About the Lt. Amit Singh Memorial Foundation
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Lt. Amit Singh Memorial Foundation (ASM Foundation), since its inception, in 2001, has appreciably grown in its outreach and the spectrum of activities carried out to fulfill its commitments, within the ambit of its stated aims and objectives to develop a patriotic society, through education, secured health, economic development and inculcation of ethics and values among the masses, in general, and youth in particular. To begin with, the foundation started its activities with the distribution of books and school bags amongst the poor and needy children to support their education. The Foundation is organizing health camps to improve the health status of poor and needy; scientific exhibitions and workshops to disseminate the knowledge of newly developed technologies, particularly in the field of agriculture and horticulture, to empower the farmers with up-to-date knowledge, and inspirational discourse by spiritual leaders to inculcate social ethics and values, especially among youth.
In its strive to achieve the aims and objectives, the Foundation organized the first Swadesh Prem Jagriti Sangosthi (SPJS-2009), a national level, mega event in, 2009, to commemorate the birthday of the Martyr Lt. Amit Singh, at his birth place, Mahamada, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar. This Sangosthi included activities like inauguration of Smriti Bhawan, essay/elocution competition and talent search for students of schools and higher secondary schools from different states, health camps, national conference on horticulture, national exhibition, farmers quiz, distribution of quality seeds and planting materials of the agricultural and horticultural crops, diversity shows, litchi/mango eating competition and spiritual discourse to inculcate ethics and values. This Sangosthi was a big success as it was a well attended event. The overwhelming response and encouraging feedback of participants of the first Sangosthi made it annual feature of the activities of the Foundation. Beside farmers, students and scientists, some prominent political personalities also attended the event. Swadesh Prem Jagariti Sangosthi and conference are an annual function. Since then, 2nd Swadesh Prem Jagriti Sangosthi (SPJS) was organised at Bangalore in 2010. Subsequently, 3rd SPJS in 2011 at Dehradun. The events was a great success. 4th Swadesh Prem Jagriti Sangosthi was organised from 27-31 May, 2012 at OUAT, Bhubaneswar, and 5th SPJS was organised on May 28-31, 2013, at JISL Jalgaon, Maharashtra. 6th SPJS was organized at NAU, Navsari and 7th SPJS was organised at Chitrakoot, Satna, Madhya Pradesh. The 8th SPJS was organized at JISL Jalgaon, Maharashtra and 9th SPJS was organized at JAU, Junagadh, Gujarat. Subsequently 10th SPJS was organized at DRPCAU, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar, 28th to 31st May, 2018 and 11th SPJS was organized at GBPUA&T, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand in May 2019. Due to Covid-19, virtual SPJS-2020 was organized from Dubai and SPJS-13 was organized at PJTSAU, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, Telangana, from 16-19 September, 2021.
During the Pandemic (Covid-19), the Foundation conducted its activities adapting digital technologies matching to requirements of the conditions under New normal. The Foundation organised 12th Swadesh Prem Jagriti Sangosthi in the form of webinar entitled “Post Pandemic (Covi-19) Challenges and Options in Agriculture Including Horticulture” on 28th May, 2020, which was well attended from across the globe by more than 1000 delegates. The conference highlighted the emerging issues, caused due to pandemic and discussed various options. The recommendations were communicated to all the stakeholder for action. The Foundation fed poor people and distributed food to large number of needy people. On 3rd September another webinar was organized on production and utilization of fruits. The ASM Foundation also supported webinar organized by CHAI and other organizations.
In order to inculcate the spirit of healthy and fair competitiveness and catalyse the minds of the people to serve the society better, ASM Foundation has instituted many rewards and awards. The rewards include the cash prizes to the winners of national debates/elocution of National Talent search in Horticulture. Awards instituted by the Foundation to recognise the outstanding contributions made by people in their respective fields for the welfare of the society, at large include, Amit Krishi Rishi Award, Amit Padma Jagriti Award, Amit Prabudh Manishi Award, Amit Swah Award, Amit Udyan Ratna Award, Amit Agrani Award, National Talent Award in Horticulture, Best All Rounder Awards (for school students), and Lt. Amit Singh Memorial Best Performing Centre of AICRP. Amit Best student Award (JAU, Junagadh and DrYSRHU, Venkataramannagudem, West Godawari, AP.) The recipients of these awards are leading and distinguished educationists, corporate sectors, scientists, entrepreneurs, farmers, students and leading research institutes, which act as a great driving and inspirational force for the participants and stakeholders to work harder with full zeal in their respective fields, to be among the recipient of such awards. The activities of the Foundation carried, so far, have been very successful, as is evident from the impact on impressionable tender minds of youth to inculcate patriotism and building nationalistic fervour in them; economic empowerment of the poor farmers through innovative technologies and current knowledge disseminated through conferences and exhibitions on agriculture and horticulture.
The Foundation has expanded its activities over the years with its major focus on improving the health of children and empowerment of women. The emphasis is also given on improving the income of farmers through distribution of quality seeds and planting material, dissemination of modern technologies and techniques, knowledge and imparting training and awareness. The Foundation has also supported few meritorious economically poor student to persue his Engineering, who has now joined the mainstream job. The Foundation brings out various publications on Topical issues for the benefit of people. The activities of ASM Foundation have been recognised by conferring Institutional Excellence Award-2016 reconstruction of Rural India through involvement of Youth in Agricultural transformation by AIASA, New Delhi. The Award included a Citation, Plaque of Honour and a Certificate. was given by the Chief Guest, Honourable Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare and MOS of Panchayati Raj, Shri Parshottam Bhai Rupala, on 20th Feb., 2017. During the year 2018, Foundation stone was laid for the construction of Amit Gyan Sambardhan Kendra (ASK) and office cum training centre. This training centre and office was inaugurated on 21stApril, 2019and operational now. During the year Amit Memorial Rural Institute for Transformation have also been established.