Shashank Shekhar
Patna : Strong will and positive thinking with action on the ground always leads to fruitful results and that is what happened when several like minded intellectual of Patna led by some retired IAS and IPS officers, teachers , bankers, technocrats, businessmen and journalists constituted ‘Minds Together Group’ which in its very first year succeeded in facilitating 30 aspirants crack Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) and getting selected for the posts of DSPs, deputy collectors, finance service, education service, election service, and other gazetted posts.
Altogether 68 candidates who had qualified for interview after the written exam came for training cum coaching to ‘Minds Together Group’ (MTG) of which 30 not only made themselves proud but even the group which not only groomed the candidates with soft skills and knowledge and but also raised their confidence level.
At a function held by Like Minded group on September 16, 2018, evening, at Patna, all the successful students narrated their experiences and interacted with mentors later taking oath and pledge that they will serve the country and society as per framed rule and regulations maintaining ethics and give their best for a better tomorrow.
“There is no dearth of talent and merit in students of Bihar but many still lack soft skills, dress sense, pronouncing words correctly, and presenting themselves in proper way even if they did not know right answer, which was what the mentors taught at MT,” stated former a chief secretary rank officer of Bihar IAS Sudhir Kumar Rakesh, the person behind forming this group.
“We roped in experts known for their ethics and character who were ready to work for us free with a mission to serve the society which included senior retired bureaucrat Rameshwar Singh, retired IPS Rajvardhan Sharma, senior teachers Daisy Narain, Imtiaz Ahmad, Shefali Roy, Balram Tewary, Rimjhim besides others famous personalities of Bihar, Sanjay Kundan, Om Prakash, K K Verma, Binod Chowdhry, Ashish Das Gupta, Daya Shankar, Prahlad Baitha, Radha Mohan, Harikant Rai, Ranajee Mehta, Shyamanand Chowdhry, Mahendra, Alok Singh, Sunil Dubey, Samir Mahaseth, and several others who supported this mission,” said Rakesh.
The logo of our group is ‘Building Tomorrow Today’ and so have to labour very hard to scale new heights as expectations will increase with each passing year but with mission to do the best for society I am very hopeful, all our all mentors will give in their best for building better Bihar and better India, “ said Rakesh, a former Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar.
Sharing their experience successful candidates : Akash Yadav, Ved Richa, Manisha, Vandana Sinha, Saket Kumar, Rajeev Roshan said that the first day when they attended their first class at MT, they feared facing interview but once they took few classes and valuable tips on personality development, they knew the goal was not far off.