Humble beginnings in a cyclonic storm. | Dr. Mrutunjay Mohapatra | TEDxSCBMCH
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4EbGxyN-NE Video ID: b4EbGxyN-NE ============================================================ us know that orisa as I say it is the Gateway of natural disasters you can find out any disaster effects India that is occurring in orisa all the disas Cyclones fls droughts Heat cold thunderstorms lightning you take any you will finding so what I want to say that every year I have seen that how the financial backbone of each farmer is just devastated because of the thought ands 1 low pressure systems develop in the head of Bengal and all of they move across Ora if they do not form there will Dr in Ora and if they form it will cause PLS Ina and also the every year cycl effects at least at least one C effects so by that way so we have to move by hand by hand to mouth many families I am just telling about my family it is not simply the my family alone the thousands of families in Ora you will find that they have passed through all types of disasters I should whatever way is possible whatever status you have be in a position to help others there will many who will be seeking the help then not tell you can just anticipate and try your best to have every individual is powerful so by that way so you can just see that it was very disasterous C 10,000 people di I could not know I have written a song also about this so at that time I could not know some that after that but this was a super almost super that time there was no classification entire Coastal belt was affected it went from par just along the coast and went to West Bengal entire Devastation was there starting with just look at what this is I have written about that so I not read that so what I want to say that that impression about a cyclone has made a longlasting inspiration longlasting challenge at that time you may ask whether you decided at that time that you will become a m no as a villager I do not know what is the of Life yes of course when I grew up when I came to high school one day my high school head Master asked me what is your of life so then people say engine doors I told but finally but he told everybody wants to become engineering doctor so then I realized that yes you have to try for your ambition of life in a very systematic and standard like the nowaday the children think of noway the parents think of the days as I got the opportunity to work in India Department that impression of 1971 enforced me inspired me and reached me to take this job and deal with the tropical when I was um uh studying there I got very good inspiration so that there is a competition always I was doing well in the class especially in this when teacher ask something if were replying that then if is correct the child itself gets self motivated and then that go on that self motivation therefore teacher has a very important role teacher can create self motivation within the child's mind so that influence I got that is from that's Purity patience and perseverance are three essential things to achieve success in life so I I will tell you when I come up to the high schools still it inspires to do something for the state I told my father that I got the job and you can but he told no no I will go because you have not joined job I go this year also so then immediately I went to I told the administrator that I want to join then he told how can you join your police.com I told anyway you tell me how can I join he told you can join as a uh contract um job Seeker so I joined uh as 1850 per day as a contract job so after that police came and became Junior scientific assistant okay like that so by that way so what I want to say that I learned the teamw workk and respect the fellow colleagues throughout my professional life when I came from D chandipur then I shifted to of course I came across Dr abam at that time because I was there in the block house when the first going kamam came and Sh hand and wished everyone because those were in Block House they in danger because very close to the lunch P so that was first inspiration I got from Dr kamam how being the at the time the chairman of dro he was at the I justun assistant he came to each other and he wished everyone then I became the lecturer and there of course one of my student is student I stayed there for 2 years and then I left and became here but the problem was that at the time the was depend on me I wanted to join a class one job and I was interested when I got this job I remember my childhood incident but he was family was little reluctant to because as you know there is more Bing and people do not want to go outside but I decided I convin family and finally went there there was lot of difficulties I have to support the family and my younger brother was studying B at B in in college but I managed anyway and that was difficulty that with 2200 rupe you have to manage everything and you will tell you it was very very difficult time Financial at that time but since there was a challenge I took it an opportunity and I could succeed and then of course the challenge begines the opportunities I joined in 1992 then after one year pun then I went to bhes when I came to bhes it was 1998 there was he to condition 2,000 people died in bues in 1998 and I came June 15 I learned here and after that 1999 Super came the C which I've seen at the AG of 6 years now it is same or more cycl again I now know theologist what a Cy is but I cannot do anything because there is lack of Science and Technology there's lack of information communication technology so we could not do anything but that again put a challenge then when I went to goti as a lo I was called and I was posted uh head of division in7 I4 as head ofy Division and at that time what happened actually the new secretary new DG came up and they asked me where working I told Regal specialized C so what are you doing how are you bringing up theion so that challenge took up and I was asked to prepare a vision document I prepared the vision 2020 and it was published in 2010 according to strategy road map we have taken off we go for improving the entire infrastructure in terms of observations modeling Communications War Etc and the first such result was known of course long back in 2012 but it came out in6 2013 when fining struck gopal Post in orisa at that time people came to know who is Dr mapat okay so this is the tri to Destin I will tell you it was very hard it was a very challenging job I was made the Project Director for improvement ofation program of IMD and one na ofy Services actually at that time World Bank project was taken off by government of India for National pation project and I was a part of that but due to the permiss it was decided that I should be Project Director and taken off independently and we took off that and finally we could see that it succeeds and not only in the country but also we provide support I'll stop I think time is over I'll stop here uh we could provide support to all the countries in this region so be it Yemen Somalia or be it Iraq or be it Iran or some Oman Yen Etc Bangladesh Myanmar Thailand Etc all the count are supported by the services Prov by that and by that way the number of deaths came down from 10,000 to 20s not only in India but also all the countries and the region so what we did actually so I'll just take one or two minutes now a vision 2020 document prepared in 2010 I gave just humble Target that forast accuracy will improve by 20% by 2015 and 40% by 2020 but all of you know how pinpointed forecast accuracy was found be it the C fing or H or P or so because of that the response sections could be out so standard operation procedure was modified objective we moved from L method to entire objective methods and the data collection was 6 hours now takes only 15 minutes to take all the data en the glow so entire communication technology was utilized and finally we also went for the assessment of Hazard and vulnerability for entire course so that was decided where to put C shelter how many CS Etc and this is the entire network where we provide the forecast and ET for entire Bal AR Ser is one of the six oral specialized mical centers now that is the success story which has been WR and behind this if you ask what are the key points from my talk the first thing is the Purity in your mind the perseverance the patience challenge convert the challenge into opportunity and be positive in your mind and think of people in front of you before thinking about you be the sacrifice if sacrifice but think about the people so thank you very much for giving this opportunity thank you