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Moralfibre, Clothing with a Conscience

By Shital Shah | Published: November 10, 2008

An Ahmedabad-based business, Moralfibre, is short listed for the Ethical Business award given by the Ethical Fashion Forum. Promoting khadi and making it fashionable for the modern taste, the business offers a new twist on an…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Ahmedabad, Artisans, clean tech, Clean technology, Environment, Ethical Fashion Forum, ExpressIndia, Moralfibre, NGOs and Non-profits, Point of View, Shalini Sheth Amin, silk, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility, supply chain, Technology | Leave a comment

Spinning Electricity With An E-Charkha

By Shital Shah | Published: August 16, 2008

Followers of Mahatma Gandhi are familiar with the charkha, a spinning wheel that produces a type of cotton known as khadi. A new twist on this old tool is that it can also be used to…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged charkha, cotton, electricity, Employment, Energy, Gandhi, Gandhian, Government, NGOs and Non-profits, Rural, self-reliance, The Hindu | 7 Comments

Bolstering Rural Industries

By Shital Shah | Published: August 5, 2008

The comments from a previous post questioning the value of urbanization discussed the need of developing rural industries and services. According to iGovernment, the government has made a real step toward this with the Ministry of…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged economic development, Employment, Government, iGovernment, Khadi and Village Industry Commission, map, marketing, markets, non-profit, panchayati raj, panchayats, PPP, Rural, rural business, Rural Business Hubs, rural India, Urbanization | Leave a comment

Entrepreneurship Encouraged by the Government

By Shital Shah | Published: May 2, 2008

iGovernment reports that the Indian government is encouraging the growth of entrepreneurship in several different ways, from public private partnerships to employment generation programs. In its Eleventh Plan, macro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) clusters will be promoted.…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Artisans, eleventh five year plan, Eleventh Plan, Employment, employment generation, Entrepreneurship, Gandhi, Government, iGovernment, Indian government, infrastructure, MSME, partnerships, Public Private, public private partnership, SKS, SMEs, Universities | Leave a comment

Civil Disobedience Comes to Life in Traffic-Infested Bombay

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: May 1, 2008

Those of us who have lived in an urban area in India know how traumatizing (and potentially life-threatening) the pedestrian’s experience can be. Horns blaring, buses hurtling towards intersections at breakneck speed, motorcycles weaving in and out of traffic, ineffectual…

Posted in Change-Agent | Also tagged Ahmedabad, Bombay, cars, Change-Agent, civil disobedience, construction, English, Entrepreneurship, Gandhi, Government, grassroots, Grassroots Initiatives, Gujarat, Hindi, Indicorps, ISB, krishnaraj rao, languages, Mumbai, npr, PATH, pedestrian satyagraha, pipe, rains, rights, sahasi padayatri, satyagraha, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurship, traffic, waste, waste management, waste management system | Leave a comment

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