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General Body Members 1. Dr. Paran Gowda 2. Sri. Mundayoor. S. 3. Sri. Krishna Bhatt 4. Sri. Bhushan K 5. Sri. Viswanath P 6. Su. Mousumi Gogoi 7. Dr. H. Sudarshan, Padmashree 8. Sri. Venkat Narayana 9. Sri. Chandrashekar. J 10. Sri. Madhan Kumar. A

Board of Trustees 1. Dr. Paran Gowda -President 2. Sri. Bhushan K - Treasurer 3. Sri. Viswanath P - Secretary 4. Sri. Venkat Narayana - Member 5. Sri. S. Mundayoor - Member 6. Sri. Chandrashekar J - Member 7. Sri. Madhan Kumar A - Member 8. Dr. H. Sudarshan, Padmashree - Member

9. Sri. Ramesh Kapoor- Member Our Address

Vivekananda Trust # 771/B, 5th Cross, Roopa Nagar,

Mysore 570 026 http://vivekanandatrust.webs.com/

e mail vtmysore@gmail.com Cell:(91) 94496-21415.

Auditors

Sri. G.N. Ananthavardhana Gurikar Devanna Street,

Mysore 570 004

Bankers State Bank of India, Mothikhana Building,

Sayyaji Road, Mysore 570 001.

VIVEKANANDA TRUST A profile About Us The story of Vivekananda Trust is that of a group of people inspired by the vision Swami Vivekananda had in 1892, sitting on the last bit of Indian land at Kanyakumari. It is a service organization with stress on spiritual evolution of the individual based on the inspiring teachings of Swami Vivekananda. Our Mission To build a strong and resurgent India through the ideals placed before the youth by Swami Vivekananda. Our Objectives 1) Man Making To start Man Making activities by establishing activity centers in various parts of the country with full or part time workers. 2) National Rejuvenation

To revive and revitalize Indian culture and traditions by organizing various sections of the society.

To aim at economic, educational and social empowerment of the people through training camps, workshops, seminars etc.,

To improve the quality of life of the people living in rural and tribal areas through integrated development programmes.

Our Values We are committed to certain values, which define how various activities will be pursued and evaluated. Vivekananda Trust expects that its workers will exemplify the following values in their thoughts, words and deeds. 1. Tyaga & Seva: The expressions are leading a

simple life and contributing wholeheartedly for the development of the society.

2. Integrity: The expressions are keeping promises, being honest and transparent.

3. Discipline: The expressions are being organized, time-conscious, neat and clean

4. Excellence: The expressions are displaying higher standards, methodical and persevering

5. Self-reliance:The expressions are taking initiative and responsibility for one‟s actions.

Culture Based Unique Approach Swami Vivekananda identified spirituality as the backbone of the country and mentioned that if Indian mind has to understand anything in a better way, irrespective of whether it is social, political or economic ideas, it has to be presented through the language of spirituality. The development work that Trust takes up has this as the guiding light. We work with the following long-term goals: a) Swami Vivekananda has prophesied that “all

the wealth of the world can’t help one little

Indian village if the people are not taught to help themselves” Thus building the self-reliance of disadvantaged groups by alleviating poverty through livelihood programmes gets priority in our work, where our role is only as „initiator of development‟. The role of managing and sustaining it will be vested with the People‟s Organizations.

b) Accelerate and sustain development by building a cadre of development workers from the village level with appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes and by building their capacity through suitable training programmes.

3. Programmes The Trust has a unique four pronged approach to achieve sustainable development. They are:

1. Promoting Functional Literacy 2. Promoting Health & Environment 3. Creating Wealth 4. Strengthening Cultural & Spiritual Values

4.0 Following are the activities 4.1 RURAL AND TRIBAL AREAS 4.1(i) Promoting functional literacy Improving students enrolment Reducing the drop outs Quality improvement of Schools Support education programmes for Cl. I–V

students to improve MLL Book exhibitions & Children Libraries. 4.1(ii) Promoting Health & Environment Indian Health systems like Yoga, Pranayama

etc., Herbal Medicines for primary cure Medical camps for secondary cure Environment & Bio-diversity Programmes 4.1(iii) Creating Wealth We aim at supplementing the incomes of poor through: Strengthening Self-Help Groups(SHGs) and

supporting them in various traditional livelihood activities

SHGs members who are equipped with Entrepreneurship skills and are engaged in various activities viz., Food Processing Technologies, Sustainable agriculture, Water shed management etc.,

4.1(iv) Strengthening Cultural roots Promote Tulasi Plant Promote a fixed cultural routine. 4.2. URBAN AREAS i. Life Skills Development Programmes ii. Environmental & Bio Diversity Programmes iii. Yoga & Pranayama with focus on healthy

eating and living habits iv. Cultural Programmes

5. Our Team The team that we have consists of full time workers, who are development professionals with experience ranging from 15 to 30 years. They have rich experience in handling various developmental programmes in all its dimensions such as planning, implementing, mobilizing resources and monitoring.

6. Our Address VIVEKANANDA TRUST # 771/B, 5th Cross, Roopa Nagar, Mysore 570 026. Karnataka. Cell- (91)94496 21415 Emai l: vtmysore@gmai l.com http://vivekanandatrust.webs.com/

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FFAACCTT SSHHEEEETT –– OORRGGAANNIISSAATTIIOONN

Date of Registration of the Trust Deed 28 July 2003 under Indian Registration Act 1902 as a Public

Charitable Trust for Income Tax purpose

Place of Registration Yelandur, Chamaraja Nagara Dt. Karnataka

Registration Number No 1/03 dt 28.7.2003

Names of Founder Trustees 1. Dr. H.Sudarshan, Padmashree

2. Dr. Paran Gowda

Registration Under Income Tax Act

u/s 12 A V-24/12A/CIT/MYS/03-04 Dt 24.3.04

u/s 80 G V-26/80G/CIT/MYS/2006

PAN Number AAATV6293L

Registration under FCRA No: 094590193- Designated Bank- State Bank of India, New

Sayyaji Rao Road Branch, Mysore 570 024. (Branch Code 3130)

Designated Account No 30056015634. SWIFT Code

SBININBB170

Audit of Accounts completed upto Upto the year 2010-11

Financial Statements filed with IT

Department

Upto the year 2010-11

Annual Reports Compiled upto 31.3.2011

Organizational Details

Highest Decision Making Body General Body Members

Administration Executive Committee of Board of Trustees elected by the

General Body Members

Administrative Committee(2009/10 to -

2011/12)

Dr. Paran Gowda - President

Sri. Bhushan-Treasurer

Sri. Viswanath P- Secretary

Sri. Venkat Narayana – Committee Member

Frequency of the meetings

General Body Meeting

Board of Trustees

Executive Committee

Project Management Team

Once in a year

Once in two months

Every month

Every Week

Our Centres 1. Arunachal Pradesh

2. Karnataka

3. Tamilnadu

Address for Correspondence VIVEKANANDA TRUST,

# 771/B, 5th Cross, Roopa Nagar,

Mysore 570 026, Karnataka

E mail vtmysore@gmail.com

Web site ht tp:/ /v ivekanandatrust.webs.com/

Telephone (Cell) No Land line : (0821)2598299

Mobile: 094496 21415 (Viswanath-Secretary)

ARUNACHAL PRADESH Ranganatha Retreat, Wakro-792 104, Lohit District

Cell No 09436-22-8613 E mail : vtwakro@gmail.com

http://vivekanandatrust.webs.com/ LOOKING BACK: Vivekananda Trust, Arunachal Pradesh (VT in brief), since its birth in Oct 2002, has been chartering bold and unconventional courses in youth welfare and educational development through innovative initiatives such as Book Exhibitions, Reading Campaigns and people-friendly Youth Libraries, reaching out to the remote and mountainous areas of Dibang Valley and Lohit and spreading the joy of reading among the rural tribal communities. From 2002 to 2007, VT had also run a successful programme of sensitizing and involving the local people to strive to improve the quality of their own lives, through a novel initiative “Herbs for the Body, Books for the Mind”. This enabled the rural tribal households to maintain Herbal Kitchen Gardens and thus promote the rich traditional herbal heritage and biodiversity of the Lohit & Dibang Valley. Today, the youth of Lohit and Anjaw districts have improved access to a range of stimulating reading materials to enhance their learning skills, through our spirited campaign of reaching out quality books and youth magazines. The network of 13 very reader-friendly mini-libraries - a gift from the Association of Writers & Illustrators for Children, (AWIC), New Delhi and the Omprakash Foundation, USA - have set a high bench-mark in the state on reading promotion activities, widely acknowledged by the public leaders, elites and the govt. agencies. VT was instrumental in reviving in 2009, a rich but abandoned library at Walong Govt. Middle School, a remote border village, with the generous patronage of H.E The Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Gen. (retd) J.J. Singh. The unique achievement this year is the active voluntary

participation of library enthusiasts from Pondicherry, Mumbai and

the United Kingdom, successfully demonstrating the vital importance

of providing “Adult Time” for the educational enhancement of rural

tribal youth and the teachers. The Libraries have also won warm

appreciation in prestigious conferences at Hyderabad and Mizoram.

The annual National Book Week Celebrations organized jointly with the district Admn, and the backing of the National Book Trust, Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai, Children‟s Book Trust, Eklavya and other reputed publishers have become popular annual festive events in the Lohit –Anjaw region. The book exhibitions, book-contests, story-reading sessions and a stress on popularizing children‟s and youth magazines as a healthy alternative to TV-addiction and cramming of text-books have been warmly acknowledged by the people. This was possible only due to the generous support from patrons all over the country and our spirited local friends. The success of VT is truly theirs. 2010 also brought the Library Network the prestigious Uma Maa Sahib Award by ASSET, Wakro, for its efforts to promote reading habits among the youths of Lohit region.

A brief outline of the activities for 2010-11 is given below: Reading Promotion Campaign: A variety of book-events and contests were organized in rural schools in Wakro, Chongkham, Lathao and Tezu circles, almost all of which had no access to a library. These included reading -aloud of newspapers, hand-writing contests, creative story-telling, poetry recitation, book quiz, vocabulary games, public speaking on national days, skit presentations from books, creative rangoli art displays and tree plantation.

The Campaign could bring out several new skits on social issues like girls‟ education, health issues and respect for women. Skits on little known great lives such as Baby Halder, Dr. Usha Mehta, Dr. Kamla Sohoni, Dhanvanti Rama Rau, Anutai Wagh and Rukminidevi Arundale has become a trade-mark of sorts for the libraries. The young reader-activists of APNE Library, Wakro & Son Hu Son Chan library, Chongkham also organized 2 successful workshops on reading activities for school-students of Lathao in June & Chongkham in Dec 2010, the latter with the support of the 26 Maratha LI of the Indian Army. Many of the skits were also done in Mishmi and Khamti languages, as a part of VT‟s efforts to promote emergence of reading materials & literary forms in Arunachali tribal languages. The campaign could be organized thanks to the generous support of Surjamal Jalan Charitable Trust, Dibrugarh. In Oct 2010, we had the unique pleasure of having 2 University students from UK Alice & Edward Shipsey - for 3 weeks, conducting story reading & skit enacting sessions, and giving the rural tribal youth the rare exposure to English as spoken by native speakers. They won hearts everywhere for their enthusiasm to teach, pleasing attitude and great respect for local traditions. - The Shipseys came as student-exchange scholars of RIWATCH, a cultural research institute of Roing, and were hosted by the Lohit District Admn. at Tezu and Wakro. Nov 2010 saw Smt. Nabanita Deshmukh, a well-known children‟s writer and Mr. Bappu Deshmukh, environmental activist from Pondicherry, conducting delightful training workshops in story telling and poetry recitation for teachers and the young readers, as guests of the Dist Education Depts of Lohit and Anjaw. The Coordinator, Vivekananda Trust, was also a resource-person for the workshops. These programmes have substantially helped improve the language learning skills of our teachers and readers. This was reflected in the many articles by the Wakro readers during the year in Dimdima, Bal Vihar, Jr. Chandamama and the Children‟s World (all English ) and Chakmak ( Hindi). Ms. P. Sreedevi, from Hyderabad and Sri. O. S. Chandran, a senior Central Govt officer at Tezu too continued their active inputs to the library activities during the year. Sri. Arun Narayanan and Dr. Amrita Karnik, ardent naturalists from Mumbai provided valuable inputs on Bird watching to the Wakro and Tezu readers. We look forward to more adult volunteers coming forward to support the cause of reading promotion in these rural societies. National Book Week Celebrations: The NW Celebrations in Anjaw broke fresh ground with a highly successful event for the first time at Khupa followed by Huyuliang, for which book-prizes were sponsored by Sri K. Perme, DDSE Anjaw. The Deshmukhs joined hands to hold interaction sessions with students and parents on book reading at Kibithu and Kaho, the last Indian village on China border, and presented Amar Chitra Katha sets to the local school-libraries and the Totochan Library, Hawai. The Book exhibitions and contests at Wakro and Chongkham too brought good response, with the Wakro library readers presenting skits on outstanding women achievers Anutai Wagh and Rukminidevi Arundale. Other Celebrations: The Lohit Youth Library volunteers utilized every public celebration to sensitize the community about the vital importance of reading. The year began on a joyous note for us as Ranganatha Retreat, the new premises of APNE Library, Wakro, was consecrated by the then DC Lohit, Sri. Kaling Tayeng, IAS, who also presented an inverter to meet frequent power crisis. The 4th Annual Day of the Library Network was held at Lathao with the active involvement of the teachers and students of the local Hr. Sec

School, where the chief guest was Shri. M. Monlai, well-known Khamti scholar and retd. Station Director , All India Radio. The International Literacy Day Celebrations at Tezu was organized jointly with Dist Adult Edn Dept, Nehru Yuvak Kendra, Tezu and 48 BRTF with a series of events at Khoroliang, Changliang and Dimwe. The Chief Guest Sri. R.K. Sharma, DC Lohit, complimented outstanding library reader-activists of unit libraries, with commendation awards. Earlier, 186 Bn CRPF, Tezu presented Hindi book sets for the Lohit Libraries. The annual Onam-Solung Rangoli contest this year took a creative turn with the Dist PHE Dept sponsoring the program as “Safai mein Bhalai” (Cleanliness promotes well-being & Joy). The Library readers at Tezu and Wakro also had the privilege of interacting with several guests – army and IAS officers, scientists, library enthusiasts- thus broadening their vision and experiences. Participation in Conferences: The Lohit Youth Library activities won warm appreciation at the International Conference on English Lang Teaching & Development by the British Council at Hyderabad from Jan 22-24, 2011, where the VT Coordinator was invited to present a paper and a P Pt. The British Council authorities too have expressed their keen interest to support the Lohit Youth library movement. The Library Network was also nominated to represent the State Education Dept in the NBT Seminar on Reading Habits at Mizoram University, during March 29-30, 2011. Esteemed Guests: Other than those already mentioned, some of the prominent guests who interacted with the library readers were - o Sri. Setong Sena, Hon‟ble Finance Minister, Arunachal Pradesh o Sri V. K. Pipersenia, Principal Secretary, Govt. of Assam,

Guwahati. o Sri. Ameya Abhayankar, IAS, DC, Upper Subansiri. o Ms Alka & Baldeep Singh, Namdang Tea Estate, Margherita,

Assam o Sri. Manoj Jalan, Trustee, Jalan Charity Trusts, Dibrugarh, Assam o Sri. Kunal Verma, film maker & Defence Photo-journalist, New

Delhi o o Sri. Krishna Candeth, retd. Teacher, New York o Sri. Hibu Robin, IPS., DIG Arunachal Pradesh o Dr Bikul Das, medical research scientist, Stanford University,

USA o Dr. Pradosh Sharma, social scientist, New Delhi. o Maa Rama, senior member, Art of Living Foundation, Seppa. o The warmth which the guests felt towards the enthusiastic

efforts of the library volunteers and the young reader-activists is aptly reflected in Sri Pipersenia‟s remarks in the Visitors‟ Book. “"It was a rare pleasure to visit this small library, which is doing a huge work in promoting literacy and reading habits in such a remote area in Arunachal....". In fact it is such abundant goodwill of patrons and friends all over the world that keeps the Youth Library Movement vibrant and its members spirited.

o OVERVIEW: The milestones that the VT could cross over the last 9 years could be possible due to the abiding faith of our associates, volunteers, young readers and their parents in our activities and the supportive and friendly learning environment promoted by the Library Movement.

KKAARRNNAATTAAKKAA (Head Quarters)

# 771/B, 5th Cross, Roopa Nagar,

Mysore 570 026.

vtmysore@gmail.com

49 Programmes relating to education, health and social empowerment of the people were conducted during the year. This was in fulfillment of the 2nd objective of the Trust. The activities include training camps, workshops, seminars etc. A summary of the programmes used to achieve the objectives is given below: 1) Human Resource Development Programmes This is one of the important components of Trust‟s work. As part of it programmes were conducted for the Students, Youth, Teachers, Social workers, Team Leaders etc, Some of the topics that were taken up for discussion were Leadership and Life skills etc., a) Programme for the Youth Trust continued to give priority for the work among students and youth. Life Skill Development formed the core of the syllabus for this group. b) Programmes for Students Focus of the programme for students was on improving the academic performance and choice of career for the coming years. For this concentration, confidence building, techniques of study, examination writing etc., were taken up. The concentration development programme for the students, based on ancient values and Patanjali yoga sutras, interspersed with stories and current issues, continued to be highly popular among the student community. c) Programme for Rural Children A 5 day Non-residential Children Camp for the rural children of villages of K.Hemanahalli, Huyilalu, Shantigrama, Sowkarhundi, etc was conducted this year also. More than 100 children were benefited by it. Classes in drawing, painting, music, instrumental music, dramatic, etc., formed part of the programme. d) Teachers’ Programmes In the programmes for the teachers, the stress was on re-orienting the teachers towards bringing out a better child from the schools and improving their motivational levels to achieve higher goals. Some of the topics covered during the programme were: Quality improvement, Micro Teaching, Gently but firmly, How to inbuilt Cultural Environment, Signs of an Ideal child etc. e) School Adoption Programme The tribal school at B.R. Hills, Chamrajanagara District, adopted by the Trust under quality improvement continued to show better results. Class X results for the academic year 20010-11 were 100%, A few JNV public schools in Rajasthan were also covered under this programme. f) Bridge Courses Bridge courses programme was introduced from the current year. The main objectives of the programme are to improve the soft skills, life skills etc. which will help them to excel in their academic world. It helps the student to bride the gap between him and his dream, create space for each participant to explore his potential and learn skills that would help him pass thru successfully in his academic life.

2) Yoga & Meditation Programmes Increasing popularity of Yoga as a way of life, and alternative and holistic system of health care both preventive and curative has created great demand for it. b) Cultural Programmes Bagavad Gita, Life and teachings of Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. Practical tips on meditation, importance of Tulasi worship also formed the basis for this formed the basis of the programme to revitalize the cultural life of the people. Regular deepa pooja programmes were also held in all the villages where the Trust has taken up work. This is as a part of the cultural re-vitalization cum value addition to the rural community especially the grown up ladies, youth and women. Balasamskara programmes for the children were the highlight of the programmes conducted targeting the children in the villages.

Programme Place No Participants

1 Students - Life skill

development

Karnataka 20 1750

2 Students- Life skill

development

Kerala 2 325

3 Youth Leadership

Development

-do- 1 45

4 Youth- Communication

Skills Development

Karnataka 1 50

5 Students -Life Skill

development

Rajasthan 2 225

6 General Public-

Healthy living skills

Karnataka 1 75

7 Workshop for teachers

on Quality

Improvement of

School

Karnataka

2 100

8 Workshop for teachers

on Quality

Improvement of

School

Rajasthan 1 50

9 Students-Life skill

development

Karnataka 2 160

10 Students - Life skill

development

-do- 5 475

11 General Public-

Healthy Living skills

-do- 3 300

12 Rural Kids-Summer

camp

-do- 3 125

13 Yoga Programme -do- 6 300

Total 49 3980

GEF/SGP/UNDP/CEE Programme “Climate Change Mitigation with stress on alternative fuel and

livelihood improvement”

C/o. Y.K. Nagarju (Bank) Ward No 11, Karsidevara Nilaya Balepet, Yelandur, Chamarajanagara District

KARNATAKA 571 441 Cell No 91+9611538795 Email vtmysore@gmail.com

GEF/SGP/UNDP/CEE Sponsored Programme on Climate Change Mitigation with stress on alternative fuel and livelihood improvement was launched during the last year in 5 villages in Chamaraja Nagara district. The five villages were Gangvadi, Yeragamballi, Krishnapura, Komanpura and Vadagare.

The focus area villages fall under the fringe areas of B.R. Hills Wild life Sanctuary in Yelandur Taluka, Chamaraja Nagara district, Karnataka.

The need Situated in the confluence of Eastern and Western Ghats, this Sanctuary is considered as hotspot of biodiversity being home to the unique flora and fauna belonging to both Eastern and Western Ghats. The wide variation in rainfall patterns, coupled with the region‟s complex geography of gaining sudden height of almost 4000 ft MSL, produces a great variety of vegetation types. These include scrub forests in the low-lying rain shadow areas and the plains, deciduous and tropical rainforests up to about 1,500 meters, and a unique mosaic of Montana forests and rolling grasslands above 1,500 meters. Such a unique wild life sanctuary now stands threatened and may soon become part of history, thanks to the rapid spread of population in the sanctuary and the valley surrounding it.

Faced with tremendous population pressure, the forests have been dramatically impacted by the demands for timber, firewood and agricultural land. Population levels have already applied increased stress on the fringes of protected areas where many farms, loggers, and poachers use the resources illegally. All these have in no uncertain way has resulted in steep decrease in the forest cover not only in the lower parts of the sanctuary surrounding the villages, but in the higher areas as well. The ill-effects of this wanton destruction of forests have resulted in climate changes in the area. A glance at the rain fall and temperature data of the area during the last one decade is sufficient to ring alarm bells in the environmental circles. The steep reduction in the rain fall and substantial increase in the temperature confirm the worst fears that the destruction of the forest and bio-diversity has finally started taking its toll in the form of climatic changes. Hence there is an urgent need to address these issues.

According to a study 53% of the bribes are paid in India for forest fire-wood collection. Another study finds that Indian ladies are genetically inclined to „pushing fire-wood‟ into the ovens. Hence, any solution to de-forestation, must also address these twin realities. Any programme that overlooks these issues is likely to be doomed as there shall not be any takers for the programme once the intervention comes to an end. The climate mitigation programme We hope to impact the climate mitigation thru a community based approach where the community will be involved right from planning the Survey, PRA exercises, awareness creation programmes, construction of Science & Technology inputs

The following strategies were adopted:

Organized Village Development Samity in each of the targeted villages where the opinion makers of the villagers like Teachers, Anganwadi worker, ANMs, Head Master, Village Heads (with no political affiliation) SHG Leaders etc., were the members.

They will be involved while developing Village Resource Plan and Village Development Plan, Micro Plan etc., by using tools like PRA etc.,

The Local Panchayat was also be consulted while formulating the village development plan to ensure that there is no overlapping of programmes from either side.

The Village Development Samity short listed the prospective SHGs/CBO who have a good track record of cohesiveness, bank linkages, re-payment etc.,

This was verified further with the pass books, minute books, ledgers etc., maintained by the SHGs/CBOs.

After capacity building programmes etc., the Village Development Plan was discussed with the short listed SHGs/CBO to learn about their willingness to be partners in the developmental programme.

They were asked to short list names of the poorest members from their SHG who can be given gadgets etc., and who has the resources and interest to maintain it on a day to day basis.

Only those members were short listed who were also willing to pay a pre-fixed amount not less than 15-20% of the cost in kind. The responsibility of collection was with the SHG/Village Development Samithy.

This ensured that the local community was fully involved right from developing the plans, taking decision on selection of beneficiary, collection of beneficiary‟s contribution, other aspects of programme like budgeting, spending etc.,

Project Beneficiaries The beneficiaries were the most vulnerable, marginalized communities belonging to SC/ST. The change For the village ladies of Yelandur Taluka, the mornings begin in front of the ovens! For them, the oven smoke from the dimly lit kitchens and tears from eyes are the ingredients that go into making of energy giving food. It has been an endless chorus for them. But these days Vivekananda Trust has been trying to address these problems. For the whole taluka, the traditional mud oven where forest firewood or sticks as fuel has been used for preparing food, Vivekananda Trust has set an objective of constructing 1000 smokeless ovens that improve health and hygiene and are environmentally friendly by way of reduced carbon dioxide emissions. The trust is working in the five villages with a programme on Climate Change Mitigation and improvement of livelihood with alternative cooking gadgets like Smokeless oven that cost around Rs.1200/-. Seventy percentage of the cost is borne by GEF/SGP/ UNDP/CEE, Delhi as subsidy for the project. The low cost three vessel smokeless oven, around three feet in length, one foot in height and width is constructed mostly by making use of locally available materials. A ten feet length cement pipe, caste iron grate, MS rods, cement and a specially designed semi-conical aluminum vessel only are brought from outside by the organization. The beneficiary saves over 55 to 60% of fire-wood because of this oven. In some of the ovens, broken wall- tiles are experimentally used to improve the efficiency of the ovens, which brings down the fire-wood consumption by another 15%

“By use of this oven, food preparation is fast and is without smoke of soot” say the beneficiaries Smt. Puspha and Doddamma of Yeragamballi village. Expected benefits Capacity building of the marginalized communities especially

ladies-1000 ladies Creation of assets to the marginalized communities -1000 ovens Improved soft and hard skills of the targeted community 50-60% reduction in the demand on forest for fire-wood from

the targeted communities (see the graphs) Increased forest cover and greenery Replicability of the programme by the neighbouring

communities and the resultant incremental benefits listed above

Socio Economic benefits Effectiveness of impact for these activities can be seen by the

usage by the beneficiaries. Seeing the benefits of the CST ovens, people from other villages

have started asking for providing it in their villages also Local panchayat members seeing the working & benefits of the

CST ovens, have informed that they would take up the matter in the Panchayat level

Bank linkage for income generation activities like dairy etc., are being followed

Money saved on purchase of firewood per annum Rs.6,700/-per household

Money saved on lung, eye related health issues Rs.2500/- per annum per house hold

Long Term

1. Reduced carbon and methane emissions into the atmosphere 1. Improved rain fall and reduction in the heat 2. Improved weather and climate changes 3. Improved living conditions 4. Improved health and nutritional standards of the people

especially women and children 5. Climate mitigation on a long term

Global Environment Impact The IISc, Bangalore, designed low cost, energy efficient, three vessel fire wood oven(see photo) can cut down the fire wood consumption by almost 70 to 80%. When translated into simple arithmetic, it means that with this oven, each 5 member family, can save upto 4 kg of tree wood (forest firewood!) per day! Added to this, it needs just dried twigs, available in large quantity, removal of which from the forest has no impact on the forest. That the kitchen becomes smokeless is relevant for lung related health issues. Thus, a single programme provides scope impacting the for Global environment by four different ways–Environment (reducing carbon-emissions/CHG emissions), Forest Conservation (Reducing De-forestation) Climate Change and Health (thru removing the smoke in kitchens) Replicability of the project Since the gadgets that were constructed and implemented as part of the programmes were very cheap, simple and easy to assemble/construct and commission, it immediately got the attention of the neighbouring houses and villages. The gadgets like CST designed Smokeless oven were a centre of attention for women folk as they take to it by their instinct as a device of great importance, that can reduce their daily errands of going for collection of fire wood or spending long time in the dimly lit,

chocking kitchens. That it reduces the cooking time and has absol utely no smoke is likely to quicken their replicability within the village and in the surrounding village as well. It is estimated that approximately 2500 households have already constructed and installed them at their own cost. Many more have expressed their willingness to go for it in the coming days. The local panchayatmembers have also taken keen interest in implementing it as part of the government schemes in the coming years. Sustainability Since the created assets/installed gadgets etc., were promptly handed over to the beneficiary after proper training ensures the sustainability of the programmes during the project period itself. The cost of the installed gadgets like smokeless ovens, is very low and it can be easily installed with local workmen. Added to this, issues like quality time spent in surreptitiously collecting the fire wood from the distant forest ensure easy replicability for the smokeless ovens in the area. As the availability of cheap cooking fuel is basic need of the poor it ensures that there is a supply side demand for any gadget that is cheap, reliable and easy to handle. Innovation, Participation and Gender Sensitivity and Equity The proposed programmes, activities and gadgets that are going to be used to achieve the goal are low cost rural technologies that have got stuck with the laboratories and have not percolated to the land due to lack efforts in that direction. Since most of the gadgets are directly related either to the kitchen gender sensitivity and equity is automatically ensured. The works so far UNDDP-GEF-SGP Sponsored Programme on Climate Change Mitigation with stress on alternative fuel and livelihood improvement was launched in August 2009 in 5 villages in Chamaraja Nagara district. The details of the activities carried out so far in the project area is given below: Survey and PRA As part of it a survey and PRA was carried out in 5 villages coming under Yeragamballi Grama Panchayat, Yelandur Taluka, Chamaraja Nagara District in Karnataka in August and September 2009. The five villages were Gangvadi, Yeragamballi, Krishnapura, Komanpura and Vadagare. These villages lie on the fringe areas of the B.R.Hills Wild Life Sanctuary. The survey was exclusively targeting on the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes population living in those villages. The survey was done with a pre-designed questionnaire, which could bring out the strengths weaknesses, shortcoming etc., of the villages that could help to help to serve as the bench mark. The data was collected by experienced social workers who were properly briefed and trained to ensure that the collected data is authentic. The collected data was later fed into computer to create a data base and arrive at conclusions. The collected data was tabulated and the presented thru pictorial graphs for easy understanding and dissemination. It may be mentioned here that when it comes to the indicators of poverty, backwardness, felt priorities the graphs help to understand the problems very easily. Yet it may be noted that it can not be the only way to pinpoint the issues since there are a variety of reasons behind these issue as well. For example, if in deciding an economically most backward village, the Percentage of households

landless alone may not be the only indicator as the income of households working as coolies/labourers may be comparatively higher in that house-hold. Yet, this report can easily come handy in future in deciding the overall impact of any development work like adopting a family, village, block etc., As for the results of the PRA exercise, we have tried to limit the verbosity to the minimum. These villages lie 5 to 8 km away from the Taluka Headquarters and approximately 35 km from the District Headquarters, Chamaraja Nagara, Karnataka. It comprises of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes population with varied culture and traditions. The main occupation is agriculture, predominantly at a subsistence level. Farmers cultivate paddy, maize, sugarcane; vegetables etc., besides crop production, daily labour within the villages, and seasonal migration for short term employment generally in road construction were the other important livelihood of the communities. Process The study was carried out through consultative processes. The framework for study and the field level discussions were carried out with the community group by using different participatory tools such as transect walk, time line, seasonal calendar, resource mapping, group discussions, matrix scoring, preference ranking etc., Seasonal calendar was used to elicit answer regarding the question on during which period are the communities at risk. A social and resource map was used to get the details of the resources available within the village. Community members were asked to prepare social and resource map in the beginning, where the natural resources and other infrastructure and social facilities were listed out by the community. Once all community members agree, the places were marked in the map by the community group themselves. Matrix scoring and Preference Ranking were carried out to assess the community needs vis-à-vis the project activities. General Observations 1. Lying in the rain shadow areas of the B.R. Hills Wild life

sanctuary, all the five villages get only scanty rain fall. 2. Lying in close proximity to each other within a 100 sq km of each

other, there is no difference in their seasonal diagram except that for festival months.

3. With the scanty seasonal annual rain falls, the inhabitants cultivated agriculture crops like Pulses (urad dhal) cereals (Raagi, Jawar) etc. in olden days.

4. The villages were known for cultivation of pulses in olden days. 5. But that became a thing of past, with bringing of the Kabini river

waters to the villages thru an artificial canal in 1972, which drastically changed the fortunes of the villages

6. From solely depending on the scanty rain fall to cultivate crops that required less water (raggi, jawar, pulses, etc) the villagers started cultivating cash crops like sugar cane, rice etc., that require large quantities of water.

7. Sharp increase in population and livelihood activities like agriculture, resulted in more forest lands being brought under cultivation and for grazing domestic animals. Sharp increase in the prices of land etc., were outcome of this development.

8. During the PRA exercises we could notice a few corn separator machines working in the villages with lot of village people flocking around it with their corn bags for their turns to come. The paddy harvesting and immovable de-husking machines have

9. already made entry into the villages some time ago. They come

10. from distant Tamilnadu and do roaring business during agricultural harvesting seasons.

11. All these, no doubt, has reduced the man-hours of labour that could have legitimately gone to the village people and as such deprived the people of that amount of income. When asked about the mechanisation, the villagers pointed out about the non-availability of labour/increased remuneration etc.,

12. It clearly points out disturbing trends of productive age groups‟ migration to other areas or un-willingness of labour to do hard labour in view of availability of easy money thru some of the

13. recently launched employment guarantee schemes, cheap rice supply schemes at throwaway prices etc.,.

Staff capacity building As part of the programme a three day staff capacity building exercise cum planning the work was carried out. The venue was RIMSE, Mysore. The programme was clubbed with a programme for the youth volunteers from the project villages. Nearly 35 village youth also took active part in it.

Formation of Village Development Comittees Village samithis were formed in all the 5 villages consisting of the opinion makers predominantly from the Self Help Groups. This was done after proper discussion with the community about the proposed programme. SHG Capacity building This programme is taken up in phases as there are over 60 SHGs in the project areas. The efforts primarily to re-focuss their vision to the basics of Micro finance and its relevance in poverty alleviation.

Awareness Creation Along with capacity building of the SHGs, an awareness creation programme was also launched in the target villages to bring to their notice, the dangers of de-forestation and the impending dangers associated with it. The target groups were SHGs, Youth Groups, School Children etc., Distribution of notices, focus group discussion, audio-visual programme etc., formed part of the programme. As part of the awareness programme, the prospective beneficiaries were informed about their contribution to the programme to ensure their ownership. They voluntarily came forward to contribute the following in kind:

a) Bricks – 30 to 35 Nos b) Sand – 3 pans c) Jelly – 1 pan d) Red Soil – 10 pans e) 1-2 hours labour while the work carried out in their house It was informed to them that the rest of the items would be the share of the donor and the Voluntary organization. It was also informed to them the share of contribution would be approximately in the ratio of 10:10:80 (Beneficiary: VO: Funding agency) Drawing Competition for School Children As a follow up of the awareness programme in the school, a drawing competition for the school children was also conducted where nearly 300 school children from the target villages took active part. The climate change was topic for drawing. Finalize of beneficiary List Village samithis of the respective villages shortlisted the beneficiary list in consultation with the voluntary organization. The criteria used was:

a) They should be SC/OBC b) They should be BPL category c) The benefit should accrue to the ladies d) They should be able to contribute 10% of the cost in kind

Construction of the hardware The trained masons started constructing the Smokeless ovens in all the five villages. Project Activities: The Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRAs) exercise were held in village (Gangvadi, Yeragambali, Krishanapura, Komanpura and Vadagare) had the following observation. Lying in the rain shadow area's of the B.R Hills Wild Life sanctuary, all the five villages get only scanty rain fall. Lying in the close proximity to each within a 100 sq km of each other, there is no difference in their seasonal diagram except hat for festival months. The inhabitants cultivated agriculture crops like pulses (urad dal), cereals (Ragi, Jawar) etc. As son as the village got water from river Kabini, they started cultivating cash crops as well such as sugarcane rice, etc that require large quantity of water. Sharp increase in population and livelihood activities like agriculture, resulted in more forest lands being brought under cultivation and for grazing domestic animals. Sharp increase in the prices of land etc, were outcome of this development. Project Outcomes A training programmed was held to build the capacity of his project staff that included village volunteers. The methodology was village meetings, group discussions, presentations. Total 25 members of the staff including the volunteers from 5 villages took part than 60 village meetings. Village development committees were formed in 5 villages by the NGO, Vivekananda Trust. Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRAs) conducted in 5 village's involving the community and prospective beneficiaries. During these the mutual trust and respect for each others views were enhanced and communities priorities, and other needs and concerns were discussed. Under Self Help Groups (SHGs) capacity building it was found that over 60 women groups exist (1200 members). Among the women members of SC/ST are nearly 95% in 5 village . Preliminary training programmes /group discussion on the basic concepts of micro credit were conducted/imparted for 2 SHG groups each in 5 villages. Total no. of people benefitted was 200. Presently all the SHG groups have been framed and nearly 1250 members have benefitted. Project Results

1001 smokeless ovens were developed and in each nearly Rs.200-300 has been the cost by the beneficiary and the balance has been covered by GEF/UNDP/SGP. This project has built on a more process approach, evolving in its planning and implementation. The basic purpose in the project has been enabling and empowering people and encourages to use wood as fuel in a more efficient manner.

After analysis it has been found that the consumption of wood

has reduced by 50-55% in each household.

The major emphasis has been on 'demand pull' and enhancing

Capabilities in women.

Nearly 1650Mts of wood use has been reduced in the villages by

all users in one year.

This is leading to check carbon emissions by nearly 3450 MTs of

carbon per year.

The NGO is also linking the program with a range of partners

seeking livelihood intensity in social and economic change.

It is having a focus securing rights for all and access of credit for

poor through banks.

This system has reduced greater drudgery for women in

collecting woodlots. The GEF SGP has a direct focus on the lives

and livelihoods of poor.

Mason’s Training To effectively implement the programme, a

hands on training of the masons were conducted in one of the

villages where nearly 8 masons were trained. They were also

briefed about the benefits and advantages of the hardware that

would be installed in the villages through them. During the

project over 25 semi-skilled workers were trained in

construction of smokeless ovens in these 5 villages. Thus the

project helped to create a battery of trained masons for

construction of smokeless ovens in those villages.

Those trained masons income increased to nearly Rs.500/- per

day from a meager Rs75 to Rs.100/- day. Thus the project

helped to improve the daily earning of the local masons income

also.

CREATING GREEN CITIZENS to link with the MoEF/GoI/GEF/UNDP/CEE, New Delhi project on

Low Carbon Campaign for Commonwealth Games 2010” The work on the project Creating Green Citizens to link with the MoEF/GoI/GEF/UNDP/CEE, New Delhi Project on Low carbon Campaign for commonwealth Games 2010 started immediately after the preliminary meeting in Bangalore on 6th July 2010. The planning the work, short-listing the schools/institutions etc., and resource persons for conducting the training the students etc., were finalized by the time training programme held in Bangalore on 9th August 2010. The low carbon practices were started with a half day programme in Maharshi Public School, J.P. Nagara. It was attended by over 50 students from 7 to 9th Standard. It was immediately followed by a tree plantation drive in one of the residential colonies where the students planted saplings. This was followed by a series of programmes in other 15 shortlisted

schools and 2 institutions in the 2 Districts. Total 1020 students were

trained over a period of 30 days. The focus of the training was on

Global warming, Climate Change, the causes and the ways of

mitigation in their day-today life. The students were also briefed

about the Commonwealth Games, its importance and how they can

be part of that international event. The programme in RBI colony

was followed by a drawing and painting competitions where over 50

participants took part.

Later when the Queen‟s Baton Relay reached Mysore, over 800

students from these schools took active part in the Common Wealth

Games Queen‟s Baton Relay run in Mysore on 1st Sept. 2010. Thus

these students, who rubbed shoulders in the relay run with the

renowned past and present athletes of Mysore district, earned their

right to be part of this international event in a unique way! While

the athletes were given the opportunity for fighting for medals for

the country or state, these children who represent the select “Green

Champions of Mysore” were selected for vowing to fight against

factors that create “Global warming and Climate Change”. The

training was as part of “Creating Green Citizens to link with the

MoEF/GoI/GEF/UNDP/CEE, New Delhi project on Low Carbon

Campaign for Commonwealth Games 2010”.

These children now spread the message of “Low Carbon Practices”

by their day-today actions. They also planted tree saplings in their

school campuses and home backyards and took care of it.

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JAI HO, MYSORE!

The main QBR organizer, Raj Kadiyan, was all praise for the people

of Mysore who turned out in big numbers the other day to welcome

the relay. “All along the roads there were huge crowds to see the

relay. It was really amazing,” he said adding that QBR got impressive

reception in Kerala and Nagaland as well. Times of India dt

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RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES # 771/B, 5th Cross, Roopa Nagar,

Mysore 570 026 Email: vtmysore@gmail.com

The Trust has its 3rd objective, quality improvement of life of the people living in rural and tribal areas through integrated development Programmes. The Trust has a four-pronged approach to achieve the sustainable village development: 1. Promote Health & Environmental issues 2. Promote functional literacy 3. Create Wealth 4. Strengthen the Cultural & Spiritual values The trust has evolved a unique low cost developmental model for this and implemented the Programmes in around 35 villages of Mysore and Chamaraja Nagara districts in Karnataka. We present here the details of this unique socio-cultural Economic Village Development model. 1) Health & Environmental Issues a) Awareness programmes on water & sanitation issues, herbal medicines, training for preparation of herbal medicines for common ailments generally found in the villages etc., taken up in the focussed areas. Over 65 programmes were conducted in the villages on this issue thru the animators stationed there. a) Anaemia Eradication Programme Anaemia is the root cause of most of the health problems of women and grown-ups girls. 8 out of 10 women and grown up girls in India, are anemic says Nutritional Foundation Of India studies. Seeing the gravity of the problem, a pilot programme for eradication of anaemia was taken up in the 25 villages. The objectives were to prevent Anemia through proper diet, medication, reduce IMR through proper care of Anemic mother, to ensure women between the age group of 12 – 45 undergo Hemoglobin estimation and proper iron tablets if they are Anemic. A baseline survey was carried out and data processed. As a follow up medicines were given to the effected for three months and the post medication blood sample was also taken and compared with the pre-medication blood sample. The result were highly positive. Bio Diversity & Environmental Programmes The steady population increase the forests have been dramatically impacted by the demands for timber, firewood and agricultural land. Population levels have already applied increased stress on the fringes of protected areas where many farms, loggers, and poachers use the resources illegally. All these have in no uncertain way has resulted in steep decrease in the forest cover not only in the lower parts of the sanctuary surrounding the villages, but in the higher areas as well. The ill-effects of this wanton destruction of forests have resulted in climate changes in the area. The novel programme that was started in the fringe areas of Nagarhole National Park had the following objectives: a) Awareness creation on the ill-effects of de-forestation b) Bring down the de-forestation by reducing the fire-wood

consumption thru locally made, low cost, energy efficient, smokeless, house-hold choolas (ovens)

c) Climate change mitigation out of methane emissions from cow-dung by using the gas as a clean cooking fuel in the household kitchens

d) Phasing out/Reducing POP thru usage of organic manure made out of cow-dung.

e) Creating an income generating activity out of organic manure made out of cow-dung and other waste bio-mass

As a part of the programme, the following works were carried out:

1. Capacity build up of the Women and ladies belonging to SHGs=1200 SHGs and 24000 women and grown up girls

2. Trained SHG members about medicine preparations of herbs 3. Community sensitized about the de-forestation 4. Installed 12 Bio-gas plants 5. Installed 1011 CST Designed smokeless ovens 6. Constructed 12 Vermi Compost pits 7. Installed two renewable energy production systems of creating

electricity out of peddling of cycles in 2 villages 8. Re-commissioned 12 defunct/mismanaged roof water

harvesting systems.

2) Support Education/Viveka Shikshana Kendras UN laying down full literacy for 0-14 age group by 2015 as one of the first Millennium Development Goals for underdeveloped countries including India, the literacy has been pushed to the centre stage. Access to schooling has no doubt increased considerably over the last five decades. The number of villages without schools is now a relatively small minority. Yet we are far from achieving the goals of universal elementary education. Out of every 100 children in India, 50-60 enter primary schools of which 54% drop outs between standard 1 to 8 and the remaining 66% by 10th standard. This converted into figures means that out of every 100 children in India, only 50-60 get enrolled in the schools and during the class I to VIII, 27 drop out of the school and of the rest 27 only 9 reach class X. The inability of the system to retain children has been the major stumbling block in providing basic education to all.

Though Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the Government Programme made the schools accessible to the village children, the accessibility of the teachers to the school continue to be a big drain on the programme. The teachers, mostly hailing from the nearest Metros/Cities/Urban areas continue to be absent from the schools on flimsy grounds. The outcome of this is that the schools have been converted into feeding centres and not learning centres. Though there is dramatic improvement in the nutritional standards of the children, they are off-course were prevented from learning during their most productive time.

This being the case, the Trust gives stress to increase the enrolment rates and reduce the drop out rates in a very innovative way.

With this objective in mind we have been experimenting with great success a programme where a local village lady, suitably trained in basic teaching skills, takes up the responsibility of running tuition centre for the school going children of her area. The children from class 1 to 5 were generally enrolled in the classes where the teaching is done without any fee. Minimum Learning Levels in languages, subjects etc. She also helps them to do home work etc., Physical education classes, moral classes, music and arts classes etc., were regularly conducted in the class held during the evenings.

The impact of these programme was sharp improvement in the learning levels of the children.

During the year, the Trust facilitated Viveka Shikshana Kendras in all the villages where it had initiated integrated rural development works. Nearly 1200 children were getting benefited out it.

3) Spiritual, Cultural and Value Addition Programmes One of unique aspects of the work started in the area is the stress on spiritual and cultural activities for women and children. As per it, mother of the house is motivated to plant a tulasi infront of her house and carry out on a daily basis a short tulasi puja after her morning bath. Deepa Puja programmes once in a fortnight involving women and grown up girls have become a regular affair in these villages. It programme consists of short puja with 108 names of the Goddess & bajan cum discourse to root the people to the Indian values and culture and eradicating the evils from the society. For children Balasamskara Vargha is conducted twice a week. It is a an hour play way programme with games, value based stories, Prayers, Bajans, Gita Chanting etc,

4) Create Wealth Money does not grow on trees. It has to come from earning and saving. The poor by definition cannot have savings. Self Help Groups fill the bill as they have good knowledge of their members and can generate savings and other activity within their membership on a sustainable basis. The trust has formed/strengthened over 90 SHGs during the year. 5) Agarbathy Manufacturing The trust conducted the training programme for 30 village ladies on agarbathi rolling. They thereafter formed 3 separate SHGs and took up the rolling of the Agarbathis. The trust could generate part time employment for nearly 30 tribal ladies by this trade. 6) Dress Donation Programme As part of poverty alleviation, dresses were donated to the deserving people residing in the tribal and rural areas of the country. 8) Financial Assistance The trust provided financial assistance in the form of college fees, examination fees and in some deserving cases, additional assistance towards the cost of text books in kind.

WE NETWORKED With… For a memorable year just completed, we are grateful to:

HH Rev. Swami Gautamanandaji Maharaj, President, Sri

Ramakrishna Math, Chennai.

H.E. the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Gen (Retd.) J.J. Singh,

and Mme. Singh

Shri. Prashant Lokhande, IAS, Secretary to H.E the Governor of

Arunachal Pradesh and Secretary, Planning,

Sri. Karikho Kri, Hon‟ble MLA, Tezu

Sri. Kaling Tayeng IAS, Dy. Commissioner, Lohit

Sri. R.K. Sharma, Addl. Dy Commissioner, Namsai

Smt. Mana Linggi, Dist. Adult Education Officer, Tezu

ASSET, Wakro

TT Charitable Trust, Naharlagun,

GOVT DEPARTMENTS

The DDSEs, Sri. K. Rina (Lohit dist) & Sri. K. Perme, (Anjaw dist)

Ministry for Rural Development, Arunachal Pradesh.

NIC/CIC, Roing, Tezu, Wakro, Anini & Itanagar

Grama Panchayat, Chamaraja nagara

Zhilla Panchayat, Chamaraja Nagara & Mysore

FUNDING AGENCIES/DONORS

GEF/SGP/UNDP/CEE, New Delhi

Surajmal Jalan Charitable Trust, Dibrugarh

H.E. The Governor of Arunachal Pradesh

Sri. Chowna Mein, Hon‟ble Minister, PHE, Govt. of Arunachal

Pradesh

Omprakash Foundation, USA

Smt. Savithri Nambudiri, Chennai

Sri. K.M.S. Bhattadiripad, Hyderbad

Sri. Salim Bangalore

Asset, Wakro

Dy. Commissioner, Tezu

Sri. Gorishankar Sharma, Tezu

Shri. Nirmal Agarwal, Makum

Sri. Tayum Tok, Namsai

Sri. Komter Kena and Jumdo Kena, Wakro

The Executive Engineer, Namsai

Dr. Bikul Das, Guwahati

Sri. S.K. Perme, Anjaw

Sri. V.K. Krishnan, Chennai

Sri. S.K. Yadav, Itanagar

VTAES, Tezu

Smt. Rajni Krishnan, Trissur

TT. Charitable Trust, Naharlagun

DDSE, Anjaw

Sri. Karikho Kri, Tezu

Sri. Setong Sena, Itanagar

Dr. Amrita Karnik, Bangalore.

Sri. Ashok Tajo, Itanagar

Vinyas Innovative Technology P Ltd, Mysore

Sri. Prakash, Mysore

Sri. P.N. Rao, Chennai

Smt. Indira Venkatraman, Mysore

Sri. Abhishek Singvi, Mysore

Maini Samaj Kalyan Kendra,

Bangalore

Sri. Srinivas Narayan, Bangalore

Col. Venkatraman, Mysore

Mahalingeswara Devasthana,

Mysore

B.S.N.L, Mysore

Sw. Geetanand, Mumbai

Sindhu Charitable Society, Mumbai

INSTITUTIONS

Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai,

Trivandrum and Kodagu

RiWatch Institute, Roing

RRL, Jorhat, Assam

Vivekananda Tribal School,

Karnataka

Sampoorna Kendra Vidyalaya,

Dibrugarh

Anu Shiksha Seva Trust, Wakro

NGOs

ASSET, Wakro, Arunachal Pradesh

Essomi Foundation Trust, Roing

Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana

Kendra

Karuna Trust, Karnataka

FRLHT, Bangalore

VKV Tafrogam Alumni Education

Society (ViTAES) Tezu

Swami Vivekananda Trust for Child

& Youth Development, Assam

……..and our several unnamed friends

and well-wishers all over the country

who have extended their assistance to

our projects in various ways.

“Anything that makes you

weak physically,

intellectually and spiritually,

reject as poison”

-Swami Vivekananda

EXPENSES ( in %)

RECEIPTS (in %)

Book exhibition, 0.89

Programmes, 13.03

HRD expenses, 7.20

Education, 3.25

Travelling, 1.78

Training, 0.08

Administrative, 3.46

Depreciation, 0.14

Project expenses, 70.16

Book exhibitions, 1.66

Donations, 50.74

HRD receipts, 0.24Bank interest, 3.12

Project Grants, 44.25