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Yi Mysuru Leadership Series
Photo Caption: Mr Ravi Shankar, Co-Chair, Yi Mysuru Chapter; Dr R Mahesh, Chairman, B.N. Bahadur Institute of Management Sciences; Maj. Deepak Rao; Dr Seema Rao; Mr Arjun Ranga, Chairman, CII Mysuru & Mr S K Dinesh, President, Namma Mysuru Foundation
Mysuru: During training of more than 15,000 elite Indian forces for the past 20 years there was lot of obstacles but I managed to overcome it said Seema Rao, who is India’s first and only women commando trainer
Speaking during ‘Leadership and Management Lessons from Armed Forces by Dr Seema Rao and Major Deepak Rao organised by CII-Yi Mysore Chapter in partnership with Namma Mysuru
Foundation & BN Bahadur Institute of Management Sciences, Mysuru recently she briefed about her stint as trainer along with her husband Major Deepak Rao. Even after endless troubles in her life, she chose to never give up. Even when she and her husband were facing monetary issues they never started charging money for their training. Her training demanded travelling to some of the riskiest areas and because of her work commitments she even had to miss her father’s funeral. She has trained many units including BSF, Navy, ITBP, NSG Black Cat commandos and several other academies for the past 20 years.
Her father was freedom fighter and he used to tell how the people fought for the freedom. After getting inspired with her father, Dr Seema Rao also decided to do bit for the country. Though initially during her school days she was scary and week later on she developed confidence in her. When she was 16 year old she met Deepak who thought her martial arts.
In a world where a girl child is aborted or killed after the birth, the couple adopted a girl child. Apart from all the risks that were involved in their jobs the couple adopted a girl child instead of going for a normal child birth process. She’s also a 7th degree black belt holder in military martial arts, a combat shooting instructor, a fire-fighter, a scuba diver, an HML medallist in rock climbing and Mrs Indian World Pageant finalist. She is also one of the rarest people in the world who have mastered the art of Jeet Kune Do (Martial art founded by Bruce Lee in 1967) and she further got authorised to teach the same. Also recipient of world peace award by world peace congress, US President Volunteer Service Award, three army chief citations and more than 1000 felicitations from Indian Government.
“All of sudden when my husband told to shoot an apple which was kept on his head, I didn’t knew what to do but he instilled confidence in me and I was bang on target in shooting the apple which was kept on my husband head. We should be little cautious because that is very important don’t just blindly jump or get into something, think a little bit and go ahead. Our journey started with unarmed combat and later armed combat, later shooting, counter terrorism and special operation. Keep improvising and don’t be happy wherever you are, keep innovating, I started by training police and later armed police state police paramilitary force, and special force. Later we decided to bend down our thoughts, so we came out with books and given to home and defence ministry and we sent it to FBI also. Our book was received very well. We also gifted our books to forces for which we didn’t charge. We used our own earning for the books, we are very proud it was even appreciated by Interpol and FBI. Nothing is ever lost in trying, but its sad if you don’t even try. Open your mind there will be many obstacles at that time, greater the obstacles, create energy in you” added Seema.
I am combat ready for market place but not physically combat ready, combat rediness in real sense help us in work space as CII predominantly focus more efficient in work space, looking at seema’s record one lesson that I learnt its fundamental to lead by example and here is a couple for the nation represents all that is true
Mr Arjun Ranga, Chairman, CII Mysuru during his remarks said that the sacrifices that they have made to stand by what they believe in makes them truly inspirational and for us there is no better way of learning then to understand folklore understand stories and here is the story right in front of us that has actually lived the life that we all dream that we can. Many a times we talk about if only I could make a difference if only I could do something, here is a couple who stood up and made a difference in the world. They fought for what they believe in and they made that change in themselves and whoever they touched. We bring this platform what we believe will make a small change for all of us here. At our levels should take up few stories from what they have done and try to represent it at whatever level to make small difference in our life and collectively we make big difference for our society
Major Deepak Rao who also spoke on the occasion said “I am better known as Seema Rao husband, its matter of pride to me. British left us long range battle where as we modernised battle at closer range. We invented and patented a method shooting at closer quarter, that method went to army curriculum.
8 September 2017
Mysuru
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