Ms Samina Javed: The Secretary Trustee

She is the Coordinator at Unity Degree College and Member GB at Unity Technical Institute Society. She is BBA, M.Com by education, and a dedicated philanthropist and photographer by passion. She successfully supervised and conducted Nai Roshni (Leadership Development Programme for Minority Women) under the aegis of Ministry of Minority Affairs GoI at Lucknow City and at Village Sidhnath and adjoining places, at Asiwan, Unnao. As a freelance photographer she has covered various photoprojects like the International Taj Mahotsav – at Fatehpur Sikri, “Horizon” monthly cultural programme of Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Lucknow (for many years), Still Photography of Fatehpur Sikri for UP Tourism, Photographic Exhibition of Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi, Stills for “Kafan” ­ a movie directed by Rishi Jena, Lucknow Mahotsav 2015-16 for U.P. Tourism and the passage of the planet Mercury accross the face of Sun for the Science Centre, Lucknow. She has received many recognitions, awards and mementos, the latest was given to her by His Excelency the Hon'ble Governor of Uttar Pradesh for her artistic coverage of the Lucknow Mahotsava (Annual Festival of Lucknow) 2015-16 organised by the U.P. Tourism Department.

Proceedings of the National #Seminar on #Growth with #Justice at #Lucknow on April 10, #2016

The Compendium of the papers received for the Seminar is available at the following links in

India,  USA , Canada, Mexico, Brazil, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Other Nordic Countries, South Africa, Thailand and Japan

Mr Masood Rezvi CMT, Ms Samina Javed Secretary and Hon'ble Mr Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza Patron Inviting the Guests for Lighting the Inaugural Lamp

A  national level seminar on Growth with Justice was organised on April 10, 2016, at Unity Degree College jointly by the Lucknow Educational And Development Trust (LEAD Trust) and Unity Degree College. Hon’ble Mr. Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza was the Chief Guest.  Besides him, reputed academicians  like Prof. R. S. Yadav (Former Pro VC, University of Lucknow, Lucknow), Prof. M.

Mr H. K. Mazhari Hon Trustee, Prof R. S. Yadav and Prof B. N. Singh Patron

Varma (Dean faculty of Education, University of Lucknow, Lucknow), Prof. Somesh Kumar Shukla (Head of the Department of Commerce, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Prof. B. N. Singh (Former Professor and Head, Department of Plant Breeding, Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa, Former Director Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack and Former Director Research, Birsa Agricultural University Ranchi), Prof. A.B. Siddiqui (Principal, Unity Degree College)  and Prof Pushpendra Mishra (Associate Professor Commerce, Dr. Shakuntala Mishra Rehabilitation University, Lucknow) etc  were present.

Mrs Sameena Imtiyaz, Prof Somesh K Shukla, Prof R. S. Yadav and Prof M Varma

Veteran practitioners of development schemes of the governments like Mr. H. K. Mazhari IAS (Former Commissioner and Secretary, Urban Development Government of Meghalaya) and Mr. S. M. A. Rizvi IAS (Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh) attended the seminar and deliberated in details on Urban Development.

Mr Humayun Rasheed ADJ

The judiciary was represented by Mr. Humayun Rasheed (Additional District Judge, District Kaushambi) and Mr. Murtaza Hasnain Khan Advocate (Max Law Firm). 

From the medical profession, Dr. M.M. Sarfaraz Ali Khan and from the pharmaceutical industry Mr. Syed Hussain Taj Rizvi (Regional Sales Manager, M/S Biorex Health Care Pvt. Ltd.) were present.

The state department for school level education was represented by Mr. Asghar Mehdi (Finance and Audit Officer, Department of Basic Education, Barabanki).

 Hon'ble Mr Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza giving his Inaugural Speech

(Other videos are available at  LEAD Channel and the slides are available at LEAD slides) 

Prof R. S. Yadav and Prof Somesh Kumar Shukla

Senior bankers like Mr. S. Alim Rizvi, former Assistant General Manager, (Union Bank of India), Mr. Ajmal Husain (Chief Manager, Bank of India), Mr. M.V. Rangacharyulu (Senior Faculty Punjab National Bank Staff College, Panchkula, Haryana) and Mr. S. K. Singh (Director, PNB RSETI, Ramgarh, Jharkhand) participated.

Prof M Varma and Prof Somesh Kumar Shukla

The point of view of social organisations claiming to represent the oppressed classes and women was echoed by Mrs. Tahira Hasan (President, All India Progressive Women Association, Lucknow) Mrs. Rafat Fatima from Tahrik-e-Niswan (A feminist organisation) was also present  and the issue of higher education to Minority Communities was taken up by Mr. Mohammad Allam (PG Teacher Minto Circle, Aligarh Muslim University). Mr. Zamanat Ali, Local Secretary, Anjuman-e-Wazifa-e-Sadat-wa-Momineen, Aligarh (A very old philanthropic organisation busy in providing interest free education loan to needy students) was also present.

Mr M. V. Rangacharyulu and Mr. S. M. A. Rizvi IAS
(Mrs. K. M. Rizvi and Dr Dinar in the Background)

The progressive farming community was represented by Mr. Anil Mishra (Farmer, Village Sidhnath, Asiwan, Mianganj, Lucknow), who had volunteered to try along with some of his friends the biofortified wheat seeds under the HarvestPlus programme, provided by LEAD Trust and Centre for Research and Development, Gorakhpur.

Many other people presented their papers.  The papers submitted by the participants were published by the Lucknow Educational And Development Trust (LEAD Trust) in the form of a compendium entitled Growth with Justice (ISBN: 1519227078 ISBN-13: 978-1519227072) at Create Space Independent Publishing Platform USA and is available at Amazon globally.

The LEAD Patrons Prof B. N. Singh and Hon'ble Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza

Hon'ble Mr Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza and Mr H. K. Mazhari IAS (Retd)

Hon'ble Mr Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza, Mr H. K. Mazhari Mr Masood Rezvi and Prof A. B. Siddiqui

Mr H. K. Mazahari, and Mr. Masood Rezvi 

Mr H. K. Mazahari, Mr. Masood Rezvi and Prof Pushpendra Mishra

Ms Samina Javed and Ms Sumana Zafar

Mrs. M M Sarfaraz Ali Khan and Dr. M M Sarfaraz Ali Khan (Ms Maria and Dr Urusa in the Background)

Mr. M. F. Shah, Mr. Murtaza Hasnain Khan and Mrs. Tahira Hasan

Mr S M A Rizvi IAS and Mr S K Singh Director RSETI

Mr Rangacharyulu, Mr Rizvi IAS and Mr S. K. Singh
(Mrs K. M. Rizvi, Mr Hussain Taj and Mr Faheem)

Mrs Rafat, Mr Mehdi, Mr Allam and Mr Shailendra

Mr Zamanat, Mr S. Alim Rizvi and Mr Mishra

Mr Zamanat Ali and Mr S. Alim Rizvi

Dr Arif Hasnain Khan

Dr Sadaf Khan

Dr S M Ali Rizvi and Dr Dinar Fatima

Mr Masood Rezvi and Dr A. S. Yadav

Vote of thanks by Prof A. B, Siddiqui

The purpose of the seminar was not purely academic, and it was desired to yield some direction for

the future programs of the LEAD Trust to start playing its humble role as a facilitator of both growth and just distribution.

The papers presented by Mr. H. K. Mazhari entitled “Urbanisation a Key Facilitator to Economic Growth”, by Prof. B. N. Singh “India Versus Bharat: The Urban-Rural Divide” and of Mr. S.K. Singh “Guaranteed Success with RSETI” were especially helpful in throwing up some areas where a beginning can be made.

Mr Masood Rezvi, Mr. S. K. Singh, Mr Swadesh Deepak,
 Ms Samina Javed, Dr. A. S. Yadav Ms Asma Jawed etc

On the basis of above, in the review meeting, the following morning  chaired by Prof B. N. Singh at the State Guest House Lucknow and attended by Mr Mazhari, Mr Masood, Ms Samina and Ms Sumana the following roadmap of activities was suggested for the trust for the year 2016:

Mission statement	Description
Campaign Against Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs).	Extremely dangerous pesticides are being freely used in India. RTI/PIL to be preferred against this crime against humanity Project Owners: Mr. Masood Rezvi Mr. M.H. Khan
Clean India, a beginning to be made in and around the Unity Degree College/ Shahr Bano Begum Girls School, Sidhnath, Miagunj, Unnao	It is huge work but very important and relevant in view of the insanitation prevailing in rural and urban areas. We can initiate an awareness programme on the collection, transportation, treatment and disposal of the liquid and solid waste; As a first step, we should urge people to completely shun the practice of open-air defecation in the villages choosing two to three villages on a pilot basis. Project Owners: Ms Samina Javed Ms Sumana Zafar
Legal Awareness Programme	Need of the day. Will be restricted to the laws which may be relevant to poor and depressed class who many times, are exploited by the law makers, the law enforcers and the defenders of the law Project Owner: Mr. M. H. Khan
Next Seminar/Workshop to be held on the role of bankers in the development of small business and artisans in the changing economic scenario.	This seminar will be much better organised with participants coming from bankers DIC and RSETI but also those who are seeking assistance and their experience they have in getting the necessary institutional support. Project Owner: Mr. Masood Rezvi
A book/Books on zari / chikan workers	This topic came up during the meeting of Trustees the next morning, as a first step towards amelioration of the condition of the local urban poor. The idea was to bring out the problems that the zari / chikan workers are facing in getting adequate means of livelihood to keep their chullah’s burning. The work will be valuable if it suggests a road map for the rejuvenation of the original artisan’s (the workers') economic returns   apart from describing their status and associated problems of the industry. Let us prepare a blueprint for welfare of the workers in the form of the proposed book. Project Owners: Ms. Sumana Zafar Mr. Masood Rezvi

The above roadmap is in addition to the book on "Inflation" which is being written by Mr. Masood Rezvi.

#Biofortified Wheat Seeds Distributed to Selected Farmers Free of Cost under #HarvestPlus

Mr Anil Mishra the Contact Farmer from Asiwan, Attending the National Seminar on Growth with Justice

We helped Centre for Research and Development, Gorakhpur in identifying potential farmers in Unnao district and distributing 100 kg biofortified wheat seeds under the #HarvestPlus programme to these farmers on trial basis.

The programme proved to be a great success. Mr Anil Mishra one of those farmers was invited to share his success story at our National Seminar on Growth with Justice on April 10, 2016 at Unity Degree College, Lucknow. Sample harvested grain was collected for hem for testing the nutrient quality in it.

Kisan Goshthi at Village Sidhnath, Asiwan, Mianganj, Unnao

On November 8, 2015 within less than a month of our incorporation, we organised a Kisan Goshthi (Farmers' Meet) at the Shahar Bano Begum Saheba Memorial Girls English School, in which Prof B. N. Singh, Former Director, Central Rice Research Institute Cuttack,  Former Director Research, Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand and Director Centre for Research and Development, Gorakhpur addressed local farmers, listened to their problems, answered to their queries and questions and guided them on how to manage and optimise their food grain production.

Hon'ble Mr Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza, Patron LEAD Trust, chaired the meet. In addition Mr Masood Rezvi Chairman and Managing Trustee, LEAD Trust, Ms Samina Javed, Secretary, LEAD Trust, Mr Murtaza Hasnain Khan, Secretary, Justice Murtaza Husain Educational Charitable Trust, and Mr Nadeem Murtaza, Treasurer Unity Technical Institute Society were also present.

The farmers enthusiastically participated in the programme and some of them came forward for trying new technologies. We are sharing photographs from the programme.

 

 

 

 

Tightening Noose of Poverty by: Masood Rezvi - Our début book

The book is available at the following links in India , USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, UK,Germany, France, Italy,  Sweden, Spain,  Nordic Countries, Netherlands, South Africa,  Australia, Thailand  and Japan 

 Read Review by: Youth ki Awaz, Shahernama

Synopsis:

 

The rat-race of wealth maximisation is the academically accepted goal of business today; to such an extent that 'do-gooding' has become a sin.

Big business schools are taking keen interest in the study of Bottom of Wealth Pyramid through their Global Poverty Projects but looking upon it as a market segment hunting business opportunity in it with a ‘good business sense’ sans ‘do-gooding.’

Today 1% of world population is controlling 50% of world wealth, and more and more wealth is being sucked up the pyramid continuously, through a giant centrifugal wealth sucker pump, in the process destroying the inhabitability of Earth. The concern for CSR and ecosystem preservation is mere lip service.

Are those at the top of the wealth pyramid planning to fly off to some other inhabitable planet before Earth becomes too dangerous to live upon?

If so the species of sub humans left back down here may be called Homo gaius, after Gaia the Greek personification of mother earth. They will be an endangered species, will have extremely poor chances of survival, with a very high mortality rate, and sooner or later will become an extinct species. The other species, those who fly off to extraterrestrial habitats best deserve being called - Homo machiavellius, in‘honour’ of Niccolo Machiavelli, author of The Prince.

A dream, if you belong to the 1% Top of Pyramid, but a horrific nightmare otherwise!

In order to prevent the nightmare becoming a reality, goal of businesses must immediately be redefined as Survival Chance Maximisation of Homo sapiens.

The royalties earned on this book will be used exclusively for charity by LEAD Trust, Lucknow, India.

There are 15 pictures 5 illustrations, 1 table, 47 bibliographical references, a glossary of uncommon words and an exhaustive index at the end.

Abridged Version: 

The book "Tightening Noose of Poverty" (ISBN-10: 1517533066 / ISBN-13: 978-1517533069) - available on Amazon - was very much liked by almost all of the readers. However, a concern was shown that the paperback edition of the book was out of the reach of an ordinary student, and thus, there was a need to come out with another edition which could be made affordable for the masses.

Although the kindle edition was there to fulfill this need, we decided, that since till now, in many areas of the world, an e-book was not a feasible reading medium, and there were many readers - especially the senior ones - who were not very comfortable with e-book reading; it was essential to print a separate abridged title extracted from the original one, in as compact a form as possible, and to make it as much affordable as possible. In this abridged book, we have culled the table of pictures, illustrations and tables; the bibliography, the index, and almost all of the images; and have reduced the font size as well as line spacing, stuffed the quotations within the main chapters so as to avoid extra use of even a single folio, and have used white paper in place of the cream paper used in the original one.

We have, however, maintained the original text and are sure that the book will succeed in conveying the message.

Buy Paper Back Edition or read Kindle Edition in India. In other countries you may search by book name or author name.

Growth with Justice - Compendium of the papers received for the National Seminar on Growth with Justice Published

The Compendium of the papers received for the Seminar is available at the following links in

India,  USA , Canada, Mexico, Brazil, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Other Nordic Countries, South Africa, Thailand and Japan

While a rapid GDP growth rate is a necessary condition for well-being, it is by no means a sufficient condition. Economists have long accepted that the market may be a very efficient allocator of resources to maximise output but not an adequate dispenser of social justice.

GDP growth depends very materially on the commodity producing sectors of agriculture and manufacturing industry performing much better than now and in a more consistent fashion. This is, of course, possible; but the chances of achieving such a growth rate require the stepping up of domestic investment rather steeply and an all round increase in factor productivities, together with more employment of labour. Further, productive, distributive and social justice must be ensured for a real development and an overall well-being.

In order to brainstorm on the subject in Indian as well as global context, the LEAD Trust and Unity Degree College, jointly organised a national seminar on April 10, 2016, at Unity Degree College campus, Lucknow, India. Noted academicians, experienced administrators, planners, developers, bankers, trainers, faculty members, research scholars, and students from different Indian states submitted their papers for the seminar.

This book is a compendium of these papers and contains 30 chapters in total. Each one, authored or coauthored by different persons. A brief introduction of the prominent ones among them is as under:

Honourable Mr. Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza, Former Senior Judge of the Honourable High Court of Judicature at Allahabad (Lucknow Bench), Chairman Unity Technical Institute Society and Patron LEAD Trust has authored the 1st Chapter of the book which is the text of his inaugural speech.

Dr. Anis Ansari - IAS (Retd.) has authored the 5th Chapter of the book "An Agenda for 21st Century India." He is Former (and founder) Vice Chancellor Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Urdu, Arabi-Farsi University Lucknow.

Mr. H. K. Mazhari - IAS (Retd.) is Former Commissioner and Secretary Urban Development Government of Meghalaya. He has authored the 3rd Chapter of the book "Urbanisation A Key Facilitator to Economic Growth."

Prof B. N. Singh Former Director of Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) Cuttack, Former Director Research BAU Ranchi; Director Centre for Research and Development Gorakhpur and Patron LEAD Trust has written the 4th Chapter of the book "India vs. Bharat: The Urban-Rural Divide."

Prof Somesh Kumar Shukla is the HOD of Commerce at University of Lucknow. He has coauthored the 9th Chapter of the book "Islamic Banking Entering the Indian Markets with Special Reference to Growth with Justice," with Dr. Syed Mohammad Ali Rizvi and Guncha Fatima.

Mrs. Tahira Hasan is a renowned social worker and is Secretary of AIPWA at Lucknow. She has written the 14th Chapter "Growth, Justice, Democracy and Dissent."

Mr. S. K. Singh is Director at PNB Rural Self Employment Training Institute. He has authored the 24th Chapter "Guaranteed Success with RSETI."

Mr. Syed Ghulam Murtuza Rizvi is Retired Additional Chief Legal Adviser at Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC). He has written the 8th Chapter "Growth with Justice and The Petroleum Sector, A Global Perspective."

Mr. M. V. Rangacharyulu is Senior Faculty at PNB Staff College at Panchkula. He has written the 7th Chapter "Growth With Justice - Technological Aspects."

Mr. Shailendra Srivastava is former Manager, Punjab National Bank. He has written the 25th Chapter "Induced Employments for Growth and Justice."

Others are experienced assistant professors, teachers, academicians, research scholars and students.

THE LEAD TRUST AND GROWTH WITH JUSTICE – AN INTRODUCTION By: Mr. Masood Rezvi*

What is the ultimate fruit of education?

Wisdom!

And what is wisdom?

Let’s first try to understand what is NOT wisdom. Wisdom is neither a measure of the amount of information and data stored into our brain cells, nor of the dexterity with which we can perform tasks which were originally invented and perfected by others.

Wisdom is rather the ability to absorb and input information and data from the outside as well as from within our own selves; sift, arrange classify, doubt, question, reject, accept  and connect each and every item of such data with each other to find, invent and create holistic solutions hitherto unknown to the humanity; learning, unlearning and re learning in the way. Wisdom gives us out of the tunnel vision.

Our mother land India, since times immemorial, has been the most fertile ground for supporting and nurturing wisdom. Great thinkers and wise people, from the architects of the Harappan civilisation to the saints, thinkers, philosophers, astronomers, physicians, mathematicians, physicists and what not of the ancient ages to the planners, engineers, bards, poets and sufis of the medieval era to thinkers, lawmakers, and scientists to the modern age right upto the brilliant son of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, India has gifted to humanity its brightest jewels. In fact while standing here before you at the Unity Degree College, I remember one of such persons I had a chance to work with and he was the Honourable Late Mr. Justice Murtaza Husain the founder secretary of Unity Technical Institute Society and Unity Degree College.  All of them were wise people and original thinkers, and not just educated people – as is generally understood from the word ‘educated’ by many.

We felt the need of an organisation – under the patronage of Honourable Mr. Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza, the illustrious son of Honourable Late Mr. Justice Murtaza Husain – separately and exclusively concentrating on providing platform to people where scholars and learned thinkers from different walks of life interact with young men and women so as to quicken the seeds of wisdom into their minds, while the original organisation the Unity Technical Institute Society concentrates on its noble goal of providing technical and job oriented education to people from the weaker sections of the society. Thus, Lucknow Educational And Development Trust (LEAD Trust) came into being in October 2015.

Under the visionary guidance of Honourable Mr. Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza as also of Dr. B. N. Singh within a short span of six months of its existence the Trust has the following achievements to its credit:

1. Organised Kisan Goshthi (Farmers’ Meet) at Unity Girls School at Village: Sidhnath, Asiwan, Mianganj Unnao, in which Prof. B. N. Singh guided farmers about cultivation of wheat and rice and answered their queries. 
2. Helped in free distribution of biofortified wheat seeds to some farmers on trial basis under HarvestPlus programme by Centre for Research and Development, Gorakhpur. 
3. Published the book “ Tighteneing Noose of Poverty ” by Masood Rezvi, which is available in Large Font Edition and Abridged Edition both in paperback and Kindle format, internationally on Amazon. 
4. Is holding the seminar Growth with Justice and has published this book which is again available both in paperback format and in Kindle format, internationally on Amazon. 

This seminar is first in the series. We will be organizing such seminars biennially in addition to workshops, conferences and brain storming sessions on relevant contemporary sub themes and issues. We will be encouraging younger generation to think and write, almost any genre, from books of scientific and technical utility to, novels, short stories, poems and all will give them debut by publishing their work and ensuring it global distribution.

We will be working for technology transfer to farmers and artisans and encourage innovative developmental technology for Growth and Development of the economically marginalized classes, without any discrimination whatsoever.

We, definitely invite you, ladies and gentlemen to support us generously through purchasing our publications, subscribing to our events, writing for us, inviting us to hold such events in your town city or village, inviting others to join and donating to us for building our own financial base if you so desire.

 With these words I thank you very much for your support without taking more time to let you get immersed in the wisdom of all the thinkers and writers who are presenting their papers in the seminar.