The sad story of Jaijairam Prasad Yadav since 33 years
Wherever his patience has immeasurable limit…….!
We have one reason for cheerful 33 years since India's first Cricket World Cup victory..!
How do you feel about endurance for doing rickshaw-puller job since 33 years?
What factors determines patience or compulsion of a person towards doing rickshaw-puller since 1983?
You have enough reasons to blame him to not uplift himself since 33 years, as what we are today caused by our yesterday’s own actions. I agree, but the story has another insight also. Somehow progress of a person also determined by his attitude, situation, compulsion, knowledge, surroundings etc. These factors help him to think out of the box or inside the box.
Recently I met this gentleman named as Jaijai Ram Prasad Yadav, he belongs from Sarsa district, vill-Kenjri, Bihar, who has completely out from the progress of Indian development. It was 26th July 2016, Noida City, which is considered as a prime developed city of India. I took a rickshaw from Botanical Garden to Sector 39, F Block. Always, I have a curiosity to understand rickshaw-puller life and their daily activities, so I started a small conversation with him during the journey.
I asked him when he started this job. His prompt reply “Sirji it was 1983-84”. I replied immediately Oh my god, are you sure? Are you drunk? He replied- I started this job when Kapil Dev gave us first world cup, we were cheered that time. I have still remembered all those cheerful moments and I came here when Indira Gandhi was PM, then he continued talking…
हा ससाब, जब मे याँहा आया था, यहाँ सबकुछ सुना सा गांव था, याँहा जंगल था, आज ये गांव मेरे देखेते देखेते हि NOIDA बन गया..ये बडे बडे अपर्त्मेंट..आँख के सामने देखा है..मैने भी काफी अलग करने कि कोसिश कि, लेकिन कुछ कर नही पाया, येही Rickshaw हि करने के लिए रह गया...जिन्दगी मे कुछ मज्ब्बोरियां और जिम्मेदारी कि बजह से ३० साल से चला रहा हु...भगवान क सुकर है कि, मेरी स्वाश्त्य अछा है, कभी भी दारु नही पीता..जवान से शुरु किया था, आज ६० से ज्यादा हो गया...उपर वालो कि मेहेरबानी..देखते हैं..कबतक..... !
When I reached my destination, I sat in a chair and thinking about him, felt saddened also, but I truly respect his endurance for doing the same puller job since 33 years, it is not easy. Whereas during the same time frame India did well progress….!
The progress of India from Tanga (carriage) to Monorail happened in last three decades. India clinched 2 time cricket world cup, succeeding progress in space research, computer applications touched every households, almost 100cr mobile subscribers, Metro to Monorail started in metro cities, the development shape of all cities are drastically changed, number of universities from 2 digits to 3 digits will happen very soon, modernized Indian railway, earning of every household has increased, literacy rate from 50 to 80 %...many more….India’s development timeline to continue…..
Jaijairam Prasad Yadav is not a single one, there are numbers of people, rural villages and section of societies are still living in the 19th century. This should be fine for our country, new governments come and go, various types of the scheme launched, but real development for those unsupervised people are still unnoticed or untouched.
It’s not too late; it’s time to recognize such sections of peoples or villages, no matter what caste, religion, state. We should work for them to uplift the fractural Indian development, otherwise, the dream of APJ Abdul Kalam will not be realized and our dream will remain a dream, and India will continually in developing stage and consecutively the meaning of “21st Century is for India” will be pointless.
We all along with central and state government should work together to change this situation; just will power is needed without expecting any political gain and I wish and hope that people like Jaijairam Prasad Yadav will get the advantage of Indian development and it will continue…., then only the world will recognize us as the India attains true development.
Hope for better tomorrow, Hope helps to take actions and action will make change….. !
