The Charter

What will be your responsibility during the Fellowship

Once the fellows are equipped with basic skills, they will be ready to hit the field with the message of LMAD.

The National Youth Conference:

We need to strengthen our flagship National Youth Conference at Asia Plateau. It should become an

aspirational learning platform; to earn a seat for the national conference one should show dedication and

open-mindedness. Holding the LMAD certificate should be a matter of pride and power in a youth’s portfolio.

Every conference has to be full house. The diversity of the participants across the nation and participation

from premier educational institutions of India are vital. The entire experience of LMAD at AP, including

funding, participation and coordination, should become auto pilot for the organizing team. The focus should

be on deliverables with optimum new learning, where we embrace the constant change that is happening in

the society. LMAD should have idea-thought-suggestion basket, where participants and coordinators provide

suggestions to improve upon each conference, this will bring in constant new values and our work will move

ahead with time.

Social Media:

What is also key is to professionalize LMAD. This includes putting in place professional systems which are

easily accessible and increasing our social media presence. Social medium is the new way forward. Our

presence is negligible, our visibility is only programme centric. We need to keep this platform engaged with

inspiration constantly through a comprehensive website with written and audio-visual content, national and

regional conference archives, LMAD family database and constant update of all of the above.

The LMAD app should become prominent on all platforms. It should be dynamic and content rich and also

adapt to changing times; a reader’s delight.

A lot of effort needs to go in creating content, interviewing participants parents/speakers, recording, writing,

editing and putting it on our website/app, as short inspirations. Short videos, images with meaningful

messages, is the future; LMAD needs to work in this area.

Archiving of last 27 years, data, images, videos, newspaper cuttings reports, speakers all this should be in

cloud space. Unwanted data need to be removed for good and deleted. We must think of printing IofC-

LMAD-AP pictorial, it can be in both the formats e-pictorial and like a coffee table book.

New means of spreading the idea:

The most powerful way to sensitize civil society at large is to relay the message in an audio-visual medium

in the simplest manner. Humour, heart touching incidents, music, fresh new songs, all this included in a

LMAD stage production with our own stories of change will be impactful. This production can travel across

the nation to deliver our message of values and inner introspection.

The new medium which we have embraced and started liking is virtual space. Every national youth

conference has to simultaneously run, in-person and through the virtual space. The virtual platform has

potential reach across the globe and for this, social medium will play an important role and we have to be

innovative to attract youth through this mode.

Regional/International Conferences:

Another main task is to establish new regional chapters where the need is most prominent and the young

community is deprived of our thoughts. We need to take the message and increase our reach of regional

conferences to thousands of youths and more. During the second half of every year, after National YC, every

month one regional conference needs to happen on a large scale with over thousand participants. Few regional

conferences can take place once in two years in established regions like Parli and Tamar and every year we

should plant our footprint in newer regions like Rishikesh. Creating significant tailor-made programs with

powerful new content as per the present day needs of the region, these programs have to be deep life

changing, where it will work on the very core of that human and conscious application will bring a turn-

around, which will help the larger cause of humanity. Such programs have to be rolled out in the premier

institutions of our country like IAS, IPS, IFS, IIM’S, IIT.

The time has come for us to take our message International. Wherever we have a LMAD representative

present in another country, we must activate our team and inspire them to take lead in organising youth

programs in their city/country.

Organizing a conference takes lots of efforts, sometimes an entire year is invested, thousands of hours of

talking, listening, writing, thinking is invested in creating a life changing conference. We always rise to the

occasion and collectively execute the conference as per the plan; till date LMAD has always delivered

through God’s grace. What we need to strengthen is to design a flawless mechanism of follow-up where all

the efforts put in by us leads to further growth of individual participants and continuity in our regional

programs for many more years.

Creating a Newsletter:

Once every month, a newsletter, speaking about the work that is in progress and what has transpired needs

to go out to all those who have attended national and regional youth conference. This will give a sense of

inclusiveness and sharing of what we are doing within the larger team, it will also inspire the team reading

about our work and its growth. The newsletter will give a snap-shot of our activities during the month, about

the guests and speakers who visited the fellow home, in this way it will positively nudge many in our team

to come forward and work with LMAD by giving their time in various activities of our work. They may also

feel inspired to come and stay in the fellow home for few days. Every guest visiting the home will add value

to the work and vice-versa.

Fund Collection:

Financial stability is very important for our work and its sustainability, for this we need funds and funds have

to come in constant supply. A few avenues are through Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR], micro funding

within the alumni of LMAD, where they send in a fixed amount every month and donations. Corporate

programs for the industry will bring in funds which can be redirected towards programs the rural and

backward regions of our country. Also, the LMAD production can bring in huge money through shows,

sponsorship and advertisement.

Ties with the Government:

We should stay in touch with the GOI and HRD ministry and regularly meet and exchange ideas on better

education in areas of morals, ethics and quiet time. Building connections with many in the government is

vital, it can open many doors for passing on our message of change. Government funds can also be utilized

in spreading the message. As a pilot project, we can tie-up with any state government and work with all the

elected members for five years, change them from bench sitters to field workers, showcase the result and

give them guarantee, that for sure they will get re-elected after five years, if they follow our model without

dilution.

Aspirational District:

LMAD has been planning to adopt Haridwar, which is one of the aspirational districts as identified by Niti

Aayog. This will be a partnership program, collaborating with ICCfG; their guidance is vital to make this

program work. The needs of the district will be far too many. A separate team is vital for coordination,

support and execution. Encouraging many from our team to give short/long term time towards this initiative

is crucial. Working in the aspirational district will take lot of time and effort; for this we will need the fellows

to support those who will be working in the district. Coordination, feeder and fully integrated support system

between both the verticals will be vital.

LMAD Gatherings for alumni:

One iconic think-tank-based programme at Asia Plateau should be curated each year and the lead will be

taken by those who feel that they want to give back to the work. A separate team can be created for this. This

can be planned with ICCfG; they bring the intellectual capital and we bring facilitation skills. The theme can

be Bharat Jodo.

Once in two years, a Youth Mela, a gathering of all the previous participants of LMAD, from national and

regional conferences should take place for exchange of ideas, building camaraderie, sharing stories, putting

into practice new ideas, thoughts and taking on responsibilities for future endeavours.

Thinking, research and suggesting solutions that will help the society

India has lots of problems and LMAD needs to keep its thinking hat on and try to provide alternatives and

solutions, where it can. Can we as a team identify one problem which can bring lifelong solution to its people?

We can take these thoughts to GOI, NGO’s, corporates, organizations and warring factions.

This can be possible because we are also connected with the people at grass root level and our spread is in

many parts of the country. Our sensitivity and open eyes will for sure show us areas which can be addressed,

to better the life of humans. Suggestion can be given to the Prime Minister where he can share it in Munn Ki

Baat, he is always asking for ideas which can be shared to the larger population.

Survey:

The survey which we are taking before the YC has to be well thought through and studied. Based on the

results of the past survey, we must think of a session to address certain needs of youth. We must extend this

survey in all our regional conferences too. A detail survey in the aspirational district will create first hand

vital data as a district case study. Its worth will be in gold.

Fellow Home

Fellow home is LMAD home and many from our family will be visiting the home at regular intervals, all are

welcome and each guest must feel at home. They bring in their thoughts, time, sharing and knowledge; at the

same time the fellow also offers and shares wide experience and inspiration to every guest who comes and

stays with the fellow. The fellow home will be inviting many guests to speak on various subjects, the idea is

to make the event a memorable learning and listening experience and at the same time the guest too should

feel enriched meeting each fellow of the home and also introducing/sharing the idea of our work. Inviting

guest speakers should be a regular practice. It is value and knowledge addition to our work.

Every Thursday ICCfG conducts weekly meeting, the fellows should to attend this meeting. Working closely

with them helps gain knowledge and understanding and establishes connections at GOI level. They are a

power house of bureaucracy.

Other details of the Fellowship:

The participant has to complete the full term of the fellowship. The fellow would be required to stay in Delhi.

Stay, vegetarian food, travel expense towards the work of LMAD will be taken care of.

The residence in Delhi will have to be shared by all the participants. Living in Harmony and

being accommodative is important.

A monthly stipend will be offered to the fellow.

Internet will be provided in the fellow home.

Discipline, early wake-up, and punctuality are vital for the fellowship.

Only vegetarian food will be cooked/served and allowed in the house during the stay and during any

conferences.

Traveling to various places is a key part of the fellowship and the fellow should be open to this.

Working in a group, coordinating, and cooperating with others will be a major part of the participant's

responsibility. Working as equals and respecting every teammate at all times is crucial.

Foul language will not be tolerated during the entire period of fellowship and beyond in one’s personal

life.

Drinking, Smoking, consuming Drugs, Pornography, Gambling, and Tobacco Chewing is strictly not

allowed.

Personal Hygiene and cleanliness of the place are vital during one’s stay.

This fellowship is to further the work of LMAD and that should be the fellow's only priority at all times.

One must not come with any personal agenda, this will only dilute the process of that individual and doing

larger damage to the group and flow of the fellowship program.

Taking responsibility and sharing the burden of household work is an essential quality in becoming a

serving leader.

This charter on which this fellowship program will embark, is just the starting point. With passage of time,

there will be constant new learnings; new thoughts and new opportunities will cross our path and accordingly

the program will adapt to all positive changes that will lead to the future good of LMAD. As a team we need

to create a manual and syllabus of our learning’s for the future running of the fellowship, this will bring in

diversity. As we cannot remember everything, creating content for future is vital through our learning’s and

hands-on experience. At individual level, the fellow has to capture his/her personal journey in the LMAD

fellowship through regular writing. One is expected to maintain one’s journal through-out the Fellowship.