TECH FOR SEVA- 2014

SEWABHARATI
www.techforseva.org
www.sevabharathi.org

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Career Guidance bridging the exposure divide

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Revitalising Village Communities

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Computer Based Function Literacy program for adults

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VigyanVahini: Providing Experiential Learning

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Use of Software in Mathematics Education

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Developing Teachers for the Special Needs Children

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Multi-disciplinary training for Children with special needs

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Man-Making Education through LLL Method

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Innovative Approach to Improve Education in Rural Areas

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Employer-Employees Engage Together for A Cause

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Digitizing the vedic content

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Child Rights in India still a far cry!

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Psychological Counseling for stressed-out children

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Automated Centralized Kitchen for

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Mid Day Meal in school

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Developing indigenous language processing technologies for Indian languages

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Employing technology to provide education in local languages.

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Ekal Vidyalaya sustainable solution for illiteracy in rural and tribal villages

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Cloud based audio content repository for Visually Challenged Students

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Sakha/ Mitra - An Intelligent Wearable Device for Visually Challenged

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Anusaaraka: Fusion of Indian Shastras and Modern Technologies

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Hands-On Learning: Transform and Stimulate the Thinking of Students

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Empowering Public Education System

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Child Labor Rehabilitation

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Netra Vidyalaya: Enabling faster, Effective and Holistic Learning Experience for the
Visually Challenged

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Novel approach to keep slum children away from crime

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Social Engineering through community participation

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Teaching Science of Stress Free Productivity

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Realizing Gandhian education model (Nai Taleem) through ICT

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Communication and IT for the Visually Challenged

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Enabling Life-Ready Childhoods

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Sparsh Well Fargo Supported schools making difference in primary education

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Measures to Increase Life Expectancy of Chenchu tribals

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Medhya Rasayana treatment for Cerebral Palsy

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Systemic Solution to spiraling expenditure on medicines

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MiVaidya: Geriatric Health Care at Doorsteps

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Redefines Diseases to Disorders

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YAGNA; HAPPY VILLAGE

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Cow-based Practices: Reinventing lost legacy

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Medical Mission: Technology connects healthcare service provides to end users

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Sustainable Health Care Service Delivery is Fundamental for Community Development

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Arogyashreni: Improving the Quality and Reliability of Public Health Service

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Arogya Dhara: Integrated Approach to Solve Health Issues in Tribal Areas

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Aquatron: Alternative to the Water-Based Sanitation

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Mobile Medical Van: Catering to the medical needs of the Under privileged

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Healthy and Happy Living for All

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Scaling-up Service Experience in Government Hospitals

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Scientific Efforts to Address Food Hazards

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Rehabilitation of Leprosy Patients through Vocational Skill Development

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Nutritious feed for milch cattle

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Preventing weavers suicides and turning around Dubbak weaving cluster

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Livelihoods from water hyacinth

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Watershed Development: One Concept - Innumerable benefits

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Sustainable livelihoods for urban poor women

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Provides Legal Literacy and Creates Awareness on Legal Rights

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Working with Urban Poor

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Building Rural India by Imparting Vocational Training

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Promoting organic farming techniques

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Multipurpose Cultivation Vehicle for Small Farmers

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Flower Preservation A Viable Technology for Establishing an Enterprise

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Empowering villages to achieve Self-Reliance

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Changing Lives: from a tribal hamlet to IIT, Apollo

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Socio-Economic Empowerment of Vanavasis

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Technologies by Farmers for Farmers A New Perspective on Rural Technologies

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Preserving Tank Irrigation and Promoting Community Management

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National Mission on Breeding of Indigenous Livestock (NMBIL)

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An Eco-system for Rural Innovation: The Malkha initiative

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Integrated Approach for Conservation of Biodiversity and Tribal Empowerment

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Kondapalli Toys: Transforming Wood into Master Pieces

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Integrated Approach to Improve the Weavers Livelihood

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Livelihood for Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual and Developmental disabilities

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Swayam Sakthi Women rediscovering themselves

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Making CSR a Complete Social Engagement

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Social Engineering for Rural Development

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Sustainable Technologies for model village

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Natural farming - Revitalizing Rural Ecology through Polyculture

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Appropriate Technologies for Harvesting Rainwater to mitigate water scarcity

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Solution to the Bacterial Blight disease in Rice crop

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Still Water Electrical Generation technology

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Managing solid waste in cities

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SOLAR MICRO GRID SUSTAINABLE RURAL ELECTRIFICATION

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One Child One Light- Environment Friendly Lighting

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Improved Biomass Burning Stoves

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Landfill-Free Manufacturing: A Quest for Sustainable Manufacturing

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Improving ground water table through Inverse Bore Well method

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Efficient Solid Waste Management by Source Segregation and Recycling

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Accumulating and Reusing rain water on-site

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Aiding Green Revolution

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Tracing and Cremating Unclaimed Dead Bodies

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Career Guidance bridging the exposure

divide
Nirmaan Vidya Helpline - 1800 425 2425
12/A, Potti Sriramulu Nagar, Masab Tank, Hyderabad, Telangana.
Contact: +91 9912456348 EMail: chandrasekhar.puch@gmail.com URL:
http://www.vidyahelpline.org http://nirmaan.org/
With most of the students in rural India being the first
generation learners, there is very minimal guidance or no
guidance on how to continue their education and the career
opportunities available for them to pursue. There are many
students, especially in rural areas who are not able to utilize the
opportunities available in the government and private sectors.
There are as many opportunities as the number of people, but
there is an exposure divide.
Vidya HelpLine, is a unique solution to bridge this knowledge
divide in students and dropouts and help them make learned
career choices.
Nirmaan was founded on 12th February, 2005 by a group of
BITS-Pilani University students with a passion for humanity and
to fulfill our responsibility towards our less privileged brothers
and sisters. Nirmaan is a constructive citizen movement for an
empowered India, thereby making the world a better place to
live in.
Other Activities
Career Counselling Workshops: Aimed at goal setting and
exposing rural government school students of 9th and 10th
standard to various career opportunities to make them dream
BIG!!! We have assisted 50,000+ rural students with the support
of Yuva Varadhi.
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Message Outreach: In order to keep the students and dropouts

informed and reminded about the latest education and career
releases, we send out voice and text messages to them. We
have shot out 1,80,000+ voice and text messages till now.

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Revitalising Village Communities

Gnana Saraswathi Foundation
H.No: 17-1-197/7/5, Sai Baba Nagar, Dhobhi ghat, (P.O.)
Saidabad,
Hyderabad-500059
E-Mail : gsf.jayabharathi@gmail.com Website : gsf.org.in
Contact: Sadavenkat: 9441054351
We firmly believe that a developed Bharat is not feasible without
people's participation, character building of the youth, and a
vibrant village life.
Gnana Saraswathi Foundation wants to revitalize the village life
on the lines of our ancient village communities with temple and
schools at the centre. We are motivated in the task of village
level reforms with Temple and Schools as the nerve centres.
With temple in the focus, the much needed moral oversight is
sought to be brought in apart from transforming the role of
temple from a mere place of worship to a centre of man-making
(character building) and a vibrant village. We are striving to link
the eminently successful individuals from the village to
participate in the process in their respective villages, thereby
bringing the much-needed social capital sans the profit motive.
The Foundation works to improve the condition of the rural
school students by providing proper educational guidance and
support in all possible means.
Activities
Aksharabhyasam
Patriotic songs competitions
Prashikshana camps: Residential training camps for the
10th Class students who dont have basic amenities at
their premises to prepare for exams.
Annual day celebrations
Mobile Library
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Pratibha Awards: Award mandal-level toppers of SSC

Public Examinations. For 2012, 153 students from 12
mandals got the Pratibha Awards.

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Computer Based Function Literacy

program for adults
M Azmath Ali, Project Manager, Adult Literacy Programme
Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad - 500 001, Telangana
+91 40 6667 1170; 91 9704130765
In spite of implementing various special literacy drives and
programs for adults in our country, there are still a large number
of adults who are illiterate.
TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) works closely with
governments at the state and district levels to implement
Computer Based Function Literacy (CBFL) in the local language
as a supplement to their Adult literacy programmes.
CBFL is a cost-effective, innovative new-age solution where the
instructor uses multimedia to teach adults. Each CBFL course is
continuously upgraded based on feedback from the field.
CBFL was first launched by TCS in AP. TCS worked with the
Government of AP and NGOs to implement the ALP through
CBFL in the State. The first trial of CBFL was carried out in March
2000 in the Beeranguda village of AP. 100% literacy was
achieved. An adult can learn to read, write and perform basic
arithmetic after following 50 hours of instruction. These sessions
take around 1.5 to 2 hours and are conducted thrice a week,
over a period of 10 to 12 weeks.

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In addition to ALP, the plan also included Agriculture,

Horticulture, Fisheries, Weather, Health and Hygiene, Revenue
and AIDS related information.
Quick Facts of CBFL Implementation in Andhra Pradesh:
Initial deployment at 45 centers, to help 677 people
acquire reading skills
Television-based CBFL course launched in 140 TV centers,
helping additional 1400 people become literate
A total of 17,600 persons achieved literacy through CBFL
courses
CBFL curriculum continuously updated to suit the
requirements of rural areas
This solution is scalable to all phonetic languages in India. TCS is
willing to collaborate with the organizations which are working in
the same domain, technology solutions provider in general and
implementation agencies in particular.

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VigyanVahini: Providing Experiential

Learning
Dr. Vishwanath Gogte
3-4-207/2, Lingampally, Kachiguda, Hyderabad - 500027,
Telangana
Phone: +91-9391085351, drvbgogte@gmail.com
Most government schools lack science laboratories. Therefore,
the students learn science without performing or even observing
a single experiment. Similarly, endless repetition, meaningless
memorization, a never ending series of worksheets or practice
exercises, and lack of understanding in basic concepts creates
an aversion to mathematics.
VigyanVahini gives the students a chance to learn science
and mathematics by performing experiments. The programme
covers the entire Science & Mathematics curriculum for each
class and about 18 vocational skills.
Mobile Science and Maths lab has a fully equipped and
staffed Science, Mathematics and Vocational skills lab. The
mobile lab visits each school once every week. The hands-onnature of the programme ensures development of all learning
abilities. Learn-by-doing ensures that education becomes
wholesome and joyous experience and transforms students into
able and confident, self-reliant human beings.
The pedagogy includes conceptual understanding and
practical application of all the core subjects - mathematics,
science, economics & social skills. Since the learners
participation is central to the methodology, and every activity
concludes in creating a tangible product as output, it will ensure
that the concepts learnt will be indelibly absorbed by the
students. The activities are based on the prescribed curriculum
of various Educational Boards to ensure that they will strengthen
the academics profoundly. At the conclusion of the 3 year
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program every learner will have proven competencies in about

15 vocational skills apart from strengthening the academics.
On successful completion of the program, students will get
a Diploma in Basic Technology Certificate.
A student who completes all specified modules will pass
out of the schools as competent, confident, sensitised, self
reliant and capable Matriculates and can very ably pursue
higher education or can be gainfully employed.

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Use of Software in Mathematics Education

P Lalitha, MSc, M.Phil, (PhD) ,HoD, Mathematics, St.Francis
College for Women, Umanagar, Begumpet, Hyderabad 500016.
+919908671217, lalithakasinadh@gmail.com
Dr.P Rajasekhara Rao, HoD - Mathematics, Government
Polytechnic, Addanki, Prakasam District, AP
mail:raoprs@gmail.com cel:9346710365
Teaching Mathematics has become a challenge these days.
Many students in the lower classes are scared of Mathematics
because of the complex methods introduced in explaining basic
arithmetic. At secondary and pre-university level, focus is only
on scoring high percentages in Board Examinations or getting
ranks in entrance examinations like EAMCET, AIEEE, IITJEE etc.
Due to this kind of training, by the time a student enters the
graduation course he loses interest in Mathematics. The
concepts of Mathematics at B.Sc and M.Sc level are made
abstract and the student is not trained to appreciate the ideas.
To bring a change in this situation an alternate method of
teaching should be thought of. Now that the usage of computers
has become inevitable, one can think of introducing software in
Mathematics education. There are software like Matlab,
Mathcad, Mathematica, SPSS etc. They are a bit expensive.
There are Educational discounts and free student versions.
There are also free downloadable software like Geogebra, R etc.
These software help students to visualize geometric figures, 3Dobjects, create animated pictures, make calculations simple and
easy, and understand the application to real world problems.
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An effort should be made to study the software, select topics

relevant to existing syllabi, create exercises and practical
manuals, train teachers on using the software and then
introduce as a part of curriculum. This leads to making
Mathematics education more enjoyable and interesting thus
producing more and more Mathematicians and Scientists who
can add to the knowledge based society of Bharat.
Voluntary organizations can help spread these training
programs. Corporates can sponsor software and hardware in
academic institutions. They can involve their employees to train
students on mathematical software. It provides them with skilled
manpower, as future is for Big Data and mathematical
modelling.

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Developing Teachers for the Special Needs

Children
Sweekar
Upkaar Junction, (Opp. Jubilee Bus Station), Upkaar Complex,
Secunderabad, Telangana
Phone: 040 - 6999 6666, 2784 3338
info@sweekaar.org.in
Children with special needs face almost insurmountable hurdles
in our country in getting the required education and training to
lead productive lives with dignity. Apart from the general apathy
towards the mentally challenged in our society, there is also a
dearth of institutions specializing in this.
Although we have rendered our services to 58 lakh persons with
special needs till now, it is only a tip of the ice berg. We couldnt
do more because of the great deficiency of trained human
resources in this field. There is a need for developing human
resources to teach children with special needs, which include
learning disabilities, communication disabilities, emotional and
behavioral disorders, physical disabilities, and developmental
disabilities.
Sweekaar Academy of Rehabilitation Sciences (SARS) was
started in 1996 to meet this need. It is the only academy in our
country developing human resources through various training
programmes.

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Our campuses are located at Secunderabad (H.O), Tandur,

Kadapa, and Guntur and we conduct 30 training programs
ranging from Diploma, Degree, P.G, Post P.G, Psy.D to PhD
courses recognized by State, Central Govt. and Universities. So
far 3,155 rehabilitation professionals (care givers to the
disabled) have been trained by us.
SARS

has four Institutions

Institute of Special Education
Institute of Speech and Audiology
Institute of Mental Health and
Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Sweekaar was started in 1977 to serve the mentally challenged

children. We now extend our services to all types of disabled, of
all age groups under one roof, serving not only the mentally
handicapped, but also physically disabled, deaf, aged, drug
addicts, widows and destitutes.

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Multi-disciplinary training for Children

with special needs
Pavan Rekha Kumar,
Shankar Foundation,
Ph: +91-9666040650, Email: pavanrekhakumar@yahoo.com
We are living in an era where rapid changes in the living style,
learning, teaching, communication & recreation as well as in
science & technology is increasingly high. There is a need to use
innovative methods in teaching & training the children with
Intellectual disability according to these changes
If we look back to past decade, there is alarming change in the
abilities and potentials of the special needs children with the
exposure to the progressive changes in the social environment.
Hence, Shankar Foundation along with the multi-disciplinary
team of its professionals who include Clinical Psychologist,
Educational Psychologist, Special Educators, Speech Therapist,
Occupational Therapist and Physiotherapist, co-curricular team
consisting of Computer instructor, Sports instructor Arts and
crafts instructor, Music and Dance teachers collectively work on
the comprehensive intervention program.
Different intervention programs are planned for different age
groups viz., 0-6 years under the Multi disciplinary clinic for
Special Needs, 7-14 years group includes primary, secondary,
pre-vocational/Life skills, 15 years & above for pre-vocational &
vocational training.
All the three units have an integrated approach for the
individuals with intellectual disability, slow learners and Autism
Spectrum Disorder with other associated conditions like
Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, Cerebral palsy, epilepsy,
Downs syndrome and other syndromes and pervasive
developmental disorders, grouped age appropriately. This kind
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of grouping gives integrated exposure in social communication

skills and Activities of Daily Living skills, thereby facilitating
independent living skills.
The tools for assessments for the comprehensive intervention
programs are developed and adapted by each unit. The multi
disciplinary team along with the co-curricular team co-ordinate
to plan the innovative multi-sensorial activities, remedial
education, audio-visual based special education and computer
aided Teaching Learning Material, hands-on activities for
concepts, social skill training, enhancing real life situations in
shopping money transaction and community orientation through
visits & field trips. Play way methods, teaching strategies of
simple to complex and task analyses along with reinforcements
for enhancing positive behaviours are encouraged.
So far we have registered 38 students for NIOS Xth out of which
30 passed out successfully. Presently 6 of them are further
pursuing their higher education and rest of the others are
working independently in different works of life. Our students
have participated in Special Olympics Bharat at District, State &
National level & won medals. 12 of them exhibited explicit skills
and were selected for International Special Olympics and won
medals.

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Man-Making Education through LLL

Method
Sri Ravinder
Vandemataram Foundation
The academic performance of the students studying in
government schools in our state is not commensurate with the
superior faculty and physical infrastructure available in these
schools.
Some of it has to do with lack of support at home as most of the
students hail from impoverished families and being first
generation learners. However, most of the problem lies in the
teaching methodology adopted in these schools, which instills a
fear for mathematics and doesnt promote any love for the
languages, i.e., it neither stimulates the left nor the right brain
of the children. Absence of logical thinking results in the gradual
decrease in the interest towards studies as a child does not
understand what and why of learning. This leads to apathy
among the students and forces them to dropout. The larger
purpose of schooling is not only to learn functional skills but also
to build their character and impart life skills to transform them
in to good citizens. Unfortunately the curriculum is not designed
to support this either.
Language, Logic & Life Skills (LLL) program launched by
Vandemataram Foundation encourages reading among the
children of government schools in classes 3 to 8 by providing
them with story books. Language is a strong motivating factor
that tremendously enhances a childs learning abilities. A child
who cannot read her mother tongue cannot involve in the
learning exercise at school. Our program helps in acquiring the
basic competencies in arithmetic by allowing a child to study,
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practice and learn in groups in the post schooling session for

one hour a day monitored and coordinated by a Vidya Volunteer.
It also teaches necessary life skills through activities such as
story-telling, singing, poetry etc to improve communication
skills, Vaarthalu-Viseshaalu to take an interest in what is
happening around them in the school and society and to share
their observations with others, and Balasabha to develop
leadership skills among children and promote community
participation in the school activities.
We are implementing the LLL Method over the past one year in
320 government schools across Mahabubnagar and Warangal
districts with the support of the school authorities, and have
plans of rolling it out to other districts in the state.
Vandemataram Foundation (VMF) was started in the year 2005
with the objective of providing man-making education that
inculcates right values in the formative stage. We
focus
exclusively on the government schools in the rural and
backward regions of Telangana.

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Innovative Approach to Improve Education

in Rural Areas
Mr Papagari Sanga Reddy, Founder.
Friends of Rural Empowerment (FORE)
112 Vigneshwara Residency, Suchitra Junction, Medchal Road,
Secunderabad 500 055, Telangana.
The huge gap in the quality of education received in the urban
and rural areas is common knowledge. The results bear
testimony that education has been continuously improving in
urban areas, while it is on the downslide in the rural areas.
Literate youth among the rural poor face a typical
problem. On the one hand, they are unable to compete with
their urban counterparts in getting well-paid jobs because of the
low standard of their education, while on the other they are
unwilling to work in the farming sector due to pressure from
society for being educated. Therefore, most parents among
rural poor prefer to stop their childrens education so that they
do not shy away from working in the farms. Hence the challenge
is to improve the quality of their learning in the school.
However, even if their teachers strive to teach them, the
students unfortunately do not get any academic help as followup at home, because their parents are either illiterate or semiliterate.
To alleviate this problem, the concept of After School
Study Hours was introduced in some government schools for
classes 6th through 9th with active support from the school
authorities. The objective of the exercise was simple just to
allow children to study what has been taught during the regular
hours.
Convincing parents to allow the children to be in school
after school hours and getting suitable tutors for engaging the
students after school are some of the main hurdles.
The results of the experiment have been very
encouraging. The school students use their time meaningfully
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improving their learning and the unemployed youth got an

opportunity to earn some money by utilizing their skills and
helping their youngsters in the village.
The After School Study Hours concept introduced in
2011, in government schools across 25 villages, in Nizamabad
district of Telangana has now spread to 170 schools. The entire
concept was funded through generous well-wishers settled
abroad and is easily scalable.

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Employer-Employees Engage Together for

A Cause
Swathi Tirunagari, Computer Associates
115, IT Park Area, Nanakramguda, Gachibowli, Hyderabad
At CA Technologies, giving back to society is a part of the
company culture and is one of the most rewarding and fun
aspect of an employees life at CA Technologies.
CA and HOPE Foundation together started an English medium
co-education school in 2004. The school provides quality
education from lower KG to Class 4, to the under privileged
children from Habsiguda Slum Rehabilitation Camp. As part of
the strategy of sponsoring education end-to-end, apart from
education, we ensure nutrition (breakfast, lunch and snacks
cooked on premises to ensure hygiene and nutrition), school
uniforms, bags, study material (books, stationery, e-learning
modules), extracurricular activities pertaining to sports and
music (providing sports equipment and musical instruments and
training to play these instruments) and health check-ups
(general, dental and eye), free medicines and celebrating
important national festivals and childrens day.
After completion of 4th standard, when the kids move on to
mainstream Kendriya Vidyalaya School, we provide additional
tuitions to help cope up with the pressure. We also go the extra
mile to counsel the parents of these school students about the
importance of education, so that these students receive
encouragement at home towards education.
Also, our employee volunteers get involved in various year
round activities such as helping organize Independence and
Republic Day, Childrens day, school annual and sports day,
graduation day, excursion and also help out with teaching over
weekends.
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It is a matter of immense pride that the first batch of

completed their Xth standard this year (2014) and
pursuing various streams in junior colleges and we will
to support their further studies to ensure, they
responsible citizens.

students
are now
continue
become

Digitizing the vedic content

Dr. Remella Avadhanulu
SHRI VEDA BHARATHI
H.No. H Block-34,Madhura nagar, Hyderabad - 500 038
Phone: 9849459316, 040-23812577.
shrivedabharathi@gmail.com, www.shrivedabharathi.in
The word Veda means wisdom of highest order. Presently the
Vedic literature is facing the threat of extinction. The four Vedas
were said to have 1131 sakhas (branches) earlier. But now only
7 are being taught in Vedic schools. Thus we are left with less
than 1% Vedic knowledge.
To address this issue, SVB took up several projects, such as
recording of rare chantings of Rig Veda because of rapidly
declining experts who can chant Rig Veda in all 11 modes. SVB
has recorded more than 1000 hours of Vedic chantings of Rig
Veda and Yajur Veda.
We have conducted research studies in Mathematics, Physics,
Chemistry, Medicine, Spectroscopy, Space science and
Cognition and the findings are brought out in the form of books,
such as:
Science and Technology in Vedas and Sastras
Computer Science in Vedas (Vedas and Computers)
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Vedic Mathematics in Braille-for visually impaired students

and youth
Predictability of Earth Quakes using the knowledge of
Jyotisha Vijnan

SVB recognized the need for creating awareness of Indias

spiritual and scientific inheritance among the educated youth
and students to inculcate the desired traditional values. The
lectures on Vedic Mathematics telecasted in Bhakti Channel
and Vedic Sciences telecasted in TTD (SVBC) Channel are
appreciated as highly educative.
SVB constructed a Sun Dial system in the premises of Sri
Venkateswara Temple at Dwaraka Tirumala to demonstrate the
scientific temper in vedic literature. It also offers online courses
to teach Sanskrit language.
SVB was established in 1994 as a historical necessity for
preserving the available Vedic knowledge in audio and
multimedia form in CDROMs/ DVDs. SVB is a Public Charitable
Trust working for the past two decades for preservation and
propagation of Vedic Knowledge and carrying out Research
works related to Sanskrit and Vedas.

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Child Rights in India still a far cry!

Dr Mamatha Raghuveer Achanta,
Member, State Commission for Protection of Child Rights,
Telangana
amamatha06@gmail.com
This year we are celebrating the 25 th anniversary of the adoption
of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
Child (UNCRC) the most widely ratified human rights treaty in
history, which reflects a new vision of the child and provides a
universal set of standards to be adhered to by all countries.
Children are neither the property of their parents nor are they
helpless objects of charity. They are human beings and are the
subject of their own rights.
At least 8 million children around the world live in institutions,
about 14.2 million girls under 18 are married every year and
about 168 million children aged 5 to 17 are still forced to work
every day. These children are separated from their families and
deprived of the stability and care that they need. But the
children living with their families are no better as they are also
deprived of love, affection and quality time from their parents
who are mostly unaware of good parenting or simply have no
time!
The four guiding principles of UNCRC are Best interests of the
child, Non-discrimination, Survival and development and
Participation. The four categories of rights envisaged in UNCRC
are, Survival, Protection, Development, and Participation.
The adoption of the UNCRC is rightly identified as a watershed in
the way children are treated and positioned within policies,
services, and society more broadly. The UNCRC recasts children
as bearers of human rights who are entitled to an identity, to
receive essential services such as health and education, and to
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get protection from abuse, exploitation, neglect. As duty

bearers, governments have an obligation to be proactive in the
provision of such services and safeguards to children.
By ratifying the Convention in 1992, India has promised to
protect and uphold the rights of children and young people by
putting childrens rights into legislation, policy and practice.

Ground realities
India with 1.21 billion people constitutes as the second most
populous country in the world, while children represent 39% of
total population of the country. The population ofchildren (018 years) is 472 million(Census 2011).
With more than one-third of its population below 18 years,
India has the largest young population in the world.
Only 55% of births are registered, impacting name and
nationality. (59% in urban areas and 35% in rural areas)
One out of 16 children die before they attain the age of 1,
and one out of 11 die before they are 5 years old.
35% of the developing worlds low-birth-weight babies are
born in India.
40% of child malnutrition in the developing world is in
India.
The declining number of girls in the 0-6 age-group is cause
for alarm. For every 1,000 boys there are only 914 females -even less in some places.
Out of every 100 children, 19 continue to be out of school.
Of every 100 children who enrol, 70 drop out by the time
they reach the secondary level.
Of every 100 children who drop out of school, 66 are girls.
65% of girls in India are married by the age of 18 and
become mothers soon after.
India is home to the highest number of child labourers in
the world.
India has the worlds largest number of sexually abused
children
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Even before ratifying the UNCRC, India had created a Protection

Mandate for Children in the Indian Constitution under Articles
15, 15(3), 23, 24, 39 and 47 and many Laws were framed
accordingly.
As part of the various Five Year Plans, numerous programmes
have been launched by the government for providing services to
children in the areas of health, nutrition and education.The most
important has been the setting up of a full-fledged Ministry of
Women and Child Development. Among the policy and law
initiatives that were undertaken was the formulation of the
National Charter for Children 2003, the National Plan of Action
for Children 2005, enactment of the National Commissions for
Protection of Child Rights Act 2006, Prohibition of Child
Marriages Act, 2006, Right to Education Act 2009, Protection of
Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and the proposed
amendments to the Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection Act)
2000.
Although all these are important measures, what we require is a
complete re-examination of the legal framework for children as
a whole, identification of gaps and reconciliation of existing
anomalies within the law and the implementation of policies,
programmes and schemes meant for children. Unless children
are recognised as individuals with rights all efforts will be
sporadic, addressing only some symptoms and not the root
cause of the problems that affect the children of this country.
Technology is of great help for reaching to more and more
children and in the holistic development of a child. Are we
satisfied with the present usage of technology for improving the
lives of children? Are we doing our best for the 39% of our
population? Only sparse examples of good work will not help
these needy young ones. We have to think about tech-based
solutions for the grave situation the children are facing today.
Technology should help children to grow into responsible citizens
who are useful to the society. We have to pass on the knowledge
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duly alerting the children regarding the perils associated with

the use of technology in an irresponsible manner. Children are
quite a large vulnerable group on the internet and can easily fall
prey. Let us enable the children to know that their little hands
can do wonders on gadgets only if they know the limits and
limitations.
Let us all work together to make this world a Child Friendly
place.

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Psychological Counseling for stressed-out

children
Dr Geeta Challa
Mano Jagrithi
Q.No. 29, Block 5, New CI quarters, Yousufguda police lines,
Hyderabad -500045, Telangana
Contact: 9866016812, Email: manojagrithi12@gmail.com
Intense culture of competition and overwhelming parental
expectations are resulting in avoidable stress among the
students, and leading to poor academic performance and in
deviant behavior in some cases.
Some of the other
manifestations include behavioral problems, negative thinking,
low self-confidence, getting trapped into smoking, drinking, and
depression.
Mano Jagrithi has addressed these issues by offering counseling
through psychologists. Student mental health awareness has
been at the forefront of all the initiatives organized by Mano
Jagrithi. Interventions are given and students are approached
through different methods like cognitive thought reframing,
emotional control and behavioral therapy. Monitoring is done by
the senior counselors at every stage and critical cases are
discussed. Some clinical cases are referred to psychiatrists.
Changes
during
adolescence
produce
psychological
disturbances which need to be understood and counseled
accordingly.
Mano Jagrithi provides mental health awareness and counselling
programs not only for students, but also to teachers, youth, and
women. Since 2005, nearly two lakhs individuals have
benefitted through the workshops and trainings organized by
Mano Jagrithi in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
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Automated Centralized Kitchen for

Mid Day Meal in school
The Akshaya Patra Foundation
#12, Phase-3, Near ESI Hospital Road, IDA, Patancheru,
Hyderabad - 502319, Telangana
Phone: 08455-246333
Providing at least one meal in school has been thought of as an
effective means of attracting children from impoverished
backgrounds to enroll and retain in school, thereby reducing the
child labor. However, the quality of food provided under the
midday meal scheme is inconsistent and poor.
Akshaya Patra is the flagship midday meal program of The
Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF). It has a centralized kitchen
model that leverages technology to increase efficiency, lower
costs and maintain high standards of quality.
TAPF provides good management, innovative technology and
smart engineering to deliver school lunch at a fraction of the
cost of similar programs in other parts of the world. It costs
Rs750 to feed a child daily for the entire school year. Currently
TAPF serves midday meals to over 1.4 million children and
envisions feeding five million children every day by 2020.
The mission of TAPF is to:

Prevent children from turning to labour by meeting their

nutritional needs

Secure a good education for children by enabling them to

attend schools
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It implements the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in partnership with the

Government of India and several State Governments. The
Foundation reaches out to children from over 10,000
Government and Government aided schools across 10 states in
India. In Telangana, it serves 65,000 school children and 25,000
children, pregnant and lactating mothers in Anganwadi centers
in 11 Mandals of Medak District.
TAPF is a non-profit organization that runs on a public-private
partnership model in India. It is working towards providing food
for education and eliminating classroom hunger in the country.

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Developing indigenous language

processing technologies for Indian
languages
Shri. Kasinaadh Lakkaraju
National Vice President, Hyderabad.
201, Krishnapriya Residency, 113, Methodist Colony
Begumpetet, Hyderabad 500 016.
Email:klakkaraju@gmail.com
For transliterating from English to a few Indian languages the
name that comes to our mind is Google input tools on the cloud.
Looking at Google, even yahoo started providing such service
free of cost. Same logic applies to translation too. The problem
that will arise, if a nationalistic organization does not take
interest in popularizing and testing these tools leads to
domination of Indian language technology by multinational
organizations. Even foreign universities are working on Sanskrit
language translation technology. If these universities overtake
Indian
initiatives,
then
the
language
is
prone
to
misinterpretation
and misrepresentation,
which
already
happened in the case of Vedas by western experts such as Max
Muller.
Department of Electronics and Information Technology,
Government of India has formed different consortia for
Technology Development for Indian Languages. Members of the
consortia are the institutions like IISc, IIT, IIIT, Anna Universtity,
Central Universities etc.
These consortia are developing technologies for Indian language
word processors, Optical character recognition, hand writing
recognition / intelligent character recognition, Text to speech
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conversion; Speech to speech conversion software, translation

and transliteration tools etc.
While TDIL is open to involving community in development of
these technologies and is providing the software and resources
online at the URL tdil-dc.in, the usage of the tools by the
community of Indian language users is very meager.

Employing technology to provide

education in local languages.
Cigniti, 6th Floor, ORION Block, The V (Ascendas), Plot # 17
Software Units Layout Madhapur, Hyderabad, Telangana
500081. sairam@cigniti.com +91-40-4038-2290
Students studying in vernacular medium schools do not have
access to latest educational content and coupled with poor and
irregular teaching at school and lack of academic help at home
often results in loss of interest and dropping out of school.
Cignitis CSR initiative Project Cignificance aims to empower a
million lives through education as an enabler. The goal of the
project is to eliminate the gap caused due to lack of accessibility
to world-class educational content, teaching and infrastructure.
Also, it aims to solve problems associated with the dropout rates
in schools by ensuring freely available and reusable educational
content in the form of videos in digital format, tablets and able
to work with and without the internet providing an alternate
supplementary option for the textbooks. Project Cignificance
aims to create and consolidate a knowledge base of
Mathematics and Science subjects for students from Standard V
to X. The primary target audience is the population of around 6
million students who study in the Telugu medium schools run by
the Governments of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
The progress so far:
The team has produced more than 415 videos.
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One of the significant out comes of our effort is the

process itself that can be replicated to have videos
available in other languages.
250 Mathematics and Science videos which were
translated from the Khan Academy portal into Telugu as
part of the first phase of the project.
A Set of 4 DVDs are available to be distributed apart from
the videos which are pre-loaded on a set of android
tablets.
Developed an android app that is currently being tested.
By virtue of Cignitis efforts Telugu became the first
language in India to have a separate page in the Khan
academy portal (te.khanacademy.org)

What Next
Identification of more schools and more number of
students to whom the videos in the form of DVDs and preloaded tablets with the custom Application can be
distributed.
Looking to reach out at least to 5000 students and 50
schools as we move ahead.
Identifying opportunities using different forms of
technology to make the whole experience of content
consumption, production and distribution to be of global
scale.

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Ekal Vidyalaya sustainable solution for

illiteracy in rural and tribal villages
Uday Khardekar, General Secretary, JANAHITA, EKal Vidyalaya
Janahita, 3H, Block B, Samrat Complex (opp. AG Office),
Siafabad, Hyderabad 500004
Phone: +91-9849019672, Email: uday@udayudyog.com
The primary challenges today in rural and tribal education
sectors in our country are as follows,
Number of children not going to school 8.04 million
(2009)
Studies show more than 21 million students drop out after
reaching Class VIII, another 15 million after XII
United Nation Millennium Goal 100% education to all by
2015
Government target - 100% retention by 2020
Number of villages 6,38,596 (2011)
Distance of a primary school from the village - 2 to5 Km
A cost effective and sustainable way out to address the issue of
illiteracy among children in remote and inaccessible areas in
rural and tribal regions is a school which is managed by the
villagers comprising of teacher(s) belonging to that
village/habitation who provide useful education to the students
at a time convenient to them.
Combining all these features, we have designed and
implemented Ekal Vidyalaya. The teacher is selected from the
village and is accountable to the Village Committee which is
responsible for functioning of the school. These teachers are
trained in-house in a curriculum comprising of mathematics and
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local languages. Teaching methodology makes intensive use of

local songs and dances ensuring active participation of all
children in the class. A cluster of 15 schools is led by a full-time
teacher who is charged with the task of promoting village
committees and teacher training and review.
Studying in an Ekal vidyalaya makes it convenient for the school
dropouts to rejoin the regular school after their Ekal schooling.
Ekal schools timings are flexible and provide time for household
economic activities and domestic chores. Ekal follows a low-cost
model and is often funded by donors. In 2013, Ekal schools were
the only source of education in approximately 20% of the
villages in which they operated.
EKAL Abhiyaan, is a non-profit service organization on a mission
to bring basic education to every child across rural India and
runs one-teacher schools (known as Ekal Vidyalayas) all over
India.

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Cloud based audio content repository for

Visually Challenged Students
Shri. Kasinaadh Lakkaraju
National Vice President, Hyderabad.
201, Krishnapriya Residency, 113, Methodist Colony,
BegamPet, Hyderabad 500 016.
Email:klakkaraju@gmail.com
Louise Braille invented Braille script which is used the world over
for printing books for visually challenged people. However,
Braille books are heavy and not convenient to carry. In the last
3-4 decades audio cassette recording was prevalent. With the
advent of mobiles and compact memory chips, students started
using mobiles as recording and playing device. However,
copying from one person to another person has become
unwieldy. Also students studying the same book have to get it
recorded by several people near to them. This is a huge
repetitive task. This is not only time consuming but also in many
cases not delivered to the user on time.
SAKSHAM developed the cloud store to store the audio books
developed for visually challenged students. This content is
accessible anywhere, anytime on any Android Mobile using an
app. Student can download the content and copy locally if
necessary. There will be audio hints in English, Hindi, Telugu and
other Indian languages. This solution helps spread the useful
content very fast to visually challenged persons. The content is
available free of cost to the user.
Samadrishti Kshamata Vikas Evam Anusamdhaan Mandal SAKSHAM, is a national level organization working for the
rehabilitation of the differently abled and prevention of disability.
Its volunteers spread all over Bharat approach persons with
disabilities and help their educational, medical, social and
spiritual requirements. SAKSHAM records the text in audio
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format to share it in tapes, iPod etc. This involves identification

of content, conversion from printed text to audio, and
distribution to beneficiaries in a timely and cost effective
manner. This solution enables a visually challenged student
access the content anytime, anywhere.

Sakha/ Mitra - An Intelligent Wearable

Device for Visually Challenged
Prof. Siba K Udgata, udgata@uohyd.ac.in,
School of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Kamakhya Narain Singh, kamakhyafca@kiit.ac.in
,School of Computer Application
KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Being visually impaired meant being condemned to a life of
confinement and institutionalization. It was almost unheard of
that visually impaired people undertake steps to become
educated and employed. Often seen as helpless by society and
as a burden by the family, they could only dream of having a
family and living an independent life. Presently there is no
proper system available in India and other developing countries
that allow a blind person to lead a quality life despite their
limitations.
A team of faculty from University of Hyderabad and Kalinga
Institute of Industrial Training (KIIT), Bhubaneswar are
continuously working to bring technology to the visually
challenged. We believe that there are immense possibilities for
equipping the visually impaired with technology. We have
designed an intelligent device named as Sakha or Mitra, which
assists a visually challenged person in his day-to-day work.
Sakha will mainly have (but not limited to) the functionalities as
Normal Activities, Know Your Friend, Acoustic Guidance, A Text
Reader, Talking GPS, Supervisory Role, Crowd sourcing, Device53

Assisted Navigation, Communicating with Friends and Knowing

Each Other.
We can think of many such relevant applications which will
revolve around the intelligent device Sakha/ Mitra which can
be included in the different versions depending on the
requirement/ technology available and affordability.
We would like to partner with likeminded NGOs for implementing
/ testing and giving feedback to the system for improvement in
terms of quality, features and usability.

Anusaaraka: Fusion of Indian Shastras and

Modern Technologies
Language Technologies Research Centre,
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Typically most of the information on the web is available in
English. This makes the web inaccessible to a large population in
India.
Anusaaraka Language Accessor cum Machine Translation, is an
attempt to address this problem. This system allows users to
access information in their language even though the source is
written in English. The purpose is not mere translation of English
into Indian languages. It is a well-known fact that it is not
possible to produce perfect translation of source language into
target language without loss of information especially when the
two languages are structurally and culturally very distant.
English and Indian languages belong to that category where the
structures of the two are very different and the socio-cultural
background of the speakers of English and Indian languages are
also varied. Anusaarakas aim is to ensure accessing the source
language without any information loss with the help of the
language of their choice.

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The design of such a platform requires of integration of many

language resources and NLP tools such as multilingual
dictionary, WordNets, word aligned parallel corpora, syntactic
parser and semantic disambiguation tools. The task is huge and
requires mass participation. The task can be broken into small
subtasks of varying difficulties so that a large number of
volunteers can participate and accomplish tasks according to
their ability and interest. With a huge manpower working
towards the goal, it is possible to achieve the target, i.e.,
developing language accessor system for English to Indian
languages including Sanskrit, within a short period of time.
Currently the system is in working stage for English and Hindi
pair.

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Hands-On Learning: Transform and

Stimulate the Thinking of Students
Agastya International Foundation,
79/26, 2nd Cross, Ramya Reddy Layout, Benson Town, Off
Nandidurga Road, Bangalore - 560046,
agastyaadmin@gmail.com
Rote-based, didactic and uninspiring education in India has
deprived over 250 million disadvantaged children of the tools to
overcome poverty. Instead, it has produced education apathy, a
high dropout rate and youth that lack skills and confidence,
creative-thinking and problem-solving abilities. Most schools do
not have labs.
Opportunities for participative, hands-on learning that sparks
curiosity, and stimulates and empowers children and teachers
are almost non-existent. Teacher training is divorced from the
realities of the school classroom. Seeing little value in education,
rural parents prefer to send their children to work in farms, thus
perpetuating a cycle of poverty.
To alleviate this problem, we have provided children with access
to dynamic hands-on education that makes learning fun,
awakens
curiosity,
encourages
questioning,
enhances
understanding, and fosters creative-thinking, problem-solving
and communication skills. Aim was to bring about a shift in five
vital behaviors - Yes to Why, Looking to Observing,
Passiveness to Exploring, Text-book to Hands-on, and Fear to
Confidence.
The Creativity Lab at Gudivanka village, Kuppam, Andhra
Pradesh, boasts several labs dedicated to hands-on learning
activities in Science, Mathematics, Ecology, Media and Art.
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Our campus has played host to esteemed educators, scholars,

researchers, academicians and dignitaries from various
domains. In addition to subject specific labs, the Campus houses
a Discovery Center which houses life size interactive models,
Center for Creative Teaching (CCT) which prepares Agastya
instructors and rural Government teachers, an Art Lab, a Media
Lab, an open air Ecolab and a Robotics Lab. The latest
developments include Guru-Gruha Astronomy center, Vision
Works model-making workshop, Library and IT Centre,
Performing Arts Centre and an Innovation Hub.
This approach has derived a demand for increase in
interventions by children and teachers. A gap has been filled in
the curriculum; children have enhanced interest in scientific
methods, creativity and problem solving skills. Leadership skills
are also improved among Young Instructor Leaders.

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Empowering Public Education System

Bachpan Banao
Opposite over head tank, Hudco colony, Awarabhata, District
Dantewada, Chhattisgarh 494449
Phone: 07856-252326, bachpanbanao@gmail.com ,
www.bachpanbanao.com
Dantewada district in Chattisgarh has been fairly unknown due
to its geographical inaccessibility. Majority of the population in
this region have minimal access to modern amenities. Literacy
rate is also very low. The major problem for teachers in
government schools is the lack of exposure to various effective
teaching practices available today.
We address the problem by working with the teachers of
government schools in Dantewada district through Bachpan
Banao Fellowship. The fellowship will support the school
administration in setting up effective academic and
administrative processes so as to improve the overall
performance of students studying in the pota cabins.
The fellowship will be pursued by diverse cohort of young
individuals who will be each placed in a pota cabin.
The fellowship will be pursued by:
Mentor Fellows - 1 Year:
15 Young, motivated
professionals from different parts of the country who have
the professional as well as better academic exposure will
be placed as an administrative assistant to the school incharge for one year
Mentor Fellows - 2 Years: 4 fellows from the previous batch
who will continue to discharge their assigned duties
beyond
Pota
Cabins
and
will
be
working
at
cluster/block/district level with the administrative officials.
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The project as Bachpan Banao Fellowship will benefit

approximately 7500 students studying in these 15 Pota Cabin
schools.
Bachpan Banao works in the remote villages of Bastar region of
Chhattisgarh to ensure quality education for children from
marginalized families by strengthening local teachers and
resources.

Child Labor Rehabilitation

Sri Ram Reddy
Sandipani Awasam, Seva Bharathi Palamoor , Sharada Nagar,
Opp. RTA Office, Bandameedipally, Mahabub Nagar- 509001
Phone: 08542-645123, 9505506225
Child labor deprives children of their right to go to school,
exposes them to violence, and reinforces intergenerational
cycles of poverty. Yet, this serious violation of human rights is
not inevitable.
India has the dubious distinction of being home to the largest
child labor force in the world, with an estimated 30 % of the
world's working children living here. Nearly 85 per cent of child
laborers in India are hard-to-reach, invisible and excluded, as
they work largely in the unorganized sector, both rural and
urban, within the family or in household-based units.
Child labor is preventable through integrated approaches that
simultaneously address poverty, improve access to education
and mobilize public support for respecting childrens rights. Seva
Bharathi has been running campaigns against child labor since
2002. With a partner network of 60 other non-governmental
organizations, Seva Bharathi runs various hostels called

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Affection Homes that house the rescued children. These children

are provided boarding, lodging and education in these Homes.
Sandipani Awasam is one such Home in Mahbubnagar district of
Telangana supported by Seva Bharathi. Several hundred children
aged between 9-15 years were rescued from child labor and
housed in this home. Most of them were rescued from working
as farm labour, in tea kiosks etc. Their parents had sold them
and migrated to Mumbai and other parts of the country in
search of their livelihood.
All the rescued children are initially sent to Bridge Schools for a
year where they are reoriented to integrate into the school
system. The campaign for eradication of child labor paired with
alternative education and innovative methods has made the
children stay at these affection homes and get back to school.
An extraordinary effort has been put in to bring out the inherent
talent of these children. The little hands that have toiled have
now been performing on par in education and sports with other
children. 90% of the children after completing the school
education went to college and completed graduation. Two
children went on to become doctors. 50% students graduated
from high school last year with a grade of 9 out of 10.

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Netra Vidyalaya: Enabling faster, Effective

and Holistic Learning Experience for the
Visually Challenged
Sri P.B.V Subba Raju
JET, Varija, 13-239 Mangamaripeta Village, Chapaluppada Post,
Bhimli Beach Road, Bhimli Mandal, Visakhapatnam 531163
+91-9553549971/72, subbarajupbv@gmail.com ,
www.nethravidyalaya.org
Netra Vidyalaya thrives for equality of education and learning to
people who are visually challenged. In the year 2001, Netra
Vidyalaya supported 16 visually challenged children and later
grew to support more than 1200 children qualify out of the
institution in to different vocations of life.
Visually-challenged students have a problem in finding printers
for Braille books and suitable scribes for writing their exams.
Netra Vidyalaya replaced Braille books by audio guides and
introduced laptop/audio-based examinations for the visually
impaired. In 2007 Board of Intermediate Education in Andhra
Pradesh and in 2009 Osmania University in Hyderabad started
Laptop based examinations for the visually impaired. This
resulted in better qualified visually impaired graduates.
The technical intervention provided by Netra Vidyalaya enables
faster, effective and holistic learning experience. We have
created rich content and enabled learn everywhere concept by
publishing the audio content in the cloud. We are now investing
in technology research for improving our media content and
distribution.

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Novel approach to keep slum children

away from crime
Seva Bharathi, Hyderabad,
H.NO: 3-2-106, Nimboli Adda, Kachiguda, Hyderabad 500027.
Phone:040 -24610056 , sewabharathi@gmail.com,
Prudhvi Raju Kakani,
Seva Bharati Guntur, 26-41-113, Mayur sadan, A.T. Agraharam
4th line extention, Guntur-522004
Phone: 9885165015, prudhvikakani@gmail.com
The children in the slums might be neglected and lack parental
supervision, while their parents struggle to make ends meet.
Such children are vulnerable to indiscipline and even juvenile
delinquency.
Keeping the children engaged in some meaningful activities is
the best way to keep them away from bad company and crime.
Accordingly, we have initiated two programmes for the children
in the slums:
Abhyasika - A Study Room
Jignyasa - Mobile Science Laboratory for Schools
Abhyasika is a student-centred activity attempting to find
solutions to the difficulties faced by students residing in slums.
The programme provides a peaceful atmosphere for the
students to carry out their studies. The study room is located in
or near the slum to ensure easy access. It is usually set up in
places such as schools and community halls. Supervisors are
appointed to solve difficulties faced by the students. The
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attendance is recorded daily to ensure discipline. The progress

of students is monitored regularly by obtaining progress reports
of their respective schools.
Jignyasa provides mobile science laboratory facilities to the
students to carry out experiments. As per the current education
system, the syllabus includes conducting scientific experiments
from standard VI onwards. Students living in slums attend
government-run or small private schools, which do not have
science labs. Under Jignyasa, the mobile lab vehicle visits every
such school once in a month for students to conduct
experiments for the theory classes already completed. They also
involve the students to practice the same.
The results of such exercises have been encouraging. Several
improvements in behaviour have been noticed in these
students, as they have started according importance to
discipline, punctuality and academic progress.

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Social Engineering through community

participation
Vandemataram Foundation
1-8-522/7, Chikkadpally, Hyderabad 500020
Phone: 9440788282 Email: madhavyadma@gmail.com
Inspired by Swami Vivekanadas saying youth are the backbone
of any country, and by Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalams saying A
developed India by 2020 is possible only through peoples
participation
and children
are the nucleus
of this
transformation, Vandemataram Foundation launched his
flagship programs to increase village community participation to
build better social environment. Thus, contributing in nation
building.
Vandemataram Foundation conducts following activities :
AKSHARABHYASAM: A traditional induction of children into schools.
The ceremony binds the parents, village elders and teachers to ensure
the continuity of education to all the children by taking oath.
VATSALYAPURNA: Identifying and extending support to orphans and
children of single parent to continue schooling to stop child labour and
support Right to Education.

EXAMINATION PREPARATION CAMP: Meritorious students of class

10th, deprived of congenial atmosphere in their respective
houses are selected and undergo residential study camps with
all facilities.
RAKSHABANDAN : School children tie Rakhis to all elders in the
villages and get assured of their participation and involvement
in the school development.
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AKSHARADEEPAVALI : To safeguard our school, our village and

our nation, whole village participates collectively to make sure
the future of the children in the school.
REWARDING MERITORIOUS STUDENTS : The Foundation rewards
meritorious students in academics, being regular to school,
volunteering in plants conservation, participation in co-curricular
activities like: extempore, elocution, debate, essay writing,
cultural programmes and sports.
YOGA AND MEDITATION CAMP: Regular yoga classes for good
physique, mental health and to improve concentration are
conducted by the Foundation.
TRAINING IN TRADITIONAL FOLKDANCES AND FOLKLORES:
Periodically these students are trained in traditional dances like
kolatam, chakka bajana, patriotic songs and others dance-drama
ballet by the Foundation cultural team. Again, the foundation
arranges for the platform to exhibit their talents during national
and major festivals. These students have given brilliant
performance before state high officials both at district
headquarters and state capital.
KISORI VIDYA VIKASAM: Initiative to educate girl child is a ten
months programme that starts from June to March of an
academic year. Every year VMF supports around 200-250
kishories. VMF supports the kishories of most deprived families
by paying an honorarium of Rs. 750/- per Kishories per month.
SRI SARADA BALA VIKASA KENDRA-APILOT PROJECT : A pilot
project support by Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad to propagate
the awareness of importance of girls education and girls
empowerment. Further the project also aims in imparting quality
training on health, nutrition, prenatal care.

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Teaching Science of Stress Free

Productivity
Human Excellence Training Center,
Vivekananda Kendra, Kaushalam, Bairagiguda, Hydershakote,
HYDERABAD-500 091 INDIA
Ph: 8331966501 Email : hyderabad@vkendra.org
Website : www.vkendra.org
In todays fast moving world we are getting entangled into
worrisome cognition about goals. Individuals are more focused
on achieving goals than the means to achieve the goals. As a
result, there is a huge stress in everyday life leading to lifestyle
diseases like heart diseases, diabetes, blood pressure etc.
Human Excellence Training Center (HETC), a project of
Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari, imparts training to
Industries, Businesses, Organizations, Educational Institutions,
Families, Women, Youth and Students to make their life more
meaningful, productive and stress free.
According to HETC, Excellence is the expression of the best that
is in an individual. This expression happens naturally when an
individual begins living for something bigger than himself. This
gradual expansion is from Individual to Family to Society to
Nation to Creation.
These are the expanding circles of
consciousness which lead to Excellence. Hence, Excellence
through Expansion.
HETCs training campus in Hyderabad, named Kaushalam, has
a residential facitlity for participants with water purification
plant, state-of-the-art naturopathy centre and kitchen which
cooks organic food. Centre runs various programs and workshop
based on the philosophy of Swami Vivekanand. HETCs faculty
consists of successful professional from the area of academics,
business, judiciary, social-service, administrative, corporate and
allied fields.
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HETC is serving the nation since 1972 through its over 220
branches including 65 schools and 4 hospitals, with major
contribution in the areas of Education, Culture and Sustainable
Development.

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Realizing Gandhian education model (Nai

Taleem) through ICT
Haritha Ecological Institute,
P.B.NO 26, B.C.M.Road, Harithapuri, Palvancha-507115,
Khammam District
Phone: 08744-255060, harithavaranam@gmail.com
Realizing the importance of education for social revolution,
Mahatma Gandhi envisioned an education system called Nai
Talim or Basic Education for a new India which emphasized
education through productive activities. However this vision has
not been realized to its full potential. Productive activities, work
or work experience are usually treated as co-curricular or extracurricular activities or limited to vocational education. Gandhian
philosophy of education has much broader perspective and can
be a source for holistic education.
With the aim of developing teaching methodologies based
on the Gandhian philosophy of education, Haritha Association
for Learning from Environment (HALE),
developed an
educational curriculum starting at primary school level which is
related to productive activities as experiments in the 'field
laboratory', which is the place of work itself. HALE has built a
training center for scaling up the above practices in the main
stream school education using the latest ICT (Information and
Communication Technology).
HALE relates productive activities to different concepts at
different levels of the main stream school education. Productive
activities are part of the main time table. Children maintain the
record of the activities themselves and document the
observations.
We published a book, Prakriti Vadilo (In the Lap of Nature)
authored by students in 2000. A similar attempt was made in
the year 2006. Most of the construction on our campus is made
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with bamboo. We promote research and development activities

with eco-friendly technology and renewable resources such as,
Building technology with bamboo, Cycle Grinder, Vethra
(container to keep things warm), Hold and Release method
(prevents formation of dirty water from water usage), and
Teaching and Learning Material (TLM) with bamboo. Children are
easily able to grasp complex topics in Vedic Mathematics like
Avadhanam, and Monitorial method (Ghatika Paddhathi) with
the help of our Model.

Communication and IT for the Visually

Challenged
Devnar Foundation for the Blind
Plot No.185, Road No.1, West Marredpally, Secunderabad 500026
Phone: +91- 040-27703686, 66335696
The main problem faced by the visually challenged people are,
insufficient Braille books, inadequate teaching aids, lack of
sports activity, requirement of scribes for exams. They also need
somebody attending all the time to help them operate phones
and other communication devices.
There is also the dearth of teachers who can teach visually
challenged students efficiently.
We try to unleash the incredible capacity of visually challenged
students by giving them value based education and enabling
them to realize that they can acquire skills and knowledge
without requiring much help from others. We use technology at
its best, such as computers as a teaching aid, libraries for Braille
and Audio books, and access of digital content through internet
to solve some of these pressing issues of visually challenged
students.

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We are making use of some of the state of the art software

products to make visually challenged students as sophisticated
users of computers. Thus, computer is becoming their best
friend in pursuit of acquiring skills and knowledge. This initiative
has given wings to the dreams of visually challenged students.

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Enabling Life-Ready Childhoods

Ms. Sheela Balaji
All India Movement (AIM) for Seva, AIM for Seva, 4, 'Srinidhi'
Apartments, Desika Road, Chennai - 600 004
Phone: +91-4424987955 / 24987966, +91-9500060153;
aimallindiamovement@gmail.com
All India Movement (AIM) for Seva is an integrated community
development program, reaching out to rural and tribal children
across 15 Indian states.
AIM for Seva started in 2000 with a deep understanding of rural
Indias problems: be it the commute to schools, domestic
pressure or lack of extra-curricular activities in education. We
thus proposed a solution in the form of AIM for Seva Free
Student Homes (FSH) that has now brought the school to the
childs doorstep: providing access, enhancing the quality of
education, providing life skills and an environment that is
conducive to learning.
Located near an existing school, an FSH provides children with
spacious accommodation, nutritious food, after-school support,
extra-curricular activities, values and life skills, and vocational
skills for free.
AIM for Seva has initiated a number of innovative programmes
for the benefit of the children at the FSH, such as:
Art for Development for artistic expression on topics of
societal significance
English language training
Digital Technology for enhanced student learning
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Entrepreneurship and skills development of children to

make them life- ready
Giving back to nature: eco-conservation
Health Care: Micronutrient enhancement through fortified
salt

More than 35,000 students have been benefited by this novel

education project, and at any given time there are about 6500
students in the system. Our students have excelled in
academics with an impressive 95% pass rate in Board exams in
the last 4 years since 2008-09, when the first batch of students
appeared for their board exams.
Our impressive list of alumni also indicates that children become
more confident and better equipped to contribute more actively
to their community and in nation building, through this process
of all-round development.

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Sparsh Well Fargo Supported schools

making difference in primary education
At Wells Fargo, our commitment to social responsibility and
corporate citizenship is deeply embedded in our vision and
values, through 160 years of our existence. Wells Fargo has
consistently been one of the largest corporate donors for
charity, community development and volunteerism in the US,
and bagged several accolades for the same.
Following our tradition of generosity and social responsibility, we
formed the Social Responsibility Group at Wells Fargo India
Solutions with the objective of focusing on finding solutions to
the social, economic, and environmental issues in the
communities we serve. This group was formed informally by a
handful of like- minded team members, dedicated towards
volunteerism, under the guidance of a technology manager in
2009. Within a year, this group was incorporated under a
separate function Corporate Sustainability headed by
a leadership team member. Currently, the function is supported
by a 20 member core committee and more than 500 active
volunteers, across Hyderabad and Bangalore.
Sparsh has identified the education of underprivileged children
as the focal point of our community service efforts, since we
believe that education is the building block of the society.
And through our community service initiatives, we have been
able to take concrete steps to address a variety of important
issues. We have associated with two primary schools and one
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secondary school in Hyderabad, and one higher primary

school in Bangalore, to enhance the experience of education of
the children.

The

schools we support at Hyderabad are as follows:

Izzatnagar Government Primary School, with 95 children
Hafizpet Government Primary School, with 229 children
Kothaguda Government High School, with 750 children

In Bangalore, we support the following schools:

Triveni Nagar School with 250 children
Besides, we also support children with special needs at the
following institutions:
Swanthana, a home for mentally and physically retarded
abandoned girl children. The home currently houses 40
children
Snehadaan, an orphanage for HIV-infected children,
currently housing 100 children

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Measures to Increase Life Expectancy

of Chenchu tribals
Mr. Ch. Srinivas, Secretary
Sanghamithra Seva Samithi, # 25/415-2, R.S.Road, Nandyal
518502, Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh
Contact: 08514-247763, +91-9441280001
http://sanghamitrasevasamithi.blogspot.in/
https://www.facebook.com/sanghamithra.sevasamithi
Chenchu is a primitive tribal group inhabiting 6 districts of
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, mostly in and around the
Nallamala forest. Their population is around 40,000 and
declining. Their under-development is demonstrated by the
indicators in education and health - literacy rate of about 10%,
serious malnutrition is causing them diseases (79%), Infant
mortality (17%), TB (4%) and Malaria 41%. Chenchu are
generally shy and vary of outsiders, which makes it difficult to
undertake any intervention to improve their socio-economic
condition.
Sangha Mithra Seva Samithi is trying to make a difference in the
life of Chenchus by eradicating the illiteracy, malnutrition and
substance abuse. To make this happen the organization is
providing awareness, education through the residential school,
nutritious food and medical aid through a mobile dispensary at
their door step.

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Sangha Mithra Seva Samithi had initiated a program about 15

years ago to educate the Chenchu tribals and improve their
health to raise their life expectancy. As a rapport building
measure we initially started a few Bala Samskara Kendra and
later opened Baktha Kannappa Gurukulam, a residential school
in 1999.
After understanding their way of life and building trust with the
community, Sanghamitra Mobile Dispensary was launched in
2003 with the support of Government of India and now being
run with the help of IDRF since 2007, after a long struggle (due
to local and government issues). It is a challenge to find and
motivate dedicated doctors and medical workers to work among
tribals living in interior areas devoid of any civic amenities. The
Mobile dispensary with a group of doctors visits every Chenchu
gudem (38 gudems in total) at least thrice every month.
We have successfully cured 212 TB cases (out of 234),
614 ante-natal cases, 1334 anemia and 48,516 other
cases.

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Medhya Rasayana treatment for Cerebral

Palsy
Sidheshwari Research Institute of Ayurvedham (SRIAAM)
502, Vijaya Enclave, Srinagar Colony, Hyderabad - 500 073
Mobile: 9885297983; Email: dr_anjana2001@yahoo.com
Cerebral Palsy (Mastika pakavtamu) is a disorder that affects
a child in the first years of life. It causes stiff, spastic muscles in
their legs and, to a lesser degree, in their arms. Some children
suffer from additional problems which include mental
retardness, impaired vision, and learning problems. Though
there are multiple reasons for cerebral palsy, two major causes
that are predominantly seen are:
Developmental malformation of brain
Neurological malformation of brain
Treatment
Recent studies have shown that Medhya Rasayana improves
immediate memory span and reaction time. They enhance the
circulation of blood to brain and sharpen the intellect. These
rasayanas are claimed to be neutraceutical agents specific to
Neuro nutrition. Because of their nutritive impact they help the
mentally-challenged children.
We conducted a study on 30 children (20 boys and 10 girls)
suffering from Cerebral Palsy in the 4-12 years age group by
treating them with a combination of the following medication,
therapies and counseling.
Medication:
Swarn Bhasma and Vach churna
Brahma Rasayana
Swarnayuktha Brahmi vati
Saraswatarista syrup
Therapies: Sirodhara and Sharira Abhyanga
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The children were advised to use gaiters or calipers and are

made to walk with the help of walkers. Counselling to the
parents is provided regarding the needs and behavioral aspects
of the child.
We observed 30%-60% improvement on spasticity, headdowning, and scissored gait.

Systemic Solution to spiraling expenditure

on medicines
Bharat Vikas Parishad Charitable Trust
Kasi V Rao, Contact: 9849254662, Email:kasivrao01@gmail.com
Poor quality of government health infrastructure, lack of medical
insurance, increase in life style and environment related chronic
diseases, and increase in the population of senior citizens has
resulted in a profitable business to the branded medicine
manufacturers and retailers in our state. However, this has led
to a huge and perennial drain on the stagnant incomes of the
middle and lower income-group citizens.
Hence, an initiative has been taken by Bharat Vikas Parishad to
open a chain of Bharat Vikas Generic Medical Shops in
Hyderabad to sell generic medicines which are of equivalent
quality as the branded ones but at a fraction of their cost.
Chronic patients suffering from diabetes, gastric, cardiac and
neurology related ailments, blood pressure, calcium deficiency
etc are being provided with more than 350 medicines through a
dozen shops located across the city. The savings range from 30
to 80%. We are also trying to allay the misconceptions among
the people, especially the care givers of the patients about the
quality and genuineness of the generic medicines, so that more
patients can avail of the benefits and save their hard earned
money. This movement can be taken forward with the help of
civic minded doctors and NGOs working in the health sector.
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Bharat Vikas Parishad Charitable Trust has been providing

artificial limbs (Jaipur legs) to physically challenged persons for
more than two decades through Vikalang Seva Kendra in
Kukatpally, running a Diagnostic Centre where tests are
conducted at half the market rates, and providing health care
and free medicines in 12 slums in the city through our Mobile
Van Clinic.

MiVaidya: Geriatric Health Care at

Doorsteps
Dr.Maruti Sarma Mannava,
Professor of Community Medicine,
Kamineni Academy of Medical Sciences and Research Center,
LB.Nagar, Hyderabad.
Phone: 09394045079
Geriatrics or geriatric medicine is a specialty that focuses on
health care of elderly people. It aims to promote health by
preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults.
The productive age group of urban area is busy with their
livelihood and they generally neglect the dependent old aged.
Else, the younger ones are away from their parents. The aged
people generally feel neglected by their family members which
makes them feel unhappy and start to think that they have
become a burden to the family.
The primary objective of Mi Vaidya is to bring back the role of a
family physician who assesses and treats ailments in the context
of the family environment, rather than treating in isolation. A
family doctor cares about patients beyond the treatment of their
diseases. He is capable of providing comprehensive, continuing,
whole person and preventive care to an individual and family in
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their own community or environment so as to ensure physical,

psychological and social well-being for his patients.
A good family doctor can provide the following care:
Comprehensive and patient-centred approach: Manages
multiple complaints and symptoms with consideration of
physical, social and psychological factors
Continuing and Preventive care
Coordinated care: A multi-disciplinary coordinated service
is needed for patients with chronic illness.
Services offered include,
House visit Routine Medical examination every 6 months
Screening for Susceptible health problems and Expected
complications
Medical Counseling
Assist through Call Center
Specialist Care comprising of liaison with specialist,
guidance during hospitalization, and diet plan
Emergency Services
Palliative care providing trained person for the bedridden patients

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Redefines Diseases to Disorders

DATRI
# 309, Taramani Road, Ticel Bio Park, Taramani, Chennai
600113, Tamilnadu.
Phone : +91-44-22541283 Fax : +91-44-22541281, +91-4422541824
Email: info@datriworld.org , contact@datriworld.org ,
www.datriworld.org
People suffering from leukemia, lymphoma etc., are termed as
suffering life threatening diseases. But, they can be cured
through bone marrow or Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC)
transplant and in that case it becomes a blood disorder.
For a successful transplant, the patients' genetic typing needs to
closely match with that of the donor. Every patient has a 25%
chance of finding a match within the family. In India, there is a
real need of a functional registry with donors belonging to
diverse ethnic backgrounds. With very few registered donors
available in India, the possibility of finding a match for an Indian
anywhere in the world is very bleak.
We are working towards creating a wide and diverse database of
potential donors that can be accessed by any patient, living
anywhere in the world, in need of a stem cell transplant. The
Genetic information of an individual obtained after thorough
analysis is stored in our database.
The patients tissue typing (genetic information) needs to match
very closely with that of the donor, to enable a successful
transplant. Once a match is found, stem cells are obtained from
the donor - as simple as drawing blood - and transplanting is
performed.

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DATRI is a non-profit organization that has been set up to save

lives of those suffering from blood disorders like leukemia,
lymphoma etc.

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YAGNA; HAPPY VILLAGE

Dr. K. Rajasekhar, 18-53/2, Kamala Nagar, Dilsukhnagar,
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India 500 060.
Phone: 9866203740, Email: info@yagnafoundation.org, URL:
http: yagnafoundation.org
HAPPI (Health Awareness Promotion Project India) is a Not for
Profit initiative from Prevent NCD (non-communicable diseases)
Foundation to combat the growing burden of NCDs in India.
HAPPI primarily address the above health concern in
Communities, Schools and Workplaces. Understanding the
multifactorial nature of the NCDs, HAPPI has a visionary
leadership and team from different sectors like health, IT,
Sports, media and entertainment
We want to build a healthy nation by eradicating noncommunicable diseases and thereby improve the socioeconomic status of its people.
India with its vast population and the rising disposable income is
home to higher incidence rates of NCDs: Cardio vascular
diseases, Diabetes, Stroke, Chronic Lung Diseases, Cancer, etc.
This is result of combination of multiple factors like changes in
lifestyle, genetic pre-disposition, etc.
According to the report published by the WHO, India ranks very
high among the nations struck by the rising wave of premature
deaths caused by non-communicable diseases. The report
further said that NCDs in India are not necessarily diseases of
affluence but also of poverty, indicating likely under-diagnosis
and under-reporting of diseases among the poor.

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The organization aims at implementing evidence-based

programs for education, peer support, continuous quality
improvement and community change. Innovative application of
technology (mobile phones, on-line programs, personal
monitoring) is being developed for the intervention, including
real-time feedback and measures of outcome.
Objective of the proposal for the State of Andhra Pradesh: The
current project proposal has the objective of reducing the
incidence of NCDs in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Understanding the current scenario in the state, it reemphasizes
the importance of the preventive/promotional health program
for the under-privileged ones.
The focus of the project is on interventions to modify shared
NCD risk factors: physical inactivity, unhealthy diets, tobacco
use, harmful use of alcohol, and psychological distress. The
intention is to create an environment that continues to
encourage and reinforce behavioral change beyond the duration
of externally driven intervention.
Potential Risks and Mitigation: Due to the nature of the project,
the intervention shall have inherent risks- unavailability of the
trained professionals, resources to follow up and sustain the
activities. Planned steps shall be taken to mitigate them.
Networking with local community groups, ngo s and government
shall be a key determinant of the successful outcome of the
project.

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Cow-based Practices: Reinventing lost

legacy
L Muralidhar Rao
Sri Kamadhenu Govardhana Giri Govignana Anusandhana
Kendram
Phone: 9010647746, Email: lakkarajumuraleedhar@gmail.com
Much has changed over the past few decades. We have lost our
uniqueness in farming. Human beings have adapted themselves
to buffalo milk and tractors have replaced bulls in the farms.
Fertilizers and pesticides have replaced dung. The result lands
have lost fertility, human beings are facing deficiencies in
vitamins and vital nutrients, and diseases are on the rise.
Since times immemorial, India has been an agrarian country.
Cow has been the backbone of our agriculture. Sri Kamadhenu
Goshala is now making a determined effort to reinvent the lost
legacy of Indias farm practices. In addition, it also works on
products of therapeutic value obtained from cow.
An acre of land can be cultivated by 2-3 cows and medicines can
be prepared utilising cow urine, dung, milk, curd and ghee,
which contain 23 minerals and 18 oxides. The medicines are
scientifically proven by Delhi laboratory. An attempt is being
made to bring Panchagavya therapy which would provide
remedy for many diseases like cancer and heart valve therapies.
These medicines do not have side effects as they are prepared
from organic products.
The organic way of farming and therapy for curing chronical
diseases are cost effective and easily scalable.

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Sri Kamadhenu is looking for support for construction of

laboratory for doing research and to come up with such organic
medicines and platform for promoting their efforts.

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Medical Mission: Technology connects

healthcare service provides to end users
Dr. Praveen Kumar Chintapanti, Tranquil Minds
#755, 36 Manhattan,3rd Floor, Above CROMA, Road No- 36,
Jublilee Hills, Hyderabad - 500033
Phone: 8897755000 Email: doctor@minditnow.com
The popular belief that the healthcare sector services have been
largely corporatized and commercialized and that it is very
difficult for the underprivileged is true to a great extent. It
cannot be denied that many a times the patients are treated as
mere consumers and what was once considered as a noble
profession has fallen from grace.
Lack of expert guidance and the illiterate or semi-literate
background too does not help the cause of the underprivileged.
The Swami Vivekananda Medical Mission (SVMM) has been
conceived to enhance the quality of healthcare in the nation. It
aims to make use of technology and innovative practices to
provide medical care accessible to deprived strata of the society
at no or minimal costs. SVVM is a platform to connect the
providers of healthcare services to the end users.
SVVM is in the process of identifying 5000 families having no
earning members and cater to their healthcare needs at NO cost
to them. To start with, it has identified healthcare service
providers with proven track record and more importantly, the
willingness to use their knowledge for the betterment of the
society.
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SVVM has also prepared and maintains a list of about 7000

donors of blood in and around the city of Hyderabad. A database
of their blood groups, contact details such as addresses, mobile
nos., email ids is being maintained. Whenever a request is
received, blood is arranged at the earliest through the nearest
contact available.
Signpost, an intelligent, IT enabled healthcare directory service
has been conceived to guide service users on right kind of
providers. A network of 200 doctors and 25 hospitals is
providing active support to this national mission.
Success story
Among the many successful stories that were handled is that of
a girl, Kumari X, who was referred with greater than 60 percent
burns. SVVM and its network has ensured that young girl
recovers a near fatal burn injury. The benevolent Yashoda
hospital waived of INR600,000 and SVVM network pooled in the
resources for other expenses. Thus, the girl was treated a NO
cost. Kumari X makes her presence at the Tech for Seva event.

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Sustainable Health Care Service Delivery is

Fundamental for Community
Development
Jachin David Williams
Public Health Specialist
L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad
Implementation of Comprehensive Eye Care Program comprising
of Preventive Care, Promotion of eye health, and Curative
services for general population and Community Based
Rehabilitation for the visually challenged is the need of the hour
for achieving the goal of the Global initiative for prevention of
avoidable blindness Vision 2020 Program.
The motive behind Prevention of Blindness and Visual
Impairment Initiative is due to the increase in prevalence of
Visual Impairment in the developing world. In the state of
Andhra Pradesh (Telangana and Andhra Pradesh) it was reported
1.84% of its overall population as afflicted with blindness and
2.03 % in rural areas.
The Rapid Assessment on Visual
Impairment done by LVPEI in rural Andhra Pradesh reveals that
the prevalence of Visual impairment is 12.96% in the age group
50 and above. This high magnitude of visual impairment shows
lack of awareness due to poverty and literacy. Restoration of
sight and blindness prevention strategies are among the most
cost-effective interventions in health care.
Organizations that work in isolation can never eliminate health
problems from the public since the determinants of its causes
are intermingled and require various stratagem and approaches.
LVPEIs need based programs are focussed on reducing
avoidable blindness and addressing the causes of blindness with
the involvement of all segments of communities. The major
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barriers that are deeply rooted among the communities in the

aspect
of
Awareness,
Accessibility,
Affordability
and
Acceptability have been taken into consideration and we are
trying to address with the help of trained local Community
Health Workers.
LVPEIs full-fledged Community Eye Care program includes
Household survey, School Screening, Community screening that
links all those identified with eye health problem to the curative
services from primary to tertiary care with the help of Vision
Centres, Secondary Centres, Tertiary Centres and Centre of
excellence. Moreover, our programs generate awareness within
the communities towards Health Seeking Behaviour and play
an imperative role in prevention of disabilities and community
development.
In this process, according to the guidelines of the International
Agency for prevention of blindness and World Health
Organization, LVPEI collaborates with all the sectors and utilizes
skills of experts, appropriate scientific technology, seeks support
and partnership of likeminded leaders, organizations, volunteers
and community resources for making the underserved areas
free from blindness. The strength of such initiation is based on
its institutional performance, standards and plans with the
backing of high quality outreach services and sustainable policy.

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Arogyashreni: Improving the Quality and

Reliability of Public Health Service
Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement (GRAAM),
2, KIADB Industrial Housing Area, Hebbal, Mysore -570008,
Karnataka
Phone: 09448079611, rbalu@graam.org.in
Owing to a large number of Primary Health Centers (PHCs), the
health administration finds it a challenge to respond to quality
issues in individual PHCs since unique problems of individual
PHCs are often not represented in aggregated indicators of
performance of health systems.
In addition, due to the
existence of knowledge and power gap between doctors and the
rural community, community participation and ownership of
public health institutions is superficial, thus community needs
are not recognized and met by existing public health systems.
As a solution to the above-mentioned problems, Arogyashreni
project was conceptualized and implemented in Mysore District
covering 112 rural Primary Health Centers (PHCs).
The
community members who are part of this project are members
of the Planning and Monitoring Committee of PHCs, one of the
committees mandated by NRHM. This project aims to develop a
technology-enabled community monitoring system that
facilitates capturing community monitoring information on the
delivery of health services of PHCs at the grassroots level and
bring about positive changes through advocacy and dialogue.
Develop a technology based monitoring system using IVRS
technology
that
facilitates
capturing
community
perspectives on the delivery of health services at the
grassroots level.

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The committee members are trained to respond to a

questionnaire about the services and facilities of their PHC
on a quarterly basis using IVRS on their mobile phones.
Generation of an automated process for analyzing the
monitoring information and preparation of ranks based on
weighted performance in multiple indicators of public
health.
- As the community perspectives were recorded in the
digitised form, it was much easier to generate the
ranking card and disseminate it through SMS as well
hard copies. Generation and dissemination of
ranking cards has helped people to compare the
performance of other neighboring PHCs. Increased
competitive nature has resulted in increasing
community participation to bring changes.
Empowerment of the community to better understand the
facilities at their PHC and reduce the knowledge gap
between health care professionals, the government, and
the community.
- Regular recording of answers through IVRS, has
helped community to check the availability of
services. Constant interaction with the PHC
personnel has improved the relationship between
community and PHC personnel
Advocacy at the local level to identify local solutions to
issues and bring in visible changes by bringing together
community members and PHC personnel.
Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement (GRAAM) is
a public policy research and advocacy initiative based in
Mysore that focuses on research incorporating grassroots
perspectives and policy advocacy driven by empirical
evidence through a collaborative approach and dialogue.

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Arogya Dhara: Integrated Approach to

Solve Health Issues in Tribal Areas
Sri P.Venugopal Reddy
Ekalavya Foundation, 1-8-522/7, Chikkadpally, Hyderabad,
Telangana 500020
Phone: 040 - 2761 0388, pvg@ekalavya.net
Loss of life in the tribal areas of Adilabad due to seasonal
diseases is a recurring incident. In spite of increasing
expenditure incurred by the government health departments in
monitoring and controlling their incidence, there has not been
much improvement.
We are adopting an integrated approach in Arogya Dhara to
address the public health issues by focusing on nutrition,
personal hygiene, and sanitation by creating awareness among
the villagers and promoting complementary infrastructure in
133 villages spread over 16 village Panchayats in Indervelli
mandal of Adilabad impacting about 7,800 households.
Hardly 5% of households have access to a latrine at present and
open defecation is the norm. By building on our success in
promoting construction of latrines for every family in a small
village of about 50 households, we have launched a
multipronged IEC campaign for behavioral change which should
result in 100% families getting their own latrines in all the 133
villages and use them within the next three years. We are
working closely with the village volunteers for constructing a
soaking pit for every house, and with the government for
providing a latrine to each house under their scheme.
Lack of a balanced diet and loss of traditional foods have
resulted in malnutrition and anemia in children, adolescent girls
and women. To encourage regular consumption of vegetables
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and fruit, we are promoting development of kitchen gardens by

providing multiple varieties of seeds and saplings. Women are
being trained in using locally available food such as soya in their
diets.
The backbone of Arogya Dhara is the volunteers in the Health
Committees formed in each village. They meet monthly to
decide on their plans and our staff provides them with the
required guidance. We also involve the locally respected Dharma
Gurus to advocate the harmful effects of substances such as
gutka and alcohol, and the need for maintaining a healthy
lifestyle.
Ekalavya Foundation is a grassroots NGO working for
development of tribal communities in Adilabad since 2005,
through its programs in health, education, livelihoods, and local
governance.

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Aquatron: Alternative to the WaterBased Sanitation

Govardhan Kutir, Girmapur Village, Medchal Mandal, Hyderabad.
pradeep.mocherla@bizbites.com
An
alternative
to
the
present
practice
of
water
based sanitation is isolating the water bodies from human and
animal excreta.
The toilets are identical to those in conventional water borne
system as these are the most acceptable and known to be
hygienically safe. The collection and processing of the waste,
however, is entirely different from the conventional system. The
solid and liquid matters are separated underneath the toilet seat
itself. The liquid is passed through a micro filter and recycled for
flushing the toilet; thereby avoiding the excessive use of
fresh (tap) water for flushing while no compromise is made on
using the required quantity of liquid for completely flushing the
toilet pan. This ensures that the hygiene in the toilet is of the
highest standard. The excess flush solution and the solid matter
are evacuated and transferred for processing to obtain valuable
solid and liquid
fertilizer.
Ecofriendly
coloring substances
and specially developed microbial cultures are used to control
odor in the recycled flush solution and fecal slurry.
Pilot Project: A set of seven zero discharge toilets are
operational in Govardhan Kutir, Hyderabad since April 2011.
Each toilet is designed for 10 users per day. The fecal slurry
and excess flush solution are transferred using hand pump into
covered containers which are then transported to the humanure
plant. At the humanure plant the fecal slurry is mixed with the
precompost in a cyclic manner, and after several cycles the precompost is vermicomposted to get quality organic manure.
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Mobile Medical Van: Catering to the

medical needs of the Under privileged
Seva Bharathi, Hyderabad, H No: 3-2-106, Nimboli Adda,
Kachiguda, Hyderabad 500027.
sevabharathi@gmail.com, 040 -24610056
Prudhvi Raju Kakani, Seva Bharati Guntur, 26-41-113,
Mayursadan, A.T. Agraharam, 4th line extention, Guntur-522004.
Phone: 9885165015, prudhvikakani@gmail.com
S. Sethuraman, Scientific Officer (Retd.), Department of Atomic
Energy, Hyderabad
Medical care for the needy and underprivileged people is a
major challenge for rural and urban slum dwellers in India. They
face various challenges in availing health facility such as lack of
quality infrastructure, non availability of medical functionaries
when needed, low access to basic medicines, timely medical
attention etc. It is also difficult for these people travelling to
distant places for availing quality medical services.
Seva Bharathi has tried to address some of these concerns by
launching Mobile Medical Vans to reach out to urban slum
dwellers and distant rural areas and provide medical help at
their door step. Seva Bharthi Hyderabad launched its first
Sanjivani Mobile Vans to provide medical care to slum dwellers
in Hyderabad. Free medicines and clinical check up are provided
to inhabitants living in 40 slums by expert medical practitioners.
Seva Bharthi Guntur, could mobilize a team of about 50 doctors
to visit the slum areas and provide medical assistance. With the
help of Susruta Medical Van and Aswani Medical Van, they cover
8 villages and 12 slums in Guntur town and 24 villages in
Bapatla.
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Similar initiative is being undertaken by Mr. S. Sethuraman, in

Nemla village once every month, catering to about 400 patients
by providing free medicines and consultation.

Healthy and Happy Living for All

Sri Vijay Bhasker Yetapu
VChangeU, Hyderabad.
Phone: +91 903030 9333, vijaybhasker@mail.com
Tobacco kills more than 6 million people every year. By 2030,
tobacco will kill 10 million people per year, over 70% in the
developing world. The evidence against the harmful effects of
tobacco has been well documented over the past five decades.
Alcoholism can lead people into serious troubles, and be
physiologically and psychologically destructive. Currently
alcohol use is involved in half of all crimes, murders, accidental
deaths, child abuses and neglect and suicides. There are also
many health problems associated with alcoholism such as brain
damage, cancer, heart diseases, diseases of the liver, etc.
We educate young people on what tobacco and alcohol really
are, how occasional tobacco and alcohol consumption can lead
to regular use and then to addiction that can wreak havoc with
their health and well-being of the entire family.
Innovative and creative approach is adopted for school based
education programs and public information programs on
tobacco, alcohol and drugs and focus is to keep the young
generation away from these activities for lifetime. Awareness
through creative videos and innovative posters along with
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effective presentation in regional language has helped in

achieving good results.
Healthy and Happy Living workshops under CSR activity is
conducted for several public and private sector companies in 2
states and 12 districts of India. The objective is to encourage
employees and family members to focus on key health
behaviors such as increasing physical activity, improving eating
habits, reducing stress, and ceasing tobacco and alcohol use
among addicts.
The outcome of such workshop is commendable. Out of 16852
members who had attended our sessions, 963 members have
quit their addictions on the same day and many others decided
to give up their addictions at the earliest.
In-house medical staff has supported the addicts in the quitting
process. Family members who attended the workshop have
decided to keep their homes Tobacco Free for protecting the
other family members from Second Hand Smoke. Healthy
society can be achieved by leveraging the power of technology
fused with social media and other digital tools.

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Scaling-up Service Experience in

Government Hospitals
Seva Bharathi,
Sivananda shelter home, Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad
Phone: 9701914349, sv.sevabharathi@gmail.com
Service levels in the government hospitals in our state are
deteriorating day-by-day. Most of the government hospitals do
not have a well functioning Help Desk. Patients relatives do not
get the vital information about the patients. Many people
coming from rural areas have to sleep in the open due to
absence of proper resting place. The situation becomes worse in
winters. Government hospital premises are not maintained well
and are unhygienic.
To address the above issues and help the people who avail of
the medical facilities in government hospitals, we started an
initiative to provide food, shelter and maintain the cleanliness in
the Government Hospitals in and around Hyderabad. With the
help of Divine Life Society we constructed Sivananada Shelter
Home in Gandhi Hospital and installed CC TVs for the safety of
the users. We provide mats, blankets and a place to sleep in the
night for the attendants accompanying the patients.
With the help of ISKCON, we are providing free meals to all the
needy people in the hospital. Under the Swach Bharat program,
our volunteers cleaned the hospital campus. We have setup a
fully functional Help Desk at multiple places in the hospital
campus to provide information and guide the people.

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Scientific Efforts to Address Food Hazards

Ramesh V Bhat, Centre for Science, Society and Culture, M 11,
Kakateeyanagar, Habshiguda, Hyderabad- 500007
&
Vasanthi Siruguri, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad
Food as a basic necessity of life, and hence food consumed
should be adequate not only in terms of quantity but also be of
good quality, free from biological contaminants such as
microbes and parasites, chemical and physical contaminants.
During recent years the basic food system has been changing
and acquiring a new dimension in view of increased
international food trade. It is generally recognized that food
consumption is never a risk free activity. The need to reduce the
risk to reasonable level has been a major objective of global
food systems. In this context food safety, hygiene and quality
has become a significant public health concern.
While traditional food safety risks from microbiological and
environmental sources such as food borne pathogenic bacteria,
heavy metal contaminants in the food chain due to increased
industrial activity, continue to threaten the public health, newer
food safety concerns mainly from chemical contaminants such
as melamine and newer food borne pathogens. While food
safety is concerned with acute and chronic hazards that make
food injurious to the health of the consumer, the term food
quality refers to attributes that influence a products value to the
consumer. Food hygiene refers to all conditions and measures
necessary to ensure the safety and suitability of food at all
stages of the food chain. Foodborne diseases are caused by
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ingestion of foods containing toxic or infectious agents. Food

safety risks may come from various stages of cultivation,
production, transportation of food and food processing
techniques.
Several food safety and hygiene guidelines, codes of practices,
and recommendations have been established by international
agencies such as the WHO/FAO and the Codex. However,
implementation of these guidelines and practices to protect
public health has been limited in several countries particularly in
the developing world. A critical factor affecting such a limitation
is lack of awareness, and motivation, at the consumer level. This
requires a close interaction between the regulators, policy
makers, government officials, voluntary agencies and thus is the
need for a National campaign on food safety. In order to initiate
such a campaign with a broad objective of assuring food safety
to the consumer, it is necessary to design a mission programme
at the national level involving various stakeholder groups
particularly at the grass root. The basic plan of action is to
include development of a database on consumers' perception
have focus group discussions (e.g. for different income group
consumers, community like farmers, or rural regions, home food
delivery personnel), workshops/ training on food safety to
consumers. The programme is relying on the existing
infrastructure for food safety (such as research institutes, food
control laboratories, training institutes/organizations) that can
be networked for promoting the cause. The ultimate aim is to
develop a strategy, which will strengthen Food Control Activities
in India for improved safety and quality of food and provide
Swatch to the consumer and implement them at the national
level.

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Rehabilitation of Leprosy Patients through

Vocational Skill Development
Sri Tulasi Prakash
Madhava Sadan, Kaleswararao road, Governorpet
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
Phone: +91-9440112125, editor@hindunagara.com
Deformities are the most striking manifestation of leprosy, and
hence, when one thinks of a remedial action in the context of
leprosy, the term 'rehabilitation' is usually suffixed, as in
'medical rehabilitation' which refers to provision of anti-leprosy
treatment, 'surgical rehabilitation' referring to re-constructive
surgery, and 'physical, social, vocational, economic and spiritual
rehabilitation'. There is even a term 'preventive rehabilitation',
which refers to all procedures required to prevent the future
need for rehabilitation. Severely disabled leprosy afflicted and
their kith and kin have no other option but to live with the
patients.
Sri Vivekananda Maharogi Arogya Kendram was established in
1975 in Rajahmundry with an aim to support such leprosy
patients. Since inception, around 100-120 patients are being
supported by the kendram by providing shelter, food, medical
aid, footwear, clothes and other necessary amenities. Nursery
seedlings are being grown under a scheme of Social Forestry.
Tobacco nursery is being maintained in partnership with local
farmers. The inmates and some others are undergoing training
in the preparation of coir rope, using the machines provided by
Coir Board. Occasional lectures on our culture and history are

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being arranged. A Bala Sanskar Kendra for children is being run.

All our festivals are celebrated in the kendram.
In the beginning, the inmates used to live in thatched huts. In
1983, 50 houses were constructed by the state government, and
20 years later, 40 houses were constructed to replace the
dilapidated houses. Presently, 120 people are getting assistance
from the kendram. Among them, 100 are inmates while the
remaining are outsiders. Among the inmates, 80 are patients
and the remaining 20 are their dependent children.
Agricultural land of around 3 acres is allotted so that every ablebodied individual has the satisfaction that he is contributing to
the benefit of the inmates by generating some income. A
Goshala containing 12 cows is being maintained by the inmates
to provide supply of milk products to them. Patients living in the
surrounding villages are also receiving medical treatment at the
hospital. A retired civil surgeon and two experienced doctors are
rendering their valuable services to the hospital. Both allopathic
and homoeopathic treatments are provided to the patients and
medicines are given free.

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Nutritious feed for milch cattle

Sri Madhav Kshatriya
kshatriya.madhav@gmail.com
9000123316
Today, one of the biggest challenge for the growth of organized
dairy sector in India is the lack of quality and consistent supply
of fodder. Scores of small scale diaries/farms have shut down
and will continue to do so because the effort to cultivate or buy
grass makes it unviable to flourish.
The three major challenges the sector has to overcome in order
to make it self-sufficient for its fodder requirements are:
a) Need of a wholesome nutrient grass: Indias average milk
production per animal per year is abysmally low at around 900
liters. A lot of this can be attributed to the lack of quality fodder
rich in all energy sources and vitamin, minerals at reasonable
price. The usual feed given now is green grass (which has very
low protein) and dry wheat/paddy straw which act as only mere
fillers for the animals. An animal requires enormous amounts of
all vital nutrients on a consistent basis to be able to secrete milk
at high averages consistently.
b) Consistent availability of fodder throughout the year: Animals
perform exceedingly well if they are provided feed that is similar
every day. Sudden changes in feeding can lead to drastic drop in
production.
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c) Lack of options make the farmers buy green grass grown on

sewage banks at higher prices and feed the animals. These
greens will have heavy toxic substances which will directly end
up in the consumers milk, affects animal health and
reproductive capacities.
Supply of a high quality fodder is one of the major solutions to
address most of the above mentioned concerns. Our research in
producing large amounts of fodder that can sustain over a long
period of time has resulted in the product Ensilage or Silage.
Silage is a fodder that has all the nutrition required, affordable,
and free from toxic substances and can be preserved for longer
times.
Silage is grass, corn or other plant that has been chopped into
small pieces and compacted together in a storage silo. The
silage is then fermented to provide feed for livestock. Haylage is
a similar process to silage but uses grass that has dried. It is a
method used to preserve the pasture for cows and sheep to eat
later when natural pasture is either unavailable or insufficient.
The grasses are cut and then fermented to retain as much of the
nutrients (such as sugars and proteins) as possible.

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Preventing weavers suicides and turning

around Dubbak weaving cluster
Sri Methuku Raju and Sri Somaram Srinivas
Samrudhi Weavers Welfare Awareness Society
Post office road, Dubbak mandal, Medak district, Telangana
Phone: 9985051100, 9492651165
rajn_krushi@yahoo.com, somaramsrinu@gmailcom
A large number of weavers in Dubbak mandal in Medak district
committed suicide in the past decade because of declining
fortunes of their occupation. The number of looms in this
weaving cluster have declined from about 10,000 to just a few
hundreds now. Unlike in the past when traders from far off
places used to place orders for cloth with the weavers, they are
now forced to rely only on local shandies for selling their goods.
Samruddhi Society was promoted to address this serious issue
of loss of livelihoods of the weavers in Dubbak. We
systematically went about identifying the problems in the
weaving sector and analysed them to find a sustainable
solution. Some of these problems include, obsolete loom
technology, lack of product diversification in sync with changing
customer needs, lack of easy credit for working capital, lack of
social security net for weavers families etc.
We began our livelihood program with a small group of 25
families working on 13 looms, funded by philanthropic donors.
These weavers produce towels, bed sheets, hand kerchiefs,
lungis, etc. and sell them in nearby local markets in at Toopran,
Lacchapet, Ramayampet, Dubbak and Cheryal. We are planning
to provide training in tailoring to women members of the
weavers families under the Integrated Skill Development
Scheme so that they can find employment in the Garment
Apparel Park.
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On the social front we have advocated with the government and

obtained Antyodaya cards for a large number of weavers and
started a hostel for orphan children of weavers.
In future we have plans to diversity in to linen cloth production
and enhance market access through B2B and B2C routes.

Livelihoods from water hyacinth

Sh Abdul Mujeeb, We Weave
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
abdulmujeeb13@gmail.com; 09948703646
One of the major problems in water bodies are the abundant
growth of Water Hyacinth, Echhornia crassipes (

Ni suvsana gala placetu). Now the invasive waterplant has become a serious environmental issue and it is a weed
that clogs the water body. Large amount of public funds are
being spent to eradicate this menace, but with inadequate
result.
We Weave comes out with a plan of weaving the dry stem of
hyacinth and create bags, flower vase, and other ecofriendly
products. We Weave trains people to make handicraft products
out of dried water hyacinth stem and purchases the finished
product. These products have good market outside India as well.
So, if we can create product of good quality, we can export and
generate more income
The government need not spend money to remove the weed.
Instead, people will clean it and earn money. The leaves of the
plant can be used as fodder.
By promoting handicrafts out of water hyacinth, we change an
ecological menace into an economic resource.
We Weave
We Weave was established by Sh. Abdul Mujeeb. We Weave
provides an integrated approach of protecting water bodies and
poverty alleviation.
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Watershed Development: One Concept Innumerable benefits

Shyamprasad Institute for Social Service (SISS);
1-8-522/7, Chikkadpally, Hyderabad 500020;
Mobile: +91 94904 70064; info@sisshyd.net
India has about 16% of the worlds population as compared to
only 4% of its water resources. Efficient and sustainable use of
water resources has become essential for economic
development in a country like India where two-thirds of the
cropped area is dependent on rainfall without any protective
irrigation facilities.
Our operational area comprises tribal areas of Utnoor and
Indervelly mandals in Adilabad district in Telangana, which has a
large population of small and marginal farmers pursuing dry
land agriculture dependent mostly on monsoon rains. Effective
management of available natural resources is crucial for the
livelihood security of the farmers and economic progress of the
region.
To improve the soil fertility, increasing the land productivity and
augmenting the water resources, Shyamprasad Institute for
Social Service (SISS) is implementing Participatory Water
Management Projects. The main objective of the PWMP is to
restore the ecological balance by harnessing, conserving and
developing degraded natural resources such as soil, vegetative
cover and water.
SISS has developed water sheds over 7,000 hectares that have
benefited nearly 4,000 families spread over 80 villages. Unlike
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most other watershed development projects being implemented

in our country, the uniqueness of SISS managed watersheds is
that it involves community participation at all stages - from
conceptualization to implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Village Watershed Development Committees form the backbone
of the watershed management activities.
The communities and water bodies in the target area are
positively impacted by the watershed program. Open wells are
rejuvenated, water table levels increased by 2-3 m and
agricultural productivity increased by 30-35%. SISS watersheds
have enabled significant changes in the lives of people - not
only in terms of enabling long term food security through
watershed management practices, but also encouraging the
spirit of self-reliance through self-help, ownership of common
resources and also management of these resources through
democratically elected representatives.
About SISS:
Shyamprasad Institute for Social Service (SISS) was constituted
as a registered Trust in 1991. The primary goal of SISS is to
promote peoples participation in advancement of social values,
awareness about democratic institutions, human resources
development, and poverty alleviation.

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Sustainable livelihoods for urban poor

women
SAFA Society
House no.8-2-756, Bhola nagar, Hyderabad-500003
Phone: + 91 40 64533964 / 91 9866174665 Email:
rubina@safaindia.org URL: http://www.safaindia.org/
Ensuring regular incomes for poor illiterate women living in
urban areas is a challenging task.
Safa introduces the urban illiterate women to sustainable
livelihoods and supports them in education of their children
through an area based community model that retains the
cultural and social identity of the women. We are a social
venture with the belief that socio economic empowerment of
women begins with income generation and education.
We train women on carefully researched environment friendly
life-style products. The products are designed by young budding
designers. We then find markets for these uniquely designed
intricate hand crafted products. We sell through a chain of
retailers, corporate houses and exhibitions and fairs.
Our experience in this sector has given us an insight into the
importance of marketing products made by such individuals or
groups. A low cost / small set up of a retail space in which handcrafted gifts /products made by NGOs would be showcased and
sold at different points in the urban landscape would be a
solution to the marketing challenges of the people. Areas with
high foot fall will have a kiosk at different points in the city to
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cater to the needs of the population there. The range of the

products will be ecofriendly to promote environment protection
and will be low in cost. The kiosks are handled by SHG women
and their families and will be a source of income for the vendors
/ kiosk operators and will be an ideal model of collaborative
development work.

Achievements

350 women trained in tailoring, embroidery, jute products

and henna, tattoo designs.
52 women earning income from Rs 250- 1200 per month
(average)
3000 Plus small savings accounts opened under one rupee
banking of SBI (community work)
25 women engaged is setting up micro enterprises
7 women being trained as community education facilitators
Roshni Reading club 130 women being educated on health,
low cost nutrition in a series of reading club programs.

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Provides Legal Literacy and Creates

Awareness on Legal Rights
CVL Narasimha Rao
Raksha
For the wellbeing of the society, government makes laws after a
debate in the Parliament. But there is a lack of implementation
of those acts with concern and commitment by the concerned
authorities.
We try to educate the general public with regard to their legal
rights and reliefs available for them under law. Though the
governments from time to time make several laws, but
unfortunately they are not being implemented properly. We
organize seminars, conferences for legal awareness among
general public, including conducting family counseling in
association with Hyderabad police within the jurisdiction of 80
police stations. We have also organized Mahila Lok Adalats in
association with the District Legal Services Authority, Hyderabad
and Secunderabad, and Hyderabad Family Courts for a period of
2 years.
We acted as an instrument in establishing permanent and
continuous Lok Adalats in Municipal Corporation, Hyderabad,
Hyderabad Metro Water Works, Electricity Boards, Consumer
Forum, Debt Recovery Tribunals.
We strongly feel that we need to have The Legal Education and
Awareness of Policy for the state to make the general public
aware of their legal rights and responsibilities. Therefore we
seek support of like-minded, as our strength is not sufficient to
meet the needs.

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Working with Urban Poor

Kriti Social Initiatives
First Floor, 8-1-346/32/3, Sabza Colony, SheikpetNala,
ToliChowki, Hyderabad - 500 008 contact@kriti.org.in
Our primary focus is on urban women living in slums in
Hyderabad, who are typically exploited by middle men and do
not receive fair wages for the work they do. We create
awareness about their rights, improve their skills and teach
them new skills and also ensure they earn fair wages. We have
provided skills training in tailoring, hand embroidery and paper
bag making to over 250 artisans over the past four years. We
are also supporting livelihoods for over thirty artisans by
promoting products made from the ethnic fabrics of Andhra
Pradesh beautiful kalamkari prints, intricate ikat weaves and
vibrant Mangalagiri cottons thus supporting the artisans who
work in these sectors as well. The women make a range of home
linen products such as bedspreads and quilts and accessories
such as bags and wallets etc.
The poor women in the slums are also constrained with low self
esteem and confidence, social barriers to go out to work,
practical constraints such as having to care for small children at
home and water scarcity. When working to improve livelihoods
for women, it is important to form them into groups or
collectives and build leadership at the grass root level so that
their work can be sustained over a long period of time. With any
livelihood activity, building marketing linkages is always a key
component. We also help by providing corporate linkages and
bulk orders, and also train the women to directly sell their
products through exhibitions. Our model is in a position to be
scaled up and over the next three years we expect to provide
livelihoods to over 150 women.
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Kriti is a not for profit organization working towards womens

empowerment through livelihoods and education. Kriti was
started by professionals from the corporate sector who are
passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of urban
slum dwellers. Our work has largely been focused on the Film
Nagar slums and surrounding areas.

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Building Rural India by Imparting

Vocational Training
ASSIST
G. T. Road, Chilakaluripet, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh - 522
616
+91- 8647-253971, +91- 8647-253934, ranga@assist.org.in
www.assist.org.in
Agriculture is the chief source of income for the people in our
operational areas in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Odisha,.
Since it is rain-fed, the income from agriculture is seasonal and
inconsistent.
To reduce their dependence on agriculture and to create
additional options for generating income, we help in providing
livelihood opportunities that are in line with the skills and
capacities of the target populations. After conducting feasibility
studies on the most viable means of income generation in a
particular area, the following services are provided:
Skills training in marketing and management of income
generating activities such as livestock rearing, poultry,
dairy, and setting up petty shops
Matching grants and technical support to start microenterprises that are owned and managed by peoples
organisations
Support in purchasing, safeguarding and maximizing
returns from livestock
Vocational training for young people in specific gainful
skills and trades

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The training is provided using multi-media. Some training

sessions are uploaded to YouTube for future reference and to
reach a wider audience. Classes are conducted by using video
conferencing so that trainees can learn from experts in various
fields without having to physically travel.

We also implement programs in Housing and Sanitation,

Capacity Building, Water, Womens Empowerment, Child
Development,
Sustainable Farming,
Community Health,
Emergency
Response,
and
Comprehensive
Community
Development
ASSIST is a micro-level intermediary organisation working for
the development of disinherited groups in the dry-land region of
Prakasam, Guntur, Krishna districts of Andhra Pradesh, Ranga
Reddy district of Telangana, and Ganjam district of Odisha.

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Promoting organic farming techniques

Sita Ram K, Grameen Mall
Plot No. 108, 3rd floor, Jyothi colony, Kakaguda, West
Marredpally, Secunderabad. Contact: 040-40198158, +919701360555 Email: sitaram2c@gmail.com
The Indian agriculture characterized by millions of marginal and
small farmers, is facing a difficulty to operate the high risk of
farming. The risks are related to weather uncertainties, uneven
access to technologies and natural resources, unreliable input
supplies, stressed infrastructure in power, irrigation and
uncertain marketing arrangements and output marketing.
We are working towards promotion of community based
sustainable organic agriculture - a production system that
sustains the health of soils, eco-system, food and nutritional
security of rural people. Organic farming system in India is not
new and is being followed from ancient times. It is a method of
farming system which is primarily aimed at cultivating the land
and raising crops in such a way, as to keep the soil alive and in
good health by use of organic wastes (crop, animal and farm
wastes, aquatic wastes) and other biological materials along
with beneficial microbes (bio-fertilizers) to release nutrients to
crops for increased sustainable production in an eco-friendly
pollution-free environment.
We help farmers understand organic farming methodologies,
value supply chain, branding the products, and in providing a
marketing platform for selling their produce. We promote
farmers groups in villages and train them in best practices in
farming such as seed development, soil conversation, cropping
patterns, and post-harvest technology. We partner with super
markets to provide a platform for farmers for selling their
products, provide value chain for poor farmers and livestocks
keepers, and provide access to infrastructure such as cold
storages.
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We have developed a three layer model for effective

implementation with Field Managers for implementation at field
level, Project Coordinators for monitoring the activities at
second level, and Central office Managers to design activities at
top level.

Multipurpose Cultivation Vehicle for Small

Farmers
Dr.M.Lakshmana Rao, Principal, Prakasam Engineering College,
Prakasam - 523105.
Phone: 9849140465
lakshmanrao5@yahoo.com;
In the current scenario of farming, getting unskilled labour for
weeding and using cattle or tractors for ploughing has become
an expensive proposition.
A Multi-purpose agricultural machine, to aid farmers, has been
designed and developed by me to be used for ploughing
between tobacco, cotton and chilli plants. The earlier version of
Multipurpose Agricultural Vehicle required two labour, but the
newly developed version of this vehicle requires only one person
and even women workers can use it with ease. The field level
functioning of this vehicle was tested successfully in nearby
villages of Prakasam Engineering College.
Farmers can use the machine to cultivate their land without
using tractor or cattle, for ploughing in between plants, and
sprinkle nuts (seeds) in the field and for carrying seeds,
fertilizers, pesticides, hay etc weighing up to 50 kilograms.
This machine will be very useful for small farmers and women
farm labour. This vehicle was designed keeping in mind the
financial constraints of a farmer in India. It does not require any
fuel and will cost less than Rs. 5,000.
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I have initiated the formalities for obtaining a patent for my

innovation.

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Flower Preservation A Viable Technology

for Establishing an Enterprise
Mahalakshmi V. Reddy and E. Shirin Hima Bindu
Department of Resource Management and Consumer Sciences,
College of Home Science, Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State
Agricultural University Hyderabad,
mahalakshmi.v.reddy@gmail.com
Floriculture is emerging as a fast-growing sector of Indian
agriculture primarily in response to the ever increasing demand
for flowers in the domestic and export markets. The export
demand is mostly for fresh-cut flowers produced in modern
floriculture farms. The global market for dry flowers is small,
though it is expanding rapidly.
Although there are a number of techniques available for
flower preservation, the Freeze Drying technology for flower
preservation process is a relatively new process for the
preserved plant material industry. It links science and art to
retain the organic characteristics of flowers. According to
literature, perhaps the best post-harvest technology available
for flower preservation involves freeze-drying to produce most
effective, or realistic dried flower products that last long and
retain their aesthetic value irrespective of the season. Selection,
Process, Preservation and Promotion are the key operations in
this preservation technique to produce natural dehydrated
flowers. The flowers/ bouquet can be arranged in different
frames, glass or acrylic domes to produce two and three
dimensional effects. Freeze dried flowers can find a market and
it can be used as attractive accents while decorating the
interiors for any home, commercial centers as well as articles of
reminiscence for various occasions.
In the present era of eco-consciousness, use of natural dry
flowers and their parts has become a premier choice of the
masses in their lifestyles, especially to enrich their living
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environment. Gaining entrepreneurial skills in production of

dried flowers with beautiful shapes and colors is a rewarding
experience and an opportunity for enhancing livelihood.
Project on floral freeze drying technology is an ongoing
research in the Department of Resource Management and
Consumer Sciences, College of Home Science, Hyderabad,
PJTSAU (formerly ANGRAU). We will organize a workshop on this
preservation technology next year to attract entrepreneurs.

Empowering villages to achieve SelfReliance

Deendayal Research Institute (DRI)
Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh
Although more than 65 years have passed since our country got
its independence, we have still not been able to achieve self
reliance and overcome poverty.
The process of sustainable development begins from the bottom
and moves towards the top. Since the roots of our nation lie in
rural India, the development of our society and country must
naturally begin from the rural areas. More over, the process of
development has to encompass all aspects of human life, and
can be brought about by dedicated change agents working
selflessly with rural communities over long periods.
After initial experiments in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra,
Nanaji Deshmukh fine-tuned an integrated program for the
development of rural areas covering Health, Hygiene, Education,
Agriculture, Income Generation, Conservation of Resources, and
Social Conscience, that is both sustainable and replicable. The
basis of the project is 'Total transformation through total
development with people's initiative and participation'.
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Owing to their adverse experiences in the past, the villagers are

wary of the intentions of outsiders who come to their villages
claiming to want to help them. But the only way to gain their
confidence and trust is to have committed social workers live
within the community itself. This led us to evolve the concept of
grass root level functionaries known as Samaj Shilpi Dampati
(SSD).
The SSD area newly married young graduate couple who have a
sense of commitment towards community service, to live and
work in a cluster of villages for a period of five years. After
providing them with the required orientation and training, they
are placed in a village where they live either in the primary
school or with a family that is sympathetic to the cause of social
development. After gaining the trust of the villagers, by their
open commitment to the betterment of all in the village, starting
with the children, the SSD then initiate discussion with the
villagers about change.
Our campaign was launched on 26th January 2002 in 80 villages
in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh with an aim to transform
them in to self-reliant villages by 2005. We have been able to
achieve self-reliance in agriculture, education, health and
hygiene, and entrepreneurship development by following
sustainable concepts and practices such as
Krishi Vigyan
Kendra, Watershed Management, Gurukul, and Gramodaya.
After observing the success of the program, we decided to make
500 surrounding villages self-reliant and serve as a sustainable
and replicable model for not only our country but to the world at
large.

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Deendayal Research Institute (DRI) was founded by Sri Nanaji

Deshmukh in 1972 for up- liftment of rural areas on the basis of
Integral Humanism.

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Changing Lives: from a tribal hamlet to IIT,

Apollo
Seva Bharathi, Vijayawada
Cell : 09848195170, dr_murali2003@yahoo.co.in
The population of tribal people in our country is about 84
million, with most of them being socially and economically
marginalized. Although they are provided reservations and
various government welfare schemes are being implemented for
them, there has not been much improvement in the lives of
most of them.
Burgumpad is one such predominantly tribal village in
Khammam District that is impacted by floods in river Godavari
regularly. The volunteers of Seva Bharathi had organised a relief
camp for the victims of floods in this village in 1986 and
constructed a flood shelter, Bharathi Bhavan.
With the aim of transforming education in this remote area, we
had inaugurated Vanavasi Vikasa Kendram, initially with a hostel
for tribal students in 1990 with just twelve students. Till now,
about 300 tribal students have directly benefited from this
project, with 20 of them getting admission in to IITs, 40
completing graduation, and 72 girl students getting trained in
nursing at Apollo hospitals. 46 tribal boys were sent for studies
in Vignana Vihara English medium residential school at Nutakki
and 100 girls are studying in the residential school at Sri
Saraswathi Vidyapeetam, Hyderabad.
Bharathi Bhavan is now a multipurpose project where we
organize training camps for teachers of our single-teacher
schools working in the tribal area and personality development
programmes for youth. This project has its operations in about
150 tribal villages.
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Socio-Economic Empowerment of
Vanavasis
Vanavasi Kalyan Parishad, Flat no 119/b, siri sampada residency,
Vidyanagar, Hyderabad - 500 044. Phone: 9648648511 Email:
vanavasishivaram@gmail.com
Tribal people constitute the weakest section of India's
population, from the ecological, economic and educational
angles. They have been subjected to the worse type of
exploitation and are practically deprived of many civic facilities
and isolated from modern way of living since so many centuries.
In 1978 the Vanavasi Kalyan Parishad, Andhra Pradesh was
started with an objective to enahance the conditions of tribal
communities through providing income generating schemes
allied with educational, cultural development programmes and
protection of the tribal communities against exploitation.
Some of the programs undertaken by Vanavasi Kalyan Parishad:

Education: Started Single Teacher School, hostels to

nurture the students, and Samskar Kendras to teach the
impressionable young minds life long values.
Women Empowerment: Provide training in tailoring to
generate employment and economic stability among the
Tribals.
Healthcare: Create awareness about the health care
facilities available, collects and distributes medicines, and
creating awareness against liquor and fighting the liquor
lobby in some tribal areas.
Sports meet: Identify, train and promote the potential
sportstalent among the Tribals.

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Technologies by Farmers for Farmers A

New Perspective on Rural Technologies
Brig P. Ganesham, VSM (Retd), President, PalleSrujana,
+91-9866001678 , president@pallesrujana.org ,
www.pallesrujana.org,
Nature provides knowledge as we interact with its elements.
More we learn to use and utilize the nature through trials and
experiments, we acquire more knowledge. People in the villages
live with the nature for their livelihood. Hence knowledge is not
the forte of formally educated scholars. People in the villages
and remote areas, who live in harmony with the nature around
them, understand it well and that knowledge makes them
important to the society. To understand the ever changing
Nature and convert the natural elements successfully into food,
shelter etc is the greatest strength of our villagers. We need to
respect their tacit and traditional knowledge which evolved over
the ages and through generations. The indigenous knowledge
we hold in the rural people is our rich heritage and it must be
properly leveraged for the growth of the society. While
technology tends towards standardization, Nature always
demands customization. It is important for all the scientists,
policy makers, and the industrialists, to understand this basic
tenet while providing appropriate and affordable technologies to
the rural people. It is said that if an old man dies, a library is
burnt. That is the severity of loss of knowledge to all of us and
the future generations if we do not document and utilize the
knowledge of the elders from the informal sector.
National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF) in its 14 years
of existence experienced amazing creativity and traditional
knowledge at grassroots. In its quest to bring the hidden
grassroots knowledge to limelight, it scouted and documented
1.8 lakh ideas and practices from over 500 districts of India. This
is a very small sample of the huge knowledge available with
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them. Many significant practices and solutions to their problems

were brought into the formal sector and obtained national and
International accolades. These affordable, frugal yet simply
effective being highly appropriate solutions have been
horizontally disseminated across the country, and in some cases
to countries abroad too.
PalleSrujana a voluntary organization pursuing the mission of
nurturing the grassroots creativity in undivided Andhra Pradesh
for the last 9 years scouted and documented a spectrum of farm
equipment made by farmers for farmers. The rural technologies
developed by the rural people for rural and urban population
immensely inspire all segments of the formal system. Their
ideas, solutions to the problems, and practices are affordable,
appropriate and immensely contribute to sustainability of the
eco system.
A fresh perspective on rural technologies based on the
aforesaid thought process and the role of formal system which
includes Scientists, engineers, policy makers, entrepreneurs etc
to promote these appropriate technologies will be discussed in
this paper.
The Learning
PalleSrujana scouts these innovations and creativity,
documents them with the permission of the knowledge holders.
These ideas are taken up the value chain for validation,
prototyping, CAD, certification, Patenting etc. Innovations and
best practices are projected to various National and
International, public and private organizations for recognition,
awards and felicitations. Patenting is done through NIF or
directly as the case may be. An earnest effort is made to link
these saleable innovations with entrepreneurs for production
and marketing.
In the last 9 years, PalleSrujana could identify over 140
innovators, obtained 12 patents, 9 President of India awards,
another 8 National awards public and private, many local and
regional awards, 18 products in the market and the innovators
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are earning more than Rs 3-5 lakhs per annum through their
knowledge dissemination.
Grassroots innovations deserve their due as they enhance
the productivity of the farmers and rural people. There is a need
for promoting the grassroots innovations to sustain the high
efficiency of technical equipment in the hands of farmers for the
overall direct benefit to the growth of Nation.
Villages offer mainly five power sources which are integral
to their eco system: They are: man, cycle, sun, wind and bio
mass. It is pertinent if we design, develop and supply
technological equipment to villages based on these power
sources, which are available in plenty in the villages.
Unfortunately, the Scientific community and the industry
focused on the fossil fuel based devices and equipment for
villages thereby making them dependent, increased their input
costs,
adversely
affecting
the
eco
system
through
transportation, extraction of these fuels, generation and
transmission of the electricity at high cost and always supplied
short leading to harassment of farmers.
There is also a pattern we see in the farm equipment supplied to
the farming community over the last 4-5 decades. While 90%
farm owners own less than 2 hectares of land, the farm
equipment supplied so far is affordable to only the top 5-8 %
farmers. Entire effort of the public and private Innovation eco
system did not provide any hand tools, or any equipment to the
bottom 50 % of the farming community. This led to a disastrous
situation wherein the input costs have phenomenally increased
to the marginal farmers and they sought loans to pursue
farming. Grassroots innovations provide affordable, appropriate
solutions to the farming issues. This will enable the farmers to
pursue farming with low costs, more effectiveness and with less
pain.
An Approach for Consideration
While the significance of grassroots innovations or affordable
and appropriate equipment for the farming community is
proven, there is a lot the formal system needs to do to ensure
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they reach the 6.5 lakh villages with least transaction costs.
Salient points of the suggested approach are as follows:
System based promotion of Grassroots Innovations involving,
students, faculty, entrepreneurs, marketers, investors, NGOs,
and Govt for scouting, value addition, incubation and
dissemination. To reduce transaction costs, decentralized
manufacture using local resources, local talent should be
explored. Reengineering of the proof of concept innovations
is essential before they are marketed. A good post sale
strategy using the local talent needs to be put in place.
Students to visit and interact with villagers and identify
problems related to technology. Analyze these problems and
build a Problem Bank (project Bank) for the Institutions to
develop solutions. These should be placed on web such as
www.techpedia.in for the general public and industry to
undertake development of solutions to some of them. Each
Engineering Institution should encourage 10% of their
students to evolve solutions to these problems. Having
developed solutions, carry out field trials with farmers and let
colleges obtain patents. Some effective solutions can be
marketed by some of the students by becoming
entrepreneurs.
Formal Innovation eco system such as CSIR, ICAR, ICMR,
Public aided Institutions should be mandated to undertake
low technology, low cost solutions to the bottom 50% of the
farming community. The affordability should not be
compromised for the sake of accuracy or some archaic
standards. What farmers need is functionality and not high
accuracy. The device should be easy to operate, maintainable
by them durable and reliable for a reasonable period keeping
its operating costs to minimum and the dependency on
external resources should be minimized.
Scientific community to recognize the existence of grassroots
knowledge and leverage it for developing cheaper, affordable
and appropriate devices and practices by interaction,
inclusion and continuous communication.

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Industry and Government should invest on developing

customized solutions to our unique problems rather than
importing technology and supply the same to our farmers.
We must provide what is needed and not what is available. A
paradigm shift is necessary in the strategy towards
development of farming community.
Community farming and corporate farming are made to look
viable due to the faulty policy of developing and providing
farm equipment to the farming community in the last six
decades. We should encourage small farmers by enabling
them and empowering them with low cost low technology
equipment. Let us strive to reduce their input cost to zero.
Survival of marginal farmers with their farming becoming
economically viable is possible when we make them
independent and bring down their costs.
Farming is not business. Handling the produce is business.
This distinction is to be clearly understood by every stake
holder of this Nation. When you treat Farming as an essential,
inevitable profession for the survival of the entire Nation,
mew perspectives emerge. All interventions of the
Government, innovations and advice of the scientific
community, content and curriculum at various agri and other
farming related educational Institutions should be compatible
with the new perspective.

The new approach is to support the existing knowledge base in

the villages and strengthen it with modern science and
technology. The need of the hour is strengthening the strengths.
It is possible only when we make an earnest endeavour to
comprehend the strengths of those whom we desire or
mandated to help.

Preserving Tank Irrigation and Promoting

Community Management
Dhan Foundation
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DHAN Vayalagam (Tank) Foundation, Kennet Cross Road, Near

Seventh Day School, 1A, Vaidyanathapuram East, Madurai 625
016, Tamil Nadu
Phone: +91-452-2601673, 2610794, 2610805,
dhantank@dhan.org, www.dhan.org
Tanks have been the most important source of irrigation, for
recharging ground water, offering sanctuary to birds, for
domestic use of people and a source of drinking water for both
people and animals, as well as a source of silt and sand for
construction. In recent years, tanks have deteriorated because
of neglect over the years, and pose a serious ecological threat.
There is a need of their urgent renovation and good
management, since water is a unique tool for alleviating
poverty. We believe that community management of the tank
system can be the only solution to the problem in the long run.
Dhan Foundation has moved from working on isolated tanks, to
cascade of water tanks and tank-based watersheds, and also at
sub-basin levels. The Foundation aims at up scaling the
renovation of tanks with community participation. Its key
components are:
Organising the farmers around the tanks and later on at
the level of cascades, and promoting tank-based farmers'
associations at block and district level.
Rehabilitating water harvesting structures with farmers
contribution and participation to improve the acquisition of
water by restoring the system efficiency and increase
water use efficiency.
Promoting
tank-based watershed development by
including tank rehabilitation as a component of watershed
development for harvesting all the rain water within each
watershed boundary.
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Organising microfinance groups (MFGs) to provide access

to savings, credit and insurance services to the farmers.
Establishing Agriculture Development Centres to enhance
productivity of tank-fed agriculture by creating awareness
about new farming and irrigation management practices.
Promoting producer and marketing groups to undertake
bulk purchase of farm inputs and collective marketing of
farm produce to get the benefits of economy of scale.
Collaborating with relevant academic and research
institutions at national and international levels to do
research on tank systems and tank-fed agriculture.
Advocating for supportive policies to aid community action
in conservation and development by interacting with the
local, State and Central Governments.

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National Mission on Breeding of

Indigenous Livestock (NMBIL)
(Rural Transformation through Organizational Innovation and
Infusion of Science and Technology)
Dr. Satish Kumar, Chief Scientist, Centre for Cellular and
Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 500007, email:
satishk@ccmb.res.in, mob: 09052456653,
Background:
Animal husbandry has always been a part of social and cultural
heritage. Around 65% of labour force in the country is
dependent upon agriculture, and 80% of these are in livestock
sector. This sector accounts for about 3.92% of the total
economy of our nation and 25.8% of the total agricultural
segment of the economy. In efforts to provide affordable health
to our people, animal husbandry is critical for food security and
insurance against malnutrition. Given the scope for growth in
animal husbandry, this sector would be the driving force in
socio-economic transformation of rural economy. However, most
of the livestock producers being small and marginal farmers,
their capacity to mobilize resources to absorb the latest
technologies is limited, and therefore, there is need for
organizational innovation in this sector.
The Problem:
Genetic improvement of livestock species is critical for
increasing productivity and production efficiency, and
transformation of rural economy with inclusive growth,
especially for creation of new skilled jobs for the youth of our
nation. Enhancement of productivity per animal is also essential
to make available livestock products and quality nutrients to our
people at a reasonable price. Except modest achievements in
milk procurement and dairy processing, we have had only very
limited success thus far in increasing productivity per animal.
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During the last five decades livestock scientists in our country

generally tended to believe- at times without much hard
scientific evidence though, that genetic potential of our
indigenous breeds of cattle and other livestock species was poor
and any outcome of efforts to improve these through application
of principles of genetic selection would be extremely slow and
arduous. Therefore, crossbreeding indigenous livestock with
exotic breeds, particularly in cattle and sheep was propagated
as a method of choice for faster improvement of genetic
potential of Indian animals. While deciding such a policy, a
cautious approach was advocated that crossbreeding was to be
resorted preferably only with respect to non-descript animals,
and well-recognised breeds were to be improved through
conventional selection methods.
However, in practice due to expediency and the lack of proper
monitoring, even the well-recognised breeds of cattle, namely;
Gir, Sahiwal, Tharparkar, Hariana and many more were bred
with exotic semen.
Crossbreeding gave immediate fillip to milk production.
However, there have been several negative consequences
including neglect of indigenous breeds leading to in some cases
near diminishing of indigenous breeds. More importantly, we lost
precious five decades and from hindsight, it is clear that
intensive selection in many indigenous breeds would have
certainly enhanced the productivity of these breeds without
having to face the negative consequences of cross-breeding, like
disease susceptibility and male infertility. At the same time, it
may be noted that intensive selection within indigenous breeds
This paper is based upon the discussions during a National
Workshop on Sustainable Genetic Improvement, Utilization and
Conservation of Indigenous Livestock Breeds: Conventional and
Biotechnological Approaches co-ordinated by Dr. Satish Kumar,
Chief Scientist & Group Leader, Centre for Cellular and Molecular
Biology Hyderabad on 6th & 7th September, 2014 at
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Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The views expressed here do not

represent the views of his employers either implicitly or
explicitly was not and still, is not an easy proposition.
Experience with buffalo genetics, where there was no scope for
crossbreeding, has not been very encouraging either. One of the
fundamental bases of genetic enhancement programmes in
livestock is recoding of quality performance data. Given our
socio-economic conditions and very small herd size per
household, genetic improvement by using principles of
population genetics has always been a gigantic task.
In the meantime, world-over the science of genetic
improvement of livestock species has been going under a
revolution through applications of genomic selection and array
of reproductive biotechnologies, namely; embryo-transfer, invitro fertilisation and more recently sexed semen. While
genomics is proving crucial in identification of genetically
superior
animals
at
a
higher
speed,
reproductive
biotechnologies allow us faster multiplication of superior
livestock. As a nation, we have lost on both of these fronts.
Although we have had demonstrated capabilities in some of the
advanced research institutions in genomics and reproductive
biotechnologies, we are yet to have any tangible impact of these
technologies on productivity of our livestock. Further, there is
severe dearth of trained research scientists and technical
personnel in the area of livestock genomics.
The Way Forward:
1. A National Mission on Genetic Improvement of Indigenous
Breeds of Livestock of India, in short NMBIL (National Mission on
Breeding of Indigenous Livestock) be launched immediately
with focused support and well- defined deliverables and time
lines.
2. No effective breeding programme can be initiated without a
substantial number of animals around 3000-5000. Accurate
record taking is absolutely critical. Although creation of such
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quality data sets in farmers field appears to be very tempting

but experience has served us otherwise, and therefore, Open
Nucleus Breeding Scheme using Military Dairy Farms is the only
viable option. In such an approach genomic selection methods
will be developed in Military Dairy Farms given their long history
of having quality data recording systems in place and
availability of trained manpower and infrastructural facilities
with these farms. It is proposed that Military farms spread all
over the country should be an integral part of and provided with
funding under the proposed National Mission on Breeding of
Indigenous Livestock
3) It is expected that within three years of National Mission, we
shall be ready with the first crop of superior bulls for a few
selected and important indigenous breeds from Open Nucleus
Breeding Scheme as proposed above. In the meanwhile service
providers in public-private mode should be encouraged to
establish themselves in order to translate the results from Open
Nucleus Schemes (Military Dairy Farms) to farmers field.
4) As we make progress, resources and farm infrastructure
under the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries,
Government of India, Institutional Farms of ICAR and State
Agricultural Universities, Animal Hostels (being pioneered by
Govt of Gujarat) may be incorporated in the proposed mission
on case-to-case basis. Some of the scientifically managed
Gaushalas can also make a valuable addition.
This paper is based upon the discussions during a National
Workshop on Sustainable Genetic Improvement, Utilization and
Conservation of Indigenous Livestock Breeds: Conventional and
Biotechnological Approaches co-ordinated by Dr. Satish Kumar,
Chief Scientist & Group Leader, Centre for Cellular and Molecular
Biology Hyderabad on 6th & 7th September, 2014 at
Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The views expressed here do not
represent the views of his employers either implicitly or
explicitly.
5. Selected military farms may be identified for breeding and
conservation programme. The Meerut (Central Command) and
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Pimpri- Pune (Southern Command) farms could be developed

into most important centers for breeding while others could be
given the task of building the requisite number of animals of
different local breeds.
6. Two cattle breeds Gir and Sahiwal and one buffalo breed
Murrah be taken up immediately for intensive breeding. An
outlay for the focused support may be worked out immediately
to assemble necessary genomic information for the three breeds
identified for intensive breeding.
7. Although, it is for the government to decide the Mission can
be launched by the Ministry of Science and Technology through
BIRAC (a Govt. of India Enterprise) as the nodal agency to
disburse the funding. BIRAC has some flexibility in its
operations. Since existing infrastructure and expertise of several
departments under various different ministries will have to be
converged, it is suggested that the National Mission on Breeding
of Indigenous Livestock (NMBIL) may be monitored by PMO
through suitable organisational mechanism(s).
Some of the salient advantages of the above approach will be:
a) Integration of existing resources and institutions, and
therefore, the lag period would be minimal.
b) Focused deployment of resources including efforts directed at
development of highly skilled scientific and technical manpower.
c) The creation of knowledge will be linked with the farmers from
the very beginning, and therefore it would be possible that
research scientists would be solving problems that will impact
rural economy.
d) Development of entrepreneurship in livestock industry would
get a kick-start and several spin-off businesses and jobs will be
created, especially for the rural youth.
e) Once the livestock sector will be structured and organised,
the control of infectious diseases, particularly those of zoonotic
in nature, would be possible through better delivery of diagnosis
and vaccination services.
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An Eco-system for Rural Innovation: The

Malkha initiative
Malkha
Basement, KVIB (Opp. NMDC bus stop), Humayun Nagar,
Hyderabad 500 028
Phone: +91 94 90 79 55 48 , info@malkha.in , www.malkha.in
At present yarn is supplied to handloom weavers from large,
centralized spinning mills. There are several disadvantages to
this, both for handloom weaving and for cotton farming:
Cotton farmers today have to grow only the cotton that
the spinning mills use long-staple American varieties
which are expensive and risky for farmers to grow.
Traditional regional Indian varieties of cottons are lost.
Cotton is baled to be carried from fields to distant spinning
mills, an unnecessary use of energy. Baled cotton then
requires a long process to return it to individual fibres, a
further waste of energy
The handloom is a flexible weaving technology that can
provide the market with the variety that the market
demands. But with centralized spinning mills the same
yarn is made everywhere and dilutes the potential USP of
handloom woven fabric.
The Malkha initiative aims to correct these discrepancies by
scaling down the spinning mill and locating it near farmers
fields.
Malkha converts large-scale cotton yarn production into smallscale decentralized spinning located close to farmers fields and
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weavers looms. Malkha eliminates unnecessary transport,

baling of cotton lint and the subsequent bale-breaking, opening
and blow-room stages to locate the entire vertical field-togarment production chain in rural areas. Malkha re-connects
farmers to hand weavers and makes the indigenous cotton
textile industry ecological, dispersed, diverse, and producerowned: an industry for the future specific to the Indian context.

What does it mean to embed an innovation in an eco-system?

Heres what it meant for Malkha:
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Building relationships of trust with weaver communities by

providing cushioning against risk (guaranteed marketing)
Building expertise in ancillary activities (natural dyeing)
Hand-holding during the establishment of the new
technology
Establishing robust supply chain systems.

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Integrated Approach for Conservation of

Biodiversity and Tribal Empowerment
V. Krishna Rao,
Chief Executive Officer, Kovel Foundation,
Plot No: 22, Eenadu Layout, Sri Sai Nagar, Sagar Nagar,
Visakhapatnam 530 045
Phone: 9440976848, kovel@rediffmail.com
Tribals are dependent on agriculture, forest, horticulture,
livestock, and wages for livelihood. They are mostly small and
marginal farmers and engage themselves in multiple activities.
The tribal areas usually lack basic infrastructure such as road
connectivity, communications network, markets and technology,
which lead to under utilisation of existing natural resources.
The poorest of tribal families are particularly depend on natural
resources especially forest resources for their diverse needs.
Non Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) and medicinal plants play an
important role in tribal economy particularly in lean season.
Most of the families are, however, unable to realise full value of
these resources as they are mostly unorganised and unaware of
market information and market channels and hence, vulnerable
to exploitation by the intermediaries in the supply chain.
Kovel Foundation analysed the situation by conducting various
studies and adopted a comprehensive approach for biodiversity
conservation and sustainable livelihoods. A
development
model,
Producer
Centric
Decentralised
Supply
Chain
Management for Tribal Food & Nutrition, Economic and Health
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Security was put into operation. A Cluster Approach involving

around 500 tribal families has been organised. Primary Producer
Groups (PPGs) were formed with 15 to 20 families in each PPG
and supported by a Community Resource Person (CRP) &
federated at Cluster level. These groups adopted the best
practices and addressed issues related to resource mapping, use
and regeneration in forest and farm based livelihoods and also
linking to user industries/big traders for marketing of their
produce/products.
The members of the federation, thus, follow the best practices
on the lines of scientific management, identifying marketable
forest resources, bring fallow land under productive utilisation,
productivity enhancement of agriculture and vegetable crops,
value addition of the produce, reducing the transaction and
input costs, direct marketing with industries leading to reduction
in input costs, realisation of additional incomes besides
biodiversity conservation thereby tribal families are able to use
surplus money for their children education, health needs and
building productive assets.

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Kondapalli Toys: Transforming Wood into

Master Pieces
Vandyaa Lakkaraju, Product designer, B.Des from NIFT.
Kondapalli Toys are handicrafts of Andhra Pradesh. These toys
are crafted in Kondapalli village which is a part of Krishna
District, Andhra Pradesh. The toys are made from the Tella
Puniki wood. Almost every household in the area has a few
people engaged in this craft. The male members chisel out the
toys and give them the basic shape, whereas women paint the
toys. All the artisans are a part of one or the other self-help
Group or the Swayam Sahayak Sangham as they locally call it. It
is found that an average male earns about 3000 per month
whereas an average female earns about 2000 per month. Most
of the practicing artisans are afraid to let their children learn
their craft as it does not give sufficient returns.
These traditional toys have a distinctive design, carving and
painting which is specific to this area only. They are painted
using organic colours extracted from vegetables and flowers.
They also reflect the culture and history of the region and have
earned Geographical Indication (GI). However marketing is still a
challenge as the toy makers cannot cope with mass advertising.
The export market is yet untapped as is online marketing.
Besides there are several problems faced by the artisans viz.
health problems due to back breaking work, financial problems
and middlemen who do not share the profits fairly. Sourcing the
materials is also a hassle as there is a restriction by the
government on cutting of trees.
Some suggested solutions are

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Creation of a fashion and lifestyle brand to market Kondapalli

products.
Protection of Tella Puniki trees as part of corporate CSR.
Bringing together innovators to widen the scope of this craft.
Involvement of modern marketing and NGOs.

Integrated Approach to Improve the

Weavers Livelihood
Ms Vijaya Switha Grandhi
Plot No.26, 4-3-92/3/A, Tejaswini Colony, Attapur-500048,
Hyderabad, Telangana
phone: +91-9440901146, switha@chitrika.org , www.chitrika.org
Chitrika is an artisan development foundation working with
weavers in Srikakulam and East Godavari districts in Andhra
Pradesh. We support artisans in improving their realization,
reducing drudgery, increasing productivity ,reducing risks by
improving social security measures and developing selfsustaining artisan business institutions.
The inefficiencies in weaving sector range from incorrect
identification of beneficiaries to corruption. In the entire weaving
value-chain, there is a need for tight integration and
centralization of certain activities.
The key issues in the value-chain are:
Weavers do the pre-loom activities individually and
manually
No value addition in terms of printing, garmenting, and
embroidering
In the long run there is a need to rectify the channels through
which the benefits flow to the artisans.

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We envisage promoting an integrated, transparent and

technologically advanced model, developed after in depth study
of the value chain of handlooms. Some of the solutions tried by
us are:
Creating local economic clusters of weavers
Single window integrated services that contains bouquet
of services related to inputs and outputs management
Improved technological solutions to preproduction
activities
Centralized value addition units
We also experiment with different institutional forms, strengthen
the producer business institutions, and help them to have better
access to finances. Building a marketing channel that is owned
by the artisans is one of the crucial interventions to create
space for producers in the market. Technology focus will be built
in to the intervention from management of institutions, tools of
the artisans, market intelligence and connecting with various
players.
However, we are also looking for
Capital investment support for the technologies that we
are proposing
Support in developing software for inventory management
system / design / production planning systems
Contribution for working capital of the weavers producer
company

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Livelihood for Empowerment of Persons

with Intellectual and Developmental
disabilities
N Lakshmi Narayana and A. Tagoor
Chetana Foundation, Hyderabad.
chetana.ngohyderabad2004@gmail.com , grcnln@gmail.com
The poor access for training, rehabilitation and skill
development have forced Persons with Intellectual and
Developmental Disabilities (PWIDDs) as marginalized and out of
the inclusive development.
It is the fact that poverty, disability and development are the
cause and consequence of each other and further deepens the
poverty. In spite of the Acts and Policies, the barriers limit the
access for PWIDDs and prevent them from being a part of the
inclusive
community.
The
disability
rehabilitation
has
transformed from charity to welfare to development to rights
based model. Accordingly, disability is the responsibility rather
than burden and should be part of the community development
itself. Hence it is necessary to develop need based service
delivery system with innovation and creativity.
We have developed the institutional based training and
rehabilitation of PWIDDs living in Ranga Reddy district. The
methodologies adopted are need based matching to the skills,
needs and vulnerabilities of PWIDDs. The multidisciplinary
approaches are effective in enhancing their skills which further
improve their opportunities for employment and livelihoods.
Some of the trades include: Paper plates, Gel candles, Phenyl,
Ornamental items.

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The process has created a significant impact in the lives of

PWIDDs along with their parents. The employment created has
resulted in inclusion in the community and as a measure of
socio-economic empowerment. In addition, it has created
livelihoods both at individual and group level.
The models are participative, flexible, replicable, scalable and
sustainable with innovation. The process of training,
rehabilitation,
skill
development,
employment,
income
generation and success stories aim to answer the concern of the
PWIDDs and parents that nothing about us without us? and
what will happen to the child after us?
Chetana Foundation is the registered voluntary service
organization which works for the empowerment of PWIDDs and
just completed its First Decade (2004-2014) of Service journey
with better participation and acceptance of the stakeholders.

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Swayam Sakthi Women rediscovering

themselves
Dr. Lakshmi Ganga,President,
Centre for Social Service International Inc, 10156 Masters
Dr.N.E, Albuquerque, N.M 87111, Phone: - 505-821-2789, Email:
lganga66@gmail.com
Even after 6 decades of Independence, but still women is
considered as second citizen in our country. But the bitter fact
that all of us has to accept is when a women empowered in the
family then the whole family (Country) would be benefited.
Educate your women first and leave them to themselves, then
they will tell you what reforms are necessary for them" - Swami
Vivekananda.
With a goal to assist women who are subjected to Domestic
violence and economic strifes we started Centre for Social
Service (CSS) in 2004 which is supported by many
academicians and philanthropists.

One such program of assisting women during Crisis situation is

Swayam Sakthi (self-reliance) which we started on Jan 26th
2010.The main aim of this project is to provide emotional
support to women during crises and make them understand the
significance of life. Counseling is given to make them
emotionally strong to face life with renewed hope. They are
assisted in the process of rediscovering themselves and make
them acquire new vocational skills (like Tailoring, Maggam work
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and block printing etc.) which will make them economically

Independent. If needed we would place where they can recoup
from their stressful situation, take stock of their situation and try
to make a fresh start for themselves as well as for those
depending on them. As they progress towards Swayam Sakthi
they are encouraged to go back and lead their life normally and
independently.

Under this programme 20 women are at present staying in CSS.

The entire project is housed in a building donated by Dr.
Lakshmi Ganga and Dr. Ganga Choudary. Honoring their
commitment to CSS the project is called Dr. Lakshmi Ganga
Swayam Sakthi project.
CSS other activities include Residential programme for orphan
and single parent girls, Free English Medium School for
economically and socially deprived girls and Community based
programme for elderly women.

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Making CSR a Complete Social

Engagement
Youth for Seva
18, Journalist Colony, Panjagutta, Hyderabad.
yfshyd@youthforseva.org; www.youthforseva.org
Today, many corporates want to contribute to the society and
provide an opportunity for their employees to engage in social
work. But, they have the following limitations:
Find meaningful projects to fund
Bring transparency in work and establish credibility
Determine creative ways to encourage employees to
volunteer
Scale up the CSR work
Youth For Seva [YFS] provides a platform to bring social change.
YFS has conducted the following programs for corporates by
engaging their employees:
One Day Events: Sensitize the employees to the needs of
society by participating in events with some very basic
orientation or training. For example, Health awareness drives in
slums, street cleaning, career counselling and personality
development program in government schools, environmental
awareness drives, eye screening (preliminary), conducting
educational field trips.
Short Term Volunteering: Guide those who would like to do
more. For example, teaching extracurricular activities to children

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like singing, painting, and videography; visiting a rural place for

volunteering.
Regular Volunteering: Provide platform for employees who
want to volunteer on regular basis. For example, Hardware
training, mentoring, school adoption, mobile science lab, study
rooms in slums
Skill-based Volunteering: Volunteer based on their skill and
needs of the society . For example, orientation about savings
and investment, communication skills, maintenance of
computers in schools
Virtual Volunteering: Contribute without travelling. For
example, audio book recording (for visually challenged), website
creation, proposal writing.
Sabbatical: Take a sabbatical and work for a cause and submit
a quarterly report.

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Social Engineering for Rural Development

Sri Aakuthota Rama Rao
Grama Bharathi
Seva Bharathi Bhavan, H.No. 3-2-106/1, Nimboli Adda,
Kachiguda, Hyderabad 500027
Phone: 9440282102, 9440417995
gramabharati@gmail.com, www.gramabharathi.org
Social structures in the rural areas are comparatively more
dogmatic, which makes rural development a daunting task.
Gender and caste based discrimination in rural areas is a major
hindrance to bring about womens empowerment, improving
educational standards, financial inclusion, or promotion of
livelihoods.
We began to address the problem of caste based discrimination
in villages by reengineering the social behavioral patterns
through our initiatives, such as conducting Gram Sabha to form
various committees like Village Development Committee (VDC),
Parents Committee for the local school, and Temple Committee
and ensuring membership and active participation of all the
caste groups in these committees.
To remove the social and economic barriers, we focus on
educating the children from Scheduled Castes (SC). The VDC
ensures enrollment in school, regular attendance of the enrolled
children, and increase the number of teachers. The Committee
for school worked with the villagers and changed the school
premises from a hut to a pukka building.
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The Temple Committee started a Bala Sanskara Kendram (Moral

Education Centre) in the temple premises. The children of the
village including those from the SC community participated in
the kendram. Gradually, the family members of the SC
community were encouraged to enter the temple.

We convinced the women from all the communities to treat

everybody equal and allow drawing drinking water from the
common well. This resulted in complete eradication of
untouchability from the villages. The people in the villages are
more sensitive towards the rights of every citizen. The temple of
the village, which was earlier a focal point of social inequality,
has become a symbol of harmony among the communities.

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Sustainable Technologies for model village

Vineet Kumar Goyal
Contact: vineet@steinbeisindia.com, +91-9640112052
In India, over 70% of the people are living in rural areas that
neither have adequate land holdings nor alternate service
opportunities to produce or procure these commodities. In the
absence of adequate employment opportunities, the rural
people are unable to earn a sustainable livelihood. As a result,
more than 30% families are poor. Apart from low incomes, rural
people also suffer from shortage of clean drinking water, poor
health care and quality education which adversely affect their
quality of life. Presently, about 25% of the villages do not have
assured source of drinking water for about 4-5 months during
the year and about 70-75% of the water does not meet the
standard prescribed by WHO.While the average literacy rate in
rural areas is around 50-65%, it is as low as 20-25% among
women in backward areas.
SaansadAdarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), aims at instilling certain
values in the villages and their people so that they get
transformed into models for others. It encourages Members of
Parliament from both Houses to identify and develop one village
from their constituency as a model village by 2016, and two
more by 2019, covering over 2,500 villages of the 6 lakh villages
country-wide. The salient features of model village as per SAGY
is, road accessibility, housing, safe drinking water, sanitation,
health care, energy and education. SAGY is employing low cost
technology to build these important components of model
village. SAGY uses crushed concrete, crushed rubber, plastic
wastes, natural fibers and plant materials to build roads and
housing. SAGY is providing fresh drinking water free from iron,
florides and other chemical. To provide energy to villages SAGY
using various technologies to develop other renewable energy
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sources like solar, wind etc. SAGY is doing the commendable

work in providing education and health care accessible to this
model village.

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Natural farming - Revitalizing Rural

Ecology through Polyculture
Grama Bharathi
Seva Bharathi Bhavan, H.No. 3-2-106/1, Nimboli Adda,
Kachiguda, Hyderabad 500027
phone: 9440282102, 9440417995
gramabharathi@gmail.com, www.gramabharathi.org
Soil contributes barely 1.5 to 2 % of the required nutrients to a
plant, while the rest is made available by sun, air, and water.
Unfortunately, to provide nutrients and provide protection from
pests, farmers have become excessively dependent on external
inputs such as seeds, inorganic pesticide, and fertilizer, which
disturb the soil health and pollute the environment. This has
further led to disturbance of farmers financial well being and
adversely affected the national economy because of ill-directed
subsidies. Inorganic fertilizers reduce the microbial activity and
disturb soil health. This has caused huge damage to ecological
balance by killing agro friendly birds and insects.
To counter the threat of inorganic and expensive external inputs
in agriculture, Shubash Palekar an experienced farmer and
Agriculture graduate - developed a technology which is easily
accessible and acceptable to the farming community. The basic
principle of his method comprises of activating various microorganisms present in large quantities in the soil to increase the
porosity and fertility of soil. This method improves the seed
quality and seed is available to the farmer in his own farm. Use
of cattle (indigenous cow) in farming provides organic fertilizer
and pesticide required for cultivation.
This inspiring idea has been taken up by us and we have started
propagating zero-budget natural farming - which is in harmony
with our belief in swavalamban (self-reliance), swabhiman
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(pride) and swadeshi (indigenous) through training camps for

interested farmers in our state over the past two years. We have
observed that the yield potential of the crops cultivated using
the zero budget natural farming is equal to chemical-based
cultivation.
The produce of the zero budget farming in
horticulture (fruits and vegetables) and in agriculture (cereals,
cotton) has entered the market.

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Appropriate Technologies for Harvesting

Rainwater to mitigate water scarcity
Sri Satyabhupal Reddy
Research in Environment Education and Development Society
(REEDS)
17-1-386/S/22/S.N.Reddy Nagar, Vaishalinagar Post, Hyderabad500 079.
Phone: 9441221756, reedshyd@gmail.com
Statistics reveal that more than 85% of rural water supply is
from the ground water sources at present. Indiscriminate
exploitation of ground water and the decline in ground water
levels have rendered many bore wells dry either seasonally or
throughout the year. Reviving the traditional practices of
rainwater harvesting along scientific lines can go a long way in
preventing a serious water crisis in the major part of our country
in the years to come.
We address the problem by tapping the rainwater where it falls;
The concept of Rainwater Harvesting.
The technique of rainwater harvesting involves collecting the
rain from localized catchment surfaces such as roofs, plain
/sloping surfaces etc., either for direct use or to augment the
ground water resources depending on local conditions.
Construction of small barriers across small streams to check and
store the running water also can be considered as water
harvesting.
Identification and promotion of simple, reliable and
environmental friendly technologies for augmentation of ground
water resources are necessary to overcome the above problems
and to ensure the long-term sustainability of our precious
ground water resources. Reviving the traditional practices of
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rainwater harvesting along scientific lines can go a long way in

preventing a serious water crisis in the major part of our country
in the years to come.
REEDS believes that environmental awareness is pre-condition
for development. Our long term goal is to initiate and make
people to develop self-reliant villages. Our field of operations are
Education, Health, Environment and Livelihood. We work in
Mahabubnagar and Rangareddy districts in Telangana and
Prakasam in Andhra Pradesh.

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Solution to the Bacterial Blight disease in

Rice crop
Dr Ramesh Sonti, M.R. Vishnupriya, A.V.Rao
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
Bacterial blight (BB) is a serious disease of rice. Samba Mahsuri
is an elite rice variety that has good yield and exceptional
quality and eating characteristics and is grown in 1-2 million
hectares of rice fields in India. Samba Mahsuri is highly
sought after by consumers because of its fine eating
qualities and farmers prefer this variety because it is readily
accepted by consumers. Samba Mahsuri is susceptible to BB.
As effective chemical control measures are not available for
BB, the disease results in severe yield losses.
Improved Samba Mahsuri (ISM) is a BB resistant derivative of
Samba Mahsuri which retains the yield and quality
characteristics of the parent line. Improved Samba Mahsuri was
developed in a collaborative effort between CSIR-CCMB and
Directorate of Rice Research (DRR), Hyderabad, wherein marker
assisted selection was used to introgress three genes for BB
resistance into Samba Mahsuri genetic background.
We would like to identify an NGO/NGOs that can work with large
numbers of producer farmers in very distributed areas and
supply them with foundation seeds of ISM. We also need
Corporate sponsors who can fund this program in the NGO. The
user farmers will benefit because they will have access to seeds
of an improved variety (which they may not get as private seed
companies are not interested in varieties) and the producer
farmers will benefit because they get more remuneration from
selling their produce for use as seed.
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
Uppal Road, Hyderabad
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The Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB) is a premier

research organization in frontier areas of modern biology. The
objectives of the Centre are to conduct high quality basic
research and training in frontier areas of modern biology, and
promote centralized national facilities for new and modern
techniques in the inter-disciplinary areas of biology.

Still Water Electrical Generation

technology
Dr. Chaganti Bhaskar
Phone: +91-8099882376
Email: mybusinessislove@gmail.com,
seawaterelectricityltd@gmail.com
Traditional hydroelectric generation facilities require huge
amount of water to produce electricity and with lot of water
reaching the sea without being used properly.
Run-of-Ocean method will enable generation of electricity
continuously by using the same water, at a very low cost. This
green electricity generation with "In Pipe Cascading Marine &
Hydro Electrical Generation" can generate electricity with any
type of water such as sewerage, industrial waste water, salt
water etc. In this method, water is pushed using a motor to 30
meters height through a pipe. The same water comes back into
the tank. So the water can be reused again to generate
electricity. You only need to fill up 5%-10% water that is
evaporated every two days.
Through this device, one can generate continuous electricity
24x7 to the houses using 200-400 liters of water. A tank of
water can serve a small industry. A pond can serve a village,
lake can serve few mandal or a district. This will reduce the
electricity bill for households as well as industries. The
investment made every year in India for electricity can be
reduced by 60 lakh crores.
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The cost for setting this up is Rs. 1,40,000. It needs minimum

setup, maintenance, and operational cost.
Benefits:
1. 24*7 electricity supply for framers
2. Farmers can cultivate more than one crop due to
availability of irrigation
3. Remote villages will develop
4. Local businesses will develop
5. Greenhouse gases emission would be reduced
6. Carbon credits would be increased
7. Less crude imports, hence foreign exchange reserves
would be conserved

Managing solid waste in cities

Dr.Razia Sultana
Phone: 9848475506 Email: emailrazia@yahoo.com
Imagine how much solid waste is generated by 125 crore people
in our country every day! Although we are trying to manage it
by transferring the garbage out of sight, we are not doing the
right way as seen in the reasons given below:
o Unorganized primary collection
o Unsatisfactory interim storage facilities
o Irregular garbage lifting
o Transportation system not synchronized with storage
facilities
o Processing or treatment is not practiced
o Final disposal through dumping
As a result of this not only are we living in a polluted
environment but we are also losing valuable materials which we
could have recycled profitably.
This can be addressed by adopting suitable solid waste
management strategies such as the following:

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a. Waste separation and collection with appropriate transport

and storage
b. Reuse and recycle
c. Final
disposal
of
mechanical
waste with
least
environmental impact
d. Community participation
e. Initiating source segregation and reuse/recycling
f. Encouraging micro enterprises in solid waste management
g. Rehabilitating rag pickers and inducting them into formal
sector
Solid waste can be processed through composting, generation of
energy through pelletization/refuse derived fuel, and biomethanation, and recovering gas from land fills.

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SOLAR MICRO GRID SUSTAINABLE RURAL

ELECTRIFICATION
Dr. RVGK SARMA
Independent Battery Consultant
ranigopi@gmail.com
As per the International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook
close to 300 million Indians have no access to electricity. Most
of these houses use kerosene for lighting, which is not
environmentally friendly and at the same time unhealthy and
unsafe.
Solar Micro grid will substitute kerosene lamps with
environmentally friendly and energy efficient LED lights leading
to elimination of CO2 emissions completely there by improving
the health of people in rural India. In addition, renewable
energy for rural electrification has the potential to transform
rural life by providing an opportunity for children for better
education, and helping women to engage in income generating
activities.
This model will also generate rural employment by encouraging
rural youth who will ultimately be responsible for monitoring the
total Solar Micro Grid performance.
These youth will be
responsible for the ownership of the infrastructure and for
collection of revenue from the user.

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One Child One Light- Environment Friendly

Lighting
Thrive Solar
#38/B, Phase I, IDA Charlapally, Hyderabad 500051,
Phone: +91-40-32901212, +91 9949325007
dhanu@thriveenergy.co.in , www.thriveenergy.co.in
School children living in semi-urban, rural, and off-grid areas in
India struggle to study at night as they have to depend on
harmful and polluting kerosene lamps and face health and fire
hazards.
One Child One Light (OCOL) is an initiative of Thrive Solar with a
mission to support every underprivileged child's right to
education by giving a safe, clean and low cost solar LED study
light that can be recharged easily using solar panels.
So far, with the help of various partners and sponsors, nearly
8,00,000 School Children have benefited from the OCOL
Programme and are helping conserve nearly 2 million liters of
Kerosene and preventing 7000 tonnes of CO2 emissions every
month. Networking with large NGOs and academic institutions
has resulted in large scale implementation of the initiative
where nearly 1 million children would benefit through the
programme.
We are aiming to reach nearly 13 crore children with the help
from NGOs, Funding Agencies, Government and social
philanthropists.
We work with communities in the rural, remote tribal belts of
India and regularly work with NGOs/Banks, charities. In recent
times we have tied up with IIT Mumbai to implement a major
project that will provide LED Study Lights to about 1 Million
children in rural areas and with NIRD&PR to install over 500 LED
Light Servicing and Assembly centers in rural areas. These
activities will provide employment opportunity to thousands of
rural entrepreneurs in lights assembly, sales, and servicing of
LED Lights.
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Our organisation has received several awards and recognition

for its work in the field of solar and LED Lighting. We are now
seeking partnerships to make in India at least 10 crore portable
lights in the next 3 years, generate 1 lakh direct employment,
improve the livelihood opportunities for 3 crores families.

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Improved Biomass Burning Stoves

Sri Vidyadhara Buddhiraju
Vignana Bharati
Phone: 8008800713
vidya.buddhiraju@gmail.com
Even in the 21st century, a large section of our population,
especially in rural areas uses firewood for cooking as was done
by our ancestors in ancient times. Inefficient burning of
domestic cooking flames results in not only wastage of fuel and
contributes to about a fifth of the global green house gas
emissions, but also causes indoor air pollution and immense
harm through chronic lung/respiratory diseases (with associated
loss of working days and cost of medication) especially among
women and children.
Higher quality cooking fuels like LPG are expensive and will
become even more unaffordable for the vast majority of the
poor. .Annually India spends close to 10 billion dollars for
importing cooking fuels. As with most welfare schemes in our
country, subsidies on domestic cooking gas are a major source
of leakage in government expenditure.
Hence, improved biomass cooking stoves are an appropriate
solution to address the problem of affordable and relatively safe
domestic cooking fuel. Although India has had a program in fuel
efficient chulha for the past 30 years, the outreach has not been
very promising. We have worked on biomass burning stoves and
adopted several alternative approaches to stove building,
ranging from extremely low cost designs that closely match
existing usage patterns to cutting edge designs that closely
replicate the utility of instant switch on-and-off capability of a
LPG stove. We realize that these designs must be commercially
viable, convenient and acceptable to the end user rather than

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junk distributed by another

government operation.

top

down

subsidy

driven

The interesting aspect with our latest models is that the residue
char from fuel use (biomass) is more financially valuable than
the input. It is an instant start and stop stove closely matching
the utility of a liquid or gas stove, though it is a biomass burning
stove. We are able to produce excellent designs from a Rs. 100
stove for the poor rural home, to a Rs. 10,000 stove for a large
commercial kitchen.

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Landfill-Free Manufacturing: A Quest for

Sustainable Manufacturing
A.S.Rao
President, Indian Innovators Association
indiainvents@hotmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/indiainvents ,
www.indiainvents.blogspot.in/
Zero Waste or Zero Landfill is a useful concept to be followed by
communities and businesses. Zero Landfill means considering a
waste as a residual product or a potential resource rather
than considering waste as a useless substance.
Earlier companies used to strive to reduce waste generation
through factors such as greater efficiencies, reusable packaging
and diverting unavoidable waste to various recycling streams.
Zero Waste embodies the goal of a closed-loop system that
reuses resources rather than creating waste. Such a goal
requires consideration of the entire life-cycle of products,
processes and systems within the context of a comprehensive
systems understanding of our interactions with nature and
search for inefficiencies at all stages.
Zero Waste strategy supports triple bottom line sustainability
viz. Economic well being, Environmental protection, and Social
well being. Economic wellbeing is enhanced by solid waste
elimination and improved production efficiencies. Environmental
protection is promoted through the consumption of less new raw
materials from nature, and the elimination of waste materials
returned to nature. Social wellbeing is heightened through
improvements that better safeguard societys scarce resources,
as well as through the creation of new jobs in the closed loop
processing involved with reuse and reprocessing of materials.
Now, manufacturing companies such as General Motors lead the
Landfill-Free Manufacturing, which means zero waste from daily

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operations is sent to landfill. There are other companies such as

Glen Raven Inc, which are adopting this technology.

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Improving ground water table through

Inverse Bore Well method
Sri Subhash Reddy, Director
SMARAN
9440055253, saverainwater@gmail.com, www.smaran.org
Over withdrawal of ground water and neglect of traditional
water bodies there is a increase in soil erosion and decline of
water availability for domestic and irrigational usage.
This problem can be addressed by recharging the ground water
sources. SMARAN adopted Inverse Bore Well (IBW) method,
which involves identification of abandoned and working bore
holes through which the entire rooftop rain water is allowed to
percolate via a silt chamber which joins the deep aquifers
resulting in increased ground water deposits. This method
increased the life & yield of many existing and surrounding bore
wells wherever implemented.
In Rural areas, with the participation of all concern stakeholders,
they identify, promote renovation of the neglected traditional
water bodies (tanks/ponds) which support the irrigation, ground
water, cattle, aquatic life etc. and land development to control
soil erosion & increase/retain moisture. In urban areas they
promote, motivate, create awareness, design suitable RWH
structures for institutions, hospitals, gated communities,
apartments, independent houses colonies, parks/gardens, etc.
to increase the ground water levels.
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Rain water harvesting (RWH) implemented at many sites

reduced dependence on external water tanker supplies; a few
became completely ZERO dependent like NIFT campus at
Madhapur, Hitech city in Hyderabad. Following the successful
implementation of IBW method in 2011, the 10-acre campus,
which once required 15 water tankers per day earlier now
became self-reliant with zero external dependence and saving
up to Rs.30 lakhs per annum within two years.
SMARAN (www.smaran.org) is an NGO working on Soil and Water
conservation for the last 15 years in rural areas on watersheds
and for Hyderabad & surrounding areas promoting site specific
suitable Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) structures for over 10
years. SMARAN is extending RWH technical support to GHMC
central zone towards identification for suitable RWH structures
in residential welfare associations, apartments, open spaces,
public places such as parks and institutions such as schools,
hospitals, places of worship, etc

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Efficient Solid Waste Management by

Source Segregation and Recycling
ITC Ltd
Contact: Sri Jogarao, 9849496006; jogarao.b@itc.in
Untreated solid waste generated in large quantities in urban
areas in our country is a major factor in contributing to pollution,
spread of diseases, and declining quality of life.
ITCs WOW-Wealth out of Waste initiative creates awareness
among general public about Reduce-Reuse-Recycle to protect
environment, reduce the impact of global warming, improve
green cover, reduce land fills, improve ground water quality,
improve general health and hygiene, reduce garbage handling
costs, improve civic amenities and provide cost competitive raw
material to paper, plastics, metal and glass industries.
ITC has been working on source segregation of dry recyclable
waste and recycling the same in various industries. ITCs
program Wealth Out of Waste (WOW) which has been working
on this aspect of source segregation and recycling since 2007
has been successful in implementing the program in Hyderabad,
Bangalore, Madurai, Chennai, Coimbatore and Cochin.
Nearly 25% of daily garbage is recyclable and if the recyclables
are segregated at source, the load to the extent of 25% will
reduce in garbage handling, transportation and land filling. For
example, a city like Hyderabad generates 4200 MT of garbage
and through source segregation, if we separate the recyclables,
nearly 1000 MT can be supplied daily to industry as raw
material. GHMC can save nearly Rs 2.5 crores per month on
account of WOW due to reduced handling, transportation and
land fill costs.

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Implementing WOW systematically will result in the following

benefits:
Providing clean and green surroundings
Reducing land fill load
Saving substantial amounts for the Municipalities by way
of reduced handling and logistics costs of garbage
Creating sustainable livelihood for waste collectors / rag
pickers and improving their standard of life and avoid their
children becoming rag pickers
Creating gainful employment for uneducated youth
Providing cost competitive raw material to the industry
Conserving scarce natural resources
Reducing global warming

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Accumulating and Reusing rain water onsite

Rattanlal Dugar
Phone: 7416793132, ratanlal.dugar@rediffmail.com
The availability of potable water has become a serious concern
in most places as the water table is decreasing drastically. A
small experiment in my house in Hyderabad done 12-13 years
ago gives a practical solution for this problem.
A pit of 3x3x4filled with stones up to 3.5 of any size
(preferably 6 to 12) which are easily available near any
residence is the only structure required for collecting the rain
water. From the terrace and backyard, rain-water is directed to a
small cemented manhole of 1x1x1 (approx) through a
pipeline. Then, from the manhole water flows through an iron
mesh (for filtering, to avoid solid wastes) and the pipeline is
directed to harvesting pit. The harvesting pit is covered with a
RCC slab to avoid direct entry of any type of waste. Rain water is
absorbed by this small pit and no maintenance is required.
Another successful example is at Nirasrith Balgrah Asram
(where around 100 people stay) in Rajasthan, where waste
water from kitchen and bathroom (not toilet) was collected in a
smaller pit as specified earlier.
This method raises the water table thereby decreasing the
electricity consumption as we draw water from ground. It is
replicable on a large scale where flood water can be absorbed
into the ground by increasing the size and the number of pits.
The advantages of this water-harvesting model are:
1. It is inexpensive compared to its benefit.
2. It doesnt require any charcoal or 3-4 different layers of
stones, and is thus feasible to implement by most of the
people.
3. Easy of maintenance if absorption of water reduces.
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4. Flood water can also be harvested by increasing the size

and number of pits.

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Aiding Green Revolution

Council for Green Revolution (CGR)
1448, Road No. 12, Banjara Green Colony, Banjara Hills
Hyderabad 500034.
Phone: +91- 96769 57000, greenrevolutionap@gmail.com,
www.cgrindia.org
The world is already experiencing the adverse impacts of
diminishing green cover. Most of us are keen to reverse this
trend, but each of us cannot contribute due to a variety of
reasons including operational constraints.
We identify volunteers such as school children, employees etc.,
and provide logistical support such as identifying place for
planting trees, provide saplings, watering of the trees, and
taking care until they become full grown trees.
We strive for proactive participation of society in environmental
protection and sustainable development. We are successful in
restoring ecological balance in degraded and vulnerable
landscapes by planting two million plants by actively involving
three lakhs students and motivating schools and villages.
We promote massive tree plantation in all available vacant
spaces, enumerate big old trees, promote new and renewable
energy sources, sanitation and hygiene improvement, and
provide support to local bodies in sustainable development
initiatives.
Our organization aims to make planting and protection of trees
an integral part of our social, spiritual, cultural life. We provide
an ideal platform for a national level broad spectrum movement
for the protection of the unique bio-geosphere along the east
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coast of India, which has great environmental, social, economic,

cultural and spiritual significance in the sub-continent.

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Tracing and Cremating Unclaimed Dead

Bodies
Sri Kanugula Rajeshwar Rao,
Satya Harish Chandra Foundation,
#15-6-119/A, Beside Afzalgunj Police Station, Hyderabad 500002
Phone: 9391148712, unclaimedbodies@yahoo.com
Many people in India especially from masses are turning into
unidentified/unclaimed
dead
bodies
under
various
circumstances. Even people from well-to-do families are also
becoming unknown bodies under mysterious circumstances and
there is no one to gather, preserve and pass the information to
the families of such dead bodies.
Satya Harish Chandra foundation has been started to address
this problem. We
1. Trace unknown dead bodies on the basis of available
physical features and biological phenomena
2. Co-ordinate
and
bridge
the
gap
between
unknown/unclaimed dead bodies and their families and
also co-ordinate with revenue, medical, home and
municipal authorities for early disposal
3. Perform final rites in order to avoid pollution, and try to
provide final information to the families after the
postmortem
4. Perform the last rites of those who die due to HIV, AIDS,
TB, Swine flu etc in hospitals and their attendants leave
the dead bodies
5. Extend a helping hand to neglected patients till they
recover in government hospitals and admit them in old
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age homes and also perform final rites when they die, by
arranging free transportation and packaging material.
6. Spread awareness for organ and cadaver donation and
also take the task of safeguarding the graveyard lands
from encroachments.
7. Conduct final rites far away from the GHMC limits which
require high investment due to non-availability of grave
yard.

Request for Donation:

In spite of taking up such a socially useful cause, we often
suffer from shortage of funds to carry out our activities. We
request the responsible citizens to be a part of this noble
movement by sponsoring for final rites of a few people so
that we can contribute more for the society.

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No

Name of NGO

Aadarsh (Home For

Children)

Aalana Orphanage
Home

Aarohi Blood Bank

Aashray Foundation

Acharya Nagarjuna
Awasam

Action For
Integrated
Development

Adharsha Mahila
Seva Sangham

Agricultural And
Social Development
Society (ASDS)

Ahalya Foundation

10

Alambana

11

Alluri Sitharamaraju
Yuvajana Society

12

Amma Seva Samithi

Contact Details
Muralidhar #9-21-3/31,Ashok Nagar,Street No
4,Boduppal,RR Dist, Phone: 9491124636
Email: Aadarshhomeforchildren@Gmail.Com,
www.Aadarshhomeforchildren.Org
Kondagorla Jampaiah 2-127,Vijayapuri
Colony,Near Yellamma Temple,From Balaji
Narsing Home 3rd Left,Uppal,Hyd, Phone:
9666634790, Email:
Jampaiah150@Gmail.Com
6-3-182/1 To 3,Lake View Palace.Opp:Banjara
Lake,Rd No 1,Banjara Hills,Hyd, Phone:
8106999686, Email:
Aarohibloodbank@Gmail.Com,
Www.Aarohibloodbank.Com
K.Madhavi Latha 12-1-414/A,Pedha Gadi
School(Govt High School)
Balapet,Secunderabad, Phone: 9000495026,
Email: Madhavi10573@Gmail.Com
Viswamithra-9000161607,Karunakar
9440417995,Krishivanam,(V&M)Marrigudem508245,Nalgonda,Mail:Gramabharati@Gmail.
Com
P.S.S Hari Prasad Rao Flat No; 401, H. No: 71-191/2,Srikrishna Aptnt Dwaraka
Nagar,Khammam, Phone: 9866692754,
Email: Hariprasadaid12@Gmail.Com
D.Vijaya 17-2-48,Hilltop(V),Bellampally,
Adilabad, Phone: 9291191659
V. Gandhi Babu Office Rekhapally, VR Puram
Mandal, Khammam District, 507135, Phone:
8748- 286863; +91 9440537588, Email:
Gandhibabuasds@Yahoo.Co.In
Siva Makutam - 9849989106, 040-65871666,
303, Manjeera Majestic Commercial , Opp.
JNTU, KPHB, Hyd - 500072
B.Syam 12-12-192,Ravindra
Nagar,Seethafalmandi, Phone: 9848412054,
Email: Shyama_Alambana@Yahoo.Com
P.Satyanarayana,9440588073,Kollapur,Mahab
oobnagar Dist
Ashok # 18-12-846/11, Outside Gowlipura,
Hyd - 500073. Mobile: 9703908904,
9949263681

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Amruthavarshini
Bala Kalyana
Ashramam

14

Anandh Educational
Trust

15

ANKITA

16

ANKUSH
GOSHALA

17

Asha Foundation

18

Asritha

19

Association For
Social And
Humanize Action

20

Association For
Social And
Humanize Action
(Asha)

21

Atma Bhandu
Parivar

22

Ayyappa Seva
Samithi Welfare
Society

23

B Randheer Reddy

24

Bachpan Bachao

25

Bhannu Arogyada
Seva Society
/Bhannu
Neurohealth

Dr.P.Ramamurthy Old Gooty Road,Thilak

Nagar,Guntakal- 515 801, Anantapuram
Dist.Andhra Pradesh., Phone: 9985282854
Email: Amruthavarshini.Vhp@Gmail.Com
Nuthalapati Ananda Rao F,No6,Iufi,Khemson
Apts,Ameerpet,Hyd, Phone: 9849150654
Email: Anand4bharath@Gmail.Com
P RAVI KUMAR ANKITA, VIDHYA NAGAR,
HOUSING BOARD COLONY,
MIRYALAGUDA, NALGONDA DISTRICT,
Phone: 9440717166, Email:
Ankitaorg2@Gmail.Com
SRI B.BUDDHESWARA RAJU,
(V)KAMALAPUR,VIA:DICHPALLY,NIZAMABA
D DIST
Vadluri Swamy, 4-129/2, (V&M) Pegadapally,
Karimnagar-505532. Phone: 9441431035
S.Nagaraju,6-4-371/9/5,Krishna Nagar
Colony,Bholakpur,Sec-Bad,9705925611,
Email: Asritha.Ap@Gmail.Com
Syed Subhani Main Road, Yerrampeta
(Village) CHINTURU -507 126, Khammam
District, Andhra Pradesh Phone: 9492381609,
Email: Ashachintur@Gmail.Com
Pr.V.V.N.Rao Main Road, Yerrampeta
(Village), CHINTURU Mandal, East Godavari
District Andhra Pradesh.PIN: 507 126, Phone:
9490739320, Email:
Simharao22@Rediffmail.Com
Viswanath Kota Mig-Lll-Aphb Colony,
Zaheerabad, Medak Dist. Phone: 08451282329,9550889077
Kotagiri Gopi,,5-11-51/3a16,Priyadarshini
Nagar,Vil&Mdl,Nirmal,Adilabad,,9849687746,,
Mail:
B.Ranadeer Reddy 880,Vivekananda Nagar
Kukatpally, Phone: 9490746716 Email:
Ranadheer47@Gmail.Com
Madhukar -, Bachpan Bachao Room,
Sreenidhi Institute Of Science & Technology,
Yamnapet, Ghatkesar, R.R Dist.
V.Charanjit Reddy H.No:24-3-76/40, Prakash
Reddy Pet, Julai Wada, Hanamkonda-506001,
Phone: 9949075873, Email:
Charan@Bhannu.Org

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Health
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&Rehabilitation
Center
26

Bharath Varsha
Parirakshana
Samstha

27

Bharathi Memorial
Foundation

28

Centre For
Collective
Development Adilabad

29

Centre For
Environment And
Rural Technologies

30

CHARD (Centre For

Human Activity In
Rural Development)

31

CHESTD

32

Chethana Urban
And Rural
Development
Society

33

Cheyutha(Avasam)

34

Commitments,Hyde
rabad

35

CP Brown Netra
Nidhi

36

D.I.S.H.A. Resource
Centre

Nuthalapati Ananda Rao F,No6,Iufi,Khemson

Apts,Ameerpet,Hyd, Phone: 9849150654
Email: Anand4bharath@Gmail.Com
Kothawal Rajest 7-5/5/9,Salarjung
Kancha,Medipally,Chatkesar Mdl, RR Dist,
Phone: 9908587340, Email:
Bharathimemorialfoundation@Gmail.Com
Rathod Shesharao Gangannapet, Utnoor,
Adilabad Phone: 9440681417, Email:
Sheshurathod@Rediffmail.Com
Marojukameswara Rao,R.Cm.Street
Bobbili,Vijayanagaram Dist. Phone:
9553395807, Email:
Ramjeebheemarao@Gmailcom
Samala Babu Registered Office Address:
H.NO. 5-3-29, Pakabanda Bazar, Khammam507001, Phone: 9440145153, Email:
Samalababu@Rediffmail.Com,
Chardkmm@Yahoo.Co.In
N A S V PRASADA RAO President CHESTD
H.No:9-1-156/3B,Opposite Government
Hospital,Kothapeta,Bhadrachalam-507111,
Khammam District,Telangana-507111. Phone:
9505476502, Email:
Chestd_Ngo@Yahoo.Co.In
T.N.Chetan Pillay,#37-70/C113,Jj
Nagar,Sainikpuri,SecBad,9704233351,Curds1983@Gmail.Com,,C
pillay2006@Yahoo.Com
Srinivas
Reddy,9912091651,Chityala,Wanaparti
3-6-361/18,Murtage Cottage,Street No
20,Himayath Nagar,Hyd, Phone: 9441063495,
Email: Committmentsk@Yahoo.Com
Dr Samireddy President Phone: 9440253531
Prachi Deo 1602, Housing Tower, ISB
Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad Phone:
9666087231, Email:
Prachi.Chikate.Deo@Gmail.Com

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Dark2light

38

Dayananda
Memorial Charitable
Trust

39

Devi Youth Society

40
41

Devine Life Society,

Sivananda Ashram
Dharmashashra
Nitya
Annadhanavedika

42

Dr.Dog Pet Hospital

43

Dwarakamayee
Seva Samithi

44

Eco-Club

45

Educational
Deportment

46

EFFORT

47
48

Ekalavya
Ashramam-Seva
Bharathi
Ekchakra Goraksha
Seva Samithi

49

Employees
Association

50

G NARAYANAMMA
GO SEVA TRUST

51
52

Gnana Saraswathi
Seva Samithi
Go Adharitha
Vyavasayam

Chukkala Anvesh, 7-2533/90/1,Ganganagar,Godhavari

Khani,Karimnagar, Phone: 8465070859 Email:
Dark2light@Gmail.Com
G,Srinivas,Ravinder 1-2-73,Ambika
Nagar,Siricila,Karimnagar, Phone:
9849544462 Email: Srinivas@Gmail.Com
,Ravindera@Gmail.Om
B.Prasad 2-78,Kota
Armoor,Armoor,Nizambad, Phone:
9848390560 Email:
# 6-1-110, Padma Rao Nagar, Secunderabad.
Phone: 040-27503274, 9490122277
Goutham Babu-9966177100,Tilak Nagar
Down,Godhavarikhani,Karimnagar
Dr.Muradhar Rd No12,Banjara Hills, Phone:
9246548100 Email: Muralivetdr@Gmail.Com
M Raghunath - 9346212945, #90/2 LIG, Opp.
Kanakadurga Temple, 3rd Phase, KPHB
Colony, Hyderabad - 500072.
Chandrashekar,9440402005,Kondurg,Mahabo
obnagar
D.Anjaiah,K.Krishnaiah,Vidut Nagar
Colony,Zahirabad,Medak
Vijaya Kumar Karumuru H.No: 5-3-26/A,
Pakabanda Bazar, Bonakal Cross Road ,
Khammam. Phone: 9440160485, Email:
Effortvijaykmm@Rediffmail.Com
Laxmi Narayana,9866393484,19-48,Godavari
Road,Mancherial
Radha Krishna Innani Bodan,Nzd, Phone:
9490679937 Email:
T.Rajeshwar
Kothapally,Pochampadu,Nizamabad, Phone:
9441711600 Email:
SRI VENKATESWA VARMA,
(V)NARKUDA(M)SHAMSHABAD(DIST)RANG
A REDDY PIN:501218
Akarapu Viswanatham,9848320723,Kollapur
X Road,Nagarakarnool,Mahaboobnagar Dist
Kotala Vittal Reddy 126/1,Govuru,Varni(M)Nzd, Phone:
9492211223 Email:

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Kotalavittalreddy@Gmail.Com
53

GO SEVA,SRI
SHIVA PRAKASH

54

Good Life
Foundation

55

GOVARDHANADH
ARI GOSHALA

56

GOW SEVA

57

Grama Vikas
Samithi

58

Green Life

59

Happy Life Service

60

Hellohyderabad

61
62

Hyderabad Zilla
Mahila Mandalula
Samakhya
Ideal Rural
Development
Society(Irds)

63

India Literacy
Project

64

Indira
Priyadarshini&
Women Welfare
Association

H/NO:37-18/843,PLOT NO 843,DEFENCE
COLONY,SAINIKPURI,SECBAD,PIN:500094,9849493036
S.Nagachary 1-30,Opp:Karur Vysya
Bank,Suryapet Road,Nalgonda, Phone:
9849637370 Email: Nagachary.S@Gmail.Com
,Dr.JAGADEESH,H/NO:622/3,RAYADURGA,RR DIST,500008
SRI DAMAYAN REDDY,FAREED MANJIL,3-1297,MOTHINAGAR LINE,NIMBOLI
ADDA,NEAR
KACHIGUDA,HYD,PIN:500027,MAIL:Drgolam
ari007@Gmail.Com,Cell:8125032321,834140
3167
Suryachandra
Redyy,9959548313,Mail:Suryachandrareddy
@Rediffmail.Com,
(V)Chinnamandhadi(M)Peddamandhadi(Dist)
Mahaboobnagar
Vasudeva Rao Shivaji Colony,Buja Buja
Nellore, Phone: 8008605222 Email:
Vasusree@Hotmail.Com
K.Ramesh Babu 11-156,Patwari
Enclave,Beside Sandya Hospita,Gandhi
Nagar Road,Balanagar,Hyd, Phone:
7680858898 Email:
Rameshkothapalli@Happylifeservice.Org
Krishna Reddy Email:
Krishnareddyk@Yahoo.Com, Phone:
9000303003
Shaheen Afrose P No,28,Huda Colony,Mayuri
Nagar,Miyapur,Rr Dist, Phone: 9391138396
Email: Hzmms.Ashreya@Gmail.Com
K.Rajalingam9441046873,Mail:Irdsmedak@Gmail.Com,,H/
No:5-87,Ircode,Siddipet,Medak Dist,502114
Shravankumar Guntuku 2-14/4 Izzat Nagar
(Near Novotel Hotel) Phone: 9703874573,
Email: Ilp.Shravan@Gmail.Com
Smt.Govardhani,9885013699,Mail:Jadcharla,
Mahaboobnagar

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Indira
Priyadarshini&
Youth Welfare
Association
Institute Of Health
Systems
Integrated
Development&Emp
owerment
Agency(Idea)
Integrated Rural
Peoples Welfare
Association

69

JAGRUTHI-NGO

70

Jana Jagruthi Seva

Samithi

71

JSR Foundation

72

Kalyanpuri Senior
Citizens Asm

73

Kasturba Gandhi
National Memorail
Trust

74

Kasturbha Trust

75

Kranthi Rural
Development
Organisation

76

Krishna Murty
Chitturi

77
78

Laxminarayana
Charitable Trust
Louis Braille
Educational Society
For Blind

Vijaya Lakshimi Plot No 202,Srinath

Residential Complex,Opp Manju Theatre,SecBad, Phone: 9347627092 Email:
Shamrao55@Gmail.Com
G.Surender Haca Bhavan,Hyderabad, Phone:
9848011251 Email: G.Gsurendra@Gmail.Com

Health,
Education,
Environment
Health

K.Chandramouli 3-6-45/1,Backside Of Petrol

Pump,Marriguda,Ecil Post, Phone:
9948222900

Rt&Act,
Student Rural
Development

PK Prakash IRPWA, Parvathipuram

Vizianagaram Dt Phone: 9441605890, Email:
Irpwa.Asha@Gmail.Com
M.Kumudini Registered Office Address: 11-334/2, Nehru Nagar, Khammam-570 001,
Telangana State, Phone: 8106633018, Email:
Kjagruthim@Yahoo.Co.In
K. Srinivas - 9000165971,J.Phani Kumar8897743036,8-3-580, Yellareddyguda,
Ameerpet, Hyd - 500073

Health Education
Environment
Livlihood

Janpalli Sathish Raju,10149,Kothakota,Mahaboobnagar,Janpallysathis

h@Gmail.Com
G.Radha Krishna 2-1928,Kalyanpuri,Uppal,Hy, Phone: 9177527910,
Email: Gnenirk4@Gmail.Com
P.Kasi V.Rao Plot No.87,Defence
Colony,Sainikpuri P.O, Sec-Bad, Phone:
9849254662, Email: Kasivrao01@Gmail.Com
Padmavathi Langar House,Hyd , Phone:
9391011282, Email: Kgnmjhyd@Gmail.Com
A.Radhadevi 17-2-549,Vivek Hospital
Complex,Kurmaguda,Saidabad,Hyd, Phone:
9440465052
Krishna Murty Chitturi 28 Dhyanaprastha
Township Majidpur Village Shamirpet Mandal
Hyderabad Phone: 9666895906, Email:
Ckmurty@Yahoo.Com
HS Babu, Laxminarayana Clinic
T.N Prabhakar 3-53/N,Near Hp Petrol
Pump,Hero Honda Show Room,Back
Side,V&M Narsapur,Medak, Phone:
9441780076, Email:

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M.V Foundation

80

Ma Amma Nana
Vruddashramam
Society

81

Madhava
VidyalayamMadhava Seva
Samithi

82

Mahila Dakshitha
Samithi

83

Malayala
Matam(Avasam)

84

Manasa - NGO for

persons with
disabilities

85

Manava Seva
Voluntary
Organisation

86

Manavatha
Navodaya
Foundation

87

Manchi Pustakam

88

MANYASEEMA

89

Mcks Food For The

Hungry Foundation
Ap

A.Aravind Kumar F,No:201,Narayan

Apts,West Maredupally, Phone: 9848048051
Email: Mvfindia@Gmail.Com Mvfindia.In
Guduru Ramana Reddy9949449064,Mail:Ramanareddy.9064@Gmail.
Com,H/No:3200,Rajuladevarapadu(V)Yerrupadem(M)Kha
mmam(Dist)
Sri.P.Raghupathi Reddy9440484337,H.No:11-22,Near Water Tank,Sri
Rama Nagar Colony,Shameerpet (M)Rr Dist
Smt Radha Ramani 8-3-430/1/21,N S C
Employee Society,Hyd , Phone: 9346214934
Email: Mahiladakshatasamiti@Gmail.Com
Dr.Kalidhas,9652808040,Jadcharla,Mahaboob
nagar
P. Sarva Laxmi, House No: 2-53/2
Chaitanyapuri, Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad 500060, T. S. India. Mobile No :
+919908221082 Email:
manasa912014@gmail.com,,
info@manasaindia.org Website:
www.manasaindia.org
P.Saroja,9959590155,,9885601917,,Help@Humanserv
ice.In,,,Yatapaka(V)Bhadracham(M)Khamma
m(Dist)
Gv Rama Kumar Raj Sanjeeva Reddy
Nagar,Hyd, Phone: 9391377292 Email:
Rkraju@ValuemomentUm.Biz,
Www.Manavath.In
P.Bhagyalakshmi 12-13-439,St,No
1,Tarnaka,Hyd, Phone: 9490746614, Email:
Info@Manchipustakam.In
Ch. Srinivas Rolugunta (Post And Mandal)
Visakhapatnam PIN: 50114 Andhra Pradesh
Phone: 9441919864, Email:
Manyaseema.Srinu@Gmail.Com
Shanthakumari,9347508404,Mail:Cause@Gm
ail.Org,,,6-3-788/A/18,Plot
No:18,Durganagar,Ameerpet,Hyd

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90

Means Elders Care

Home

91

Meenakshi
Venkatramana
Foundation

92

MINE CHEMIE
CORPOATION

93

94

Miracle
Transformation
Ministries Welfare
Society
Mithon Information
Technological
Society(Mits)

Dr.O.G. Prakash,5-227,Rd No-06,Krishna

Nagar Colony,Nfc
Road,Moulali,Hyd,9391039990,Meanshomes
@Gmail.Com
Sethuraman Teachers Colony,East
Maredupally,Sec-Bad, Phone: 9849028854
Email: Gvsethu@Eartohear.Org
SRINIVAS KONETI 13B Old MLA Quarters
Hyderabad Phone: 9440441122, Email:
Srinivaskoneti1@Gmail.Com

Health,
Education
Health
Health Education
Environment
Livelihood

K.Deva Priyam 2-6-728,Lig Block

No(42),Housing Board Near Nakkalagutta
,Hanumakonda, Phone: 9985572858
Msmt.Chandra Raju Guntumadugu 7-1307/14/6/A,Subhash Nagar,Hyderabad.
Phone: 9393290217

95

Mithra Society

G.Gangareddy 5-17,Bussapur,Nizambad,
Phone: 9441608639

Health,
Education,
Environment

96

Multipurpose
Awareness Society

Nageswar Rao 7-174/1,Sanjay Gandhi

Nagar,Ida Jeedimetla,Hyd, Phone:
8985758649, Email: Bnrmas@Gmail.Com

Environment
Health

97

My Village Model
Village Foundation

C.Balraj Goud Plot No,41&42,Ravi

Colony,Mahendra Hills,Sec-Bad , Phone:
8008225364, Email: Balraj.C@Gmail.Com

Education
Health
Livelihood
Environment

98

Naarla Rajanna
Gupth Rural
Development
Society

Narla Vijayabaskar 2-552,Hanumangapally,Banswada,Nzd, Phone:

8500209011

Education
Environment

99

Nachiketa Tapovan

100

Nachiketha Awasam

101

NANDANAM
FOUNDATION

102

Narayana Seva
Samiti

P. Vasundara - 9849035979, Plot No : 70,

Phase I, Kavuri hills, Jubilee hills, Hyd 500033
Sri Padma Narasaiah-9490414416,Behind
Zph School,Kisan
Nagar,503218,Balkonda(M)Nizamabad
NANDANAM.VISHNU
DUTT,9908585858.VISHNUDUTH.NANDANA
M@GMAIL.COMADDRESS FOR CONTACT:
N.KARUNAKAR FLAT NO:504, SUNSHINE
RESIDENCY, HUDA COLONY,
CHANDANAGAR, HYDERABAD-500050.
KN sunil kumar HNo 5-6-478 NGOs colony,
kamareddy. Phone: 9989923520

190

Education
Education

Education
Environment

Health

103

Navajyothi Mahila
Mandali

Sushila Reddy Maheswari Colony,Kachavani

Singaram Vi)Ghatkesar(M) Rr Dist, Phone:
9963372077 Email:
Navajyothi_87@Yahoo.Com
Www.Njmahilamandali.Org

104

Navodaya
Paryavarana
Swachanda Seva
Samastha

E. Srinivas Gen. Secretary 9550048488,H.

No: 2-36, (V) Rangarao Pally,(M)
Gangadhara, (D)Karimnagar, Pin No: 505445,

105

Nirmala
Vivekananda
Welfare Society

106

Pallavi Ashramam

107

Parna

108

Patidhar Seva
Sangh

109

PG College

110

111

PRABHATA
SINDHURI
EDUCATIONAL
SOCIETY
Pragathi Grameena
Samajika Seva
Samsta

112

Prajaswamya
Parirakshana
Vedika

113

Prashanthi Nagar
Welfare Association

114

Prayas Institute For

Social Development

Kuna Ramesh,2-488,Venkatadripet,M,Nirmal,Dist,Adilabad,9866
767327,,Mail:Gangishettypraveen@Gmail.Co
m
Dundigal,Khuthublapur,M,Rr Dist,Hyd, Phone:
9989175065, Email: Www.Apallavi.Org
Kiran Kumar Jupally Hyderabad Phone:
7702538032, Email:
Jupally.Ramu@Gmail.Com
Dayalal Patel,42-585/1,Green Hills
Colony,Opp:K.G Bus
Pepot,Moulali,Hyd,,9391027922
GC Ambica 111/1,Gandipet(V)Rajendranagar(M)Rr Dist,
Phone: 8096548275 Email:
Gcambica00@Gmailcom
Srinivas Yamijala 3rd Line Navabharat Nagar
GUNTUR Phone: 9392227337, Email:
Yamijala@Prabhatasindhuri.Org
Arelly Laxmirajam9441701814,Mail:Pgsssngo395@Gmail.Com,
(V)Nandagiri(M)Pegadapalli,Karimnagar Dist
Narayana Rao,Madhu Plot No 32-447,Hal
Colony,Opp:Umcc Main Gate,Ida
Jeedimetla,Hyd, Phone: 9849042005 Email:
Ppv194@Gmail.Com,Cmsocialwork@Gmail.C
om
Dr.C.Vijaya Kumar Reddy 16-120,Prashanthi
Nagar Beside Prashanthi Nagar Welfare
Commity Hall,Uppal,Hyd, Phone: 9440382843
Email: Challavkr@Yahoo.Com
Shaik Altaf Ahmed #4-1-21,Champa
Estate,Boggulakunta,Tilak Road,Abids,Hyd-1,
Phone: 9866335488 Email:
Prayashyd@Gmail.Com Www.Prayasisd.Org

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Environment

Education
Environment
Livelihood
Education, Livelihood
Education

Livelihood

Education
Education
Environment
Education
Health
Environment
Education
Health
Education
Health

115

Radha Institute For

Mentally Retarded

116

Rama Dharma
Prachara Sabha

117
118

119

Ramakrishna Seva
Sangam
Ramjee Bheemarao
Vikalangula
Sankshema Seva
Sangham
Rangineni Sujatha
Mohan Rao
Educational
Charitabla Trust

120

Ross Mobile
Welfare Society

121

Rotary Club Of
Banjara Hills
Charitable Trust
(Sparsh Hospice)

122

S.C Women Welfare

Social Service
Society

123

S.Radhaswamy
Foundation

124

Sahaja Yoga

125

Sahayak Voluntary
Organisation

126

Sahayata

127

Sahayath
Seva(Society
Enalighting Self

M.Sudha Kothapet X Road,Opp:Mahalaxmi

Theatre,Kothapet,Hyd, Phone: 9959403180
Email: Rimrins@Yahoo.Com
Pradeep Nambiaar,Plot No 61,Mathrupuri
Colony,Sainikpuri,SecBad,Pradeep.Nambiar25@Gmail.Com,,,,9010
403034
Nagamani Linganna9441422202,Bhainsa,Adilabad

Education

Livelihood
Education

Pollipally Yerra Rao,4-266,Shivaram

Road,Chipurupalli Post,Vijayanagaram Dist

Education
Livelihood

Mohan Rao 3-1-7,Balaji

Nagar,Siricila,Karimnagar, Phone:
9849012459

Health
Education
Liveliwood

B.JOHANNA
Ross,9440896756,9440921122,,12-2-788,Plot
No201,,Rithidbowdi,Mehdipatnam,Hyd
YARRAPOTHU RAMA MOHANA RAO Flt No
M12, Sarada Apartments II, Road No 10
Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034 Phone:
9849456679, Email:
Yr_Mohanarao@Yahoo.Co.In
Byrama Sharada Devi
Kyasnipally(V)Kamareddy(M)Nizambad,
Phone: 9849105489
C.Rajesh 74/6,East Maredupally,Sec-Bad,
Phone: 9849012340 Email:
Rajesh02@Gmail.Com
Srihari Baba Telkar 110, RV Advik Apartments,
Pipe Line Road, Jeedimetla, Hyderabad- 500
067 Phone: 9866254491, Email:
Sriharitelkar@Gmail.Com
Kunuri Sai Ram - 7670932061,Mahatma
Gandhi University, Nalgonda.
Dr.Lakshmi,Plot No-22,Vasant Vihar,Krupa
Complex,Safilguda,Neredmet,SecBad,08106167103,,,Mail,Contact@Sahayatah
yd.Org
Dr.M. Lakshmi F,No 301,Krishna Aptmt,Rd No
4 ,Banjara Hills,Hyd, Phone: 8106167103
Email: Mlakshmi369@Gmail.Com

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Education
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Assistance)
B.Suresh Manimata
Apts,Mothinagar,Erragadda,Hyd, Phone:
7674847637 Email:
Anjana_Suri@Yahoo.Co.In
Sri Ram Reddy-9505506225,Sharada
Nagar,Opp.Rta Office
Badameedipalli,Mahaboobnagar-509001
63597/A/7,Venkata Ramana
Colony,Khairathabad,Hyd,Mail:Sris_Vp@Yaho
o.Co.In,Sris_Vp@Rediffmail.Com
Saibaba
Goud,9440124127(V)Nagapur(M)Gopalpet(Di
st)Mahaboobnagar

128

Samarth Society

129

Sandeepani
Awasam

130

Saraswathi Vidya
Peetam

131

Self Employement
Voluntary
Association(Seva)

132

Seva Bharathi,
Secunderabad

S N Murthy Sivananda Shelter Home,Gandhi

Hospital,Secc-Bad, Phone: 9701914349
Email:

133

Shanthinikethan

Balleswaraiah Plot No 10,Gouthami

Nagar,Vanastalipuram,Hyd, Phone:
9246219975 Email:
Shanthiniketanmr@Gmail.Com

Education

134

Share
Organisation(Societ
y For Health And
Agricultural Inrural
Environment)

Prabhakar Rao 7-11-208/1,Pragathi

Nagar,Kothagudem,Khammam, Phone:
9491357917 Email: Share108@Gmail.Com

Education
Health

135

Sidur

136

Social Action For

Socail Development

137

Social Service

138

Society For Action

With Rural Poor
(Sarp)

Dr,( Mrs) Thumaty Nanda Vardhan 144 /

2RT ,Vijayanagar Colony,Hyderabad Phone:
9848834741, Email:
Nanda_Thumaty@Yahoo.Com
Rakesh-8142892497,H/No:B-7,Pattigudda
Colony,SecBad,Hyd,Mail:Rakeshkumarrms@Gmail.Com
Ramayya K A Flat No. 162, Srila Heights, St.
John S Street, East Marredpally Phone:
9391132959, Email:
Ramayya_Ka@Yahoo.Com
Dr.B.Prameela President-SARPLIG-I14,APHB Colony,Bhongir,Nalgonda, Andhra
Pradesh,INDIA,508116 Ph:08685-244646
Cell:9848027646 / 9966160282
Dr_Pramila2006@Yahoo.Com
Sarporganization@Gmail.Com

193

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Education
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Health Education
Environment
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Education
Health
Environment
Health Education
Environment
Education
Health
Environment
Livelihood

Www.Sarpngo.Org

139

Society For Animal

Welfare

140

Society For
Development Of
Drought Prone Area

141

Society For
Empowerment
Through
Environmental
Development
(Seed)

142

Society For
Health,Agriculture
And Rural People
(Sharp)

143

Society For
Solidarity And
Reconstruction

144

Socio-Economic
And Cultural
Upliftment In Rural
Environment(Secur
e)

145

Space Ngo

146

Spark Youth
Voluntary Org

147

Sparsh Hospice Of
Rotary Club Of
Banjara Hills
Charitable Trust

#8-1-271/1 IDA, Khanapuram,Khammam02,,Mobile:9959616181,,Mail:Sawkmm@Yaho

o.Com,,Web:Www.Sawindia.Org
Paulson Gilroy Dcruz SDDPA, Gopalpet Road,
Opp. St. Thomas High School Phone:
919963366829, Email:
Sddpaindia@Gmail.Com
Dr. Rekha Pande, General Secretary,
09849428030 ( M),Plot No. 19, Survasant,
Lakshmi Enclave, Indiranagar, Gachi Bowli,
Ranga Reddy District, Telanagana,
Hyderabad,32,Mail:Seedsociety@Gmail.Com,Pandesures
h1984@Gmail.Com
KURELLA NARSIMHACHARY SHARP
Society,Near Saibaba
Temple,Pothaigadda,Mothkur Mandal,
Nalgonda Dist.PIN:508277 Phone:
9848835685, Email: Sharporg@Gmail.Com
S.Shyam Sunder Reddy 8-3228/587,Rahamath Nagar,Yousufguda,Hyd,
Phone: 9948930990 Email:
Ssr.Org@Rediffmail.Com
Mr. K. Venu Madhav Address:H.No.8-1-110,
Gattaigudem,Paloncha, Khammam Dist. 507
115, Phone: 91-9440160129 Email:
Secure.Org@Gmail.Com
B.Shobha SPACE 4/C, APHB Colony
Subedari Hanumakonda, Warangal Phone:
9849811065, Email:
Spaceblindschool@Gmail.Com
Mangalampally Raju House No 4-5-20/9,
Jangaon Ho, Behind Devi
Therater,Sanjaynagar, Jangaon - 506167
Phone: 9247896607
PALLAVI MADHIRA Sparsh Hospice, Road
No.12, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad Phone:
9866072574, Email:
Pallavi.Madhira@Gmail.Com

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Environment

Environment

Education
Environment

Health Environment
Livelihood
Education
Health
Environment
Health Education
Environment
Livelihood
Environment
Livelihood
Health, Education,
Environment
Health Education
Environment
Livelihood

148

Sphoorthi Jyothi
Foundation

149

Sreya Foundation

150

Sri Aravinda
Awasam

151

Sri Education
Society

152

Sri Jain Goshala

153

Sri Kanakadurga
Eye Hospital

154

Sri Keshava Sisu

Mandir-Keshava

155

Sri Keshava Sisu

Vidya Mandir-Sri
Keshava Seva
Samithi

156

Sri Laxmi Goshala

157

Sri Madhava
Awasam

158

Sri Radha Krishna

Sandeepani
Samakya

159

Sri Rajamouli

160

Sri Rama Paraspara

Sahayaka Podupu
Mariyu Parapati
Sahakara
Samgham

Jyothi Paruchuri Plot No 39/1,Vinoba

Nagar,Ibrahimpatnam,Rr Dist, Phone:
8341349742 Email:
Sphoorthijyothifoundation@Gmail.Com
Dr. Usha Devi.P Door No.9-11-8/30,
Sivajipalem, Visakhapatnaam Phone:
9290457978, Email:
Ushanagesh2001@Yahoo.Com
Sri Anand Rao-9032277227,Sri Saraswathi
Vidya Nilayam,Jj Nagar,Suryapet508216,Nalgonda Dist
1-9-290/12,Vidyanagar,Hyd, Phone:
9985704234, Email:
Sreedusociety@Gmail.Com
Dayalal Patel,42-585/1,Green Hills
Colony,Opp:K.G Bus
Pepot,Moulali,Hyd,9391027922
Dr.K. Murali Krishna Opp,Old Petrol
Pump,Siricila,Karimnagar, Phone:
9866221545, Email: Doctorkathi@Gmail.Com
Sri Bandari Venkatesh9985807527,Kollampalli509205,Via:Dhanwada,Mahaboobnagar Dist
Sri Desolla Govind-9542425797,Kandukurthy503235,Renjal(M),Nizamabad Dist
G.Mukundreddy,Village:
Chinnadevpally,Mandal: Anvada,
Mahaboobnagar. Phone: 9885854319
Sri Saraswathi Sisu
Mandhir,Miryalaguda,Nalgonda Dist. Sri
Y.Murali Krishna-9848063052,
(V)EKLASPUR(M)NARAYANAPETA(D)MAHA
BOOBNAGAR,PIN:509210.
Phone:9490164954,9059875790
S/O,VENKAT RAJAIAH (RICE
MILL),PO&MDL:MACHAREDDY,DIST:NIZAM
ABAD,PIN:503111. Phone: :9849063774
Kumara Swamy,4-144,Naggila Veeresham
Guptha Complex,Main Road Shad
Nagar,Mahaboobnagar
Dist,,9441577598,,7368233193,,Mail:Ksnagilb
@Gmail.Com

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Education
Education
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Health
Education

Education

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Education
Agriculture,
Environment
Agriculture,
Environment
Education
Health
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161

Sri Ramakrishna
Seva Samithi

162

Sri Ramakrishna
Seva Samiti

163
164
165
166

Sri Ramakrishna
Seva Samiti
Sri
Ramalingeshwara
Macs Association
Sri Ramesh Gupta,
Central Committee
President
Sri Sai Charitable
Trust

167

Sri Sai Mahila

Sangham

168

Sri Sankalp Welfare

Society

169

Sri Shiva
Ramakrishna
Vidyalayam

170

Sri Sivananda Seva

Samithi

171

Sri Valmiki AwasamSeva Bharathi

172

Sri Vidhyas Centre

For The Special
Children

173

Sri Vivekananda
Awasam

174

175

Sri Vivekananda
AwasamRamakrishna Seva
Sangam-Bhainsa
Sri Vyasa AwasamSri Vyasa Prathistan
Seva Sangam

KOREDDY.LENIN BABU H.NO:7-744/26/A2/4, VIDYA NAGAR COLLONY

ADILABAD. Phone: 9490052842, Email:
Leninkoreddy@Gmail.Com
Kota Venkata Siva Rama Sarma P No-75,24141/7/3,West Anand Bhag,Malkajgiri, Phone:
9848742324, Email: Vsrskota@Yahoo.Com
K.Rajamallesh,Venkateswara
Colony,Mahaboobnagar,9441167866
Panthangi Sumanth Kumar 4-144-1st Floor N
Veeresham Guptha, Phone: 9948174009,
Email: Pantangisumanth@Gmail.Com
VIKASA THARANGINI , HYD.CELL
NO:9246242222
KN Bhagath HNo 8-61 Kalki nagar kamareddy
N.Achyutha 5-3,Opp:Indira Bhavan,Malkajgiri
X Rd Hyd, Phone: 9866398857 Email:
Ssms99@Gmail.Com
Ganji Vijay Kumar,,7-3125/4,Nageswarawada,Vi&Mdl:Nirmal,Adilaba
d. Phone: 9866424200
Sri Puppala Venkatadri9989599774,Machupahad506224,Via:Raghunathapalli,Warangal Dist
Satyavratanandu 6-1-110,Padmarao
Nagar,Secunderabad. Phone: 9490122277,
Email: Apdissec@Gmail.Com
Sri Nandelli Madanmohan Rao, TA 62,Dharur
Camp,Jagityala-505327. Phone: 9440338949
V. Shanthi Venkat H. No. 10-3, Plot No. 41,
East Marredpally, Secunderabad-500 026
Phone: 9490439801, Email:
Shanthi@Srividhyaschool.Com
Sri Akkiraju Yaswantha Rama Rao, Nagubandi
Ramurthy Street,Kodada-508216. Phone:
9848723090

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Health
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Education

Sri Bhaskar Rao,Near Subhadravatika

School,Bhainsa,Adilabad. Phone:
9440043196

Education

Sri Sanba Shiva Reddy-9490119248,Plot

No,200/A,Trivi Digi School,Durgadevi Colony
Hunter Road,Hanumakonda

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Sri.G.P.Raman

177

Srikari Swachanda
Sahayaka Samsta

178

Srinivasa Charitable
Trust

179

Srirama Co Op
Society

180

181

Srivatsa Nrusimha
PalaparthiMorampudi
Foundation
Srujanavani
Voluntary
Association

182

State Gow Raksha

Pramukh,Vhp

183

Students For
Development

184

Suraipally Youth
Asssociation`

185
186
187

Surya Rural
Development
Society
Swamy
Vivekananda Awasa
Vidyalayam
Swarna Bharathi
Rural Development
Organisation

188

Swayamkrushi

189

Sweeya Seva Trust

94-A,ESWARIPURI
COLONY,SAINIKPURI,SEC-BAD,PIN:500094,
Email::Abmshyd@Yahoo.Com
B.Nirmala,Nandidwaraka 2-112,Kota
Armoor,Armoor(M)Nizambad, Phone:
9490650900
Srinivas 21-1-946ghansi Bazar Mear High
Court,Hyd, Phone: 9440072172
Karanam Navaneetha Nath 4-144,N
Veeresham Guptha Complex,Main Road
Shadnapur,, Phone: 9885583179 Email:
Srirama2002@Gmail.Com
P.Ramesh 6-1-118/33,Madhuranagar
Colony,Padmarao Nagar,Sec-Bad, Phone:
9652124066
Umashankar.Tarak Plot No C-216,Svlnc
Phase2,Vepagunta,Vishakapatnam, Phone:
9346007003, Email: Info@Srujanavani.Org
SRI VENKATESHWAR,H/NO:2-3504/1/16,MAIN ROAD
AMBERPET,HYD,PIN:500013,MAIL:Vdevasu
ppalak69@Gmail.Com
Dr K Balaraju, Phone: 9346951980, Email:
Drkbalaraju@Gmail.Com
Hanmanth Reddy
Suraipally(V)Lingonpet(M)Nizambad, Phone:
9441801690
Sudharshan,(V)Amarachintha,(M)Athmakur,
Dt:Mahbubnagar. Phone: 9490327253,
Email:Chumsada@Gmail.Com
Sri Sanghameswar-9989518920,Vivekananda
Seva Samithi Medak
Road,Ramayampet,Medak Dist-502101
Achary,,9440478063,Amangal,Mahaboobnaga
r
Manjula Kaalyan Indian Airlines
Colony,Thirumagiri,Secunderabad, Phone:
914027992420, Email:
Swayamkrushimk@Gmail.Com
Nirmalbabu Plot No
45,Sudhanilayam,Dwarkanagar
Colony,Chinttal,Hyd, Phone: 9392483032,

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190

Sweeya Seva Trust

191

Talsemia Sickle Cell

Society

192
193

194

Telangana Prakruthi
Parirakshana
Samsta
Telugu One
Foundation
The Khammam Eye
Bank(Hindu
Smashana Vatikala
Nirvahana
Committee)

195

The Nature
Products Store

196

The Ray Of Hope

197

The Rayaalseema
Grameena Vikas
Society

198
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United Care
Development
Service
Vaidehi AshramVaidehi Seva
Samithi
Vanavasi Vidya
Vikasa Kendram
Vasanth Nagar
Mahila Mandhali

YALAVARTHY NIRMAL BABU SWEEYA SEVA

TRUST H NO 6-482/2/F , PLOT NO. 45,
SUDHA NILAYAM DWARAKANAGAR
COLONY, HMT ROAD, CHINTAL,
QUTHBULLAPUR MANDAL, RANGAREDDY
DIST HYDERABAD 500054 Phone:
9392483032, Email: Nirmal@Suven.Com
Dr.Sumanjain Chattabazar X Road,Near City
Civil Court,Hyderabad. Phone: 9989706399,
Email: Tscsap@Gmail.Com
E.Ajay9492791169,,Kechulatapally,Pegadapally,Kari
mnagar Dist
Srinagar Colony,Main Road,, Phone:
9000004096, Email: Vmallmpati@Gmail.Com
Dr.R.Jayachandra Reddy,9397191919,,Seethghat,Near Munneru
River,Kalva Voddu,Khammam

Education

Health
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Health

SRI AMRITHLAL PATEL,THE NATURE

PRODUCTS STORE,H/NO:6-1-297/1,NEAR
SAIBABA TEMPLE, PADMARAO
NAGAR,SECUNDERABAD,PIN:500025.
PHONE:04027500015,9849015638

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Livelihood

Anil Kumar, Phone: 9848335186, Email:

Ani.Scient@Gmail.Com

Education
Health
Environment

V Anjan Kumar 8/88 Vasavi Nagar Near

Ammavari Sala , Near Main Bazer, Vempalle,
Kadapa Dist AP -516329. Phone: 848613505,
Email: Gramenavikassociety@Gmail.Com
Gunaranjan, Mobile: 9000183123
P.S.Gunaranjan Oppp,Venkateswara
Temple,Panjagutta, Hyderabad. Phone:
9000183123, Email: Gunaranjan@Yousee.In
Konduri Balakrishnaiah,9440059197,H/No:171-473/V/3&4
Sri Raghava Reddy-9490371194,Bharathi
Bhavan,Burgampahad,Khammam Dist
Polineni Padma Vasanth Nagar,Kukatpally,
Phone: 9866622950 Email:

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Vatsalya Gosha

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Vasavi club

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Vasavi trust

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VatsalyasindhuKeshava Seva
Samithi

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Vayuputra Yuvajana
Sangham

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Vidyaranya Awasam

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Vimurthi

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Vishwakshena
Gosha

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Vivekam Financial
Services Private
Limited

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Vivekananda Public
School

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Vivekananda Seva
Sangham

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Vivekananda
Yuvajana
Samakhya

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Vrushamani
Foundation

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Vyavasayaka
Mariyu Sanghika
Abhivrudhi Samsta.

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Yasoda Rajendra
Grandhi Foundation

SRI GOGURI NAGENDER

REDDY,CONVENOR, GOSEVA VIBHAG,TG
STATE,(V)NEREDA,VIA SIRICILA,DIST
KARIMNAGAR. PHONE:9440213236
Hanmandlu convenor Phone: 7849876523
K Balchander HNo 5-6-478 NGOs colony
kamareddy.
Ph: 9440057670
Nageswara Sharma,8008144461,Plot
No:45/1&3,Upparaguda,Moulali,Hyd-500040
Sathish Goud 2-98/24,V&Post,A
Kondur,Mandal & Dist Nizambad. Phone:
9676536344
Sri Hanuma Reddy9490134333,Hasanparthy,Warangal Dist
Bhagavanthi Maredupally,Secunderabad.
Phone: 9989414211
Ramachary,9490202950,Wanaparty,Mahaboo
bnagar
Rambabu Vankayalapati 201 Prasanna
Homes, Opp Z.P.High School, Malkajgiri
Phone: 9948865559, Email:
Ramvrambabu@Yahoo.Com
D.Dhatri Priya P No-38,Rd No-2,Journalist
Colony,Banjara Hills,Hyderabad. Phone:
9948665772, Email: Vpsmurthy@Yahoo.Com
M.R.R.V. Rajarao,Bharathi
Survey#170/2,Prashanth Nagar,Miyapur,Hyd,
Phone: 9290085730 Email:
Vsssrisai@Gmail.Com, Www.Vsssrisai.Org.In
Rapow Narender 8-3-228/678/1460,Sriram
Nagar,Yousufguda,Hyderabad. Phone:
9849575309, Email:
Anjana_Suri@Yahoo.Co.In
Chakradhar, Cell No - 9391039792,G-111,
Madhura Nagar, Yousafguda, Hyd-500038
V.Gandhibabu Rekhapally -507135,
V.R.Puram (Mandal), East Godavari
District,Andhra Pradesh , India., Phone:
9502875819 Email:
Gandhibabuasds@Yahoo.Co.In
Nagendra Grandhi Plot No 47 Phase 5 Ngos
Colony Vanasthalipuram Hyderabd Phone:
8341218798, Email: N_Grandhi@Yahoo.Com

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Yoga
Consciousness
Trust

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Youngistaan
Foundation

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Yuvasena Anadha
Saranalayam

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Yuvasena
Anandasaranaiaya
m

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Hajipalli Village

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Sri Venugopal
Swamy Mandir
Gowshala

V.Hanuman 4-203,E.W.S.Colony, Ghatkeser,

RR Dist, Phone: 9848736890, Email:
Rsshanuman@Gmail.Com
Arun Daniel Yellamaty Flat Number T1, Block
2, Venkateshwara Residency, SBI Colony,
Gudimalkapur, Hyderabad - 58. Phone:
9885342224, Email:
Arun.Yellamaty@Gmail.Com
Potru Praveen Kumar P.Laxman Rao, H.No 81-31, Gattaigudem, Paloncha, Khammam.
Phone: 9391434009, Email:
Praveenpotru.Iyo@Gmail.Com
P.Praveen Kumar 8-131,Gattaiudem(V)Palvancham(M)Khammam.
Phone: 9391434009 Email:
Praveenpotru@Yahoo.Com
Singaram Srinivas, Hajipalli,MdlFarooqnagar,Dist:Mahaboobnagar. Phone:
9949553396
Matha Nirmalananda Yoga
Bharathi,Narsimhareddy-9849448276,H/No:34-634G2,Shankar Krupa
Aptm,Narayanaguda,Hyd

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