WHY DOES SWAAMEE APRTEMAANANDAA JEE DESERVE BHARAT RATNA AND PADMA VIBHUSHAN?

Name

Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee

Country

Gautam Buddha Nagar,

Uttar Pradesh, India

Religion

Humane Sanaatan Spirituality

NOMINATION DETAILS
Fields of Activity	Social Work Spirituality	Sub   Field	Yoga Spirituality Literature Global Peace
Earlier Padma Award Received	No
Award Applied For	Padma Vibhushan
CITATION
Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee is one of the greatest living legends and an internationally Well-Known world renowned Leading Yoga Scientist, Yoga Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist, an Ayurveda specialist consultant practitioner, Feminist, avid blogger, author, poet and an expert in the field of Spiritual Science, World Peace, Human Rights, Democracy, International Relations, Geography, Kundalini-Kreyaa Yoga, Economic-political Geography. Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee who has expounded several useful new theories in diverse fields such as Geography, Economics, Statistics, Political Science, Psychology, Spirituality and General Science needs no validation. He is an institution in himself.  He has had an illustrious academic and extra-curricular career. He graduated from university of Pune with an honours in Geography and Optional in Psychology and Hindi language. He topped Pune university in Geography honours with 87 percent marks and an aggregate of 80 percent marks at BA in 1987 and a Distinction in Masters in Economic Geography from the same university in 2003. Not only this, he achieved the Rare Distinction of having himself authored in the year 2002 a text book for fellow students while he was in second year of the course in Masters in Economic Geography. He had started reading children magazines such as ChandaMama at an early age of 5 years and by the age of 8 years had started reading newspapers like Nav Bharat Times in Hindi language in order to learn more about space exploration and expeditions to planets like Mars by American space crafts. He has actively worked to influence the world opinion to get India the permanent seat in the UNO. He saved the Pune Customs Commissionerate from RDX explosions by sealing the Bankot creek effectively in Jan and Feb 1993. He worked from 1989 to 2001 as Customs Officer, both on intelligence collection and prevention fronts in the field and had played a DARE-DEVIL KEY ROLE in effecting a bold seizure of smuggled silver then worth Rupees two and a half Crore (equivalent to Rs 40 crore today assuming that the money on an average doubled every five and a half years as under the Kisan/Indira Vikas Patra fixed deposit scheme) in 1991 UNDER MOST ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES, thereby helping the then Indian government monetarily at a point of time when it had mortgaged two and a half ton of Gold to meet the Balance of Payment Crisis.  He was recommended for Ashok Chakra and a cash reward of Rupees 25 lakh (equivalent to Rs 2 crore today) by BJP’s late Member of Parliament Dilip Singh Ju Dev in 1998 for this Exemplary Display of brave act. He has made exceptional contribution to Ayurveda, Yoga and Spirituality through one of the world’s best and most reputed European German yoga website which has honoured his phenomenal contribution by featuring him continuously for last 5 years. He has adapted yoga to Muslim, Christian and other faiths through a novel approach, thereby making it totally secular and acceptable to followers of all faiths all over the world. He also showed the path as to how to integrate Indian Muslims, Indian Christians, Hindus or Sanaatanees. Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee runs the Well Known blog titled The World Peace Global Think Tank. The Great Work by Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee SHALL one day in future certainly minimise international conflicts and lead the world to sustainable peace, progress and prosperity.
SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION OF THE NOMINEE / APPLICANT
Achievement	Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee like billions of other common maanavas humans dreams of the golden era when the whole world shall have one Vasudhiotic global world government ensuring complete peace, prosperity and progress for each maanava or human being. He had helped avert Indo-Pak war in the aftermath of 26 November Mumbai attack, by making effective use of internet tools. He had persuaded the USA president George Bush to have tectonic shift in terms of India-friendly policy by making him aware of the usefulness of India for containing China and also helped achieve Indo-US nuclear deal, through effective persuasion of the USA president George Bush and the white house via emails. He had promoted the idea of unique national identity number for Indian citizens, through now defunct MBAISSP group on Orkut. He had given to the UIDAI, the original idea of transferring money directly to the intended beneficiary of ration cards instead of ration by linking unique identity number to ration card, thereby plugging the leakage in the public distribution system. Also, his Golden Book convinced the NDA government to continue with the Aadhaar Card instead of discontinuing it contrary to its 2014 Lok Sabha poll rhetoric to do away with it. This has enabled the present BJP government at the centre to save Rupees 14,000 crore via Aadhaar seeding of Ration Cards. Being a fiercely independent and impartial intellectual, he had created boldly the awareness on internet about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its positive contribution to India, during one of the most antidemocratic moments when the Congress-led UPA government was behaving thoroughly antiRSS.
AWARDS / RECOGNITION RECEIVED BY THE APPLICANT/NOMINEE
State Awards	He stood third in Nehru Declamation Contest organised by high school Chail in1982, Merit Certificate for participation in a debate organised by Department of Forest Forming and Environmental Conservation of Himachal Pradesh in October 1981, Grha Bhrmn Yantrsanshodhak prize in 1988 for topping at Geography special papers in Pune university.
National Awards	Doctor Manibhai Desai Rashtra Seva Puraskar in 1999 for exceptional contribution in the field of Hindi literature and promotion of similar peace ideals through literature as by Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi, Merit Certificate for having secured Third place in 5000 meters Run at Central Revenue Sports Meet Sub Zone in Pune in November 1999, Selection for National Merit Scholarship in 1987 for post-graduation in geography, First and Second Prize in CDS Examination Memory Retention Contest in 1986 and October 1987 respectively from Competition Success Review magazine, India Youth Passport in competition organised by Ministry of Tourism Government of India in 1988, Four Commendable Certificates of Merit from Competition Success Review magazine in monthly Essay Contests in 1987 and 1988, Merit Certificate for First Class in Exam by Gandhi Peace Foundation Centre Tiruvarur Tamilnadu in 1981, Certificate for successful participation in All India General Knowledge Competition for Seniors in 1984,  Two certificates for successful participation in General Knowledge and Intelligence tests in 1977 and 1988
International Awards	One of the world’s best and Europe’s most reputed German Yoga website my dot yoga hyphen vidya dot org has honoured his outstanding contributions in the field of Yoga and Spirituality by continuously including him for the last 5 years in the list of its Featured Members.
IMPACT OF THE WORK DONE BY THE NOMINEE / APPLICANT
Contribution to the Field	Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee was a student editor of the Hindi section of the school magazine and briefly worked as a freelance journalist as a school student with write ups appearing in respectable Hindi newspapers and magazines such as Dainik Tribune and Sarita. Later on in life, his short stories, poems and other write ups which appeared in reputed Hindi journals and newspapers like Sidhi Baat and Diwas Ratri were widely acclaimed in literary circles. His popular short stories in Hindi were published under the Well Celebrated column DIVYA CHAKSHU (Divine Eye) in Hindi language newspaper Dainik Diwas Ratri. He contributed poems in English on a popular poetry website, too. His four papers were made available to the audience and participants at the 2003 session of the Association of American Geographers in USA. His blogs are consistently in the Top Most Read list on the world renowned reputed German Yoga Website. He originated informally the concept of the IMPACT JOURNALISM thorough his now defunct blog MSN Geography Group in terms of showing clearly the IMPACT OF his ideas through his blog feature titled GEO IDEAS IMPACT on different world entities in the realm of politics, economics and society. He has made phenomenal contribution in the field of theoretical and applied Geography, Economics, Yoga and spirituality. His now defunct small but powerful blog called MSN Geography Group had in the first decade of the 21st century given the mainstream media a run for their money with them following his leads. He has authored 16 outstanding books covering a vast spectrum. He has consistently been propagating values of peace and spirituality through his blogs for the last 15 years. His profound writings have influenced profoundly a whole generation of Indian intellectuals, especially journos some of whose writings show clearly the influence of his thoughts and literary works.
Contribution to the Society	He has contributed to society on local, national and international levels successfully. For example, the present decision of the Indian government to invite online nominations for national awards such as Padma awards has obviously resulted from the suggestion for the same given in his book, a book for which even the Indian PM Narendra Modi himself had sent him a letter of thanks. His efforts have led to the opening of the India Post Office franchise in B BLOCK OF sector 62, Noida making the life of citizens a bit easier. He along with other activists working independently had successfully convinced the Indian government which then consequently had kindly disclosed and brought into public domain the secret files on great freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose. He has been pursuing several issues of social interest by making effective use of the RTI ACT 2005. He disseminated information on Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana to the needy poor people in the local area. Under his able guidance, All India Insaaneyat Party has taken up several urgent social issues on several occasions on social media with the state CM Akhilesh Yadava such as the issue of extortion from vendors and hawkers by unauthorised corrupt officials, etc. He contributed Rupees 3800 to the Indian Express Gujarat Earthquake Relief Fund in Feb 2001. He sensitized people about the bad effect of drugs and promoted the cause of drug-deaddiction in year 2000 by distributing 500 copies of Marathi booklet titled Vysana Pasoon Savdhaan. He donated more than 300 text books and other literary works to school and college libraries in 1995. He himself made monetary contributions for the welfare of the Army Officers on the Kargil war front on 22 June 1999 and successfully motivated other colleagues to do the same also. He had given away in donation more than 400 copies of his short story book titled Kya Waqt Gujar Gaya and more than 950 copies of his geographical work titled Geography, Economics and Economic Geography to several college libraries of reputed management institutes, coaching institutes, colleges and Departments of Geography of University of Pune in Pune and elsewhere. He donated more than 650 story books, magazines, comics and academic literature to a school in Pune in 2005-2007. He has done a lot of charity work while in service such as donating 10 percent of his salary for 12 months to a Hyderabad-based Muslim orphanage. As a school teacher, he had promoted the ideals of humane humanism, secularism and national integration. While doing post-graduation in Geography, he helped out many students academically and financially. He has coined new words and phrases such as LOG TO, LOG ON, LOG IN, LOG IN TO, LOG INTO, LOG ON TO, LOG ONTO, TO FACEBOOK, CYBERSPHERE, CYBERSPACE, BRAIN GAIN (as opposed to BRAIN DRAIN), BELOW ECONOMIC POVERTY LINE, SPIRITUAL POVERTY, FACTUAL TRUTH, PERCEPTUAL TRUTH, PERCEPTUAL REALITY, FACTUAL REALITY, etcetera, many of which have become popular, thereby facilitating the effective communication on social media platforms. He has on one occasion in the past helped safe-guard the lives of hundreds of Indian citizens and foreign nationals by playing an effective role as a true matriot in the face of a dangerous national security-threat the highly sensitive operational details of which cannot be disclosed in the public domain. THE POWERFUL SOCIAL IMPACT OF SOME OF THE IDEAS OF SWAAMEE APRTEMAANANDAA JEE (1) Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee’s idea of linking or seeding Unique Identity Number or Aadhaar to ration cards has helped Indian government plug diversion of food grains worth Rupees 14,000 crore by weeding out 2.33 crore fake ration cards…! THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI/NOIDA/GHAZIABAD on Saturday, September 17, 2016 carried a news item captioned “2.33 crore fake ration cards weeded out” which says – “….Consumer affairs minister Ram Vilas Paswan said this weeding out has helped the government plug diversion of food grains worth Rs 14,000 crore…” This shows the POWERFUL IMPACT of Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee’s idea on Society and Public Administration. It also shows how an attentive government can utilise effectively the ideas generated by ordinary citizens such as Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee. Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee said, “…A few years ago, I had tried to procure a ration card in my village. But, the authorities concerned didn’t get me one on one pretext or the other. I was totally exasperated. Then, I happened to notice the then launched website of the Unique Identity Authority of India. It had invited Indian citizens to register themselves on it and offer suggestions. I got myself registered with my Hotmail id and logged into it. I found on the UIDAI website that there was no suggestion of linking the personal national number or identity number to ration cards. I expressed my anguish at having been denied a ration card. I lamented that there was no use of such unique numbers if these didn’t help citizens practically. I suggested the government must permit helpless citizens like me to apply online for ration cards by using personal national number or identity number. Also, I suggested all ration cards, especially of those living below poverty line be linked to their respective personal national numbers or identity numbers and money equal to the value of the ration entitled be transferred directly into their bank accounts instead of giving them ration . This I argued would help avoid leakage of ration through those who are in charge of distributing rations under Public Distribution System and would help the needy citizens who often were denied ration by these fraudulent PDS operators who used to divert ration meant for poor to the black market. I am today happy that the then officials of Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) and the UPA government of Manmohan Singh took my suggestion seriously and implemented it. What about credit? I never cared and don’t care whether the Indian government acknowledged or acknowledges my contribution or not by crediting me with this idea of Aadhaar seeding of ration cards…! What matters more importantly is that the idea got implemented which is a unique accomplishment and a big personal satisfaction given the fact that it had annoyed politicians of all hues, big and petty, who had hitherto milked the Public Distribution System without letting the benefit reach the poor…! More satisfaction is from the fact that once Aadhaar was linked to ration cards, it opened the floodgates in terms of its linking to all other facilities/benefits and aspects of our national life, which are its unintended spill-over benefits to Indian citizenry. In a way, it has transformed the Whole Public Administration by making it increasingly more efficient! What I do need more…!” (2) Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee had relentlessly pursued and created public opinion in favour of compulsory free education for all children up to the age of 14 years as provided in the Indian constitution besides the bartering of enclaves with Bangladesh to resolve the border issue permanently and introduction of Yoga as a compulsory subject in schools, in the period 2007-2009 through his now MBAISSP group on now defunct Orkut and in his Golden Book published in 2014 a copy of which was received by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself. The powerful and long lasting impact of his work can be gauged from the fact that the UPA government enacted the bill providing free education to all children up to the age of 14 years as enshrined in the Indian constitution. In 2011, a group of officials from India and Bangladesh hammered out an amicable deal to resolve the border issue and finally the Narendra Modi sealed the Land Border Agreement bartering the enclaves. This has led to generation of great goodwill on both sides of the border and helped promote the regional Asian and Global peace. The Yoga too has been accepted as an integral part of school education in India today. THE REASONS AS TO WHY THE IMPACT CREATED BY SWAAMEE APRTEMAANANDAA JEE IS SO INSPIRING In those days of misfortune, especially from the year 2005 to 2012, he used to receive a meagre sum of Rupees 500 (equivalent to US $ 8) as a help cum charity from well-wishers once in a while every 3-4 months Rs 400 (US $ 6) to Rs 450 (US $ 7) of which would invariably be spent for paying as charges for surfing the net that included posting of articles, poems, comments, sending emails to different media houses and different influential world entities in different fields, etc. It were as if Sachin Tendulkar or Priyanka Chopra gave away in charity 90 percent of their own earnings running into hundreds of crores of Rupee from endorsements. His well-wishers would often feel perplexed by his media addiction, peace addiction and spiritual addiction. They would often advise him not to waste money on the net surfing. They would ask him to spend money to meet his own personal needs such as medicines, etc., instead. They would say, “(Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee) Where is your name in the newspaper? Who has given you credit for the impact created by your net surfing?” and then they themselves would say in answer, “No one! So, why are you wasting your money? Don’t waste it. Use it to meet your own personal needs.” It is these financially challenging and socially tough circumstances in which Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee had made an impeccable social impact that makes his contributions really inspiring. 1. His now defunct small but powerful blog MSN Geography Group in the first decade of the 21st century had given the world mainstream media and scholars a run for their money. The ideas/thoughts expressed online and elsewhere by Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee have often been picked up by other influential intellectuals and mainstream mass media giants which in turn acted as further distributaries. This shows the outstanding global and social impact of his outstanding ideas. See one following example from amongst such numerous examples. Compare the following two snapshots showing his ideas on Twitter about Vasundhra Raje and the subsequent editorial in The Times of India. 2. Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee was perhaps the First Scholar in the world in the year 2005 to have written about India being the Emerging Global Power with it becoming one of the two super powers by the year 2030, a theme which was later obviously picked up by other influential newspapers and reputed scholars such as Ashley J Tellis. This small but strong piece of online writing helped catapult India to stratospheric heights of global political importance THAT IN TURN UNBELIEVABLY HELPED INDIA ATTRACT FOREIGN INVESTMENT WORTH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, THEREBY GIVING A GREAT BOOST TO INDIAN ECONOMY BY HELP CREATE AND BUILD THE BRAND INDIA. Whereas some of the mainstream newspapers like The Times of India even 5 years later on December 26, 2009 doubted the emergence of India as the Global Superpower and dubbed it being ‘UNLIKELY’. 3. Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee was perhaps the only Scholar in the world who had in the year 2008 CORRECTLY PREDICTED that the Global Financial Crisis Would Soon be Over IN 6-12 MONTHS and there would be no Recession in near future, thereby helping the world markets and the USA Bush Administration regain confidence. This is a unique contribution to the world of finances. Whereas the influential newspaper such as The Times of India ignorantly and wrongly wrote on December, 25, 2009 that, “True, massive public spending is fuelling the global recovery, but the fact is the healing process began faster than anyone expected.” 4. Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee was perhaps the First Scholar in the world to have declared the 21st century to be the century of TOTAL GLOBAL INTEGRATION. His online interactions with different world political entities has silently helped steer the world towards peace and minimize military conflicts. 5. Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee always has contributed his fair share to society during times of crisis. 6. Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee has enhanced our understanding of the world around us through some of his outstanding papers and academic works. He had published 46 big and small research, technical and other papers till December, 2004. 7. Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee has won numerous accolades, certificates, prizes and awards on international, national, state and school/college levels since childhood. 8. The line 'सर्वजन हिताय , सर्वजन सुखाय' from one Hindi poem of Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee published in the year 2003 was used as a slogan and guiding light by the Uttar Pradesh government led by Bahujan Samajwadi Party. This shows the OUTSTANDING PRACTICAL SOCIAL/ECONOMIC IMPACT OF HIS LITERARY WORKS ON THE POLICY MAKERS OF THE DAY. 9. The textbook titled ‘Geography, Economics and Economic Geography’ authored in the year 2002 by Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee has effectively helped thousands of students across various disciplines such as the Foreign Trade, Economics, Politics and Geography over the last 15 years as evident from the following December 2009 email from Raghu Godbole, a student of PGDFT (Gareware college, Pune). 10. The highly experienced senior Christian Missionary school lady teachers/selectors spoke highly about outstanding teaching qualities of Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee. Sister Nympher, the principal of Holy Mary Convent School, Bhiwandi, Maharashtra, in 1987 found Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee to be a ‘BORN TEACHER’ POSSESSING CHARISMA. She wrote – “I am sure you will do well as a teacher. You have the INTELLIGENCE, DEDICATION and CHARISMA for it. You are a BORN TEACHER with LOTS OF KNOWLEDGE.” Indeed, her assessment was proved to be CORRECT as HE LATER MADE A POWERFUL POSITIVE IMPACT, evident from the following letter written to him by Ulhasrao Nagawade, a student, when in 1989 he switched over from the teaching job to take up the assignment as a junior auditor. The student wrote, “I AM VERY SAD AS YOU WILL NOT TEACH US NEXT YEAR.” “When I will get your photo, then I WILL BE PROUDLY TELLING ABOUT YOU.” 11. Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee displayed the highest possible standards of PROFESSIONAL INTEGRITY, HONESTY, DEDICATION and MATRIOTISM while discharging duties as a Customs Officer in the rank of Inspector. This had earned him full unflinching trust of the highest ranking officials of various law enforcing agencies of Indian government such as the Coast Guard, Customs and Police, etc., WHICH IS A RARE PHENOMENON FOR A LOW RANKING OFFICER OF THE RANK OF INSPECTOR having put in just 3 years of service as evident from the letter to him in May, 1992 by deputy commandant of Indian Coast Guard S K Chaudhary and a personal greetings card sent in December, 1992 by Panjim Customs Commissioner (Preventive) Daya Shankar who wrote, “Please, let me know about any landings in your area.” Daya Shankar is the Customs Officer who had by then earned a solid reputation by having effected seizures of smuggled contrabands worth more than Rupees 1,00 crore and whom the smuggling syndicates feared most. These qualities indeed are in his blood because even his father who had started as a humble soldier of the Indian Army too was admired for the same virtues by higher up such as the Company Commander of the rank of a Major as seen from a letter written to his father in the year 1969 by the company commander major Vijay Singh Chaudhary. 12. By a strange design of the destiny, Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee led an economically very tough and socially challenging life for many years, especially from the year 2005 to 2012. During this period, his attempts to get even a simple thing such as a ration card for the self were nullified by the INSENSITIVE administrations. Even his pleas to Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Bhupender Singh Huda the Congress Vice President, President and Haryana Chief Minister sent through courier post for help in procuring him a ration card went unanswered. It was only from 2013 onwards that he got some respite from the ongoing cycle of misfortunes.