My Second Candle for "Nirbhaya", "Damini". Do your Duties first only then ask for your Rights.

1. Duties Vs. Rights

2. Which ones are your favorite?
Duties
(Responsibility / What you have to do)
Or
Rights
(entitlement/ privilege / prerogative)

3. Asking for your rights
or
Dispensing your duties?

4. What I have Experienced?
1. If you deliver your duties well then every person
or institution in the world will have to give you
the rights you deserve.
2. Without duty there are no rights.
3. Duty always comes first.
4. The more you do the more you deserve.

5. Meaning of Duty
1. Is a term that conveys a sense of moral commitment
or obligation to someone or something
2. Should result in action
3. It is not a matter of passive feeling or mere
recognition
4. Recognize & commit your self to its fulfillment
without considering your own self-interest
5. Does not Mean: Living a life of duty entirely precludes
a life of leisure;
6. However, its fulfillment generally involves some
sacrifice of immediate self-interest.

6. Meaning of Rights
1. Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of
freedom or entitlement
2. They are fundamental normative rules about
what is allowed of people or owed to people,
according to some legal system, social
convention, or ethical theory
3. Rights structure the form of governments,
the content of laws, and the shape of
morality as it is currently perceived

7. Duties can come from four different
sources
1. As result of being human
2. As a result of one's particular place in life
(one's family, one's country, one's job)
3. As a result of one's character
4. As a result of one's own moral expectations
for oneself

8. Types of Rights
1. Natural rights
– Can't be taken away. E.g.. Right to life
2. Legal rights
– based on a society's customs, laws, statutes or actions by legislatures. E.g..
Right to Vote
3. A claim right
– is a right which entails that another person has a duty to the right-holder. E.g.
life, liberty, and property
4. A liberty right
– is simply a freedom or permission for the right-holder to do something, and
there are no obligations on other parties to do or not do anything. E.g. a
person has a liberty right to walk down a sidewalk and can decide freely
whether or not to do so

9. Today we will see…
What are our Civic Duties…?

10. Civic duty
Something owed to one’s country
(patriotism), or to one's homeland or
community

11. Examples of Civic Duties

12. Providing right of way to public utilities
over your property

13. Cleaning up after your dog on its walks
on streets and not peeing in public

14. Returning books borrowed from public
libraries in time

15. Staying at home if down with flu &
Reporting contagious illnesses

16. Turning taps or switching lights off,
when not in use

17. Reading newspapers, Keeping track of
current issues on the TV, watching
films which ‘enrich’

18. Voting in or Standing for elections, and
keeping a tab on the past and present
track record of those elected

19. Filling right to information applications
to keep a tab on goings on

20. Paying taxes and Investing capital

21. Not to Hoard Too Much

22. Not to overexploit Natural Resources

23. Following Queues Always…

24. Always flush Toilet after use

25. Volunteering, Transferring Skills
& Sharing

26. Choosing Entrepreneurship over
Employment

27. Remembering to donate blood

28. Gathering all waste

29. Notifying marriages, births and deaths

32. Bring up civic issues of common interest
with people around

33. Service Above Self

34. A Presentation by
Rtn. Amit Gopal Chauhan
Rotary Club of Kalyan, RI District: 3140
India
Cell: +919769442462
Email: amit2462@hotmail.com