Tag Archives: self-reliance

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, khadi, NGOs and Non-profits, Rural, The Hindu | 7 Comments

Op-Ed: Why Traditional Income Generating Activities Simply Aren’t Enough

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: May 22, 2008

Recently, traditional income generating activities, specifically those associated with self help groups (SHGs), have gained acclaim as effective tools for poverty alleviation. The assumption is that if, for example, Sunita, a woman from an agricultural community in Gujarat,…

Posted in Op-Ed | Also tagged best practices foundation, BP, collaboration, Employment, Finance/Credit, Government, Gujarat, income generation, Karnataka, Livelihood, mandi, Market Oriented Value Enhancement, Microfinance, NGO, NGOs, Op-Ed, poverty, poverty alleviation, Self Help Groups, Self Help Groups (SHGS), SHGs, Social Entrepreneurship, sustainability, Women's Rights | 8 Comments

Evening Edition: Headlines

By Vinay Ganti | Published: March 11, 2008

Enjoy:

Two Anna varsity campuses to be declared tobacco-free

CHENNAI: On Wednesday, two campuses of Anna University in the city – MIT Chromepet and Guindy campus – will be declared “tobacco-free” zones.

Weavers too may get loan

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged Agriculture, Anna varsity, Baba Amte, Basic Rights, BoP, Chennai, Employment, Government, Handloom Weavers, Health, lepers, loan relief, loan waiver, self-help, Tobacco, tobacco-f, tobacco-free, weavers, Women's Rights | Leave a comment

A social entrepreneur for all time

By Vinay Ganti | Published: March 7, 2008

Today I’d like to introduce you to one of my heroes, Baba Amte. He died a few weeks ago on February 8th at the opus of his life, Anandavan. I was fortunate to visit him several times during my work…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Adivasi, Anandavan, Awards, Baba Amte, Basic Rights, Cooking, cotton, Dalit, Dalits, disabled, Entrepreneurship, Environment, fertilizer, Government, gram panchayat, human rights, Indian government, InSPIRE, irrigation, ITC, lepers, Maharashtra, map, Narmada, Narmada Dam, Opportunities, organic farming, plastic, RAND, rights, Rural, rural development, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurship, Sushil Jacob, TC-I Changemakers, toilets, Trade, Transportation, underwater, water management, youth | Leave a comment

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