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[1] From: <jitu11in@yahoo.com Date: Thu Oct 19, 2006 Subject:RE: How good work or social work shlould be done From: "Bhamy Shenoy" <bhamysuman@hotmail.com> Thank you Vinay for your insightful comments. 1. Many NGOs have been blacklisted by the government for misusing the FCRA. This is a well publicized fact. Catalyst had an article on this subject in the second issue. I will try to bring to your attention those NGOs who are corrupt. As you know there is a problem of one NGO calling another NGO corrupt especially when they are from the same place. It can be misconstrued as jealousy. I get the impression from you that most NGOs are honest the way you have discussed. In fact at one time I also used to believe it. Still I hope you are right and I am wrong. 2. As far as paying honorarium, we may agree to disagree. It is not fear. It is a question of one's greed taking over one's needs. The very trustees who also collect donation start deciding on what should be given as honorarium, it is difficult to decide what it should be. There is definitely a conflict of interest. We can argue in circles and may not agree on this subject. 3. I agree that two millions or one million of NGOs is an exaggerated figure. That is a number thrown around and it is not correct. You are right that I committed the same blunder. Do you have a more authentic number? I am more familiar with Consumer movement and have a better feel for Consumer NGOs. Though the claim is for more than 1000 NGOs, properly functioning NGOs may number less than 100. I have an article on Consumer movement in the second issue of Catalyst. You may like to browse through it. 4. Can you write an article for Catalyst giving a brief overview of how NGOs are making a difference in Mumbai. This could be very valuable. I have always heard of the civic mindedness of mumbaikars. I was impressed with the great work of Karmayog and I am glad that catalyst could carry an article on it. Regards Bhamy Shenoy Chief Editor, Catalyst --------------------- [2] From: <jitu11in@yahoo.com Date: Thu Oct 19, 2006 Subject: Re: How good work or social work shlould be done --- "G.C. Mathur" <gcmbinty@yahoo.com wrote: 18.10.06. Dear Bhamy, I don’t understand what you are trying to convey. I too have been in the consumer movement for more than 21 years now and am known in the Movement. How do you say there are no paid employees? CGSI, CUTS, VOICE, CERC, CAG, FEDCOT, and others like Binty of which I am the Trustee all have paid employees whose strength may vary according to their financial resources. And, please, remember that we in the consumer movement do not refer ourselves as NGOs, but as Voluntary Consumer Organisations (VCO) the promoters of whose organizations have spent their blood and time in protecting, educating, and creating awareness among consumer. Volunteering one’s services by a public spirited person for a social cause does not mean that they cannot draw an amount of honorarium for their subsistence, without taking any share for their own build up out of the income of the organizations. True, there are fake NGOs in all sectors and corrupt to the core. But u cannot equate all under one head – corrupt. Pl note that the concept of NGOs sprang out of the feeling of the government in the early Eighties when expansion of all round economic development was foreseen which would not have been possible to have servants in the government employment. Therefore, it was decided to sort of source out the functions of the government through NGOs. Voluntary sector is just another hand of the government authorities in implementation of the policy and programmes planned by them. And, it is absolutely separate for political, religious, and business promoted NGOs. To weed out corrupt NGOs, if you know any, please do not hesitate to name them. It is suggested that the GoI should draw a register of the Voluntary Organisations engaged in public spirited social cause and who do not indulge in profiteering, or promoting religious consciousness (which is related to the individual’s conscience not the society), or political advantage and put on its website for public to view and comment, if any. G. C. Mathur AT: gcmbinty@yahoo.com (mr mathur r u tiring to say that opening an NGO is just like opening a roadside 'PAN-Bidi' shop, once it is successful, the owner who owns it can take a good commission arbitrarily decided by oneself, from the profits of the shop. U r forgetting Mr. Mathur that people give donations to an NGO for a social and public cause that it is involved in, by taking even a paise share, from such donation, u become even worst than a beggar. is it for this reason, so many NGO's have mushroomed in the society,-) jitu ----------- [3] From: Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Oct 19, 2006 Subject: Kindly sign online petition to PM on rights of autistics. We should be worried over the explosion in autism cases (In India over 40,00,000 children, 1 in 200 expected to go up to 10% of the population by 2020) and should demand that the special needs of these children are taken care of. http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ABPTNF01/ Jagannath. -------------- [4] From: "Ram Narayanan" <ramn_one@adelphia.net> Date: Thu Oct 19, 2006 Subject: Has dictator Musharraf outflanked and outwitted President Bush? Dear Friends: The following two articles turn the spotlight on dictator Musharraf and how he has been taking America for a ride. The first by Tunku Varadarajan, editorial features editor in the WALL STREET JOURNAL. AN EXCERPT: Gen. Musharraf has played the Americans beautifully...... After five years of Pakistani collaboration with the U. S. military in Afghanistan, not one Taliban leader of consequence has been captured or killed. Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, cries himself hoarse over the Taliban functioning out of Pakistan's western regions and he is treated with open ridicule by Gen. Musharraf. There is precious little, however, that George W. Bush can do about this: He cannot now admit that a man he has called his "ally" for the past five years has been double-crossing him nearly every minute of that time. The second, by a specialist on Pakistan affairs, Ambassador Parthasarathy in the TRIBUNE. AN EXCERPT: A series of American strategic and tactical blunders has now led to the resurgence of a well-armed and well-trained Taliban in Afghanistan, which is incrementally establishing control over the war-torn country. General Musharraf has outflanked and outwitted President George Bush and Mr Tony Blair...... The Americans, British and NATO are today even considering the possibility of seeking arrangements with the Taliban similar to those negotiated by General Musharraf with pro-Taliban tribal leaders in Waziristan...... The ISI [Pakistan's intelligence service] is obviously calculating that within the next few years its Taliban allies will progressively take control over large parts of Afghanistan, leading to the establishment of a Government in Kabul controlled by pro-Taliban elements. The American people have a right to know what's happening. Ram Narayanan US-India Friendship http://www.usindiafriendship.net/ http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110009115 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, OCTOBER 19, 2006 An 'Ally' With His Own Agenda Most of Gen. Pervez Musharraf's new book cannot be believed. BY TUNKU VARADARAJAN ------------ [5] Guajarat 2006 Is Deadlier Than 2002 By Prashant Jha http://www.countercurrents.org/guj-jha191006.htm That is the story of Gujarat 2006. A tale of a society that is sharply polarised and prejudices about the 'other' deeply entrenched, and a state that happily engineers everyday hatred. In its wake, lies a community that lives in fear. The Gujarat of today is in some senses more dangerous than the Gujarat of 2002. For here, the violence is invisible. It operates systematically, as well as subtly, at the establishment and social level Fiction And Environmental movement By K. Venugopal Reddy http://www.countercurrents.org/us-gerard191006.htm India's environmental movement began indisputably in the early seventies. However, a critical understanding of the text 'Nectar in a Sieve' published in 1954 by Kamala Markandaya implies that it had its ideological moorings from the first decade of India's independence Buddha As Untouchable By Raja Sekhar Vundru http://www.countercurrents.org/dalit-vundru191006.htm Buddhism in India has a predominantly Dalit following, as a result of the revival by Ambedkar. For this reason, it appears that our society prefers to treat Buddha as an untouchable. In 2005, this event, which attracted an estimated 10 lakh people to Nagpur, escaped the national media attention Afzal Must Not Be Executed By Praful Bidwai http://www.countercurrents.org/hr-bidwai191006.htm Afzal is by no means beyond the pale of reform. President Kalam should act sagaciously and commute his sentence. It's his constitutional and moral duty to prevent miscarriage of justice and apply a humane touch If You Haven't Made A Donation Yet Do It NOW ! http://www.countercurrents.org/donate.htm |
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