Elder’s Club an Idea of Inclusive Development
Ageing is a natural course of development and increasing longevity has wonderful human achievement. An active secure and healthy ageing population can present enormous contribution to the society. This demographic shift has opportunities with challenges where ageing require lots of resourceful support while it has resounding contribution to the family and society. Elders are like […]
Space-tech for India’s agrarian woes : Odisha has a head start
Food, Farmers and Frenzy have for a year been the mainstay of India’s news-cycle as well as public discourse. While there can be longer debates on the implementation of the new farm laws, the case of rising Minimum Support Prices, sustained food grain procurement and middlemen remains a challenge for policymakers across the board. Farm […]
Tortured as a Child Labourer, He Is Now Helping Draft India’s Anti-trafficking Bill
Nearly one in 10 children are subjected to forced labour worldwide — with some pushed into hazardous work through trafficking, as per UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund). Khem Lal Khaterji was all of six when he began his life as a child labourer. At an age when children are just learning to read and attempting […]
Nexus of Good: Opportunity in crisis
Through mobilizing defunct JFMCs, not just illicit timber trade was checked by providing sustainable livelihood options to locals, but also ecological restoration was ensured. After superannuation in June 2018, I worked for a few months as Chief Executive Officer of State Planning Board, Jharkhand at the behest of the then Chief Minister Raghubar Das who […]
Transformation Through Vision
Through a futuristic approach and well-devised communication strategy, INDCOSERVE was lifted from its ailing position to provide livelihood to small tea farmers in the Nilgiris. This was 2017. A discussion in one of the Committee Rooms of the Parliament House was underway. I was present as Secretary, School Education and Literacy. As it was an […]
Making it happen: ZIIEI initiative of Aurobindo Society
It was March 17th 2018. In my capacity as Secretary, School Education, Government of India I visited Agra to launch Innovative Pathshaala- a series of booklets for the teachers comprising experiential and activity-based lesson plans mapped with the State Board. The event was organized by Sri Aurobindo Society and HDFC Bank’s initiative, ‘Zero-Investment Innovations for […]
VACCINATION ACCEPTANCE, UPTAKE AND HESITANCY – COMMUNITY VOICES FROM URBAN MAHARASHTRA (MUMBAI & PUNE)
Since the onset of COVID-19 in early 2020, efforts across the globe have been focused on developing a vaccine to combat the spread of the disease. In India, vaccination was made available in mid-January this year and over the past months has been made available in a phase-wise manner to different sections of the population. […]
A systems approach to democratise quality education in India
As an advisor to the Government of Jharkhand on public schooling, I spent the past year assessing schools of Ranchi District; interacting with children, teachers, and parents from some of the most remote and destitute parts of the country. 2020 did not just devastate our healthcare systems but it also brought education systems in […]
District judges who came forward to get rid of body trade from women and minors in Neemuch region.
Story idea Ashok parmar Neemuch mp 7415733114 District judges who came forward to get rid of body trade from women and minors in Neemuch region. Direct communication with the women and their families of the Banchhara community. Discussion with young women who have left the sex trade. Young men of Banchara community […]
Samagra Siksha attempts to bridge digital divide
Schools are closed for students since start of the academic year owing to the covid 19 pandemic but in Kerala, education department provided digital classes for all classes starting from first to twelve standard from the very first day of the academic year. Digital classes were telecasted through KITE VICTERS TV channel, a TV channel […]
