Amit Lall's mission updates from Chandigarh to McLeod Ganj (April 15th to April 22nd)

Hi Guys,

After Chandigarh, I have covered Solan, Simla,Dharamshala & Macloedganj. Its 21st April and am off to Jammu (J&K) tomorrow.

In Chandigarh I was back with Taj. The first Taj after my NE journey was Lucknow and now Chandigarh. Here I met Prachi & Jus - 2 girls who helped me in Chandigarh and are part of United Force of India. Prachi was a friend of Mohit from Dehradun who was a friend of my brother in Kanpur, its a great network chain, which is exactly what I am creating with The United Force of India. In Chandigarh I had a press meet and got excellent coverage. Due to the papers, another NGO - Taj Heritage - working on the Taj Mahal in Agra and the families of the people who built the Taj. They too have started a peace mission merging Mahatma Gandhi & Taj. They invited me to a meeting at the Punjab University where the PU students union gave their support to my Mission alongwith the University management. They felicitated me and made me an honourary guest on the dias and heard me out. They too are with The United Force of India now.

I had a meeting with Mr.Singh the upcoming president of the Roatary Club in Chandigarh and he showed his support. I took his advice on the govt. schemes, as he felt that the work I have taken on is very difficult but the mission is achievable. Why reinvent the wheel and start fresh development projects, when the govt. has made provisions.There are a lot of schemes made by the govt. for all the states and all groups of people and for development purposes. The govt. also has funds alloted and kept aside for these schemes, but no one had ever implemented these schemes, so the funds are being misused. With the help of the Right to Information Act (RTI) - UFI will get all the schemes that are available and start implementing them. I will start with the Northeast and slowly allocate the UFI team in each state to start implemetning schemes in their states. We will not ask for the money, but will tell them th requirement and ask for a deadline. This way we will ensure that the schemes made by the govt; are implemented are the funds allocated for the same are used correctly. I met Mr.Pramod of Yuv Satta - an NGO formed in 1995. He has done a lot of work for the development of the people in Chandigarh and is well respected for sincere work. This NGO has also come on board UFI.

After a couple of days here, I drove into Solan, where I was greeted on the bypass highway by some journalism students who had read about me in the papers and seen me on TV in Chandigarh. They called the loacl press to meet up with me and I had a talk with the students. I spend a couple of hours with them and moved on to Pawar Institute of Mass Com where I was welcomed by the Director who was informed by Mr.Pramod (Yuv Satta - Chandigarh NGO). He called the students who spend time with me & made me do a radio show for them on their community radio. I then moven on and drove into Simla that same evening.

In Simla, I drove into Mall Road, a place where cars are not allowed. But they saw the mission I was on and let me go through. I met the press and did a shoot on Mall Road. I met young boys and girls at Mall Road and spoke to them there. I then met Mrs. Premlata Gandhi of Sarvodaya – Bal Bhavan – Kasturba Gandhi Trust. This is an orphanage and the have about 50 boys here. This was formed 50 years back. They are doing excellent work. I spent 2 hours with the kids and they loved the car. They wanted to see me fly it, as some people told them also that its a flying car. Kasturba Gandhi Trust is all over India and they have also come on board UFI. The next day I visted HP university – Shikha Chauhan (President – Students union) They were on hunger strike as they had demands to be fulfilled by the university. They got all the students together and are the SFI (Students Federation of India). They put stickers on my car and have shown their support and have joined UFI. I then met a professor there - Met Mr.Ajai Srivastav. He helps the disabled. He fights for their rights and I told himthe other disabled schools and instituitions I had visited and he too has joined me. He called ADC to Governor & All India Radio. The Governor was out so I could not meet her, but I met up with AIR Simla. They did a 20 minute recording with me and spread my word throughout Himachal Pradesh.

After a couple of days here, I drove off to Dharamshala. I was supposed to return back to Chandigarh and drive from Chandigarh to Jammu as it had a perfect highway, but the people in Simla felt I should drive through Himachal Pradesh and experience the hills & mountains and since Dharamshala is the home of the Dalai Lama, my peace drive should go through there. I reached Dharamshala and moved onto Macloedganj where the Dalai Lama stays. There was a protest march going on by the monks when I enetered. It was because 3 tibetan girls were sentenced to death by China. I spent time with the locals to understand the tibetan culture and how the Dalai Lama came here and what has happened since the past 50 years. I will be writing it in my book, as its too long to mention here. I spent a few hour in the Dalai Lama Monastery and stayed opposite it.

I am now ready to drive into J&K tomorrow my 23rd state. I am heading for Jammu via Pathankot.

Do tell people to got on to facebook and join THE UNITED FORCE OF INDIA. and tehy can write to unitedforceindia@gmail.com

I have attached a few Chandigarh news clips. I will attach the Simla news clips in my next mail.

All articles are good, but READ THE INDIAN EXPRESS - CHANDIGARH NEWSLINE "The Messenger". It is by far the best article which writes each and everything about my drive and my mission without missing a detail.

Regards

Amit Rajan Lall
President
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