Me, now!

Again, it has been so long without any update on my blog. And here, I am with full of excuses to defend my failure to update it. 

The first in the list is ‘I have been busy!’ Alright, I have been busy. But this is just an excuse. No matter how busy the schedule is, I always used to get the time to write something about the event. However, this time, I didn’t get the time just because I didn’t strive to write. 

Well, in the serious note, I have been lazily busy over some little official events. The VC Validation workshop of CARLEP was followed by the AWPB preparation for the

FY 2017-18 which is further been followed by the first RPIC meeting which was honored by the Dasho Dzongdas of the six Eastern Dzongkhags. 

I was actually planning to update about these three subsequent events. But just then, another important event came-in; the Graduate Farmers’ Dialogue which was honored by the Hon’ble Minister Lyoenpo Yeshey Dorji. In the address by the Lyoenpo, he said that it is a historic event where the University Graduates who have chosen to do the farming career have come into a single board. 

It would be quite an alarming news if I say that there is more than 3,000 educated farmers in the six eastern Dzongkhags alone, out of which hundreds are the University Graduates. While the Nation at large is moaning for the rise in youth unemployment, we do have an impressive number of youth who are into farming. But the saddest thing is nobody recognizes them. 

For the Graduate Farmers’ Dialogue, organized under CARLEP, we could gather only 22 of them who are a real aspirant University Graduate Farmers’. They have done the MBA, BBA, BSE, B.com etc and etc from both National and International Universities just like many of us. But the one great thing about them is that they are ventured into the agricultural farming which is the least preferred job among us; especially the youth. 

Interacting with them was one exciting thing that I got, being the part of CARLEP. These graduate farmers’ are contended with their decision to stay back at village, help their parents are other village mates in moderating any modern information. They are serving as a bridge between the aid-providers and the receivers. However, some of them seems little-down with their decision. 

I was doing the registration. It had the column to reflect the designation. These graduate farmers were writing as a ‘Farmer’ in the designation column. I felt little odd because I am also a University Graduate. While I can write ‘Gender and Knowledge Management Officer’; the title Officer against my name, these group of people who also are a University Graduates wrote ‘Farmer’ against their name. 

As expected one of them said ‘having studied in the Universities, the title we earn at the end is Farmer.’ As you see, ‘Farmer’ is although the back-bone of the Nation, the title isn’t the much preferred one among us. He said 'I could have easily earned this title even without having had to go to the ECCD, forget about attending Universities'

Regardless of how and for what we are born, we wish to live well with a good name, position, fame and title.

Anyway, believe me, I am writing this in a short notice of maybe 30 minutes or less. I know this is fully unorganized. Accept the apology and thanks for reading. I hope I won’t take much time for the next update. You may also visit me at http://ogenstar.com/.

Have a good day.