Tata Steel Supports Women SHGs for Dairy Initiatives at Gopalpur

Recognizing the importance of women in the dairy cooperative movement of our country and raising their participation towards income generation, thrift and leadership.

Tata Steel has been supporting the women SHGs in the peripheral villages of Gopalpur.

As a part of these efforts, Tata Steel has provided support to the members of Parbati Self Help Group of Brajanagar in Karapalli GP in procuring hybrid cows with an aim of ensuring yield of milk three times more of the present milk yield.

The SHG members forming the Women Milk Producer Committee believe that with Tata Steel’s support in obtaining quality live stocks after thorough examination of their health, breed and nutrition status, collection at the village based centre will be enhanced to around 150 liters per day.

The women dairy cooperative comprises of more than 40 households, which are linked to OMFED, have successfully implemented the‘Anand’ model involving women entrepreneurial skills.

In addition to the financial support for procuring the cows, specialists from TSRDS have been rendering hand holding support in identifying feasibility for maintenance and marketing initiatives.

Describing this as a benchmark setting effort, the PRI members having attended the event said that it will go a long way in enabling Women SHGs to achieve economic self-reliance.

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Top 5 Tips for Self Development

Now a day’s more and more number of people are showing interest in self development and it is something which is limit less. The more you develop the more you will find the need to change yourself for betterment and to develop more. So, the process is never ending, but the earlier you start with the process the more easy life would become and more progress you would be able to make.

The process of self development starts with the process of changing our inner self. Because no matter how many books we read and how many lecture we hear, until and unless we start implementing them there is no use of all the accumulated knowledge. So, how do we go about it let us check it out.


1. First and for most thing in self development is that you need to overcome resistance not from anyone else but from our own self. Because all these years we have dumped ourselves with undesirable habits and routine and now when we find that there is need for change our previous habits pull us down, which we need to overcome.


2. We need to learn from our surroundings and the people we interact with. Nobody is perfect in this world and there is both negative and positive side of every one take the positive traits and make a note of negative qualities, check if you have them and try to remove those qualities.

3. Check your body language and pay attention to your voice modulation. Observe when and why people talk or behave in some way as they do and see the results. Observe your own self, the way you interact and what results it is yielding.

4. The more you read and the more you gain knowledge the more you will grow and increase your efforts towards self development, so, make it a part of your routine to read a book on self development or auto biographies of great leaders.

5. Have a role model or a mentor when you have someone to guide you progress in any path becomes easy because all you have to do is follow what they say do.

If we lead life the same way as we are used to without any progress and development life loses its meaning. So, self development is something we all need to think about and focus.

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Seven useful lessons for Life

Life is journey where we go through so many ways some smooth, some hard, some rocky, hardly aware of what awaits us at the next turn, full of adventure and surprise. And in this journey time will teach us some valuable lessons which we need to learn to run our life smoothly. Some people are smart enough to learn these lessons by seeing others life hearing them and reading about them and some like experimenting with their own lives.

No one’s life is same nor situations and lessons learned, but there are some common things that every one of us needs to know about life. Below mentioned are some of the very important lessons that many great people and successful people have learned in life and have passed them on to us so that we can make our life easy, by learning from them. Let us look at those very important lessons.

1) No one is perfect in this world, everyone has his own strengths and weaknesses, so if you want to lead a happy life always look for what is good in others.

2) Always try to increase the number of friends and if possible never try to make enemies with anyone.

3) Don’t talk money matters with people. If you have, don’t talk; if you don’t have, also don’t talk.

4) Keep your feet on the ground; it is good to have dreams and keep working till you achieve them, but never miss out on reality.

5) As you receive from others make sure that you also give back to others. Either love or gifts or just anything; it should be a two way process. Don’t just spend your life taking from people. Try to experience the joy in giving.

6) Life slips out of our hand just like that even before you know. So try to spend in peace and happiness each moment. Don’t waste time thinking of past or future. Live in present and let others live the moment with you.

7) Above everything else keep your faith in God and lead life in the way he intended you to live. If there is one eternal companion in our life, it is God himself. So never ever leave him; always love him for everything that he has blessed you with.

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When can you give your Best?

Many people keep wondering how to give their best, in work. First to give your best you should know what you want to achieve, what are your goals or dreams that you want to fulfill. You should find out your definition for success and then go for it and give it your best shot. Once when you are clear as to what you want to be or achieve then your focus should be on how to give the best of you to achieve what you want to.

You can give out the best when you are at peace with yourself. With all the negative and destructive feelings like anger, jealousy, doubt, guilt, fear you will never be able to give the best of you to whatever job you under take. So it is very important that you have inner peace and stability to go towards your goal.

Human Body is the most sophisticated machine on earth, provided you know how to use it to get the best out of it. To give your best to work it is very important to be fit and active at both levels physical and mental. So, if you want to move towards your goal and achieve it, you should know that both your mind and body are very important and valuable tools at your disposal and should know how to take care and get the best out of them.

Healthy relationships are very important for any ones success. When one has sufficient love and affection in life, it gives lot of moral strength to the person. The thought itself that there are people who love me and are there to lend there shoulders when I need is a great blessing in life. To have all this you should pay enough attention to your relations and give time to nurture them.

To give the best of you, you should always be clear and confident about your purpose in life. What you want out of your life, and that reason should be big enough that you have the feeling inside that yes this reason is worth living for and giving my best. Find such a purpose of your life and then see what you can make out of your life. People who feel that life has no purpose and meaning can hardly achieve anything in life.

So, pay attention to these things and move ahead on the road of success.

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Good or Bad - It's what You Desire

Well, it is the desire to excel and outperform others that leads one to success. It is the desire a burning desire to attain recognition name and fame that leads someone on the road of success. It is the desire of one individual that has lead to the establishment off big business empires.

Desire is something which if you use it for good, gives good results, and holds the capability of elevating you to higher levels. Gandhiji had a desire to free our nation and his desire made him, Mahatma. Mother Theresa had a desire to serve and we all know her achievements. Right from attaining mundane things and material achievements, to attaining the liberation it is the desire that backs all human activities.

You know why so many people remain where they are without any progress either in material way or spiritual way, because they lack desire. If your desire is directed towards material achievements you will achieve them, if it is directed for the benefit of the humanity, you will do so, if you desire to attain liberation you will liberate yourself.

Desire is a very powerful force that can uplift or throw down a person. So, have desires that will bring success to you as a person and uplift other people also. We see different people around us those who have desired for the wrong things, immoral things have always seen the fall, where as those whose desires were directed towards positive things achieved success in life.

It is the desire that makes one go to a temple and the other one to a bar, it is the desire that makes one walk the spiritual path and the other material path. It is the desire that makes one invent useful tools for humanity and it is the same desire that results in inventing the most dangerous weapons.

So, always keep a watch on your desires as to which way they are leading you, change the way if you need to and take the path of success and prosperity.

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