I watched ‘The Pixar Story’ on Disney+ Hotstar. The 90-minute movie is very inspirational on how they completely changed the animation industry.
The power of human genius and commitment! I did not know George Lukas of Star Trek fame was also behind it.
They produced 7 movies in a row that redefined the creativity in animated movies: 1. The Toy story 2. A Bug’s Life 3. Toy Story 2 4. Monsters Inc 5. Finding Nemo6. The Incredibles 7. Cars
Highly recommended! Obviously, many educators used movies as a tool to ‘inspire natural learning’ among their students. We as a leader in the industry are educators in many ways. We inspire our employees and customers and must have used some movies; like I use old Hindi movies ‘Bawarchi’ of Rajesh Khanna fame to explain the Power of Influence or #servantleadership etc.
I would like to invite your stories where you used such movies to inspire and accelerate learning. I want to compile the repertoire of various real-time experiences.
I grew up with the assumption that ‘Panchayat’ consists of 5 ‘Panchs’ and 1 ‘Sarpanch’. Their function is linked more with judicial case resolution of the villages.
I learnt about the real purpose of a Panchayat in 2016 after studying the constitution. A Panchayat is equivalent to a local governance body as per all other countries. There are more than 900 million people who come under its governance and thus it holds a key for holistic development of a country. It consists of 11 to 17 wards members.
1. A ward member is the elected member for 100 to 500 families. He is responsible for developments at the smallest unit levels. 2. Sarpanch is also known as the President of the Panchayat in a few states like Kerala. 3. A Panchayat is responsible for preparing its development plan and they have to submit it in the Panchayat portal. The Panchayat gets a direct funding as per development plans submitted to their accounts. 4. A Panchayat also has the power to levy local taxes or sell forest produce in tribal areas to generate their own sources of revenues. The larger Panchayats near the cities get housing society local taxes as well as professional taxes. They are substantially richer Panchayats compared to remote Panchayats. 5. National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) is a central body for the capability building of Panchayats. 6. Mission Samriddhi has launched the ‘India Panchayat Forum’ to work on development at grass root level. 7. CDP – Cluster Development Program designed by MS has 7 frames for the development of Panchayats. – D1 – Personal Development (Leadership development, Self-belief, Visualisation) – D2 – Social Development (Education, Health, Infrastructure, Social Justice, Equality) – D3 – Economic Development (Agricultural, Allied services, SHG, FPOs, Financial and Digital literacy etc) – D4 – Ecological Development (Water, Soil, Forest) – D5 – Gram Panchayat Development Plans (GPDP) education and planning including low cost/no cost plans – D6 – Monitoring and Governance – D7 – Stakeholder management 8. Mission Samriddhi works with sectoral experts as well as Development Accelerators (NGOs, Corporates and Governments) to drive CDP at various district levels. The fellows on-ground facilitate continuous education and nudging at the Panchayat level.
Today is National Panchayat Day. I invite few corporates along with their employees to celebrate, connect and catalyse Panchayats. You can write to me or Ram at Ram.Pappu@intellectdesign.com
Hello, my name is Arun Jain. I am a design thinker living in Chennai, India. This is my blog, where I post my thoughts, technology trends and tips about the fintech world and many more.
