you see that there are three people waiting for a bus; an old lady who is about to die, an old friend who saved your life and your dream girl. Knowing that there is only one seat to offer, who would you offer a lift to?

Candidate’s Answer – I would hand over the keys to my old friend who saved my life and request him to drop the old lady to a hospital. Meanwhile, I will stay back, with my dream girl and wait for the bus.

Ques. 6 – There are months that have 31 days, others have 30 days, but how many months have 28 days?

Candidate’s Answer – All of the months have 28 days. No exception.

Ques. 7 – Imagine a plane crash, and in that every single person on board dies, but still, two persons survive. How?

Answer – Probably the two were married.

Clear Prelims 2017 in 1st Attempt – 6 Must Read Books

As we are reaching to the Prelims 2017 – and as students pack their bags for their preparations – it’s time to look back to the best books – the most important ones – that helped thousands of IAS aspirants for their Prelims examination paper 1(GS) & Paper 2 (CSAT).

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Coming to the Paper 1(GS), it’s of 200 marks, and most importantly, its performance is not counted for the merit rank in prelims. But that doesn’t mean you push it to the corner and forget about it. You are very well required to qualify this paper and score at least 33%, AT LEAST. Due to its qualifying nature, most of the students often neglect it. DON’T.    

Devote a couple of hours every day for your speed and accuracy, and most importantly, do not forget to read NCERT books to develop a stronger base of knowledge. Besides, practice solving previous years’ papers and keep reading Newspaper every day, read the important articles and make important notes to keep yourself abreast of current affairs, which is most important part of the preparation process for Civil Services exam.

Here you have a list of strongly recommended books, the 6 most important ones.

• Logical Reasoning, Analytical Ability and General Mental Ability for Civil Services Preliminary Examination
• Reading Comprehension for Civil Services Preliminary Examination (Second Edition)
• CSAT Decision Making and Problem Solving and Interpersonal Skills for Paper – 2
• Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency
• Basic Numeracy for CSAT General Studies Paper II

We wish all the aspirants good luck for their prelims 2017 preparation.

UPSC Pre-special Batch for ‘SUPER 50’

Chanakya IAS Academy with its commitment to offer world-class education and guidance to Civil Services aspirants is going to start a UPSC Pre-Special Batch for “Super 50” at Jaipur branch for the aspirants eying at Civil Services 2017. The batch will start on 5th January 2017 with a free demo session. The idea is to commence a batch for 50 students who will get quality coaching by seasoned experts at Chanakya IAS Academy. The Pre-special batch is remarkably different from the existing Prelims courses and will provide students topic wise briefing of the syllabus followed with extensive discussions on the current UPSC examination pattern.

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The Academy will also provide Test Series based on the current trend of UPSC along with an analysis of each question by the experts to help students examine their weaknesses & strengths, and work upon them to ensure success in Civil Services Prelims 2017 exam.

A team of dynamic individuals and experienced experts having a complete understanding of the application aspect of UPSC will thoroughly cover the entire syllabus with an emphasis on facts, concepts and current affairs which are extremely important in Civil Services Prelims examination. The faculty members at the Academy are extremely supportive and possess effective teaching skills with powerful delivery in both English and Hindi mediums.

The Academy will also organize special classes for students by Success Guru AK Mishra and the successful candidates of Chanakya IAS Academy to help students ward off their doubts and to keep students motivated throughout their preparation journey.

For more information, call Chanakya IAS Academy @ 8882120000

What do you understand by Disaster Management?

Ques. What do you understand by disaster management? In the light of the recent cyclone vardah, critically examine the disaster management methods in the country.

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Ans. According to the UN, ‘Disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impact, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.’

There are three phases of disaster management:

1. Before the disaster: It is the period of preparedness before the actual disaster has taken place. It involves early warning signals, how to prepare for the disaster, effective infrastructure, etc.

2. During the disaster: This phase is the most crucial one, which involves saving the lives of the affected people. Evacuation, rescue, provision of basic needs like food, water, shelter, etc. are the activities involved in this phase. It also requires capacity building for taking care of these activities during the disaster.

3. Post-disaster: It involves rehabilitation and resettlement of the affected individuals. It also involves rebuilding of the damaged infrastructure.

Some of the methods to deal with disaster management are discussed below:

• Proper planning for risk reduction.
• Adopting new and innovative technologies for risk reduction.
• Installing of early warning systems.
• Early evacuation and rescue.
• Capacity building by deploying the locals as they have good knowledge about the local terrain.
• Coordinating the roles of community and voluntary organizations, local bodies and governmental agencies.
• Awareness generation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Planned recovery.
• Rehabilitation with more sustainable livelihoods.
• Special social programmes for mitigating the impact of disasters.
• Use of indigenous coping mechanisms.
• Mobilization of necessary emergency services in the disaster prone areas.

In India, the community is especially the first responder in any disaster. Apart from that, there is integrated administrative machinery for disaster management at the national, state, district and sub-district level. The National Disaster Management Act (NDMA) 2005, is the legal framework for monitoring the implementation of disaster management plans in the country. The two main institutions to deal with disaster management are the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM).

With the proper implementation of plans and use of effective and innovative technologies, the effects of disasters can be curbed to a large extent.

Qualities you must possess before you start preparing for UPSC examination

Civil Services Examination is one of the most competitive and prestigious examinations in the country. Since it is a competitive examination, it means that you have to beat a lot of candidates in order to secure a rank. Therefore the real challenge is that you have to take yourself to such a standard that the demands of this examination can be fulfilled.

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Whether the examination is tough or easy has got no answer. But the only answer to this question is that it is possible to qualify this examination by applying the correct logics and tactics. Chanakya IAS Academy provides a complete solution to the students preparing for this examination. The Academy imparts comprehensive training-cum-guidance program, which covers all the stages of this examination.

Let us discuss some of the important qualities that a candidate must have in order to clear this examination.

• Patience: the first and foremost quality that one should have is patience. More than knowledge or self-confidence, or any other quality, patience matters the most. No one knows when he or she will qualify the exam or when is his or her right time. So one needs to keep patience. It is not an exam that can be qualified in a hurry. It will only be qualified the day you become eligible for it completely.
• Self-confidence: Since the preparation time is very long, you have to keep yourself motivated. Every student has to face the same conditions. Therefore it is very important that you keep your self-confidence intact and keep studying.
• Hard work: well, hard work is essential. Know one thing that, if you are searching for some shortcut in this examination, the search is futile. It is so because there is no shortcut in this examination. It demands excellence. Therefore, you have to be excellent in order to get through this examination.
• Smart work: planning and discipline are very important during the preparation. Since there is so much to study, therefore proper planning and proper revision are extremely important. Go ahead, shed all laziness and start once again with full-fledged confidence and discipline.

Time should not be a factor in this examination. Many students complain that it is such a long process and it takes so many years. But it does not matter because, once you qualify the examination, the time that you have spent will pay you back. Remember that hard work always pays. And there is no shortcut to it. You have to give your 100% in this examination. It might take time, but it is better to give your full efforts in the first attempt itself