Bhumi Unplugged

Volunteer based NGOs should be inclusive, open to ideas and not just when it needs to collect funds but sadly today's Bhumi has become a private institution and adorns role of NGO only when it needs funds or at the time of publicity or it only remembers about the volunteers, when they require to stick posters on streets and informing about medical camps in rasoolpura, and on all other days it adorns role of private institution. Executive Committee which assumes office today doesn't even have mandate inside Bhumi because past elections through which current Committee holds office was held under By Laws of BM Hyderabad chapter, therefore Executive Committee doesn't have any constitutional bearing or relevance. It is not that no effort was made to form new guidelines & structure for Bhumi, so that the new By-Laws can be drafted, In fact Ex Joint Secretary Bony De Kumar has just did that long time ago. We need to wonder over lack of desire to accept or amend newly proposed guidelines & structure and thereby calling for fresh elections but this has not happened for such a long time. Anyways i don't want to emphasize on these technical details as it is not my point which i would like to make, but this speaks volumes about morality of the Executive Committee to function in the office and how the committee works on its self made rules as if Bhumi is their private property and having no proper accountability on dispersed funds, this aspect will be covered in the future post!.

In most cases, Everything is conceived by President Mr. Mujeeb and followed & implemented by rest of the Executive Committee Members(Rakesh Kumar Dubbudu, Divyashri Cherala, Rahul Pasumarthy and Tejeswi Pratima) without a healthy debate and lack of meticulous understanding of all aspects of the idea. This same idea is presented in the general body meeting without doing required ground work but presented with eloquence, and since others are exposed to on need to know basis, they wont be in a position to comprehend thoroughly and they take it on good faith, but among most other volunteers this created and creates lot of disinterest and due to this and other reasons many left the organization. Later on at time of execution of the project pitfalls and loopholes in the idea emerge. It forces said project to be either discarded (like in the case of construction of compound wall in rasoolpura and wasting lot of money in Aug 15th event by being exclusive and remaining incompetent in executing work efficiently) or put on back burner (like in the case of secunderabad cantonment project) and many others which i will explore in future posts. For outsiders Bhumi seems to be managed by 5 people and ironically for insiders, Bhumi is managed authoritatively by Mr. Mujeeb alone, so much so that recently a executive committee member had to leave Bhumi altogether, this i'll explore in my future post.

Well, this doesn't amounts much harm to the society but what if these people have political aspirations and want to use social service as a tool to garner & manipulate support for themselves?. I'll write about this with detailed information in my future posts.

My next post will be in the middle of next week.