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Inbook Golden Heart

Dr. Satyapal Singh Meena (IRS)

honored with many departmental he villagers and making them
appreciations and awards. His believe that they can do anything
tireless efforts have transformed and their village is not the
small village Dhanora into India’s responsibility of the government
first smart village which were only but also theirs. His
rightly recognized at Vigyan motivating words acted like a
Bhawan, New Delhi by the Prime catalyst and helped change
“होनहार बरवान के होत चकने पात” Minister of our Country. An thinking of fellow villagers who
kept their personal interest aside
excellent officer, ardent researcher and contributed to the
This proverb squarely fits to an 11 and die hard humanitarian, Dr. development of Dhanora villages.
year old boy from a small village Satyapal Singh with a doctorate in On a one call of Dr. Meena, they
Dhanora in the district of International Relations to his credit, were ready to part with even
Dhaulpur, Rajasthan who knocked is a living example of a born-talent- their personal properties to
the door of his fellow villagers to with-obsession-to-serve and that’s widen the road, money to make
collect money to install couple of why he never allowed his education community center and personal
electricity bulbs at public places or government service to become time and labour to change
and makeshift shelter in his school an excuse to avoid his duties Dhanora. The SBGBT, with the
so that poor kids of the village towards his मातृभू म i.e. his village active participation of the
could study indoors under saving Dhanora. A firm believer of positive villagers, was successful in
them from scorching heat in thinking, Dr Meena holds that making Dhanora as the first open
summers and fury of Lord Indra positive thinking can ignite the fire defection free village in the
during Monsoon. This young boy of positivity leading development district of Dhaulpur. Dr. Meena &
was none other than Dr. Satyapal of human in totality and therefore सोच बदलो- गांव बदलो ट म (SBGBT) have
Singh Meena, an officer of Indian he started village transformation been awarded by the Hon’ble
Revenue Service 2007 batch who movement with the name “सोच बदलो- Prime Minister Shri Narendra
not only excelled in his गांव बदलो (SBGB)” with the central Modi and Hon’ble Governor of
government service but also theme to include positivism into