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Thought Leader

Thought Leader

From a child labourer at construction site to one of the most celebrated police officers in the country, the journey that P. Vijayan made through his life and career is nothing short of remarkable. This journey is the soul behind the thought bank that keeps him driving towards new innovations and provides him the energy to cross every obstacle in front of him. Life taught him that nothing is impossible for someone charged with the passion to move on.

But that drive has to be instilled right from an early age. That is why Vijayan focussed on children quite early in their career. Most of his change-making initiatives were formed around character building and enhancing the inner potential of children. Tomorrows are created through conscious and judicious investments made today.

Gone too are days when the worth of a person was decided with the volume of land or assets attached to that person. The modern age belongs to those who own knowledge. Information drives the world. The key to success in today’s highly volatile and competitive world is keeping oneself abreast with the latest knowledge. Vijayan realised this and designed programmes that are intended to explore and enhance the capabilities of children.

Another critical lesson that Vijayan gathered from his life experiences is that society can be broadly divided into two sets of people - problem people and solution people. The first category belongs to those who see only problems and spend their entire life struggling with problems. In the end, they might make the existing problem more complicated. On the other hand, those who are oriented towards solutions consist of the second group. They look beyond the problem and work towards the solution. Vijayan chose to remain in the second group. And that made all the difference.

From a child labourer at construction site to one of the most celebrated police officers in the country, the journey that P. Vijayan made through his life and career is nothing short of remarkable. This journey is the soul behind the thought bank that keeps him driving towards new innovations and provides him the energy to cross every obstacle in front of him. Life taught him that nothing is impossible for someone charged with the passion to move on. But that drive has to be instilled right from the early ages. That is why, Vijayan focussed on children quite early in career. Most of his change making initiatives were formed around character building and enhancing the inner potential of children. Tomorrows are created through conscious and judicious investments made today.

Pos Poss Talk Series

When the world was veiled in a spell of doom and desperation, P. Vijayan IPS saw an opportunity to reach out and spread a light of hope, especially among the young generation locked up during the Covid-19 pandemic. He spearheaded the movement to launch a talk series called Pos Poss, which stood for Positivity (Pos) and Possibilities (Poss). The core principle behind this online talk series was that if you keep the ray of positivity glowing within the potential of finding possibilities is huge. In over 72 weeks, many illustrious personalities came online and engaged with the audience in various positive aspects of life. The overwhelming acceptability of the talk series led to launching the Global Edition of the same, in which Nobel laureates Kailash Satyarthi and Prof. Muhammad Yunus, stalwarts like Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Dr. Sam Pitroda and Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque, the UN representative to India, spoke. The show is undoubtedly one of the most-watched ones with nearly 3 lakh audiences waiting for it on Fridays at 7 pm IST.

Gone too are days when worth of a person was decided with the volume of land or assets attached to that person. The modern age belongs to those who own knowledge. Information drives the world. The key to success in today’s highly volatile and competitive world is keeping oneself abreast with the latest knowledge. Vijayan realised this and designed programmes that are intended to explore and enhance the capabilities of children. Another critical lesson that Vijayan gathered from his life experiences is that society can be broadly divided into two sets of people - problem people and solution people. The first category belongs to those who see only problem and spend their entire life struggling with problem. In the end they might make the existing problem more complicated. On the other hand, those who are oriented towards solution consist the second group. They look beyond the problem and work towards the solution. Vijayan chose to remain in the second group. And that made all the difference.

Punyam Poonkavanam

Sabarimala is one of the most famous and most visited pilgrim centres in the world. It gets around 1.5 million pilgrims visiting the shrine placed in the middle of a Periyar Tiger Reserve during the three months of pilgrim season every year. It is estimated that nearly 2 lakh pilgrims visit the area in a day. This poses a humungous challenge of waste management. Every season left behind heaps and heaps of waste, mostly plastic waste, which kills the wild life in the forest beside cause other serious environmental issues. The River Pampa at the foot of the hill becomes extremely polluted at the end of every season. The problem could not be addressed by temporary knee-jerk solutions and this made P. Vijayan IPS come up with the Punyam Poonkavanam concept. In about 10 years, the participatory model brought about a paradigm shift in the way pilgrimage is conducted. He initiated the shift towards ‘Conscious and Responsible Pilgrimage’, which has won accolades from across the nation and is being emulated in other pilgrim centres.