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How much time we spend in useless conversations and gossips not in any way relevant to the organisation. If it becomes part of the organisation’s task to handle even the emotional aspects of people, it is suggested to keep a separate time for that rather than mixing up with the other task-routines.

Managing time is to get the best of the time in planning, coordinating and executing the tasks in a time-bound manner. To make the time of the people most productive, people should be encouraged to go on leave and return with a relaxed mind.

Self management and time management go together. A truly busy man is one who finds time for everything. To keep oneself busy and fit all the time, these principles have to be practiced:

n Be Fresh like a newly blossomed fragrant flower.

n Be Young in spirit.

n Be Dynamic, like a wheel.

n Be Divine, like nature’s natural laws.

Note: Do you spend time or does time spends you?

Managing change is the greatest challenge of the present times. We have to change with the change, otherwise the change will change us. Resisting change is like swimming against the currents. It is always safe to go along with the current and at an appropriate time, take a shift in the desired direction.

How to meet the challenges physically, psychologically, rationally,  nationally,  internationally are no doubt the problems of the governments.

But then the enlightened individuals cannot escape finding solutions to these problems. Every person has his own responsible role within his own ambit. It depends on how the change is accepted and given a direction.

In Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says, “Dharma Samasthpanartaya Sambhavami Yuge Yuge”. It means “In order to establish Dharma (order), I come again and again”. To safeguard the world, the Lord will come and protect all living beings. He can come as ‘many’, manifesting his spirit in people-of-divine, in the same time, at different places, for different problems and situations, to re-instate “Sudharma”.

The same logic would bring us to understand what is ‘Sathya’ and ‘Dharma’. Sathya means ‘truth’ which never change and which is same to all, irrespective of the caste, creed, place, and time. ‘Dharma’ means ‘righteousness’, which differs from country to country, institution to institution, family to family and  individual to individual.

Dharma means ‘change’ itself. But the significant aspect is that any change should be for ‘Sudharma’ and not for ‘Adharma’. It is meant to protect values and cherish the truth. Sathya is the universal self and the Dharma is the functional self.  Knowledge and love should reflect in behaviour accepting the change as the essential factor and in fine-tuning relationships.

Though knowledge appears to be infinite, it is finite, since any knowledge is with reference to the human being who is always limited, however great he be.

What is infinite is only awareness to keep oneself open to the new doors of new knowledge it is to meet the change.

Planned as part of implementation of schemes for the Union Government’s Right To Education Act, the survey will include testing students from classes III to VI in the language of instruction, mathematics, English and science, under Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation. A private firm will be roped for the exercise and there will be baseline tests on these subjects. Civic schools offering education in English, Hindi and Marathi mediums will be included in the survey.

“We want to identify the general minimum level of students’ understanding in these basic subjects. If a particular student’s test papers are not up to mark, we can recognise it and work on improving their aptitude,” BMC education officer Aabasaheb Jadhav said.

The survey is also prompted by the state government’s adherence to a clause in the RTE Act against failing any students and instead promoting them after adequate training. “Students with poor knowledge will be given additional coaching. We also plan to have activity-based learning.” The BMC plans to come up with new methods and mechanism to train the students.