The Trustees of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and the Allied Trusts

Determined to be a part of the education process largely due to the efforts of Nalanda, young girls file up at a madrasa in Barabunki, Uttar Pradesh THE TRUSTEES OF SIR DORABJI TATA TRUST AND THE ALLIED TRUSTS

SIR DORABJI TATA TRUST Mr RN Tata, Chairman Dr MS Swaminathan Mr NA Soonawala Dr (Ms) Amrita Patel Ms Deanna Jejeebhoy Mr RK Krishna Kumar Mr AN Singh, Managing Trustee

JRD TATA TRUST Mr RN Tata, Chairman Mr NA Soonawala Mr AN Singh, Managing Trustee

JAMSETJI TATA TRUST Mr RN Tata, Chairman Mr NA Soonawala Mr RK Krishna Kumar Mr AN Singh

THE JRD AND THELMA J TATA TRUST Mr RN Tata, Chairman Mr RM Lala Dr (Ms) Suma Chitnis Dr (Ms) Armaity Desai Mr AN Singh

RD TATA TRUST Mr RN Tata, Chairman Mr NA Soonawala Mr RK Krishna Kumar Mr AN Singh

TATA EDUCATION TRUST Mr RN Tata, Chairman Mr RK Krishna Kumar Mr AN Singh

TATA SOCIAL WELFARE TRUST Mr RN Tata, Chairman Mr RK Krishna Kumar Mr AN Singh

Dr JJ Bhabha, was Vice-Chairman and Managing Trustee of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Trustee on all other Allied Trusts until his demise in May 2007. The Trusts’ appreciation of his contribution was recorded in the previous Annual Report 2006-2007.

MANAGEMENT TEAM AND STAFF

Secretary & Chief Accountant Sarosh N Batliwalla (up to September 2007) Rukshana F Savaksha (from March 2008)

Program Leader Sanjiv Phansalkar

Institutional and NGO Grants Accounts Program Team Kamal Titina Nayantara Sabavala Sorab Bulsara Jasmine Pavri Meher Rupa Ratna Mathur Benaz Avari Sugandhi Baliga Pranita Rane Nayana Chowdhury Bhaskar Mittra Administration Archana Nambiar Eruch M Patel Tasneem Raja Fershoger J Guard Biswanath Sinha Yezad Siganporia Shernaz Vasunia Kashmira Meherji Niloufer Randeria* Bhikhu Billimoria Ashok Patel Finance and Budgets Kirti Mistry Kumar Chaitanya Bapsy Daruwalla Registered Office Adi B Siganporia* Bombay House, 24 Homi Mody Street Ashwini Mukherjee* Fort, Mumbai 400 001 Secretarial Staff Bankers R Hariharan ICICI Bank Ltd, Mumbai Dolly Irani Standard Chartered Bank, Mumbai Support Staff Calyon Bank, Mumbai Sharad Mahadik American Express Bank, Mumbai Saby Mathias Ajay Prakash Legal Advisors Messrs Mulla & Mulla, Craigie Blunt & Caroe, Individual Grants Mumbai Leela M Karkaria* Eruch A Mahernosh Auditors Perrcis R Majoo M/s Jayantilal Thakkar & Company Kumudini Todankar Chartered Accountants, Mumbai Martha Ferrao Amee Master*

Support Staff Arun Arolkar

* Have left the Trust during the course of the year

NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND RURAL LIVELIHOODS

This thematic area has emerged by merging the on more backward regions materializing in the two thematic areas of Management of Natural form of new partnerships. Resources (MNR) and Livelihoods as were A total of 109 new grants were made during the conceived of earlier, upon recommendation of year for a total sanction value of Rs 940.00 the external consultants who reviewed the million. Of these, 37 were small grants (grants themes in 2006-2007 and accepted by the Trusts. with a sanction value of less than Rs 0.50 Considering that a bulk of the rural people at any million). The emphasis on working in backward rate derive their livelihoods by carrying out their areas is evident from the fact that over 86 of these production and collection activities interacting new grants have been made to partners in with the natural resource base, this merger makes Eastern, North-Eastern and Northern India, thus imminent sense. The thrust areas are: sharply reducing the prominence of Western and • Food security at the household, meso- and Southern regions. Civil society organizations in macro-level. While food security at the Eastern, Northern and North-Eastern regions do macro-level results from augmenting food not seem to have achieved the degree of maturity production; food security at the household and technical as well implementation level can come from both increasing competence seen in other regions. As a result, the household food production as well as by proportion of amounts in these sanctioned grants increasing the household income through continues to show a somewhat higher share for expanding and strengthening other livelihood the Southern and Western regions. options and improving market access to the Food Security produce from households. Augmentation of food production in turn occurs through Viewed in the broader sense as elaborated improving productivity of land through earlier, projects working towards food security watershed development, irrigation, formed the largest single group. Together, improvement in agronomic practices and these projects aim to reach out to over three introducing new crop combinations and hundred thousand households. An important cropping techniques. initiative on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) was launched and it included 86 partners in • Ecological security, includes in particular, Northern, Eastern and North-Eastern states efforts at ensuring efficient and equitable use with 13 new project grants. Support to projects of water. Working towards ecological aimed at undertaking watershed development, security includes biodiversity conservation, strengthening technical and social measures for regeneration of fragile ecologies and contributing towards a more prudent and sustainable use of natural resources. The review referred to above had also noted that till 2005 much of Trusts’ grant making in the theme had occurred in Western and Southern India and stressed the need to increase the intensity of the Trusts’ engagement in this theme in backward and more needy regions.

The year under review saw the Trusts’ attention Gharat — traditional water harvesting system — used by on giving concrete shape to the thrust areas and Parmarth Samaj Sevi Sansthan, Uttar Pradesh

19 organization, other partners such as Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi (RGVN), Bihar unit, as well as The Livelihood School would also be engaged in different aspects of capacity building of the fledgling NGOs, micro-finance institutions and SHGs, so that once strengthened, these could act as platforms for development initiatives in livelihoods, education, etc. Secondly, a Centre for Micro-Finance and Livelihoods in the North-East has been supported through a project grant to Grameen Sahara in Guwahati. The Centre will Land treatment model in West Bengal built by work towards capacity building of SHGs in Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) Assam and other North-East states on micro- developing sustainable agriculture and rearing finance and on livelihoods enhancement. livestock were other ways of addressing the food Low External Inputs Sustainable Agriculture security concern. Twelve projects aim to (LEISA) improve market access for poor producers for LEISA is particularly appropriate for poor produce which they farm or collect from farmers who have little working capital to use the commons. purchased inputs and live in areas where farm Noteworthy Initiatives Include: productivity suffers from external factors such Pan-India Program on System of Rice as floods or unpredictable rains. The work Intensification: essentially involves reducing dependence on external inputs which can happen only if seeds, With encouraging results from our partners in manure and other inputs are locally produced. West Bengal and Jharkhand in SRI, the Trusts have taken a proactive step to scale up the practice in various other states. Details are given in the separate note on this subject that follows in the Food Security focus area. Strengthening Self Help Groups While the Trusts do not aim to strengthen the micro-finance sector per se, it is realized that women self help groups (SHGs) are powerful community-based organizations which can act as useful platforms for anchoring a wide range of development initiatives, including livelihoods enhancement. Recognizing that many of the SHGs in Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bihar and the North- East are at a nascent or fledgling stage and cannot shoulder additional responsibility, it was felt necessary to take steps to strengthen them before significant investment on other development initiatives were made through them. With this end, two significant steps have been taken. A project has been sanctioned to Mahila Abhivruddhi Society for strengthening the SHG and micro-finance institutions in Bihar and UP. Ahar pyne diversion-based irrigation system implemented by While the project would be anchored by the Satyapath in Bihar

20 This is a slow process so far as yield increase is concerned, but the reduction in cash expense in inputs starts helping farmers immediately. The Trusts support several projects towards this end in North India and one project in South India and the experience from these would be of immense value while programming for distressed regions such as Bundelkhand and Vidarbha. Stabilizing Agriculture in Flood Prone Areas As is well known, the terai regions and the alluvial plains in the middle and upper Gangetic plains as well as in the Bramhaputra valley are Yield from the horticulture project in Madhya Pradesh prone to standing floods for long periods of time of Self Reliant Initiatives through Joint Action (SRIJAN) almost every year. Even after the flood waters Ecology and Biodiversity recede, water logging plagues fairly large tracts of land rendering agriculture there difficult. The The engagement in the field of ecology needs to livelihoods of farmers living in these areas are grapple with the issues of identifying the key thus at regularly occurring risks and hence concerns of ecologically fragile regions, fragile. While the problem can be fully demonstrate working models of conservation of addressed at the macro-level if deforestation in biodiversity and contributing towards the Himalayan hills is checked, efforts also need ecological security and finally evolving models to be made to assist farmers to cope with these that show that both conservation and livelihood floods and to stabilize their livelihoods. The concerns can be simultaneously addressed. The Trust has supported three projects in this field in Trusts have initiated several interesting projects UP and Bihar. The work involves several major in this direction. Biodiversity conservation components: assisting in improved drainage in through the Nagaland Empowerment of People local areas to dry the water logged areas to bring through Economic Development (NEPED) model, which has been substantially enhanced them under crops; helping shift the cropping by support on biodiversity conservation and calendar and introducing flood tolerant varieties fallow land development for reducing the time- of crops; strengthening the livelihoods systems cycle of shifting cultivation, has become a by supporting grain and seed banks, introducing recognized successful model in the country. The LEISA and finally diversifying livelihoods by Planning Commission of India has dedicated a introducing appropriate options. section on this particular model in the 11th Plan. This model can be replicated in high rainfall hilly tracts. The Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Karnataka has been supported for studying long- term ecological monitoring in the Western Ghats and for forest products based livelihoods. They would also be providing education, research and capacity building support through their short- term as well as degree and PhD programs. Finally, the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Andhra Pradesh has been supported to launch a research program for studying the linkages between livelihoods and Seabuck thorn promoted and grown by MUSE in the field area of Spiti, Jammu and Kashmir natural resources in three eco-systems: namely

21 river basins, dry land agricultural regions and forests. Details are given in the separate note on this subject that follows in the Ecological Security focus area. Development Models for Replication The development projects started by the Trusts in the past have been widely acclaimed and have become models which can be and are sought to be replicated in other parts of the country. For example, the project in Bankura and Burdwan in West Bengal on Black Bengal goat development Weaver in Andhra Pradesh, supported by Dastkar Andhra with the Government of West Bengal and BAIF Development Research Foundation has resulted program on water supply and sanitation be in very positive developments — preservation of leveraged, Gram Vikas has been able to the pure breed of Black Bengal, income influence the state government to allocate grants generation for the goat group members who rear for replication of the sanitation and water supply the goat, capacity building of local villagers and model promoted by the Trust. In August 2007, PRI, etc. The model has been adopted by the the Orissa Government has circulated a Government of Jharkhand for five districts and Government Order (GO) to various departments thereafter a delegation from the state examined to replicate one model in each gram panchayat in the feasibility of further replication. A team from the state. This will result in leveraging about the Government of Tripura led by the Animal Rs 9.00 billion in the next three years. The Trusts Resource Development minister visited the are now replicating this model of water supply project locations and the Government of Tripura and sanitation in Madhya Pradesh and has also adopted the same model. Similarly the Jharkhand through Gram Vikas and other local Government of Assam has shown keen interest to NGOs. The same model will be replicated in start a similar project in Assam. In West Bengal Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra and there is a itself, the State Government has decided to possibility of replicating this model in other replicate this model in another five districts. The states as well as accessing large funds under the same model is being currently piloted by the West Swajaldhara and Total Sanitation Campaign Bengal Government for sheep development in the (TSC) schemes. North 24 Parganas district. The Trusts are now Improving productivity of watersheds through poised to play a catalyst role in replicating this crops diversification: Phase I of the International model in all these states including Bihar where the Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics possibility of success of the model is quite high. (ICRISAT) project during 2002-2007 for BAIF can also be relied upon to pilot and then improving crop yields of several crops in lands replicate a similar model for supplementary treated for watershed development in Rajasthan livelihoods generation in distressed regions such and Madhya Pradesh witnessed an increase in the as Vidarbha and Bundelkhand. yield of sorghum, pigeonpea, soyabean and Water Supply and Sanitation: In February 2006, maize in the range of 10-70 percent in various a road map was presented to the Board of locations in three districts. The scientific findings Trustees of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust for engaging on these have been extensively documented. The in rural sanitation and water supply in a Trusts considered a second grant to ICRISAT for sustained way. Subsequently, two large projects continuing similar work so that the operating were supported through the Aga Khan steps can be standardized. A strategy will be Foundation and Gram Vikas in Gujarat and worked out by the Trusts for larger scaling out of Orissa respectively. In Orissa, on the insistence the model with various NGOs and government of the Trust that mainstream funds for the departments in dry land areas.

22 New Possibilities important to encourage established large civil Inland fisheries: A project supported by the Trust society organizations to initiate action as well as to and implemented by Sakhi has demonstrated in build the capacities of whatever fledgling Madhubani how inland culture fisheries in water organizations exist. Sustained efforts have been bodies in rural areas of Bihar can lead to made in this direction by conducting partner significant increase in fish yields and farm meetings on problems of a region, by organizing incomes. The project is valuable as fish is a consultations with local NGOs and attempting to source of protein and has abundant local demand build a network through which capacity building that can be met without engaging in expensive becomes more easily possible and by conducting storage or processing units. The Trusts intend to personal engagement in the region. Such pilot the same project in a few more locations efforts have produced encouraging results in prior to its wider replication. Bihar, in Eastern UP and in certain parts of West Bengal and the North-East. In the coming Diversion- based Irrigation months, specific studies aimed at the twin Irrigation by extracting and applying ground objectives of identifying a sharp development water, by using water flowing through the agenda for intervention and identifying suitable systems of dams and canals and using water in potential partners are proposed to be conducted tanks as done extensively in South India is well in Vidarbha, Bundelkhand and Western understood. However, in numerous interior and Himalayan regions. remote parts of the country and particularly in regions enjoying high rainfall and reasonable forest cover, opportunities exist to divert streams with minimal investment and to use such diverted flows for the purpose of irrigation. Such diversion-based systems have the unique advantage of being independent of externally applied hydrocarbon or electric energy as well as of low investment. There are well-established traditional systems. A project implemented by Satyapath in Gaya in South Bihar has renovated the traditional ahar pyne system to the benefit of many farmers. Encouraged by the project and also by observations made in numerous other parts of the country, it is considered desirable for the Trusts to systematically explore and support possibilities of small diversion-based irrigation schemes in the Eastern Ghats, Orissa, Bodo Territorial Autonomous District (BTAD) parts of Assam as well as other places in the country. Initiating Partnerships in Unreached Areas Tussar plant cultivation supported by PRADAN in West Bengal

While the Trusts’ desire to initiate partnerships in RELIEF backward regions is very high, it is discovered that it becomes necessary to explore these areas Twelve relief grants were made amounting to both from the point of view of identifying an Rs 10.00 million in 2007-2008. The grants were appropriate and relevant development agenda and made to organizations working in the flood- from the point of view of scanning the capacity of prone and poverty stricken areas of Bihar, Uttar the local civil society. Clearly where there is much Pradesh and Assam and provided immediate need but little presence of civil society, it becomes help and relief from distress and suffering.

23 ECOLOGICAL SECURITY

Ecological security forms the most important In many cases, the rate of extraction of biomass basis of the entire human security system but has and water far exceeds the rate of regeneration unfortunately not received the importance it requiring simultaneous action on improved deserves. It is, in a way, the cornerstone for efficiency in consumption as well as more human survival. Knowing the status of effective regulatory measures. ecological security is crucial for making Lessons of the past few decades reveal that decisions to avoid ecological disasters. specific sectoral programs seem to cause serious Ecological degradation is mostly caused by negative impacts on other components of social and economic factors necessitating an landscape rendering the entire system interdisciplinary action in safeguarding nature. untenable. This suggests a need for overarching Existing research, both the basic research on regional land use plans and the subsequent ecological security mechanisms and on appropriate reassembling of policies, programs information services systems, is still primitive in and implementation machineries to implement its abilities to resolve ecological problems. This such plans. Civil society organizations have is especially true when it comes to specifying the been able to bring about such macro perspective various components that make up the system to their work but such thinking has been missing and the linkages between these components with in the government’s functions. the socio-economic systems. Dependence on ecological systems for As mentioned earlier, the Trusts view their livelihood and energy requirements has led to engagement in the Natural Resource reduction (if not decimation) of the diversity and Management and Rural Livelihoods portfolio quality at various locations. This applies through two broad thematic areas — food universally to various ecological settings like security and ecological security. The ongoing forests, rivers, mountains, etc. Benefits that flow projects are in the process of being allocated from ecology are in the form of stocks and flows. along these lines, although there are a number of Stocks refer to returns from ecology that are projects that can be grouped in either. The value long term in nature like trees in the forest while of projects under the ecological security focus flows are returns from nature that are area is Rs 222.92 million, which is intermediate and recurrent in nature like forest approximately 15 percent of the total value of products such as Non Timber Forest Products projects under this portfolio. (NTFPs). It is only when human needs go Some key projects that are part of the thematic beyond the flows and dip into stocks that area in ecological security are as follows: ecological security comes under stress and thereafter threat. Nagaland Empowerment of People through Economic Development (NEPED), Nagaland Ecology functions as an interdependent system and Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and and is capable of rejuvenating itself over a Natural History (SACON), Tamil Nadu period of time and across space. Program interventions on ecological security therefore NEPED and SACON have come together to need to look at the entire ecological system and strengthen community conservation efforts in its interactions with the social systems existing five districts in eastern Nagaland. During the in the region. There is therefore a need to build last year, the project has compiled village-level information on the layout of the system, the geo- biodiversity registers in 150 villages. As a major hydrology, biomass, biodiversity and resource effort, the process of retaining a large forest as a use patterns and weave in measures which Community Conservation Area (CCA) in a proximate natural processes so as to lend a contiguous land covering 21 villages has been helping hand for the natural recovery of the area. initiated in Mon district.

24 23 World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF), Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and New Delhi the Environment (ATREE), Karnataka To ensure the community’s ownership As part of the project strategy in the Western on conservation and in the management Ghats, ATREE is working in five sites — three in of flora and fauna, WWF has initiated a Karnataka and two in Tamil Nadu. In each of the project on development of community sites, the project is preparing context specific conservation areas (CCAs) in Thembang adaptive management plans, developing and Zimithang villages in West Kameng and effective decision support tools for sustainable Tawang districts respectively in Arunachal management of forest for fuel wood, NTFPs, Pradesh. In the last year, the process of etc, promoting organic agro-forestry practices, strengthening the CCA management has policy level work and promoting conservation been reinforced at both locations. In education. The concept of conservation and Thembang, the villagers have also started a livelihoods is also being live-tested in these community-based eco-tourism initiative locations through the introduction of forest- and have started earning a livelihood out based livelihood options like lantana-based of it as visitors are getting attracted to this furniture works. concept of tourism. Centre for People’s Forestry (CPF), Andhra Pradesh Keystone Foundation, Tamil Nadu The Centre for People’s Forestry is working Keystone is working in the Nilgiri Biosphere with the Chenchu community in the core and Reserve on methods for establishing buffer zones of the Sri Sailam Tiger Reserve. sustainable harvesting standards, protocols The work involves building capacities of the for harvest and sustainability and social collectors on sustainable harvesting of NTFPs. equity of the forest product trade. The needs of the region are all the more harsh, as They are doing this by building awareness this region is affected by Naxal insurgency and capacities at the level of all stakeholders problems and the NTFP collectors are at the — collectors, traders and the forest department. receiving end from both the police department This project has components of livelihood and the Naxals. Paving the way for smooth support as well as action research for NTFP collection operations for the Chenchus is introducing the Participatory Guarantee the overall objective of the project, and the CPF System (PGS) protocol in the NTFP sector, is working with the forest department, Girijan which would bring greater returns for Cooperative Corporation and the Integrated the collectors. Tribal Development Agency towards the same.

Chenchu household near the Sri Sailam Tiger Reserve, Andhra Pradesh, depends on the forests for its livelihoods, facilitated by the CPF

25 Conservation efforts by ATREE include the sacred grove area inside the BRT Hills Complex, Karnataka Traditional method of collecting honey from the rock face inside the Sri Sailam Tiger Reserve

Collecting honey from trees

Harvester climbing towards the beehives Use of protective gear and ropes to harvest honey Honey being extracted from the honeycomb

Bottling honey and aonla juice by ATREE

Cultivation of Amaranthus by the Soligas in a forest-fringe village in the ATREE project area FOOD SECURITY

Notwithstanding the good performance in wheat Contributing to Food Security by Promoting procurement earlier this year, the fact remains System of Rice Intensification (SRI) that the food situation in the country is not Given the limits on land availability and the satisfactory. While the country presumably has need to feed an increasing population, every greater wherewithal to import food should method of increasing food production within the domestic food production be short of demand, same land resources need to be explored. The the domestic production will start becoming System of Rice Intensification, a clutch of increasingly inadequate given the rising practices that have shown remarkable promise population and incomes of the people. The per in increasing paddy yields by at least 30 percent capita consumption of cereals has already was identified as one such method. With a declined in India from a peak of 468 grams per radically different method of rice cultivation, day in 1990-1991 to 412 grams in 2005-2006 SRI follows the six principles as stated below: and for pulses the decline has been from 42 • Moist soil conditions but well-drained and grams to 33 grams during this period. While the aerated land national picture on food security is not too rosy, • Transplanting rice seedlings at a very young this picture becomes even more alarming when age (8-12 days old) viewed at a micro-level: as operational holdings • Planting one seedling per hill drop continuously, more and more families • Wider spacing of plants (25 cm x 25 cm) find that they are unable to grow enough food • Compost or chemical fertilizers for for themselves. nutrient amendments During the last year the Trusts have initiated • Frequent weeding during the growing some specific programs to address the food season security issue particularly of the small and The relatively larger soil and space available to marginal land owners, who comprise the plants result in much healthier plants, a doubling majority of the farming community in the of panicles per plant, better grain filling and country. The programs address the issue of higher weight of grains, all resulting in a productivity enhancement as well as the issue of substantial yield increase. Purists of the method market linkages. As a strategy, land and water suggest green manuring and avoidance of conservation work is also supported with the chemical fertilizers, but the results are aim of productivity enhancement. A specific promising even without these elements. program on increasing paddy productivity has Admittedly, the method is best suited where been launched with an attention to the System of farmers have water control and hence can Rice Intensification or SRI, with 86 various systematically practice alternate drying and agencies across the country on a pan-India scale. wetting. The International Rice Research Geographically, the main focus of the Institute (IRRI), Philippines states that SRI intervention on ensuring food security has been leads to marginal yield increases over the ‘best in the traditional poverty belts in the states of scientific practice of cultivation’, however the Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand, poor paddy farmer can seldom adopt the ‘best Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Overall, 72 scientific practice’ for want of resources. Yet the projects exclusively for ensuring food security farmer can adopt SRI and since it actually leads to a saving in seeds and labour, it is considered a have been sanctioned during 2007-2008 from good option. the Trusts. Specific attention has been given on thematic areas of market access for the Direct engagement of the Trusts on SRI began producers, forming alternative institutional with support to the National Symposium on SRI arrangements like producers’ companies, organized by the Government of Tripura and strengthening of SHGs, etc. WWF International in Agartala in October 2007.

30 23 Tripura has demonstrated the benefits of The research was conducted controlling for seed SRI on a large scale as almost an eighth of varieties and land types. The team strongly the total paddy area in the state is under recommended that efforts should be made to this method now. At the suggestion of disseminate SRI to as many farmers as is Dr MS Swaminathan, Trustee of Sir Dorabji possible, but identified areas which have good Tata Trust, the Trusts sponsored a systematic labour availability, assured rainfall and assessment of the experience of SRI in reasonable amount of biomass as being better West Bengal and Bihar. This assessment was candidates for this purpose. done by a team of professionals led by Encouraged by the assessment of the expert Dr VP Singh, the well-known breeder of rice. team, the Trusts formulated a program for Finalized in January 2008, the assessment disseminating SRI in mainly the Eastern states. report, widely shared on the Trusts’ supported The program includes grant support towards SRI e-group, concluded that there was extension of SRI, capacity building of the substantial advantage obtained by following community, advocacy work on SRI, promotion SRI even under rain-fed conditions and in of innovation in SRI, technology development medium uplands prevailing in tribal regions of especially weeder development, etc. A program Jharkhand and West Bengal. In the flat flood grant of Rs 109.40 million was sanctioned by the plains of South Bihar, the method yielded Sir Dorabji Tata Trust. An amount of Rs 24.73 astounding results: the highest recorded yield million has been sanctioned to 13 different exceeding 18 MT/hectare as certified by the agencies during the year to propagate SRI in the Government of Bihar. The team reported among states of Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, other things: Orissa and Uttarakhand. Some organizations Average in Average in will function as nodal agencies in different states Aspect SRI paddy conventional and they will work directly with a large number method of CBOs. Thus a total of 86 agencies were Number of tillers / hill 17-22 6-10 involved in this initiative during the first year. Grains per panicle 180-270 110-120 Overall, a total of 32,715 households and Weight per 100 acreage of 10,329 acres spread across 1,036 grain (GM) 30 25 villages have been covered under this initiative Yield per hectare (MT) 12 7-8 in the first year.

Plantation of seedlings in Purulia, West Bengal by PRADAN

31 Transplanting of seedlings on SRI field in Ghansali, Uttarakhand by Mount Valley Development Association Weeding operation in SRI paddy field in Jharkhand with the help of Sri Ramakrishna Sarada Math and Mission

Eighty-day old SRI paddy in Jharkhand facilitated by Network for Enterprise Enhancement and Development Support (NEEDS)

Farmer couple in Jharkhand, trained by NEEDS — happy with the triple productivity of their crop NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND RURAL LIVELIHOODS

Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million Sir Dorabji Tata Trust 1 Advanced Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), Maharashtra - Towards the development of a ground water management process in a dry land region using an integration of hydrogeological principles and community participation (in Bagli, Dewas district, Madhya Pradesh). 4.73 0.75 2 Aga Khan Foundation, New Delhi - To implement a project on water and environmental sanitation through community partnership in Patan and Junagadh districts of Gujarat. 44.35 11.90 3 Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, Gujarat - Towards their project titled, An Inquiry into the Sustainability of Village Institutions. 1.60 0.86 4 Akhil Bhartiya Samaj Sewa Sansthan, Uttar Pradesh - Towards empowering people through integrated watershed development in Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh. 26.98 7.07 5 Ambuja Cement Foundation, Maharashtra - Towards promotion of System of Rice Intensification. 1.30 1.30 6 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Karnataka - Towards (a) increasing the outreach of the ongoing work in the Western Ghats and (b) identifying in the Western Ghats potential sites for recognition as UNESCO World Heritage Biodiversity sites. 47.60 8.00 7 Baradrone Social Welfare Institution, West Bengal - Towards the integrated development initiative in Gazole block in Malda district in West Bengal. 1.84 1.84 8 Bruksha `O` Jeevar Bandhu Parishad, Orissa - Towards promotion of System of Rice Intensification. 2.73 0.97 9 Centre for Action and Rural Reconstruction, Orissa - Towards promotion of System of Rice Intensification. 2.69 0.99 10 Centre for Collective Development, Andhra Pradesh - Towards promoting commodity cooperatives, thrift and credit cooperatives in Anantapur and Adilabad districts of Andhra Pradesh. 11.38 2.62 11 Centre for People’s Forestry, Andhra Pradesh - Towards opportunities for livelihood enhancement through sustainable harvesting of select non timber forest products like honey, etc. 7.16 2.92 12 Centre for World Solidarity, Andhra Pradesh - Towards working on livelihoods with marginalized communities affected by flood and water logging in four districts of Bihar. 12.31 5.57 13 Centre for World Solidarity, Andhra Pradesh - Towards promotion of System of Rice Intensification. 4.92 1.66 14 Dastkar Andhra, Andhra Pradesh - Towards capacity building, product development and promotion for the middle market in cotton handloom weaving in Andhra Pradesh. 11.50 1.90 15 Gene Campaign, New Delhi - Towards the project entitled Public Education on Genetically Engineered Crops and Fostering Informed Decision Making. 16.60 2.40 16 Gorakhpur Environment Action Group, Uttar Pradesh - Towards enhancing livelihood situations of small farmers in flood-affected areas of Eastern Uttar Pradesh. 28.69 7.60 17 Grameen Development Services, Uttar Pradesh - Towards the project, Revival of Agriculture for Local Economy Development of Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Northern Bihar. 22.66 5.94 18 Grameen Sahara, Assam - Towards implementing a livelihood enhancement project based on Eri culture in Kamrup and Goalpara districts of Assam. 2.17 0.63 19 Harsha Trust, Orissa - Towards natural resources based livelihood for the tribal poor in Kalahandi, Orissa. 5.00 1.00

34 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 20 Institute of Himalayan Environment Research and Education, Uttarakhand - Towards livelihood promotion by maintaining biodiversity in the mountain agriculture of villages in the Kumaon Himalayas. 13.36 7.35 21 International Development Enterprises (India), New Delhi - Towards the project titled, Integrating Poor into Market Systems. 40.00 4.25 22 International Development Enterprises (India), New Delhi - Towards promotion of System of Rice Intensification. 10.90 3.17 23 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Andhra Pradesh - Towards improving rural livelihoods and minimizing land degradation through the community watershed approach for sustainable development of dry land areas. 61.00 11.26 24 Jan Kalyan Sansthan, Uttar Pradesh - Towards promoting organic agriculture for sustainable agriculture and enhanced productivity with 400 small and marginal farmers in 10 villages of Brahmpur block. 1.72 0.80 25 Kalanjiam Foundation, Tamil Nadu - Towards scaling up and preparation for the next phase of significant expansion of the Community Banking Program (CBP). 67.00 10.20 26 Keystone Foundation, Tamil Nadu - Towards designing and developing a holistic Non Timber Forest Produce livelihood model with an ecological monitoring plan including wild certification issues and improved marketing channels in collaboration with multi-level stakeholders. 6.72 1.95 27 Kumaon Artisans Guild (KAG), Uttarakhand - Towards appropriate technology interventions in water, sanitation and biogas in the Central Himalayas. 21.75 8.38 28 MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Kerala - Towards creating eight research fellowships in systematic botany for conservation work on selected plant species. 4.10 1.11 29 Mandan Bharti Jagriti Samaj, Bihar - Towards ensuring sustainable means of livelihood in 25 villages of Saharsa district of Bihar. 3.75 1.01 30 Medicinal Plants Conservation Centre and Trust, Maharashtra - Towards rehabilitation associated with flood relief in Amba Valley in Raigad district. 3.75 1.12 31 MUSE, Meghalaya - Towards the project on market sustainability of indigenous plant produce and related livelihoods. 3.55 3.55 32 NM Sadguru Water and Development Foundation, Gujarat - Towards a Corpus Grant of Rs 30.00 million and a Program Grant of Rs 70.00 million. The Program Grant is to be used for constructing lift irrigation systems, water harvesting structures, agro forestry plantation and for horticulture promotion. 100.00 12.50 33 NM Sadguru Water and Development Foundation, Gujarat - Towards the restructuring and enhancement of the program for constructing lift irrigation systems, water harvesting structures, agro forestry plantation and horticulture promotion. 19.43 7.00 34 Nagaland Empowerment of People through Economic Development, Nagaland - Towards strengthening community conservation efforts in Nagaland: A program to impart technical support on biodiversity conservation and livelihood options to communities in Phek, Tuensang and Mon districts. 16.71 6.30 35 National Academy of Agriculture Sciences, New Delhi - Towards the study titled, Transforming Agriculture in Bihar: Road Map to a new Fertile Crescent. 2.16 2.16 36 Navnirman Trust, Karnataka - Towards undertaking soil and water conservation and organic farming work on land owned by small and marginal farmers in four villages of Raichur district in Karnataka. 1.01 0.53

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Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 37 Orissa Professional Development Service Consultants, Orissa - Towards promotion of System of Rice Intensification. 4.48 1.49 38 Parmarth Samaj Sevi Sansthan, Uttar Pradesh - Towards the conservation and development of natural resources for sustainable livelihoods and food security. 14.14 3.69 39 Pashupati Kalyan Parishad, Rajasthan - Towards enhancing livelihoods based on livestock improvement and institution building among others in Udaipur and Alwar districts, Rajasthan. 4.64 1.19 40 Peoples` Science Institute, New Delhi - Towards promotion of System for Rice Intensification. 4.33 4.33 41 Pragati, Orissa - Towards promotion of System of Rice Intensification. 4.32 1.37 42 Prasari, West Bengal - Towards promotion of System of Rice Intensification. 0.50 0.50 43 Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), New Delhi - Towards creating Rural Livelihoods in the endemically poor regions of India. This grant combines a Corpus Grant of Rs 32.50 million and a Program Grant of Rs 112.50 million. The Program Grant is to be used for: (i) Expansion of the training facility by renovating the Training Centre at Kesla and (ii) The development support cost for expansion of livelihood opportunities. 145.00 19.37 44 Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi, Assam - Towards promotion of System of Rice Intensification. 2.79 2.79 45 Reach India, West Bengal - Towards capacity building of self help group promoting institutions in Chhattisgarh. 2.66 1.54 46 Rural Communes, Maharashtra -Towards a Corpus Grant of Rs 40.00 million and a Program Grant of Rs 10.00 million. The Program Grant is to be used for village level training, watershed training and towards support of personnel. 50.00 2.30 47 Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Tamil Nadu - Towards strengthening community conservation efforts in Nagaland: Imparting technical support on biodiversity conservation and livelihood options to communities in Phek, Tuensang and Mon districts. 12.00 3.73 48 Self Reliant Initiatives through Joint Action (SRIJAN), New Delhi - Towards initiating a project in horticulture-based livelihood for resource poor in Tikamgarh, Annupur and Sehore districts in Madhya Pradesh. 17.00 4.00 49 Social Action for Community Alternative Learning, Orissa - Towards promotion of System of Rice Intensification. 2.81 0.96 50 Society for Pragati Bharat, Uttar Pradesh - Towards soil and water conservation work in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh. 2.85 2.85 51 Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development, New Delhi - Towards implementing a program on developing practical scientific approaches on water governance and livelihoods and on contributing to policy dialogue on basin issues. 15.00 5.34 52 Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development, New Delhi - Towards promotion of System of Rice Intensification. 3.93 3.93 53 Technology Informatics Design Endeavour, Karnataka - Towards school and community horticulture enterprises. 2.85 1.16 54 The Timbaktu Collective, Andhra Pradesh - Towards the project on promoting sustainable agri-based livelihoods amongst dry land farmers of Anantpur district. 14.90 4.68 55 Trust MicroFin Network, Uttar Pradesh - Towards its work on micro-finance and the livelihood sector with grassroot NGOs in Uttar Pradesh. 7.61 2.76 56 United Artists` Association, Orissa - Towards promotion of System of Rice Intensification. 3.98 1.26 57 Vikalp, Uttar Pradesh - Towards a project for organizing Van Taungya communities for accessing their land rights and entitlements and working towards improving their agriculture practices. 3.11 1.13

36 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 58 Winrock International India, New Delhi - Towards enhancing the livelihoods through the provision of irrigation facilities in a remote village in Chhattisgarh. 1.99 0.12 59 Youth for Voluntary Action, Uttar Pradesh - Towards mobilization of small and marginal farmers into community institutions and their economic upliftment through medicinal and aromatic plants cultivation. 2.25 1.01

Small Grants 1 Abhiyan, Bihar - Towards the livelihood program for the rural poor through NREGA. 0.48 0.48 2 Alirajpur Shaikshanik Samajik Kendra, Madhya Pradesh - Towards participatory micro planning to develop an integrated watershed development program for Thodsindi village. 0.10 0.10 3 Anudip Foundation for Social Welfare, West Bengal - Towards the study and pilot for new economy livelihoods in North Bengal. 0.50 0.50 4 Ashray, Tripura - Towards organizing handloom activities for sustainable livelihoods for poor women from other backward communities in Tripura. 0.50 0.50 5 Bureau of Rural Economical and Agricultural Development, Bihar - Towards livelihood promotion among Dalits and backward women through self help groups. 0.50 0.50 6 Development of Humane Action Foundation, Tamil Nadu - Towards hosting the Madurai Symposium titled - Advancing Development - Building Alliances in September 2007. 0.25 0.25 7 Foundation for Emancipation of Marginalised (FEMALE), Jharkhand - Towards community mobilization for improved technology for paddy and lac cultivation among the tribal community in the Rania block of Ranchi. 0.49 0.49 8 Grameen Sahara, Assam - Towards technology improvement for the enhancement of Eri silk production. 0.38 0.38 9 Gramin Samassya Mukti Trust, Maharashtra - Towards strengthening irrigation management systems for sustainable and safe livelihood in Yavatmal district in Maharashtra. 0.50 0.50 10 Gramin Vikas Vahini, Bihar - Towards the livelihood program for the rural poor through NREGA. 0.48 0.48 11 Gujarat State Women`s Sewa Co-op. Federation Ltd, Gujarat - Towards providing funds for the Consulting Group to write a proposal and business plan. 0.26 0.26 12 HNB Garhwal University, Uttarakhand - Towards conducting a national seminar on Management Strategies for the Indian Himalaya: Development and Conservation. 0.05 0.05 13 India Peace Trust, Maharashtra - Towards strengthening SHG federations for capacity building of local women. 0.50 0.50 14 Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals, New Delhi - Towards organizing a day-long farmers` awareness campaign in Raichur district, Karnataka. 0.04 0.04 15 Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals, New Delhi - Towards organizing a day long farmers` awareness campaign in Chitrakoot district, Uttar Pradesh. 0.04 0.04 16 Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals, New Delhi - Towards farmers` capacity building and awareness campaigns on livelihood in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Assam. 0.14 0.14 17 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Andhra Pradesh - Towards organizing a national level symposium on System of Rice Intensification in Tripura. 0.50 0.50 18 Jan Swasthya Sahyog, Chhattisgarh - Towards conducting a one-day policy dialogue and one-day sharing cum training workshop of System of Rice Intensification in Chhattisgarh. 0.05 0.05

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Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 19 Jeevika Development Society, West Bengal - Towards capacity enhancing of rural women through developing self managed financial institutions of Self Help Groups in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. 0.50 0.50 20 Kamakhya Jankalyan Trust, Assam - Towards the project aimed at economic improvement of small tea farmers in Golabhat, Assam. 0.41 0.41 21 Krishi Bharati, Uttar Pradesh - Towards forming community institutions and establishing farming and non-farming livelihood interventions. 0.48 0.48 22 Lok Vigyan Kendra, Himachal Pradesh - Towards strengthening Joint Forest Management in Himachal Pradesh. 0.50 0.50 23 Mahatma Phule Samaj Seva Mandal, Maharashtra - Towards the assessment and comparative micro level planning of the NREGA in Osmanabad and Solapur districts. 0.49 0.49 24 National Rural and Mountain Tribal Development Association, Bihar - Towards the livelihood program for the rural poor through NREGA. 0.48 0.48 25 Prerana, Karnataka - Towards capacity building of local communities to access their entitlement and assert their rights under the NREGA scheme in Raichur, Karnataka. 0.50 0.50 26 Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi, Assam - Towards the continuation of the Gender Budget and Analysis Centre for North-East India. 0.50 0.50 27 Rural Environment Awareness Community Help, Karnataka - Towards implementation of the NREGA program in 10 gram panchayats of two talukas in Davanagere district of Karnataka. 0.49 0.49 28 Samajik Vikas Sansthan, Bihar - Towards working with Self Help Groups for livelihood capacity building. 0.32 0.32 29 Sampark, Maharashtra - To study and understand the discrepancy in the proper implementation of EGS and NREGS for sustainable livelihood of the rural poor taking three districts in Maharashtra as a base. 0.49 0.49 30 Samrakshan Charitable Trust, New Delhi - Towards organizational development support to prepare a five year strategy and to affect the organizational restructure of Samrakshan Charitable Trust. 0.50 0.50 31 Samvedana Samaj Vikas Sansthan, Maharashtra - Towards their project, River-Fish-People: Intervening Positively for Sustainable Future for the benefit of poor farmers in Adan river basin in Maharashtra. 0.50 0.50 32 Sarvpriya Khadi Gramodyog Samiti, Bihar - Towards the livelihood program for the rural poor through NREGA. 0.48 0.48 33 Sri Aurobindo and Mother`s Vanita Empowerment Trust, Chhattisgarh - Towards the economic development of 100 poor women through income generating activities in Chhattisgarh. 0.50 0.50 34 Utthan, Uttar Pradesh - Towards initiating agriculture programs in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. 0.50 0.50 35 Watershed Support Services and Activities Network, Andhra Pradesh - Towards organizing a three-day national workshop on New Paradigms for Rainfed Farming - Redesigning Support Systems and Incentives. 0.30 0.30 36 Winrock International India, New Delhi - Towards a study to assess the economic, social and technical assessment of village energization through the use of Jatropha oil in Jharkhand. 0.50 0.50 37 Youth Volunteer Union, Manipur - Towards their study on livelihood promotion in Manipur through the handloom sector. 0.49 0.49 970.95 234.75

38 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million Jamsetji Tata Trust 1 Action for Social Advancement, Madhya Pradesh - Towards building market led farmers’ producers’ companies for backward and forward linkages of agriculture in six districts of Madhya Pradesh. 8.75 2.81 2 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Karnataka - Towards the activities of the Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies. 74.86 29.22 3 Bosco Gramin Vikas Kendra, Maharashtra - Towards capacity building of the community in Ahmednagar and Beed districts of Maharashtra and initiating a goat development project for the community. 2.53 2.53 4 Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Andhra Pradesh - Towards establishment of the Research Unit for Livelihood and Natural Resources. 91.69 24.96 5 Grameen Development Services, Uttar Pradesh - Towards improving livelihoods through water and agricultural resource development in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh. 3.54 3.54 6 Mahila Abhivruddhi Society, Andhra Pradesh - Towards the project on enhancing the quality and sustainability of SHGs to impact poverty in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. 26.60 4.20 7 Rongmei Naga Baptist Association, Manipur - Towards strengthening local institutions in hilly areas of Nagaland and Manipur to enhance livelihood for tribal and non tribals. 22.20 7.10 8 Vivekananda Institute of Biotechnology, West Bengal - Towards technology delivery to the poor in Sundarban region in West Bengal to improve livelihood of the farmers. 12.16 6.39 242.33 80.75 RD Tata Trust 1 Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, Andhra Pradesh - Towards implementing the project titled, Establishing Ecological Agriculture in Punjab and Maharashtra. 7.83 1.38 2 Kanchan Sewa Ashram, Bihar - Towards institution building and livelihood support initiatives in the Sadar block of Darbhanga district. 3.00 1.71 3 Ladakh Ecological Development Group, Jammu & Kashmir - Towards livelihood initiatives based on apricots in Ladakh. 4.09 2.00 4 Madhyam Foundation, Orissa - Towards initiating development work in the remote block in Nayagarh district in Orissa. 2.02 0.74 5 Rural Innovations Network, Tamil Nadu - Towards 10 self-owned rural retail shops in Tamil Nadu. 15.06 5.02 6 Sakhi, Bihar - Towards the livelihood initiatives for poor and tribal communities in the Madhubani district of Bihar. 3.39 0.79 7Tata Chemical Society for Rural Development, Uttar Pradesh - Towards saline and alkaline land reclamation in 14 villages of tehsil Gunnaur of Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh. 9.08 1.77 8 Vikas Sahyog Pratishthan, Maharashtra - Towards reclaiming livelihoods and food security in drought prone Buldhana district through capacity enhancement. 4.43 1.43 48.90 14.84 Tata Social Welfare Trust 1 Alirajpur Shaikshanik Samajik Kendra, Madhya Pradesh - Towards watershed development in Thodsindi village in Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh. 1.60 1.60 2 Chhatrasal Sewa Sansthan, Uttar Pradesh - Towards organizing villages towards the livestock-based livelihood development project in Hamirpur district of Uttar Pradesh. 1.82 0.53

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Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 3 Dehati Gramothan Vikas Samiti, Uttar Pradesh - Towards strengthening of Self Help Groups and the establishment of a buffalo and goatery rearing unit for livelihood improvement among the marginalized communities in Hamirpur district. 2.97 1.86 4 Gram Vikas, Orissa - Towards implementing the rural sanitation and water supply project in Orissa and adjoining states. 60.53 7.00 5 Grameen Sahara, Assam - Towards setting up a Centre for Microfinance and Livelihood for the North-East region. 14.21 0.80 6 Gramonnati Sansthan, Uttar Pradesh - Towards work on poverty alleviation in 25 villages of Kabrai block of Mahoba district. 5.72 2.09 7 Jan Sewa Parishad, Jharkhand - Towards promoting livelihood opportunities among marginalized youths and primitive tribes. 3.02 1.77 8 Lok Jagriti Kendra, Jharkhand - Towards ensuring livelihood and environmental sustainability to create water harvesting structures for irrigation, reclaim wasteland and take up afforestation. 3.09 1.28 9 Nagaland Voluntary Health Association, Nagaland - Towards strengthening the capacity of Self Help Group members in Phek and Kohima districts of Nagaland. 3.84 1.22 10 Pararth Samiti, Madhya Pradesh - Towards enhancing livelihood of poor tribal people through building business around Non Timber Forest Produce. 1.73 1.31 11 Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi, Assam - Towards strengthening the organization and expanding its work in North-East India and Chhattisgarh. 30.20 3.10 12 Sri Ramakrishna Sarada Math and Mission, Jharkhand - Towards ensuring livelihood enhancement through judicious use of water in Gola block of Hazaribag district. 6.83 2.97 13 Tagore Society for Rural Development, West Bengal - Towards initiating integrated development work in Tapan block in south Dinajpur in West Bengal. 10.80 3.60 14 Udyama, Orissa - Towards capitalizing on the opportunity of NREGS to impact livelihood of the poor. 7.65 2.79 154.01 31.92 Tata Education Trust 1 All India Artisans and Craftworkers Welfare Association, New Delhi - Towards enterprise development services with artisans from different parts of the country. 13.65 3.70 2 Laya, Andhra Pradesh - Towards promoting watershed and livelihood work in East Godavari and Visakhapatnam districts. 10.31 3.65 3MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (Fish for All Centre), Tamil Nadu - Towards the Fish for All Centre at Poompuhar, Tamil Nadu. 21.83 21.83 4 Prayas, Rajasthan - Towards a wage labour exchange: organizing seasonal tribal migrants to Gujarat. 28.40 8.75 5 Purvanchal Gramin Seva Samiti (PGSS), Uttar Pradesh - Towards empowering small and marginal farmers as well as poor women for sustainable livelihoods based on organic agriculture and its value addition in the Purvanchal (eastern) region of Uttar Pradesh. 1.00 0.42 6 Shohratgarh Environmental Society, Uttar Pradesh - Towards empowering women by furthering the community institution and maintaining the food security of BPL families through the creation of grain banks in the region. 1.07 0.43 76.26 38.78

40 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million JRD Tata Trust 1 BAIF Development Research Foundation, Maharashtra -Towards the Tata-BAIF goat development program in West Bengal. 9.50 2.20 2 Centre for Community Economics and Development Consultants Society (CECOEDECON), Rajasthan - Towards implementing a project titled, Tribal Women’s Action in Promotion of Organic Farming and Non-Farm Livelihoods in Shahbad block, Baran district, Rajasthan. 3.24 1.91 3 Mahila Jagriti Mandal, Andhra Pradesh - Towards organizing 80 women Self Help Groups and introducing livelihood programs with them in Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh. 1.33 0.44 4 Rural Development Association, West Bengal - Towards people oriented livelihoods development through natural resource management and improved package of practice in Sankrail, Midnapore, West Bengal. 8.94 1.52 23.01 6.07 Grand Total 1515.46 407.11

RELIEF Sir Dorabji Tata Trust 1 Aman Trust, New Delhi - Towards working with 1,800 families in Khagaria, Saharsa, Samastipur and Muzaffarpur districts. 0.50 0.50 2 Astha Seva Kendra, Bihar - Towards working with 600 families in Samastipur district. 0.50 0.50 3 Ghoghardiha Prakhand Swarajya Vikas Sangh, Bihar - Towards working with 1,000 families, in flood-affected areas of Madhubani district, Bihar. 1.00 1.00 4 Grameen Development Services, Uttar Pradesh - Towards working with 3,000 families in villages of Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Siddharthnagar and Bahraich districts along with two partners, in flood-affected areas of Uttar Pradesh. 1.00 1.00 5 Gyan Seva Bharti Sansthan, Bihar - Towards working with 54,000 households in flood-affected areas of Supaul district, Bihar. 1.00 1.00 6 Kanchan Seva Ashram, Bihar - Towards working with 750 families in Darbhanga district. 0.50 0.50 7 Nav Jagriti, Bihar - Towards working with 3,000 families in Sitamarhi and Muzzaffarpur districts in flood-affected areas of Bihar. 1.00 1.00 8 Nidan, Bihar - Towards working with 1,000 households in the flood-affected areas of Katihar district, Bihar. 1.00 1.00 9 Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi, Bihar - Towards working with select partners in flood-affected districts in Bihar. 1.00 1.00 10 Rural Volunteers Centre, Assam - Towards working with 600 families in the Upper and Middle Brahmaputra river basin in flood-affected areas of Assam. 1.00 1.00 11 Sakhi, Bihar - Towards working with 1,000 families in Motihari and Madhubani districts in flood-affected areas of Bihar. 1.00 1.00 12 Vikas Sarthi, Bihar - Towards working with 800 families in the flood-affected areas of Gopalganj district, Bihar. 0.50 0.50 Grand Total 10.00 10.00

INSTITUTIONS

Three criteria of institutionality set high remain non-acquisitive, focusing on the one hand performing knowledge institutions (HPKI) apart on intense use of just-enough infrastructure and from others.1 Has the institution survived for a on the other on generating resources through long time without compromising on its mission performance linked grants, fees and other and goals? Is the institution perceived by its resources without compromising on their environment as having intrinsic value? Has it mission sanctity. become a standard setter, an exemplar for other The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research institutions in its field? Institutions do not achieve (TIFR), Mumbai set up in 1945 is one of the such a stature accidentally. For achieving it, they finest institutions of research in the country. have to treasure talent and engage in a constant Dr Homi Bhabha had a grand vision for TIFR. process of competency building. Early in their life He wanted to establish a centre for research that they come up with a core portfolio of would radiate to the rest of the country standards institutionally committed offerings that define as high as any to be encountered elsewhere in the them as unique, socio-technical systems. They world. He was very keen that the finest scientists adopt non-hierarchical, matrix-type structure and should visit India and lecture at TIFR. He invited promote a collegial organizational climate. They some of the best-known Indian scientists to help stress self-regulation, openness, peer group build in time a world-class, intellectual accountability, creativity and innovation. Their atmosphere. In doing so, he gave TIFR a great ‘light’ management tends to be strategic in purpose which continues to inspire all those output, outcomes and impact orientation. They involved in the institution long after his death. He thought about the institution as an ageless creation which would mould and remould itself to serve purposes important to society at different stages of its evolution. The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai established in 1936, has not only become an exemplar and a standard setter, it has time and again reinvented itself and created new institutional offerings which meet the changing needs of the country. It has contributed in a pioneering way to the professionalization of social work and has substantially added to the emergence of a well-established discipline of human resources management and evolved its Field Action Projects as a way of remaining institutionally relevant to ground realities and problems, continuing to innovate well into its eighth decade of institutional life. During the year under review, TISS introduced two new courses including the new post-graduate course in Public Health.

Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library at the Tata Institute of The Trusts have a tradition of working towards Social Sciences, Mumbai establishing institutions. Institutions have been

1 Tushaar Shah, “Launching Knowledge Institutions of Excellence,” in Social Engineer, 4:3, November 2000.

13 set up based on issues and agenda which were with the national agenda that they were long-term and addressed critical subjects of taken over by the national government and national importance and on which exceptionally mainstreamed in terms of receiving regular and talented individuals were passionately large quantum of public funding. The Trusts committed to work on. As illustrated above, intend to continue with this tradition of several of the institutions nurtured and supporting the conception, emergence and supported by the Trusts meet the defining launch of new institutions in fields which are characteristics of HPKIs. relevant to the changing needs of the nation. The Trusts will also continue to work with Once the institutions come of age, they follow institutions supported in the past, assisting to their own trajectory. In many instances, the evolve mechanisms that will help them to agenda of these institutions have agreed so well become and remain HPKIs.

Imposing view of the Experimental Theatre and Garden Working on an experiment at the at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

INSTITUTIONS

Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million Sir Dorabji Tata Trust 1 Indian Institute of Science, Karnataka - Recurring Grant. 1.00 1.00 2JN Tata Navsari Memorial Trust, Gujarat - Recurring Grant. 0.50 0.50 3 National Institute of Advanced Studies, Karnataka - Recurring Grant. 1.00 1.00 4 National Centre for the Performing Arts, Maharashtra - Recurring Grant. 1.00 1.00 5 National Centre for the Performing Arts (Marg Publications), Maharashtra - Towards strengthening Marg Publications. 21.28 6.70 6 Sir Dorabji Tata Centre for Research in Tropical Diseases, Karnataka - Towards conducting the IX Annual Sir Dorabji Tata Symposium in March 2008, and to support the workshop activities of the Centre. 1.50 1.50 7 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Maharashtra - Recurring Grant. 1.00 1.00 8 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Maharashtra - Towards organizing an international colloquium on Cycles, Motives and Shimura Varieties in January 2008. 0.40 0.40 9 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Maharashtra - Recurring Grant. 1.00 1.00 10 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Maharashtra - Towards the residential program on theme-centred interaction for TISS faculty members. 0.07 0.07 11 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Maharashtra - Towards partial support to hosting the 5th International Conference of Critical Geography in Mumbai in December 2007 on the theme, Imperialism and Resultant Disorder : Imperatives for Social Justice. 0.19 0.19 12 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Maharashtra - Towards supplementary payment to project fellows under DRS/SAP of the Centre for Health and Mental Health. 0.14 0.14 13 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Maharashtra - Towards producing, publishing and disseminating the report on the advocacy paper, “The Status of HIV/AIDS Epidemic 2007”. 0.50 0.50 14 Tata Memorial Centre, Maharashtra - Recurring Grant. 1.00 1.00 15 Tata Memorial Centre, Maharashtra - Towards organizing an international symposium on Intermediate Filament Proteins : Emerging Trends in Keratin Biology, in the Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) campus. 0.20 0.20 16 Tata Memorial Centre, Maharashtra - Towards supporting 40 local and 20 outstation delegates of parents, survivors, counsellors, support groups and NGOs for the 39th Congress International Society of Paediatric Oncology. 0.50 0.50 17 Tata Medical Centre Trust, West Bengal - Towards the Corpus for meeting the cost of infrastructure and equipment required to operationalize the Tata Medical Centre. 200.00 200.00 18 The Tata Agricultural and Rural Training Centre for the Blind, Gujarat - Recurring Grant. 1.00 1.00 232.28 217.70 Jamsetji Tata Trust 1 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Maharashtra - Towards undertaking the study of the pre-historic past of India using modern technologies, drawing particularly from the fields of astronomy and astrophysics. 3.40 0.80 2MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (JRD Tata Ecotechnology Centre), Tamil Nadu - Towards enhancing the Corpus of the JRD Tata Ecotechnology Centre. 50.00 50.00 3 Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT) - Towards setting up the Indian Institute for Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine and establishing the 100 bedded integrated hospital. 340.00 115.60

16 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 4 Tata Medical Centre Trust, West Bengal - Towards the Corpus for meeting the cost of infrastructure and equipment required to operationalize the Tata Medical Centre. 200.00 200.00 593.40 366.40 RD Tata Trust 1 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Maharashtra - Towards supporting its academic and administrative quality enhancement initiative. 52.70 13.25 52.70 13.25 Tata Social Welfare Trust 1 Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Prayas – Social Work in Criminal Justice), Maharashtra - Towards the Field Action Project of the Centre for Criminology and Justice for their intervention in the criminal justice sector. 35.52 8.05 35.52 8.05 The JRD and Thelma J Tata Trust 1 Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Lok Vikas Sahyog Project), Maharashtra - Towards its community organization work, educational program and livelihood activity. 2.92 0.79 2.92 0.79 Grand Total 916.82 606.19

NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND RURAL LIVELIHOODS

23 ECOLOGICAL SECURITY

Chenchu household near the Sri Sailam Tiger Reserve, Andhra Pradesh, depends on the forests for its livelihoods, facilitated by the CPF

25 Conservation efforts by ATREE include the sacred grove area inside the BRT Hills Complex, Karnataka Traditional method of collecting honey from the rock face inside the Sri Sailam Tiger Reserve

Collecting honey from trees

Harvester climbing towards the beehives Use of protective gear and ropes to harvest honey Honey being extracted from the honeycomb

Bottling honey and aonla juice by ATREE

Cultivation of Amaranthus by the Soligas in a forest-fringe village in the ATREE project area FOOD SECURITY

Plantation of seedlings in Purulia, West Bengal by PRADAN

Eighty-day old SRI paddy in Jharkhand facilitated by Network for Enterprise Enhancement and Development Support (NEEDS)

Farmer couple in Jharkhand, trained by NEEDS — happy with the triple productivity of their crop NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND RURAL LIVELIHOODS

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URBAN POVERTY AND LIVELIHOODS

About 28 percent of the one billion people in India live in urban areas, this proportion is expected to rise to 42 percent and the absolute number of the population in urban areas is expected to rise to about 650 million by 2050. This urbanization is lop-sided: cities and towns in ‘boom states’ in the North, West and South are growing very rapidly while small towns in most parts of the country and cities in the East are decaying. Urban and rural poverty are connected, given the stagnation in the rural economy, seasonal and permanent migration to urban areas is inevitable and the influx of migrants compounds the problem of crowding as well as living and working conditions in urban areas. There is large-scale migration from rural areas to the boom towns as agriculture stagnates and rural people search for better livelihoods, and this trend will continue and we need to recognize it not as a problem but as a possible area of work for a better economy and society. Working at the SEWA Centre, New Delhi The pattern of unplanned urbanization has thrown up three major issues. The first deals Mission (JNNURM) and has begun to look at with harmonious city development in a manner urban health as an important factor to be that looks after the interests of all the city addressed through the introduction of the dwellers. The second deals with the creation of National Urban Health Mission. infrastructure needed for the smooth running of the cities. The third deals with ensuring good Within this context, the Trusts evolved a draft governance in these cities. Strategy Paper on Urban Poverty and Livelihoods to which the Trustees gave a It is evident that even the Government has begun clearance during their meeting in September to give attention to the urban sector through the 2007 to evolve this portfolio in a phased manner Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal over two to three years. The major thrust areas of the portfolio are: • Basic Services — health, education, water and sanitation, housing, etc • Livelihoods for the Urban Poor • Urban Governance The approach of the Trusts in the last year has been exploratory in nature, specifically focusing on work in three cities — Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi — and the states of Maharashtra and Girl child on BT cotton seed farm where the unionized efforts Madhya Pradesh (MP). All efforts were directed of DRMU through Prayas, Rajasthan are being actioned towards looking for good examples of work in

43 Studies Trust (ISST), New Delhi, Jeevika Livelihood Support Organisation, Jabalpur and Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad. Under the urban governance theme, the Trusts have supported efforts of organizations such as the Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), Mumbai to participate in the socio-economic survey of Dharavi as part of the

Market at Mansi Complex Satellite, Ahmedabad, where vendors Dharavi Redevelopment Plan formulated by the are organized and facilitated by Mahila Sewa Trust Government of Maharashtra; and Shelter Associates, Pune for the relocation of these locations in the identified thrust areas and communities in Sangli along with the Sangli- the possibility of supporting them. In 2007- Miraj-Kupwad Municipal Corporation. Besides 2008, the Trusts have disbursed Rs 39.74 million that, the Trusts have also supported efforts of through 26 projects. Samarthan in Madhya Pradesh covering two Under the thematic area of Livelihoods for the urban locations in Sehore and Bhopal. This Urban Poor, what is emerging through intervention will be an innovative civil society interactions with groups working in the urban initiative to empower the citizens to contribute sector is to reduce the vulnerability of the meaningfully in improving the quality of informal sector groups such as rag pickers, urban governance. conservancy workers, home-based workers, The challenge for the Trusts has been to identify vendors, domestic workers, construction organizations working on the urban governance workers and sex workers by organizing them so issue as part of the urban planning processes in that they are able to better negotiate with large cities and even small towns. the Government. Towards this effort, the There is certain skepticism on the degree to Trusts have considered small grants and which Municipalities can be influenced to also institutional grants to organizations like approach urban planning in a professional and Mahila Sewa Trust, Ahmedabad, Mahila Shram participatory way. This stems from the fact that Sewa Nyas, Madhya Pradesh, Sewa Bharat, many of the Municipalities are known to be both New Delhi. corrupt as well as politicized. Therefore all The Trusts have initiated discussions with efforts made to produce a cadre of professionals groups specifically working with conservancy to address urban issues would not bear fruit workers; and this would be one of the focus groups for interventions in the coming year. Most of these groups belonging to the informal sector are migrants and to maintain the income level, the population engages in one or more of the informal sector activities. The Trusts have been supporting Aajeevika Bureau and Prayas, both in Rajasthan to set up their regional resource centre and labour exchanges for rural migrants.To scale up this experience in other locations, an attempt has been made to fund studies/research to Socio-economic survey being conducted in Sangli, organizations like the Institute of Social Maharashtra by Shelter Associates

44 unless the system is geared to give these not homogenous entities and many urban NGOs professionals the space and autonomy to are divided on their approach and priorities. function adequately. In the following year, the effort of the Trusts Apart from the problem with the Municipalities, would be to evolve the thematic area of which also would apply to State Government ‘Migration’ and work with the informal sector bodies, there is a powerful builders’ lobby that groups; additionally efforts will also be made to has a strong vested interest in resisting change. evolve a better understanding of work on urban In addition, slum communities themselves are governance issues.

Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) alongwith MASHAL is working on the socio-economic survey in Dharavi, Mumbai

45 MIGRATION

For the past one year the Trusts have been interventions to address the emerging collating information on the experiences of challenges. In the process, the Trusts have groups working on migration issues. There is supported the following organizations/studies: sufficient data available to prove that the village Aajeevika Bureau, Rajasthan (both at the economy is impacted by livelihoods through source and destination end) natural resources, non-farm/non-forest related activities or through seasonal, circular or Aajeevika Bureau is a unique initiative in permanent migration (rural to rural/rural- Udaipur that straddles the entire migration chain urban). Studies also reveal that it is extremely from the ‘source’ i.e. the village/s in Southern important to recognize that migration is an Rajasthan to the urban ‘destinations’ within the inevitable phenomenon and that it will continue. state or outside the state. It provides livelihood enhancement services and support to rural Several studies have expressed doubts about the migrant workers who drift away every year from common assumption that the poorest are the their villages to find employment in cities, ones who migrate. The landless labourers with farms and factories of Gujarat, Maharashtra fewer employment contacts than workers of and beyond. other castes face greater problems finding a job. Village studies from India conducted in the last Migration-based work and earnings are the five years show a marked increase in temporary major source of survival for the communities of migration. On the other hand about 28 percent of this poverty-stricken and low-endowment the over one billion people of India live in urban region. Though migration is an irreversible areas. The urbanization being lop-sided throws reality for the majority of those who depend on up major challenges to accommodate the it, and indeed for many it is the single major exit migrant population with the right kind of from rural poverty, it is an act fraught with infrastructure for the smooth running of cities. immense hardship and insecurity. There are several reasons for this — skill levels are low, While official statistics provide us with a broad connections and networks are scarce, services assessment of migration trends, smaller, more are absent and above all, labour and in-depth studies show that circular and seasonal remuneration practices in industries and migration is the most important form of labour markets that employ seasonal migrants tend to mobility for the poor especially in drought- be harsh and exploitative. Legal protection for prone and forested areas. Rural-rural migration this category of workers is often missing. continues to be important but rural-urban migration appears to be growing at a faster rate. One of the strategies used by Aajeevika Bureau is to operate both at the source level (six blocks However, hardly any systematic effort is being in southern Rajasthan) and major destinations made to address this reality and to plan for it of migrant workers (viz. in two cities of properly. Migration continues to be highly Gujarat). At both ends, it provides a range of expensive and risky for the poor because the livelihood services such as registration, photo overall policy and institutional system is not identity cards, training, job placement, legal travelling migrant-friendly — thus travelling, aid, financial services and counselling to finding accommodation, negotiating work and migrant workers. pay rates, accessing government services (health, education and subsidized food) and Prayas, Rajasthan (both at the source and remitting money home are all problematic for destination end) poor migrant workers. The Dakshini Rajasthan Majdoor Union With this background, the Trusts are making an (DRMU), anchored by Prayas, is working on an attempt to understand the situation and evolve alternative model of unionization (the grant

46 has been listed under Natural Resource Studies on Migration have been Commissioned: Management and Rural Livelihoods due • through the Institute of Social Studies Trust to its cross-cutting nature). This model (ISST) to analyse current and expected seeks to organize seasonal migrants in the trajectories of urban poor livelihoods in the source areas. It identifies existing migration National Capital Region (NCR), and to streams and undertakes extensive mobilization identify interventions that would enhance the work in source areas. The idea is to security and well being of this group, with organize wage workers at the source to force special attention on women in the informal employers to the negotiating table. It departs sector — specifically with domestic workers from traditional union activity that is and workers in the ICT sector. carried out at the work place. • through Jeevika Livelihood Support Organisation, Jabalpur to study in detail the The Union has used the vast network of status of labour in the district of Jabalpur, to labour workers to organize labour supply. The carry out institutional mapping of all the initiative achieved dramatic success in the institutions related to labour, to initiate an migration stream of BT cotton seed farms initial set of activities both at the source end where it was possible to increase wages by and at the destination end, before arriving at 40-50 percent over a period of two years for a rather detailed interventions. workforce of around two hundred thousand • through the Centre for Economic and Social workers. Efforts are on to replicate this Studies (CESS) partnering with Overseas success in other migration streams. Ultimately Development Institute, Hyderabad to study the the model seeks to develop a wage labour pattern of migration from the rural parts of exchange that would mediate between demand Maharashtra into towns and cities like Mumbai, and supply. Kolhapur, Nasik, Nagpur, Sangli and Satara.

Labourers awaiting work at a ‘naka’ in Ahmedabad

47 Women construction workers at a rural site outside of Udaipur Identity card provided by Aajeevika Bureau

Trained by Aajeevika Bureau, a plumber at work in Udaipur

Confident rural youth now working in an Udaipur hotel, placed by Aajeevika Bureau URBAN POVERTY AND LIVELIHOODS

Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million Sir Dorabji Tata Trust 1 Aajeevika Bureau, Rajasthan - Towards setting up of a regional resource centre and labour exchange for rural migrants/labourers of South Rajasthan. 9.70 3.40 2 Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi - Towards conducting two studies on (i) domestic workers and (ii) workers in the ICT sector in the National Capital Region. 2.70 1.90 3 Jai Jui Vichar Manch, Maharashtra - Towards providing social security through SHG-based livelihoods in Patri village of Solapur district. 1.30 0.50 4 Kislay, New Delhi - Towards developing leadership with the urban work and to facilitate informed participation in urban governance, especially in procuring urban basic services. 5.00 1.83 5 National Foundation for India, New Delhi - Towards the Delwara small-town development program. 13.50 7.40 6 Nidan, Bihar - Towards working on the livelihood rights of the people in the informal sector by organizing advocacy for changing the environment of workers and social protection. 5.60 2.90 7 Saathi, Maharashtra - Towards implementing the street youth project which entails support to the vocational training day centre, running costs, group home expenses and networking and core organizational expenses. 3.20 0.55 8 Samarthan - Centre for Development Support, Madhya Pradesh - Towards strengthening urban local governance in Madhya Pradesh for the project titled, Citizen Monitoring of the Health, Education and Municipal Services, especially focusing on Sehore and Bhopal. 6.60 2.20

Small Grants 1 Disha Foundation, Maharashtra - Towards a four-day program on capacity building of NGOs working on seasonal migrants and urban poverty issues in Maharashtra. 0.08 0.08 2 Disha Foundation, Maharashtra - Towards a workshop on Participatory Video (Documentary) Film Making in two parts - Part I. 0.10 0.10 3 Disha Foundation, Maharashtra - Towards a workshop on Participatory Video (Documentary) Film Making - Part II. 0.10 0.10 4 Disha Foundation, Maharashtra - Towards a workshop on skill building for teachers of Integrated Child Development Scheme, Nasik. 0.08 0.08 5 Jeevika Livelihood Support Organisation, Madhya Pradesh - Towards conducting a labour and migration survey in Jabalpur. 0.45 0.45 6 Kamadar Swasthya Suraksha Mandal, Gujarat - Towards supporting their sewage workers’ program in Ahmedabad. 0.30 0.30 7 Labour Education and Research Network, Maharashtra - Towards their work focusing on domestic workers and home-based workers in Mumbai (Dharavi), Nasik and Solapur. 0.49 0.49 8 Lokvikas Samajik Sanstha, Maharashtra - Towards a four-day workshop on professional training to SHG women to develop a source of income generation through the training of goat-farming. 0.08 0.08 9 Lokvikas Samajik Sanstha, Maharashtra - Towards a four-day program entitled - Workshop on Personality Development of the Urban Poor Youth. 0.08 0.08 10 Nirmana, New Delhi - Towards supporting their activities with domestic workers in East Delhi and the social security bill. 0.49 0.49 11 Pratham Mumbai Education Initiative, Maharashtra - Towards a training program for the staff members of Pratham Council for Vulnerable Children regarding laws concerning child labour, recent developments and to facilitate experience sharing among the members. 0.10 0.10

50 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 12 Society for Citizens Vigilance Initiative, Maharashtra - Towards broad basing citizen’s vigilance activities in Delhi and Mumbai. 0.49 0.49 13 Yuva Mitra, Maharashtra - Towards developing leadership with the urban work and to facilitate informed participation in urban governance, especially in procuring urban basic services. 0.08 0.08 50.52 23.60 Jamsetji Tata Trust 1 Mahila Sewa Trust, Gujarat - Towards their program working with street vendors in Ahmedabad. 10.79 3.46 2 Mahila Shram Sewa Nyas, Madhya Pradesh - Towards their program working with construction workers in six districts of Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal, Sagar, Ujjain, Khandwa, Dewas and Damoh). 7.10 2.20 3 Sewa Bharat, New Delhi - Towards a program working with street vendors, construction workers and home-based workers in New Delhi. 7.06 2.08 24.95 7.74 RD Tata Trust 1 Shelter Associates, Maharashtra - Towards supporting the relocation of 757 families in the Sangli-Miraj-Kupwad Municipal Corporation and undertaking a poverty mapping exercise in Solapur. 8.65 3.70 8.65 3.70 Tata Education Trust 1 Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), Maharashtra - Towards the socio-economic survey commissioned by the Government of Maharashtra along with MASHAL, an NGO based in Pune. 7.50 4.70 7.50 4.70 Grand Total 91.62 39.74

EDUCATION

Our Constitution fathers did not intend that we • Strengthening local infrastructure and services just set up hovels, put students there, give • Enabling cooperation and networks untrained teachers, give them bad textbooks, no playgrounds and say, we have complied with The programs are expected to be implemented in Article 45 and primary education is a carefully developed time frame for a expanding…They meant that real education cumulative impact. The emphasis is on should be given to our children between the multiplying effective processes and nurturing ages of 6 and 14. institutions focused on children and young people, and which take forward the advances in - MC Chagla, Education Minister, 1964 education in the country. In addition, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and the Allied Trusts have portfolio would additionally develop specific focused on the education and development of strategies and networks for educationally people from marginalized communities and backward states like Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar nurturing excellence in different fields of Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and knowledge. The year 2007-2008 was marked by Andhra Pradesh. These states, with their own a renewed focus on the priorities and thrust areas histories and contemporary realities, pose a related to education. The process of introspection complex challenge for planners and social initiated in 2006-2007 led to the identification of activists. These strategies may be developed basic principles and program strategies. over the next one year in consultation with The era of globalization and increasing partners and experts, and are expected to have a awareness of rights at the grassroots level have five-year framework. added new demands and compulsions on the In 2007-2008, the Trusts supported 51 projects education system. Amidst these global concerns, and 47 small grants across 22 states related to the focus on children and their learning needs Education. The total disbursement on Education mostly gets ignored. The complexity of in 2007-2008 was Rs 384.74 million. our educational environment — multi-cultural, Programs Related to Access and Quality of multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, politicized, and Elementary Education professionally outdated — ensures that large sections of deprived and disadvantaged The Trusts are supporting a series of projects communities still remain outside its ambit. related to access and quality of education across the country. Elementary Education constitutes The approach of the Education portfolio in this 40 percent of the Trusts’ grant allocations. A context is based on an analysis of the present majority of the access projects involved bridge projects, collective wisdom of educationists associated with the Trust, and an evolving vision focused on developments in the sector. The democratic values and ethical sensibilities guiding the Trusts form the core of this forward- looking approach. The portfolio has defined the scope of its programs to focus on quality, value addition and development of institutions. The education programs will be based on five basic principles: • Child-centred education • People’s participation, particularly of women Outdoor clay activity at a balwadi in Uttarakhand set up • Development of local leadership by Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan

53 courses for out-of-school children and their enrolment in government or local schools. In government schools where children are enrolled, School Support Centres are started to improve their quality and ensure children’s continuity in new projects started in 2007-2008. The projects supported had the following common elements: • Systematic engagement with the community • Education for out-of-school children • Child-centred pedagogy SANDHAN, Rajasthan works directly with children to deepen understanding of pedagogy and to field test its training • Academic support for the NGOs modules for elementary education • Mainstreaming of children into local Maharashtra on teacher-training courses related government and other schools to pre-school and primary education. A • Supplementary interventions to improve systematic effort was made to reach states like quality in mainstream schools Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, where the Trusts have had limited In addition, it may be noted that the Trusts are reach. A holistic approach in conjunction with flexible about supporting projects related to other portfolios is being developed for state- children. Several notable grants have also been specific programs in an effort to increase the made on other aspects of children’s protection, development and education. impact and quality of programs. The projects related to elementary education are Overall, the emerging focus has been to develop mainly in the states of Maharashtra, Jharkhand, an engagement with the government schools, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and which are accessed by children from poorer Madhya Pradesh. Among the new areas communities, through teacher training and explored by partners in this year are computer- academic support. Projects have been initiated based learning, educational leadership scheme for strengthening community ownership in and new strategies for the education of Muslim education, with communities taking the lead and and tribal children. In strategic terms, the Trusts facilitating the governmental machinery to take also realize that resource groups and academic ownership of educational processes in programs for professional education of teachers government schools. In view of the limited are required parallel to field-based programs. reach of the projects supported so far, the There have been efforts by partners to emphasis is to reach all out-of-school children in collaborate with state agencies, like in the project area with specific local strategies. The importance of quality along with access, child-centred learning, mother tongue as the medium of instruction and an overall enabling environment are key for motivating children and communities. Programs Related to Adolescent Education The Trusts are supporting a series of projects related to education and empowerment of adolescents and youth. The Doosra Dashak program of the Foundation for Education and Development in Rajasthan remains the main Kala Jatha organized by BGVS in Jharkhand project in this category. There are another two

54 projects on similar lines namely Ajmer Adult Education Association and Urmul Khejri Sansthan which are also being supported in Rajasthan. The Trusts have always been committed to the task of nation building, and have invested in creative and talented youth as agents of social change and development. In this context, new strategies are also being evolved to create new opportunities for adolescents and youth, with fellowships and vocational education programs. The year was marked by concerted efforts to Learning at Samerth Trust’s centre for education expand and upscale the program with groups in in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh other states. A workshop was organized in Jamshedpur in October 2007 in which 16 NGOs attainments to access vocational training and life from Jharkhand and Bihar participated. The skills training. These projects have a focus on main objective of the workshop was to make creating livelihood opportunities that are participants from Jharkhand and Bihar aware relevant in today’s context. Another strategy has about the predicament of adolescent persons, been to offer educational support, scholarships their learning and developmental needs and the and mentoring to disadvantaged youth to pursue manner in which Doosra Dashak was higher education. implementing a program for them. The Innovations and Knowledge Building workshop was contextualized for the complex The Trusts have always been at the forefront of realities of Bihar and Jharkhand. A nodal group supporting innovative and knowledge building for Jharkhand has been identified and efforts are programs that extend human development and being made to initiate field-based projects. The set new standards in the education sector. At support of a resource group such as the Society present, a wide range of programs are being for Study of Education and Development supported across the country. They mainly come (SANDHAN), Jaipur is crucial for the in three categories — academic programs, field- expansion of the model to new areas, particularly in the Hindi belt. based research, and development of new strategies. While the first category includes It is clear from the experience of the present programs being evolved by academic programs being supported that the education and institutions, the other two categories are focused empowerment of adolescents and youth would on child rights and educational research. Most of be a major concern for the country. Trust- the programs are at a national level and break supported projects like Doosra Dashak and new ground related to educational data, Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti (BGVS), New planning and analysis relevant to the Delhi have demonstrated the effectiveness of development sector. engaging with youth in developmental processes. Across the country, wherever youth Emerging Concerns have been engaged with issues of public • Education of Women and the Community concern, the results have been dramatic, though Many NGOs have been working with particular not always positive. It is therefore critical to communities which have not been able to create opportunities for young people to realize achieve any breakthrough on education. This their potential, both in terms of social leadership has resulted in a situation where the community and entrepreneurship, and enable them to as a whole may improve its access to resources galvanize their community as a whole. or livelihoods, but is still unable to be In addition, the Trusts have initiated projects for empowered and self-sustaining in the absence of deprived youth with low educational education. Education and literacy becomes the

55 specific information, its interpretation for educational planning and a severe shortfall in the number of resource persons capable of doing high quality training at all levels. In addition, the availability of educational resource material in local languages and cultural contexts is inconsistent and scattered. This situation is further complicated by excessive centralization and multiplicity of projects and expected outcomes. Jeevanshala school in the Narmada Valley, Maharashtra run There is a need to support resource groups which by Narmada Navnirman Abhiyan can contribute towards this at different levels. most critical factor which hinders the The Trusts are presently supporting five such development of communities — rural, resource groups which work at the national urban poor, displaced, migrants, minorities, and state level. Their assistance is also being Dalits — and disempowers them. Education sought to develop the capabilities of thus becomes the most critical task for other groups working at a smaller scale. empowerment, as it can equip people to deal These groups are expected to be linked with with the complexities of their environment Trust partners and potential NGOs, and on their own terms, and not be dependent on undertake studies, documentation and academic the educated few for negotiations and dealing reviews of projects. This is an important with systems. function towards maintaining and improving the Education for women from marginalized quality of education. communities requires additional dimensions to • Professional Education be meaningful and sustainable. Requiring education beyond the acquisition of basic In the Education sector, there is a shortfall literacy skills, women who are struggling to of trained professional teachers, trainers, survive need it as a tool to critically analyse managers and researchers. A concerted effort is problems and to seek solutions. The required to fill this gap by supporting development scenario in the country today is institutions which can develop a cadre of overwhelmed by the growth of Self Help trained professionals. Initiatives to improve Groups (SHGs). According to rough estimates, infrastructure, academic standards and capacity there are nearly seven million SHGs in the building in teacher training institutions are country, out of which more than 90 percent required particularly in North Indian states that comprise only women. have lagged behind in education. Modern academic programs for teacher education It is important to understand and extend to that are multi-disciplinary in nature and women in SHGs learning opportunities, because responsive to children’s learning needs and it brings into focus the women themselves as citizens and individuals, rather than emphasize on their ‘deployment’ for implementation of schemes, governmental or non-governmental. There are a number of successful models which have demonstrated that investment in education increases children’s enrolment, increases family income and improves the quality of life. • Resource Groups One of the major impediments in educational interventions across the country, government or Young orphan in Lallai village, Sarwar block, Ajmer studying non-government, is the lack of appropriate area at the Prerna Kendra run by Ajmer Adult Education Association

56 the implementation of the Sangati program in 905 municipal schools in 24 wards in Mumbai. The project is being implemented as a foundation course in collaboration with the Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation, as a means of integrating all that a child learns, inside and outside the school. With support from the Trust, the Avehi Abacus program is also in the process of refining and finalizing a pre-service teacher training module for DEd students incorporating their Shikshana Grama Sabha meeting facilitated by MAYA experiences in dealing with students and teachers at Takali village, Bijapur district, Karnataka across schools in Maharashtra. environment are needed to inspire potential Advocacy for Alternative Resources, Action teachers. Fellowships for innovations in Mobilization and Brotherhood (AARAMBH) teaching learning methodologies, curriculum focuses on children of the urban poor in Bhopal. and school management can be explored and The educational interventions supported will encouraged. At present, a few initiatives are reach out to working and out-of-school children being supported by the Trusts. in six urban slums, provide educational With the Trust’s support, Movement for opportunities and mainstream them to formal Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA), schools. As part of the project, AARAMBH Karnataka is implementing a program called works with the mainstream schools where these Prajayatna in four districts namely Bellary, children are enrolled to bring about quality Bijapur and Gulbarga in Karnataka and changes in teaching-learning processes. The Mahbubnagar in Andhra Pradesh. The project is school improvement component will be expected to facilitate all stakeholders to take implemented with support from Eklavya, an ownership of elementary schools at the village educational resource group. AARAMBH is also level and institutionalize these processes as well attempting to combine a livelihood approach in as to enable Panchayat Raj Institutions and order to sustain the educational interventions in nagarpalikas to take greater responsibility of communities by providing entrepreneurship and education at the local level. It will also transform skill training to older children and low-cost the domain of educational practices of schools livelihood training to mothers. in two specific clusters in Bellary and A grant was made to the JN Tata Endowment Bijapur districts. This will be accompanied by for the Higher Education of Indians to interventions with the DIETs where Prajayatna augment its corpus. The interest from will attempt to effect teacher attitude to learning, the corpus would be used for enhancing the teacher training practices, syllabus, curriculum, loan scholarships awarded to students and etc. These activities will be supported and mid-career professionals pursuing higher strengthened by a centrally operated web portal education abroad. Over the years, several JN that will streamline information and generate Tata scholars have distinguished themselves in reliable reports on education across the districts. various walks of life. Avehi Public Charitable (Educational) Trust, a State Resource Centre for Adult Education in Mumbai-based organization runs an educational Indore, Madhya Pradesh is piloting a model of program (Abacus) with the municipal education life skills and livelihood training to school system in Mumbai. The Sangati package — dropout youth from disadvantaged communities comprehensive teaching-learning kits for classes from urban slums. A business school that will V, VI and VII — developed by them is meant to offer short-term courses by mapping youth supplement and enrich the curriculum at the aspirations and potential and industry demands middle school level. Support has been given for is being set up with the Trusts’ support.

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The lack of overall development in regions of started in Barabunki district and later expanded high Muslim population across the country has to Sitapur and Ranchi districts in Jharkhand. The been noted by various studies, including the present outreach of the madrasa program covers Sachar Committee. The absence of choices in 224 madrasas (160 in UP and 64 in Jharkhand). education in the community has implications on In all, 1,134 madrasa teachers have been trained, other fields as well. The nature and scale of with coverage of about 33,000 children directly efforts required are needed in many critical or indirectly. The main activities of Nalanda’s factors for all marginalized communities. The maqtab-madrasa program over the past three directions need to be evolved carefully in a non- years have been: sectarian manner. According to the Sachar 1. Advocating for priority to primary education Committee report, only three percent of Muslim in madrasas. children in the school going age attend madrasas. It has been established that one of the 2. Training of madrasa teachers in education in reasons why Muslim children drop out of school mathematics, language and other primary is due to the biases they face and the lack of any level subjects up to class V level. reflection of their culture within the school 3. Development of teaching-learning material space. The studies also disprove the popularly- in Urdu. held belief that the Muslims are averse or closed 4. Training a resource group of teachers as to the idea of ‘mainstream’ education for their master trainers. children. In fact, the community is articulate in expressing its frustration at the lack of The lack of Urdu teaching-learning material for opportunities and access to quality education. different subjects was also a limitation and Nalanda has developed some books and The Trusts have focused on the education and children’s literature in Urdu. Analysis of the lack development of people from the most of participation in government schooling marginalized communities in India. Over the revealed that the community preferred madrasas years, the Trusts have supported partners as they provided religious instruction as well as engaged in path breaking work with children, some regular subject teaching. Since there were including tribal children and children of the ‘hidden costs’ in government schools, they were minority community. Some of the organizations unaffordable for the poorest from the supported by the Trusts have strong components community. The main reason cited for not of working with minority communities. For sending girls to school was the lack of female instance, Nalanda in Uttar Pradesh has a well- teachers in government schools, a problem established maqtab-madrasa program for which remains to be addressed. training of teachers. Also supported are Mahita, Hyderabad, whose main achievement has been One of the insights from this program has been in providing access to education to girls living in that it debunks the popularly held belief that the slums of the old city and the Vacha Trust Muslims are averse or closed to the idea of which has been running resource centres for ‘mainstream’ education for their children, Muslim girls in Mumbai slums. particularly if it can be combined with religious education. Nalanda very consciously does not The Trust has been consistently supporting the intervene in the area of deeni taaleem (religious Nalanda Resource Centre for Educational education) or address any other issues related to Innovation and Planning since 1997-1998, and it the community that may appear controversial. has emerged as a premier group for training in They have limited their interactions to teaching- field-based primary education programs in rural learning processes — joyful and interactive areas of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. learning using the state text books, with no rote An important innovation started by Nalanda has learning and corporal punishment. been to develop an education intervention in the Mahita, established in 1995, has been working maqtab-madrasas. The initiative was first around the issues of the urban poor in

58 Hyderabad. Hyderabad, a major metropolis in Urdu medium schools, due to which the majority India is currently emerging as an Information of Muslim children drop out and engage in work. Technology hub. A large number of people from Mahita’s intervention strategies are as follows: various districts and states are migrating to the • Build infrastructural facilities and environment city in search of better opportunities. Despite its to adopt child-centric pedagogical practices. rapid growth in economy and technological advancements, the city is still lagging behind in • Mobilization and organization of children, providing basic services. Over a third of parents, headmaster and teachers for an Hyderabad’s population reside in slums and effective delivery of learning process and school other poor settlements, with a substantial management and administration. percentage being Muslims. From the age of six, • Develop linkages with the State Council children are forced into work thus hindering for Educational Research and Training their developmental opportunities. The (SCERT) and other pedagogy developing mainstream education system in the city is in a experts to source bilingual child-centric crisis situation, characterized by poor physical curriculum material. infrastructure, unfilled teacher vacancies and poor retention percentages. Urdu medium • Build capacities of headmasters, teachers, schools that cater to Muslim children are the parents and the district education department worst off. to evolve action plans for implementing With support from the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, child-centric educational practices. Mahita is engaging with 25 mainstream schools Four cluster level educational resource centres that predominantly cater to Muslim children in have been set up in Rasoolpura, Karwan, Hyderabad and Rangareddy districts. The Rajendernagar and Yakutpura slums. These schools selected are located in urban slums with centres serve as hubs for teacher training, material around 75 percent Muslim population. Most of production and study centres for children who the government schools functioning in these attend the government and private schools as well slums lack a child-friendly environment, have as out-of-school children. The proposed inadequate infrastructure, insufficient teachers and ineffective pedagogical practices. A study interventions will supplement the existing state conducted by Mahita in these slums revealed that curriculum which is being followed. Mahita is in most of the children, especially the adolescent the process of developing cost-effective, practical girls, drop out of the schools due to unavailability oriented material in Urdu for teachers and of separate toilets and hygienic environment in students to use along with trainings to teachers on schools. In certain slum pockets, there are no following child friendly learning methods.

Young students wait expectantly for their day to begin at a madrasa in Barabunki, Uttar Pradesh — the work area of Nalanda’s resource centre

59 Learning mathematics at the Educational Resource Centre set up Mahita in a Hyderabad slum Young students enjoy creative ways of learning introduced by Nalanda at a madrasa in Barabunki, Uttar Pradesh

Mahita’s approach develops new interests among children in Hyderabad

Teacher and students discover the world at the Mahita Educational Resource Centre, Hyderabad Informal class environment facilitated by Nalanda, changes the way children learn in a madrasa in Barabunki, Uttar Pradesh

Learning a variety of subjects, introduced by Nalanda, at the madrasa in Barabunki, Uttar Pradesh

Experiencing the joys of reading at the Girls Resource Centre run by the Vacha Trust in a basti in Mumbai Reading together at the Vacha Trust Centre in Mumbai EDUCATION

Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million Sir Dorabji Tata Trust 1 Agragamee, Orissa - Towards supporting progressive education centres in remote tribal blocks in Orissa. 5.00 0.85 2 Ajmer Adult Education Association, Rajasthan - Towards implementing a holistic and integrated education program for adolescents in 50 villages of Arain block of Ajmer district. 6.59 2.26 3 Anchalika Vikash Parisad, Orissa - Towards an educational project for the revival and restoration of Munda and Santhal tribes of Kankadahad block of Orissa. 0.65 0.18 4 Avehi Public Charitable (Educational) Trust, Maharashtra - Towards their Abacus project for implementation of the Sangati program in all municipal schools in Mumbai and finalization of the teacher training module. 15.60 1.23 5 Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti (BGVS), New Delhi - Towards the National Coordination Centre’s focus on training and capacity building, leadership and strengthening intervention strategies. 100.00 27.50 6 Brothers of St Gabriel Education Society, Andhra Pradesh - Towards offering vocational training to unemployed, unskilled youth from Chandrapur and Gadchiroli districts, Maharashtra. 6.00 3.55 7 Central Himalayan Rural Action Group (CHIRAG), Uttarakhand - Towards setting up of the Chirag School and implementing the adolescent initiative. 11.40 2.36 8 Cornell Sathguru Foundation for Development, Andhra Pradesh - Towards providing international exposure to selected Indian students from three agriculture universities, namely Tamil Nadu Agriculture University, Coimbatore, University of Agriculture Sciences, Dharwad and Acharya NG Ranga Agriculture University, Hyderabad. 11.38 3.79 9 Disha, New Delhi - Towards implementing school improvement interventions in four municipal corporation primary schools in Delhi. 3.04 1.56 10 Foundation for Education and Development, Rajasthan - Towards a Corpus Grant of Rs 50.00 million and a Program Grant of Rs 18.25 million. The Program Grant is towards supporting the Steering and Coordination Unit of Doosra Dashak and implementing the program in three blocks of Rajasthan namely Bap, Kishanganj and Pisangan. The Corpus Grant is towards securing the functioning of the Steering and Coordination Unit, the core organizational entity of Doosra Dashak for spreading the Doosra Dashak approach. 68.25 6.30 11 JN Tata Parsi Girls High School, Maharashtra - Towards rebuilding the old toilet block with 18 toilets and building a new toilet block with nine additional toilets. 2.20 2.20 12 Maharashtra Dyslexia Association, Maharashtra - Towards consolidating its research and training components in the area of Specific Learning Disabilities. 2.09 1.13 13 Mahita, Andhra Pradesh - Towards bringing about quality improvements in 25 government schools in Hyderabad and Rangareddy districts. 4.18 1.80 14 Nalanda, Uttar Pradesh - Towards enhancing access to quality primary education in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. 9.60 1.67 15 Nalanda, Uttar Pradesh - Towards quality improvement in primary education in Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. 33.21 5.00 16 Narmada Navnirman Abhiyan, Maharashtra - Towards running 12 Jeevanshalas in the Narmada Valley in the states of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. 15.64 1.93 17 National Foundation for India, New Delhi - Towards implementing its education program in the North-East. 15.83 4.80 18 Nirantar, New Delhi - Towards implementing the Sahjani Shiksha Kendra program in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, the Khabar Lahariya program in Chitrakoot and Banda, Uttar Pradesh and for the Nirantar Resource Centre. 23.80 2.00

64 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 19 Organisation for Awareness of Integrated Social Security, Madhya Pradesh - Towards supporting the Museum School catering to children from Bhopal slums. The project will reach out to 120 working children/school drop-outs from five slums in Bhopal. 1.50 0.50 20 Paragon Charitable Trust, Maharashtra - Towards undertaking a training of trainers program to train practitioners working with tribal and rural communities on the Muktangan approach. 8.99 1.05 21 Peoples Vigilance Committee on Human Rights, Uttar Pradesh - Towards imparting quality elementary education to Dalit children in 12 villages around Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. 2.53 0.39 22 Sangath, A Society for Child Development and Family Guidance, Goa - Towards implementing the inclusive education program in Goa. 5.33 1.98 23 Shaishav, Gujarat - Towards implementing educational interventions for disadvantaged children in Bhavnagar, Gujarat. 4.55 1.43 24 Shri VR Deshpande Memorial Trust, Karnataka - Towards implementing its vocational training programs for rural youth and the unemployed. 4.98 1.66 25 Sir Shapurji Billimoria Foundation, Maharashtra - Towards setting up the Institute of Integrated Education in Mumbai. 44.00 6.00 26 Socio Economic and Education Development Society, Jharkhand - Towards the project Bhavish Kalya for the education and empowerment of adolescents in tribal areas of Jharkhand. 17.08 2.20 27 Society for Study of Education and Development (SANDHAN), Rajasthan - Towards a Corpus Grant of Rs 40.00 million and a Program Grant of Rs 2.15 million. The Corpus Grant is towards making the organization self-sustainable with a challenge to raise an additional Rs 15.00 million towards the Corpus. The Program Grant is to be used towards core costs of SANDHAN. 42.15 0.60 28 State Resource Centre for Adult Education, Madhya Pradesh - Towards setting up a business school for providing life skills and livelihood training to underprivileged school dropout youth from 15 slums in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. 4.08 1.32 29 Sutradhar, Karnataka - Towards providing core support to Sutradhar towards its work as a resource organization on Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD). 7.80 2.45 30 Urmul Khejri Sansthan, Rajasthan - Towards implementing an integrated program for education and development of out-of-school adolescents in Jayal block, Nagaur district of Rajasthan. 6.30 2.20 31 Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan, Uttarakhand - Towards implementing its balwadi program and towards core support to the organization. 14.80 5.10 32 Vidya Poshak, Karnataka - Towards the Nurture Merit Program for supporting 300 Muslim students to pursue higher education. 1.32 0.44 33 Zubaan and Education Resource Unit, New Delhi - Towards the research project titled, Cartographies of Empowerment, Tracing the Journey of Mahila Samakhya. 1.94 0.97

Small Grants 1 Amrapali Utkarsh Sangh, Maharashtra - Towards providing vocational training and educational support to children of migrant workers in Nagpur. 0.50 0.50 2 Aseema Charitable Trust, Maharashtra - To provide education to street and underprivileged children. 0.04 0.04 3 Atharv - Utkarsha Sanstha, Maharashtra - Towards the education of adolescent girls in five villages of Phaltan taluka in Satara district. 0.49 0.49 4 Avishkar Shikshan Sanstha, Maharashtra - Towards a teachers training program. 0.08 0.08

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Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 5 Azad Shiksha Kendra, Madhya Pradesh - Towards improving enrolment in primary and maqtab schools of five panchayats in Shahganj block, Jaunpur district. 0.50 0.50 6 Chaithanya Charitable Trust, Kerala - Towards meeting the running expenses of the school for one year from 2007. 0.50 0.50 7 Chandran Gramin Vikas Sansthan, Uttar Pradesh - Towards transportation costs for girl students in rural areas of Ballia district. 0.24 0.24 8 Child in Need Institute, Jharkhand - Towards conducting a situation analysis of out-of-school children and ICDS beneficiaries in urban areas of three districts of Jharkhand. 0.50 0.50 9 Children`s Rights in Goa, Goa - Towards developing a resource kit to disseminate awareness on the Goa Children’s Act to children. 0.43 0.43 10 Circle for Animal Lovers, New Delhi - Towards their water supply system to its animal shelters and hospitals. 0.40 0.40 11 Comet Media Foundation, Maharashtra - Towards a workshop on computer creativity for urban and rural unemployed youth with the participating NGOs. 0.10 0.10 12 Comet Media Foundation, Maharashtra - Towards a workshop on computer creativity for urban and rural unemployed youth with the participating NGOs. 0.10 0.10 13 Comet Media Foundation, Maharashtra - Towards the Colloquium 2007: Knowledge and schooling: growing up in the digital age. 0.25 0.25 14 Dhwani Trust, Karnataka - Towards partial support to their program Poorana which supports teachers and children of classes V, VI, and VII in Kannada and Social Studies in vernacular medium schools of Karnataka. 0.49 0.49 15 Dilasa Sanstha, Maharashtra - Towards providing educational support to 52 children in the red-light and tribal areas of Yavatmal, Beed and Betul. 0.50 0.50 16 Disha Foundation, Maharashtra - Towards a workshop on skill building for teachers of Integrated Child Development Scheme, Nasik. 0.08 0.08 17 Dr AV Baliga Memorial Trust, New Delhi - Towards a quality education program in resettlement colonies of New Delhi. 0.50 0.50 18 Education World, Karnataka - Towards the annual subscription of 100 copies of the magazine Education World for distribution to various educational institutions. 0.04 0.04 19 Foundation for Awareness Counselling and Education, Jharkhand - Towards a quality education program in Pakur district, Jharkhand. 0.50 0.50 20 Government Higher Primary School, Karnataka - Towards the general science laboratory. 0.10 0.10 21 Halpati Seva Sangh, Gujarat - Towards uniforms for poor children. 0.05 0.05 22 Indian Council for Child Welfare, Assam - Towards supporting the proposed shelter for runaway and abandoned girl children in Guwahati. 0.50 0.50 23 Junior/Youth Red Cross, Maharashtra - Towards a workshop on social empowerment and training on fundamental principles of the Red Cross for the teachers of 26 Mumbai schools. 0.10 0.10 24 Light of Life Trust, Maharashtra - Towards supporting the education and development of 70 underprivileged children in Raigad, Maharashtra. 0.49 0.49 25 Marathi Vidnyan Parishad, Maharashtra - Towards supporting the Science and Technology Centre on a pilot basis at Kinvat, in Nanded district, Maharashtra. 0.49 0.49 26 NM Wadia (Tata-Wadia) High School, Gujarat - Towards repairs to the school building. 0.35 0.35 27 National Foundation for India, New Delhi - Towards completion of the Institute of Development Action, an initiative of the Action North-East Trust, Assam for strengthening the development sector in the North-East. 0.25 0.25 28 National Science Centre, New Delhi - Towards organizing the National Science Seminar 2007 on the theme, Global Change and its Impact. 0.26 0.26

66 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 29 New Education Group - Foundation for Innnovation and Research in Education, New Delhi - Towards conducting a feasibility study for developing the Educational Leaders program. 0.50 0.50 30 Nutan Gram Vidyapeeth, Gujarat - Towards awarding prizes to students with outstanding performance. 0.03 0.03 31 Pashu Shawchhedan Audyogik Utpadan Sahkari Samiti Ltd, Uttar Pradesh - Towards the alternate elementary education program in Suratganj block, Barabanki district. 0.44 0.44 32 Pratham Mumbai Education Initiative, Maharashtra - Towards the vocational training program for students on self employment and to form a group of master trainers. 0.10 0.10 33 Pratham Mumbai Education Initiative, Maharashtra - Towards a training program for children to help them adjust well in the school environment. 0.10 0.10 34 Rajasthan Adult Education Association, Rajasthan - Towards their publication on adult literacy. 0.50 0.50 35 Revolutionary Ideology of Voluntary Entrepreneurs and Realistics, West Bengal - Towards supporting an early childhood care and education program for children in 65 slums in Kolkata. 0.50 0.50 36 Saathi, Maharashtra - Towards supporting the Children`s Commission Action Forum, a campaign initiated as a joint venture between the Co-ordination Committee for Vulnerable Children and Quality Institutional Care and Alternatives for children. 0.50 0.50 37 Samerth Charitable Trust, Gujarat - Towards mainstreaming children of the Baiga tribes into school education in the Kota block of Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh. 0.50 0.50 38 Samrakshan Charitable Trust, New Delhi - Towards a bridge grant for supporting the Adharshila school in Sheopur district for the period April to September 2008. 0.50 0.50 39 Social Outreach Foundation, New Delhi - Towards paying rent for the school for underprivileged urban slum children in Noida, Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh. 0.50 0.50 40 St Francis Education Trust, Maharashtra - Towards the teachers training program: An Introduction to Innovative Teaching. Module I. 0.10 0.10 41 St Francis Education Trust, Maharashtra - Towards the teachers training program: An Introduction to Innovative Teaching. Module II. 0.10 0.10 42 St Xavier`s College, Maharashtra - Towards organizing a national conference on Plants in Relation to Man and Biosphere. 0.18 0.18 43 The AD Shroff Memorial Trust, Maharashtra - Towards a Corpus Grant — the income of which will be used for the activities of the organization. 0.50 0.50 44 Torpa Rural Development Society for Women, Jharkhand - Towards providing quality education to children in Torpa and Raina blocks of Khunti district, Jharkhand. 0.24 0.24 45 Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan, Uttarakhand - Towards the extension of the balwadi program in Uttarakhand. 0.50 0.50 46 Vocational and Technical Education Committee, Maharashtra - Towards scholarships to Parsi students for technical and engineering studies in India for the Academic Year 2007-2008. 0.10 0.10 47 Voluntary Health Association of Tripura, Tripura - Towards support to Ratanmani Vidyalay, a residential school for tribal children in the Rupaichari block of the South district of Tripura. 0.33 0.33 516.86 113.45

Jamsetji Tata Trust 1Dr Hermann Gundert Foundation, Kerala - Towards undertaking the construction of the school building at Tellicherry, Kerala. 5.00 5.00 2 Lady Meherbai D Tata Education Trust, Maharashtra - Towards a Corpus Grant to the Lady Meherbai D Tata Education Trust (LMDTET). The interest from the Corpus fund will be used for awarding scholarships to women graduates for higher studies abroad in specific subjects. 20.00 20.00

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Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 3 Pratham Mumbai Education Initiative, Maharashtra - Towards computer assisted learning program in Basti and Lucknow districts, Uttar Pradesh. 14.60 4.73 4The JN Tata Endowment for the Higher Education of Indians, Maharashtra - Towards a Corpus Grant for enhancing the loan scholarship amount awarded to JN Tata Scholars. 170.00 170.00 5 Torpa Rural Development Society for Women, Jharkhand - Towards quality education for tribal children in Torpa and Rania districts, Jharkhand. 9.88 3.05 219.48 202.78 RD Tata Trust 1 Xavier Institute of Development Action and Studies (XIDAS), Madhya Pradesh - Towards institutional support to Xavier Institute of Development Action and Studies. The grant includes support to XIDAS’s management development programs, capacity building programs, integral development program, mobile training program, staff salary, inservice training and infrastructural improvements. 37.63 12.10 37.63 12.10 Tata Education Trust 1 Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Network, Karnataka - Towards implementing the early development and inclusion project in Karnataka. 7.33 0.36 2 Leslie Sawhny Endowment, Maharashtra - Towards the Corpus and Program grant for supporting the training activities of the centre at Deolali, Nasik. 27.50 25.80 3 Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA), Karnataka - Towards implementing the Prajayatna program in four districts – Bellary, Bijapur, Gulbarga in Karnataka and Mehbubnagar in Andhra Pradesh. 36.06 10.80 70.89 36.96 JRD Tata Trust 1 Advocacy for Alternative Resources, Action Mobilization and Brotherhood (AARAMBH), Madhya Pradesh - Towards undertaking an intervention that combines educational and livelihood approaches to tackle the issue of child labour in six slums in Bhopal. 5.71 2.22 2 Aeronautical Society of India, Maharashtra - Towards the JRD Tata Day celebration program to be held in the second week of October 2007 at Nehru Science Centre, Worli. 0.15 0.15 3 Banwasi Vikas Ashram, Jharkhand - Towards quality improvement in the local education system in Bagodar block, Giridih, Jharkhand. 17.38 4.05 4 Cauvery Education Society, Karnataka - Towards constructing an auditorium at Kaveri Women’s College, Kodagu, Karnataka. 5.00 5.00 5 Holy Family Upper Primary School, Kerala - Towards the salary expenses of teachers and administrative staff of the school. 5.00 0.85 6 Jago Foundation, Jharkhand - Towards capacity building and awareness of girls, youth and women in Jamua block, Giridih, Jharkhand. 3.45 1.14 7 Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha, Maharashtra - Towards subsidizing educational costs of girls belonging to economically backward families studying in the Mahilashram High School in Pune. 6.00 2.00 8 Samajik Parivartan Sansthan, Jharkhand - Towards strengthening education in the mainstream in Giridih, Jharkhand. 9.50 1.85 9 Vacha Trust, Maharashtra - Towards implementing an educational intervention for girls from poor communities and minorities in K West and H West wards in Mumbai. 4.37 2.19 56.56 19.45 Grand Total 901.42 384.74

68 Everyday objects become interesting learning aids for children in balwadis run by Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan, Uttarakhand

HEALTH

The status of health is an important indicator women (adolescent girls, maternal health) as reflecting social development and the quality well as on community health particularly with of human life, further health care is one of regard to child and maternal care and child the most basic human rights. Ensuring equitable nutrition; treatment care and integration in the access to health care regardless of people’s mainstream of the physically and the mentally ability to pay for health services is one of challenged and the integration of the Indian the major challenges faced by the health Systems of Medicine. In addition, the Trusts system today. have continued to support the creation of health infrastructure in hard-to-reach terrain. Margaret Chan, WHO’s Director-General has placed primary health care centre-stage at There are very few programmatic models on WHO. At the 61st World Health Assembly in how adolescent health services can be March 2008 (WHA), she spoke of three threats operationalized through the existing public to international security: the global-food crisis, health system. The Population Foundation of pandemic influenza and climate change. India (PFI) and the Institute of Health She said that progress towards reaching Management, Pachod (IHMP) have undertaken the Millennium Development Goals could a multi-site action research project in be achieved by revitalization of primary Maharashtra, which will demonstrate the health care. “Countries with solid health implementation of an adolescent and infrastructures and efficient mechanisms for reproductive and sexual health (ARSH) reaching vulnerable populations will be in the program for married adolescents. The broad best position to cope with threats to health goal of the project is to demonstrate the security. If we want to reach the health-related implementation of an ARSH package for goals, we must return to the values, principles, married adolescents in five districts of the and approaches of primary health care.” Marathwada and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra state, to build the capacity in five Committed to social justice and equality in health NGOs for program implementation and care, the Trusts have focused on research and research, and to undertake policy advocacy at knowledge building on measures to promote low- the local, state and national levels. cost health delivery and health financing on the one hand and studies on non communicable Jan Chetna Manch Bokaro is a small diseases on the other. The foci of implementation community-based organization that has been support has been primarily on health issues of working in the villages of Chas and Chandankiari blocks of the Bokaro district in Jharkhand. Due to the dysfunctional health services of the government, there is an abundance of un/semi-qualified medical practitioners who provide primary health care to most villagers, and are increasingly being called to attend to women during childbirth.

The support provided is for strengthening the community-based maternity centre as

Creating awareness on adolescent health issues through well as training-cum-resource centre for the PFI-IHMP program in Maharashtra training of village health workers. Training

71 a project of the Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of India (ARDSI). ARDSI’s care and support to people with dementia includes day care and home care services. Research on people with dementia is an important part of their work as well. Disorders such as dementia and Alzheimer’s are emerging as a serious public health issue as they impact the lives of millions of older persons and their families.

The Trust has supported the preparation Primary Health Care Centre run by Karuna Trust in Karnataka of an innovative model to enhance emotional and social competence of economically offered will be in maternal and neo-natal care, disadvantaged school children in the city preventive health, rational drug use, nutrition of Mumbai through a grant to the Bombay and growth monitoring. Community Public Trust.

The Sir Dorabji Tata Trust supports a health care Initiatives undertaken during the year have been model of Karuna Trust, based on Public Private to develop programs under gender-based Partnership. The model has been efficiently violence and public health. One such program replicated across diversely different districts of supported by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust is Karnataka and also nine different set-ups of Society for Nutrition Education and Health Arunachal Pradesh, a state entirely different in Action (SNEHA), Mumbai to evolve a model culture, setting and health care needs from that project on eliminating violence against women of Karnataka. in urban communities.

Aarohi and Kassar Trust are supported for The 285 million urban population in India strengthening self-sustaining management accounts for 28 percent of the country’s total systems for primary health care in rural population, a number that is estimated to double Uttarakhand, in which the organizations by 2025. Approximately one-fourth of urban have aimed to evolve a replicable health India, comprising over 70 million persons, lives in system. An outcome of the last three years will slums or illegal settlements without basic create a network of health NGOs in the state for infrastructure and public services. The health of whom this current project will serve as a the urban poor is much worse than that of their prototype model. better off neighbours and sometimes even of their Scaling up services in the community for people with mental illnesses is a priority international public health concern, especially in low-income countries where the treatment gap is appalling. Amongst the other projects that the Trusts support is Basic Needs India, Karnataka. The model operates on the philosophy of the creation of a different and better world for mentally ill people through the community’s understanding of mental health and the resulting positive response of inclusion and ownership. The comprehensive Primary Health Care Centre in a remote region dementia care project is being supported through of Arunachal Pradesh run by Karuna Trust

72 Peace Trust, has been working on improving medical facilities in government hospitals in Perambalur district, Tamil Nadu which are served by the statewide health delivery system run by the state government. The grant is for the upgradation of medical equipment in order to ensure timely and effective health service.

Pharmacy in Bameng, Arunachal Pradesh, set up by Karuna Trust, servicing the inaccessible region and communities As is widely accepted, deficiencies in the public sector health system and ensuring equitable rural counterparts. In this context, support has access to health services call for significant been extended to Mamta Health Institute for Mother and Child who have been working to reforms. However there is no single strategy that bring about sustainable improvement in maternal can serve as the ‘best option’. While proposed and child health conditions among the urban poor reforms are not cheap, the cost of not reforming in New Delhi. is phenomenal. Receiving help and cure at the ARDSI Day Care Centre in Kochi

73 DISABILITY

By all accounts, India is home to the largest jurisprudence that has clarified the content of number of persons with disability in the world. rights in the context of disability. The 2001 census of the country estimated their The Trusts have supported work on disability number at 22 million. However, according to over a period of time, however when viewed in many observers the actual number of Indians the context of the current situation in the area of with temporary and permanent disabilities could development focused work in disability, the be as high as 50 million. Although the identified thrust areas include the following: Constitution of India guarantees persons with • Early intervention disabilities the full range of civil, political, • Community-based approaches to providing economic, cultural and social rights, the care and rehabilitation arrangements necessary to translate the • Skill development constitutional guarantees into reality have been • Employment conspicuously absent till recently. Arushi, founded in 1992, is a Bhopal-based The dominant social attitude towards persons NGO working for people with disabilities and with a disability has been one of pity, from the issues related to them. The basic objective of which springs insidious forms of discrimination Arushi’s work is to generate opportunities and the eventual source of their exclusion and develop capacities in people with disabilities so extreme isolation. While many marginalized as to empower them to be able to make their own social groups have been able to project their life choices and live a better life. Arushi has specific social experiences of discrimination developed a modern centre catering to all types and their aspirations onto the wider social plain of disabilities in the heart of Bhopal city through for discussion and debate, interventions from a 3,500 square feet plot which was provided by the disabled have been minimal as they lead the government. The building serves both as dispersed social lives that make their Arushi’s office, as well as a resource centre. The discrimination appear as individual problems. three-storied building and the resources This is exemplified in the Constitution of India provided therein have been designed to be that prohibits discrimination on grounds of disabled-friendly. The building which houses religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth the audio library has a vast collection (Article 15) but does not explicitly mention (approximately 12,000 hours) of audio cassettes persons with disability as a group to be protected and compact discs containing study material against discrimination. required by the visually impaired. It also The past decade has also witnessed an contains a recording studio which can undertake unprecedented process of change that audio recording in any language for any has positioned disability in the centre of a subject. This collection is one of the largest of its debate that focuses on the idea of ‘society for kind in India. The grant currently supports the all’. This calls for redefining the notion of the resource centre. social ‘mainstream’ that is appreciative The Association of People with Disability and accommodative of the difference, (APD) was founded in 1959 in Bangalore. APD instead of expecting various inherently has responded to the needs of disabled different minorities to fit into the so-called individuals through an array of programs that mainstream culture. include service provision, vocational training, Despite many obstacles that need to be advocacy, community-based rehabilitation and overcome, the human rights approach to many others. APD’s experience in the field disability has led to the evolution of an clearly indicated a need for providing relevant impressive legal framework and positive training to disabled people from the rural areas.

74 Horticulture was a response to this need and the Mumbai whose pilot project is to provide idea emerged from the fact that Bangalore city computer-based education amongst was expanding with new industries and a the deafblind persons; and Helpers of highly aspirant middle class who would want the Handicapped, Kolhapur which has a gardens and gardeners to tend to them. The comprehensive rehabilitation program for the critical feature of the training is that it includes disabled in rural Maharashtra. training the participants on individual living Strategic inputs towards strengthening the sub- skills and disability management. The category on the portfolio are to: horticulture training program at APD is supported by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust. 1. Proactively develop disability programs in states where support does not already exist. Other initiatives supported by the Trust during the year include Om Creation Trust, Mumbai 2. Create a forum for learning and exposure. who work with mentally challenged women; 3. Identify best practices/innovations and Helen Keller Institute for Deaf and Deafblind, facilitate documentation and dissemination.

Learning to count in Braille at the Arushi Centre in Bhopal

75 Experiencing the joys of learning at the Arushi Centre, Bhopal Working with seedlings at APD’s horticulture training centre, Bangalore

Tending to the plants at the APD nursery translate into livelihood options for the disabled

Through the efforts of Arushi, a railway station in Bhopal becomes disabled-friendly — facilitating the access of the blind HEALTH

Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million Sir Dorabji Tata Trust 1 Aarohi, Uttarakhand - Towards developing a viable cost effective community health model with Kassar Trust as an equal partner and to network with organizations to evolve a self-sustaining management system for primary health care in rural Uttarakhand. 11.07 2.51 2 Alzheimer`s and Related Disorders Society of India (ARDSI), Kerala - Towards the consolidation and expansion of the ongoing activities of the comprehensive dementia care program being implemented in Kochi. 2.06 1.03 3 Anjali, West Bengal - Towards the continuation and scaling up of Anjali’s rehabilitation and reintegration program in Pavlova and Lumbini Park Hospitals. 4.13 1.40 4 Anweshi Women`s Counselling Centre, Kerala - Towards enabling Anweshi Women’s Support and Advocacy Centre to consolidate its activities which include counselling, the legal aid cell, community work, advocacy and strengthening of the library and documentation centre; and for meeting the running costs of a Short Stay Home, a safe shelter for women and children. 8.65 2.85 5 Arushi, Madhya Pradesh - Towards establishing the Arushi Disability Resource and Information Centre (ADRIC) to meet the objectives as stated in the project. 4.80 1.73 6 Association of People with Disability (APD), Karnataka - Towards the implementation of a horticulture project for people with disabilities. 8.90 2.85 7 Banjara Development Society, Andhra Pradesh - Towards advocacy and capacity building for health and development of the notified Chenchu tribes. 6.00 1.77 8 Bapu Trust for Research on Mind and Discourse, Maharashtra - Towards meeting the costs of: A) Centre for Advocacy in Mental Health B) Saher - the community mental health service program for women. In addition, Bapu Trust will conduct two research studies on mental health in Pune. 8.10 2.46 9 Basic Needs India, Karnataka - Towards the implementation of a community mental health and development model across eight states in the country. 15.94 2.65 10 Child In Need Institute (CINI), Bihar - Towards implementing the Life Cycle Approach project for reproductive and child health services in two divisions of Jharkhand through two partner NGOs, Lohardaga Gram Swaraj Sanstha in Palamu division and Nav Bharat Jagrati Kendra (NBJK) in North Chhotanagpur division respectively. 10.00 2.85 11 Community Development Centre, Madhya Pradesh - Towards empowering local panchayats on health-related issues in 18 villages of Lalburra block in Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh. The project will be implemented with two other organizations namely Gramin Vikas Mandal and Swasthya Sanrakshak Samiti. 2.08 0.58 12 Dhara Sansthan, Rajasthan - Towards support of a pilot project drawing linkages between livelihood and health; to demonstrate the effective role of SHGs in health management and the effective linkages of development with health. 2.44 0.89 13 Jan Chetna Manch Bokaro, Jharkhand - Towards the operation of the women’s health and resource centre, which includes infrastructure facilities and equipping of the operation theatre and laboratory. 5.00 2.25 14 Jan Jagaran Samiti, Uttarakhand - Towards the expansion of Phase II of the Dena Hospital. This grant is given towards construction of the Dena Hospital and equipping the operation theatre, intensive care unit and ophthalmic unit. In addition, the grant will cover the recurring costs towards operationalizing Phase II of the Dena Hospital. 27.00 3.25 15 Jan Swasthya Sahyog, Chhattisgarh - Towards a Corpus Grant of Rs 30.00 million and a Program Grant of Rs 9.60 million. The Program Grant is towards supporting the community health centre and program. The Corpus is towards strengthening Jan Swasthya Sahyog’s role

78 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million as a resource centre for training and application of public health principles in health and medicine. 39.60 17.43 16 Janarth, Maharashtra - Towards supporting the community-based rehabilitation training program for the disabled in rural areas. 3.60 0.60 17 Karuna Trust, Karnataka - Towards implementing primary health care through a Public Private Partnership in Karnataka and Arunachal Pradesh. 10.65 3.55 18 Kassar Trust, Uttarakhand - Towards developing a viable, cost effective community health model with Aarohi as an equal partner and to network with other organizations to evolve a self-sustaining management system for primary health care in rural Uttarakhand. 10.73 3.33 19 Lok Prerna Kendra, Jharkhand - Towards support of comprehensive community-based health care services, including preventive, promotive and curative health care through a village health centre covering 11-12 villages in Simiriya block. 1.59 0.36 20 Lok Uthan Kendra, Jharkhand - Towards support of comprehensive community-based health care services, including preventive, promotive and curative health care through a village health centre covering 11-12 villages in Katkamsandi block. 1.59 0.36 21 Mahiti Rural Development Centre, Gujarat - Towards supporting the community health program in 28 old and 25 new villages respectively. This will include training costs of village health workers, salaries of the health team and other administration costs; and towards the capital cost of an ambulance for outreach health services. 4.60 1.23 22 Point of View, Maharashtra - Towards community-based prevention initiatives in reducing gender-based violence by building the capacity of communities and documenting best practices at community levels. 5.35 0.97 23 Population Foundation of India, New Delhi - Towards the project entitled, Reducing Reproductive Morbidity in Married Young Women in Rural Maharashtra to be jointly implemented by Population Foundation of India, New Delhi and the Institute of Health Management, Pachod, Maharashtra. 40.00 9.04 24 Sahaj, Gujarat - Towards (a) the Girls at the Margin project (an extension of Shishu Milap), working with girls and boys from 15 bastis, street girls, and girls in sex work in Vadodara and (b) Post-project support for Women Centre Health Project (WCHP) in Mumbai, a collaborative project with Mumbai Municipal Corporation. 5.00 0.88 25 Sahayog, Uttar Pradesh - Towards undertaking a study on access to health services for women working in the unorganized sector, with special reference to maternal health services across three states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh. 2.10 0.94 26 Sanhita, West Bengal - Towards supporting the Gender Resource Centre enabling them to continue their program on sexual and reproductive health and rights of young women with a focus on the following programs: i. Initiatives with young women from educational and professional institutions. ii. Initiatives with young women from community/community based organizations. iii. Research initiative : looking into sexual and reproductive health: knowledge and practices of young women in districts of West Bengal. 8.45 2.51 27 Self-Help Promotion for Health and Rural Development (SHEPHERD), Tamil Nadu - Towards implementing a health program with a focus on RCH-related diseases, through self-help groups and their federations at block and district levels. 2.60 0.20 28 Sir Albert Howard Memorial Trust (SAHMET), Madhya Pradesh - Towards enabling SAHMET to expand its community health program to 50 villages and intensify its activities. SAHMET will generate awareness in the community about assessing various government health schemes, as well as promote healthy behaviour and practices. 4.32 1.39

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Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 29 Stri Shakti, Jharkhand - Towards support of comprehensive community-based health care services, including preventive, promotive and curative health care through a village health centre covering 11-12 villages in Sadar block. 1.59 0.36 30 Swasthya Sanrakshak Samiti, Madhya Pradesh - Towards empowering local panchayats on health-related issues in 18 villages of Lalburra block in Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh. The project will be implemented with two other organizations, namely Community Development Centre and Gramin Vikas Mandal. 6.98 0.24

Small Grants 1 Centre for Health and Social Justice, New Delhi - Towards meeting the expenses for travel of 40 civil society participants from across 12 to 15 states and hosting the National Stakeholders Consultation from August 6-8, in New Delhi. 0.10 0.10 2 Centre for Health and Social Justice, New Delhi - Towards a national consultation on the role of Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA-Dais) within the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). 0.50 0.50 3 Forum for Medical Ethics Society, Maharashtra - Towards the conference on Moral and Ethical Imperatives of Health Care Technologies. 0.50 0.50 4 Gram Swarajya Sansthan, Bihar - Towards strengthening the community-based health care system through mobilizing the community and government health machinery at 10 villages of Islampur block, Nalanda district. 0.50 0.50 5 Hirwal Swayamsevi Sanstha, Maharashtra - Towards the training of community health workers by social workers and nurses in 10 villages of Amravati district. 0.50 0.23 6 Indian Red Cross Society, Maharashtra - Towards conducting a workshop on disaster preparedness, disaster response and disaster mitigation and risk from climate change. 0.15 0.15 7 Lifeline Foundation, Gujarat - Towards expansion of Lifeline Foundation’s existing program on emergency evacuation and life support on highways in West Bengal. 0.49 0.49 8Manav Foundation, Maharashtra - Towards the salary of the staff at the Day Care Rehabilitation Centre for a year. 0.50 0.50 9 Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine, Maharashtra - Towards the First Asian and Second National Medical Students’ Research Conference in February 2008. 0.50 0.50 10 Meher Bhargava Foundation, Uttar Pradesh - Towards their program for the development of women and children. 0.50 0.50 11 Mumbai City Sainik Welfare Office, Maharashtra - Towards the rehabilitation of disabled jawans, war widows and ex-servicemen in their civil life. 0.05 0.05 12 Mumbai Thalassaemic Society, Maharashtra - Towards covering the medical cost of 50 needy thalassaemic patients. 0.10 0.10 13 National Association for the Blind, Maharashtra - Towards their training program on Thai Yoga Massage for the benefit of 24 students including staff and ex students. 0.04 0.04 14 Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi - Towards a teaching seminar on research in nutrition. 0.10 0.10 15 Rashtriya Life Saving Society, Maharashtra - Towards the expenses for organizing Rescue India 2007 - 5th National Life Saving Sports Championship held at Mumbai in November 2007. 0.50 0.50 16 Shrujan, Karnataka - Towards the development and expansion of the Navajeevana project to include residential vocational training and a physiotherapy unit for the rehabilitation of persons with different disabilities. 0.50 0.50

80 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 17 Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action, Maharashtra - Towards designing a model intervention project to tackle violence against women as an urban health concern. 0.48 0.48 18 The Bombay Community Public Trust, Maharashtra - Towards their mental health program amongst underprivileged children in Mumbai. 0.35 0.35 271.28 78.55 Jamsetji Tata Trust 1 Arya Vaidya Sala, Kerala - Towards the research activities of the Centre for Medicinal Plant Research. 75.41 19.42 2 Helpers of the Handicapped, Maharashtra - Towards the vocational training as part of the Swapna Nagari Project at Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra. 4.22 1.70 3 Indian Naval Benevolent Association, New Delhi - Towards equipping the Paediatric Ward at the District Hospital, Handwara and to extend medical support for future generations of children in the district. 1.50 1.50 4 Peace Trust, Tamil Nadu - Towards upgradation of medical equipment of the Government District Headquarters Hospital, Perambalur and six taluka hospitals and 10 primary health centres in the same district in Tamil Nadu. 80.00 35.38 5 Swami Vivekananda Integrated Rural Health Centre, Karnataka - Towards the Blindness Control program which will include screening of school children to reduce ophthalmic morbidity. It will cover project areas in Pavagada and Madhugiri talukas of Tumkur district. 5.70 1.90 6 Uttar Pradesh Voluntary Health Association, Uttar Pradesh - Towards the comprehensive tribal health project in Shankargarh and Manda blocks of Allahabad district. 17.00 3.41 7 Vision Research Foundation, Tamil Nadu - Towards supporting two research studies undertaken by Sankara Nethralaya (SN-DREAM II) to determine the incidence of diabetic retinopathy in the urban slums of Chennai and the prevalence study from the six rural districts of Tamil Nadu. 55.35 7.10 239.18 70.41 RD Tata Trust 1 Bangalore Hospice Trust, Karnataka - Towards setting up a waste water recycling plant, and for partially meeting the operational costs of the hospice, Karunashraya. 4.62 1.14 2 King Edward Memorial Hospital, Maharashtra - Towards the Corpus and the equipment for the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit. 21.95 5.00 3 Seva Mandir, Rajasthan - Towards the program on health awareness and services. 26.48 0.48 53.05 6.62 Tata Social Welfare Trust 1 Ashagram Trust, Madhya Pradesh - Towards continuing to provide comprehensive community-based mental health services to the tribal population of 110 villages of Pati block; to raise the issue of mental health at state and national levels; build capacity of government doctors and grassroot government health workers; conduct state and national level advocacy for the rights of persons with mental illness and influence state policies on mental health. 6.42 2.01 2 Mamta Health Institute for Mother and Child, New Delhi - Towards enhancing the capacity of community-based organizations and developing linkages with the public health system for reduction of maternal and child morbidity and mortality in the Tigri slums and resettlement colonies of New Delhi. 5.96 1.87

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Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 3 Thrombosis Research Institute – India, Karnataka - Towards setting up a state of the art laboratory with creation of additional facilities and equipment. This will enable the institute to achieve its twin objectives of identifying persons at risk of developing cardiovascular diseases at an early stage and to develop affordable therapies and prophylactic vaccines. 140.00 51.00 152.38 54.88 Tata Education Trust 1 King Edward Memorial Hospital, Maharashtra - Towards the Corpus and the equipment of the Neurological Intensive Care Unit. 23.50 5.00 2 Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine, Maharashtra - Towards developing a microscience and technology module for rural India through the conduction of mobile workshops, research conducted by students and interaction with entrepreneurs. 8.74 4.64 32.24 9.64 JRD Tata Trust 1 Cheshire Home-India, Tamil Nadu - Towards implementing the community based rehabilitation program in Thiruporur block, Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu. 2.80 0.47 2 Gramin Vikas Sansthan, Rajasthan - Towards providing health education and health services with a focus on women and children. 0.81 0.30 3 Helen Keller Institute for Deaf and Deafblind, Maharashtra - Towards providing educational (including computer education) training and rehabilitation services for deafblind and blind adults. In addition to the computer education project, the grant will also cover the sponsorship of 20 deafblind and blind students for the 18 month courses. 5.70 2.79 4 India Natural Resource Economics and Management Foundation, Gujarat - Towards providing expert knowledge, capacity building and project management in rural water quality, health and water treatment. 1.51 1.20 5 King Edward Memorial Hospital, Maharashtra - Towards the Corpus and the equipment for the Cardiac Care Unit. 25.30 5.00 6 Operation Smile India, Maharashtra - Towards the cost of equipment and the cleft lip and cleft palate mission in Pinnamaneni Siddharta Hospital in Gannavaram, Andhra Pradesh. 2.90 2.90 7 Sama – Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi - Towards strengthening and consolidating the primary activities of Sama Resource Group for Women and Health. 4.40 1.45 8 Sambhaav, Rajasthan - Towards empowering people specially women with health knowledge/training and in providing preventive health services, extending to 72 villages of the project area. 2.80 1.00 9 Samraksha, Karnataka - Towards supporting the urban program of Rs 10.30 million and the rural program of Rs 9.10 million respectively. This includes developing a model of holistic reproductive and sexual health services in the urban continuum of Bangalore city and the rural continuum covering Raichur and Koppal districts. 19.40 4.80 10 Society for the Visually Handicapped, West Bengal - Towards their program initiative for the deafblind. 2.00 0.48 11 Tathapi – Women and Health Resource Development, Maharashtra - Towards the projects i) Women and health resource development, ii) Body literacy curriculum/workshop development and iii) Violence – public health issue. 3.60 1.10 12 The Coorg Foundation, Karnataka - Towards meeting the costs of the expansion plans which include infrastructure costs of a new hostel to increase the strength of the differently disabled children; to provide them with more opportunities and towards meeting the costs of running the Centre and Production Unit for the rehabilitation of these children. 9.28 2.45

82 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 13 Ummeed Child Development Centre, Maharashtra - Towards expansion of services to provide integrated care to patients/children and to create a better overall environment for children with developmental disabilities through building awareness, training, research, advocacy and support to other NGOs. This would include purchase of built-up premises, cost of interiors designed to meet the requirements of the patients/children; and some of the operational costs over four years. 30.00 1.40 14 World Centre for Creative Learning Foundation, Maharashtra - Towards organizational support for developing arts-based therapy and to conduct training, action research, development of assessment and evaluation tools and product creation. 6.76 2.25 117.26 27.59 The JRD and Thelma J Tata Trust 1 Natyashala Charity Trust, Maharashtra - Towards strengthening the Rural Training Centre at Kanhe by supporting salaries of the key staff, and training in performing arts, crafts, play production, documentation and conducting of workshops. 3.25 1.03 2Om Creation Trust, Maharashtra - Towards consolidating and expanding the Arts Division, through training, upgradation and acquisition of equipment for gainful engagement of mentally challenged women. 2.90 0.75 3 Shaheen – Women’s Resource and Welfare Association, Andhra Pradesh - Towards the program on raising the rights of women through programs on girl education addressing violence and on legal training and counselling. 0.46 0.46 4 Society of Parents of Children with Autistic Disorders – SOPAN, Maharashtra - Towards the infrastructure and part of the operational expenses for running the Vocational Training Unit and Speech Therapy Unit at the Samarpan Centre. 2.50 0.30 5 Women’s Research and Action Group (WRAG), Maharashtra - Towards meeting their institutional costs; and supporting their community-based initiatives with mahila mandals, legal aid and legal consultancy for women; and holding of seminars and workshops on human rights awareness and legal literacy, research and publications. 9.20 3.33 18.31 5.87 Grand Total 883.70 253.56

CIVIL SOCIETY, GOVERNANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Civil Society, Governance and Human Rights The program team translated these guidelines and (CSGHR) evolved as a separate portfolio with a identified various innovative interventions across pan-India focus as an outcome of the Strategic the country. The projects that were supported in Plan exercise that was undertaken. A total of 22 the three main thrust areas were as follows: projects slotted under the Social Development Strengthening Governance Initiatives portfolio until the previous year were combined to create this portfolio following the The focus remained on the grassroots strategic planning exercise. More than 20 new governance in the remote areas of India with projects have been added to the portfolio during emphasis on principles of accountability, the year 2007-2008. Thus this newly-built transparency and participation of the most portfolio has 48 projects at present. The thrust marginalized communities in governance. areas identified within the CSGHR portfolio as Several field organizations provide training to outlined in the strategic plan are: the vast number of men and women elected to • Strengthening Governance: The portfolio the gram panchayats, in order that they may will specifically focus on improving the better understand how to use the legitimate implementation of the 73rd Amendment of power that they have gained out of an electoral the Indian Constitution and Panchayati Raj process to ensure better governance at the Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) to village level. Each organization has chosen a ensure functional democracy. specific field for capacity building such as • Protection of Basic Human Rights: Association for Voluntary Agencies for Rural Support would be provided towards Development (AVARD) and Mahila Haat, both creating an environment in which basic from New Delhi, who are working on human rights are protected for the most interventions of panchayat-level micro- marginalized communities. planning and implementation in Uttar Pradesh • Strengthening Civil Society: Most of the (UP) and Uttarakhand respectively. In Gujarat, a backward areas are not only characterized network of organizations has been working by poor outreach of basic services, but also a towards the formation of a platform of elected lack of presence of civil society women at the block and district level to organizations. The portfolio recognizes this strengthen their roles. Although the 73rd need and will support initiatives that will Amendment applies to the entire country, there build the capacities of civil society have been further amendments to respond to the organizations to respond to the complexities special needs of tribal populations. Projects of poverty and promote rights of the people. have been supported in the tribal-dominated The portfolio will in a variety of ways seek to areas of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, UP and professionalize rights-based work through Orissa to activate and strengthen the gram sabha research, advocacy, documentation and on the provisions of PESA. The projects have dissemination of relevant materials and also specifically focused on raising the participation engage with government as well as non- of Primitive Tribe groups in governance. governmental organizations, community- An innovative project of Democracy Connect based organizations and the institutional focuses on the Members of Parliament (MP) and actors such as the police and judiciary. Governance of civil society organizations exploring possibilities of creating space for will be developed as a significant focus area. formal and regular interaction between panchayat representatives and MPs.

85 One of the interesting things about rights is that when its denial becomes apparent only then would you seek justice for the denial. Thus the important thing while working on human rights is to be able to track the violations as the Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN), New Delhi does by providing tool kits to grassroots organizations and CSOs to track and prevent violations of housing and land rights. For the poor a house is not just a shelter, it also doubles up as an important component of their Home visit to build awareness on child marriage, conducted livelihood strategy. Improper records of land by the project staff of Nishtha in West Bengal and poor updating of inheritance records on Securing Basic Rights death of the land holder create the conditions for The portfolio of CSGHR has also focused on taking away land rights. Returning and securing the rights of marginalized communities securing land rights are therefore important civil in the most deprived areas of the poorer states of society interventions. India. The portfolio responds to appeals that Even in this day and age, patriarchy and poverty seek to restore and protect the rights of women, create conditions for persistence of age-old Dalits, tribals, homeless, prisoners and basic customs in defiance of the law such as child entitlements of the vulnerable communities. It is marriage. Nishtha in West Bengal has been found that human rights violations are most supported for the prevention of child marriages rampant among the relatively poorer states. in Mograhat II block of West Bengal. The Food insecurity among the poor despite overall strategies combine tracking ‘at risk’ girls in the economic growth of the country remains a age group of 11 to 18 and engaging with them in serious problem for the country. In the past few skill building, helping them get back into years, a public interest litigation filed by a few mainstream education, engaging with their organizations have yielded very supportive parents and working with the community in orders by the Supreme Court that have campaign mode. strengthened the hands of the rural poor and the civil society organizations working in these Violence against women is a widespread areas. These orders have played a significant phenomenon despite legislation protecting role in streamlining the Public Distribution women against it. Counselling and guidance System — the major source of grain for the poor. centres are required to ensure that women in Armed with these orders, the poor and civil distress get the desired support. Nine Mahila society organizations are working towards Salah Evam Suraksha Kendras — women’s ensuring the basic right to food. While support to six organizations in Madhya Pradesh on securing the right to food continues, this year Baihar Nari Utthan Sewa Mahila Mandal has been supported for ensuring the right to food among the primitive Baiga tribe in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. The strategy includes strengthening traditional organizations among them and establishing participation rights in PRI. Choupal combines its strategy of working on the right to food with the right to public health services to improve the conditions Micro-planning and awareness building by Mahila Haat of the poor in Chhattisgarh. in Uttarakhand

86 promote organizations that do both meaningful, good quality work in areas of need as well as to promote activists and professionals who will develop strategies to deal with complex phenomenons such as poverty. Thus this portfolio will look at strengthening small civil society organizations and promoting fellows to work on specific themes to promote basic rights of the poor and marginalized. Towards this end, a grant was made to the Supporting Association for Thematic and Baghelkhand Adivasi Kissan Mazdoor Mukti Morcha supported Holistic Initiatives (SATHI), Faizabad in UP to by SRUTI mobilizing the tribals and Dalits of Maghgavan block, train organizations from six districts of Eastern Satna district in Madhya Pradesh and Central UP in good practices for voluntary counselling centres in nine districts of Rajasthan organizations such as accountability and — provide support to women facing violence transparency. These organizations later took part through a grant to Vishakha. in a self-evaluation exercise to chart the The Trusts have for a long time supported outcomes of the trainings. Prayas, Social Work in Criminal Justice, a Field Society for Rural, Urban and Tribal Initiative Action Project of TISS that works to secure (SRUTI), New Delhi received renewal of support prisoners’ rights and the rights of the undertrials. from the Trusts. The work in this phase will Due to the sensitive nature of the work the organization has sought Indian funding as a specifically focus on building women’s strategy. While this year another grant was leadership. Although SRUTI fellows work on the approved, Prayas with more than a decade’s rights of most marginalized communities, they experience, will now mentor new interventions also focus on strengthening civil society and on in the criminal justice field, which will work issues of governance. towards strengthening the civil society working While CSGHR has been defined as a in this sector. Four other organizations are separate portfolio this year, besides broad- supported at present for their work with basing its work on protection and promotion of prisoners. Each of these organizations has basic human rights, the portfolio will work identified a niche area within the work towards strengthening governance within civil with prisoners. Whereas Sahyadri Social, society as well. Educational and Youth Society, Sahyog Trust and Voluntary Action for Rehabilitation and Development (VARHAD) are supported for their work in Maharashtra, Sudhar is supported for work in prisons in Bhopal, Indore and Hoshangabad. VARHAD is leading the work in the area of parole and furlough. Strengthening Civil Society In order to sustain social development initiatives, strengthening civil society is one of the main requirements of this sector and hence is a focus area of this portfolio. While there is an increase in the number of formal institutions offering degree courses in social work, the need Adharsila Learning Centre set up in Sendhwa, far outnumbers the supply. There is a need to Madhya Pradesh with the help of a SRUTI fellow

87 BUILDING LEADERSHIP AT THE GRASSROOTS

The key to addressing poverty and enabling their community and seek to influence those sustainable development is by creating a decisions that affect their survival and vibrant democracy: a democracy that will livelihoods. These leaders do not necessarily empower and equip the citizenry to effectively occupy formal elected posts, but represent participate and decide on the course of the collective concerns of the poor and development and will promote accountability marginalized communities. and transparency. The 11th Five Year Plan Nurturing grassroots leadership is intimately of India emphasizes the importance of linked with marginalized communities being strengthening decentralized democracy and organized through a process of awareness and also lays stress on promoting inclusive collective action. Voluntary organizations, growth. As the country continues its community-based organizations and people’s march towards neo-liberal policies there organizations identify potential leaders and is recognition in the Plan document, that a large evolve innovative methods to enhance their number of people have been left behind without abilities to draw support from the communities basic development parameters and many and seek accountability from the state. A in the country are still denied basic significant aspect of grassroots leadership is constitutional rights. their relationship with the people they The belief underlying the carving out of a represent. Their leadership qualities become separate portfolio to focus on Civil Society, apparent due to their ability to draw on the Governance and Human Rights (CSGHR) training inputs received from organizations is that by promoting the protection of human and due to their ability to strategize innovatively rights and good governance, the Trust is on collective action. Their efforts lead to better contributing to robust citizenship and a well- access to schemes formulated for them and governed country. The thrust areas within expand the possibilities of their participation in the CSGHR portfolio as per the Strategy Plan the policy formulation and proposed are Strengthening Governance, Protection of amendments. In this process, it is not just the Basic Human Rights and Strengthening leader but also the collective that makes all Civil Society. A crucial element that cuts across the difference. all three areas is building grassroots leadership. Some of the innovative ways through which the In normal course, the word ‘leadership’ organizations covered in this portfolio have conjures up images of powerful men and contributed to grassroots leadership are women who influence the way decisions are presented below: taken, what other people can do or cannot do and Choupal Gramin Vikas Prashikshan Evam how resources can be spent. The leaders are also Shodh Sansthan, Chhattisgarh is a unique seen as belonging to an elite class who enjoy project spread over six districts of Northern and certain privileges. Central Chhattisgarh. It is a federation of four Quite contrary to these images, there are other people’s organizations working with the issues kinds of leadership — the grassroots leaders. of the most marginalized sections of Dalits, The men and women typically are from far less Primitive Tribe groups and tribes of the area. The privileged backgrounds, but they are also strategies include building people’s leadership powerful as they are able to influence others in and strengthening grassroots people’s

88 organizations in about 700 villages. Mitanins, or In the present project, thus, the strategy adopted community health workers (voluntary), form the is to federate the SHGs (nari sanghs) with the front line leadership of the Adivasi Adhikar aim of maximizing women’s participation in the Samiti, one of the constituents of Choupal. They economic (at home) and socio-political decision have been at the forefront of exposing PDS making (at the village community or panchayat irregularities as well as in saving forests from level). The uniqueness of the project lies in the felling in the area. The spontaneous reaction of fact that the women are not only being made the women of the area against large-scale forest aware of their rights and duties, but in the form felling could be translated into a greater action of nari sanghs, a platform is also being created to that saved 40,000 ha of forest land. put into effect their new found knowledge. For instance, 67 women from Babrhi village of Mitanins around Manendragarh in Koriya Ghazipur Sadar block of Uttar Pradesh, came district of north Chhattisgarh have earned a forward to file applications for work under the reputation for supporting fellow community NREGA. As in many instances across the members in accessing health services at the country, the local authorities did not respond to government run facilities. The women of these their applications. The women — armed with areas are strident and forthcoming today and are information on the NREGA — decided to ready to overcome the obstacles that may come pursue the matter with the local authorities and their way while claiming their right to food and received their job cards after relentlessly making health. Their strength comes from the support visits and representations to various officers for they enjoy from a vibrant community aware of more than two months. its rights that is spread across several villages. Society for Rural, Urban and Tribal Initiative The community organization, has acted both as a (SRUTI), New Delhi has a long history of process as well as an end. It has been used on the supporting development of leadership among one hand, as a method through which the the most marginalized communities in remote marginalized communities are striving to rural and tribal areas of the country. In the achieve their goals. On the other hand, people present phase of the project, SRUTI is from these communities are also using the concentrating on building leadership among community organization to establish and assert women in the communities that SRUTI fellows their identity as a collective to fight the work with. B Sunanda, a SRUTI fellow, from the exploitative forces. Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh has Building Women’s Leadership in Eastern Uttar organized Dalit and Adivasi landless labourers Pradesh: Six organizations have been supported in four mandals of Chittor district into the in Varanasi, Mau, Ghazipur, Pratapgarh, Chittor Jilla Vyavsyay Kulil Union and is Ambedkarnagar and Ajamgarh under the working towards maximizing the benefits of the technical support of People’s Action for NREGA to them. Ankuran’s project aims at National Integration (PANI), Faizabad. The strengthening leadership skills among 1,400 organizations were already engaged in building women and men from the Kondha tribe in 10 Self Help Groups. They were also engaged in blocks of Orissa in order to activate the gram the training of elected women representatives in sabha in this Fifth Schedule area, which is the area and found that in the extreme feudal governed by the rules of Panchayati Raj society of Eastern Uttar Pradesh it was futile to Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA). These train and expose women on issues of their rights leaders will help the community in using the if they were not helped with structures that Right to Information Act as a tool of securing would provide crucial support on a long-term participation in local self governance and basis, for them to claim these rights. ensuring holistic development.

89 Women at the forefront of democracy

Marginalized groups making their voices heard in Ambedkarnagar, Uttar Pradesh

Women leaders create their own forums to seek improvements in the government health and food programs in Koriya district, Chhattisgarh Taking strides towards assertive grassroots leadership Tribal women assert their rights through the Adivasi Adhikar Samiti in Chhattisgarh Bringing in grassroots wisdom to governance

Secure savings and credit build women’s confidence at home and in the community

Seeking redressal from the authorities with the help of Choupal in Koriya, Chhattisgarh CIVIL SOCIETY, GOVERNANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million Sir Dorabji Tata Trust 1 Area Networking and Development Initiatives (ANANDI), Gujarat - Towards the Corpus and Program Grant to make the organization self-sustainable in implementing its five-year expansion plan and empowerment of marginalized women through various strategies. 23.30 3.30 2 Association for Voluntary Agencies for Rural Development (AVARD), New Delhi - Towards planned participatory employment generation and poverty reduction through panchayats in Naugarh block, Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh. 7.08 2.13 3 Baihar Nari Utthan Sewa Mahila Mandal, Madhya Pradesh - Towards participatory development of Baiga tribals through community action with special emphasis on the right to food and participation in Panchayati Raj. 1.62 0.86 4 Bal Sakha, Bihar - Towards developing a model for bringing about systemic changes in the delivery of juvenile justice in Jharkhand and to develop community based child protection programs in the State. 3.56 1.30 5 Coastal Rural Youth Network (CRY-Net), Andhra Pradesh - Towards fellowship support to 10 community organizations which form a part of CRY-Net and administrative expenses of their co-ordinate office in Visakhapatnam. 13.10 4.22 6 Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, New Delhi - Towards contributing to the cause of improving governmental accountability and the quality of governance in general; and in the prison and RTI sectors in particular. 46.40 5.00 7 Choupal Gramin Vikas Prashikshan Evam Shodh Sansthan, Chhattisgarh - Towards building and strengthening peoples institutions to access and influence state run food and health programs in tribal regions of Chhattisgarh. 9.76 3.18 8 Gram Sudhar Samiti, Madhya Pradesh - Towards further strengthening the work on the Right to Food issues. 3.40 1.10 9 Holistic Action Research and Development, Madhya Pradesh - Towards further strengthening the work on the Right to Food issues. 2.30 0.70 10 Jana Sanskriti, West Bengal - Towards promotion of human rights committees and learning centres for women and pre-school children. 7.28 0.50 11 Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, Gujarat - Towards a Corpus Grant and Program Grant. The Corpus Grant is towards making the organization self-sustainable. The Program Grant is to be used towards strengthening the rural mahila sangathans into autonomous people’s institutions. 58.35 1.45 12 Nirman, Madhya Pradesh - Towards further strengthening the work on the Right to Food issues. 2.50 0.80 13 Parhit Samaj Sevi Sanstha, Madhya Pradesh - Towards further strengthening the work on the Right to Food issues. 3.40 1.10 14 Sahyog Trust, Maharashtra - Towards the intervention in criminal justice in the central prisons of Pune, Kolhapur and Nagpur and building a lawyers` network in these districts of Maharashtra. 2.69 0.65 15 Saiyere Jo Sangathan, Gujarat - Towards program activities of the sangathan to work on issues like ecological restoration, handicrafts, health and micro-credit for women in the Nakhatrana region of Kutch. 4.00 0.70 16 Sambhav Social Service Organisation, Madhya Pradesh - Towards further strengthening the work on the Right to Food issues. 3.80 1.20 17 Shramajivee Mahila Samity, West Bengal - Towards documentation and the research training program for vigilance groups, advocacy with government alliance building, legal expenses and action. 5.90 0.90

94 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million 18 Shree Navsarjan Kelawani Mandal, Gujarat - Towards meeting capital, training and capacity building costs, administrative and documentation costs, and maintaining a revolving fund. 2.70 0.43 19 Society for Rural, Urban and Tribal Initiative (SRUTI), New Delhi - Towards the fellowship program, the Centre for Advocacy and Learnings and resource mobilization. 31.90 10.05 20 Social Action for Human Resource Development (SOHARD), Rajasthan - Towards setting up the Rural Training and Resource Centre as well as for work in promoting local self-governance and empowering women in grassroots politics. 4.90 1.15 21 Socio Legal Information Centre (SLIC), Maharashtra - Towards consolidating their work in Maharashtra and supporting similar work in other states — Orissa and West Bengal in the first year; Andhra Pradesh and Kerala in the second year; Goa and Gujarat in the third year. 14.20 4.80 22 Spandan Samaj Seva Samiti, Madhya Pradesh - Towards further strengthening the work on the Right to Food issues. 3.40 1.05 23 Ujjas Mahila Sangathan, Gujarat - Towards program activities of the sangathan to work on issues like social justice, micro-credit, environmental issues and empowering women through Panchayati Raj Institutions. 4.30 0.75 24 Urmul Jyoti Sansthan, Rajasthan - Towards making local government accountable in the Nokha block of Bikaner, Rajasthan. 2.10 0.63 25 Voluntary Action for Rehabilitation and Development (VARHAD), Maharashtra - Towards consolidating its work in Amravati Central Prison and expanding its services to Yeotmal, Akola and Wardha district prisons with an emphasis on networking and advocacy. 12.57 3.98

Small Grants 1 Aangan Trust, Maharashtra - Towards facilitating the implementation of policy level systemic changes across children`s institutions in Maharashtra. 0.50 0.50 2 AGNI, Maharashtra - Towards the cost of the book “Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and Ward Administration” for distribution to NGOs. 0.03 0.03 3 Bhagwan Manav Kalyan Samiti, Uttar Pradesh - Towards empowering rural women by building community based organizations in five panchayats. 0.35 0.35 4 Democracy Connect, New Delhi - Towards a feasibility study titled, Constituency Connect: To explore the creation and facilitation of a platform for regular interaction between Members of Parliament and Panchayati Raj Institutions/Urban Local Bodies. 0.50 0.50 5 Gram Vikas Sewa Sansthan, Uttar Pradesh - Towards empowering rural women by building community based organizations in 10 panchayats. 0.44 0.44 6 Grameen Vikas Sansthan, Uttar Pradesh - Towards empowering rural women by building community based organizations in 10 panchayats. 0.40 0.40 7 Gramin Punar Nirman Sansthan, Uttar Pradesh - Towards empowering rural women by building community based organizations in 10 panchayats. 0.40 0.40 8 Little Sisters of the Poor, West Bengal - Towards renovation of their Home. 0.10 0.10 9 Lok Jagriti Sansthan, Uttar Pradesh - Towards empowering rural women by building community based organizations in five panchayats. 0.35 0.35 10 Mahila Haat, New Delhi - Towards strengthening gram panchayats through an awareness generation program and micro-planning training. 0.50 0.50 11 Mahila Swarojgar Samiti, Uttar Pradesh - Towards empowering rural women by building community based organizations in five gram panchayats. 0.31 0.31 12 People`s Action for National Integration (PANI), Uttar Pradesh - Towards providing technical support to the organization and towards achieving the project objectives in 45 gram panchayats. 0.48 0.48

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Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million

13 Peoples Action for People in Need, Himachal Pradesh - Towards capacity building of the organization in awareness generation, imparting trainings to CBOs and dissemination of information at the grassroots level. 0.10 0.10 14 Prajwala Sangham, Andhra Pradesh - Towards their activities for the program on Safai Karmachari Andolan. 0.49 0.49 15 Sahyadri Social, Educational and Youth Society, Maharashtra - Towards consolidating the work in Solapur, Maharashtra among the prisoners and juveniles in conflict with law. 0.50 0.50 16 Sethna`s Scouting Society, Maharashtra - Towards their training camp. 0.08 0.08 17 Swaraj Peeth Trust, New Delhi - Towards systematizing the work of building community peacekeeping volunteers in four districts - Saharanpur, Bijnor, Biharigarh and Rampur of Uttar Pradesh. 0.33 0.33 18 Tarashi Mahila Shodh Evam Prashikshan Sanstha, Madhya Pradesh - Towards empowering the panchayats through training of gram sabhas in 10 panchayats of Jhabua and Khargone districts of Madhya Pradesh. 0.47 0.47 19 Vishakha Mahila Shiksha Evam Shodh Samiti, Rajasthan - Towards strengthening the case work and local action against violence against women through Mahila Salah Evam Suraksha Kendras. 0.48 0.48 281.32 58.74 Jamsetji Tata Trust 1 Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat - Towards establishment of a centre for research and training on issues facing NGOs. 7.13 7.13 7.13 7.13 RD Tata Trust 1 Nishtha, West Bengal - Towards the Adolescents’ Demands for All Rights through Innovative and Nurturing Initiatives (ADARINI) project. 26.00 5.52 26.00 5.52 Tata Education Trust 1 Housing and Land Rights Network, New Delhi - Towards promoting human rights to adequate housing and land in India. 17.01 5.49 17.01 5.49 JRD Tata Trust 1 Ankuran, Orissa - Towards participatory development of 10 blocks in the PESA area of two districts of Orissa. 10.00 1.40 10.00 1.40 Grand Total 341.46 78.28

96 Making pathways towards participatory governance in Uttar Pradesh

MEDIA, ART AND CULTURE

Central to culture is freedom, and in particular, The scan and the approach paper included in the the freedom to decide what we have reason to Strategy Plan for MAC projects identified Arts value, and what lives we have reason to seek. Scholarship as the area most deserving of - Amartya Sen attention and engagement. The past year 2007- 2008 has dovetailed with the suggestion and 31 In August-September 2005, Art and Culture was percent of all projects belong to the Arts recognized by the Trusts as an emerging and Scholarship thrust area. growing area of engagement and the Trusts decided to proactively look at Art and Culture Key grant making strategies have included: projects and ‘up’ the engagement in the Arts. • Creating academic scholarships such While there was no formal mandate then, the as funding fellowships and academic/ enhanced budget of the Trusts made it possible university departments to explore newer, underdeveloped areas of • Encouraging the traditional system of guru- funding such as projects related to the Arts, shishya learning without cutting into the overall budgets of the core sectors. In addition, the interest within the • Encouraging innovative programs Trusts to develop a mature Art and Culture In addition to Arts Scholarship, Media projects portfolio was high, as the importance of this area which were practically non-existent have been of work and potential link with other sectors, introduced into the portfolio over the past year such as Education and Livelihoods, became so that this thrust area is now at 19 percent. more and more evident. Key grant making strategies have included: In the ensuing months a sector scan was done by the Trusts and several leading art and culture • Providing a space for alternative and practitioners and academics were consulted. innovative forms of Media During this period the parameter of the portfolio • Emphasizing the cross-cutting nature of was expanded to include Media as this was seen this sub-area to be an integral part of the development discourse. As a result the following thrust areas • Use of Media to address gaps in the were identified as key areas of intervention in education system grant making. • Emphasize documentation Thrust Areas: • Emphasize the dissemination aspect through •To build and promote arts scholarship and different models archival facilities Upping the Trusts’ engagement in Arts • Protection and conservation of cultural Scholarship and Media is a major highlight heritage and dying art forms •To support research and development activities of the Arts •To provide support to media projects engaged in the development discourse as well as to support cutting edge and newer technologies By February 2007, ‘Media, Art and Culture’ was formally hived off into an individual sector. In 2007-2008, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and the Allied Trusts had disbursed Rs 102.62 million to Highlighting social causes through a performance Media, Art and Culture (MAC) projects. by Darpana Academy, Ahmedabad

99 and the projects reach both rural and urban beneficiaries. Three large projects: Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), New Delhi; Drishti, Gujarat; and National Institute of Design (NID), Gujarat were benchmark programs and will make a lasting contribution to our nation building commitment. The AKF-AKTC grant for the restoration of Humayun’s Tomb is the first-of-its-kind Public Tile makers at work on the restoration process at Humayun’s Tomb, Private Partnership with government agencies New Delhi and other funders working closely on an work which will result in the designing of integrated project of conservation, urban applications addressing particular developmental renewal and development. gaps/requirements of the society. The grant The conservation project is underpinned by a also looks at funding five diploma projects well-articulated conservation philosophy that that promote creative and out-of-box thinking respects both international covenants and and design. indigenous practices. In this respect the project The innovative community media program of will establish important benchmarks for Drishti will build the capacity of articulation and conservation in India. The conservation work ‘give a voice’ to 10,000 rural and urban media has been conceived in partnership with the practitioners. The core activity will be to launch Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), but will new Community Video Units (CVUs) and be undertaken by AKTC by directly employing Community Radio Stations (CRS) in craftspeople who will work under their partnership with NGOs to complement the supervision. Besides the necessary conservation existing 10 CVUs and two CRS. works required for the upkeep of the monument, the items of work include rectification of the acts Several innovative projects have been supported of omission and commission of past during the course of the year. Adishakti interventions. In this manner, the monument Laboratory for Theatre Art Research’s will receive a new lease of life, which should contribution to contemporary Indian theatre is suffice for several decades. unique. There is probably no other organization in India who combines the knowledge systems The NID corpus grant will put into place a design of the past with modern aesthetic practice. Not chair who will work on design solutions for only has this methodology led the performer to disability — again a pioneering effort and will deeper levels of engagement with the audience, mark an industry-academia nexus for promoting but it has also led the performer to harness inner design to work towards the psycho-social- levels of untapped energy. Adishakti’s grant is environmental development of people. A great to further its research activity for a period of need exists currently for such collaborative three years. Darpana Academy of Performing Arts (through the Karmakshetra Educational Foundation), Gujarat will dovetail on its earlier collaborative work “Unsuni” creating a new genre of interactive work — merging realities with the digital world — to tell moving stories of courageous people. Support has been extended for the crucial research and development components of the performance.

Restoration work at Humayun’s Tomb, New Delhi facilitated Establishing digital community archives and by Aga Khan Foundation and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture instituting fellowships for local knowledge and

100 culture for specific groups can prove to be a major step towards empowering those communities and converting their cultural expressions and traditional knowledge into strategic assets. The first step towards constituting such a program is through a grant to the National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai. Another unique program has been supported through the Orient Foundation, New Delhi which has been archiving and maintaining a complete record on Tibetan and Indian Buddhist history. The New Media Centre of Indian and Tibetan Classical Culture at the Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath will provide for the first time a comprehensive resource through which the living legacy of one of the richest periods of Indian cultural history can be explored in depth. Godna painting by Bholi Devi, from Madhubani, Bihar Through its programs, the School of Art and who has received help and training from the Dalit Foundation Aesthetics (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) hopes to produce a cadre of cultural Himalaya Trust in Uttarakhand which is working critics, theorists and workers in the cultural field on promoting and documenting the story telling who will help to widen and enrich the cultural tradition of the Himalayas. In addition, the Small discourses on both the practice of art and its Grant to India Foundation for the Arts, academic engagement. Bangalore has put into action the preparatory phase to build a holistic program on curatorship The two major goals are the establishment of a in India — the first in the country. well-regulated academic institution and the holding of annual events that will create a A small grant to Kala Raksha, Bhuj, which has vibrant, energetic learning community for the been working on the traditional embroidery Arts. With this support, the SAA attempts to go practice in Kutch has provided support to two beyond the ordinary for people with an interest educational resource films documenting the in the intellectual understanding of creative life. design knowledge of master artisans of Kutch and creating an animated film on Kala Raksha In addition, the Small Grants Program has made narrative works in embroidery. it possible to address smaller organizations who are doing meaningful work and do not have the The Small Grant to Dalit Foundation for the capacity to absorb large funds such as Charkha, promotion of Dalit art and culture fulfils two New Delhi which has funded a media and major purposes: Promotion of Dalit art and educational program in the Andaman Islands and culture and promotion of the art for educational purposes and awareness generation. Overall the Trusts have created and supported meaningful partnerships of lasting value and the projects sanctioned in this portfolio present a rich basket of programs covering both academic and research work as well as in setting and creating new norms in many spheres of art practice. Thus, the significant steps to building a holistic portfolio have been taken and several key grants will make lasting impact and add Radio broadcast in the Andaman Islands with value to the Media, Art and Culture scenario in young school goers, through the help of Charkha the country.

101 INNOVATIVE MEDIA IN DEVELOPMENT

The past two decades have witnessed camera has fallen from a million rupees, to a profound changes in the modes through which little over Rs 25,000 for a digital camera. This knowledge and media and cultural products are revolution is being facilitated on the one end by produced, circulated and consumed, changes low cost and easy-to-use production equipment, which have had far-reaching implications for and on the other, by the explosion of television society, economy and culture in the Indian networks, both within and outside India, and context. A critical element in the new scenario is online distribution. In radio, the revolution is the generation of knowledge and a blurring made possible because only in the last one year between money and knowledge on the internet has it become legal for communities to own and and other media. operate their own stations, a law which Drishti, Over half of India’s one billion population is Gujarat was instrumental in creating. entirely irrelevant to the global media market Indeed, the recent grant to Drishti will promote boom and will continue to be irrelevant for community video and radio and will build a generations. State run national television cadre of thousands of media producers who have programming also use stories set in urban upper a voice not only to air their difficulties and class contexts rather than rural life styles. Over triumphs but also a chance at true empowerment all, the State’s commitment to public service through articulation. Drishti’s work is an telecasting has declined over a period of time. attempt to draw on the diverse possibilities of Public broadcasting systems and those that are media technologies, in a partnership with a in touch with and accountable to citizens’ media range of organizations that have been working to needs fail in the competition for this revenue, empower and amplify community voices. reducing their coverage. The public space The grants to Centre for Science and earlier available for serious content essential for Environment (CSE), New Delhi and Vikas a healthy democracy accountable to its citizens Samvad Samiti, Bhopal have been made to has shrunk, while those related to entertainment 1 foster media fellowships to journalists working distant from reality have grown. on relevant development and environmental However, with the growing accessibility of stories with a commitment to increase communication and media technology, there are awareness on these issues in both mainstream attempts by many movements and groups all and smaller newspapers and magazines. across the globe to use these technologies for The fellows working with Vikas Samvad have creating systems of solidarity, support, and already made an impact on the Right to Food networking, to give a voice to marginalized campaign in Madhya Pradesh and brought sections of society. This has facilitated the attention to the neglected area of Bundelkhand. growth of community media the world over; and coupled with the phenomenal growth of the The innovative media campaign run by Akshara, NGO sector and peoples’ movements in India, Mumbai through its parent organization Front the stage is set for electronic community media for Rapid Economic Advancement of India to come into its own. (FREA-India), has successfully launched the 103 helpline which facilitates complaints and Only in the last five years has the state of records cases of violence against women. This technology allowed any mid-sized NGO in India model was developed with the help of the to use technology-based arts and media to Mumbai police and will be shortly upscaled all accelerate the rate of change. The cost of a video over Maharashtra. Its success has come largely

1Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar, Review of Drishti proposal for the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, 2008.

102 through the awareness of the 103 number that and citations. has been imaginatively displayed on hoardings, Finally to further our commitment to the field of panels at traffic signals, posters and pamphlets. development media, the Trust has supported Established media partners such as the the setting up of a diploma program at the Economic and Political Weekly (Sameeksha Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Trust) and the infochange website (Centre for Mumbai. Drawing students from all over the Communication and Development Studies, country, the course has now been converted into Pune) have been able to consolidate their work a degree program. in the area of development communications. While, the State and commercial interests Their considerable reach and influence in the continue to control the tele-visual space in the country, the increasingly active role played by field of development journalism both through the community in both video and radio in India academic writing and discourse as well as since 1995 and the all-encompassing internet through readable feature stories have offer interesting and innovative possibilities for been highlighted through notable awards free and fast access.

Planning and discussing the recording session along with Drishti volunteers at Ahmedabad

103 Community video model in action — interviewing the community with help of Drishti volunteers in Ahmedabad

Production class in session at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai

Learning to handle the camera at TISS Panels created by Akshara highlighting the helpline draw the attention of a passer-by at a traffic signal in Mumbai MEDIA, ART AND CULTURE

Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million Sir Dorabji Tata Trust 1 Aga Khan Foundation, New Delhi - Towards the conservation and restoration of Humayun`s Tomb, New Delhi. 57.20 17.60 2 Devahuti Damodar Svaraj Trust, New Delhi - Towards the upgradation activities of Manana Library. 1.90 0.17 3 Dhrupad Sansthan, Madhya Pradesh - Towards the core cost of Dhrupad Sansthan’s gurukul and setting up the library and digitization activities of the organization. 4.69 1.08 4 Drishti, Gujarat - Towards its community media program. 32.22 8.72 5 Karmakshetra Educational Foundation, Gujarat - Towards researching and developing a performance piece based on stories of courage working towards social change. 2.90 1.40 6 Parzor Foundation, New Delhi - Towards the genetic, cultural and biological studies on the Parsi community. 5.64 1.07 7 The First Dastur Meherjirana Library, Gujarat - Towards a Corpus Grant and a Program Grant. The Corpus Grant is to strengthen its core activities, while the Program Grant is towards the cost of the new building, upgradation and conservation laboratory. 9.27 7.67

Small Grants 1 Bombay House Jashan Committee, Maharashtra - Towards its cultural activities. 0.01 0.01 2 Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi - Towards the media fellowship program on environment and sustainable development. 0.50 0.50 3 Charkha, New Delhi - Towards the distant areas program in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for its media and environmental education program. 0.50 0.50 4 Chitrika, Andhra Pradesh - Towards undertaking a Pan-Andhra Handloom Market Study. 0.50 0.50 5 Dalit Foundation, New Delhi - Towards the promotion of Dalit art and culture. 0.50 0.50 6 Front for Rapid Economic Advancement of India, Maharashtra - Towards Akshara for its media awareness campaign on Violence against Women. 0.50 0.50 7 Kala Raksha, Gujarat - Towards making two films, which will be used for teaching and inspiring artisans about design, as well as for making the traditional understanding of design known to a national and international audience. 0.50 0.50 8 Paramparik Karigar, Maharashtra - Towards inviting expert textile designer Barbara Arlen from USA to advise the Indian craftsmen/weavers on the latest techniques on textile designing and to help them develop and innovate sustainable products for the export market. 0.45 0.45 9 Somjai Mata Krida Mandal, Maharashtra - Towards the purchase of equipments for their newly constructed gymnasium funded by the Government of Maharashtra. 0.10 0.10 10 Sophia College for Women, Maharashtra - Towards a national conference on Representations of Gender in Popular Literature in January 2008. 0.19 0.19 11 Srjan Odissi Nrityabasa, Orissa - Towards the annual Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award function for the year 2007. 0.10 0.10 12 Tata Sports Club, Maharashtra - Towards the annual contribution for the year 2007-08. 0.03 0.03 13 The Bombay Chamber Orchestra Society, Maharashtra - Towards covering the cost for the flights of conductors and teachers from Austria and the United Kingdom to encourage and motivate young Indian talent and to celebrate the 45th year of the Society. 0.15 0.15 14 The Himalaya Trust, Uttarakhand - Towards the project titled, Katha Sarovar: A Voyage through Stories. 0.50 0.50

106 Name of Grantee Sanction Disbursed Amount 2007-08 Rupees in Million

15 Vikas Samvad Samiti, Madhya Pradesh - Towards support for its media fellowship program. 0.50 0.50 118.85 42.74 Jamsetji Tata Trust 1 National Institute of Design, Gujarat - Towards a Corpus Grant, the interest of which would be used for setting up the Jamsetji Tata Chair for Universal Design and towards Research Grants for Student Diploma Projects. A minimum of five research grants will be supported. 32.50 32.50 32.50 32.50 RD Tata Trust 1 Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research, Pudhucherry - Towards furthering its research activities in the performing arts and thereby supporting its core costs and costs for external artistes and resource persons, documentation and theatre-based equipment and infrastructure. 7.37 2.03 2 Sameeksha Trust, Maharashtra - Towards strengthening the Economic and Political Weekly. 16.90 1.40 24.27 3.43 Tata Social Welfare Trust 1 Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta (CSSSC), West Bengal - Towards the CSSSC-Papiya Ghosh Memorial Fund. The grant will support (a) One PhD fellowship over two years (b) Two short-term travel fellowships awarded every year, for two years (c) An annual workshop on a theme that focuses on marginalized and underprivileged sections of the society for two years. 1.46 0.73 2 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Towards the School of Arts and Aesthetics project for education in the Arts and resource building program. 20.10 7.00 21.56 7.73 Tata Education Trust 1Centre for Communication and Development Studies, Maharashtra - Towards creating institutional stability and growth and for the core costs of its website: www.infochangeindia.org. 8.05 2.68 2 National Folklore Support Centre, Tamil Nadu - Towards setting up three community digital archives and six senior fellowships for local knowledge and culture in different locations in the country. 16.60 5.55 24.65 8.23 JRD Tata Trust 1 Madras Craft Foundation, Tamil Nadu - Towards its arts management program. 3.65 0.50 2 Saptak School of Music, Gujarat - Towards strengthening and expanding the activities of Saptak Archives. 7.60 2.50 3 Tamil Nadu Kattaikkuttu Kalai Valarchi Munetra Sangam, Tamil Nadu - Towards the development of the Kattaikkuttu Youth Theatre School. 11.10 2.70 4 The Orient Foundation, Uttar Pradesh - Towards the New Media Centre of the Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh. 4.56 2.29 26.91 7.99 Grand Total 248.74 102.62

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INDIVIDUAL GRANTS

MEDICAL GRANTS Over the years, society has progressed and technologically advanced enough to be able to alleviate pain and treat the several ailments which plague mankind. However, diseases have also kept pace with these developments and have evolved into more virulent forms. Facilities like medical insurance, while available, are also fraught with administrative glitches. Increasing costs of medical treatment place a huge burden especially on those in the lower economic strata of society. The expenses are sometimes borne by taking loans at high interest rates. The financial toll also increases in cases where the treatment has to be taken for a lifetime. This is why help and assistance from the Trusts are so vitally important. Sir Dorabji Tata Trust provides financial assistance to individuals to meet the cost of hospitalization, surgery and follow up treatment. Ailments of the heart, kidney, nerves, cancer and other life-threatening diseases are considered for support. Grants are also given to meet the cost of artificial limbs and hearing aids for the differently-abled. The JRD Tata Trust gives medical grants with its main focus on the relatively younger age group who with such medical assistance can go on to live a quality life. Cases where the cost of treatment is prohibitive such as bone marrow transplants, high-end chemotherapy, organ transplants and cochlear implant surgery are considered for support. The Trusts network with government, municipal, private and charitable hospitals in Mumbai. In view of the difficulties faced by the Trusts in assessing cases outside Mumbai, priority is given to cases within Mumbai. However, the Trusts have established linkages with few hospitals outside Mumbai as well.

Help from the Trusts ease the burden of high medical costs

109 Disbursement of Individual Medical Grants

Rupees in million

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust JRD Tata Trust

Sr. Number of Amount Number of Amount No. Ailment Grants Disbursed Grants Disbursed Disbursed Disbursed

1 Aid to the Handicapped 24 1.26

2 Burns 7 0.46

3 Cancer 185 9.65 14 2.25

4 Cardiac Surgery 291 12.22

5 Chronic Illness 102 4.05

6 Dental 3 0.09

7 Diabetes 4 0.09

8 Eye 12 0.18

9 General Surgery 63 2.60 4 0.63

10 Gynaecological Problems 14 0.31

11 Kidney Transplant /Dialysis 130 5.67 2 0.35

12 Liver Transplant / Immuno Suppressants 7 0.20 5 0.50

13 Neurology 68 2.42 1 0.15

14 Neurosurgery 63 3.26

15 NICU Treatment for Premature Babies 8 0.28

16 Orthopaedic Surgery 112 4.45

17 Psychiatric Illness 3 0.09

18 Respiratory Distress 16 0.75

19 Tuberculosis 19 0.75

20 Cochlear Implant Surgeries 12 1.10

Grand Total 1131 48.78 38 4.98

110 EDUCATION AND TRAVEL GRANTS The Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, JRD Tata Trust and Jamsetji Tata Trust give scholarships/grants to meet the cost of education.

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust A total of Rs 17.96 million was disbursed as individual education scholarships/grants during the year 2007-2008. General Educational Grants for undergraduate students were given after considering various factors among which were the academic record, fees and the economic status of the family. Sir Dorabji Tata Merit Scholarships were given to students selected after inviting applications from nine Mumbai-based colleges. The TISS Scholarship was also awarded to a student from the Department of Urban and Rural Community Development of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Travel/Education Grants were given to meet the cost of pursuing studies abroad. In addition, the travel grants were also given for presenting papers, attending conferences, doing research, exchange programs and sports-related activities.

JRD Tata Trust A total of Rs 43.58 million was disbursed as individual educational scholarships/grants during the year 2007-2008. Educational Grants were given with a view to financially assist promising young students pursuing their graduation and post-graduation courses, subject to the eligibility criteria set out on a merit-cum- means basis. These grants were open to students studying in certain colleges identified by the Trust. A total of 1,218 grants aggregating to Rs 40.79 million were awarded during the year 2007-2008. Darab RD Tata Scholarships were given to assist deserving young people and in particular young women requiring financial support for higher studies in the field of medicine or humanities. Two scholarships were awarded during the year 2007-2008 amounting to Rs 0.33 million. Aviation Scholarships instituted in the memory of JRD Tata, were given to students recommended by the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA). The scholarships were awarded for their AB INITIO and CPL courses. Eleven scholarships were awarded for the year 2007-2008 amounting to Rs 1.95 million. The Jamshed RD Tata Research Fellowship were instituted by JRD Tata in 1956, in memory of his brother Jamshed, who was training for a career in aviation. This fellowship covers the 3rd and the 4th year of the Ph.D course in Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Based on the recommendation of the Institute, two fellowships for the years 2006-2007 and 2007-2008, amounting to Rs 0.28 million were awarded. Social Science Scholarships were awarded to students studying at and recommended by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in the field of (i) Family and Child Welfare (ii) Medical and Psychiatric Social Work (iii) Urban and Rural Community Development and (iv) Social Welfare Administration. Four scholarships of the value of Rs 0.08 million were disbursed for the year 2007-2008. Nursing Scholarships were awarded to private category students of the Institute of Nursing, JJ Group of Hospitals. Ten scholarships amounting to Rs 0.15 million were awarded for the year 2007-2008.

Jamsetji Tata Trust A total of Rs 16.68 million was disbursed as travel grants to students pursuing higher studies abroad during the year 2007-2008.

111 Disbursement of Individual Education and Travel Grants Rupees in million

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust Allied Trusts*

Category Number of Amount Number of Amount Grants Disbursed Grants Disbursed Disbursed Disbursed

Education/Travel Grants for Studies Abroad 140 6.48 105 16.68 Travel Grants for : Attending Conferences 51 2.04 Sports 2 0.07 Others 25 1.22

Other Educational Grants 244 7.85 1,218 40.79

Sir Dorabji Tata Merit Scholarships 64 0.28

TISS Scholarships 1 0.02 4 0.08

Darab RD Tata Scholarships 2 0.33

Aviation Training Scholarships/ Fellowships 13 2.24

Nursing Scholarships 10 0.15

527 17.96 1,352 60.27

* Allied Trusts denote the JRD Tata Trust and Jamsetji Tata Trust

112 Scholarships to students at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai reduce the load of escalating costs of education

FINANCIALS

FUNDS DISBURSED - 1932 TO 2008 Since the inception of the Trusts, the disbursements towards the objects of the Trusts as laid out in the respective Trust Deeds, have steadily increased.

Of the total disbursements till 31st March, 2008, only two percent was laid out in the first six decades, 14 percent in the seventh decade and 84 percent so far in the current decade.

Rupees in Million Decades Spanning the financial years Sir Dorabji Allied Total From To Tata Trust Trusts

I 1931-32 1940-41 5.34 5.34

II 1941-42 1950-51 11.75 0.26 12.01

III 1951-52 1960-61 17.75 0.46 18.21

IV 1961-62 1970-71 21.84 1.20 23.04

V 1971-72 1980-81 40.40 4.07 44.47

VI 1981-82 1990-91 86.96 7.42 94.38

VII 1991-92 2000-01 1041.35 291.79 1333.14

VIII 2001-02 2007-08 4264.43 3470.94 7735.37

Total 5489.82 3776.14 9265.96

Disbursements Since Inception 4500 4000 3500 3000 2500 million 2000 in

Rs 1500 1000 500 0 12345678 Decades

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust Allied Trusts

115 CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

SIR DORABJI TATA TRUST

SOURCES OF FUNDS

As at 31.3.2007 Particulars As at 31.3.2008

Rs in US $ in %Rs in US $ in % million million million million

750.00 17.86 40.83 Trust Fund 1250.00 31.25 59.63

20.29 0.48 1.10 General Reserve 20.29 0.51 0.97

2.64 0.06 0.14 Donations to Corpus 2.64 0.07 0.13

1057.33 25.17 57.54 Revenue Accumulation 818.82 20.47 39.06

7.08 0.17 0.39 Sundry Liabilities 4.49 0.11 0.21

1837.34 43.74 100.00 2096.24 52.41 100.00

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

As at 31.3.2007 Particulars As at 31.3.2008

Rs in US $ in %Rs in US $ in % million million million million

30.40 0.72 1.65 Fixed Assets 43.02 1.08 2.05

1587.18 37.79 86.39 Investments 1879.28 46.98 89.65

219.76 5.23 11.96 Other Assets 173.94 4.35 8.30

1837.34 43.74 100.00 2096.24 52.41 100.00

(1 US $ = Rs 42 as on 31st March 2007) (1 US $ = Rs 40 as on 31st March 2008)

116 INCOME

For the year ended 31.3.2007 Particulars For the year ended 31.3.2008

Rs in US $ in %Rs in US $ in % million million million million

818.22 19.48 85.13 Dividend Income 892.58 22.32 77.41

139.92 3.33 14.56 Interest 160.46 4.01 13.91

Nil Nil Nil Rights Renunciation Premium 96.52 2.41 8.37

3.02 0.07 0.31 Sundries 3.46 0.09 0.31

961.16 22.88 100.00 1153.02 28.83 100.00

EXPENDITURE

For the year ended 31.3.2007 Particulars For the year ended 31.3.2008

Rs in US $ in %Rs in US $ in % million million million million

852.58 20.30 88.72 Charities 838.52 20.96 72.72

48.38 1.15 5.03 Administration expenses 43.99 1.10 3.82

9.82 0.23 1.01 Contribution to PTA Fund 9.02 0.23 0.78

Balance transferred to 50.38 1.20 5.24 Revenue Accumulation A/c 261.49 6.54 22.68

961.16 22.88 100.00 1153.02 28.83 100.00

(1 US $ = Rs 42 as on 31st March 2007) (1 US $ = Rs 40 as on 31st March 2008)

117 CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

ALLIED TRUSTS

SOURCES OF FUNDS

As at 31.3.2007 Particulars As at 31.3.2008

Rs in US $ in %Rs in US $ in % million million million million

360.01 8.57 3.95 Trust Fund 16777.31 419.43 94.15

754.59 17.97 8.29 Revenue Accumulation 979.40 24.49 5.50

58.14 1.38 0.64 Tax Refund 58.14 1.45 0.33

7931.92 188.85 87.08 Investment Reserve Fund 0.01 - -

4.00 0.10 0.04 Endowment Darab RD Tata 4.00 0.10 0.02

9108.66 216.87 100.00 17818.86 445.47 100.00

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

As at 31.3.2007 Particulars As at 31.3.2008

Rs in US $ in %Rs in US $ in % million million million million

0.17 - - Fixed Assets 0.07 - -

9029.27 214.98 99.13 Investments 17571.43 439.29 98.61

79.22 1.89 0.87 Other Assets 247.36 6.18 1.39

9108.66 216.87 100.00 17818.86 445.47 100.00

(1 US $ = Rs 42 as on 31st March 2007) (1 US $ = Rs 40 as on 31st March 2008)

118 INCOME

For the year ended 31.3.2007 Particulars For the year ended 31.3.2008

Rs in US $ in %Rs in US $ in % million million million million

548.22 13.05 54.02 Dividend Income 605.59 15.14 42.74

462.80 11.02 45.60 Interest 800.99 20.03 56.55

3.88 0.09 0.38 Sundries 10.14 0.25 0.71

1014.90 24.16 100.00 1416.72 35.42 100.00

EXPENDITURE

For the year ended 31.3.2007 Particulars For the year ended 31.3.2008

Rs in US $ in %Rs in US $ in % million million million million

769.28 18.32 75.83 Charities 1150.46 28.76 81.21

1.69 0.04 0.17 Administration expenses 32.77 0.82 2.31

4.58 0.10 0.41 Contribution to PTA Fund 8.68 0.22 0.61

Balance transferred to 239.35 5.70 23.59 Revenue Accumulation A/c 224.81 5.62 15.87

1014.90 24.16 100.00 1416.72 35.42 100.00

(1 US $ = Rs 42 as on 31st March 2007) (1 US $ = Rs 40 as on 31st March 2008)

119 GUIDELINES FOR GRANT APPLICANTS

The Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and the Allied purpose for which support is requested may be Trusts provide financial assistance under sent to the Trust. four categories: The criteria for qualifying for such grants • Institutions would be: • NGOs or Voluntary Organizations a) The organization must have been in • Small Grants existence at least for one financial year. • Grants to Individuals b) It should work in a thematic area supported by the Trust. Institutions c) Organizations in rural areas would The Sir Dorabji Tata Trust has established in its be preferred. first 50 years, pioneering institutions of national importance. The Trusts continue to support and d) The total expenditure of the organization nurture these institutions in myriad ways using should not have exceeded Rs 2.00 million in an internal appraisal process. the last financial year. NGOs or Voluntary Organizations e) The organization should not employ more than 20 individuals. Thoughtful and committed programs initiated by organizations in priority areas are considered for Large organizations would also be eligible financial support. The Trusts draw on the to apply for a small grant towards specific expertise of their staff and specialist consultants projects namely: who travel widely, study project proposals and a) Strategic planning and/or evaluation keep abreast of developments in each of the exercises. sectors. They assess proposals, make recommendations to project holders and after b) Focused research activities. sanction of grants — monitor and evaluate the c) Mainstreaming of innovations. programs. While no specific format is prescribed, d) Setting up or strengthening of internal applications should preferably include: systems. a) A description of the proposed project e) Project planning and appraisal. with clearly articulated objectives, plans/ programs or activities, and mechanisms for Individual Grants impact assessment. Individuals are provided medical, educational b) A profile of the project holder and travel grants. Patients unable to bear the (qualifications, achievements, experience) financial burden of major surgeries or the cost of and a brief background note on the core team. hospitalization are assisted through Individual Medical Grants. A Program Officer conducts a c) Registration Certificates of the organization detailed study including visits to the hospital, and Income-Tax Exemption Certificates. for processing the request. d) The financial audited statements of the last three years and Annual Reports. Modest Educational Grants are provided to deserving students through general scholarships Small Grants and special merit scholarships. Forms for these This is a flexible scheme where a registered can be obtained from the Program Officer of organization may request financial support. Education and Travel Grants. Modest grants are Limited grants are available for a wide variety given for international travel for purposes such of philanthropic activities for less than Rs 0.50 as higher studies abroad, conducting research million. Each appeal is examined on its own and participating in conferences or sports meets merit. A letter with a brief note specifying the and other such purposes.

120 Chenchu elder resting under a tree in the Sri Sailam Tiger Reserve in Andhra Pradesh — protected by the efforts of the Centre for People’s Forestry ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Trusts are grateful to: Our partners for the project photographs used in the report and external consultants who have conducted reviews and assessments.

The following organizations have been photographed by Zishaan Latif Aajeevika Bureau, Rajasthan Arushi, Madhya Pradesh Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Karnataka Association of People with Disability (APD), Karnataka Centre for People’s Forestry (CPF), Andhra Pradesh Choupal, Chhattisgarh Design and Printing: Drishti, Gujarat Lintas Personal India, Mumbai Mahita, Andhra Pradesh Nalanda, Uttar Pradesh © Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and the Allied PANI, Uttar Pradesh Trusts, 2008. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research All rights reserved. No part of this report, (TIFR), Maharashtra including design, may be reproduced in any Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), form or by any means, electronic or Maharashtra mechanical, or in any other information storage and retrieval system, without prior Tata Memorial Centre, Maharashtra written permission from the publisher/Sir Vacha Trust, Maharashtra Dorabji Tata Trust and the Allied Trusts.

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