Leadership Activity at Glass House, Hubli

Leadership Activity at Indira Glass House

It was Feb 1st, 2009, Sunday morning when the fellow group of Ms.Savita, Mr.Lakshmish, Ms.Latha and Ms.Usha visited Indira Glass House located in the heart of the Hubbali Muncipal city, hoping even there we can find some reason where we can intervene as leaders.

We could see many elderly men, women, children and senior citizens of Hubbali starting their day with walking at Indira Glass House under beautiful sunrise, few doing yoga practice and the young kids practicing Skating.

But all those were not our focus, rather we could see very unhygienic condition like used plastics lying all around, paper plates, tumblers etc. dustbins lying around the area which seemed that people coming there never wanted to use it. The place never looked like someone was bothered about its maintenance. Though there was a huge board placed at several places of the Park, in which number of rules focusing on the cleanliness of the place, vehicles not allowed inside the premises all just look like rules that were not to be followed.

When interacted with the people around that area, they expressed their sense of withdrawn from what is happening. On probing they expressed saying “what is available in the park now, is provided after a lot of struggle, writing appeals to the concerned people.” On asking the opinion from those gathered around about bringing necessary steps to keep the place according to the rules and regulations of the place, they all together expressed the interest to fight together for the cause. They came to an opinion saying “a letter could be signed by all those who come there and the same could be forwarded to the Director of the Horticulture”. They expressed the deep sense of support for the team by saying they would join us if their support could be handy. On the same time it was decided, if there is no step taken the issue should be taken to the media.

As per the plans, the fellows visited the place on Feb 8th, 2009 and collected signature from 35 people and the same will be forwarded to the Director of Horticulture, Hubbali.

The important aspect to notice was, those who interacted with us were aware about Deshpande Foundation, though not its thorough activities a good sense of positive words were shared by them.