SIR RATAN TATA TRUST Annual Report 2005-2006
July 26, 2005 – A day the city of Mumbai will never forget. Widespread destruction and havoc was caused that day due to a record downpour that lashed the metropolis, leading to unprecedented floods and bringing untold misery to the citizens.
It was left to the never-say-die spirit of the Mumbaikar that eventually saved the day, as countless ordinary citizens donned the role of saviors, helping those trapped in the swirling waters from a watery grave. After the flood abated, it was left to these survivors to get on with their lives. The Trust reached out to help, in its own small way, with the Mumbai Flood Relief Programme….
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3IR 2ATAN 4ATAS 6ISION care being taken that such work is not undertaken from the stereotyped point of view of stereotypedpoint the from undertaken not is work such that taken being care community, said the of welfare promotenaturethe to calculatedpractical a of schemes social, economic or political welfare of the Indian community, the object being to design “To engage qualified and competent persons to investigate into matters that pertain to the orforother worksofpublicutility…. suffering human of relief the for or art, and services sanitary branches, economy, its in education all including in Industry and Learning Education, of advancement the for “… His thoughts,in1913,onthemannerwhichTrust’s fundscouldbeused: &ARSIGHTED VISION 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA CIRCA day by the advance of advance the by day to day from thrown is view of fresh light that of point the from but and examination…” inspection to open be not would which and are not regularly issued and audits periodic to accounts are not subject the which of aided be should or organisation institution “No carefully prepared…” is thereof scheme the unless undertaken or venture should be aided “No experiment and no that: Further, he also directed well-being… human of problems on philosophy and science 6ISION
I 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 II SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Trust Management TeamManagement Trust Trustees of Board CC ak ot ubi BankofBaroda,Fort,Mumbai StandardCharteredBank,Fort,Mumbai ICICIBank,Fort,Mumbai StateBankofIndia,Main,Mumbai Ms.NandiniJanardhanan Bankers The Trustisgratefultothefollowingfortheirvaluablecontributionsduringyear. Dr.SudeepSinghGadok Mr.ArunPandhi Programme Officer Ms.AmritaPatwardhan Individual Grants Programme Officer (Health) Programme Officer (Education) Programmes Manager Institutional Grants Secretary &ChiefAccountant Ms. S. K. Bharucha Mr. R. K. KrishnaKumar Mr. K. B. Dadiseth Mr. J. N. Tata Mr. N. A. Soonawala Mr. H. N. Sethna Mr. RatanN. Tata (Chairperson) M/sMulla&CraigieBluntCaroe Solicitor Internal Auditors Statutory Auditors CharteredAccountants CharteredAccountants Aeia xrs ak ubi AmericanExpressBank,Mumbai r eagrN ity ate Mr.JehangirN.Mistry,Partner
/ aatllTakr&C. M/sJayantilalThakkar& Co. Mr.HoshangD.Malesra / .C hkh o M/s C.Chokshi&Co.
-UMBAI &LOOD 2ELIEF 0ROGRAMME 7HILST THE DEATH TOLL WAS HEAVY IT WAS LEFT TO THOSE THAT SURVIVED TO PICK UP THE PIECES OF THEIR LIVES RESCUE FELLOW BRETHREN FROM A WATERY GRAVE STORIES OF DESPAIR AND WELLx A FEW PROMISING HOPE BREAKING INSTANCES OF LOSS ACTS OF BRAVERY BY COMMON PEOPLE AS THEY PULLED ALL STOPS TO HELP AND WHICH WOULD CAST A PERMANENT SCAR ON THEIR LIVES .EWSPAPERS WERE REPLETE WITH REPORTS OF HEART A WEEK TO RECEDE 0EOPLE WHO LEFT HOME IN THE MORNING HAD NO INKLING OF THE IMPENDING DOWNPOUR THE CITY ESPECIALLY THE SUBURBS WERE UNDER MORE THAT FEET OF WATER WHICH AT PLACES TOOK NEARLY METROPOLIS 4HE mOODS CAUSED THROUGH THIS PHENOMENON WERE THE WORST OF ITS KIND 6AST STRETCHES OF FELL IN -UMBAI LEFT IN ITS WAKE SEVERE DESTRUCTION AND UNTOLD TRAGEDY TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS BOOMING EVENT NEVER EXPERIENCED IN OVER A HUNDRED YEARS 4HE UNPRECEDENTED RECORD RAINFALL OF MM THAT MAKING DRIVERS TAXI EXTORTIONATE DEMANDS TO FERRY PEOPLE TO THEIR HOMES (OWEVER THE DELUGE OF *ULY WAS AN AND mIGHTS DELAYED WATER KNEE DEEP THROUGH WADING STRANDED TRAFlC PEOPLE DISRUPTED PASSENGERS OF MEMORIES BRINGING OCCURRENCE ANNUAL AN ARE -UMBAI IN &LOODS OVER THE NEXT TWO MONTHS 4HIS PROGRAMME WAS OPEN TO ONLY ONE PERSON PER FAMILY 'RANTS 0ROGRAMME AFFECTED BY THE mOODS 4HIS TIME BOUND AND NON RECURRING PROJECT UNDERTAKEN UNDER THE 0ROGRAMME THAT FOCUSSED ON PROVIDING RELIEF ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES RESIDING IN -UMBAI AND ITS SUBURBS )N RESPONSE TO THIS CALAMITY THE 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA 4RUST CAME FORWARD WITH ITS -UMBAI &LOOD 2ELIEF RENDERED UNUSABLE WITH THEIR ENTIRE HOMES AND VALUABLES INCLUDING HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND APPLIANCES DESTROYED OR WHICH WERE LITERALLY WASHED AWAY 4HESE FAMILIES HAD BEEN SET BACK IN THEIR LIVES BY SEVERAL YEARS -AROONED ! DAY THE CITY WILL NEVER FORGET OF THE 4RUST WAS INITIATED IN !UGUST AND RECEIVED ENORMOUS RESPONSE -UMBAI &LOOD 2ELIEF 0ROGRAMME
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FEW IN THE 4RUST ,OOKING BACK INTO OUR ARCHIVES WE lND THAT THE 4RUST HAS RESPONDED SIMILARLY IN THE EVENT OF SUCH CONTINGENT ON THE INCOME OF HIS FAMILY AND EXTENT OF LOSS SUFFER 53 MILLION UNDER THE 0ROGRAMME 4HE AMOUNT SANCTIONED TO AN INDIVIDUAL VARIED AND WAS 4RUST /FlCE TO ASCERTAIN VARIOUS DETAILS 4HE 4RUST SUBSEQUENTLY SANCTIONED A TOTAL OF 2S MILLION APPLICATION RECEIVED SO AS TO AVOID ANY FRAUDULENCE )N CERTAIN CASES APPLICANTS WERE CALLED TO THE 4HE RESPONSE TO THE 0ROGRAMME WAS OVERWHELMING 4HE 4RUST THOROUGHLY SCRUTINISED EACH AND EVERY x) AM THANKFUL FOR THE HELP GIVEN BY THE 4RUST AND AM GRATEFUL TO ALL THE STAFF MEMBERS AND IN ORDER TO PURCHASE ESSENTIAL ITEMS )T REALLY HELPED US IN RESTARTING OUR ROUTINE LIFE AGAINx x4HE lNANCIAL AID GIVEN BY THE 4RUST HELPED ME REPAY THE LOANS ) WAS FORCED TO TAKE AFTER THE DELUGE MANAGEMENT FOR THEIR CO OPERATION AND PROPER GUIDANCEx 4RUST OUR DWINDLING FAITH IN HUMANITY WAS RE KINDLED AND OUR ZEST TO LIVE WAS REVIVED x/UR PLEAS FOR ASSISTANCE FELL ON DEAF YEARS 7HEN WE RECEIVED THIS MAGNANIMOUS HELP FROM THE THAT IN THE HOUR OF DISTRESS THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE WHOM YOU CAN COUNT ONx x)T WAS INDEED TOUCHING NOT BECAUSE OF THE lNANCIAL ASSISTANCE GRANTED TO ME BUT FOR THE VERY FACT n " " 3ATARE RESIDENT OF 6ITHALWADI 4HANE DISTRICT n 3HREYA 0AWAR !MBARNATH 4HANE DISTRICT n $EVENDRA 3ARMALKAR 6ILE 0ARLE -UMBAI n 2 -EENAKSHI 4ITWALA 4HANE DISTRICT ED /F $AYS 'ONE "Y 5NVEILING THE SCHEME 0RINCIPAL -IERS SUGGESTED THAT THE SCOPE OF ENQUIRY SHOULD BE WIDELY CONCEIVED TO CARRY OUT 3IR 2ATANS IDEAS 0RINCIPAL 3IR (ENRY 3 -IERS PREPARED A SCHEME WHICH ACCORDING TO THEM SEEMED BEST CALCULATED SUGGESTING MEANS OF RELIEF )N CONJUNCTION WITH 0ROFESSOR , 4 (OBHOUSE AND 0ROFESSOR % * 5RWICK IN THE 5NIVERSITY THAT WOULD INVESTIGATE AND RESEARCH INTO CAUSES OF DESTITUTION AND POVERTY WHILST MADE AN OFFER OF lNANCIAL HELP TO THE 5NIVERSITY OF ,ONDON INQUIRING IF THEY COULD SET UP A #HAIR NON COOPERATION MOVEMENT IN 3OUTH !FRICA AND 'OPAL +RISHNA 'OKHALES 3ERVANTS OF )NDIA 3OCIETY IN 3IR 2ATAN 'ANDHIS -AHATMA AS SUCH IMPORTANCE NATIONAL OF CAUSES WITH INVOLVEMENT $URING HIS LIFETIME 3IR 2ATAN WAS ASSOCIATED WITH NUMEROUS INSTANCES OF MUNIlCENCE !MIDST HIS PRESENT DAY GRANT BESTOWING POLICY THE MANNER OF HIS SUPPORT NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS AGO IS AN INSIGHTFUL ANTECEDENT TO THE 4RUSTS THE SOCIAL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WELFARE OF THE EMERGING )NDIAN NATION )T IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT (E WAS EQUALLY KEEN TO SUPPORT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES THAT INVESTIGATED INTO MATTERS THAT PERTAINED TO A DESERVING INSTITUTION FOR CARRYING OUT INNOVATIVE SCHEMES THAT WOULD UPLIFT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE 2ATAN WAS EXTREMELY GENEROUS ALWAYS WILLING TO LEND A HELPING HAND TO ANY INDIVIDUAL IN DISTRESS OR RESPONSIBILITY 3IR SIGNIlCANT A IT WITH ALONG CARRIED ALSO WEALTH OF ACCUMULATION THAT FELT ALWAYS SON OF *AMSETJI 4ATA "LESSED WITH THE GOOD FORTUNE TO SUPPORT A COMFORTABLE LIFESTYLE 3IR 2ATAN JOURNEY OF MISSIONS AND OBJECTIVES BASED ON THE VISION OF ITS FOUNDER 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA THE YOUNGER !S THE 4RUST ENTERS ITS TH YEAR OF EXISTENCE LET US REmECT ON ITS LONG AND EVENTFUL YET UNlNISHED 2 !TTLEE WHILST THE OTHER WAS FROM AN INDIVIDUAL BY THE NAME OF @(UGH $ALTON 4WO RESPONSES WERE RECEIVED 4HE lRST WAS FROM A CERTAIN GENTLEMAN GOING BY THE NAME OF @#LEMENT $URING THE SAME YEAR ADVERTISEMENTS WERE mOATED FOR APPLICANTS FOR A LECTURER AT THE &OUNDATION 3OCIAL !DMINISTRATION TOWARDS ITS EXPENSES OF THE &OUNDATION 0ROFESSOR 5RWICK WAS THE lRST 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA 0ROFESSOR OF WAS ESTABLISHED IN AND 3IR 2ATAN AGREED TO PAY a ANNUALLY FOR A PERIOD OF THREE YEARS 0RINCIPAL -EIRS SCHEME WAS THOROUGHLY EVALUATED BY HIM AND APPROVED A YEAR LATER 4HUS THE #HAIR PRINCIPLES THAT SHOULD GUIDE ACTION IN THESE RESPECTS !S WAS INTRINSIC OF 3IR 2ATANS INHERENT NATURE WITH ACTUAL METHODS IN USE IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES AND B CRITICAL OR PHILOSOPHICAL DEALING WITH THE 4HE SCOPE OF THE ENQUIRY WAS ALSO PROPOSED TO BE A HISTORICAL STATISTICAL AND COMPARATIVE DEALING AND ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES DEALING WITH POVERTY PAUPERISM AND THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS THEREOF FURTHER IT SHOULD NOT BE CONlNED TO QUESTIONS OF PRIVATE PHILANTHROPY BUT SHOULD EXTEND TO LEGISLATIVE ,ALA 2 - 4HE #REATION OF 7EALTH )"( 0UBLISHING #OMPANY "OMBAY !FTER A LOT OF THOUGHT 2EmECTIONS
V 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 VI 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 2EmECTIONS ,ONDON 3CHOOL OF %CONOMICS ,IBRARY IN THE OLD BUILDING CIRCA YEARS HELPED IN BUILDING UP A PIONEERING 3CHOOL OF 3OCIAL 3CIENTISTS IN %NGLAND IN 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA EXTENDED THE GRANT PERIOD FOR ANOTHER lVE YEARS AND HIS SUPPORT IN THESE EARLY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE $EPARTMENT OF 3OCIAL 3CIENCE AND !DMINISTRATION AT THE ,3% 3UBSEQUENTLY THE 5NIVERSITY OF ,ONDON AND THE OTHER HALF BY THE ,3% 4HE INSTITUTION OF THIS #HAIR ULTIMATELY LED TO WITH A #OMMITTEE OF -ANAGEMENT CONSISTING OF TWELVE MEMBERS HALF OF WHOM WERE NOMINATED BY ,ONDON SUGGESTED TRANSFERRING THE #HAIR OF THE &OUNDATION TO THE ,ONDON 3CHOOL OF %CONOMICS ,3% &OUNDATION WHO ALONG WITH OTHER WORKERS HAD TO JOIN THE ARMY !ROUND THIS PERIOD THE 5NIVERSITY OF )N 7ORLD 7AR ) BROKE OUT AND THE CALL OF DUTY BECKONED THE $IRECTOR IN CHARGE OF THE 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA "RITAIN WHEREAS $ALTON WENT ON TO BECOME THE #HANCELLOR OF THE %XCHEQUER IN THE !TTLEE #ABINET THE AUTHORITIES SELECTED !TTLEE FOR THE POST -UCH LATER IN !TTLEE BECAME THE 0RIME -INISTER OF DISBURSED DURING THESE NINETEEN YEARS FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE &OUNDATION WAS a THROUGH WHICH WERE SET UP IN CONTINUED THE GRANT TILL AFTER WHICH IT WAS STOPPED 4HE TOTAL AMOUNT BREATHED HIS LAST IN IN %NGLAND AT THE EARLY AGE OF 4HE 4RUSTEES OF 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA #HARITIES 5NFORTUNATELY 3IR 2ATANS HEALTH TOOK A TURN FOR THE WORSE AND AFTER BATTLING A YEAR OF ILLNESS HE the PoliticalRoleofReligion: Research ProjectinIndiawithacasestudyofJharkhand”. Implications of Emission Reduction Credit Projects on the Rural Economy of India” and “Identity and diverse, ranging from “Consumer Foodbeen Subsidies:have research What for Needs to undertaken fellowships.Topicsbe done these in awardedIndia” been to have “Socioeconomic scholars nine Fellows.the 2006,by Upto published output of standards high ensuring fellowships,consequently The Fellowship Committee meets annually and over the past few years, has been selective in awarding Economy &Environment. Exclusion;Life;Public of Quality Disparities;Regional Gender,– Identities Language;& Ethnicity and Poverty,Social to & relateInequality, Development themes researchHuman Identified Asia. South of concerns economic and contemporarysocial on focus to designed LSE.Researchis Centreat It the at Asia period months eight researchIndia.to of on six experience a with for TheFellowshipis discipline, science social a in scholar post-doctoral a to Fellowship” Tata Ratan “Sir the awards FoundationTata Ratan University. OxfordPresently,Sir the the at Economics of Professor Anand, Lord Professor Meghnad economist Desai and eminent the 1982), Nobel laureate September - Professor 1977 Amartya Sen. (December Its India current of nominee Bank is ProfessorReserve Sudhir Dr.late the the included of has Governor I.G.years the recent LSE, which, was in the who Patel at The Trust recommends its nominee on the Fellowship Committee for the Sir Ratan Tata Fellowships (£ 39,113.43). programme with an endowment grant of Rs. 10 million (£ 185,538) from the Trust. Taking into into TakingTrust. the from account the fall 185,538) in interest rates, (£ in 2003, million the Trust 10 Rs.enhanced its endowment of by a sum grant of Rs. 3 endowment million an with programme Consequently, in 1996, the Sir Ratan Tata Foundation was revived at LSE, in the form of a fellowship to re-establish ties with this august institution, keeping in mind the present day context and needs. Dr.by LSE the at Society presentedthe Singh Manmohan Tata opportunity excellent an with Group Economy,for Asian Centre and new Politics the of later,launching years 1994,the 60 May Over in publications. differentin labour of conditions the on work trades werefindings their and differentin out brought researchout carried LSE the and London of University the of students which,and severalscholars The Trust wishestothankthe Tata Central Archives andtheLondonSchoolofEconomics(LSE)fortheir inputs.
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SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Contents Financial Highlights An Overview: 2005-2006 Institutional Grants SmallGrantProgramme Individual Grants Guidelines forgrant applicants Endowment Grants Programme Grants ...... Health ...... Rural LivelihoodsandCommunities ...... Arts andCulture ...... Enhancing CivilSocietyandGovernance ...... Education ...... 115 112 106 85 82 78 69 59 45 11 1 !N /VERVIEW $ISBURSALS OF 2S MILLION 53 MILLION WERE MADE ON ALL PROGRAMME GRANTS DURING THE 2S MILLION 53 MILLION A INCREASE OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR AND OVER 30 4HE TOTAL DISBURSALS MADE BY THE 4RUST DURING THE YEAR TOUCHED AN ALL TIME HIGH RISING TO $URING THE 4RUST COMPLETED ITS FOURTH YEAR OF ACTIVITIES BASED ON THE 3TRATEGIC 0LAN 4HE YEAR THAT WAS IN "UDAWADA +RISHNA DISTRICT !NDHRA 0RADESH ETA )DA NTAIE ,F )RGTO POOE B .AD &UDTO I UE T SAIIE AD CULTIVATION PADDY STABILIZE TO USED IS &OUNDATION .AANDI BY PROMOTED )RRIGATION ,IFT )NITIATIVE )NDIA #ENTRAL 'RANT $ISBURSALS /VERVIEW
1 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 2 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 /VERVIEW 53 MILLION DISBURSED IN THE -UMBAI &LOOD 2ELIEF 0ROGRAMME MILLION 53 MILLION AN INCREASE OF OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR 4HIS INCLUDES 2S MILLION WERE ADDED TO THE 4RUSTS PORTFOLIO DURING THE YEAR 4HE TOTAL DISBURSALS TO INDIVIDUALS WERE 2S 2S MILLION 53 MILLION 4HIRTY ONE NEW PROGRAMME GRANTS AND EIGHTY NEW SMALL GRANTS YEAR %NDOWMENT GRANT DISBURSALS TOTALLED UP TO 2S MILLION 53 MILLION 3MALL GRANTS TOUCHED 2S MILLION IS 2S CRORE 53 IS APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO 2S 4OTAL )NDIVIDUAL GRANTS )NSTITUTION 3MALL GRANTS )NSTITUTION %NDOWMENT GRANTS )NSTITUTION 0ROGRAMME GRANTS 4YPE OF GRANT BY )#2)%2 AS PART OF A PROJECT THAT CONDUCTS RESEARCH ON 74/ RELATED ISSUES $R 3IDDHARTHA 2OY %CONOMIC !DVISOR n 4ATA 'ROUP SPEAKS AT AN )NTERNATIONAL #ONFERENCE IN $ELHI ORGANISED $ETAILS OF GRANT DISBURSALS 2S IN MILLION 53 IN MILLION The followingare someofthekeyachievementsandareas ofengagementduring 2005-06. Udr hrs itrthnYjn (V) teTuts osa slnt iiitv i Gjrt the Gujarat, in initiative salinity Trust’s coastal the (KVY), Yojana Vistarotthan Kharash Under • plan The finalised. and developed was Pariyojana Himmothan for plan strategic year five A • IWMI-Tatathe to Thesupport of phase first WaterResearchPolicy Programmeend an to came • realm,higher a to CInI take to view a with Cell, CInI Trustthe 2005,the operationalisedJuly In • The financial year 2005-06 marked the fourth year of activities under Strategic Plan 2006, which • the year, the Trust also sanctioned two Phase II grants to Aga Khan Rural Support Programme Support Rural Khan Aga to grantsyear, II the Phase two Trustthe sanctioned also Gujarat, the Trust and its partners in coordinating and focusing efforts to mitigate salinity. During Coastal Salinity Prevention Cell began operations as a nodal agency to assist the Government of promote livelihoodenhancementeffortsinUttaranchal. to supported were (UBFDB) Board Development Fibre and Bamboo Uttaranchal and (UOCB) Pradesh. Besides this, two Government Boards, namely, Uttaranchal Organic Commodity Board Himachal and Uttaranchal in partners its through villages 45 in projects sanitation and water year, the Trust has supported 17 watershed projects covering 8,500 hectares and implemented reviewed the progress of projects within the initiative and suggested the way forward. During the building upanationalprofileonrange ofimportantpolicyissuesinwatersector; strategy,by research multi-location a adopting (c) and researchers; sector water of building at improving policy formulation and implementation; (b) expending significant efforts at capacity involved in the water sector, whilst exploring, understanding and agencies incorporatingthe in processes institutional and organizationalthe in research undertaking real(a) include: constraints II Phase the for focus of areas key approved.the subsequently Amongst period,was year five in December 2005. Based on the success of this phase, a second phase of support, also over a Foundation (SadguruFoundation) insouthRajasthanandGujarat were operationalised. Development & Water Sadguru M. N. and Pradesh Andhra in Foundation Naandi Jharkhand, in (IGS) Services Grameen Indian with areas tribal in projects livelihood new four CInI, under whilst taking the learnings to a wider orbit of government and donor agencies. During the year, 29% ofRLCdisbursalsrespectively. Pariyojana,the Trust’sis which initiative,and development rural32% Himalayan for accounted Himmothan and India central in tribals poor of livelihoods enhancing on focuses which (CInI), the thematic area of Rural Livelihoods and Communities (RLC), where the Central India Initiative the highest quantum of disbursals ever achieved. 63% of the total disbursals were made within in resultinginitiatives, various up-scaling towards efforts same,concerted Trustthe made has the of recommendations the implementing Whilst document. guiding year Trust’sfive the is Overview 2005 - 2006 - 2005 Overview
3 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 4 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 /VERVIEW 5NDER 0HASE )) OF THE INITIATIVE @2EVIVING THE 'REEN 2EVOLUTION WHICH AIMS TO TACKLE THE STAGNATION s 5DR AH E6KS 2JSHN IRlAC )IITV H RS LUCE TE ETE FOR #ENTRE THE LAUNCHED THE 4RUST )NITIATIVE -ICROlNANCE 2AJASTHAN n 3E 6IKAS 3AKH 5NDER s TO VILLAGES IN COTTON BLOCKS IN SEVEN DISTRICTS OF 0UNJAB /VERALL EFFORTS HAVE LED TO AN DISTRICTS IN 0UNJAB BESIDES SUPPORTING THE $O! TO UP SCALE THE DISSEMINATION OF THIS TECHNOLOGY AT 0!5 TOWARDS FURTHER DEVELOPING VALIDATING AND DISSEMINATING COTTON )0- TECHNOLOGY IN FOUR 0EST )NTEGRATED THE FOR -ANAGEMENT )0- PROGRAMME ON COTTON 4HE 4RUST IS SUPPORTING THE $EPARTMENT OF %NTOMOLOGY CRUCIAL WAS YEAR 0UNJAB 4HE OF 'OVERNMENT $O! OF !GRICULTURE $EPARTMENT AND 0!5 5NIVERSITY 0UNJAB !GRICULTURAL OF DEPARTMENTS VARIOUS WITH PROJECTS IN AGRICULTURE IN 0UNJAB BY ENCOURAGING DIVERSIlCATION THE 4RUST OPERATIONALISED SEVERAL NEW PROBLEMS ARISING DUE TO SALINITY INGRESS IN COASTAL VILLAGES IN *UNAGADH AND !MRELI DISTRICTS )NDIA !+230) AND !MBUJA #EMENT &OUNDATION !#& TOWARDS CONDUCTING EFFORTS IN COMBATING $AUSA AND $HOLPUR DISTRICTS AND 3ELF 2ELIANT )NITIATIVES FOR *OINT !CTION 32)*!. IN 4ONK DISTRICT OF 'OVERNMENT THE OF 2AJASTHAN THROUGH GRANTS MADE TO 0ROFESSIONAL !SSISTANCE FOR $EVELOPMENT !CTION 02!$!. IN $0)0 0ROGRAMME )NITIATIVES 0OVERTY $ISTRICT THE WITH COLLABORATED ALSO YEAR THE 4RUST THE $URING 2AJASTHAN IN MICROlNANCE FOR PROGRAMMES PRO POOR DESIGN REGULAR SUPPORT TO NON PROlT ORGANISATIONS GOVERNMENT PROGRAMMES AND BANKING SECTOR TO MICRO&INANCE #M& IN *UNE WITH THE AIM OF SEEDING AN ORGANISATION THAT COULD PROVIDE INCREASE IN PRODUCTION OF COTTON IN 0UNJAB OF !GRICULTURE 'OVERNMENT OF 0UNJAB IN $AULA VILLAGE -UKTSAR DISTRICT 0UNJAB 2EVIVING THE 'REEN 2EVOLUTION $EMONSTRATION PLOT OF )0- IN COTTON BEING IMPLEMENTED BY THE $EPARTMENT *The figures inthetablereflect programmatic disbursalsduringthefinancialyear2005-06. • Based on the recommendations of an external review of the education portfolio that was was that portfolio education the of review external an of recommendations the on Based • Total 15 Arts &Culture Enhancing CivilSociety&Governance Health Education Rural Livelihoods&Communities Thematic Area order to address the need for developing appropriate reading and educational material for diversephase,first the in and teachers four TeacherKarnataka.in ResourceCentresIn werelaunched a framework for setting up Teacher Resource Centres for enabling professional development of CentresLearning Maharashtrain (LCI) Initiative Karnataka.and The Trustdeveloped proactively engagement with the government and the community. In addition, the Trust operationalised its during the year, by supporting field projects that address issues of quality of education, through elementary education. Efforts towards systemic reformon emphasis in with elementarysector the educationin areas was gap emphasisedkey addressing on been has thrust education.The elementary education, nurturing education as a discipline and building institutional resource in conducted during 2004-05, the Trust reorganised the portfolio and focused its efforts on reforming rearing andagriculture. generation,dairy,livelihood including for interventions on goat focusing groups supporting for Programme grantdisbursals: 2005-2006* Programme grant disbursals: 2005-2006 disbursals: grant Programme o fgat R.i ilo US$inmillion Rs. inmillion No. ofgrants 129 12 31 67 4 398.79 252.00 39.57 24.28 77.54 5.40 Overview 2005 - 2006 - 2005 Overview 8.86 0.88 5.60 0.12 0.54 1.72
5 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 6 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Overview 2005 - 2006 - 2005 Overview • During the year,the During the Trustportfolio,Governance and Society restructuredCivil its recognisingit • of disciplines portfolio,Culturethe Trustthe & in Arts the worked within structure new a With • interlinked spaces for young people to engage with issues of civil society, was further developed the non-profit sector. The Youth and Civil Society initiative of the Trust, which focuses on building focus on building knowledge and support systems for practice of Organizational Development in sector.non-profit the of organisationprofessionalisation of and effectiveness Thiswill initiative ResourceHuman its year Organisationand initiative,Development concern its on builds which sectors.other in investments on builds which theme cutting cross a as The Trustthis launched grants were introducedinthearea of Arts Therapy. small focus,while Management the Arts under incorporatedwere and Attakkalari the Arts for Foundation India as such institutions to grants going bodies.On non-profit and organizations smaller with research develop to parallelly worked programme Education Arts The (CEPT). University; and (c) School of Interior Design, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology Arts, University of Pune; (b) A.J.Kidwai Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia research in the humanities. Under this, projects were developed with: (a) Centre for Performing the in Learning Advance Arts,paradigmsnew provide to departments university supported for design, art history, communication and theatre within four key areas. The most visible component, and producingbookslearningmaterialforchildren invariousIndianlanguages. learners,launched.was Initiative Publications the grantsof series A were developing for made Individual grants: 1997-2006 grants: Individual ) RSOS T TE EATTO CUE DE O OD I -MA AD T SRONIG AREAS SURROUNDING ITS AND -UMBAI IN mOODS TO DUE CAUSED DEVASTATION THE TO RESPONSE )N s 4OTAL &LOOD 2ELIEF %DUCATION -EDICAL 4YPE OF GRANTS MILLION UNDER THE SAME 0ROGRAMME RECEIVED AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE AND THE 4RUST DISBURSED 2S MILLION 53 0ROGRAMME WAS UNDERTAKEN UNDER THE )NDIVIDUAL 'RANTS 0ROGRAMME 4HE -UMBAI &LOOD 2ELIEF AFFECTED BY THE mOODS 4HIS TIME BOUND AND NON RECURRING PROJECT CALLED -UMBAI &LOOD 2ELIEF FOLLOWING HEAVY RAINS ON *ULY THE 4RUST CAME FORWARD WITH RELIEF ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS PILOTS WERE UNDERTAKEN UNDER THE 3MALL 'RANT 0ROGRAMME DURING THE YEAR 4HE 4RUST DEVELOPED A NEW PROGRAMME FOR THE CITY OF -UMBAI WITH 05+!2 AND DISTRICT +ARNATAKA ! PROJECT BEING IMPLEMENTED BY .ATIONAL )NSTITUTE OF !DVANCED 3TUDIES .)!3 $ISTRICT 1UALITY %DUCATION 0ROGRAMME $1%0 #HILDREN STUDYING AT A SCHOOL IN 2ACHAPPAJINAGAR #HAMRAJNAGAR )NDIVIDUAL GRANT DISBURSALS 2S IN MILLION 53 IN MILLION /VERVIEW
7 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 8 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Overview 2005 - 2006 - 2005 Overview Like the Coastal Salinity Prevention Cell, the CInI Cell and the CmF that have been set up during • 2006,SP the the Trustunder year its last consolidating the on being focus 2006-07 would With • Looking ahead: care ofCommunicationsProducts, Grant ManagementandHumanResources atthe Trust. & Governance portfolio. The Trust also has an Executive team consisting of two Associates that take Officers for the Health and Arts & Culture portfolios and a Programme Associate for the Civil Society Programme of recruitment saw portfolios other in Trustthe year.team bolster Similarly,to efforts coming the in finalised be would and process in Programmeis two portfolio of RLC the for Officers Cells, namely Coastal Salinity Prevention Cell, CInI Cell and the Centre for microFinance. Recruitment operational three at personnel programme placing and recruitingoperation.Consequently, is of it the Trust made attempts in decentralising certain programmatic functions to ‘Cells’ based in the area project strengthen and implementation. projects With the on-going maturing to of several value region specific enhance initiatives, to especially in inputs the RLC portfolio, providing and proposals appraising for specialists sectoral external of expertise the use Trustgrant,to the each continued of complexities technical Programmethe Team.restructureits mind and in strengthenKeeping to actively engaging with the organisations and state governments, the Trust has made focused attemptsorderIn increasingits to justice do to portfolio, pro- and level field the at output of quality ensuring Human Resources: ending March 31, 2006havebeenfinalised andthestatutoryauditcompleted. were 2 per cent of the total income and 3 per cent of the total disbursals. The accounts for the year time high of Rs. 583.54 million (US $ 12.97 million). The general administration and programme costs million, an increase of 16 per cent over the previous year. Correspondingly, disbursals touched an all The year under review saw a quantum rise in the Trust’s income from Rs. 673.62 million to Rs. 780.19 Finance, propertyandadministration: guiding lightbehindthe Trust’s operations forfivesubsequent years. Strategic2011.Plan operationalisedbe to Expected 2007-08,from the be would document the the of finalisation and formulation the to lead would exercise the 2004-05, during conducted portfolios SGP the and Culture & Arts Education, the of reviews the with Governance.Along & Society Civil Enhancing and Health Communities, & Livelihoods Rural of portfolios thematic the portfolio,of programmaticreviews its external across conducting initiatives besides major
s $URING THE COURSE OF THE NEXT YEAR THE 4RUST IS PLANNING ON STRENGTHENING AND INCREASING ITS s AND #ENTRE 2ESOURCE ITS 4EACHER EXPAND TO PLANS THE 4RUST PORTFOLIO %DUCATION THE 7ITHIN s $URING THE COMING YEAR THE 4RUST WOULD INTENSIFY ITS EFFORTS WITHIN #)N) 4HE #)N) #ELL WOULD FOCUS s PRESENTLY BEING SUPPORTED BY THE 4RUST 3UBSEQUENT TO THIS IT WILL FOCUS ON KEY AREAS FOR THE IS PLANNED IN THE lRST HALF OF THE COMING YEAR 4HIS WOULD INCLUDE A DETAILED REVIEW OF THE WORK WORK IN THE HEALTH SECTOR 4OWARDS THIS A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW AND STRATEGY PLANNING EXERCISE AND SUPPORTING ALTERNATIVE AND HERITAGE SCHOOLS 0UBLICATION INITIATIVES BESIDES DEVELOPING A STRATEGY FOR FOCUSED INTERVENTIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION COMMITMENT TO WORK IN COLLABORATION WITH THE $0)0 OF 5NDERSTANDING WITH THE 'OVERNMENT OF 2AJASTHAN IS IN THE OFlNG WHICH WOULD SEAL THE 4RUSTS OPERATIONALISE THE #M& TO STRENGTHEN THE MICROlNANCE INITIATIVE IN 2AJASTHAN ! -EMORANDUM THE STATES OF *HARKHAND -AHARASHTRA 2AJASTHAN AND -ADHYA 0RADESH 4HE 4RUST WOULD ALSO FULLY ON DEVELOPING STATE LEVEL STRATEGIES FOR ALL THE #)N) STATES BESIDES DEVELOPING lELD PROJECTS IN WITH THE lELD AND PUSHING THE AGENDA OF EACH INITIATIVE #ELLS ARE ENVISAGED TO ADD IMMENSE VALUE THROUGH THEIR FOCUS ON COMPREHENSIVELY ENGAGING 2EVIVING THE 'REEN 2EVOLUTION INITIATIVES "ESIDES PROGRAMMATICALLY GUIDING THE INITIATIVES THE THE PAST TWO YEARS THE 4RUST WOULD SIMILARLY SET UP #ELLS UNDER (IMMOTHAN 0ARIYOJANA AND 2AJASTHAN ! TRAINED NURSE n MIDWIFE OF !24( ADMINISTERS ESSENTIAL CARE TO A NEW BORN BABY IN 2AJSAMAND DISTRICT /VERVIEW
9 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 10 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 /VERVIEW 4HE 4RUSTS !RTS #ULTURE PORTFOLIO WILL BE SIGNIlCANTLY ENHANCED OVER THE COMING YEAR WITH THE s BY PORTFOLIO 'OVERNANCE 3OCIETY #IVIL ITS ENHANCE WOULD YEAR THE 4RUST COMING THE /VER s THE !RTS %DUCATION AND !RTS 4HERAPY INITIATIVES THE COMING YEAR WOULD ALSO SUPPORT SEVERAL NEW WORKS IN ARTS PEDAGOGY AND RESEARCH UNDER FOCUS BEING ON NEW AND INNOVATIVE INSTITUTION BUILDING PRACTICES 4HE 4RUSTS PROGRAMMES OVER REGION FELLOWSHIPS WOULD BE ON BUILDING THE INDIVIDUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITIES IN THE #ENTRAL )NDIAN ENGAGEMENT WITH SELECT NON PROlT ORGANISATIONS 4HE FOCUS OF THIS INITIATIVE AS WELL AS THAT OF WOULD EXPAND THE NASCENT (UMAN 2ESOURCE AND /RGANISATION $EVELOPMENT INITIATIVE BY BUILDING OF OTHER DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS AND ENCOURAGE PARTNERS TO INCUBATE YOUTH GROUPS 4HE 4RUST TOWARDS ADDRESSING SECTORAL GAPS IN THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SECTOR BRING YOUTH ON THE AGENDA WORK WOULD INITIATIVE 3OCIETY #IVIL AND THEME 4HE 9OUTH CUTTING CROSS A AS IT STRENGTHENING THE NEW AREAS PROPOSED FOR INTERVENTION BY THE 4RUST THE KEY THEMATIC AREAS OF WORK THAT ARE BEING PRESENTLY SUPPORTED AS WELL AS INITIATING WORK ON RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE REVIEW AND STRATEGY PLANNING THE 4RUST WOULD WORK ON STRENGTHENING 4RUST TO SUPPORT IN THE FUTURE THROUGH ITS GRANT MAKING &OLLOWING THIS AND DEPENDING ON THE "ANGALORE 0OETRY IN MOTION #HILDREN REHEARSE THEIR DANCE STEPS AT THE !TTAKKALARI #ENTRE FOR -OVEMENT !RTS !#-! 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS GRANTS AS COMPARED TO 2S MILLION TOWARDS GRANTS DURING OF THE DISBURSALS 4HE 4RUSTS DISBURSALS DURING THE YEAR UNDER REVIEW WERE 2S MILLION 53 MILLION TOWARDS AND B MICROlNANCE ENGAGEMENT WITH VARIOUS REGIONAL INITIATIVES IN TWO BROAD AREAS A LAND AND WATER DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES TO BE THE MAINSTAY OF FUNDING WITHIN THE 4RUSTS PORTFOLIO WITH THE 4RUST CONTINUING ITS MARKED THE FOURTH YEAR OF IMPLEMENTING THIS STRATEGIC MANDATE AND ENHANCING RURAL LIVELIHOODS MAKING DECISIONS EXHORTS THE 4RUST TO CONSOLIDATE ITS WORK IN THE POVERTY BELT OF )NDIA SUSTAINABLE MANNER 3TRATEGIC 0LAN 30 THE GUIDING DOCUMENT BEHIND THE 4RUSTS GRANT A MEANINGFUL APPROACH TO FUNDING COUPLED WITH APPROPRIATE MEASURES TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS IN A BELOW POVERTY LINE FAMILIES ARE BASED IN RURAL AREAS ARE BELOW THE POVERTY LINE COMPARED TO THE ALL )NDIA AVERAGE OF &URTHER ALMOST OF THE RATHER SKEWED *UST TO ILLUSTRATE A POINT MORE THAN OF THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE CENTRAL BELT IN )NDIA MILLION )NDIANS CONTINUE TO LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LINE $ISTRIBUTION OF POVERTY WITHIN )NDIA IS RATE OF SEVEN TO EIGHT PER CENT PER YEAR AND THE LIBERALIZATION PROCESS BRINGING IN INVESTMENTS OVER ALMOST OF THE )NDIAN POPULATION IS BASED $ESPITE THE COUNTRYS ECONOMY GROWING AT A HEALTHY WHILST URGING THE DOYEN OF )NDIAN INDUSTRY TO CREATE LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES IN RURAL AREAS WHERE OF THE 4ATA 'ROUP -R 2ATAN 4ATA OBSERVED THAT THE )NDIAN INDUSTRY NEEDED TO BE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE $ELIVERING A SPEECH AT THE 2OBERT 3 (ATlELD &ELLOW LECTURE AT #ORNELL 5NIVERSITY THE #HAIRMAN 0OPULATION DATA AND RELATED STATISTICS HTTPWWWCENSUSINDIANET 'RANT $ISBURSALS FOR 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS AND #OMMUNITIES )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES )MPROVING THE QUALITY OF THEIR LIVES MANDATES #OMMUNITIES
11 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 12 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES #)N) TO A WIDER ORBIT OF GOVERNMENT AND DONOR AGENCIES THE 4RUST OPERATIONALISED THE INTERVENTIONS 7ITH A VIEW TO TAKE THIS INITIATIVE TO A HIGHER REALM BESIDES TAKING THE LEARNINGS FROM THE LIVELIHOODS OF THE TRIBAL COMMUNITY IN CENTRAL )NDIA THROUGH LAND AND WATER FOCUSED DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES AND ENTERPRISES BASED ON AGRARIAN ACTIVITIES 4HE 4RUSTS mAGSHIP #)N) FOCUSES ON ENHANCING 4HE 4RUSTS INITIATIVES IN LAND AND WATER DEVELOPMENT FOCUS ON ENHANCING RURAL LIVELIHOODS FROM NATURAL +69 RESPECTIVELY OUTLAID TOWARDS TWO OTHER KEY INITIATIVES (IMMOTHAN 0ARIYOJANA AND +HARASH 6ISTAROTTHAN 9OJANA DURING THE YEAR WERE MADE FOR GRANTS WITHIN THE #ENTRAL )NDIA )NITIATIVE #)N) WITH AND BEING ORGANIZATIONS IN IMPLEMENTING THE #)N) STRATEGIES THE lELD THEREBY FURTHER DEVELOPING #)N) AND D MONITORING AND PROVIDING TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO THE IN CENTRAL )NDIA C PLAYING THE ROLE OF AN h)DEA )NCUBATORv BY EXPERIMENTING WITH INNOVATIVE IDEAS IN AS A +NOWLEDGE "ANK WHICH WOULD BE A SINGLE SOURCE FOR ALL INFORMATION RELATED TO TRIBAL LIVELIHOODS CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND DONORS IN THE CENTRAL )NDIA REGION B FUNCTIONING !NAND 4HE HOUSED AT THE SHORTLY DESILTED BY 4ATA 3TEEL 2URAL $EVELOPMENT 3OCIETY 432$3 TO ENHANCE ITS STORAGE CAPACITY #ENTRAL )NDIA )NITIATIVE 4HIS VILLAGE POND IN "ITAPUR VILLAGE 3ARAIKELA n +HARSAWAN DISTRICT *HARKHAND WILL BE #)N) #ELLS )7-) 4ATA 7ATER 0OLICY 2ESEARCH 0ROGRAMME )7-) 4ATA 0ROGRAMME KEY TASKS INVOLVE A ACTING AS A NETWORKING AND COORDINATING UNIT BETWEEN #)N) #ELL IN *ULY IN FOLLOWING SIGNIlCANT lNDINGS SILK REARING $URING THE NEW LIVELIHOOD STREAMS SUCH AS COMMERCIAL LIVESTOCK REARING INCLUDING POULTRY AND lSHERIES LAC CULTIVATION AND TASSAR TREES AND GRASSES INTENSIlCATION OF PADDY IN AREAS SUITABLE FOR PADDY FACILITATING VEGETABLE CULTIVATION AND INDUCTION OF INTERVENTIONS )N 0URULIA THESE INCLUDED HARVESTING AND USE OF RAINWATER THROUGH SEEPAGE AND RUN OFF PLANTATION OF ON ENHANCING THE LIVELIHOODS OF THE TRIBAL COMMUNITY IN CENTRAL )NDIA THROUGH LAND AND WATER FOCUSED DEVELOPMENT THE UNDER DISTRICT 0URULIA IN PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT WATERSHED )N THE 4RUST SUPPORTED AREA /WING TO VARIOUS FACTORS THE PADDY YIELDS DROP AS LOW AS TO QUINTALS PER HECTARE OF POVERTY #ULTIVATION OF KHARIF PADDY DOMINATES THE PRESENT CROPPING PATTERN ACCOUNTING FOR TO OF GROSS CROPPED ABUNDANT NATURAL RESOURCES THE REGION IS CHARACTERIZED BY LOW FARM PRODUCTIVITY FREQUENT CROP FAILURES AND HIGH INCIDENCE FED AND SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE FOR LIVELIHOOD )N SPITE OF HAVING ANNUAL RAINFALL OF MM AND BEING ENDOWED WITH OF THE ECONOMY AND LIVELIHOOD DEPENDENCE OF THE TRIBAL POPULATION WITH OF THE POPULATION DIRECTLY RELIANT ON RAIN 0URULIA DISTRICT OF 7EST "ENGAL IS A HILLY REGION WITHIN WHICH LIES THE "ANDUDIH WATERSHED 4HE AREA IS A TYPICAL REPRESENTATION LIVELIHOOD PROGRAMMES WITHIN THE CENTRAL )NDIA REGION CONTEXTUAL FEATURES 4HIS IS WHAT THE ,ASTLY THE SATISFACTORY RETURN ON INVESTMENT ALSO SIGNIlED THE REPLICABILITY OF THE PROJECT IN OTHER AREAS WITH SIMILAR )T RECOMMENDED FURTHER STRENGTHENING OF THE INTERVENTIONS TOWARDS ENSURING A SECURE LIVELIHOOD FOR THE TRIBAL FARMERS BESIDES STABILIZING THE LIVELIHOODS OF THE TRIBAL PEOPLE WITH INCREASED FOOD SECURITY LEADING TO DECREASED DISTRESS MIGRATION 4HE STUDY CONCLUDED THAT THE INTERVENTION WAS LARGELY SUCCESSFUL IN CREATION OF ASSETS AND AUGMENTATION OF THE RESOURCES 4HE WAGE LABOUR GENERATED DURING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME AND THE COMPULSORY SAVINGS NORMS s 0LANTATIONS HAVE STARTED YIELDING PRODUCE IN THE CASE OF MANGO THEY HAVE FETCHED RETURNS UPTO 2S PER s ! SIGNIlCANT INCREASE IN THE INCOME FROM SALE OF VEGETABLES WAS OBSERVED IN THE PROJECT AREA FROM THE ERSTWHILE s ! INCREASE IN PADDY YIELDS WAS OBSERVED IN THE WATERSHED DUE TO THE ACCESS TO IRRIGATION PROVIDED BY THE WATER s RESULTED IN FAMILIES BEING ABLE TO GENERATE SIGNIlCANT SAVINGS UPTO 2S FROM THE EARNINGS ANNUM FOR INDIVIDUAL FARMERS 2S PER ANNUM TO 2S PER ANNUM LEVEL OF THE TRIBAL HOUSEHOLDS ERSTWHILE RESTRICTED TO THREE FOUR MONTHS IN A YEAR HAS SIGNIlCANTLY IMPROVED HARVESTING STRUCTURES AND SEEPAGE TANKS BESIDES IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATION PRACTICES #ONSEQUENTLY FOOD SECURITY ETA )DA NTAIE ,N SWN SSE BIG DPE WTI 3SES O 2ICE FOR 3YSTEMS WITHIN ADOPTED BEING SYSTEM SOWING )NTENSIlCATION 32) IN "ANDUDIH WATERSHED 0URULIA DISTRICT 7EST "ENGAL ,INE )NITIATIVE )NDIA #ENTRAL 0ROFESSIONAL !SSISTANCE FOR $EVELOPMENT !CTION 02!$!. #)N) #ELL #)N) #ELL )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES UNDERTOOK A STUDY TO MEASURE IMPACT OF THE PROJECT AND CAME UP WITH THE IS FOCUSING ON WHILST HELPING THE 4RUST LOCATE AND SUPPORT MEANINGFUL ETA )DA NTAIE #)N) )NITIATIVE )NDIA #ENTRAL TOWARDS A THREE YEAR HC FOCUSES WHICH
13 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 14 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional the zone, the Trust is supporting Zone B covers Madhya Pradesh and parts of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. Within benefit more than8,200marginalized families. to aimed is Jharkhand,which in districts seven cultivation,covering tassar and interventions dairy interventions, agriculture irrigated as such activities enhancement livelihood supporting towards with covering an area of 250 acres with irrigation. During the year, the Trust has also initiated a farmers 200 about newbenefited Jharkhand,have in district Saraikela-Kharsawan projectof blocks Kharsawan ponds.and works conservation water Theseinterventions,Saraikela in and villages spread14 over and wells,soil irrigation activities, resourcesincluding development water various undertaken has activities during the year in Jharkhand. Similarly, PRADAN has generated Rs. 235 million from government and other sources for the various project plantation of ‘Arjuna’ grainages,(Terminalia rearing, tassar arjuna),in inputs and providing ‘Assan’and projects (Brideliawatershed spinosa)different under and lands dairy farm interventions. Notably, besides providing irrigation support, carrying out soil and water conservation interventions in tribal Help Groups (SHGs) and supported over 42,312 families through improved agriculture interventions, tassar.and year,lac the of During promotion and crops alternate pre-dominantly tribal, marginalized families in 1,600 villages in 16 districts in Jharkhand, introducing of security food and livelihoods rural enhancing towards (PRADAN) Action Development for in Jharkhand. During the year, the Trust actively supplemented the efforts ofproductivity. In addition, specific focus is being made to strengthen the dairy,structures near farm lac lands andand tasarpromoting betterinterventions agricultural practicesharvesting water in decentralized paddy,of creation the through therebyStabilization, Paddy Kharif enhancing on itsis focus the zone, this Within Bengal. West and Orissa Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, of states the covers A Zone large projectsthathavefar-reaching andgreater impact. into models these up-scale to Government) the as (such agencies other from funding large-scale attract to is models.replicableaim developing ultimate The and test to strategies these putting of for each zone. Based on these, the Trust has initiated seven field pilots in the region, with climatic theand socio-economicobjective conditions. Key recommendations and strategies have been developed Zone ‘A’,– zones four into belt CInI agro- the segregatethe to on helped ‘B’,based also & ‘D’ it ‘C’ highlighted the importance of improved water control mechanisms for enhancing tribal development, to generate a wide range of options for enhancing livelihoods of tribals in the region. Whilst studies At the inception of CInI in 2003, 40 research studies were undertaken by the Indian Grameen Services (IGS), Ranchi, which would provide financial and technical support Naandi Foundation in two separate projects. The first focuses on Tata Steel Rural Development Society (TSRDS) promoted 80 new Self new 80 promoted PRADAN Professional Assistance IWMI-Tata Programme
TO BE REVIVED REPAIRED ARE BEING DEVELOPED BY THE TECHNICAL TEAMS ALONG WITH THE RESPECTIVE ,IFT SOCIAL MOBILIZATION OF THE ,IFT )RRIGATION 3OCIETIES 4HE $ETAILED 0ROJECT 2EPORTS $02S OF THE SCHEMES MARGINAL AND TRIBAL FARMERS $URING THE YEAR AND +URNOOL DISTRICTS OF !NDHRA 0RADESH THEREBY IMPROVING IRRIGATION IN DROUGHT PRONE AREAS BENElTING REVIVAL OF DEFUNCT LIFT IRRIGATION SCHEMES IN +HAMMAM -EHBOOBNAGAR !NANTPUR -EDAK +RISHNA INCREASE IN OPERATIONAL AREA FROM VILLAGES IN TALUKAS TO VILLAGES IN TALUKAS INCREASE IN TO FAMILIES IN TRIBAL DISTRICTS OF -AHARASHTRA $URING THE YEAR THE PROJECT HAS RESULTED IN OF 7ADI MICRO WATERSHEDS COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WOMEN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES REACHING OUT !REAS -)442! 'OVERNMENT OF -AHARASHTRA 'O- TO BETTER CONTROL OVER WATER RESOURCES (ERE THE 4RUST IS SUPPLEMENTING A PROJECT SANCTIONED BY THE AND ENHANCEMENT AGRICULTURE FOR STRUCTURES HARVESTING WATER OF CREATION AND ORCHARDS @7ADI AND PARTS OF -ADHYA 0RADESH 4HE STRATEGY ADOPTED WITHIN THIS ZONE FOCUSES ON THE PROMOTION OF CERTIlCATION FROM 3+!, )NTERNATIONAL FOR MARKETING OF THE ORGANIC COFFEE :ONE # COVERS -AHARASHTRA ORGANIC COFFEE PLANTATION CULTIVATION $URING THE YEAR ABOUT FARMERS IN VILLAGES OF THE !RAKU VALLEY WERE ENGAGED IN VALLEY IN 6ISHAKAPATNAM DISTRICT !NDHRA 0RADESH THROUGH PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING ORGANIC COFFEE )RRIGATION 3OCIETIES 4HE OTHER PROJECT FOCUSES ON ENHANCEMENT OF LIVELIHOODS OF TRIBAL FARMERS OF !RAKU MADE FROM MEDICINAL HERBS FOR ENHANCING GROWTH OF ORGANIC COFFEE #ENTRAL )NDIA )NITIATIVE 4RIBALS IN !RAKU 6ALLEY 6ISHAKHAPATNAM DISTRICT !NDHRA 0RADESH SPRAYING BIO FERTILIZERS 4HE 'O- PROJECT TITLED @*AN 5TKARSHA 0ROGRAMME FOCUSES ON THE DEVELOPMENT .AANDI &OUNDATION )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES -AHARASHTRA )NSTITUTE OF 4ECHNOLOGY 4RANSFER FOR 2URAL .AANDI &OUNDATION ALSO FACILITATED THE PROCESS OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIC FOCUSED ON CAPACITY BUILDING AND
15 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 16 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES $URING THESE lVE YEARS 7ATER $EVELOPMENT &OUNDATION 3ADGURU &OUNDATION MORE WATER EFlCIENT AND HIGH VALUE CROPS 4HE 4RUSTS lVE YEAR mAGSHIP PROJECT WITH SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION MEASURES AND ENCOURAGING FARMERS TO SHIFT CROPPING PATTERN TOWARDS CHECK DAMS AND LIFT IRRIGATION SYSTEMS THROUGH A COMMUNITY BASED APPROACH 4HIS IS COUPLED WITH )N :ONE $ COVERING PARTS OF 'UJARAT AND SOUTH 2AJASTHAN THE #)N) STRATEGY SUGGESTS CONSTRUCTION OF BLACKSMITH CARPENTRY ETC ACRES AND LANDLESS FAMILIES BEING SUPPORTED WITH SKILL BASED INTERVENTIONS SUCH AS TAILORING NUMBER OF WADI OWNERS FROM TO WITH AN INCREASE IN AREA FROM ACRES TO FORESTRY PLANTATION BEING MANAGED BY THE *OINT &OREST -ANAGEMENT *&- COMMITTEE AND COVERING CONSERVATION STRUCTURES COVERING ACRES OF LAND BENElTING ABOUT HOUSEHOLDS V SOCIAL III MICRO WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT MEASURES SUCH AS SOIL CONSERVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF SMALL WATER STORE MILLION CUBIC FEET OF WATER IRRIGATING AN AREA OF ACRES BENElTING HOUSEHOLDS BENElTING HOUSEHOLDS II CONSTRUCTION OF WATER HARVESTING STRUCTURES WHICH HAS HELPED I CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITY LIFT IRRIGATION SCHEMES BRINGING AN AREA OF ACRES UNDER IRRIGATION OF 2S MILLION OVER THE lVE YEAR PERIOD 4HE 4RUST FUNDS 2S MILLION WERE USED TO SUPPLEMENT IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECT ACTIVITIES WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO OF ITS OVERALL PROGRAMMATIC EXPENDITURE H FNS EEAE FO TE OENET MNS TE CIVMNS F HS HS INCLUDE PHASE THIS OF ACHIEVEMENTS THE GOVERNMENT !MONGST THE FROM LEVERAGED FUNDS THE #ENTRAL )NDIA )NITIATIVE &LORICULTURE BEING PROMOTED BY 3ADGURU &OUNDATION IN $AHOD DISTRICT 'UJARAT 3ADGURU &OUNDATION RAISED ABOUT 2S MILLION FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOR CAME TO AN END IN $ECEMBER . - 3ADGURU resource development. Some of the key outputs emanating over the past five years of the of years five past the over emanating outputs key the of Some development.resource water on researchstudies edge cutting conducting in involved been IWMI-Tatahas Programme projects.pilot through findings these of testing relatedfield subsequent and issues 2000,Since the water- in out carried being research quality high of output an are Trust’sinitiatives the of Many Rajasthan, and Andhra Pradesh. states and along with the Trust, develop field projects in the priority states of Jharkhand, Maharashtra, India (GoI). Subsequently, a second phase of support was sanctioned in February 2006, which would in close collaboration with the state governments of Rajasthan and Gujarat and the Government of In the coming year, the districts inRajasthan. focusing on NRM activities and benefit 57,000 families in Dahod, Gujarat and Banswara and Jhalawar supplement covering 8,770 acres of land, benefiting 16,871 households. an area of 11,134 acres, benefiting 24,679 families; and (vi) 16,871 horticulture and floriculture plots irrigating field crops like alfalfa, cutting down water use rate by nearly 45% and raising yield by yield raising and 45% nearly by rate use water down cutting alfalfa, like crops field irrigating for suitable are Netafim of drippers inline that established drips.was kit It bucket using cultivation vegetable and alfalfa in mini-sprinklers and systems plantations,drip horticultural existing in drips micro-tube as practices;such systems irrigation saving differentwater of adoption types (ii) and several low-cost water saving irrigation devices, vermi-composting and other scientific composting of knowledge increased (i) in:resulted2005, June in end an to came which NGI, of phase first The district.Banaskantha in poor rural the of livelihood the improve and depletion groundwater arrest to strategies local based community replicate and locate to NGI, the undertake to Programme further period of five years (details showcased next page). The Trust also supported the phase drawing to an end in December 2005, the Trust renewed its support for the Programme for a Tushaar Shah as the new project leader for the programme, with effect from July 2005. With Dr.the first from over taking Phansalkar Dr.Sanjiv with guard, of change a saw Programme IWMI-Tata Programme the supporting besides NRM, through livelihoods tribal enhance to efforts their in CInI the within organisations various support Trustthe to led which action, ground for “seed-science” agencies; and non-profit organization leaders and managers; and (b) idea incubation and providing donor multi-national and departments;national various their and government state and central in makers policy including levels, various at policy water influencing (a) include: Programme Tata community managed livelihood enhancement programmes,enhancement livelihood managed Foundation’scommunity Sadguru n t Nrh uaa Ssanbe rudae Iiitv’ NI. uig h year, the the During (NGI). Initiative’ Groundwater Sustainable Gujarat ‘North its in CInI Cell would be focusing on developing state level strategies for all the CInI Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional Sadguru Foundation has been working IWMI-Tata IWMI-Tata IWMI-
17 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 18 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES SUPPORTING THE )NDIA )NITIATIVE #)N) AND PROVIDING hSEED SCIENCEv FOR GROUND ACTION WHICH HAS LED THE 4RUST TO SUPPORT VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS IN ITS NATIONAL AND MULTI NATIONAL DONOR AGENCIES AND NON PROlT ORGANIZATION LEADERS AND MANAGERS AND B IDEA INCUBATION WATER POLICY AT VARIOUS LEVELS INCLUDING POLICY MAKERS IN CENTRAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS 3OME OF THE KEY OUTPUTS EMANATING OVER THE PAST lVE YEARS OF THE ADDRESS FUTURE WATER CHALLENGES BY TRANSLATING RESEARCH lNDINGS INTO POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS IN )NDIA ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF HELPING POLICY MAKERS AT THE CENTRAL STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL YEARS 4HIS 2S MILLION PROGRAMME PRESENTS NEW PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS DERIVED FROM THE RESEARCH DONE )N $ECEMBER THE WATER INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS IN THE WATER SECTOR AND MEASURES TO IMPROVE LIVELIHOODS BY IMPROVING WATER PRODUCTIVITY TO THE NATIONAL DISCOURSE ON SEVERAL ASPECTS OF THE WATER SECTOR INCLUDING THE POLICY REGARDING INTER BASIN TRANSFER OF AS IT STRIVES TO PLAY AN EFFECTIVE ROLE IN THE NATIONAL WATER POLICY 4HE 0ROGRAMME IS ALSO EXPECTED TO MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS REGIONS IN THE .ORTH %AST AND IN 3OUTH )NDIA 4HE NEXT lVE YEARS WILL BE A CRUCIAL PERIOD FOR THE FOR INITIATIVES FOR THE 4RUST IN THE .2- lELD III EVOLUTION OF LIVELIHOOD AND .2- STRATEGIES FOR THE 4RUST COVERING NEW AMONGST THEM BEING I CONTRIBUTION TO WATER POLICY PROCESSES AT 3TATE AND #ENTRAL LEVEL II EVOLUTION OF NEW THEMES 4HE 4RUST HAS DElNED SEVERAL INDICATORS TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF THE PROGRAMME AND THE OUTPUTS OF THE PROJECT KEY IN PROJECT APPRAISAL MONITORING AND EVALUATION ON BEHALF OF THE 4RUST IN .2- BASED PROJECTS THE 4RUST AND F TECHNICAL BACKSTOPPING FOR THE 4RUST WHEREIN THE 0ROGRAMME PROVIDES AND ARRANGES TECHNICAL SUPPORT IDEAS THAT HAVE FAR REACHING POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES ON THE POOR AND THUS OFFERING IMPORTANT FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES TO HOLISTIC APPROACH TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES OF .2- COMPREHENSIVELY E IDEA INCUBATION FOR THE 4RUST STRIVING TO GENERATE OF IMPORTANT POLICY ISSUES IN WATER SECTOR D RETAINING THE EMPHASIS ON WATER POLICY ISSUES WHILST SEEKING TO ADOPT A OF WATER SECTOR RESEARCHERS C ADOPTING A MULTI LOCATION RESEARCH STRATEGY BY BUILDING UP A NATIONAL PROlLE ON A RANGE REAL CONSTRAINTS AT IMPROVING POLICY FORMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION B EXPENDING SIGNIlCANT EFFORTS AT CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSES IN THE AGENCIES INVOLVED IN THE WATER SECTOR WHILST EXPLORING UNDERSTANDING AND INCORPORATING THE PERIOD STARTING !PRIL 4HE KEY AREAS OF FOCUS FOR THE 0HASE )) ARE A UNDERTAKING RESEARCH IN ORGANIZATIONAL AND 5PON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION THE 4RUST SANCTIONED A SECOND PHASE OF SUPPORT OF 2S MILLION SPREAD OVER A lVE YEAR FOR THE WATER FRATERNITY TO MEET AND DISCUSS IMPORTANT ISSUES IN THE SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS LEADERS SCIENTISTS AND ACADEMICIANS IN WHAT HAS NOW METAMORPHOSED INTO AN IMPORTANT ANNUAL EVENT THE !NNUAL 0ARTNERS -EET EACH YEAR BRINGING TOGETHER MORE THAN WATER MANAGERS POLICY MAKERS DONORS NON PROlT FOR CULTIVATING !LFALFA IN "ANASKANTHA DISTRICT 'UJARAT .ORTH 'UJARAT )NITIATIVE $RIP IRRIGATION TECHNIQUES BEING PROMOTED BY THE )7-) 4ATA 0ROGRAMME )7-) 4ATA 0ROGRAMME IN THEIR EFFORTS TO ENHANCE TRIBAL LIVELIHOODS THROUGH .ATURAL 2ESOURCES -ANAGEMENT BESIDES )7-) 4ATA 7ATER 0OLICY 2ESEARCH 0ROGRAMME )7-) 4ATA 0ROGRAMME IN ITS @.ORTH 'UJARAT )NITIATIVE )7-) 4ATA 0ROGRAMME 4HE )7-) 4ATA 0ROGRAMME )7-) 4ATA 0ROGRAMME INCLUDE A INmUENCING COMPLETED lVE ALSO ORGANIZED @#ENTRAL )NGRESS 0REVENTION AND -ITIGATION INITIATIVE FOUR ORGANISATIONS NAMELY 7ITHIN THE 4RUSTS +HARASH 6ISTAROTTHAN 9OJANA +69 EARLIER KNOWN AS THE 'UJARAT #OASTAL 3ALINITY ASSISTING LOCAL PARTNERS TO UNDERTAKE PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES CONDUCTING ON FARM DEMONSTRATIONS DEVELOPING REPLICABLE MODELS ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND TO ACHIEVE THE ABOVE THROUGH SETTING UP EXPERIMENTAL FARMS ON AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT LARGE SCALE ADOPTION OF SUSTAINABLE FARMING PRACTICES IN NORTH 'UJARAT REGION 4HE PROGRAMME AIMS CONSEQUENCES OF FARMING PRACTICES THAT DEPEND ON INTENSIVE USE OF GROUNDWATER BESIDES FACILITATING .') WHICH FOCUSES ON CREATING WIDER AWARENESS ABOUT THE NEGATIVE SOCIO ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL NEARLY 4HE LESSONS LEARNT DURING THE lRST PHASE WERE INCORPORATED INTO THE SECOND PHASE OF THE CORPORATE SECTOR INVITING PROPOSALS FROM VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS FOR PROMOTING lELD PILOTS AND OF WATER THROUGH ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT MONITORING THE WATER QUALITY BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS WITH IN SOLVING PROBLEMS THROUGH COORDINATION WITH GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS PROMOTING EFlCIENT USE WHICH INCLUDED A COORDINATING EFFORTS AND PROJECTS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITHIN WHICH IT WAS INVOLVED COMMITTEE HELD ITS lRST MEETING IN -AY $URING THE YEAR THE 'UJARAT OF 0OST OPERATIONALISATION IN -ARCH THE AREAS COASTAL IN INGRESS SALINITY BY CAUSED PROBLEMS THE TACKLE TO EFFORTS CONTINUED AND 4RAINING )NSTITUTE 624) AND 4ATA #HEMICALS 3OCIETY FOR 2URAL $EVELOPMENT 4#32$ 0ROGRAMME )NDIA !+230) !MBUJA #EMENT &OUNDATION !#& 6IVEKANAND 2ESEARCH .AVINAL VILLAGE OF -UNDRA TALUKA +UTCH 'UJARAT +HARASH 6ISTAROTTHAN 9OJANA ! FARM POND CONSTRUCTED BY 6IVEKANAND 2ESEARCH 4RAINING )NSTITUTE 624) IN )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES #OASTAL 3ALINITY 0REVENTION #ELLS #30# #30# !GA +HAN 2URAL 3UPPORT PLAYED THREE DISTINCT ROLES STEERING
19 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 20 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional in five coastal villages in Jafarabad talukas of Amreli district. The Trust’s project with interventions supports project 1.second The Phase during covered were that district Junagadh of projects. The first focuses its interventions over 17 coastal villages in Kodinar and Sutrapada talukas Veraval talukas of Junagadh district. Similarly, the second phase with have benefited a total of 1,500 households. In Kutch,households. In 1,500 of total a benefited have four villages, of which, 23 were of 7,000 litres capacity and 166 were of 10,000 litres capacity. These for which, conducting exposure visits and trainings; (b) becoming a knowledge centre on coastal salinity issues year, the first phase of support with amounts of data and commissioning studies; and (c) becoming the nodal agency for KVY. During the held in Dehradun. During the meeting, a five year strategic plan for Himmothan Pariyojana was Pariyojana Himmothan for plan strategic year five a meeting, the During Dehradun. in held In June 2005, the first meeting of the State Level Steering Committee of Himmothan Pariyojana was reducing dependenceonsubsistenceagriculture. on enhancing rural livelihoods through farm and non-farm activities, thus preventing migration and focuses schemes.component the final The managing and implementing planning, for responsible implemented by village based water and sanitation committees. These ‘Management Societies’ are The second component improves community health through drinking water and sanitation projects projects committees.watershed based community conditions,through Himalayan for specifically designed micro-watershed implementing by degradation land addressing whilst development, threehas components. watershed participatory through livelihoods Theenhances component first region. 2005-06 marked a year of consolidation within the initiative.the of people the facing issues ruraldevelopment key the of 2002,addressessome systematically The on-going Phase 1 of the initiative The Trust’s Himalayan rural development initiative ‘Himmothan Pariyojana’, operationalised in January irrigation, trench irrigationinhorticulture, kitchengardening, etc. in Saurashtra. During the year, recharge and drinking water interventions in six villages in Okhamandal taluka on the Jamnagar coast agricultural,involving pilot groundwater a through management salinity on model a developing on year, plantations, trench irrigation and experimenting with various water saving technologies. During the affected salt reviving including interventions, agricultural innovative different implementing and phase with sustainable interventions to combat salinity with active participation of localimplement and communities.develop to organisations both to Thesupport phase,Trustits the secondrenewedthis during succeeded in convincing farmers to adopt less water intensive techniques such as drip as such techniques intensive water less adopt to farmers convincing in succeeded VRTI CSPC AKRSP(I) focuses its interventions spread over 28 coastal villages in Mangrol, Malia and made its presence felt in the local media, besides gathering and synthesizing copious TCSRD constructed 189 Roof Rain Water Harvesting Tanks (RRWHT) in AKRSP(I) and ACF came to an end. Based on the lessons learnt has focused on groundwater recharge groundwater on focused has VRTI ACF consists of two separate TCSRD focuses BETWEEN THE STATE 'OVERNMENT PARTNER NON PROlT ORGANISATIONS AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE AREA OF NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND LIVELIHOOD STRATEGIES AND C FACILITATE LINKAGES DEVELOPMENT ISSUES B PLAY THE ROLE OF AN @IDEA INCUBATOR BY EXPLORING NEW INNOVATIONS PARTICULARLY BE OPERATIONALISED SHORTLY AND WOULD A DEVELOP A KNOWLEDGE BANK ON CENTRAL (IMALAYAN RURAL 0ARIYOJANA #ELL STRATEGIC PLAN DEVELOPED FOR (IMMOTHAN 0ARIYOJANA HAS SUGGESTED THE SETTING UP OF THE PRACTITIONERS MAKE BETTER INFORMED DECISIONS AND EVOLVING LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES 4HE MICRO HYDELS AND BIOGAS PUTTING GREATER EMPHASIS ON ACTION RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION TO AID AND TRAINING OF PARA VETS TO IMPROVE ANIMAL HEALTH PROMOTING APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS HYGIENE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT INTEGRATING ANIMAL HUSBANDRY THROUGH A FOCUS ON FODDER PRODUCTION WATERSHED ACTIVITIES BROADENING OF THE SANITATION COMPONENT TO GIVE GREATER FOCUS TO PRINCIPLES OF OF THE INITIATIVE WHICH INCLUDE A FOCUS ON VILLAGE INSTITUTION BUILDING MERGING OF WATER SUPPLY WITH APPROPRIATE AND SHOULD BE CONTINUED 4HE REVIEW HAS SUGGESTED THRUST AREAS FOR THE SECOND PHASE THE WITH ASSOCIATED IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECT OBJECTIVES 4HE EXERCISE ALSO FELT THAT THE FOCUS ON RURAL HILL AREAS WAS WERE ORGANIZATIONS PROlT NON RESPECTED OF GROUP A AND STRONG VERY WERE AND CREDIBILITY FOR QUALITY OUTPUTS AND lNANCIAL TRANSPARENCY ,INKAGES WITH THE STATE GOVERNMENT THE WAY FORWARD 4HE EXERCISE REVEALED THAT THE INITIATIVE HAD GAINED A HIGH LEVEL OF BRAND RECOGNITION APPROVED WHICH REVIEWED PROGRESS OF PROJECTS WITHIN 0HASE OF THE INITIATIVE BESIDES SUGGESTING IMTA 0RYJN4E PATN A PR O WTRHD EEOMN ATVTE BIG AIIAE B -OUNT BY 6ALLEY $EVELOPMENT !SSOCIATION -6$! IN "HILANGANA BLOCK OF 4EHRI 'ARHWAL DISTRICT 5TTARANCHAL FACILITATED BEING ACTIVITIES DEVELOPMENT WATERSHED OF PART AS PLANTING 0ARIYOJANA 4REE (IMMOTHAN TO COORDINATE THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SECOND PHASE OF THE INITIATIVE 4HE #ELL WOULD )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES @(IMMOTHAN
21 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 22 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES !CTION 3-4! 3AMITI ('63 (IMALAYAN )NSTITUTE (OSPITAL 4RUST ()(4 3OCIETY FOR -OTIVATIONAL 4RAINING #HAMOLI DISTRICTS OF 5TTARANCHAL FACILITATED THROUGH ON GOING GRANTS TO COMMUNITIES IN VILLAGES ACROSS "AGESHWAR 0ITHORAGARH 4EHRI 'ARHWAL 5TTARKASHI $EHRADUN AND WATER IMPROVED ACCESS TO SANITARY LATRINES AND INCREASED AWARENESS OF PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE ACROSS SECOND COMPONENT AS ON -ARCH THE INITIATIVE HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN DELIVERING POTABLE DOMESTIC VILLAGES IMPACTING OVER HOUSEHOLDS AND REACHING OUT TO OVER BENElCIARIES 7ITHIN THE lVE IN THE +UMAON REGION OF 5TTARANCHAL 4HE PROJECTS HAVE COVERED APPROXIMATELY HECTARES IN WATERSHED PROJECTS ARE UNDERWAY IN THE 'ARHWAL REGION OF 5TTARANCHAL AND IN (IMACHAL 0RADESH AND YEAR A TOTAL OF NINE NEW WATERSHED PROJECTS WERE IMPLEMENTED !S ON -ARCH A TOTAL OF SUCH !CTION 'ROUP #()2!' COMMITTEES IN THE 'ARHWAL REGION OF 5TTARANCHAL AND (IMACHAL 0RADESH UNDERTAKING THE CAPACITY BUILDING EXERCISE FOR BOTH .ON 0ROlT /RGANISATIONS .0/S AND WATERSHED 5NDER THE lRST COMPONENT OF (IMMOTHAN 0ARIYOJANA WHILST OUT THROUGH TARIFF COLLECTED FROM THE BENElCIARY HOUSEHOLDS 2EMARKABLY COLLECTION OF WATER CHARGES EXPECTED TO COME UNDER THE /- PHASE NEXT YEAR 4HE /- OF THE WATER SUPPLY SCHEMES IS CARRIED -AINTENANCE /- PHASE BY ('63 VILLAGE 4EHRI 'ARHWAL DISTRICT ! PROJECT FACILITATED BY (IMALAYAN )NSTITUTE (OSPITAL 4RUST ()(4 (IMMOTHAN 0ARIYOJANA ! PROUD FAMILY STANDS BESIDES THEIR 2OOF 2AIN 7ATER (ARVESTING 4ANK IN $HUNGLI AND ()(4 AND HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED DURING THE YEAR AND ARE ALREADY IN THE /PERATIONS AND +ASSAR 4RUST HAS FOCUSED SIMILAR EFFORTS IN +UMAON REGION OF 5TTARANCHAL $URING THE +ASSAR 4RUST 7HILST WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION SCHEMES BEING FACILITATED HAS BEGUN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SCHEMES WHICH ARE 0EOPLES 3CIENCE )NSTITUTE 03) #ENTRAL (IMALAYAN 2URAL (IMALAYAN 'RAM 6IKAS IS -ARKETING #ELL OF IN 5TTARANCHAL 4HUS A TOTAL OF TONS OF ORGANIC "ASMATI WAS PROCURED FOR EXPORT TO THE 53! 4HE WITH EXPORT AGENCIES FOR ORGANIC "ASMATI PRODUCED IN $EHRADUN AND 5DHAM 3INGH .AGAR DISTRICTS #OMMODITY "OARD THE THIRD COMPONENT THE SANITATION FACILITIES AWARENESS ON PROMOTIVE HEALTH ISSUES AND REDUCED WORKLOADS OF WOMEN 5NDER LITRES OF WATER PER CAPITA PER DAY !DDITIONALLY THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE HAS IMPROVED DUE TO IMPROVED OF PROVISION WITH BENElCIARIES OVER BENElTING HOUSEHOLDS OVER IMPACTED HAS HAS BEEN OVER OF THE PROJECTED RECOVERY lGURES IN MAJORITY OF THE PROJECT VILLAGES 4HIS COMPONENT TO THE EXISTING MARKET OF TONS FOR lNGER MILLET $URING THE YEAR FOR THE MID DAY MEAL PROGRAMME RUN BY THE 7ORLD &OOD 0ROGRAMME 4HIS HAS ENABLED AN ANNUAL MARKETS FOR ORPHANED CROPS LIKE -ANDUA lNGER MILLET BY STANDARDIZING THE USE OF THE COMMODITY HECTARES TO OVER HECTARES DURING "ASMATI %XPORT 0ROGRAMME /"%0 IS HOPEFUL OF EXPANDING THE AREA UNDER CULTIVATION FROM THE CURRENT 4HESE CONTRACTS HAVE ATTRACTED MANY NEW FARMERS AND STANDARDIZATION OF PACKAGE OF PRACTICES OF DIFFERENT CROPS )TS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN "AMBOO AND &IBRE $EVELOPMENT "OARD 5"&$" TO PROMOTE BAMBOO BASED LIVELIHOODS IN 5TTARANCHAL (IMMOTHAN 0ARIYOJANA ! CRAFTSMAN MAKES BASKETS FROM HILL BAMBOO 2INGAL ! PROJECT FACILITATED BY 5TTARANCHAL #/& #/& 3ITUATED AT -ACHKHALI IN !LMORA DISTRICT WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN INVITING BUYERS AND SECURING TRADE BUY BACK CONTRACTS HAS ALREADY INVITED BUYERS FOR SECURING LONG TERM CONTRACTS WITH THE FARMERS #ENTRE FOR /RGANIC &ARMING #/& )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES #/& n )) #/& #/& ALSO PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE IN DEVELOPING WAS OPERATIONALISED WHICH IS AN ANNEX #/& n )) WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE /RGANIC BASED AT THE HAS STARTED EFFORTS TOWARDS 5TTARANCHAL /RGANIC
23 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 24 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional ten year period. During the year a over hectares 50,000 of area plantation a targetingInternational, Eland M/s with Understanding of Memorandum a signed Foundation’,has of Bamboo ‘Uttaranchalwhich banner the under done individuals.being 1,700 is over plantation Theplantation,benefiting bamboo under up taken been Kotdwar,NarenderNagar, Dehradundistricts,and Pauri have Garhwal of Chakrata blocks and Kalsi in the state. Consequently, upto March 2006, a total area of 5,300 hectares, covering 183 villages in utilised the services of the private sector and the Forest Department to develop bamboo plantation disseminating cotton-IPM technology in four districts in Punjab, besides supporting the at Entomology of Department the supporting is TrustThecotton. on programme (IPM) Management Pest Integrated the for crucial was year The the within departments debts, amongst other factors. During the year, the Trust operationalised several projectscrippling and with markets agricultural variousunreliable and uncertain soil, the in levels nutrient falling pests, insect by crops of water,infestation logging,surface water and ground water,of ground pollution over-exploitationto times,recentdue of the in set had that Punjab in agriculture in stagnation the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) asitskeypartner, toseekanswersandsolutions to arrest The initiative ‘Reviving the Green Revolution’ was operationalised by the Trust in April 2002, along with solid bamboo, hollowbamboo, hillbamboo(Ringal), natural fibers, etc. as such materials bamboo different from articles furniture household of variety a constructing for around the AVs have been using its facilities for bamboo based livelihood activities.livelihood based bamboo for facilities its using been have AVs the around livelihoods.enhance to villages bamboo 75 of from usage Inhabitants promoting AVs in arecrucial Ajivika Vatikas (AVs), also called ‘livelihood gardens’ at Bageshwar and Pipalkoti in Uttaranchal. These livelihoods, based bamboo promote to order chain.In supply the into brought be would regions mountainous regions. This wouldensure thatduring2006-07, more than500tonsoforganic producefromthese team have been able to identify wholesale buyers for the organic commodities from the mountainous rice residue, in place of burning it, which causes environmental pollution resulting into nutrient loss; incorporate to farmers encouraging by management,rice-residue on focus (b) Punjab; of districts in Sangrur villages and eight Amritsar in - systems Rice cropping to Wheat alternate – an as Wheat Groundnut / Basmati popularize (a) to: attempt projects projects.These new three towards PAU at Agronomy of Department the supporting is Trustthe pattern), rice-wheat prevalent the (from Punjab (details showcased alongside). In order to encourage Punjab’s efforts for crop diversification of districts seven in blocks cotton 28 in villages 112 to technology this of dissemination the scale has established has (UBFDB) Board Development Fibre and Bamboo Uttaranchal PAUof Department (DoA),Punjab.and Agriculture of Government UBFDB also conducted a series of design development workshops towards further developing, validating and validating developing, further towards PAU has UBFDB DoA to up- AS WELL AS PROVIDING A TWO YEAR SUPPORT TO THE THE 4RUST TO EXPAND ITS INVOLVEMENT WITHIN THE INITIATIVE THROUGH A SECOND PHASE OF SUPPORT TO 0!5 COMMENCING -ARCH BENElTS mOWING FROM THE ADOPTION OF )0- AND WERE ENCOURAGED TO ADOPT THIS TECHNOLOGY ON A LARGER SCALE 4HIS SPURRED PROMOTED AT FARMERS lELDS IN SIX VILLAGES IN &EROZEPUR AND -UKTSAR DISTRICTS 4HESE COTTON FARMERS WERE CONVINCED OF THE THE 'REEN 2EVOLUTIONv %NTOMOLOGY AT THE 0UNJAB !GRICULTURAL 5NIVERSITY 0!5 ,UDHIANA IN FOR A THREE YEAR PROJECT UNDER THE AND POLLUTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT )T WAS AMIDST THIS BACK DROP THAT THE 4RUST COLLABORATED WITH THE $EPARTMENT OF THE MENACE THROUGH INDISCRIMINATE USAGE OF PESTICIDES WHICH IRONICALLY HAS LED TO DEVELOPMENT OF RESISTANCE IN PESTS BALES IN MAINLY DUE TO DISEASES IN THE CROP THROUGH INSECT AND PEST ATTACKS 4HE FARMERS HAVE TRIED TO COUNTER DRASTIC DECLINE IN THE YIELDS HAS BEEN OBSERVED OVER THE PAST DECADE FROM MILLION BALES IN TO MILLION /NE CANNOT BUT VIEW THE VAST STRETCHES OF COTTON lELDS WHILST DRIVING THROUGH THE -ALWA REGION OF 0UNJAB (OWEVER A CONSOLIDATE THE SUCCESS OF +HARIF IN THE VILLAGES COVERED IN 9EAR ENCOURAGE VILLAGE WIDE ADOPTION AND HAS GIVEN A SUPPLEMENTARY GRANT FOR CONTINUING WORK OVER THE COMING YEAR TO )0- IN COTTON IS CENTRAL TO THE COTTON REVIVAL STRATEGY OF THE CULTIVATION HAS REDUCED AND THE ENVIRONMENT HAS BEEN SAVED FROM PESTICIDAL POLLUTION AND D SPIDERS WHICH ARE THE MAIN ENEMIES OF COTTON PESTS EXHIBITED AN INCREASE IN )0- ADOPTING lELDS 4HE COST OF )0- FARMERS WAS ON AN AVERAGE 2S PER HECTARE AS COMPARED TO 2S PER HECTARE FOR NON )0- FARMERS QUINTALS PER HECTARE FOR )0- FARMERS AS COMPARED TO QUINTALS PER HECTARE FOR NON )0- FARMERS C RETURNS FOR A ON AN AVERAGE )0- FARMERS GAVE SPRAYS AS COMPARED TO SPRAYS BY NON )0- FARMERS B YIELD OF COTTON WAS BALES IN 4HE IMPACT OF THE COTTON )0- PROJECT ADOPTED IN THE lELDS DURING +HARIF WAS MOST ENCOURAGING HAS LED TO AN OVERALL INCREASE IN PRODUCTION OF COTTON IN 0UNJAB MILLION BALES IN AS COMPARED TO MILLION &AVOURABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE +HARIF SEASON COUPLED WITH ADOPTION OF "T COTTON AND THE )0- PACKAGE BASED ON THE %CONOMIC 4HRESHOLD ,EVEL %4, TRAPS AND LURES SO AS TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF PEST SELECT EFFECTIVE PESTICIDE AND lNALLY DETERMINE THE TIME OF THE SPRAY DOSAGE AND APPLICATIONS AND PEST CONTROL WERE IMPARTED TO THE FARMERS 4HE FARMERS WERE PROVIDED WITH 0HEROMONE MADE AVAILABLE FOR USE BY THE FARMERS 4RAININGS ON TIMELY SOWING SELECTION OF VARIETIES SEED TREATMENT SPACING FERTILIZER SELECTED lELDS )NFORMATION CENTRES WERE ESTABLISHED IN EACH VILLAGE WHERE THE LATEST CROP PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES WERE !GRICULTURE $EVELOPMENT /FlCER !$/ ! CAMPAIGN TO ERADICATE THE HOST PLANTS OF THE PESTS WAS INITIATED AROUND THE ! LITERATE PERSON WAS RECRUITED AS A VILLAGE SCOUT FOR DAILY INTERACTIONS WITH THE FARMERS UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE LOCAL $URING THE lRST YEAR OF THE PROJECT FARMERS FROM EACH OF THE VILLAGES WERE SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAMME COTTON BLOCKS SPREAD OVER SEVEN DISTRICTS IN 0UNJAB TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT VALIDATION AND PROMOTION OF THE 0!5 MODEL OF COTTON )0- TECHNOLOGY IN VILLAGES ACROSS -ANAGEMENT )0- TECHNOLOGY WITH COTTON FARMERS IN -UKTSAR DISTRICT 0UNJAB 2EVIVING THE 'REEN 2EVOLUTION /FlCIALS FROM THE $O! DISCUSSING INTRICACIES OF )NTEGRATED 0EST INITIATIVE IN WHICH COTTON )NTEGRATED 0EST -ANAGEMENT )0- TECHNOLOGY WAS VALIDATED AND )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES $EPARTMENT OF !GRICULTURE $O! 'OVERNMENT OF 0UNJAB $O! 4HE 4RUST IS COMMITTED IN ITS SUPPORT TO h2EVIVING $O! TO
25 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 26 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES PUTTING IN PLACE A DEDICATED TEAM AND OPERATIONALIZING A #ELL BASED IN ,UDHIANA WHICH WOULD FUNCTION INITIATIVE BESIDES ADDRESSING AGENDA ON A WIDER AGRICULTURAL PERSPECTIVE THE 4RUST WOULD BE SHORTLY REDUCING PRESSURE ON UNDERGROUND WATER RESOURCES )N ORDER TO TAKE FORWARD THE WORKS WITHIN THE !MRITSAR DISTRICT IN ORDER TO POPULARIZE DIVERSIlED OPTIONS BY SATURATING THE SPECIlC AREAS AND THROUGH DISSEMINATING IMPROVED PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF GROUNDNUT 3ANGRUR DISTRICT AND "ASMATI IMPLEMENTING THE DIVERSIlCATION PROCESS AND REVIVING AGRICULTURAL GROWTH 4HIS IS BEING CARRIED OUT AND "ASMATI AS ALTERNATE CROPS WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF ASSISTING THE 'OVERNMENT OF 0UNJAB 'O0 IN 0!5 ARE PROMOTED AS ALTERNATE CROPS 4HE 4RUST IS ALSO ASSISTING THE $IRECTORATE OF %XTENSION %DUCATION AT AND C WORK OUT AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR CONTROLLING HARDY WEEDS IN MAIZE AND GROUNDNUT WHICH WEST 2AJASTHAN 4HE 4RUSTS GRANT TO SHOCKS OF A POOR MONSOON THE 4RUST HAS PROACTIVELY SUPPORTED PREVENTIVE DROUGHT PROOlNG EFFORTS IN PEOPLE AND LEADING TO MIGRATION 2EALIZING THAT CERTAIN PREVENTIVE MEASURES CAN MITIGATE THE AFTER WATER RESOURCES AND DEPRIVATION OF FODDER FOR CATTLE THUS ADVERSELY AFFECTING THE LIVELIHOODS OF THE RESULTING IN DROUGHT WHICH MANIFESTS IN TERMS OF CROP FAILURE UNREPLENISHED GROUND AND SURFACE /VER THE YEARS THE DISTRICTS OF WEST 2AJASTHAN HAVE EXPERIENCED VARIABLE CHARACTER OF RAINFALL OFTEN ON THE LINES OF THE #ELLS THAT HAVE BEEN FORMED UNDER #)N) AND +69 TOWARDS DEVELOPING A COST EFFECTIVE MODEL FOR UP SCALING AND EXTENDING CULTIVATION OF GROUNDNUT "REEDING 0UNJAB !GRICULTURAL 5NIVERSITY 0!5 2EVIVING THE 'REEN 2EVOLUTION $EVELOPMENT OF 3' VARIETY OF 'ROUNDNUT BY THE $EPARTMENT OF 0LANT ( ( -AHARAJA (ANWANT 3INGHJI #HARITABLE 4RUST -(3#4 INTRODUCED THROUGH INTRODUCTION OF DRIP IRRIGATION AND HORTICULTURE 4HE PROJECT HAS ALSO ORGANIZED OF FEET #ONSEQUENT TO GROUND WATER RECHARGING ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF AGRICULTURE HAVE BEEN DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THESE WATER HARVESTING STRUCTURES SHOW AN AVERAGE RISE IN GROUNDWATER LEVEL DRINKING WATER AND IRRIGATION $ATA COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS OPEN WELLS TUBE WELLS AND HAND PUMPS FOR DEMAND INCREASING MEETING AND QUALITY GROUNDWATER IMPROVING RECHARGING GROUNDWATER IN TOTAL A AT COST OF 2S -ILLION WITH ONE THIRD COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION 4HESE INTERVENTIONS HAVE HELPED CONSTRUCTED BEEN HAVE -#&4 &EET #UBIC -ILLION OF CAPACITY STORAGE A HAVING CALLED /PERATION 3AHYOG COMPLETED THREE YEARS $URING THIS PERIOD WATER HARVESTING STRUCTURES DROUGHT PRONE AREAS LOCATED WITHIN A CLUSTER OF VILLAGES IN "ALESAR 0ANCHAYAT OF *ODHPUR DISTRICT FOCUSING ON EVOLVING TECHNOLOGICAL AND ORGANISATIONAL INNOVATIONS FOR INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT OF BENElTING TO FAMILIES IN VILLAGES C CONDUCTING FOUR VETERINARY CAMPS FOR APPROXIMATELY FAMILIES B PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION OF QUINTALS OF CATTLE FEED AND FODDER TWO SHALLOW OPEN WELLS BENElTING FAMILIES AND DEEPENING OF TWO DRIED WELLS BENElTING OF HAND PUMPS BENElTING FAMILIES CONSTRUCTION OF RAIN WATER HARVESTING TANKS AND -(3#4 INITIATED TWO SEPARATE SIX MONTH INTEGRATED DROUGHT RELIEF PROGRAMMES FOR WEST 2AJASTHAN THROUGH THE MONSOON DURING COUPLED WITH A DElCIENT MONSOON DURING THE 4RUST PRO ACTIVELY AS MANY AS VETERINARY CAMPS BRINGING DOWN THE MORTALITY OF LIVESTOCK TO ZERO $UE TO FAILURE OF (ANWANT 3INGHJI #HARITABLE 4RUST -(3#4 IN "ALESAR 0ANCHAYAT *ODHPUR DISTRICT 2AJASTHAN $ROUGHT 0ROOlNG IN 2AJASTHAN 7OMEN GET POTABLE WATER FROM A HAND PUMP INSTALLED BY ( ( -AHARAJA !MONGST THE ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED ARE A AUGMENTING DRINKING WATER THROUGH INSTALLATION )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES
27 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 28 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES LAUNCHED IN *UNE !T THE OUTSET THE 4RUST SANCTIONED A TEN MONTH PLANNING PHASE GRANT THROUGH THE 'OVERNMENT OF 2AJASTHAN AND OTHER STAKE HOLDERS THE SEEDING AN AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTION WITH A WIDE STAKEHOLDER BASE !FTER SUBSEQUENT DISCUSSIONS WITH AN INSTITUTION TO SUPPORT THE MICROlNANCE SECTOR IN 2AJASTHAN $R 6YAS RECOMMENDED THE NEED OF 4RUST PROACTIVELY COMMISSIONED A STUDY BY $R 6 3 6YAS A RENOWNED ECONOMIST ON THE FEASIBILITY OF POOR PROGRAMMES FOR MICROlNANCE WAS FELT BY THE 4RUST AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS #ONSEQUENTLY THE SUPPORT TO NON PROlT ORGANISATIONS GOVERNMENT PROGRAMMES AND BANKING SECTOR TO DESIGN PRO lRST PHASE OF INTERVENTIONS $URING THIS PHASE THE NEED FOR AN ORGANISATION THAT COULD PROVIDE REGULAR PROGRAMMES AS PART OF THE 4RUSTS FOCUS ON UNDERSERVED REGIONS 4HE INITIATIVE HAS COMPLETED THE lNANCIAL YEAR )T DEMONSTRATES WORKING OF SELF SUSTAINING COMMUNITY BASED MICROlNANCE DEVELOPMENT @3AKH 3E 6IKAS 2AJASTHAN -ICROlNANCE )NITIATIVE WAS LAUNCHED BY THE 4RUST IN THE ASSET CREATION AND EFFORTS TO PROMOTE INITIATIVES THAT FOCUS ON MICROlNANCE AS A MEANS TO OVERALL ORGANIZE COMMUNITIES IMPROVE THEIR ACCESS TO CREDIT FOR REDUCING THEIR VULNERABILITY AND ENCOURAGE TO ORDER IN GROUPS CREDIT AND SAVING OF PROMOTION ENCOURAGED HAS POOR 4HE 4RUST THE OF BASE !GRICULTURE NEEDS TO BE SUSTAINED BY ALTERNATE NON FARM INVESTMENTS TO ENHANCE THE LIVELIHOOD IN SEVEN TEHSILS OF *ODHPUR DISTRICT TO TO OF THE POOREST HOUSEHOLDS 4HE ACTIVITIES OF /PERATION 3AHAYATA HAVE BEEN CONCENTRATED TO LIVESTOCK BENElTING THE ENTIRE POPULATION IN VILLAGES AND D PROVIDING FOOD SECURITY AH E6KS 2JSHN IRlAC )IITV! OGIG ( MEIG N!WR ITIT 2AJASTHAN DISTRICT BEING FACILITATED BY )BTADA IN !LWAR MEETING 3(' ONGOING )NITIATIVE !N -ICROlNANCE 2AJASTHAN n 3E 6IKAS 3AKH #ENTRE FOR MICRO&INANCE #M& WAS Udaipur districts. and TheseDungarpur, Alwar groups of have saved villages Rs 24.03 209 million and in leveraged loans groups from banks 923 of across about families, 14,630 over to out reached government services. Technical assistance to these field projects has been provided by with creatinglinkages besides women among leadership for avenues opened formed,have which from the programme. Another 33% recover part costs from the community. Five Rs.federations 50 have million.been 63 cluster level bodies have been formed, of which 67% are run on the income generated Jaipur, the at launched.Housed was undertaken and key studies on cash flows, quality assessment and bibliography of research were its Small Grant Programme) to families, for livelihood intervention programmes. The Trust collaborated with the programmes.with TrustThecollaboratedintervention livelihood for families, through non-profit organisations, which organize Common Interest Groups comprising of about ten programme,driven facilitated demand and community the by areidentified investments livelihood District Poverty Initiatives Programme (DPIP), macro-level, the Government of Rajasthan has initiated the Rs 6,000 million livelihoods enhancement receivedSe well Sakh two of colloquia.through experience disseminated and been has Vikas a On support, the Professional Assistance to Voluntary Action (PAVA) programme was promoted. The work handholding support to smaller organisations in Rajasthan. To supplement the professional resource Advancement through Voluntary Action and Local Involvement (ARAVALI) addition to the abovesaid field projects in Rajasthan, the Trust has supported impact.their In enhance to year the during continuously fine-tuned been have projects field these Foundation, which has a large-scale and decentralized microfinance programme. Based on inputs, Sangathan (PEDO), Ibtada, Hanuman Van Vikas Samiti (HVVS) year,the the by Trustsupported projects field the Rajasthan,in namely, During NPOs). ( Organisations Profit Non promoter on dependence reduced through sustainability strengthening by groups for interventions enhanced responsiveness to the members needs, streamlining tuning functioning and encouraging fine on focus Vikas Se Sakh under projects field The for poor. Government and other stake holders for developing strategies for increasing access to microfinance Government departments, to improve quality of interventions; and (d) network and collaborate with creditgroups,and savings of including promoters systems;significant collaborativelywith work (c) delivery microfinance of effectiveness enhance that initiatives innovative piloting and practices (b) actively encourage microfinance practitioners to deepen the sector by identifying effective current CmF would: (a) act as a knowledge hub, providing information on microfinance in Rajasthan; in (IIHMR) Research and Management Health for Institute Indian CmF in June 2005, during which recruitment of the Programme Director Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional focused in seven districts of Rajasthan. Within this and Jan Shiksha Evam Shiksha Vikas Jan Prayatna Samiti Association for Rural to provide regular during the during DPIP Kalanjiam together
29 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 30 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES 4HE 4RUST BELIEVES THAT BOTH ORGANISATIONS AS WELL AS THE ITS OWN CRITICAL ROLE IN IMPROVING BUSINESS PROCESSES UNDER THE 32)*!. 02!$!. $EVELOPMENT !CTION FOR 0ROFESSIONAL !SSISTANCE 4HE PROGRAMME HAS GAINED IMPETUS WITH PARTICIPATION OF .0/S ACROSS THESE DISTRICTS .0/ WHICH ORGANIZE #OMMON )NTEREST 'ROUPS COMPRISING OF ABOUT TEN FAMILIES FOR LIVELIHOOD INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES PROGRAMME LIVELIHOOD INVESTMENTS ARE IDENTIlED BY THE COMMUNITY AND FACILITATED THROUGH .ON 0ROlT /RGANISATIONS $ISTRICT 0OVERTY )NITIATIVES 0ROGRAMME $0)0 !MIDST THIS BACKDROP IN !UGUST THE 'OVERNMENT OF 2AJASTHAN INITIATED THE 2S MILLION LIVELIHOODS ENHANCEMENT NATIONAL TOTAL OF OVER MILLION GROUPS THAT HAVE BEEN LINKED WITH BANKS FOR LOANS OF GROUPS OF WOMEN 2AJASTHAN IS ONE OF THE MOST UNDERPRIVILEGED STATES CONTRIBUTING TO LESS THAN GROUPS TO THE #REDIT 'ROUPS ARE PREDOMINANT IN )NDIA WITH NEARLY OF ORGANISATIONS OFFERING MICROlNANCE SERVICES THROUGH FORMATION HAS EMERGED AS A WIELDY TOOL TO MAINSTREAM THE UNDERPRIVILEGED WITH THE lNANCIAL SECTOR 3ELF (ELP 'ROUPS 3(' AND LIVELIHOOD 7ITH STUDIES REVEALING THE LACK OF ACCESS FOR OF THE RURAL POOR TO FORMAL lNANCIAL SERVICES MICROlNANCE BE THE SLENDER THREAD OF HOPE FOR INCREASING THEIR SCALE OF OPERATION OR PERHAPS DIVERSIlCATION INTO A NEW SOURCE OF &OR THE VAST MASSES OF )NDIA LIVING ON THE MARGINS OF ECONOMY ACCESS TO EFlCIENT AND RELIABLE lNANCIAL SERVICES CAN AND BACKWARD LINKAGES 4HE GRANT IS ALSO TARGETED TO PROMOTE 3('S GENERATION 4HE GRANT OFFERS CRITICAL SUPPORT FOR STRENGTHENING THESE GROUPS TO FUNCTION AS 3('S AND ESTABLISH FORWARD OF ONE BLOCK IN 4ONK DISTRICT UNDER $0)0 4HESE GROUPS ARE UNDERTAKING DAIRY AND HORTICULTURAL ACTIVITIES FOR LIVELIHOOD TOWARDS IMPROVING SUSTAINABILITY OF LIVELIHOOD GROUPS AND ASSETS THROUGH 3ELF (ELP 'ROUPS 3('S ACROSS VILLAGES FOR LIVELIHOOD GENERATION INCLUDING DAIRY GOAT REARING AND AGRICULTURE 3IMILARLY IN TWO BLOCKS AND IN VILLAGES IN ONE BLOCK OF $AUSA DISTRICT UNDER 02!$!. AND ESTABLISH FORWARD AND BACKWARD LINKAGES INVESTMENTS 4HE 4RUSTS GRANT OFFERS SUCH CRITICAL SUPPORT TO lLL THE GAPS FOR DEMONSTRATION THAT HELPS STRENGTHEN GROUPS TO CREATING INFRASTRUCTURE n INSTITUTIONAL AS WELL AS MARKET RELATED n FOR ASSURING THE QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THESE OF THE PROGRAMME 7HILE CONSIDERABLE INVESTMENTS ARE AVAILABLE AT FAMILY LEVEL OF UPTO 2S THERE IS LITTLE SUPPORT CARRIED OUT BY BOTH ORGANISATIONS UNDER AND SETTING UP REVIEW SYSTEMS FOR THEMATIC PROGRESS ACROSS THE PROGRAMME )N THE 4RUST REVIEWED THE WORK BEING 3AKH 3E 6IKAS n 2AJASTHAN -ICROlNANCE )NITIATIVE HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE 4RUST TO WORK IN $HOLPUR DISTRICT FOR PROMOTION OF GROUPS ACROSS VILLAGES HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN BY 02!$!. UNDER THE $0)0 ADVANCED PRACTICE FOR GOAT REARING IN $AUSA DISTRICT 2AJASTHAN ! PROJECT FACILITATED 3AKH 3E 6IKAS n 2AJASTHAN -ICROlNANCE )NITIATIVE 0ROMOTION OF @STALL FEEDING AS AN $0)0 AS lELD ORGANISATIONS SINCE AND RESPECTIVELY $0)0 BEFORE SUPPLEMENTING SUPPORT SPREAD OVER A THREE YEAR PERIOD UNDER FOCUSED IN SEVEN DISTRICTS OF 2AJASTHAN 7ITHIN THIS DEMAND DRIVEN $0)0 $0)0 INCLUDING RECRUITMENT SELECTION OF DISTRICT PROJECT MANAGERS EXPERIENCE CRITICAL GAPS IN THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION $0)0 AND 4HESE GROUPS FOCUS ON THEMATIC INTERVENTIONS EF EIN )IITVS O *OINT !CTION FOR )NITIATIVES 2ELIANT 3ELF 32)*!. HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE 4RUST 32)*!. IS ALSO PLAYING A Strategic Plan 2011 of the Trust, which would serve as the guiding document for the Trust’sthe for grant document guiding the as serve Trust,the would of which 2011 Plan Strategic The findings and recommendations of this exercise are expected to give key inputs for drafting the strengthen the portfolio, considering the rural development requirements and and consolidate priorities help of to the plan nation.strategic year five a developing portfolio,besides Communities and RuralLivelihoods the within initiatives key comprehensivereviewof a undertaking of objective the with Exercise Planning Strategic elaborate an organize would Trust year, the coming the During health andinsurance. able to meet their own costs and move into managing various social development programmes like activities.business the Consequently,strengthen to arefederationsprovided older also many was different business activities. Exclusive business development support for skill building and marketing promotion of primary produce groups and producer companies owned by members, to strengthen in enabled grant, the Trust,through the by provided support capital venture Besides,members. of needs developmental the addressing on impact substantial a members.had to products These connections,electricity for products loan developing in requirementseducation leasing house and in making the banks reimburse these costs. Promotion of new products by the groups has resulted to share the cost of group promotion and the ‘incubation fund’ provided by the Trust was instrumental392.7 million was generated from banks. The organisation was able to convince the commercial banks as total savings, which is an increase of 35 percent from last year. During the year, an amount of Rs. over 316,000 members within 20,213 groups. As on March 2006, these groups have Rs. 665.40 million Pradesh. During the year, the programme showed an increase of 23 percent and now reaches out to Madhya and Rajasthan,Orissa, of pockets tribal remote few a to Programme Banking Community Kalanjiam the expanding of terms in significant was and year second its entered organisation the Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Orissa. The Trust’s second phase of support to TamilNadu,Andhra of districts 28 of blocks 132 in located villages, 6,300 nearly across spread is development address concerns whilst supporting the to Community Banking Programme of means a as microfinance use to efforts made has Trust the Similarly, thus sealingthe Trust’s commitmenttoworkincollaboration withtheDPIP. cards, the on also is Rajasthan of Government the with (MoU) Understanding of Memorandum A would fully operationalise the year,Trustcoming the the linkages.Over backward and forward establish and groups strengthen (details showcased alongside). The Trust support fills such critical gaps for demonstration that helps to year,made grants through making activitiesovertheperiod 2007-11. CmF to strengthen the Trust’s microfinance engagement in Rajasthan. and PRADAN Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional Self Reliant Initiatives for Joint Action (SRIJAN) Action Joint for Initiatives Reliant Self Kalanjiam Foundation, which
31 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 32 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional Details ofgrantdisbursalsin2005-2006 Rural Livelihoods&Communities: implementing theCInIstrategies. in organizations the to support technical providing and monitoring (e) and CInI; for equity brand develop (d) field; the in ideas new incubate and explore (c) India; central in livelihoods tribal to related information all for source single a as itself establishing region;(b) Indian central the between civil society organizations, government agencies and donors in (a) include: Cell CInI the by played roles manner.comprehensive Key a in India Central in communities tribal of livelihoods of problems the to relating issues with dealing on focuses that Cell (CInI) Initiative India Central the of establishment Towardsthe IWMI-Tata Water PolicyResearchProgramme, Anand CENTRAL INDIAINITIATIVE (CInI) to undertakepromotionalactivities. sharing; (e)promotionofwatersavingactivities; and(f)assistinglocalpartners replicable models on sustainable agriculture; (d) documentation and knowledge irrigation devices and implement practicesmicro- ofnew out organic try farming;to demonstrations on-farm (c) of developmentup setting of (b) management; through being undertaken include: districts, (a) setting up experimental farms Sabarkantha on agricultural and water promotion of low-cost Mehsana micro-irrigation and water saving technologies. Activities Banaskantha, in availability water augments which (NGI), Initiative’ Gujarat ‘North the of II TowardsPhase IWMI-Tata Water PolicyResearchProgramme, Anand evaluation inthe Trust’s NRMbasedgrants. (e) and and appraisal,monitoring project in marginalized; support technical arranging and the providing of livelihoods impact positively that opportunities funding for ideas generating researchers;(d) sector water of building capacity (NRM) comprehensively; (b) conducting 80 cutting-edge studies across India; (c) focus are: (a) holistically addressing the issues of Natural Resources ManagementTowards Phase II of the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research IWMI-TataProgramme. Water PolicyResearchProgramme, Anand Key areas of translating research findingsintopractical policyrecommendations. central,the at makers addresslevel local and futurestate challenges,water by policy helping is objective Themanagement. resource water on India in done research of wealth the from derived presents solutions practical and perspectives which new Programme, Research Policy Water IWMI-Tata the Towards IWMI-Tata Water PolicyResearchProgramme, Anand WATER SECTOR ACTION RESEARCH networking and coordination and networking 2,500,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 Rs. coffee. organic of sale and promotion for support marketing providing (d) and farms; organic farming to enhance knowledge; (c) arranging exposure visits to organic on workshops organizing practices;(b) agronomic correct on farmers educate in valley organic Araku coffee cultivation. supporting of Activities and include: (a) conducting promoting awareness farmers camps to through Pradesh, tribal Andhra district, of Vishakapatnam livelihoods of enhancement Towards Naandi Foundation, Hyderabad agricultural (e) and schemes; extension interventions. defunct for works mechanical and civil, (d) electrical youth; of training (c) LIS; the of mobilization social (b) (LIS); Societies tribal and marginal benefiting farmers. include:Activities trainingand building Irrigation capacity Lift (a) the of and areas drought-hit in irrigation thereby improving Pradesh, Andhra of districts Kurnool and Krishna Medak, Anantpur, Towards revival of 65 defunct lift irrigation schemes in Khammam,Naandi Foundation, Hyderabad Mehboobnagar, Zone B(Parts of Andhra Pradesh) which aimstoenhancethelivelihoodsofpoorinstate. establishment ofJharkhandLivelihoodEnhancement Action Platform(JKLEAP), supports families.also marginalizedgrant The8,200 than more benefiting and Jharkhand in districts seven covering cultivation, tassar (c) and interventions; livelihood dairy interventions;agriculture(b) supporting irrigated as:(a) such activities enhancement for support technical and financial providing Towards Indian GrameenServices(IGS), Hyderabad of providing creation and measures through services.extension agriculture conservation cultivation, moisture and paddy soil resources, Kharif water stabilise to attempting by Jharkhand, in district Seraikela-Kharsawan of blocks Kharsawan in and Seraikela villages 21 in families tribal 20,000 over of livelihoods enhancing Towards Jamshedpur (TSRDS), Society Development Rural Steel Tata families. tribal pre-dominantly 47,000 of security livelihood and food enhancing thereby Groups, Help Self women’s through Jharkhand of districts 16 in villages 1,600 Towardsin tribals of livelihoods PRADAN’senhancing supplementing at efforts New Delhi Professional Assistance forDevelopment Action (PRADAN), Zone A (Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarhand West Bengal) Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional 20,000,000 1,200,000 7,500,000 2,500,000 6,600,000
33 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 34 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional supporting otheragenciesinprojectimplementation. and advising (f) and salinity; to related issues specific on studies and research promoting practices;(e) improved and research of dissemination for products people and educating them on salinity and judicious use of water; (d) developing training, media, exposure visits and education; (c) creating extension, awareness amongst through support professional concerned and and technical through institutions departments society departments; civil individuals, government of efforts concerned facilitating and (b) groups agencies, various with efforts within on-going projects under KVY.focuses Key activities and include: (a) networking coordinates which Cell, Prevention Salinity Coastal the Towards Rajkot (CSPC), Cell Prevention Salinity Coastal Salinity Coastal Ingress PreventionandMitigationInitiative) (Gujarat (KVY) YOJANA VISTAROTTHAN KHARASH (h) strengthening villageinstitutions. and activities; microfinance through them supporting by SHGs strengthening acres; (f)promotinghorticulture andfloriculture overanarea of5,000acres; (g) ruralenergy; forestryagro developing (e) silvipastureand areaan over 8,400 of covering 12,500 acres; (d) tackling areas of rural water supply and sanitation and structures, capable of irrigating 19,000 acres; (c) micro-watershed development irrigation schemes, and irrigating 10,500 Banswara acres; and (b) construction Gujarat of 75 Dahod, water harvesting Jhalawar in in Rajasthan. families Key activities 57,000 include: (a) benefit developing 93 new would community lift which activities, NRM on focusing programmes, community enhancement Sadguru’s livelihood supplement managed to support, of phase second a Towards N. M. Sadguru Water &DevelopmentFoundation(Sadguru), Dahod Gujarat andBanswara inRajasthan. andJhalawar community Sadguru’s supplements managed integrated that land and water resources grant development activities in Dahod, million 125 Rs. multi-year A N. M. Sadguru Water &DevelopmentFoundation(Sadguru), Dahod Zone D(GujaratandsouthRajasthan) covering 52,500tribalfamiliesin15districtsMaharashtra. community health, micro-watershedsandwomendevelopmentprogrammes, Utkarsha’‘Jan programme, promotion focusing on development livelihood of ‘wadi’ (orchards), comprehensive MITTRA’s dairy cattle, supplementing Towards Nasik Maharashtra Institute of Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (MITTRA), Zone C(MaharashtraandpartsofMadhyaPradesh) 18,000,000 12,500,000 2,200,000 5,500,000 recharge and drinking water interventions in six villages.six in interventions water drinking and recharge Okhamandal in taluka on the Jamnagar coast in Saurashtra, pilot involving agricultural, groundwater a through management salinity on model a develop To Mithapur (TCSRD), Development Rural for Society Chemicals Tata technologies; and(v)constructionofwaterharvestingstructures. saving water of promotion irrigation;(iv) group ones;(iii) new of establishment community organizations; (ii) revival of salt affected horticulture plantations and Mundra taluka in Kutch.in Activities include: (i) capacity building villages and formation of coastal 18 in ingress salinity tackling of objective the salinity,with managing on programme comprehensive a implementing and developing For Vivekanand Researchand Training Institute(VRTI), Mandvi, (Kutch) of variousstakeholders. agencies for faster replication of successful interventions efficient with for active participation model utilization agriculture of available and water; management and water (iii) a supply network innovative and with and demand government effective and cost development a (ii) communities; local of participation active Gujarat. with district, salinity combat to package integrated an Amreli developing:(a) involve Activities of taluka Jafarabad in villages coastal five in ingress salinity preventTowardscoastal and mitigate to freshinterventions supporting Ambuja CementFoundation(ACF), Kodinar interventions withactiveparticipationofvariousstakeholders. with government and development agencies for faster replication of successful network a (iii) and water; available of utilization efficient for and model agriculture management water supply and demand innovative and effective cost a (ii) communities; local of participation active with salinity integrated combat to an package (a) developing: involve Activities talukas Gujarat. Sutrapada district, and Junagadh Kodinar of in villages coastal 17 across ingress salinity Towards 6,100,000 KVY,under support of phase second a preventmitigate and to coastal Ambuja CementFoundation(ACF), Kodinar (v) and resources; assisting villageinstitutionstoevolveandimplementstrategies already water tested. the augment to treatment basin river of principles on model a developing (iv) schemes; water drinking sustainable economically managed community for models replicable of set a develop to continuing (iii) practicesagronomic devices;efficient and use water of adoption promoting (ii) about the deteriorating conditions resulting from salinity ingress and its solutions; district,Gujarat.Junagadh awarenessof wider generatinginclude: (a) Activities Mangrol,and in Malia Veravalvillages coastal talukas 28 ingressacross salinity TowardsKVY,under support of phase second a preventmitigate and to coastal Aga KhanRuralSupportProgramme(India)(AKRSP(I)), Ahmedabad Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional 10,000,000 2,900,000 2,000,000 2,000,000
35 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 36 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional block of Tehri Garhwaldistrict, Uttaranchal. hectares oftheSemgadhera watershed, coveringfivevillagesinBhilangana Towards a three year comprehensive watershed development project,Mount Valley Development Association (MVDA), to Tehri Garhwal treat 465 Pidyadharmicro-watershedarea inSirmaurDistrict, HimachalPradesh. the in villages five in systems irrigation improved under land farm of acres 90 bringing besides slopes, hill degraded contiguous of hectares 90 on forestry Towardscommunity initiates that project development threewatershed a year Pan HimalayanGrassrootsDevelopment Foundation, Ranikhet Gram Panchayat, inMandidistrict, HimachalPradesh. 509 hectares of the Kotlu Nala watershed, covering six revenue villages in Tebbantreatproject, to development watershed Towardscomprehensive year three a Samaj KalyanEvam Vikas Mandal(SKVM), Mandi of Tehri Garhwaldistrict, Uttaranchal. block Bhillangana in villages four watershed,covering Inangad of hectares 502 treatproject, to development watershed Towardscomprehensive year three a Gram SewaSansthan(GSS), Tehri Garhwal block ofRudraprayag district, Uttaranchal. 573 hectares in the Bhanajgad watershed, covering four villages in Agustyamuni treatproject, to development watershed Towardscomprehensive year three a Himalayan JanKalyanEvamBal Vikas Samiti(HJKEBVS), Rudraprayag block of Tehri Garhwaldistrict, Uttaranchal. 562 hectares in the Nagudagad watershed, covering five villages in Pratapnagar treatproject, to development watershed Towardscomprehensive year three a Himalayee Paryavaran ShikshaSansthan(HPSS), Tehri Garhwal Kardiyana Panchayat ofKangra district, HimachalPradesh. 582 hectares intheBhagan Khaddwatershed, coveringthree villagesinKand treatproject, to development watershed Towardscomprehensive year three a Chinmaya Tapovan Trust (CTT), Kangra development andprovidetechnicalsupporttoon-goingwatershedprojects Pradesh andGarhwalregion ofUttaranchal incommunitymanagedwatershed Towards undertaking the capacity building of non-profit organisations in Peoples’ ScienceInstitute,Himachal Dehradun Watershed Participatory through Development (GarhwalregionofUttaranchalandHimachalPradesh) Livelihoods Rural Enhancing HIMMOTHAN PARIYOJANA 2,000,000 . 1,100,000 1,000,000 1,196,000 1,014,000 690,000 999,000 450,000 Tehri Garhwaldistrict, Uttaranchal. 376 hectares of the Hilaigad watershed, covering five villages in Jakholi block of treatproject, to development watershed Towardscomprehensive year three a Jan Vikas Sansthan(JVS), Tehri Garhwal block of Almora district, Uttaranchal.district, Almora of block the 517 hectare Sarkhet micro-watershed, covering eight villages in Dhauladevi treatproject, to development watershed Towardscomprehensive year three a Kausani,Almora (KMUM), Mandal Utthan Mahila Kasturba of Pithoragarh district, Uttaranchal. block Berinag in villages three watershed,covering Sheragarhhectare 595 the treatproject, to development watershed Towardscomprehensive year three a Berinag GramSwarajyaMandal(BGSM), Kande, Pithoragarh appropriate technologies. of introduction and conservation soil management, water sites, degraded of district, Uttaranchal, Bageshwar in which the key activities include in afforestation, protection project Management Resources Natural a supports The also grant development. watershed managed community in Uttaranchal of region Towards undertaking the capacity building of non profit organisations in Kumaon Central HimalayanRural Action Group(CHIRAG), Sitla, Nainital Watershed Participatory through Management (Kumaon region) Livelihoods Rural Enhancing Bilaspur district, HimachalPradesh. 456 hectares of Silh Nala watershed, covering four villages in Jhanduta block of comprehensive year threeTowards a Manav Vikas Sansthan(MVS), Kalol, Bilaspur of Sirmourdistrict, HimachalPradesh. 464 hectares of Runnja Khala watershed, covering four villages in Sarahan block comprehensive year threeTowards a Social Awareness Through HumanInvolvement(SATHI), Sirmour block of Tehri Garhwaldistrict, Uttaranchal. treat 644 hectares of Duggada Khad watershed, covering five villages in Jaunpur Towards a three year comprehensive micro-watershed development project, to Garhwal Vikas Kendra (GVK), Nainbagh, Tehri Garhwal and Thil Panchayat ofKangra district, HimachalPradesh. hectares of the Nakehad Khad watershed, covering eight villages in Dol-KhariyanaTowards a three year comprehensive watershed development project,Society forEnvironmentandRural Awakening (ERA), Kangra to treat 502
Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional watershed development project to treat to project development watershed treat to project development watershed 4,100,000 1,100,000 1,150,000 828,000 772,000 862,000 900,000 830,000
37 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 38 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional 11 villagesinBageshwarand Chamolidistricts, Uttaranchal. to implement, operate andmaintaindrinkingwatersanitationschemes in Towards a two year Implementation Phase that supports Jal Prabandhan Samitis Kassar Trust, Bageshwar Uttaranchal. water and sanitation schemes in 11 villages in Uttarkashi and Dehradun districts, drinking maintain implement,and operateto societies management sanitation Towards a one year Implementation Phase that supports village level water and Society forMotivation Training & Action (SMTA), Vikas Nagar Uttaranchal. district, Tehri-Garhwal in maintain villages 12 in and schemes sanitation and operate water drinking implement, to societies management sanitation water level and village supports that Phase Implementation year two a Towards Himalayan InstituteHospital Trust (HIHT), JollyGrant, Dehradun Pithoragarh and Bageshwar districts, Uttaranchal. in villages 11 in schemes sanitation and water drinking maintain implement,and operateto societies management sanitation Towards a two year Implementation Phase that supports village level water and Himalayan Gram Vikas Samiti(HGVS), Gangolihat, Pithoragarh Interventions Sanitation and WaterDrinking through Health Community Improving of members the to trainings (VDC). Committees Development Village and building Committees Watershed capacity providing (c) and trainings; implementing to support through: (a) technical support; (b) soil & water conservation and other technical technical and phase,implementation watershed their regionduring Kumaon organizations in monitoring providing Towards Nainital Sitla,(CHIRAG), Group Action Rural Himalayan Central of Pithoragarh district, Uttaranchal. block Berinag in villages two watershed,covering Kaligarh of hectares 561 the treatproject, to development watershed Towardscomprehensive year three a Himalayan Gram Vikas Samiti(HGVS), Gangolihat, Pithoragarh Nainital district, Uttaranchal. hectareof watershed,805 block Khamari the Bhimtal threein covering villages treatproject, to development watershed Towardscomprehensive year three a Grameen Vikas Samiti(GVS), Kotabagh, Nainital district,block ofChampawat Uttaranchal. Barakote in villages four covering watershed, Gar Dewal of hectares 503 the treatproject, to development watershed Towardscomprehensive year three a General Rural Advancement Society(GRAS), Lohaghat, Champawat 23,000,000 10,502,500 2,320,000 1,920,000 972,600 706,000 909,000 800,000 Uttaranchal Bamboo and Fiber Development Board (UBFDB), (UBFDB), Board Towards Development Fiber and Dehradun Bamboo Uttaranchal organic interventionsinexcessivechemicalpronebelts. (e) developing a model for organic horticulture in Uttaranchal; and (f) promoting organic farming to farmers, government agencies and non-profit organizations; in trainings provide to centre a establishing export;(d) for produce agricultural marketing region;(c) Uttaranchal central the in department agricultural the by farming more viable; (b) monitoring the bio-village programme beingHimalayas. implemented at Key activities include: Farming, Organic for Centre middle in regions hilly on COF-II,focusing district,in namely Almora Machkhali existing the to annex an creating Towards Board, Dehradun Commodity Organic Uttaranchal (COF-II), Farming Organic for Centre organic activitiesinthestate. institution, providingtechnicalandmarketingexpertisetoUOCBpromote decentralizedand building capacity traininga and as marketing perform would Towards a collaboration with the Government of Uttaranchal to set up COF, Commodity Board, (UOCB)Dehradun Organic which Uttaranchal (COF), Farming Organic for Centre Livelihood EnhancementthroughFarm andNon-farm Activities of Amritsar district. village one in adopted be would Basmati for technology production improved and district Sangrur of block Ahmedgarh in villages two in adopted be would groundnut for technology production Improved growth. agricultural reviving and process diversification the implementing in GoP the assisting of objective of groundnut and Basmati in Sangrur and Amritsar districts respectively with the Towards developing a cost effective model University for up-scaling(PAU), Agricultural and Ludhiana extending Punjab cultivation Education, Extension of Directorate Crop Diversification REVIVING THE GREENREVOLUTION especially women. undertaking (e) Panchayats; researchVan on with plantation techniques; and plantations (f) capacity building managed of rural communities, community setting up (d) options; livelihood showcase to forests) (livelihood Vatikas Ajivika establishing (c) nursery; technology high state-level, functional a up setting (b) activities; non-farm and farm based fiber and bamboo of adoption encourage to communities rural the amongst awareness developing (a) include: activities
bamboo and fiber based livelihood promotion in Uttaranchal. Key Key Uttaranchal. in promotion livelihood based fiber and bamboo (a) research and development to make organic Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional No disbursals 1,100,000 1,538,000 7,900,000
39 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 40 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional Department of Entomology, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), (PAU), University Agricultural Punjab Entomology, of Department Integrated PestManagementinCotton prevalent.are weeds target these of problems where districts, Sangrur and Hoshiarpur in farms 14 at experiments conducting through crops, alternate as promoted are which groundnut, and (PAU), Towards working University out an integrated approach for Agricultural controlling hardy weedsLudhiana Punjab in maize Agronomy, of Department incorporation.residue rice by influenced as and (iii) monitors the on available nutrient content of soil and Nitrogen their uptake by crops, additional of effect the decomposition and rice residue, release of nutrients and on subsequent crops; examines (b) Raya; and wheat rice, of (a) examines the effect of rice residue incorporation on growth and productivity causes environmental pollution resulting into nutrient loss. The programme also: by encouraging farmers to incorporate rice residue, in place of burning it, which (PAU), Towards a University comprehensive programme that focuses Agricultural on rice-residue Ludhiana management, Punjab Agronomy, of Department adoption Punjab.its in promoting and 99 SG of production seed the enhancing (c) and stocks; resistant identified already utilizing by groundnut of varieties resistant insect and disease maturing, early yielding, high developing (b) pests; and insect diseases major against plasmas germ varied activities new Key screening crop. (a) alternate include: an as groundnut of cultivation for practices of Towards further developing replicable technologies and a well rounded package Ludhiana (PAU), University Agricultural Punjab Breeding, Plant of Department Punjab.of districts Sangrur and Amritsar in villages eight in popularise and promote to Basmati / Groundnut – models Wheat as an alternate to Rice - Wheat cropping systems effective cost refining (PAU), further Towards University Agricultural Ludhiana Punjab Agronomy, of Department usage of insecticide, thereby enhancing productivity of cotton. of productivity enhancing insecticide,thereby of usage indiscriminate reducing of objective the with Punjab, of districts Muktsar and Ferozpur,Mansa Bhatinda, in villages eight in technology (IPM) Management Towards further developing, validating and disseminating cotton-Integrated Pest Ludhiana 1,500,000 1,015,000 617,000 920,000 900,000 hwngr ad ah Prn bok o Jlnhr Snrr n Faridkot and Sangrur respectively.Punjab Jalandhar, of districts of blocks Purana Bagha and Bhawanigarh in water different irrigation cropping systems in vis-à-vis saving the prevalent demonstrating rice-wheat for system, project in Bhogpur, year (PAU), three a Towards University Agricultural Ludhiana Punjab Agronomy, of Department characteristics.transmission water and fertility inherent retention, moisture soils, textured different under alternative an suggesting response characteristicscrop soil evaluating on and based sequence cropping withdrawal, groundwater reducing of the with resources,objectives water of management for project year three a Towards (PAU),Ludhiana University Agricultural Soils,Punjab of Department by artificialrecharge throughtubewells. groundwater of augmentation and irrigation drip water,through of utilisation Towards a three year project for management of water Ludhiana resources through efficient Department of Water Engineering, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Development Resources Water of blocks the cottonbeltinPunjab.28 in 2005) (Kharif villages 56 the across technology cotton-IPM of A supplementary grant towards continuing efforts for up-scalingDepartment of Agriculture, GovernmentofPunjab(GoP), Chandigarh the dissemination Kharif 2005and2006seasons. the during blocks, 28 in annum per the villages 56 Punjab, covering across in belt cotton technology cotton-IPM of dissemination the up-scaling Towards Chandigarh (GoP), Punjab of Agriculture,Government of Department tehsils ofJodhpurdistrict, Rajasthan. seven in households the of poorest the to security food providing and nadies of desilting livestock, for camps fodder,veterinary and two feed holding cattle of quintals 4,000 of distribution water,and drinking purchase for pumps hand 11 of installation on focus 2005,with of summer the during Rajasthan west for Towards ‘Operation Sahayata – Phase II, an integrated drought relief programme H. H. MaharajaHanwantSinghjiCharitable Trust (MHSCT), Jodhpur water and diversifyingsustaininglivelihoods. drinking supplementing recharging, water ground through Rajasthan, Towards drought proofing in 15 villages in Balesar block of Jodhpur district, West H. H. MaharajaHanwantSinghjiCharitable Trust (MHSCT), Jodhpur DROUGHT PROOFINGIN WEST RAJASTHAN Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional 1,400,000 1,522,000 2,328,000 2,300,000 2,485,000 1,480,000 705,000
41 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 42 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional diinl evcs hog hat iiitvs iiit lvlho promotion, livelihood initiate enhance capacityofstaffandundertakequalitativestudies. initiatives, health through services additional district, Rajasthan. The project also aims to promote cluster level bodies, strengthens initiate which programme, savings and credit groups, finance covering over 2,800 women in 45 villages in Udaipur micro a of consolidation Towards Hanuman Van Vikas Samiti(HVVS), Sakroda, Udaipur the districtformainstream players. to interventions.livelihood resourcea become to in efforts agency initiates also It aims Ibtada SHGs. 210 across streamlining,further by quality enhance strengtheningpiloting federations and members 2,330 comprising microfinance programme a of deepening for phase preparation and planning a Towards Ibtada, Alwar Groups Help Self 245 through women (SHGs). 4,550 covering Rajasthan, district, Dungarpur in vulnerabilities reducing and livelihoods strengthening Towards Jan ShikshaEvam Vikas Sangathan(PEDO), Dungarpur Field ImplementationProjects development financefordisseminationanddiscussionwithpolicymakers.in Colloquium annual the organizes (e) and poor; for microfinance to access with Government and other stake holders for developing strategies for increasing departments, to improve quality of interventions; (d) networks and collaborates Government groups,creditincluding and savings of promoters significant with that initiatives enhance effectiveness innovative of piloting microfinance and delivery systems; practices by (c) current works sector collaboratively effective the identifying deepen to practitioners microfinance encourages actively (b) Rajasthan; in microfinance on information hub, (a) providing knowledge a which: as acts (CmF) microFinance for Centre the of establishment the Towards Indian InstituteofHealthManagementResearch(IIHMR), Jaipur SAKH SE VIKAS (RAJASTHANMICROFINANCEINITIATIVE) district, Rajasthan. food securityto5060ofthepoorest householdsinseventehsilsofJodhpur cattle feed and fodder, holding two veterinary camps for livestock and providing of quintals 5,400 of distribution water,and drinking purchase for pumps hand 14 of installation on focus 2006,with of summer the during Rajasthan west for Towards ‘Operation Sahayata – Phase III’, an integrated drought relief programme H. H. MaharajaHanwantSinghjiCharitable Trust (MHSCT), Jodhpur 1,860,000 2,600,000 2,658,000 900,000 600,000 DEVELOPMENT AND MICROFINANCE and establishforward andbackward linkages. The grant offers critical support for demonstrations that help strengthen groups in block one of villages 72 across TonkSHGs district, Rajasthan, DPIP.the under 200 through assets and groups livelihood of sustainability Towardsimproving Self ReliantInitiativesthroughJoint Action (SRIJAN), NewDelhi and backward linkages. support for demonstrations that helps strengthen groups and establish forward DPIP.the under critical Rajasthan,district, offers Dausa grant Theof block one in villages 78 in and district Dholpur of blocks two in villages 126 across SHGs through assets and groups livelihood 504 of sustainability Towardsimproving New (PRADAN), Action Delhi Development for Assistance Professional Programme Initiatives Poverty (DPIP) District to grants Supplementing microfinance inRajasthan. on Colloquium TataTrust Ratan Sir capacity the organizing ARAVALI’s and agency; resource a augmenting as support; development organizational and micro finance programmes, through placement of young professionals, training their and organizations implementing 20 of effectiveness enhancing Towards Involvement (ARAVALI), Jaipur Association forRural Advancement through Voluntary Action &Local activities andlinkageswithbanksbuildstaffcapacity. livelihood viability,explore financial second for strategy promote a to implement institutions, aims tier also support The them. strengthening and 208 to groups number total the taking SHGs, new 126 promoting by district Udaipur Towardsof reducingblocks strengtheningand vulnerabilitiestwo livelihoods in Prayatna Samiti, Gudli, Udaipur Tamil Naduand Andhra Pradesh. Karnataka, of areas select in locations new 75 initiating for donors other from funds leverage and locations new 25 in action direct initiate to KF help would support members.The women 61,500 covering groups 4,100 of formation for Towards core support for Kalanjiam Foundation’s community Kalanjiam Foundation(KF), Madurai banking programme, Institutional grants : Rural Livelihoods & Communities & Livelihoods Rural : grants Institutional No disbursals 17,600,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 2,850,000
43 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 44 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS #OMMUNITIES 4OWARDS A RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE .ATIONAL #OUNCIL OF !PPLIED %CONOMIC 2ESEARCH .#!%2 .EW $ELHI /4(%23 FAMILIES INCLUDING RICE TEA AND COCONUT OIL FOR LIVELIHOOD ENHANCEMENT BENElTING UPTO 4OWARDS SEED SUPPORT TO SET UP A COMMUNITY TRADING STRUCTURE IN COMMODITIES *UST #HANGE 4RUST 'UDALUR -)#2/ n %.4%202)3%3 PRODUCTS AND THE POLICY ENVIRONMENT FOR MICRO l COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH AGENDA AROUND IDENTIlED THEMES INCLUDING lNANCIAL 4OWARDS A RESEARCH PROGRAMME IN THE AREA OF MICRO lNANCE THAT DEVELOPS A )NDIAN )NSTITUTE OF -ANAGEMENT ))- !HMEDABAD 2%3%!2#( /. -)#2/ &).!.#% %NHANCING 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS 4HE KEY TO )NDIAS SUSTAINABLE FUTURE NANCE INSTITUTIONS .O DISBURSALS .O DISBURSALS
0ICTURE COURTESY 6ANDANA +ANDPAL %DUCATION EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS BESIDES STRENGTHENING TEACHER EDUCATION AND INNOVATIONS IN THE SECTOR WHILST THROUGH FOCUSED GRANT MAKING /N ONE HAND IT SUPPORTS lELD PROJECTS TOWARDS ENHANCING QUALITY OF .#& IS A CHALLENGING TASK 4HE EDUCATION PORTFOLIO OF THE 4RUST ATTEMPTS TO CONTRIBUTE IN THIS PROCESS QUALITY OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 4HE 4RUST RECOGNIZES THAT TRANSLATING THE VISION ARTICULATED IN THE MEANINGFUL ENSURING TOWARDS EDUCATION FOR EVERY CHILD AND PROVIDE A BACKDROP FOR THE 4RUSTS WORK THAT FOCUSES ON ENSURING COMMITMENT NATIONAL RENEWED ARTICULATE DEVELOPMENTS 4HESE TEXTBOOKS BASED ON THE DIRECTION CHARTED IN THE .#& ON %DUCATION #!"% IN 3EPTEMBER AND THE .#%24 HAS BEGUN THE PROCESS OF REVISING SCHOOL THE DEMOCRATIC POLITY OF THE COUNTRY 4HE &RAMEWORK WAS APPROVED BY THE #ENTRAL !UTHORITY "OARD THEM WITH CLASSROOM LIFE AND V NURTURING AN OVERRIDING IDENTITY INFORMED BY CARING CONCERNS WITHIN THE ENRICHING III CURRICULUM SO THAT IT GOES BEYOND TEXTBOOKS IV MAKING EXAMINATIONS MORE mEXIBLE AND INTEGRATING METHODS ROTE FROM AWAY SHIFTS LEARNING THAT ENSURING II SCHOOL THE OUTSIDE .#& PROPOSES lVE GUIDING PRINCIPLES TO CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT I CONNECTING KNOWLEDGE TO LIFE OF MEMBERS FROM INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED LEARNING SCHOOL TEACHERS AND NON PROlT ORGANIZATIONS PREPARED BY A .ATIONAL 3TEERING #OMMITTEE WITH INPUTS FROM .ATIONAL &OCUS 'ROUPS COMPRISING #URRICULUM &RAMEWORK .#& IN THROUGH AN EXTENSIVE PARTICIPATORY PROCESS 4HE FRAMEWORK WAS 3ECONDLY THE .ATIONAL #OUNCIL OF %DUCATIONAL 2ESEARCH AND 4RAINING .#%24 REVISED THE .ATIONAL WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREE COMPULSORY EDUCATION OF EQUITABLE QUALITY AVAILABLE IN ITS NEIGHBORHOOD %DUCATION "ILL WAS DRAFTED WITH THE OBJECTIVE THAT EVERY CHILD BETWEEN THE AGES OF TO 4HE YEAR SAW TWO SIGNIlCANT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE lELD OF EDUCATION &IRST THE @2IGHT TO "UILDING )NSTITUTIONAL 2ESOURCE IN %DUCATION .URTURING %DUCATION AS A $ISCIPLINE s 2EFORMING %LEMENTARY %DUCATION s s THE 4RUST RECLASSIlED ITS PORTFOLIO DURING INTO THE FOLLOWING SUB THEMES EDUCATION AS A lELD OF STUDY AND ENABLE THE SYSTEM TO REFORM ITSELF "ASED ON INPUTS FROM THE REVIEW 4HE REVIEW MADE VARIOUS RECOMMENDATIONS ESPECIALLY THE NEED TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS FURTHERING AMONG NON PROlT ORGANIZATIONS AND HAD REACHED OUT TO LEARNERS FROM UNDER PRIVILEGED BACKGROUNDS PORTFOLIO 4HE REVIEW STATED THAT THE 4RUST HAD MADE SIGNIlCANT CONTRIBUTION IN SUPPORTING INNOVATIONS ENGAGEMENT WITH THE EDUCATION lELD THE 4RUST COMMISSIONED A COMPREHENSIVE EXTERNAL REVIEW OF ITS $URING IN ORDER TO TAKE STOCK OF THE WORK DONE OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS AND STRENGTHEN ITS ON THE OTHER FOCUSES ON FURTHERING EDUCATION AS A DISCIPLINE .ATIONAL #URRICULUM &RAMEWORK .ATIONAL #OUNCIL OF %DUCATIONAL 2ESEARCH AND 4RAINING .#%24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS %DUCATION
45 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 46 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS %DUCATION CONDUCTED FOR CREATING AN EXPERIENCED CADRE OF -ASTER 2ESOURCE 4EACHERS WITH SUBJECT EXPERTISE 7ITHIN ITS )NTEGRATED "LOCK #LUSTER $EVELOPMENT PROGRAMME VARIOUS TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS WERE CLUSTER BLOCK RESOURCE PERSONS RESOURCE CENTRES WERE ESTABLISHED AT +OLLEGAL AND 'UNDLUPET 4ALUK OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION !PART FROM ONGOING INTENSIVE WORK WITH THIRTY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY AND SAW A SECOND YEAR OF COLLABORATION WITH THE 'OVERNMENT OF +ARNATAKA TOWARDS IMPROVING THE QUALITY THE @6IDYANKURA PROJECT $ISTRICT 1UALITY %DUCATION 0ROGRAMME IN #HAMRAJNAGAR DISTRICT +ARNATAKA OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION )TS SUPPORT TO 4HE 4RUST IS SUPPORTING lELD PROJECTS IN SELECT DISTRICTS AND BLOCKS THAT FOCUS ON IMPROVING THE QUALITY OTHER AREAS OF FOCUS 4EACHER EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS FOR CHILDREN AND TEACHERS CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT ARE SOME OF THE THE COMMUNITY AND DEVELOP FOCUSED INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS NEGLECTED AREAS IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION lELD PROJECTS THAT ADDRESS ISSUES OF QUALITY OF EDUCATION THROUGH PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND lELD OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION WITH A FOCUS ON SYSTEMIC REFORM 4HE THRUST IS ON SUPPORTING GOOD QUALITY 4HE lRST SUB THEME OF REFORMING ELEMENTARY EDUCATION FOCUSES ON ADDRESSING KEY GAP AREAS IN THE IN THREE BLOCKS IN WHICH A BASELINE STUDY WAS COMPLETED 4HE ORGANISATION MOBILIZED COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS IN 3HEOPUR DISTRICT OF -ADHYA 0RADESH $URING THE YEAR THE PROJECT FOCUSED ON SCHOOLS DISTRICT LEVEL EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS FOR ENHANCING QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN PRIMARY GOVERNMENT IN -ATHEMATICS 3CIENCE AND %NGLISH 4HE 4RUST ALSO SUPPORTED ! PROJECT IMPLEMENTED BY .AANDI &OUNDATION TO ENHANCE QUALITY OF EDUCATION #HILDREN READ BOOKS AT A LIBRARY IN A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL IN 3HEOPUR DISTRICT -ADHYA 0RADESH .ATIONAL )NSTITUTE OF !DVANCED 3TUDIES .)!3 .AANDI &OUNDATION TOWARDS ITS TOWARDS CRAFT AND SPORTS HAVE BEEN THE FOCUS OF THE ACTIVITIES SO FAR 4HE ,EARNING #ENTRE FUNCTIONS FOR ABOUT FOUR HOURS A DAY %NHANCING LANGUAGE AND ARITHMETIC SKILLS ALONG WITH DRAWING IS SURROUNDED IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT CREATES OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPERIENCE BASED LEARNING 0AHEL IS BOOKS THE TONE OF INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY TEACHERS AND THE EXPECTATION OF SITTING IN ONE PLACE IN SILENCE 4HE *EEVAN 3HIKSHA MOST PARTS OF THEIR DAY DO NOT NATURALLY ADJUST TO FORMAL EDUCATION REPLETE WITH THE CONlNES OF A FORMAL CLASSROOM VULNERABLE BACKGROUNDS 4HESE CHILDREN LIKE $EEPA WHO HAVE BEEN BUSY ROAMING AROUND STREETS AND RAG PICKING FOR $EEPAS CLASSROOM IS ACTUALLY PART OF "HOPAL BASED (ER PARENTS ARE POOR RAG PICKERS AND ARE KEEN TO SEE THAT THEIR DAUGHTER RECEIVES EDUCATION ALL THE OTHERSv REPLIES $EEPA PROUDLY CLUTCHING HER WORK $EEPA LIVES IN A TINY HUT IN A SLUM ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF "HOPAL RIBBON h6ERY NICE $EEPAxBUT WHY DID YOU DO THIS v ASKS HER BEWILDERED TEACHER h-Y lLE SHOULD LOOK DIFFERENT FROM ORIGINS HAS TRANSFORMED THE COVER OF THE lLE INTO A COLLAGE OF MYRIAD COLORS REPLETE WITH A STICKER AND A BRIGHT RED NEXT DAY $EEPA COMES TO CLASS ARMED WITH HER lLE "UT HER CREATIVE MIND AND CAREFREE SPIRIT BELYING HER IMPOVERISHED CONTAINS $EEPAS WORK SHEETS PUT SEQUENTIALLY TO ENABLE THE TEACHER REVIEW THEM AND FOLLOW THE CHILDS PROGRESS PATH 4HE h"HAIYA MAY ) TAKE MY lLE HOME ) WILL GET IT TOMORROW DElNITELYv ASKS LITTLE $EEPA TO HER CLASSROOM TEACHER 4HE lLE FUTURE FOR MARGINALIZED CHILDREN )T IS THE 4RUSTS HOPE THAT EXPERIENCE WHILST STRATEGICALLY EMPHASIZING COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY IN IMPROVING THE LEVEL OF EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN ITS ACTIVITIES SINCE *ANUARY ENABLING THE ORGANISATION TO DEVELOP A MODEL OF INTERVENTION IN SLUMS BASED ON THEIR ENHANCING CONDITIONS OF MARGINALIZED GROUPS FOCUSING PRIMARILY ON CHILDRENS EDUCATION 4HE 4RUST HAS SUPPORTED IN AREAS WHERE THE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM HAS FAILED OF THE EDUCATION REVIEW REPORT OF !PRIL IT ALSO SUPPORTS ORGANISATIONS LIKE THE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM TOWARDS QUALITATIVE IMPROVEMENT AND REFORM 3IMULTANEOUSLY BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS 5NDER ITS SUB THEME h2EFORMING %LEMENTARY %DUCATIONv THE 4RUST IS PROACTIVELY SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS THAT WORK WITH IN TOUCH WITH EXTERNAL INPUTS IN THEIR CHILDRENS LIVES WITH PARENTS AND WORKSHOPS WITH COMMUNITY RESIDENTS IN ORDER TO BUILD A PERSPECTIVE ON EDUCATION BESIDES KEEPING BESIDES CULTIVATING SENSITIVITY AND RESPECT TOWARDS OTHER INDIVIDUALS -USKAAN FREQUENTLY ORGANIZES INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS ,EARNING #ENTRE PROVIDES THE GROUND FOR A CHILD TO GROW WITH A SENSE OF CONlDENCE AND EXPLORE INTO THE UNKNOWN SOMETHING FOR WHICH OPPORTUNITIES NEED TO BE SEPARATELY PROVIDED BUT THE BASIC EXERCISES AND THE AMBIENCE IN THE -USKAANS LY O ER HLRN T UKA ,ANN #NR I "OA4E ETE IE AN GIVES #ENTRE "HOPAL 4HE IN #ENTRE ,EARNING OPPORTUNITY TO MARGINALIZED CHILDREN TO RECEIVE QUALITY EDUCATION -USKAANS AT #HILDREN LEARN TO 0LAY ENDEAVOUR OF DElNING EDUCATION AMONGST CHILDREN OF DEPRIVED SLUM BACKGROUNDS (ERE THE CHILD -USKAANS EFFORTS WOULD INCREASE ACCESS TO ELEMENTARY EDUCATION AND SECURE A BRIGHTER -USKAAN -USKAANS -USKAAN HAS BEEN WORKING IN THE SLUM POCKETS OF "HOPAL SINCE NEWLY ESTABLISHED ,EARNING #ENTRE FOR CHILDREN FROM BELIEVES THAT PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT IS NOT -USKAAN )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS %DUCATION WHICH PROVIDE SERVICE DELIVERY
47 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 48 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Education : grants Institutional systemic reform thatwouldberelevant forthesector. towards lessons important generate will partnership this that Trustbelieves the level, district the at education of quality the enhancing in DIETs of potential the given and kind this of initiatives first the of one members.is faculty This of building capacity intensive and design procedures,internal be used in more than 2,500 schools from the coming academic year. Similarly a new grant to textbook of Class 1, making them moreHindi relevantthe within and illustrations visuallychanged illustrator,who appealing.leading a of This services new-look the text-bookrequisitioned also would backgrounds, residing in slums in Bhopal. During the year, system, the Trust the has with made engaging atime, fresh same the grant at to whilst education, elementary to access improving Towards while innovatinganddemonstrating waysofbringingaboutsustainedchangesinclassrooms. education, elementary of quality enhance to India, of Government the of programme national the Shiksha Abhiyan,Sarva of frameworklarger the within function to attempt and nature in systemic students.of arescience,competencies projects writing these readingand Both improving besides and mathematics in programmes training through skills and knowledge their build to teachers to school. the of functioning the monitor continuously to committees and introducing a set of structured interactions between teachers and parents, as a tool Teacher Association (PTA) members to facilitate the formation and strengthening of parent-teacher improving their perceptions about the value of education. This was carried out by training the Parent besides classroom observations. Analysis of the data is expected to be completed shortly.completed be to expected is data observations.the classroom of besides Analysis in 200 government schools, encompassing detailed interviews with teachers, parents and children, ‘Indradhanushya’ series of text books. During the year, its of study a conducting for Delhi, (SCERT), Training and Research Educational of Council this, district, thereby enhancing its capacity to revitalize elementary education at the district level. Towardsand TrainingChamrajnagarEducation in of (DIET) Institute District upcoming the strengthen would focused workshops for children and conducting monthly workshops for teachers.for workshops monthly conducting and children for workshops focused and Bal-melas organizing classes, demonstration conducting through schools government four and in an attempt to support innovations among state institutions; it collaborated with the with collaborated it institutions; state among innovations support to attempt an in and The Trust has not restricted its interventions for systemic reform purely with non-profit organisations fledged educationcenter. programme,education non-formal earlier considerablytheir modified full- a restructuringinto by it is proposing inputs in restructuring the Chamrajnagar DIET in terms of its recruitment its of terms in DIET Chamrajnagar the restructuring in inputs proposing is NIAS Muskaan to ensure education for children from vulnerable SCERT completed its data collection exercise also provided inputs provided also Foundation Naandi Muskaan was engaged in strengthening has Muskaan SCERT State NIAS
NAMELY "ANGALORE -YSORE AND -ANGALORE TO BE SET UP BY TWO NON PROlT ORGANISATIONS BASED IN "ANGALORE AND IS IMPLEMENTING THE INITIATIVE ON 4EACHER 2ESOURCE #ENTRES IN A PHASED MANNER STARTING WITH TRAINING PROGRAMMES AND SO ON 4HE 4RUST PROACTIVELY CREATED A FRAMEWORK FOR SETTING UP SUCH CENTERS SERVICES TO TEACHERS RANGING FROM SUBJECT BASED TRAINING CLASSROOM BASED RESEARCH PRE DESIGNED WITH CLASSROOM PRACTICE AND NEEDS OF TEACHERS AND C PROVIDE FOR A VARIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT AND LEARNING OF TEACHERS B ENABLE CONTINUOUS TEACHER DEVELOPMENT INPUTS THAT ARE CLOSELY LINKED 2ESOURCE #ENTRES ARE AIMED TO A PROVIDE SPACE FOR SUSTAINED PROGRAMMATIC INTERVENTION FOR GROWTH SUSTAINING DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS THROUGH SUPPORTING @4EACHER 2ESOURCE #ENTRES 4HE 4EACHER ELEMENTARY EDUCATION THE 4RUST FOCUSES ON STRENGTHENING OF TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES BESIDES THE IMPORTANCE OF ROBUST PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS FOR SUSTAINING LASTING CHANGES IN SERVICE TRAINING OF TEACHERS REMAINS A MAJOR GAP AREA IN THE lELD OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 2ECOGNIZING IS PERCEIVED AS ONE OF THE PRIMARY CAUSES OF THE FAILURE OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM (OWEVER PRE AND IN DETERMINING THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT AND TRANSACTING THE CURRICULUM .ON PERFORMANCE OF TEACHERS THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION SYSTEM )T HAS BEEN WIDELY RECOGNIZED THAT TEACHERS PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN SCHOOLS HIGH DROP OUT RATES LOW LEVELS OF LEARNING AND INADEQUATE INFRASTRUCTURE CONTINUE TO PLAGUE 4HOUGH SIGNIlCANT IMPROVEMENT HAS BEEN MADE IN PROVIDING ACCESS AND ENROLLING CHILDREN IN PRIMARY ENHANCE ITS VISUAL APPEAL /LD LEFT AND NEW RIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS FOR A (INDI POEM SHOWCASED SIDE BY SIDE 4HE 4RUSTS SUPPORT FACILITATED 3#%24 $ELHI TO CHANGE ILLUSTRATIONS WITHIN ITS (INDI TEXT BOOK FOR CLASS IN ORDER TO 3UVIDYA AND 4HE 4EACHER &OUNDATION $URING THE YEAR THE 4RUST CONTINUED ITS SUPPORT TO )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS %DUCATION
49 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 50 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Education : grants Institutional book was also published in Marathi – English format. Similarly, parents.and Theteachers for book resource a as serves and India of diversity rich the portraying pictures colorful contains book The schools. medium English and medium Hindi in students for children,relevantIndian of world the on Hindi,based and English in words 1,000 about features It picturea wordtitled book ‘My My – World Words’,Hindi.and English childrenlearn for to designed Baroda district, Gujarat,respectively.district, Baroda and Pradesh district,Andhra Mahboobnagar in programmes education teacher mathematics and publishers and educationalists. During the year, under this initiative, grants were made to among networking facilitating besides writing, professional of dissemination and publishers and books in various Indian languages, supporting professional development among illustrators, writers of publication on focuses which Initiative’, ‘Publication the launched Trusthas backdrop,the this education.in issues critical on perspective and understanding builds that material suitable Against Further, purposes. professional development of teachers and educational practitioners also depends on availability of recreational and instructional for material educational graded age appropriate, for need the emphasized has schools primary entering children of number increasing The in scienceteachingandlearningforstudentsteachers. Baroda,and Bharuch differentexhibiting trainingsfrom conducting apart and experiments science Bhopal,(CLR),Resources Learning for Centre Dr. A.S. Rao and (ASRAC)Awards Council the Trust’s support. The Belgaum cluster in Karnataka comprises of nine centres, with the nodal the with centres, nine of comprises Karnataka in cluster Belgaum Trust’sThe support.the organisation.through non-profit wereinitiated 2005-06,local clusters During a two coordinated by relevant.is that education to access centresa ensuring 10 forms of maximum ‘Cluster’,A is which Centres would make an attempt to revitalize the village life of the marginalized communities through setting up approximately 50, regionally focused Learning Centres in a phased manner. The Learning alternative schools / centres to cater to the needs of disadvantaged rural communities. LCI involves in this context that the Trust developed the Learning Centres Initiative (LCI), focusing on establishing strengthen alternative education to serve marginalized communities through long-term support. It the wasTrust is working in a proactive manner to identify, develop and support innovative programs that accessible,child,education every elementary for make meaningful to and attempt enjoyable an In creating curricularandrecreational materialthattakeslearningbeyondtextbooks. shortly.published Theby NCF the by outlined principles key the with dovetails initiative Publication poetry, subject-wise modules and reference books. Eight more books are on the anvil and would be the year, ranging from children’s literature, activity books, teachers’ handbooks, educational classics, has operationalised two science centres, one each at each centres,one science two operationalised has Sahaj enabling them expand the scope of science of scope the expand them enabling Sahaj, Pune and Pune Anveshi, Eklavya published nine books during Hyderabad.developed CLR Eklavya, THAT STRENGTHEN ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION TO SERVE MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES THROUGH LONG TERM SUPPORT AND MEANINGFUL FOR EVERY CHILD WHILST WORKING IN A PROACTIVE MANNER TO IDENTIFY DEVELOP AND SUPPORT INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS 4HE ORGANIZATION SUCH AS FOCUS WITH A MAXIMUM OF CENTRES FORMING A @#LUSTER AN ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT THAT IS COORDINATED BY A LOCAL NON PROlT PRIMARY LEVEL 4HE )NITIATIVE INVOLVES SETTING UP APPROXIMATELY ,EARNING #ENTRES IN A PHASED MANNER HAVING REGIONAL HAVE ACCESS TO MAINSTREAM SCHOOLS 4HE CENTRES WOULD BE COMMITTED TO ENSURING UNIVERSALISATION OF EDUCATION TILL THE THE VILLAGE IF THEY EXIST IN THE PROJECT AREA 0REFERENCE IS GIVEN TO SETTING UP CENTRES IN VILLAGES AND HAMLETS THAT DO NOT WHO HAVE LARGELY BEEN EXCLUDED FROM THE SCHOOLING PROCESS 4HESE CENTRES ARE NOT MEANT TO REPLACE EXISTING SCHOOLS IN 4HE )NITIATIVE PROPOSES TO CREATE VIBRANT ,EARNING #ENTRES THAT WOULD CATER TO THE NEEDS OF THE MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES BY FOCUSING ON CREATING CURRICULUM THAT IS RELEVANT TO THE NEEDS OF THE VILLAGE COMMUNITIES 4HE SCHOOL HAVE BEGUN ENROLLING CHILDREN FROM #HAPOLI 'AWALI 7ADA EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR AND ABOUT SOCIAL CHANGE IN GENERAL 4HANKS TO THE #ENTRE THE TEACHERS FROM THE @NEARBY PRIMARY CAMPS AND MEETINGS HELPING THE "AAL 3AKHIS TO ACQUIRE NEW IDEAS METHODOLOGY AND PERSPECTIVES ABOUT ALTERNATIVE CHILDREN PLAYFULLY LEARN THINGS WHILE NOT ALIENATING THEM FROM THEIR SOCIAL REALITY )T HENCE ORGANIZES MONTHLY TRAINING '$334 WHEN THE #ONSEQUENTLY THE HAMLET HAD THE DUBIOUS DISTINCTION OF PER CENT ILLITERACY (OWEVER TIME FOR A CHANGE ARRIVED IN TWO KILOMETERS AND A COUPLE OF HILLS AWAY HAD DETERRED PARENTS FROM EVEN THINKING OF ANY EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN TRADITIONALLY CATTLE REARERS AND LIVING AT SUBSISTENCE LEVELS 0OVERTY AND DISTANCE TO THE NEAREST PRIMARY SCHOOL A GOOD OF "ELGAUM DISTRICT +ARNATAKA )T CONSISTS OF ABOUT BAMBOO HUTS AND IS INHABITED BY THE $HANAGAR 'AVLI COMMUNITY .ESTLED AMIDST THE THICKLY WOODED 7ESTERN 'HATS LIES THE IDYLLIC HAMLET OF #HAPOLI 'AWALI 7ADA IN THE +HANAPUR 4ALUKA THEY MAKE UP WITH THEIR TREMENDOUS ENTHUSIASM AND SINCERITY @LEARNING CENTRE THERE IS NO TEACHER BUT TWO @"AAL 3AKHIS n FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN 4HOUGH BARELY EDUCATED THEMSELVES !LL THIS BY BEGINNING WITH WHAT THEY KNOW BEST n THEIR CATTLE AND THEIR TERRAIN 3INCE THIS IS NOT A SCHOOL RATHER ONLY A AND ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES LIKE DRAWING PAINTING AND CRAFTS BESIDES STUDYING BASIC MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND LANGUAGE +ENDRA HAS BECOME A CENTRE FOR ABOUT YOUNG CHILDREN OF THE HAMLET WHO COME TOGETHER EVERY DAY TO PLAY SING DANCE AS ONE OF THE NINE PLACES TO START ITS ,EARNING #ENTRES LOCALLY REFERRED TO AS +ALIKA +ENDRA /VER TWO YEARS THE +ALIKA ,EARNING #ENTRES )NITIATIVE ERIG ETE )NITIATIVE #ENTRES ,EARNING RECOGNIZES THE NEED TO ENHANCE CAPACITIES OF THE "AAL 3AKHIS IN ORDER TO MAKE THE +ALIKA +ENDRA A CENTRE WHERE "ELGAUM DISTRICT +ARNATAKA #HILDREN ENGAGE IN A SING SONG ACTIVITY AT '$334S ,EARNING #ENTRE AT #HAPOLI 'AWALI 7ADA 'OVIND $HAM 3HIKSHANA 3ADHANA 4RUST '$334 '$334 SERVING AS A .ODAL !GENCY VINDICATES THE 4RUSTS ATTEMPTS TO MAKE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE ENJOYABLE F H RS PAS O EIE H TASOMTV RL O EUAIN O RRL AND RURAL FOR EDUCATION OF ROLE TRANSFORMATIVE THE REVIVE TO PLANS THE 4RUST OF "ELGAUM DECIDED TO INCLUDE #HAPOLI 'AWALI 7ADA )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS %DUCATION
51 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 52 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Education : grants Institutional eeomn i te ra f lmnay n hge euain hog is rn mkn.A a and learning As higher making. of institutions grant to support strategic its Trustprovides sub-theme,the this through of part education higher and elementary of area the in development institution supported Trusthas the practices, innovative and projects field supporting with Along the programme isslatedtocommenceMay2006onwards. and 2006 March during selected was base.students knowledge of their upgradebatch to first The course,professionals mid-careerthe including in participate to clientele wide enable would mode provide strong theoretical understanding of would education and course address Theconcerns organizations.from the non-profit field. and The dual institutions academic six among collaborations trained well through contact) sector.and the providing (distant for mode professionals dual in offered is ProgrammeThe and building discipline through education elementary professionalizing towardscontribution major a make to Mumbai,aims (TISS), which Sciences Social of Institute the at Education’ in Programme Post-graduate ‘Collaborative a supporting also Trustis The to create meaningfullinkagesbetweeninstitutesofhigherlearningandelementaryschools. February 2006. four government schools in Delhi, post which, the findings were shared during a national seminar in conducted a baseline study to understand the classroom transactions and children’s performance in the at Studies Educational for Centre Hussain education.elementary professionalizing (b) Throughand the Trust’sZakir the from support,team a research; and fellowships networks, collaborative through education elementary with education review,education recommendationsthe of the Trustresourcesits focused has in: higher linking (a) practicefield.or the decisions in policy key sound the guides of that one knowledge Implementing discipline, has remained largely underdeveloped, leading to a dearth of shared and informed body of Despite the wide recognition of the importance of education in social development, Education, as a relevant skillsinthecentres’ curriculum. curriculum, skills and local resources; and (ii) linking education the with developing livelihoodin contribution by of incorporatingterms in locallycentres the running and up setting in community local year.coming the over Centresfeaturesthe include:of key of participation the intensive of (i) Some contact with nodal organizations, cluster coordinators and the Trust. More clusters are in the pipeline providing them facilitating support, whilst also coordinating the work of the initiative through regular and organisations nodal and clusters new initiative,identifying the for Secretariat the as serve to (AAAS). Maharashtra comprises ten centres, with the nodal agency being being agency The Trust has, through a grant, appointed appointed grant, a through has,Trust The while the Vidarbha cluster in cluster the Vidarbha while (GDSST), Sadhana Trust Shikshana Dham Govind JNU is focusing efforts towards setting up the ‘University – School Resource Network’, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), University Nehru Jawaharlal iha hrt iydy rs (VBVT) Trust Vidyodaya Bharati Vishwa Aamhi Aamchya Arogya Sathi New Delhi, New Tata
alternative andheritageschools. initiatives, besides developing a strategy for focused interventions in higher education and supporting disbursals. In the coming year, the Trust plans year’s to last expand over its increase 52% Teachera indicating grants,Resource 31 Centre towards and million) Publication 1.72 $ (US million Rs.77.54 50.94 million towards 24 grants during 2004-05, the Trust’sRs. to disbursals during 2005-06 were a comparedrecord disbursals.As of quantum the in rise healthy a saw portfolio Trust’seducation year,the the during made grants new eleven as many as portfolio.With education the of review external the strategy,post education Trust’sthe new implementing of year first the was 2005-06 to developastrategy forinterventions inhighereducation. n Scey (CSCS), Society and Academy,Dhan the to support on-going its schools.Besides heritage and alternative to support institutional of education and the globalized system of the knowledge industry.knowledge the of system globalized the and education of system national the of underpinnings conceptual the revenue,understand and to seeking besides institutions, the formulation of policies, the hierarchization of disciplines, and the modes of financing of functioning education,the higher including of field the in place transformationstaking natureof ‘The Future of Higher Education in India’. Amongst other things, the workshop sought clarity on the CSCS, in association with the Bangalore University, organised a workshop on higher education titled 2006, February studies.In culture for institute interdisciplinary an as status its enhancing thereby Madurai, Bangalore the Trust has also supported the supported also Trustthe has Grant Disbursals for Education: 1997-2006 Education: for Disbursals Grant , hog a eod hs gat o isiuinl strengthening, institutional for grant phase second a through Centre for the Study of Culture of Study the for Centre is also assisting the assisting also is CSCS Trust Institutional grants : Education : grants Institutional Tata
53 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 54 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Education : grants Institutional Education: Details of grant disbursals in 2005-2006 victims.trafficked of rehabilitation and rescue of issues address to helplines running and mobilization community TrainingVocationalCentres, 10 of establishment of Uttar Pradesh, which include continuation of 30 Alternative Learning Centres, districts Shravasti and Balrampur in programmes its of Towardsconsolidation Better Education Through Innovation(BETI), Lucknow through boys Rajasthan. district, and Bikaner of girls block Nokha in activities, adolescent follow-up and of camps residential education the supporting Towards Urmul JyotiSansthan(UJS), Nokha Improving Access andEngagingwiththeSystem based libraries. involvement of youth in educational activities, community interface and village- schools, select in teachers supplementary placing through district, Pradesh, Hoshangabad Madhya of villages tribal in education school rural improve To Sir Albert HowardMemorial Trust (SAHMET), Kesla, Hoshangabad community. parent the with working and authorities government organizations,local profit district, Uttar Pradesh, through direct intervention, collaboration with local non- Raebareli of blocks select in schools elementary of quality Towardsimproving Lokmitra, Raebareli block level. the at systems management school strengthening and issues educational in environment in elementary schools, enhancing participation of local classroom community and school improving through Pradesh Madhya of districts Dewas and Harda of each block one in education elementary Towardsstrengthening Samavesh, Bhopal the community. Madhya of and administration district district the with interface Sheopur an in developing through Pradesh, schools government in enhancing for education of intervention quality educational level district a supporting Towards Naandi Foundation, Hyderabad community membersanddevelopmentofinnovativecurriculum. teachers, administrators, educational of building capacity through education Chamrajnagar district in southern Karnataka, to enhance the quality of elementary National Instituteof Advanced Studies(NIAS), Bangalore elementary education of quality improve to projects collaborative through reform Systemic REFORMING ELEMENTARY EDUCATION Towards implementing ‘Vidyankura’, the District Quality Education Programme in 1,400,000 1,000,000 1,300,000 2,000,000 4,250,000 5,200,000 900,000 Rs. Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation (RJMCEI), (RJMCEI), Innovation Educational for Centre Matthai J. Ravi Professional Developmentof Teachers academic inputstorevitalize elementaryeducationatthelocallevel. facilitate consequently district,Chamrajnagarwould Karnataka, in which (DIET) Towards strengthening the upcoming District Institute of Education and Training National Instituteof Advanced Studies(NIAS), Bangalore textbook. Hindi 1 Class the in illustrations textbook of quality the the enhancing of and exercise writing documentation process schools, government 200 in series SCERT’stextbook ‘Indradhanushya’of study extensive an Towardsconducting State CouncilforEducationand Training (SCERT), NewDelhi Supporting InnovationamongStateInstitutions Resource and Training Centre andthe Vidyodaya School. Vidyodaya training, vocational programme, education village a for support of Towards an integrated education programme for tribal communities, consisting Viswa Bharathi Vidyodaya Trust (VBVT), Gudalur Madhya Pradesh. strengthening government schools; and running Balwadis in slumschildren; aroundrunning Bhopal,the education centre for children from vulnerable backgrounds; Towards building capabilities of community members for supporting education of Muskaan, Bhopal district, Andhra Pradesh, overthenextthree years. education Mahaboobnagar of blocks mathematics five in teachers and school secondary for science programmes the of scope the expanding Towards Dr. A. S. Rao Awards Council, Hyderabad non-profit local through Pradesh, Andhra in organizations. clusters 39 in around to schools education 1,465 environmental strengthen material to support, educational training, monitoring and channelising in CEE involves which (EESAP), Pradesh’ Andhra of Schools in Education ‘Environmental of II Phase Towards Centre forEnvironmentEducation(CEE), Hyderabad mainstream influence positively practices and andpoliciesineducation. teachers new motivate will database this of Dissemination institutions. teachers’ teacher by promote use to for approach Bank, development Innovations Educational the creating Towards Ahmedabad Institutional grants : Education : grants Institutional No disbursals No disbursals 1,500,000 2,700,000 1,900,000 1,500,000 300,000
55 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 56 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Education : grants Institutional in Mumbaiandsmallertowns invariousstates. and innovations educators, educational through promoting child focused and exhibitions, nurturing which are for expected to support reach Towards people Comet MediaFoundation, Mumbai bilingual format, whichcapture livesofmarginalized communities. and Telugu,in Malayalam books story of publication and Towardscompilation Anveshi -ResearchCentrefor Women's Studies, Hyderabad and recreational supplementary reading materialandreference material. material, instructional of consisting format, English – Hindi / Marathi in children, school for matter reading bilingual developing Towards Centre forLearningResources, Pune besides books, new of variety supporting theirLibrary programme. a markets programme and disseminates Publications develops, Eklavya’s that up-scaling and strengthening Towards Eklavya, Bhopal Publication Initiative intensive besides district, Udaipur in School dissemination ofestablishedpedagogicprinciples. Ramgiri the at education project,by Towards implementing the dissemination Vidya BhawanSociety(VBS),phase Udaipur of the ‘Basic Education Rediscovery’ establishing scienceresource centres andschooloutreach programmes. schools in Vadodara district, Gujarat, through development of teaching material, middle in approach pedagogy science centered learner a Towardspromoting Sahaj, Vadodara teachers. Mysore, with the aim of ensuring professional development of elementary school in Bangalore, while setting up new Teacher Resource Centres in Mangalore and Towards strengthening the activities and services offered by their existing Centre The Teacher Foundation, Bangalore development throughsustainedclassroombasedsupport. work with teachers from ten schools in the vicinitywould that Bangalore and south facilitatein Centre Teacher Resourcea their up Towardssetting professional Suvidya, Bangalore Teacher ResourceCentres; KarnatakaCluster focusing on continuation and improvement of basic and vocational and basic of improvement and continuation on focusing No disbursals 4,500,000 2,400,000 3,500,000 2,600,000 600,000 776,000 800,000 collaborative institutionalnetworkandplanningactivitiesofthenetwork. of terms in a building persons,resource work key identifying schools, select of preparatory study base-line completing on focusing Network’, Resource School - University ‘The project the of phase planning programme Towardsa Jawaharlal NehruUniversity(JNU), NewDelhi Linking HigherEducationwithElementary NURTURING EDUCATION AS A DISCIPLINE organizations, clustercoordinators andthe Trust. nodal with contact regular through initiative the of work the coordinating and support facilitating them providing and organisations nodal and clusters new Towards serving as the Secretariat for the Learning Centres Initiative, identifying Viswa Bharathi Vidyodaya Trust (VBVT), Gudalur Centres Initiative. of Learning Centres set up in Vidarbha region, Maharashtra, within the Learning cluster the of activities the co-ordinate to agency nodal a as Towardsserving Aamhi Aamchya Arogya Sathi(AAAS), Gadhchiroli Initiative. Centres Learning the Belgaum,Karnataka,within in up set Centres Learning of cluster the of activities the co-ordinate to agency nodal a as Towardsserving Govind DhamShikshanSadhana Trust (GDSST), Belgaum Learning CentreInitiative ih h am o ae t n o te edn shos n ua development rural in schools leading the of management inthecountry. one it make to aim the with Towards strategic start-up support for the Development ofHumane Action (DHAN)Foundation, Madurai Tata-Dhan Academy and its development, BUILDING INSTITUTIONALRESOURCEINEDUCATION academic institutionsandnon-profitorganisations. six among collaborations through contact) and (distant mode, dual in offered be would Programmesector. The the and for professionals trained discipline well the providing building through education elementary professionalizing on focuses which Education, in Programme Masters collaborative a Towards Tata InstituteofSocialSciences(TISS), Mumbai Professionalizing ElementaryEducation
Institutional grants : Education : grants Institutional 1,015,000 1,000,000 8,682,263 5,000,000 400,000 800,000
57 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 58 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Education : grants Institutional located intheBharuch-Ankleshwarbelt, Gujarat. industries various in employment secure to them helping thereby Gujarat, of (SEWA-Rural), Rural Towards a vocational training programme for youth in the backward Action- tribal areas and Welfare Jhagadia Education, for Society books, through research monographs andpublications. this disseminating and India on implications that have (WTO) Organisation Trade World to related issues on research Towards Relations Economic International (ICRIER), on NewDelhi Research for Council Indian and Kota districtsofRajasthan, throughcommunity-lededucationcentres. Alwar,Pali Baran,in programmes education continuing innovative support To Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti(BGVS), Rajasthan with stakeholdersinthesectorandstrengthening theirinternalsystems. living on railway platformschildren in runaway Raichur,of resettlement for programmePune, their of Guntakal,up scaling TowardsWadi and Mumbai, engaging Raichur institutions inKarnatakaandabroaddevelopnewinitiatives leading with collaborationsprogrammes, strengthencore their refining in help as an interdisciplinary institute for culture studies. The support would specifically Towards enabling CSCS to strengthen its institutional base and enhance its status Centre fortheStudyofCultureandSociety(CSCS), Bangalore Society for Assistance to Children in Difficult Situation (SATHI), (SATHI), Situation Difficult in Children to Assistance for Society core team. the by done be in-service to documentation and material educational and supplementary of pre preparation and syllabus, members team core Shala and supervisors by Gyan teachers of training of fine-tuning and development Towards support for running 30 Gyan Shala classes reaching out to 900 children, Education SupportOrganisation(ESO), Ahmedabad OTHERS . 1,490,000 4,000,000 4,800,000 6,000,000 930,000 880,000 (EALTH WEIGHT LESS THAN GRAMS AT BIRTH OVER OF CHILDREN UNDER lVE ARE MALNOURISHED AND OVER MALNUTRITION AND POOR HEALTH REINFORCE EACH OTHER )T IS ESTIMATED THAT OF NEWBORNS ARE LOW BIRTH AREAS ESPECIALLY THERE ARE POCKETS OF UNDER SERVED POPULATIONS WHERE THE VICIOUS CIRCLE OF POVERTY INCIDENCE OF MORBIDITY MORTALITY AND OUT OF POCKET EXPENSES OFTEN LEADING TO INDEBTEDNESS )N RURAL 0OOR ACCESS TO HEALTH ALONG WITH THE QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE AVAILABLE IN THE COUNTRY LEADS TO AVOIDABLE HEALTHCARE NEEDS ARE STILL BEING PROVIDED BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS ESTIMATED THAT THIS VAST INFRASTRUCTURE IS ABLE TO CATER ONLY TO OF THE POPULATION WHILE OF 0UBLIC (EALTH #ENTERS 0(#S AND #OMMUNITY (EALTH #ENTERS #(#S .ONETHELESS IT 3UB CENTERS OF COMPRISING INFRASTRUCTURE HEALTH PUBLIC VAST A CREATED HAS COUNTRY 4HE STATES AND BETWEEN COMMUNITIES WITHIN DISTRICTS DISPARITIES THAT EXIST BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL POPULATIONS BETWEEN STATES BETWEEN DISTRICTS WITHIN TO IN (OWEVER IN A COUNTRY AS VAST AS )NDIA HEALTH INDICATOR AVERAGES MASK THE WIDE IN TO IN AND THE )NFANT -ORTALITY 2ATE )-2 DECLINED FROM PER THOUSAND IN FROM PER THOUSAND IN TO IN RESPECTIVELY ,IFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH INCREASED FROM 2ATE #$2 AND #RUDE "IRTH 2ATE #"2 DECLINED FROM PER THOUSAND IN TO IN AND OF SMALLPOX AND GUINEA WORM REDUCTION OF POLIOMYELITIS AND REDUCTION OF LEPROSY 4HE #RUDE $EATH SECTOR INCLUDING INCREASED LIFE EXPECTANCY REDUCED INFANT MORTALITY REDUCED FERTILITY RATES ERADICATION GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE 3INCE INDEPENDENCE THE COUNTRY HAS MADE SUBSTANTIAL GAINS IN THE HEALTH 7ITH OVER ONE BILLION PEOPLE )NDIA ACCOUNTS FOR OF THE WORLDS POPULATION AND OF THE WORLDS 4HROUGH ITS "UILDING ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITIES AND HUMAN RESOURCES TOWARDS PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS )NNOVATIVE STRATEGIES FOR INSTITUTIONS REACHING SPECIALIST CARE FOR THE DISADVANTAGED INCLUDING #OMMUNITY BASED HEALTH PROGRAMMES INCLUDING EVOLVING NEW DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOLLOWING THE AREAS IN SECTOR HEALTH THE IN INITIATIVES SUPPORTS THE 4RUST DROP BACK ABOVE THE !MIDST TRAIN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND ENCOURAGE PARTIAL COMMUNITY lNANCING OF HEALTH SERVICES EVOLVE STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE ACCESSIBILITY INCREASE COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP PROVIDE SPECIALIST CARE OF THE GENERAL POPULATION /N THE OTHER HAND IT CALLS FOR ACTION ON PART OF THE DONOR AGENCIES TO THE LIMITED SUCCESS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM IN MEETING THE PREVENTIVE AND CURATIVE REQUIREMENTS OF PREGNANT WOMEN ARE ANEMIC 4HESE UNSATISFACTORY HEALTH INDICES ARE ON ONE HAND AN INDICATION OF RAIAIN AD B HTOFIN EST O -NSR O (AT AD AIY7LAE 'VRMN O )NDIA OF 'OVERNMENT &AMILY 7ELFARE AND (EALTH OF -INISTRY OF 7EBSITE HTTPMOHFWNICIN B AND /RGANISATION TTSIS N RLTD NOMTO SUCD RM TPWWWOITE 7BIE F OL (EALTH 7ORLD OF 7EBSITE HTTPWWWWHOINTEN A FROM SOURCED INFORMATION RELATED AND 3TATISTICS RESEARCH #OMMUNITY "ASED )NITIATIVES THE 4RUST SEEKS TO HELP EVOLVE INNOVATIVE DELIVERY SYSTEMS )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS (EALTH
59 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 60 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS (EALTH INCIDENCE AND FATAL CONSEQUENCES DUE TO TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA HEALTH CARE INITIATIVE IN TRIBAL VILLAGES IN "ILASPUR DISTRICT WHICH STRIVES TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF CHILD MORTALITY AND DECREASE OVER lFTEEN MONTHS POST WHICH HE WAS DECLARED FREE FROM THE DISEASE *33S THE MAIN REASONS WHY HE COULD NOT AFFORD THE NECESSARY SUSTAINED TREATMENT FOR HIS CONDITION 2AJESH WAS REFERRED TO FRAME ALL BUT GAVE AWAY HIS PITIFUL AND IMPOVERISHED STATE ,IVING WITH HIS FAMILY AMIDST ABJECT POVERTY WAS AMONGST THE OUTREACH CLINIC (E HAD BEEN SUFFERING FROM A PERSISTENT COUGH OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS AND HIS UNDERNOURISHED A REMOTE FOREST VILLAGE IN "ILASPUR DISTRICT 2AJESH EXHIBITED CLASSICAL SYMPTOMS OF TUBERCULOSIS WHEN HE lRST ENTERED ABOUT KILOMETERS FROM "ILASPUR TOWN HAS A VISITING DOCTOR FROM HEALTH ESPECIALLY TARGETING MALNUTRITION 4HEIR WEEKLY RUN OUTREACH CLINIC AT 3HIVTARAI A FOREST FRINGE VILLAGE LOCATED THREE OUTREACH CLINICS AND REFERRAL SERVICES 4HEIR PROGRAMME FOCUSES ON MALARIA TUBERCULOSIS AND WOMEN AND CHILD HEALTH CARE PROGRAMME FOCUSED IN TRIBAL VILLAGES IN "ILASPUR DISTRICT WHICH INCLUDES COMMUNITY BASED PRIMARY CARE 3INCE ITS INCEPTION IN THE SAME LEVEL OF UNDER NUTRITION WHICH IN TURN LEADS TO POOR IMMUNITY OF PATIENTS SUFFER MUCH CLOSER CONTACT THAN DO OTHER PEOPLE AND ALSO BECAUSE PEOPLE IN THE SAME FAMILY GENERALLY SHARE TO lND MORE THAN ONE PATIENT SUFFERING FROM THE DISEASE IN THE SAME FAMILY 4HIS HAPPENS PARTLY BECAUSE FAMILY MEMBERS 4UBERCULOSIS IS THE COMMONEST KILLER OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN RURAL PARTS OF "ILASPUR DISTRICT #HHATTISGARH AND IT IS QUITE COMMON BASED HEALTH PROGRAMMES WITHIN ITS HEALTH PORTFOLIO )TS SUPPORT TO THEIR ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE 7HILST ATTEMPTING TO ADDRESS THIS CHALLENGE THE 4RUST HAS SUPPORTED COMMUNITY PROVIDING QUALITY HEALTH PROGRAMMES FOCUSED TOWARDS THE POOR EXCLUDED AND VULNERABLE GROUPS AS WELL AS STRENGTHENING MEDICINE HAVE BEEN LARGELY RESTRICTED TO THE URBAN POPULACE OF )NDIA 4HIS HAS NECESSITATED A FRESH OUTLOOK TOWARDS $ESPITE THE ENDEAVOUR OF THE 3TATE TO PROVIDE QUALITY HEALTH CARE TO EACH AND EVERY CITIZEN THE BENElTS OF MODERN /NE SUCH CASE TREATED BY AND EFFECTIVE INCLUDING MALARIA AND SPUTUM MICROSCOPY WHICH ENABLES BETTER DIAGNOSIS AND HENCE MAKES TREATMENT MORE RATIONAL OUTREACH CLINIC DEPENDING ON THE SEASON ! DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE CLINIC IS THE AVAILABILITY OF BASIC LABORATORY SERVICES ASSISTANT VILLAGE HEALTH COORDINATOR AND REGISTRATION CLERK /N AN AVERAGE THE PATIENT ATTENDANCE IS PATIENTS PER OUTREACH CLINIC BY HIS WIFE WHO WORKS AS A HEALTH WORKER WITH THE ORGANISATION (IS TREATMENT WAS CARRIED OUT FOR TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS ! TRIBAL FAMILY AT THE OUTREACH CLINIC RUN BY *33 IN 3HIVTARAI VILLAGE "ILASPUR DISTRICT 2AJASTHAN *33 *AN 3WASTHYA 3AHYOG *33 AT THEIR OUTREACH CLINIC RELATES TO 2AJESH A MARGINALIZED CULTIVATOR LIVING IN $AANOKHAR HAS EXPENDED EFFORTS TO DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE THREE TIER *33 *33 SINCE IS AIMED TO ENHANCE THE ORGANISATIONS ALONG WITH A LABORATORY TECHNICIAN PHARMACY a steady increase. In its field area, as also due to increase in project villages. The number of deliveries through mid-wives also showed villages,project non in clinics of popularity growing the to project.due be to Theincreaseappears the of objectives the of one with midwives,line nurse in by seen clients of number the increasein traininga as serve resource organisations.non-profit other from nurses for Also,there 18% an was there has been a 12% increase in the number of clients seen by the health centres, which now also districts of Rajasthan through trained nurse midwives and savings and credit groups. During 2005-06, is working for developing a better service delivery system for maternal and child health in selected Action Research & Training for Health (ARTH), Health for Training& Towards Research this,the Trust,Action with partnership its in on rural healthinsurance andpartialcommunityfinancingofhealthservices. community outreach programs emphasizing preventive care are encouraged and there is also a focus focusing on rural areas addressing problems that are locally relevant. Developing close linkages with this manner, the health insurance programme provides a stable income for the GAH, which would GAH,which the for manner,income this stable a provides programmeinsurance health the admission.In adivasi any for bills hospital (RSIC),using Trustthe claim funds.to them enables This Company Insurance Sundaram Royal the with members AMS the all re-insures turn in ASHWINI adivasis have an opportunity to improve their access to health care by removing their financial barrier. person, thereby being entitled to free hospitalization at the Gudalur Adivasi Hospital (GAH). Thus, the (the adivasi union) are eligible to enroll in the insurance programme by paying an annual premium per Valley, thus linking delivery of quality care to financing systems. The adivasis who belong to the AMS an innovative community health insurance initiative, covering over 13,000 adivasi tribals in the The Gudalur Trust is also supporting with Oral Rehydration Salts(ORS). Respiratory Infections (ALRI). A high percentage of the episodes of acute gastroenteritis wereLower Acute treatedof episodes treating and detecting are and villages 45 the in operating are counters workers.health breathvillage 39 the by seen patients febrile the of cent per 57 preparedwerefor Treatment (ATT) through focused village meetings, home visits and distribution of booklets. Smears are being made to improve awareness about tuberculosis, malaria and adherence to Anti-Tubercular During the past year, treatment success rate of 82% has been achieved for tuberculosis and efforts development of appropriate technologies for use by the rural population and health care providers. villages in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh. The grant also focuses on reducing child mortality and the thirty malaria,in and tuberculosis to due mortality and morbidity decreasing at directed efforts its supporting Similarly,Trust20.is the to 11 from increased fund health emergency an establishing SHGs of year,number the the During (SHGs). Groups Help Association for Health & Welfare in the Nilgiris (ASHWINI) ARTH has facilitated the formation and management of 104 Self towards (JSS) Sahyog Swasthya Jan Institutional grants : Health : grants Institutional towards
61 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 62 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Health : grants Institutional through this effort.this through patients about hospice care. 31% of inpatient admissions and 47% of Home Care cases have come stationed in the pain relief centre at Kidwai Institute of Oncology, Bangalore and educates discharged patients.50 occasions,of two capacity bed maximum a of out been has worker social dedicated A average bed occupancy during the last year has been around 35-40, touching a maximum of 48 on this, to addition In care. palliative home-based innovative its by complemented hospice, the through patients cancer ill terminally to grant its Through role ofthefamily, qualityofcare, deinstitutionalizationandcosteffectivenessintheprograms. support to diverse efforts from care to the terminally ill, to geriatric homes and has emphasized the Under its initiative to help provide the qualityofcare thatthey received andare happywiththetreatment atthehospital. appreciate adivasis the that staff,indicates the clearly of behaviour the to quality technical the to year,the during conducted was that facilities the rangingmeasuresfrom – of spectrum a covering time.first the programmecoveredfor the referralbeing reviewof and expenses external 1,000 An per person from Rs. 1,500 to Rs. 2,500, increase in claim limit for delivery patients from Rs. 500 to Rs. limit claim the in increase including changes renewed,severalincorporating was policy insurance of the year, the list of the insured population has been updated through an extensive field survey. The otherwise not be possible, given the low economic status of the adivasi population. During the course education in both its special schools in Ajmer district. Over the next two years, this would also be also would years,this two next the district.Over in Ajmer schools special its both in education year, the During mainstream. the in disability mental with children of the under project pilot to grant portfolio,health Trust’sthe the Under on March 2006, 177patientshavebeenaccruedontheprotocol. year.last the during As added being Delhi AIIMS at 19 and Mumbai Hospital, Jaslok at 14 Mumbai, Chennai,at Institute 30 Cancer Tata at patients 55 Hospital,over Memorial with protocol approved the per as continued 2004, August in began which accrual, patient grant, this Under countries. western the in rates success higher has that protocol treatment new a through India in Leukemia (INCTR) Research and Treatment the to provided being also is support initiative, this Under from theprevious batcheshavebeensuccessfullyplacedinthecommunity. completed its first year and was the first the was and year first its completed (RMKM) Mandal Kalyan Mahila Rajasthan is now into its 7th batch of training of Home Care Nurses and all trainees all and Nurses Care Home of training of batch 7th its into now is BHT ih ult plitv cr i ofrd to offered is care palliative quality high (BHT), Trust Hospice Bangalore initiative of the Trust, which aims for participation for aims Trust,the which of initiative Practice in Inclusion Specialist Care for the Disadvantaged, BHT initiative saw significant developments.significant saw The initiative Health Mental towards improving the treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoblastic Acute of treatment the improving towards also provides training to nurses on palliative care. The care. palliative on nurses to training provides also International Network for Cancer for Network International RMKM the Trust has encouraged initiated inclusive inclusive initiated CASH ECONOMY LACK OF EDUCATION FEAR AND AN OVERWHELMING FEELING OF HELPLESSNESS IN DEALING WITH THE RAPID CHANGES 4HE ADIVASIS OF 'UDALUR VALLEY ARE STRUGGLING TO COPE UP WITHIN THE PRESENT MAINSTREAM CULTURE )NABILITY TO DEAL WITH THE THEIR ELDEST DAUGHTER ALL OF YEARS WHO WORKED IN THE l +UNALS FATHER STARVED HIMSELF TO DEATH AND SOON AFTER $EVI TOOK THE SMALL CHILDREN AND WENT TO HER VILLAGE LEAVING BEHIND OF @0AITHIAM 0AITHIAM LOOSELY TRANSLATED AS MAD "EING THE SOLE WAGE EARNER IN THE FAMILY FOOD BECAME A PROBLEM SUSPICIOUS OF AND ABUSIVE TO HIS WIFE HAD BECOME ROUTINE +UNAL WAS OSTRACIZED BY HIS KIN AND THE VILLAGERS AMIDST CHANTS BOUTS OF LUNACY ! FATHER OF lVE +UNAL HAD BEGUN EXHIBITING ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR LATELY 2AVING AND RANTING BESIDES BEING THE ADIVASI VILLAGERS OF REMOTE 4HERPAKOLLY NESTLED AMIDST THE 'UDALUR VALLEY IN 4AMIL .ADU WERE USED TO +UNAL AND HIS 4HE STILLNESS OF THE CLEAR NIGHT WAS PIERCED BY THE CRIES OF $EVI WHO WAS BEING ABUSED BY HER HUSBAND +UNAL "UT THEN IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS HAS INCREASED REMARKABLY TAKE CARE OF THEIR MENTALLY ILL RELATIVES /VER A PEOPLE HAVE RESUMED THEIR NORMAL ROUTINE AND THE GENERAL AWARENESS BASICS OF DETECTING AND SUPPORTING PATIENTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS !BOUT FAMILIES HAVE BEEN SPARED FROM HAVING TO A FEW MONTHS INTO ITS IMPLEMENTATION THE IMPACT HAS BEEN TREMENDOUS HEALTH VOLUNTEERS HAVE BEEN TRAINED IN THE A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH AND E PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR HOSPITALIZATION AND REHABILITATION 4HOUGH THE INITIATIVE IS ONLY AND TREATMENT BESIDES ENSURING CONTINUITY OF CARE D PROVIDE TREATMENT CLOSE TO HOME WITH SOCIAL SUPPORT ENSURING AROUND THE CONDITION B HELP THE COMMUNITY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS MENTALLY ILL PATIENTS C ENSURE EARLY DETECTION SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR HIS CONDITION WHICH WAS PROVIDED TO HIM IN HIS VILLAGE ITSELF BY THE VILLAGE HEALTH VOLUNTEERS DETECTED +UNAL AMONGST SEVERAL OTHER SIMILAR CASES 3UBSEQUENTLY +UNAL WAS CONVINCED TO THIS IN PERSPECTIVE THE MEMBERS OF THIS COMMUNITY THUS UNDERLINING A PRESSING NEED FOR A FOCUSED EFFORT TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES +EEPING AROUND THEM HAS MADE THEIR LIVES A DAILY STRUGGLE 4HERE HAS BEEN AN ALARMING DETERIORATION IN THE MENTAL WELL BEING OF 4HROUGH THEIR PROGRAMME LIFE REGAINED NORMALCY FOR THE FAMILY SOON THERE WAS A REMARKABLE CHANGE IN HIS CONDITION FOLLOWING WHICH HIS WIFE RETURNED +UNAL RESUMED WORKING AND CARRIED OUT IN THE VILLAGES OF 'UDALUR VALLEY THE -ENTAL (EALTH PROGRAMME IN !PRIL WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE 4RUST 3OON THEREAFTER THROUGH A SYSTEMATIC SURVEY )NTEGRATED #OMMUNITY -ENTAL (EALTH 0ROGRAMME 4HIS VILLAGER FROM 'UDALUR VALLEY RECEIVED TREATMENT FOR MENTAL ILLNESS UNDER !3(7).)S !SSOCIATION FOR (EALTH 7ELFARE IN THE .ILGIRIS !3(7).) !3(7).) AIMS TO A CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS AND DISPEL MYTHS THAT ABOUND !3(7).) ELD AND BROUGHT FOOD HOME TEAM CONSISTING OF HEALTH ANIMATORS NURSES DOCTORS AND INITIATED THEIR )NTEGRATED #OMMUNITY )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS (EALTH !3(7).) TEAM 6ERY
63 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 64 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS (EALTH RECEIVED CALLS FROM THE PUBLIC AND PROVIDED SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PERSONS WITH MENTAL $ECEMBER FOR RESCUE CARE AND REINTEGRATION OF HOMELESS PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS HAS AN IMPROVED EMPLOYMENT PLAN FOR THE RESIDENTS )TS $IAL -ENTAL (EALTH (ELPLINE LAUNCHED IN PROCESSES WITHIN ITS TRANSIT CARE FACILITY THROUGH STREAMLINING THERAPIES AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF 4RUSTS SUPPORT TO THE ORGANISATION IS INTO ITS SECOND PHASE $URING THE YEAR DESTITUTE MENTALLY ILL PERSONS 4HE 4RUSTS MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE ALSO FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING APPROACHES TO CATER TO THE NEEDS OF ISSUES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF INCLUSION OF MENTALLY DISABLED CHILDREN IN THE SOCIETY AND EDUCATIONISTS 4HE LECTURE SERIES WAS SUCCESSFUL IN MAKING PEOPLE THINK AND DISCUSS THE VARIOUS ON EDUCATION THE TARGETED AUDIENCE INCLUDED DOCTORS WRITERS ACTIVISTS LAWYERS PRINCIPALS TEACHERS AND INTRODUCED IDEAS ABOUT CHILD DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND INCLUSION !LTHOUGH THE SERIES FOCUSED OF THREE LECTURES BY EMINENT PERSONALITIES FROM THE lELD 4HE LECTURES WERE ORGANIZED IN $EHRADUN ACTIVITIES WERE CONDUCTED INCLUDING THE 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA ,ECTURE 3ERIES ON )NCLUSION WHICH COMPRISED -EMORIAL &OUNDATION ,2-& MORE THAN PERSONS 4HE EARLY INTERVENTION CENTRE SUPPORTED THROUGH A GRANT TO FOR ANGANWADI WORKERS VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEES AND PANCHAYATI RAJ INSTITUTIONS WHICH BENElTED NEEDS OF ALL CHILDREN !WARENESS PROGRAMMES ON THE CONCEPT OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION WERE ORGANIZED COMPRISING TEACHING LEARNING MATERIALS INNOVATIVE MODELS PUPPETS AND OTHER GAMES TO CATER TO CARRIED OUT IN SIX GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN !JMER DISTRICT GIVES THEM OPPORTUNITIES TO CARRY ON MEANINGFULLY WITH THEIR LIVES TREATMENT THEIR POST #HENNAI "ANYAN AT 4HE INMATES TO IMPARTED TRAINING 6OCATIONAL 4HE "ANYAN IMPARTED CARE TO CHILDREN $URING THE YEAR MANY SIGNIlCANT #HENNAI HAS BEEN A PARTNER WITHIN THIS INITIATIVE AND THE 2-+- ALSO DEVELOPED A RESOURCE CENTRE 4HE "ANYAN RESTRUCTURED ,ATIKA 2OY HEALTH )T HAS ALSO ENCOURAGED SUPPORT TO SPECIALIST AND SUPPORTED RENOWNED INSTITUTIONS TO OFFER RICH EXPERIENCE OF PRACTITIONERS TO BUILD PERSPECTIVES AND SKILLS FOR CAREERS IN PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY 4HE SUPPORT OF THE 4RUST IN THE AREA OF DETECTION AND TREATMENT COMMUNITY IN 'UDALUR VALLEY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS MENTALLY ILL PATIENTS WHILST ENSURING EARLY AWARENESS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS AND DISPEL MYTHS THAT ABOUND AROUND THE CONDITION HELP THE TRIBAL ILLNESS TILL -ARCH 3IMILARLY THE 4RUST IS ALSO SUPPORTING A THREE YEAR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM TO TRAIN OPHTHALMOLOGISTS IN TRADITIONAL AND ADVANCED CATARACT 4O FURTHER SPECIALIST TRAINING THE GRANT TO CENTRE INTO A MORE FORMAL INSTITUTE FOR #OMMUNITY (EALTH ALTERNATIVE LEARNING CENTRE ALONG WITH THE ROLES AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES AND TRANSITION OF THE HELD IN !PRIL $URING THE EVENT PARTICIPANTS EXCHANGED VIEWS ON THE POSSIBILITIES OF BUILDING AN PRACTITIONERS ! WORKSHOP TITLED h#(# n AN !LTERNATIVE ,EARNING #ENTRE FROM )DEA TO 2EALITYv WAS ANNUAL COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKSHOP WAS CONDUCTED BY THE FELLOWS WHICH BROUGHT TOGETHER EMINENT YEAR AN PAST THE $URING ORGANIZATIONS BASED lELD DIVERSE WITH WORKING PRACTITIONERS OTHER AND HAVE UNDERGONE THIS FELLOWSHIP WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE 4RUST WITH MENTORSHIP INPUTS FROM A UNIQUE PROGRAM OF FELLOWSHIPS TO SIX PROFESSIONALS EACH YEAR 5PTO -ARCH PROFESSIONALS IN COMMUNITY HEALTH THE 4RUST HAS SUPPORTED SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS ESPECIALLY TO THOSE WORKING IN THE NON PROlT CONTEXT 4O BUILD CAREERS A lELD VISIT &ELLOWS FROM #(# "ANGALORE ATTEND A MEETING OF THE $ISABILITY 3ELF (ELP 'ROUP DURING "UILDING /RGANIZATIONAL #APACITIES -EDICAL 2ESEARCH &OUNDATION -2& #OMMUNITY (EALTH #ELL #(# !3(7).) IN 'UDALUR DISTRICT TO CREATE )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS (EALTH AIMS TO LEVERAGE THE "ANGALORE TO OFFER #HENNAI SUPPORTS #(# #(#
65 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 66 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Health : grants Institutional support bythe Trust inthefuture. the Trust in the health sector as well as suggest new areas of relevance to be considered for funding by done being work the consolidate to professionals.help health will This public practicing senior strategy, over the course of the next year, for which, it is planned to draw on the rich experience of health its of review a conduct to Trustsame,plans the the of view In field. the with engagement effective for design grant and areas focus its reorganize Trustthe can which in ways outline and facilitate support.or provide Thererelevancethe assess to need a also is adopted approach the of and intervene donor,can significant yet small, a Trust,the as where areas priority key identifying the Trust,relevancethe on presentcommenting the of areassub-thematic and portfolio the within of portfolio Health the large,evaluating at sector health the of needs the mapping of importance the recognizes TrustThe 2004-05. during grants 15 towards million 21.28 Rs. against as grants, 12 towards million) 0.54 $ (US million review,Rs.24.28 Trustunder the disbursed year the During of professionalsineyecare aswellcontributetoreducing theburden ofcurable blindness. performed 820 sight restoration surgeries. have Through candidates this months, grant six the last Trustthe During programme.is seekingresidential to a enhance through the surgeries,skills (ECCE) Extraction Cataract Capsular Extra and emulsification phaco incision, small including techniques, Grant Disbursals for Health: 1997-2006 Health: for Disbursals Grant Health: Details of grant disbursals in 2005-2006 training asanimportantcomponentofitsprogrammes. and research action incorporating (d) district,TamilKanchipuram and Nadu;in Kovalakuppam at health mental for model outreach community based centre health, mental care health community in a initiating (c) helpline; health mental its strengthening (b) follow-up; on programmes focus with facility care transit the at work (a) comprehensive include: which its supporting Towards The Banyan, Chennai parental therapy, and diagnosis assessment, counseling andoutreach tomedicalprofessionals. for services of provision for Towards seeding an early intervention care centre for mentally disabled children, Latika RoyMemorialFoundation(LRMF), Dehradun in centres block,Beawar care Ajmer district, Rajasthan. day RMKM & schools government six at education inclusive piloting and children challenged mentally 260 to services of Towardsdelivery Rajasthan MahilaKalyanMandal(RMKM), Ajmer SPECIALIST CAREFOR THE DISADVANTAGED Hospital. Adivasi Gudalur the at care of accessing tribals to services care health provision in-patient for programme, insurance health based community a Towards Association forHealth& Welfare intheNilgiris(ASHWINI), Nilgiris child fatal decreasing and besides mortality malaria, mortality. and decreasing tuberculosis at to due aimed is consequences which Chhattisgarh, district, Bilaspur of villages 30 in initiative care health primary innovative an Towards Jan SwasthyaSahyog(JSS), Bilaspur blockofKanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu. Chengalpettu in services ambulance and laboratory treatment, allopathic and Towards meeting operating costs of a reproductive health clinic Rural Women’sin SocialEducationCentre(RUWSEC), Chengalpettu both, traditional manuals. strengthening outreach programmes, refining training materialanddeveloping by Rajasthan, nurse district, Rajsamand trained in groups, credit and through savings and health midwives child and maternal of improvement Towards Action Research& Training forHealth(ARTH), Udaipur COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH PROGRAMMES
Institutional grants : Health : grants Institutional No disbursals 3,700,000 2,000,000 1,900,000 1,300,000 700,000 900,000 Rs.
67 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 68 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Health : grants Institutional detection, followedbyworld-classtreatment. and diagnosis disease, the of symptoms the on awareness cancer,create of districts of Gujarat in programme treatment and detection cancer a Towards oad pooig aer i cmuiy n pbi hat through Charutar Arogya Mandal(CAM), health public and community in fellowshipstosixprofessionalseachyear. careers promoting Towards Research and Action (SOCHARA), Bangalore Community Health Cell (CHC), Society for Community Health Awareness, restoring sight cataract surgeries ondeservingpoor. 4,500 conducting supports also grant The ophthalmologists. 180 train to programme fellowship three-year a of phase second Towardsthe Medical ResearchFoundation(SankaraNethralaya), Chennai TOWARDS PROGRAMMEEFFECTIVENESS BUILDING ORGANISATIONAL CAPACITIES AND HUMANRESOURCES western countries. the in rates success higher shown has that protocol treatment new a through India in Leukemia Lymphoblastic Acute of treatment the improving Towards Delhi International Network for Cancer Treatment & Research (INCTR), New Bai the of residents of costs part Maneckbai P.B. meeting JeejeebhoyCentre forSeniorCitizens, Navsari. towards grant phase second A The W.Z.O. Trust Funds, Mumbai home-based of palliativecare continuation forcancer patients. the for and Bangalore, in located hospice bed 55 Karunashraya,a of costs operating part the towards grant phase second A Bangalore Hospice Trust (BHT), Bangalore in support and care rehabilitation. of continuity maintains and detection early ensures ill, mentally the of responsibility take community the helps illness, mental about indigenous people of the Gudalur valley in the Nilgiris, which creates awareness Towards an integrated community based mental health programme focused at Association forHealth& Welfare intheNilgiris(ASHWINI), Nilgiris , which would suggest
Karamsad, Gujarat. lifestyle changes to prevent occurrence nn ad Kheda and Anand No disbursals 5,400,000 1,104,000 1,250,000 1,500,000 3,200,000 650,000 %NHANCING #IVIL 3OCIETY AND 'OVERNANCE LINKED AND FOCUSED SPACES TO ENCOURAGE YOUTH ACTION IN DEVELOPMENT 4HE 4RUST INITIATIVE ADDRESSES YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SECTOR IS UNSTRUCTURED IN THE COUNTRY AND THERE IS NEED FOR WELL DESIGNED INTER AS CHANGE AGENTS 4HIS IS ALSO A SIGNIlCANT WAY TO MAINSTREAM THE WORK OF THE NON PROlT SECTOR 4HE 4HE 9OUTH AND #IVIL 3OCIETY )NITIATIVE $EVELOPMENT 3TRENGTHENING 'OVERNANCE PARTICULARLY THROUGH CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT WITH PUBLIC SYSTEMS /RGANIZATION AND s 2ESOURCE (UMAN THROUGH NON PROFITS VIBRANT "UILDING s 0ROFESSIONALIZING THE NON PROlT SECTOR THROUGH FELLOWSHIPS s %NCOURAGING YOUTH ACTION FOR DEVELOPMENT THROUGH @9OUTH AND #IVIL 3OCIETY INITIATIVE s FROM LARGER GRANT MAKING EXPERIENCES OF THE 4RUST 4HE PORTFOLIO FOCUSES ON THEMES )NVESTMENTS IN THIS THEME ECHO CONCERNS ON STRENGTHENING THE NON PROlT SECTOR THAT EMERGE A STANDALONE PORTFOLIO THE 4RUST VIEWS GRANT MAKING IN THIS THEME AS ONE THAT CUTS ACROSS ALL OTHER FOUR YEARS THE PORTFOLIO HAS GROWN AND STRUCTURED ITSELF TO RESPOND TO NEEDS OF THE SECTOR 4HOUGH SUPPORT PURPOSIVE WORK IN THIS lELD THE PORTFOLIO WAS RESTRUCTURED AS A NEW THEME /VER THE PAST UNDER THE 0UBLIC )NITIATIVES PORTFOLIO "ASED ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE 3TRATEGIC 0LAN TO OR IN A SYNERGISTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH STATE INSTITUTIONS 4HE 4RUST HAS SUPPORTED SUCH ORGANIZATIONS AN INCREASED AWARENESS OF THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY ACTORS IN SERVICE DELIVERY EITHER SEPARATELY DISCOURSE HAS INCREASED OVER LAST TWO DECADES 2ECONSIDERATION OF THE LIMITS OF STATE ACTION HAS LED TO 4HE PROMINENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY INITIATIVES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND ITS RECOGNITION IN STATE AND PUBLIC INITIATIVE FACILITATED BY 0RAVAH n A KEY PARTNER OF THE 4RUSTS INITIATIVE 9OUTH AND #IVIL 3OCIETY )NITIATIVE 3-),% VOLUNTEERS PERFORM A STREET PLAY AT $ILLI (AAT 3-),% IS A PROGRAMME )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS %NHANCING #IVIL 3OCIETY 'OVERNANCE OF THE 4RUST RECOGNIZES THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE
69 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 70 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS %NHANCING #IVIL 3OCIETY 'OVERNANCE THEIR TEACHER TRAINING INTERVENTIONS WORKED DIRECTLY WITH ADOLESCENTS AS PART OF A LIFE SKILLS CURRICULUM AND TRAINED TEACHERS UNDER PARTNER OF THE INITIATIVE CONTINUED ITS EFFORTS IN BUILDING CAPACITIES OF YOUTH FOCUSED ORGANIZATIONS )T LIKE 2ANCHI AND !MRITSAR AS AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST OF PARTICIPANTS 0RAVAH ANOTHER SIGNIlCANT ORGANIZATIONS 4EN GROUPS OF YOUNG PEOPLE CALLED h&RIENDS OF &REEDOMv HAVE ALSO EMERGED IN TOWNS WITH MOST OPTING FOR FURTHER STUDIES IN ECONOMICS PUBLIC POLICY OR WORKVOLUNTEERING WITH NON PROlT PROlLING EXERCISE IT WAS ESTIMATED THAT OF PARTICIPANTS CONSIDERED SOME CHANGE IN CAREER INTERNSHIPS FOR STUDENTS AND SEED YOUTH GROUPS )N AN ASSESSMENT OF IMPACT THROUGH A DETAILED ,IBERTY AND 3OCIETY 3EMINARS ,33 REACHING OUT TO OVER STUDENTS ORGANIZE INTENSIVE RESEARCH "UILDING ON A PILOT IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR THE 4RUST AND THIS INITIATIVE TO SERVE TO DISSEMINATE LEARNINGS 4HE YEAR UNDER REVIEW SAW THE CLOSURE OF THE lRST GRANT MADE UNDER SCHOOLS FELLOWSHIPS AND CAMPS THAT OFFER EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENGAGEMENT OF YOUTH AND ALSO YOUTH FOCUSED ORGANIZATIONS TOGETHER AND C OPEN PROGRAMMES SUCH AS DIPLOMA COURSES SUMMER LEARNING FROM lELD ACTION B COMMON PLATFORM AND NETWORKS THAT BRING THESE PROJECTS AND OTHER THIS CHALLENGE AND IS STRUCTURED AT THE FOLLOWING LEVELS A DIRECT ACTION PROGRAMMES TO GENERATE DOCUMENTATION OF SELF AND LOCALITY $URING THE lRST YEAR OF THE GRANT SENIOR FELLOWS EACH WORKING CITY OF -UMBAI AND 4HANE DISTRICT 4HE PROGRAMME FOCUSES ON BUILDING INTEREST OF YOUTH THROUGH YOUTH CENTRED KNOWLEDGE BUILDING WHICH WOULD REACH OUT TO YOUTH OVER THREE YEARS IN THE #ENTRE FOR #IVIL 3OCIETY ##3 &ELLOWSHIP 0ROGRAMME PARTICIPATE IN A WORKSHOP ON -EDIA AND 6IOLENCE 9OUTH AND #IVIL 3OCIETY )NITIATIVE 9OUTH &ELLOWS AND 3ENIOR &ELLOWS OF THE 05+!2 9OUTH $URING THE YEAR THE 4RUST SUPPORTED 05+!2 DEVELOPED A PROGRAMME TOWARDS ##3 TO ORGANIZE FOR YOUTH ACTION THE 4RUST SUPPORTED 4O UNDERSTAND GAPS IN THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SECTOR AND STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF A COMMON PLATFORM DISABILITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS SIX OTHER GROUPS DOCUMENTED THE -UMBAI DELUGE OF *ULY WITH YOUNG FELLOWS WERE SELECTED 7HILE GROUPS RESEARCHED ON ISSUES INCLUDING GENDER MEDIA COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS $URING THE YEAR A WORKSHOP WAS ORGANIZED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BE MADE TO UNDERSTAND AND ASSESS THE NEED FOR /$(2 SYSTEMS AND PRACTICES IN STRENGTHENING THE C FACILITATE /$(2 SERVICES TO CREDIBLE ORGANIZATIONS )N LINE WITH THE OVERALL FOCUS EFFORTS WILL ALSO CREATE A CADRE OF PEOPLE TO AUGMENT THE /$(2 PRACTICES IN THE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND NON PROlT SECTOR 4HE INITIATIVE IS STRUCTURED TO A CREATE A COMMUNITY OF /$(2 PRACTITIONERS B 4HIS INITIATIVE WOULD FOCUS ON BUILDING KNOWLEDGE AND SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR PRACTICE OF /$)$ IN THE THE 4RUST LAUNCHED THE RESOURCE AND SYMPOSIUM ON INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT HELD IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR OF GRANTEES THROUGH ITS GRANT MAKING PROCESSES /N THE FOUNDATION OF THE STUDY UNDERTAKEN ON HUMAN 4HE 4RUST HAS ENCOURAGED NEEDS AND GET THEIR FEEDBACK ON THE lNDINGS FROM THE MARKET RESEARCH EXTENSIVELY NON PROlT ORGANIZATIONS THAT WORKED WITH YOUNG PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND CAPACITY BUILDING INTERVIEWED ALSO STUDY VOLUNTEERING 4HE TOWARDS PEOPLE YOUNG AMONG ASPIRATIONS AND INTEREST MARKET RESEARCH STUDY COLLECTED DATA FROM THREE CITIES $ELHI "HUBANESHWAR AND -UMBAI TO GAUGE ON (UMAN 2ESOURCE AND )NSTITUTIONAL $EVELOPMENT (UMAN 2ESOURCE (2 AND /RGANISATIONAL $EVELOPMENT /$ )NITIATIVE 0UBLICATIONS FROM STUDIES CARRIED OUT (UMAN 2ESOURCE (2 AND /RGANIZATION $EVELOPMENT /$ PROFESSIONALISATION OF THE SECTOR )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS %NHANCING #IVIL 3OCIETY 'OVERNANCE 0RAVAH AND -ITRA 4ECHNOLOGY &OUNDATION AND HAS INVESTED IN BUILDING CAPACITIES FOR A STUDY ! INITIATIVE
71 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 72 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Enhancing Civil Society & Governance & Society Civil Enhancing : grants Institutional Trust FundforOnward Grant makingat TataRatan Sir the under support such received organisations 41 Orissa. and Chhattisgarh Jharkhand, in organizations profit non small supporting on focuses which (NFI) India for the with partnership the directionis this in effort significant Another under this grant. This is in line with the Trust’s interest in the Central Indianworkshop focusing on Organizationalregion Effectiveness was conducted offor select theAshoka fellows country. review,under year the supported.During a arePradesh Madhya in fellows two Public, the grant.the of to grant year the Throughfirst the in supported were and personal skills of promising individuals from the marginalized communities. Three fellows through this grant. A new fellowship grant to mentor.the of role the recognitionof areTensupported mentors their with together fellows In the area of facilitates citizensinprioritizing andidentifyingbasicservicesthatneedimprovement. recruitment and retention of volunteers. A new grant to FDR builds upon the earlier grant includes and which programme, the of achievements and process on focuses documentation governance.This active in engage to Pradesh Andhra of districts 23 across citizens 80,000 (FDR), Reforms Democratic for Foundation Persian, includingthewell-knownConversationswithIsaiahBerlin. English,and Frenchin books twenty Bureau,over ResearchCultural Iran,authoring besides the at Studies Contemporary for Department the of head the been has Prof.Jahanbegloo Ramin Jahanbegloo from Iran has succeeded Professor Douglas Lummis as the new incumbent. (CSDS) has instituted the Rajni Kothari Chair in Democracy. In its second year now, Professor supports Trust the input, mentorship focused of provision through action individual of perspective building and reflection encourage To mentorship. professional by backed if enhanced can be initiatives such of effectiveness change, bring to passion society. and interest the is in there change While significant making in individuals of role the recognizes Trust The which aneffortwasmadetostreamline thesystemsforindividualreflection andfeedback. Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN)to support organizations.The development the within facilitators change organizational of cadretowardsbuilding curriculum course a design to Forum Development Institutional supported also sector.TrustThe development the in practices document to practitioners of community the among interest of level the gauge to Foundation Satyam Fellowships through host organizations. Its grant to Governance, the grant to the NFI. Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Anveshi
documented its process of encouraging encouraging of process its documented was made, towards building professional PRERNA was restructured in continued during the year, in Ashoka Innovators for Innovators Ashoka National Foundation National ua and Human
PROFESSIONAL SHIFTS DURING THIS ASSOCIATION WITH AND ENTHUSIASTIC LEADER OF THE &RIENDS OF &REEDOM &/& CHAPTER IN 2ANCHI (E HAS GONE THROUGH MANY PERSONAL AND ORGANISED BY THE 2AJAN A STUDENT OF 0OLITICAL 3CIENCE FROM 3T 8AVIERS #OLLEGE 2ANCHI ATTENDED THE ,IBERTY AND 3OCIETY 3EMINAR ,33 WORK 4HE INITIATIVE WOULD PURSUE THIS OVER THE COMING YEAR IN SELECT REGIONS BUILD CAPACITIES OF YOUTH LED ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL AS SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS WHO WISH TO ENGAGE YOUNG PERSONS IN THEIR PEOPLE AND GRADUATING THEM IN DEVELOPMENT ACTION AND B BUILDING AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT %FFORT IS ALSO NEEDED TO TO YOUNG PERSONS TO ENGAGE THEM IN DEVELOPMENT ACTION 4HIS INCLUDES A INNOVATING NEWER WAYS OF ENGAGING YOUNG THEY CAN PLAY AS CHANGE AGENTS ! STUDY UNDERTAKEN DURING THE YEAR SHOWED THE NEED FOR MORE PROACTIVE REACHING OUT 4HE IS REmECTED IN INCREASING NUMBERS OF PARTICIPANTS SUCH AS 2AJAN WHO NOW ACTIVELY ENGAGE WITH THE PROGRAMMES TRIPS 4ILL -ARCH SUCH PROGRAMMES HAVE BEEN ATTENDED BY OVER STUDENTS 4HE POSITIVE RESPONSE GENERATED AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS 4HE FORMAT OF THE ,33 IS INTERACTIVE WITH DISCUSSIONS WORKING GROUPS DOCUMENTARY VIDEOS AND lELD ECONOMY AND CULTURE WITHIN THE CLASSICAL LIBERAL FRAMEWORK WHICH EMPHASISES LIMITED GOVERNMENT RULE OF LAW FREE TRADE ORGANIZED REGULARLY BY ENGAGEMENT IN CIVIL SOCIETY THROUGH HIS SESSIONS AT THE ,IBERTY AND 3OCIETY 3EMINAR n A FOUR DAY RESIDENTIAL SEMINAR 2AJAN HAS HELPED DEVELOP A SECOND TIER STRUCTURE TAKING ON THE ROLE OF A MENTOR (E NOW ADVOCATES THE CAUSE OF YOUTH POLICIES REQUIRED FOR IT v REmECTS 2AJAN 5NDER HIS LEADERSHIP AND DIRECTION &/& 2ANCHI HELD ITS lRST ELECTIONS RECENTLY A POLITICIAN CHAMPIONING THE IDEAS OF LIBERTY MAINLY %DUCATION #HOICE #AMPAIGN AND DELICENSING AND IMPLEMENTING THE THING WHICH ,33 HAS CHANGED IS MY GOAL IN LIFE AND CAREER PLANS )NSTEAD OF BECOMING AN )!3 OFlCER TODAY ) WANT TO BECOME AND SOMEONE WHO HAS IN TURN INmUENCED PEOPLE WITH THESE IDEAS (E IS IN SHORT A CHANGEMAKER hxTHE MOST IMPORTANT )NTERNS INTERACTING WITH ##3 PRESIDENT $R 0ARTH * 3HAH 9OUTH AND #IVIL 3OCIETY )NITIATIVE #ENTRE FOR #IVIL 3OCIETY ##3 ##3 ,33 PROVIDES COLLEGE STUDENTS AND RECENT GRADUATES A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOCIETY )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS %NHANCING #IVIL 3OCIETY 'OVERNANCE OF THE 4RUST RECOGNIZES THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE ROLE ##3 IN *AMSHEDPUR IN (E HAS SINCE THEN BEEN AN ACTIVE MEMBER AND QUALIlES BOTH AS SOMEONE WHOM ##3 IDEAS HAVE INmUENCED
73 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 74 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Enhancing Civil Society & Governance & Society Civil Enhancing : grants Institutional and internalreflections tohelpdeveloptheoretical framework andstrengthen theportfolio. individual and institutional capacities in the Central Indian region. Finally, it would make use of reviewsprofit organisations. The focus of this initiative, as well as that of fellowships, would be on building the Human Resource and Organisation Development initiative by building engagement with select non organisations and encourage partners to incubate youth groups. The Trustdevelopment other of would agenda expand the theon sector,youth nascent development bring youth the in gaps sectoral addressing towards work would initiative Society Civil theme.and YouthThe cutting cross a as it Over the coming year, the Trust would enhance its Civil Society & Governance portfolio by strengthening in thequantumofdisbursals. grants, as against Rs. 31.82 million towards 12 grants during 2004-05, indicating an increase of 24% 15 towards million) 0.88 $ (US million review,Rs.39.57 Trustunder the disbursed year the During Grant Disbursals for Civil Society & Governance: 1997-2006 Governance: & Society Civil for Disbursals Grant Details ofgrantdisbursalsin2005-2006 Enhancing CivilSociety&Governance: Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, whilst encouraging encouraging organisational effectiveness. whilst Pradesh, Madhya Chhattisgarh, in and entrepreneurs Jharkhand social to fellowships providing Towards Ashoka InnovatorsforthePublic, NewDelhi an opportunityforstrengthening individualspiritandcitizenaction. fledgling ten to offer to expected years.is threegrant The support of period a over initiatives, voluntary comprehensive and fellowships providing Towards Amul-Tata Prerana, Raichur as to referred management, rural in fellowships. diploma graduate post for fellowships deferred and programme doctoral the for fellowships Towards Institute ofRuralManagement(IRMA), Anand FELLOWSHIPS strengthen thestudyofmediaandwomen, andviolencewomen. and movement women’s the women, of needs on immediate the to centre respond would which documentation and resource the strengthening Towards Mahila PunarvaasSamoohSamiti(MPSS), Jaipur Pradesh. Andhra throughout areas rural and and urban cover would government project The the media. the with partnering by recommendations and these recommendations implement with along reports status prepare would surveys, citizens undertake services, identifying After betterment. their towards work and Towardsimprovement need that services basic identifying in citizens supporting Foundation forDemocraticReforms(FDR), Hyderabad meetings andcultural programmes. training concerned citizens on issues relating to governance, through workshops, programmes, workshops and meetings. Planned activities include training identifying and through governance, better for initiatives citizen’s promoting Towards Foundation forDemocraticReforms(FDR), Hyderabad CITIZEN INTERFACE WITH PUBLICSYSTEMS hi sil ad nweg bs o dvlpet sus n ehne their enhance and issues development professional contributiontothedevelopmentsector. on from base knowledge individuals and skills their promising mentor to upgrade to view a Hyderabad,with around and in communities underprivileged programme fellowship a Towards Anveshi -ResearchCentrefor Women's Studies, Hyderabad Institutional grants : Enhancing Civil Society & Governance & Society Civil Enhancing : grants Institutional elw claoain on collaborations fellows No disbursals 1,500,000 500,000 390,000 500,000 900,000 500,000 Rs.
75 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 76 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Enhancing Civil Society & Governance & Society Civil Enhancing : grants Institutional youth inMumbaiand Thane district, Maharashtra. 1,800 to out reach to aims that dissemination and research scientific through Towards a youth centered knowledge building initiative on development issues Partners forUrbanKnowledge, Action &Research(PUKAR), Mumbai Pravah’s human resources. augmenting besides a action, seeding centred and youth the education for centre skills resource life in programme based school a Towards and Pravah, NewDelhi research environmental in course communications. certificate a and exposure through society, programmes civil in participation youth encouraging Towards Centre forScienceandEnvironment(CSE), NewDelhi of schools in those and students journalism andmedia. college for programmes designed well Towardsprogramme,a encouraging society,civil in participation youth through Centre forCivilSociety, NewDelhi YOUTH AND CIVILSOCIETY re- at efforts Trust’s Gandhigram examining relevance andperformancefororganisational renewal. supporting exercise, review a Towards Gandhigram Trust, Dindigul on-going the supporting besides phase, professional developmentofthestaff. building skill fine-tuning through apprenticeship PRADAN, the at resources human strengthening Towards New (PRADAN), Action Delhi Development for Assistance Professional ORGANISATION AND HUMANRESOURCEDEVELOPMENT and research towards support documentation andenhancingNFI’s capacities asagrant-maker. providing besides Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand, Orissa in grant-making onward for partnership making grant a Towards National FoundationforIndia(NFI), NewDelhi FOSTERING LOCALPHILANTHROPY No disbursals 12,000,000 2,600,000 5,550,000 3,000,000 7,600,000 850,000 AND ACADEMICS MEDIA ACTIVISTS ORGANIZATIONS GRASS ROOT INVOLVING SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS AND DEMOCRACY ON RESEARCH PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING ABOUT DEMOCRACIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES THROUGH OF TRADITION #3$3S STRENGTHENING OF THE OBJECTIVE WITH #3$3 AT $EMOCRACY IN #HAIR +OTHARI THE @2AJNI INSTITUTING 4OWARDS #ENTRE FOR THE 3TUDY OF $EVELOPING 3OCIETIES #3$3 .EW $ELHI '/6%2.!.#% NON PROFIT THE OF AWARENESS AND SECTOR KNOWLEDGE FOR DOCUMENTATION RELEVANT 4OWARDS STRENGTHENING lNANCIAL SELF SUFlCIENCY OF ITS PROGRAMMES AND BUILDING #ENTRE FOR %DUCATION $OCUMENTATION #%$ "ANGALORE /RGANISATION 'OVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP ON HEALTH RELATED MATTERS ADVOCACY )NITIATIVES HAVE ALSO BEEN UNDERTAKEN FOR STRENGTHENING .ON 0ROlT POLICY CHANGES IN THE lELD OF GENDER AND HEALTH THROUGH RESEARCH TRAINING AND FOR A PERIOD OF lVE YEARS 4HE #HAIR HAS FOCUSED ON PROMOTING AWARENESS AND 4OWARDS INSTITUTING THE 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA #HAIR ON #IVIL 3OCIETY AND 'LOBALISATION )NDIAN )NSTITUTE OF -ANAGEMENT ))- "ANGALORE "5),$).' +./7,%$'% !.$ !7!2%.%33 /. ./. 02/&)4 3%#4/2 0ARTICIPANTS AT THE .ATIONAL #ONSULTATION ON #AREER 0SYCHOLOGY ORGANISED BY 4HE 0ROMISE &OUNDATION )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS %NHANCING #IVIL 3OCIETY 'OVERNANCE
77 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 78 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS !RTS #ULTURE !RTS AND #ULTURE AE IFATUTR TA WL IETF NW R AIG RCIE OH TRUH E INSTITUTIONS NEW THROUGH BOTH PRACTICES ART MAKING NEW IDENTIFY WILL THAT INFRASTRUCTURE BASED 4HE !RTS #ULTURE PROGRAMMES FOCUS ON WORKSHOPS AND THE STAGING OF SIGNIlCANT EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE BOOST AT THE A lNANCIALLY SELF SUSTAINING -EDIA 2ESOURCE #ELL 4HEATRE PRACTICE AND PEDAGOGY RECEIVES A MAJOR -ILLIA )SLAMIA 5NIVERSITY !HMEDABAD THE $URING THE YEAR UNDER REVIEW THE !RTS 4HERAPY s !RT %DUCATION s !RTS -ANAGEMENT s !DVANCE ,EARNING IN THE !RTS s IN THE 5NIVERSITY 4HE FOUR THRUST AREAS FOR THE PAST YEAR AND THE YEAR TO FOLLOW HAVE BEEN NEW ENCOURAGE ARTS THE IN EXPERIMENTS IN CREATIVE SUSTAINABILITY AND WORK WITH DISCIPLINARY RESTRUCTURING ACROSS THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTION BUILDING FOR MODELS NEW EMPHASIZE WILL SUPPORT 3UCH FOR SIGNIl SUPPORT IN THE ARTS OF THE PORTFOLIO IN 4HE 4RUSTS SUPPORT IS NOW FOCUSED ON BUILDING SPECIALIZED 4HE !RTS #ULTURE PROGRAMME OF THE 4RUST HAS REVAMPED ITSELF FOLLOWING A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW REGENERATION ! SECOND THRUST AREA WOULD ALSO REVOLVE AROUND THE VISUAL ARTS TO WORK CLOSELY WITH A NEW GENERATION OF THEATRE INSTITUTIONS EXPLORING NEW MODELS FOR INSTITUTIONAL TO HELP THE ORGANISATION ENHANCE ITS PERFORMANCE OUTPUTS /VER THE COMING YEAR THE 4RUST EXPECTS THEATRE ACTIVITY INCLUDING OF COURSE !,4!2 RESTRUCTURE THEMSELVES 4HESE ARE GROUPS SUCH AS INVOLVES THE THEATRE WHERE THE PROGRAMME IS ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN HELPING IMPORTANT THEATRE GROUPS CAPABLE OF INNOVATIVE PRACTICE AS WELL AS THOSE OFFERING SPECIALIZED ARTS SUPPORT ! MAJOR THRUST AREA 0UNE TO THE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AND DISCIPLINARY RESTRUCTURING IN THE ARTS 4HREE MAJOR GRANTS WERE MADE PLAN HAS BEEN TO SUPPORT SELECTED DEPARTMENTS WITHIN 5NIVERSITIES SEEKING TO DElNE NEW PEDAGOGY 3CHOOL OF )NTERIOR $ESIGN 5NDER THE GRANTS CANT EFFORTS TO INTERFACE ARTMAKING WITH SOCIAL PROCESSES WHICH BUILT THE 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA 4RUST +OOTHU +OVIL CURRENTLY A HUB OF LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL #0! WITH THE PUBLICATION OF NEW TEXTBOOKS THE ORGANISATION OF LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL !* +IDWAI -ASS #OMMUNICATIONS 2ESEARCH #ENTRE !*+ -#2# AND PARTNERING STRATEGICALLY LOCATED INSTITUTIONS WITH WHOM TO ENHANCE SUPPORT #%04 .EW $ELHI AND THE WILL SET UP A NEW $ESIGN 2ESEARCH #ELL AND !DVANCE ,EARNING IN THE !RTS #ENTRE FOR %NVIRONMENTAL 0LANNING AND 4ECHNOLOGY #%04 !,4!2S !RTS -ANAGEMENT OWN $URING THE YEAR A NEW GRANT WAS GIVEN TO #ENTRE FOR 0ERFORMING !RTS #0! !DISHAKTI ,ABORATORY FOR 4HEATRE !RT 2ESEARCH IS DEDICATED TO GENERATING A BROAD INITIATIVE TOOK CONCRETE SHAPE 4HE !*+ -#2# WILL INAUGURATE 5NIVERSITY OF INSTITUTIONAL !,4!2 *AMIA the researchand under pedagogy arts in works severalnew support also would year coming the over practices.building institution innovative The Trust’sand new on being programmes focus the with dedicated human resources in place, the portfolio will be significantly enhanced over the coming year, million (US $ 0.12 million) towards four grants, as compared to Rs. 3.50 million during 2004-05. With Rs.5.40 year,disbursing previous the over 54% by increasedTrust’s the support 2005-06, During to several Europeandestinations. Organizations”, besides finalizing the performance of ‘Purushartha’, which is now scheduled to travel conducted the Sir Ratan Tata Trust Colloquium, this year titled “The Challenges of Marketing Cultural has a well entrenched ‘Dance in Education’ programme in various schools in Bangalore. (ACMA) Bangalore, conducted its second Dance Development Programme during 2005-06 and now IFA has made 17 onward grants. With the Trust’s support, the Sir Ratan Tata Trust Draw-down ongoing Fund created its in 2000. of Since the part inception of As the grants. Draw-down Fund,programmes, older the within developments significant some saw also year The experiment, includingpsychiatryandpsychoanalysis. The supports efforts among arts institutions seeking to translate their practices into pedagogic structures. and Education Arts Arts Therapy initiative supports the growing field of arts practices interfacing with therapeutic India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), initiatives.the Therapy Arts Within Grant Disbursals for Arts & Culture: 1997-2006 Culture: & Arts for Disbursals Grant Bangalore, supported five individuals under Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts Institutional grants : Arts & Culture & Arts : grants Institutional initiative,TrustEducation the Arts ACMA also
79 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 80 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS !RTS #ULTURE OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE AND EXPAND MARKETS FOR ART AND CRAFT LED TO SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS lLMS ON THE ARTS THE CONSOLIDATION OF ARCHIVAL INITIATIVES AND SUPPORTED EFFORTS TO CONSERVE AND DISSEMINATION OF CULTURAL PRACTICES DEMONSTRATE RESEARCH CAN RESULT NOT JUST IN BOOSTING ARTISTIC OUTCOMES BUT ALSO MAKE AN IMPACT ON THE REVITALISATION UNDER MADE WERE 'URVINDER TO GRANTS TWO 4HESE DOCUMENTATION ALSO lNDS A HOME IN A MUSIC ARCHIVE GETTING AN INDEPENDENT LABEL TO RELEASE AN ALBUM OF SELECTED QISSAS 'URVINDER INTENDS TO ENSURE THAT THIS VALUABLE BACK TO THE ARTISTS )N ADDITION HE HOPES TO INTEREST MUSIC COMPANIES IN RELEASING RECORDINGS AND HAS SUCCEEDED IN ALSO SET UP A WEBSITE THROUGH WHICH #$S OF THE RECORDINGS CAN BE MARKETED IN )NDIA AND ABROAD AND ROYALTIES PLOUGHED DIRECTLY TO THEIR RURAL AUDIENCES 4HIS IS PROVIDING THE PERFORMERS WITH AN ADDITIONAL MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD 'URVINDER WILL PROFESSIONALLY RECORDING PERFORMANCES OF THIS FOLK MUSIC AND PRODUCING AUDIO CASSETTES WHICH THE PERFORMERS CAN SELL IH SCN GAT UDRRTE B A RWDW FN TA TE4UT AE VIAL TO AVAILABLE MADE THE 4RUST THAT FUND DRAW DOWN A BY UNDERWRITTEN GRANT SECOND A 7ITH THESE PERFORMERS WITH THE SMALL BUT DISCERNING AUDIENCE THAT HE KNEW STILL EXISTED FOR THEIR MUSIC PERFORMERS OFTEN COMPLAINED THAT THEIR AUDIENCE WAS SHRINKING AND HE FELT THAT SOMETHING NEEDED TO BE DONE TO CONNECT WAS TRAVELLING THROUGH THE 0UNJAB lLMING PERFORMANCES OF FOLK BALLADS QISSAS AND 3Ul POETRY 'URVINDER NOTICED THAT 4HREE YEARS AGO lLMMAKER 'URVINDER 3INGH WITH A GRANT FROM THE AT THE MELA OF 'UGGA 0IR IN NORTH 2AJASTHAN /NWARD 'RANT MAKING BY )&! "ANGALORE "ALLADEER 0ALA AND HIS TROUPE SINGING FOLK BALLADS )&! HAS SO FAR MADE GRANTS FOR ARTS RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION WHICH HAVE )&!S !T 2SAC AD OUETTO PORME S THEY PROGRAMME !S $OCUMENTATION AND 2ESEARCH !RTS )NDIA &OUNDATION FOR THE !RTS )&! )&! UVNE I NOW IS 'URVINDER "ANGALORE Details ofgrantdisbursalsin2005-2006 &Culture: Arts Attakkalari Public Charitable Trust of Contemporary Performing Arts,Performing Contemporary of TrustCharitable Public Attakkalari sources. The grant includes a challenge for IFA areas.to raise thematic matching funds from their other Indian across grant-making enhance to fund draw-down a For India Foundationforthe Arts (IFA), Bangalore small ten in artists towns ofMadhyaPradesh. established of performances organise and instruments, forms, extend traditional fellowship support in to dancers promising musicians and to musicians train young on rare20 musical train to Academy the Enables Ustad Allauddin KhanSangeetandKala Academy (UAKSKA), Bhopal OTHERS crafts traditional ofIndiaandadvancedresearch inthefield. habitats, traditional in curricula level post-graduate and graduate building whilst research, new disseminate and enhance would which Design, Towards setting up a new Design Research Cell, and housed in the School of Interior Planning Environmental Technology, for Ahmedabad Centre Design, Interior of School to impactthefieldofcommunicationstudies. ability its bolstering and base academic its strengthening thus Cell, Resource Media self-sustaining financially a up set to AJK-MCRC the enabling Towards Milia IslamiaUniversity, NewDelhi A. J. Kidwai Mass Communication Research Centre (AJK-MCRC), Jamia Centre forPerforming Arts, Pune, popularlyknownasLalitKalaKendra. the of programmes outreach and curriculum faculty, strengthening Towards Centre forPerforming Arts, UniversityofPune, Pune ADVANCE LEARNINGIN THE ARTS facilities. theatre its its use optimally and enhance abroad ALTARfrom troupes host outputs, helping performance thus sustainability, institutional partial Towards Adishakti Laboratoryfor Theatre Research(ALTAR), Pondicherry ARTS MANAGEMENT ground andorganise festivalsofartforthepublic. new break that works performance innovative create to company repertory develop a dancers, professional for institute training a as function to it enable will which Bangalore, in arts movement contemporary for Centre a Towards Bangalore Institutional grants : Arts & Culture & Arts : grants Institutional No disbursals No disbursals No disbursals 2,200,000 1,700,000 700,000 800,000 s. R
81 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 82 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS %NDOWMENTS %NDOWMENTS NOT CONSIDER NEW ENDOWMENTS DURING MILLION AS AGAINST 2S MILLION DURING THE PREVIOUS YEAR !S WAS THE CASE LAST YEAR THE 4RUST MAY 4HE TOTAL AMOUNT DISBURSED TOWARDS ENDOWMENT GRANTS DURING THE YEAR WAS 2S MILLION 53 INTERNAL SYSTEMS BESIDES STRENGTHENING ITS OWN FUND RAISING ABILITIES SURGERIES ON POOR PATIENTS OVER A lVE YEAR PERIOD 4HE GRANT ALSO ENABLES SUSTENANCE FOR ITS HIGH QUALITY EYE CARE TO THE POOR WHILST ENABLING THE ORGANISATION TO PERFORM FREE ITS UNDER MILLION 2S OF ENDOWMENT GRANT TO INSTALMENT lNAL AND SECOND THE RELEASED THE 4RUST $URING YEARS THE 4RUST IS LEFT WITH NO SPARE FUNDS FOR MAKING LARGER ENDOWMENTS ORGANISATION &INALLY WITH A LARGE INCREASE IN PROGRAMMATIC GRANT COMMITMENTS OVER THE PAST TWO WHILST ON THE OTHER HAND DOES NOT SUFlCE IN ADEQUATELY COVERING THE ENVISAGED ACTIVITIES OF THE BESTOWING AN ENDOWMENT WHICH ON THE ONE HAND BURDENS THE 4RUST WITH HIGH OPPORTUNITY COSTS SUBSEQUENTLY INADEQUATE FOR ANY MAJOR IMPACT ON THE ORGANISATION #ONSEQUENTLY IT IS NOT WORTHWHILE PAST FEW YEARS HAS SEEN AN EROSION OF ANNUAL INTEREST AMOUNT ACCRUING THROUGH THE CORPUS WHICH IS DIRECT ENDOWMENTS TO NEW ORGANISATIONS 3ECONDLY THE DRASTIC DECLINE IN INTEREST RATES OVER THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE REVIEW OF THE ENDOWMENTS STRATEGY THE 4RUST HAS GENERALLY DISCOURAGED BEEN CONFERRED ENDOWMENT GRANTS 2EASONS FOR THIS ARE THREE FOLD !T THE OUTSET ACTING UPON THE ENDOWMENT GRANTS SINCE (OWEVER OVER THE PAST TWO lNANCIAL YEARS NO NEW INSTITUTION HAS SUPPORT WITH ON GOING ENDOWMENT GRANTS 4HE 4RUST HAS SUPPORTED NON PROlT ORGANISATIONS THROUGH TO SUPPORT ORGANISATIONS THAT HAVE SHOWN PROMISE AND POTENTIAL THROUGH PROGRAMMATIC PHASES OF $RAWING FROM ITS ENDOWMENT GRANTS STRATEGY THAT WAS RE VISITED DURING THE 4RUST CONTINUES -EDICAL 2ESEARCH &OUNDATION -2& 'RANT $ISBURSALS FOR %NDOWMENT 4HE CORPUS GRANT PROVIDES lNANCIAL -2& TO STREAMLINE -EDICAL 2ESEARCH &OUNDATION -2& #HENNAI "AI .AVAJBAI 4ATA :OROASTRIAN 'IRLS 3CHOOL .AVSARI *. 4ATA 0ARSI 'IRLS (IGH 3CHOOL .AGPUR (IGHER %DUCATION #OMMITTEE (%# -UMBAI !DISHAKTI ,ABORATORY FOR 4HEATRE !RT 2ESEARCH !,4!2 0ONDICHERRY 6RINDABAN #HARITABLE 4RUST 6#4 -UMBAI 6ARIOUS TANK FARMERS ASSOCIATIONS IN SOUTH )NDIA THROUGH THE $(!. &OUNDATION -ADURAI #HILDRENS "OOK 4RUST #"4 .EW $ELHI 3OCIETY FOR 2URAL 5RBAN AND 4RIBAL )NITIATIVES 3254) .EW $ELHI #ENTRE FOR 3CIENCE AND %NVIRONMENT #3% .EW $ELHI .AVINCHANDRA -AFATLAL 3ADGURU 7ATER AND $EVELOPMENT &OUNDATION 3ADGURU &OUNDATION $AHOD !MAR 3EVA 3ANGAM !33 !YIKUDY %IGHT RURAL SCHOOLS SET UP BY THE 3OCIETY FOR )NTEGRATED $EVELOPMENT OF THE (IMALAYAS 3)$( -USSOORIE )NDIA &OUNDATION FOR THE !RTS )&! "ANGALORE #ENTRE FOR !DVANCEMENT OF 0HILANTHROPY #!0 -UMBAI )NDIAN 'RAMEEN 3ERVICES )'3 (YDERABAD #O OPERATIVE $EVELOPMENT &OUNDATION #$& (YDERABAD 6ISWA "HARATI 3ANTINIKETAN #HILD 2ELIEF AND 9OU #29 -UMBAI %KLAVYA &OUNDATION "HOPAL .ATIONAL #OUNCIL OF !PPLIED %CONOMIC 2ESEARCH .#!%2 .EW $ELHI 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA "UILDINGS #* #OLONY 4ARDEO 4RUST -UMBAI .2 4ATA "ANDRA !GIARY 4RUST -UMBAI )NDIAN #ENTRE FOR 0HILANTHROPY )#0 .EW $ELHI 5NIVERSITY OF 0ENNSYLVANIA )NSTITUTE FOR THE !DVANCED 3TUDY OF )NDIA 50)!3) .EW $ELHI 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA &OUNDATION AT THE ,ONDON 3CHOOL OF %CONOMICS ,3% ,ONDON 5NITED +INGDOM 5+ "OMBAY #ITY 0OLICY 2ESEARCH &OUNDATION "OMBAY &IRST -UMBAI 0ROFESSIONAL !SSISTANCE FOR $EVELOPMENT !CTION 02!$!. .EW $ELHI /RGANISATIONS WHICH HAVE RECEIVED ENDOWMENT GRANTS FROM 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA 4RUST SINCE EXAMINATION BEING PERFORMED ON A PATIENT BY A -2& &ELLOW (IGH QUALITY EYE CARE BEING FACILITATED BY -EDICAL 2ESEARCH &OUNDATION -2& #HENNAI !N EYE )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS %NDOWMENTS
83 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 84 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Endowments : grants Institutional in 2005-2006 Endowments: Details of grant disbursals year period. year five a over patients poor 11,000 on surgeries free perform MRF enable would poor,which the to eye-care quality high for endowment an creatingTowards Chennai (MRF), Foundation Research Medical professionals.fresh of induction and recruitment of costs the meet to PRADAN, to made endowment existing the Towardsaugmenting ProfessionalAssistance forDevelopment Action (PRADAN), NewDelhi No disbursals No 25,000,000 Rs. 3MALL 'RANT 0ROGRAMME TO THE LATTER HAVE BEEN CLASSIlED UNDER THE @SPECIAL CATEGORY AS AGAINST @REGULAR 3'0S MADE TO OF INNOVATIONS CONDUCTING REVIEWS AND APPRAISALS AND STRENGTHENING INTERNAL SYSTEMS 'RANTS MADE SUPPORT FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING OR EVALUATION CONDUCTING FOCUSED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES MAINSTREAMING NEEDED THAT ORGANISATIONS LARGER INCLUDE TO AMENDED SUBSEQUENTLY AND ORGANISATIONS ORIENTED THEMATIC AREAS OF THE 4RUST 4HE 3'0 WAS PRIMARILY ENVISAGED TO CATER TO THE NEEDS OF SMALL WELFARE 2S MILLION 53 MILLION THROUGH GRANTS THAT WERE MADE UPTO -ARCH IN ALL lVE 4HE 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA 3MALL 'RANT 0ROGRAMME 3'0 WHICH WAS LAUNCHED IN HAS DISBURSED OVER 3'0 AS COMPARED TO 2S MILLION DISBURSED DURING TOWARDS GRANTS WHICH POINTS TO $URING THE YEAR THE 4RUST DISBURSED 2S MILLION 53 MILLION TOWARDS GRANTS WITHIN THE PROGRAMME GRANTS WITHIN KEY PROGRAMMATIC INITIATIVES AND lNALLY FOR COMPLETION OF PENDING ACTIVITIES WITHIN ON GOING UPSCALING THEM TO FULL PROGRAMME GRANTS CONDUCTING CRITICAL WORKSHOPS EVENTS AND EXTERNAL REVIEWS WORK IN DIFFERENT REGIONS UNDER DIFFERENT INITIATIVES lNE TUNING PROJECT DESIGNS AND MODELS PRIOR TO THE PROGRAMMATIC FUNCTIONING OF THE 4RUST &URTHERMORE MANY 3'0S WERE USED FOR INITIATING FRESH THE REVIEW THE 4RUST RE STRUCTURED ITS 3'0 STRATEGY !T THE OUTSET THE 3'0 WAS MAINSTREAMED INTO THAT WAS COMMISSIONED DURING THE PREVIOUS lNANCIAL YEAR !CTING UPON THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF MARKED THE lRST FULL YEAR OF IMPLEMENTING THE 3'0 POST THE EXTERNAL REVIEW OF THE PORTFOLIO SMALLER ORGANISATIONS 'RANT $ISBURSALS FOR 3MALL 'RANT )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 3MALL 'RANT 0ROGRAMME
85 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 86 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional the Trust is working in a proactive manner to identify, develop and support innovative programs that accessible,child,education every elementary for make meaningful to and attempt enjoyable an In which ispositionedasastatelevelsupportinstitution in thear microfinance initiative, the Trust supported a phase of inception for the Rajasthan – Se Vikas Sakh its Uttaranchal.Under in weavers for linkages market the strengthen to products,strategiesblending therebydeveloping silk trendsfor market studying and development traditional looms for silk weaving, developing products using eco-friendly dyes, encouraging market including both, to made were Grants project. watershed would equip the organization, besides building the capacity of the community, to undertake a larger Pradesh.Himachal in district Chamba of block Thisphase Chowari in villages project,five covering Rural Technology & Development Centre (RTDC) and up-scaling improved agriculture practices. Under the Himmothan Pariyojana, a grant was given to installation of community lift irrigation systems, soil and water conservation measures and promoting of poor tribals in Rayagada district, Orissa, through better agricultural production. Activities included Ranchi of block Khunti district, Jharkhand. - A second phase grant was given to Namkum in villages tribal 12 of development the for proposal project to and Jharkhand in communities programme proposal for various interventions to support and enhance the livelihoods of poor tribal (IGS) towards a programme planning exercise, which enabled the organization to develop a detailed livelihood projects. Noteworthy amongst these include grants made to Under the Central India Initiative (CInI), grants were given to organizations to initiate work on several Education andEnhancingCivilSociety&Governanceportfolios, respectively. portfolio,(RLC) Communities towardsand outlaid Rural Livelihoods being within 20% and 25% with marginala decrease 8%.of year,the During wereSGP the in disbursals the of grants34% for made districts,Uttaranchal. region,Himalayan Severalorganizationsthe grantsto within weremade also Basmati Export Programme (OBEP) in four blocks of Dehradun and three blocks of Udham Singh to Nagarmade also was grant initiative,a this Uttaranchal.Within and Pradesh Himachal in Pariyojana Himmothan of component management’ watershed participatory through livelihoods rural ‘Enhancing the under projects watershed ongoing four reviewinggrants, programmebesides sanctioning to plans,prior watershed new eight of appraisals out carrying for (CHIRAG) Group Action Rural Himalayan Uttaranchal Cooperative Resham Federation (UCRF), Dehradun for up-gradation of for continuation of the Organic the of continuation for (UOCB) Board Commodity Organic Uttaranchal for developing a detailed a developing for (NBJK) Kendra Jagriti Bharat Nav and (PSI) Institute Science Peoples’ for conducting a preparatory phase watershed Harsha Trust for enhancing the livelihoods ea ofmicrofinance. Indian Grameen Services Centre for microFinance, Central INTO RESPONSIBLE ORGANIC GROWERS BESIDES EXTENDING THE AREAS UNDER THE PROGRAMME 4HE 4RUSTS SUPPORT TO ORGANIC "ASMATI THAT ARE AROUND HIGHER TO STANDARD PADDY RATE TILL DATE /VER FARMERS HAVE BENElTED THROUGH THE /"%0 DURING WHICH THEY HAVE MANAGED TO PROCURE PRICES FOR WITH TWO TRADE AGENCIES AT RATES VARYING BETWEEN 2S AND PER QUINTAL FOR ORGANIC "ASMATI WHICH IS THE BEST TO HECTARES AND IS SET TO MORE THAN DOUBLE DURING 4HE &ARMER &EDERATIONS HAVE RECENTLY SIGNED AGREEMENTS OF HECTARES FOR PRODUCTION 4HE PROGRAMME WHICH COVERED HECTARES AT INCEPTION HAS EXPANDED TO REACH OUT INTEREST IN PICKING UP A MINIMUM OF TONS OF ORGANIC "ASMATI IN +HARIF WHICH IS EXPECTED TO REQUIRE AN AREA WITH SIX TONS OF "ASMATI FOR THE DOMESTIC MARKET VALUED AT 2S MILLION ! TOTAL OF SEVEN TRADE AGENCIES HAVE SHOWN RESPECTIVELY 4HUS DURING +HARIF A TOTAL OF TONS OF PADDY WORTH 2S MILLION WAS LIFTED BY THE COMPANY ALONG TO SECURE A HIGHER PRICE COMPARED TO LAST YEAR 2S AND 2S PER QUINTAL FOR ORGANIC AND IN CONVERSION FARMERS THE CERTIlCATION 4HE ORGANIC "ASMATI FARMERS FORGED A TIE UP WITH AN )NDIAN EXPORT COMPANY THROUGH WHICH THEY MANAGED 4HE /"%0 UNDERTAKEN IN +HARIF ACHIEVED NOTABLE RESULTS 4HE QUALITY OF ORGANIC "ASMATI HAS IMPROVED AS INDICATED BY DOCUMENTING FOR CERTIlCATION AND E ASSISTING BUYERS IN POST HARVEST ORGANIC ROUTE B PROVIDING THEM SEED INPUTS C MONITORING THE PRODUCTION AT lELD LEVELS D ASSISTING FARMERS IN PROGRAMME THROUGH A EXPANSION OF AREAS UNDER ORGANIC "ASMATI BY MOTIVATING CONVENTIONAL FARMERS TO FOLLOW THE SERVICES OF @lELD MOTIVATORS EXTENSION WORKERS 4HESE lELD MOTIVATORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE "ASMATI PRODUCTION IN 5TTARANCHAL THE TO MILLION METRIC TONS PER ANNUM NEARLY TONS ARE EXPORTED )N WITH A VIEW TO ARREST THE DECLINE IN )NDIA IS THE LARGEST PRODUCER AND EXPORTER OF "ASMATI RICE IN THE WORLD /UT OF THE OVERALL PRODUCTION THAT VARIES FROM $URING !PRIL FOR TONS #ONSEQUENTLY GROWING OF ORGANIC "ASMATI CAN BE TAKEN UP IN MORE THAN HECTARES IN THE STATE POST HARVEST AND PROCESSING OF "ASMATI 4HE MARKET FOR ORGANIC "ASMATI IS TREMENDOUS WITH THE %5 ALONE ACCOUNTING COUNTRIES DURING 4HROUGH THE PROGRAMME A LOT OF EXPERIENCE AND INFORMATION WAS GENERATED FOR THE PRODUCTION DISTRICTS 5NDER THIS PROGRAMME TONS OF "ASMATI AND TONS OF PADDY WERE EXPORTED TO %UROPEAN 5NION %5 YEAR THIS PROGRAMME WAS EXPANDED IN ALL THE FOUR BLOCKS OF $EHRADUN AND ALSO IN THREE BLOCKS OF 5DHAM 3INGH .AGAR %XPORT "ASMATI /RGANIC THE INITIATIVE ORGANIC 0ROGRAMME /"%0 WAS STARTED IN A FEW BIO VILLAGES OF 5TTARANCHAL FOCUSING ON $EHRADUNI "ASMATI )N THE SUBSEQUENT $!30 0ROJECT 3UPPORT $IVERSIlED !GRICULTURE THE UNDER )N AND $EHRADUN DISTRICTS #OMMODITY "OARD 0RODUCTION 0ROGRAM IN $EHRADUN DISTRICT 5TTARANCHAL (IMMOTHAN 0ARIYOJANA ! lELD INSPECTION BEING CARRIED OUT UNDER THE /RGANIC "ASMATI 3EED 5/#" INITIATED A CONCEPT THAT EXPLORED THE ORGANIC ROUTE TO PRODUCING "ASMATI IN 5DHAM 3INGH .AGAR 5/#" APPROACHED THE 4RUST FOR HELPING CONTINUE AND EXPAND THE /"%0 IN THE REGION THROUGH THE UNDER THE 3'0 HAS ENABLED THESE lELD MOTIVATORS IN CONSOLIDATING CONVENTIONAL FARMERS #ENTRE FOR /RGANIC &ARMING #/& )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 3MALL 'RANT 0ROGRAMME ANCHORED WITH THE 5TTARANCHAL /RGANIC
87 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 88 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 3MALL 'RANT 0ROGRAMME NUIG CES O DCTO TA I RLVN RNS TO 'RANTS RELEVANT IS THAT EDUCATION TO ACCESS ENSURING #ENTRES WOULD MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO REVITALIZE THE VILLAGE LIFE OF THE MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES THROUGH ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS CENTRES TO CATER TO THE NEEDS OF DISADVANTAGED RURAL COMMUNITIES 4HE ,EARNING IN THIS CONTEXT THAT THE 4RUST DEVELOPED THE ,EARNING #ENTRES )NITIATIVE ,#) FOCUSING ON ESTABLISHING STRENGTHEN ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION TO SERVE MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES THROUGH LONG TERM SUPPORT )T WAS THE OBJECTIVES OF 3AKH 3E 6IKAS THE COMING YEAR THE 4RUST WOULD SUPPORT #M& IN ITS ENDEAVOR TO CATALYSE THE MICROlNANCE SECTOR IN 2AJASTHAN AS PER ORGANISATIONS AND ORGANIZE A WORKSHOP ON QUALITY AND STANDARD OF MICROlNANCE AS PART OF ITS IMMEDIATE PLANS /VER WITH THE $EPARTMENT OF 7OMEN #HILD $EVELOPMENT $7#$ PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO MICROlNANCE IMPLEMENTING SUBSEQUENTLY APPROVED BY THE 4RUSTEES STARTING !PRIL TO INCUBATE #M& #ONSEQUENTLY #M& WOULD PILOT A PROJECT 3E 6IKAS CASH mOWS OF RURAL POOR ACROSS SIX BLOCKS IN lVE DISTRICTS #M& WOULD ALSO SERVE AS THE NODAL AGENCY OF THIS PERIOD A PROFESSIONAL TEAM WAS RECRUITED AND PREPARATORY STUDIES COMMISSIONED INCLUDING A RESEARCH STUDY ON SUPPORTED THROUGH A TEN MONTH PREPARATORY GRANT IN *UNE UNDER THE 3MALL 'RANT 0ROGRAMME OF THE 4RUST $URING OF (EALTH -ANAGEMENT 2ESEARCH 0RINCIPAL 3ECRETARIES OF THE $EPARTMENTS OF 2URAL $EVELOPMENT AND 7OMEN AND #HILD $EVELOPMENT !2!6!,) #!2% AND THE 4RUST 'OVERNMENT OF 2AJASTHAN IS REPRESENTED BY !DDITIONAL #HIEF 3ECRETARY $EVELOPMENT OF )NDIA $R 6 3 6YAS $R !SHOK !GARWAL 0ROFESSOR - 3 3RIRAM #HIEF 'ENERAL -ANAGER .!"!2$ REPRESENTATIVES OF SEEDED ! STEERING COMMITTEE WAS FORMED WHICH IS HEADED BY -R . 3 3ISODIA EX 3ECRETARY "ANKING 'OVERNMENT RESPONSE FROM THE STATE GOVERNMENT AND OTHER EMINENT PERSONS IN THE STATE THE #ENTRE FOR MICRO&INANCE #M& WAS STUDY WERE PRESENTED AT THE 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA 4RUST #OLLOQUIUM IN MICROlNANCE IN 2AJASTHAN IN !PRIL 7ITH ENCOURAGING UNDERTAKEN BY AN EMINENT ECONOMIST AND ACADEMICIAN n $R 6 3 6YAS OVER *ANUARY n -ARCH 4HE lNDINGS OF THIS lNALLY DEEPEN BY STRENGTHENING THE LINKAGES WITH LIVELIHOOD PROMOTION WAS FELT ! FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR SUCH AN ENTITY WAS CAN HELP INCREASE ACCESS AND OUTREACH OF lNANCIAL SERVICES HELP IMPROVE QUALITY AND PENETRATION OF THESE SERVICES AND WORKING OF SELF SUSTAINING COMMUNITY BASED MICROlNANCE PROGRAMMES IN 2AJASTHAN 4HE NEED FOR AN INSTITUTION WHICH MARGINALIZED IN THIS REGION ,AUNCHED IN THE INITIATIVE IS NOW CALLED 4HE 4RUSTS MICROlNANCE INITIATIVE IN 2AJASTHAN FOCUSES ON STRENGTHENING LIVELIHOODS AND REDUCING VULNERABILITIES OF THE 7IE H SAL RN PORME UPRE IS EDN PORME RN O OE ER UAIN WAS DURATION YEAR ONE OF GRANT PROGRAMME A SEEDING ITS SUPPORTED PROGRAMME GRANT SMALL THE 7HILE IN *AIPUR 2AJASTHAN THE lRST WORKING GROUP MEETING FOR OPERATIONALIZING THE #ENTRE FOR MICRO&INANCE #M& AT PROGRESS IN $ISCUSSIONS )NITIATIVE -ICROlNANCE 2AJASTHAN n 3E 6IKAS 3AKH *AIPUR PROVIDED MORAL AND HOSTING SUPPORT TO THE #ENTRE 4HE #ENTRE WAS lRST VSKR HKHN 3ANSTHAN 3HIKSHAN !VISHKAR 3AKH 3E 6IKAS AND SEEKS TO DEMONSTRATE )NDIAN )NSTITUTE 3AKH .AI motivated and innovative middle school science teachers, 15 teachers from Kolkata, West Bengal, besides building a community of educationally goal-oriented, with traditional puppeteers in Raigad and Pune districts, Maharashtra. Additionally, institutions such Tamilin while Nadu,colleges semi-urban with performances and Corporation Schools in and around Chennai, The locations. arts institutions attempt to introduce pedagogic methods in their teaching, often in unconventional Arts & Culture initiative that has seen extended SGP support is the Art Education programme. Here, important fields.An new in support enhanced to directions critical provides SGP the under done inception, or the support of institutions attempting new directions in their thinking. Successful work their at initiatives new seeding towardswork, experimental to extended been has support where the often unconventional nature of activity undertaken and supported, and has been the component The SGP has been a significant strategic component within the Arts and Culture portfolio. It enhances shelter andrehabilitate mentallyillwomen. treat,to staff its of capacities the strengthening and Kolkata in shelter their of ex-residents the to and Karnataka; district, Kolar of block Siddlaghatta the in villages 70 in model care health mental community a developing towards (India) Society treatment; medical appropriate providing and Assam Guwahati, in Talim Samiti Talim with new forms and technologies of research dissemination. Another Trust initiative, in the new the in initiative,TrustAnother dissemination. research of technologies and forms new with as included: Several SGPs were also made under the mental health sub-theme of the Trust’s health portfolio. These - thechildren’s scienceactivitycentre inPune, Maharashtra. learning science using simple material and documenting innovative science experiments at ‘Pulatsya’ popularization of science. Whilst Search (JBNSTS) and to made grants to led schools in interventions specific Sevagram,in Wardha. school The Trust’s alternate reviving‘Anand an in Niketan’ involved subject- Chamrajnagar,Similarly,Karnataka.in school primary Bandhu Deena the at Nasik,in school alternative an schools. Whilst Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI), Mumbai and Ashadeep for identifying and picking up homeless mentally ill individuals from the streets vindicated the Trust’s efforts in supporting alternative supporting in Trust’sthe efforts vindicated Trust Bandhu Deena and ars rfs Foundation, Crafts Madras focused on improving systems of systems ‘Anandimproving on focused AvishkarSansthan Shikshan Niketan’, Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, (IUCAA) for provided education to marginalizedchildrento Bandhu education Deena Trustprovided JBNSTS focused on a training programme of science teaching for Koothu – P – Pattarai Trust for example, has been working with curricula in in curricula with working been has example, for Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional for providing vocational training vocational providing for Paripurnata Jagadis Bose National Science TalentScience National Bose Jagadis IUCAA demonstrated the possibilities of Women Unlimited, New Delhi work has been working been has PUPPET The h Rcmn Fellowship Richmond The has been doing workshops is Samiti Talim Nai
89 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 90 3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NSTITUTIONAL GRANTS 3MALL 'RANT 0ROGRAMME !NAND .IKETAN REVIEW TEAM THE 4RUST IS PLANNING TO EXPAND ITS SUPPORT TO ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS AND PROMISING HERITAGE SCHOOLS SUCH AS OF BASIC EDUCATION .AI 4ALIM GAIN SIGNIlCANT RELEVANCE $RAWING UPON THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE EDUCATION PORTFOLIO CURRICULUM ALONG WITH THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCE BASED LEARNING IS ALSO REITERATED BY MANY )N THIS CONTEXT PRINCIPLES ROTE LEARNING HAVE BEEN WIDELY ACKNOWLEDGED BY EDUCATIONISTS 4HE NEED FOR CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT AND MEANINGFUL ,IMITATIONS OF THE CURRENT EDUCATION SYSTEM WHICH IS EXCESSIVELY EXAM ORIENTED COMPETITION DRIVEN AND RELIANT ON MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY JOYFUL AND COOPERATIVE CRAFT BASED HONORING PHYSICAL LABOR AND FOCUSING EQUALLY ON PHYSICAL EDUCATION UPTO THE SEVENTH GRADE GRADUALLY %DUCATION AT !NAND .IKETAN CAN BE DESCRIBED AS ACTIVITY AND SKILL ORIENTED THE FULL REALIZATION OF CHILDRENS POTENTIAL AND III DEVELOPS AND IMPLEMENTS SUITABLE CURRICULUM 4HE SCHOOL NOW OFFERS PHYSICAL INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIO PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD II EXPERIMENTS ON METHODS OF .AI 4ALIM FOR BEGINNING !UGUST $URING THIS PERIOD THE PROJECT I PROVIDES AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT THAT TAKES CARE OF THE EDUCATIONISTS SELECT REINVIGORATE THE CONCEPT OF .AI 4ALIM 4HE 4RUST IS SUPPORTING OF INVOLVEMENT THE WITH TO #UT INITIAL VIGOR SOMETIME IN THE SIXTIES 3EVAGRAM COUNTRY INCLUDING THE IN PARTS 5NFORTUNATELY DUE TO LACK OF RESOURCES DEARTH OF VISIONARY LEADERSHIP AND SYSTEMIC CONSTRAINS THE EXPERIMENT LOST ITS DIFFERENT IN STARTED WERE CONCEPT .AI 4ALIM ON BASED 3CHOOLS APPROACH TOGETHER VARIOUS PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS WORKING IN PRIMARY EDUCATION AND HOLD EVENTS TO PROMOTE THE BASIC EDUCATION #ELL OF THE (INDUSTAN 4ALIM 3OCIETY ORGANISED A CONFERENCE ON .AI 4ALIM WHERE IT SET UP THE IN UNDER $R :AKIR (USSIANS LEADERSHIP THE (INDUSTAN 4ALIM 3AMITI WAS ESTABLISHED )N THE .ATIONAL 3ERVICE ALL EDUCATION THROUGH PRODUCTIVE WORK AND II SELF RELIANCE OF THE SYSTEM AND THE CHILD 4O TAKE THIS INITIATIVE FORWARD IN 7ARDHA ON /CTOBER 'ANDHI PUT FORTH THE CONCEPT OF h.AI 4ALIMv BASED ON TWO BASIC PRINCIPLES NAMELY I THE NEED OF THE HOUR TO AID THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY (IGHLIGHTING HIS THOUGHTS IN AN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE HELD -AHATMA 'ANDHI BELIEVED THAT AN EDUCATION SYSTEM BASED ON THE NEEDS OF THE NATION ITS CULTURE AND ITS VALUES WERE ACTIVITIES 7ELCOME TO @!NAND .IKETAN AN ALTERNATE SCHOOL RUN BY THE WATERING LUNCH h! SCHOOLv ONE WONDERS IN BEWILDERMENT NOT EXPECTING A GROUP OF lVE YEAR OLDS ENGAGING IN SUCH THE KITCHEN IN THE SCHOOL WHERE THEY WILL WASH AND CUT THE VEGETABLES BEFORE PROCEEDING TO HELP IN COOKING A MOUTH VEGETABLES ! CLOSER LOOK REVEALS THEIR RAPT CONCENTRATION AS THEY GO ABOUT PLUCKING SPINACH 4HEY WILL THEN PROCEED TO 4HE COURTYARD SURROUNDING THE SMALL SCHOOL WITHIN 3EVAGRAM !SHRAM IS FULL OF SMALL CHILDREN SQUATTING AMIDST A PATCH OF AT THIS ALTERNATE SCHOOL #HILDREN PLUCKING SPINACH AT !NAND .IKETAN !CTIVITIES SUCH AS THESE ARE PROMOTED BY .AI 4ALIM 3AMITI .AI 4ALIM 3AMITI A AI 3AMITI .AI 4ALIM .AI 4ALIM 3AMITI FOR THIS PURPOSE OVER A ONE YEAR PERIOD EIE T RVV TE COL AND SCHOOL THE REVIVE TO DECIDED .AI 4ALIM 3AMITI TO BRING reaching out to 127 participants. Under its Youth and Civil Society initiative, the Trust supported development in Radio of use the including skills media and communication various on organized were programmes training Six skills. media and communication on professionals development and workers social of capacities building towards given also was Bangalore (CDL), Learning and to Support change. organizational of facilitators grooming initiative,(HR) the Trust supported also expert, through a two day conference organized at Hyderabad. Under the OD and Human Resource of Organization Development (OD) in the non profit sector. The exercise was implemented by an OD Satyam Foundation, programmes for sterilizing dogs and rescued sick and wounded animals. The Trust also partnered these grantswith the organisations strengthened animal shelters, conducted Animal Birth Control (ABC) Ghaziabad and Chennai. The activities of these organisations focus on the welfare of animals. Through Animals (PFA) portfolio,Governance & Society Civil its Within the Trustgrantseight differentmade to for thefirsttimeinIndia. Foundation, the to grant significant Therapy,Art one of areaseen has worthy organizations acrossthecountry. supporting portfolio,whilst SGP its strengthen to continue year,Trustwould the coming the Over findings ofthestudywere disseminatedattheConsultation. students.vocational and The secondary higher school, high of sample a on survey the conduct to formed wereregionsdifferent from researchpartners 16 (NCCP).of Psychology team Career A on Promise Foundation, Bangalore towards preparation and organization of a National Consultation a Pune based institution experimenting with Drum Circle and Drama-therapy techniques, organizations located in Margao, Bhubaneswar, Dehradun, Agra, Chandigarh, Kolkata, through which it supported an effort towards acquiring knowledge on practice Bangalore towards initiating a programme for programme a initiating towardsBangalore Forum, HID Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional World Centre for Creative Learning Creative for Centre World omncto fr Development for Communication People For People The
91 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 92 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional Details ofgrantdisbursalsin2005-2006 Small GrantProgramme: Water SectorPolicyResearch RURAL LIVELIHOODS&COMMUNITIES through improvedagricultural practices. livelihoods their enhance Jharkhand district, Hazaribag Block, Katkamsandi in community tribal the helped then who (NRM), Management Resource Natural of aspects various in trainingcomprehensive Towards with staff strengthening Sri RamakrishnaSaradaMath&Mission, Hazaribag dairy andagriculture, besidespromotion ofcommunityownedinstitutions. included Activities tassar,of sub-sectors Jharkhand. the insurance)for & (loans services financial of provision in communities tribal poor of livelihoods the proposal of various interventions over a three year period, Towardsto supporta programmeand enhanceplanning exercise, which enabled IGS to developIndian GrameenServices(IGS), Hyderabad a detailed over fourdays. Trust’scoveredsupport transportation Mela, the to farmers 5,000 over of costs subjects.The allied and agriculture in activities their display to groups farmer local the to opportunities providing agriculture,besides in technologies latest the to women, especially farmers, a local the exposed were that exhibitions of which series Dahod, in held Mela Krishi Mahila the co-supporting Towards N. M. Sadguru Water &DevelopmentFoundation, Dahod through caused Central IndiaRegion pollution besides purposes, agriculture. industrial for and areas urban peri / irrigation urban in supply water irregular to related Gujarat, in districts four in issues management resources water level local addressing in (VIKSAT), Towards Interaction strengthening the Sabarmati Stakeholders Development Forum (SSF), for Ahmedabad which is engaged Centre Sarabhai VIkram groups fromtheprojectarea. women’s five for farms fodder based farmers irrigation drip promoted and (c) and groups; partners NGO potential with interviews and meetings surveys, research project in another 90 villages over the next three years, including field action larger a initiating for work ground the prepared (b) area; project the of this period, Gujarat the Programme: ‘North (a) of continued 1 the ongoing Phase activities in the 30 Sustainable pilot Groundwater Initiative’ of (NGI), villagesto complete pending activities. period During extension month three a Towards IWMI-Tata Water PolicyProgramme(IWMI-Tata Programme), Anand 250,000 460,000 300,000 250,000 340,516 Rs. agricultural specialists. and development resources water institutions, & water,livelihood drinking of consisting team member four a by Yojana’,undertaken Vistarotthan ‘Kharash Trust’sthe initiative of review comprehensive a of administering the Towards Coastal SalinityPreventionCell(CSPC), Rajkot Kharash Vistarotthan Yojana sources. Konkan, faraway from water drinking fetch to women of reducingdrudgery besides the district, Raigad of villages Maharashtra, three which is in expected to lead to reduction techniques of the water scarcity storage period, improved and harvesting rainwater through water of conservation promoting Towards The Time and Talents Club, Mumbai people’s of the capacitiesoflocal Village Youth process ClubsforNatural Resource Management. the guiding for empowerment support in Purulia and of Bankura districts, West phase Bengal, through enhancing second a Towards Jamgoria Sevabrata, Purulia agriculture practices; improved and(iv)training andstrengthening SHGsandfarmers. up-scaling and promoting (iii) measures; water conservation and soil (ii) systems; irrigation lift community of installation (i) include: Activities production. agricultural better through Orissa, district, Rayagada in Towards a second phase of support for enhancing the livelihoods of poor tribals Harsha Trust, Bhubaneswar with districtlevelauthoritiesandNGOpartners. study of outputs of sharing (iv) indicators;and monitoring result preparation of detailed (ii) baseline villages; data collection, deprived Participatory most Rural and Appraisal tribal (PRA) the and data of analysis; identification (iii) (i) include: activities TheJharkhand. district, Ranchi of block Khunti - Namkum in villages Towards developing a detailed project proposal for the development of 12 tribal Nav BharatJagritiKendra (NBJK), Hazaribag livelihoods throughincomegeneration activities. blocks of Mandu and Churchu of Hazaribag district, Jharkhand, for promotion of in SHGs formed already the strengthen to support of phase Towardssecond a Technology (SUPPORT), Hazaribag Rural and Organization People with People of Upliftment for Society financial discuss accounting, matters withthebanksandempowerthemtofightfortheirbasicrights. day to day their manage to them helps which Jharkhand,district, Hazaribag of blocks four in (SHGs) Groups Help Self 300 of Towards sustenance of an ongoing education program for (PRAYAS),women representatives Hazaribag Service Social for Youths& Association Actions Rural for Programme Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional 449,000 250,000 250,000 492,500 250,000 250,000 250,000
93 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 94 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional eiw f w ogig ac I aese poet i te uan ein of region Kumaon the Uttaranchal undertheHimmothan Pariyojana in . projects watershed I Batch ongoing two of review end year and proposals watershed II Batch new four of appraisalTowards the Central HimalayanRural Action Group(CHIRAG), Nainital Himmothan Pariyojana specific R&Dinstitutions; and(iii)conducttraining programmes. with assessment survey;technology a on (R&D) ResearchDevelopment (ii) and conducting (i) involves: exercise Uttaranchal.The in Fibre Natural for Centre a establishing for plan master a of development and study feasibility Towardsa Uttaranchal Bamboo&FibreDevelopmentBoard (UBFDB), Dehradun central Himalayas. developing for unit, research direct sowing techniques to reduce plantation costs for oak afforestation autonomous in the an is which (CEDAR), Research and Development Environment, for Centre to grant a administering Towards Central HimalayanRural Action Group(CHIRAG), Nainital region, besidescollectionandsaleoforganic Basmati, paddy, wheat, etc. the management of the field motivators whoblocks would of deliverDehradun servicesand tothree farmersblocks Towardsin ofthethe continuationUdham of Singhthe Organic NagarBasmati Exportdistricts, Uttaranchal OrganicCommodityBoard(UOCB), Dehradun Programme (OBEP)Uttaranchal, in four with towards output fromagricultural landbyprovidingirrigationwater. Uttaranchal, district, Pithoragarh construction of a 1,050 metre long village, irrigation channel, which would enhance the Khetbharar for Society Management Sanitation and Water a is which SSS, to grant supplementary A Samudaik ShashaktikaranSamiti(SSS), Khetbharar, Pithoragarh Chamba district, HimachalPradesh. of block Chowari in villages five watershed,Chhalarahectarecovering 495 the watershed year three the to prior project,in which,activities during development watershed initiate RTDCwould phase preparatory year one a Towards Rural Technology &DevelopmentCentre(RTDC), Palampur, Kangra in projects watershed Garhwal andHimachalPradesh, underthe Himmothan Pariyojana. II Batch and I Batch ongoing the of review a Towards Peoples’ ScienceInstitute(PSI), Dehradun under theHimmothanPariyojana. Pradesh Himachal and Garhwal in projects watershed II Batch ongoing two of Towards the appraisal of four new Batch III watershed plans and year end review Peoples’ ScienceInstitute(PSI), Dehradun 500,000 280,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 352,200 225,649 169,000 n scesul rn ir etrrss n poiig ehia ad ak up support forthesustainabilityofestablishedmicroenterprises back and technical providing and enterprises micro run successfully and up set to them enabling development, enterprise for projects plan and design to skills with them equipping Uttaranchal,district, Garhwal Pauri in youth the Towards promoting an understanding of entrepreneurship development amongst Institute forDevelopmentSupport(IDS), Pauri Garhwal Himalayan Region capacity buildingofwomen’s groups. (iii) promotion;and fodder and promotion,fuelwood management,agricultural sanitation, microfinance, etc.; (ii) management of natural resources throughActivities water include: (i) building of institutions of women managementfor healthof sustainable naturaland for environmentalresources community in women Deval the block mobilizing of and Chamoli empowering districtTowards in Uttaranchal. Chamoli Society for Integrated Management of All Resources (SIMAR), (SIMAR), Resources All of Management Integrated for Society research &development; (iv) and(v)marketing&productdevelopment. advocacy; policy (iii) NRM; participatory (ii) building; institution (i) include: resources.natural the conserve and Activities livelihoods their enhance tribals ecological conservation and income generation, which would considerably help Towards empowerment of the tribal community in MUSE, Shimla Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, through enable processingoforders ontime. to state the in bank material raw a easily,establish marketed and be can that about the market trends and designs, assist artisans develop suitable products for silk blended products of Uttaranchal, with a view to educate producer groups system support the mainstreaming and avenues Towardsmarketing exploring Uttaranchal CooperativeReshamFederation(UCRF), Dehradun to strategies developing thereby strengthen themarketlinkagesforweaversinUttaranchal. products, blending silk for trends market developing weaving, silk products for using eco-friendly looms dyes, traditional encouraging of market development and up-gradation studying the Towards Uttaranchal CooperativeReshamFederation(UCRF), Dehradun district, Almora Uttaranchal. of block Tarikhet in people generation, of income livelihoods and sustaining thereby community the of building capacity development, livestock for potential and problems on booklet informative an of preparation resources,its and Towardslivestock through of management programmeon a Chhattrasal SevaSansthan(CSS), Hamirpur Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional . 300,000 500,000 241,000 200,000 240,000 220,000
95 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 96 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional cropping systemstorice-wheat, wasundertaken. alternate demonstrating involved alternatives’,which its of some and systems the first three years of the project ‘Sustaining productivity of rice-wheat cropping Towards a three month extension, during which, data collection and analysis of Agricultural University (PAU), Punjab Ludhiana Agrometeorology, & Agronomy of Department monitor andprovidetechnicalsupport. involving 30fieldvisits, to112villagesacrossthe28cottonblocksinPunjab, to of Agriculture,Department the Punjab),by of implemented (Government being Towards monitoring of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) on (PAU), cotton project University Ludhiana Agricultural Punjab Entomology, of Department Reviving theGreenRevolution policy irrigation new a formulating for Uttaranchal in sector irrigation the of review Towardsa Development Centrefor Alternative Policies(DCAP), NewDelhi in villages ofJoshimathblockChamolidistrictinUttaranchal. information, related production vegetable other providing and formation, cultivation through improved irrigation facilities, compost production, seed bank women and marginalized farmers, by providing better opportunities for vegetable Towards a second phase of support for enhancing the economic development of Bharki, Chamoli (JANDESH),Sansthan Shikshan Kalpkshetra Swarojgar Devi Nanda Jai skills andpractical exposure ontheadvancedirrigationtechniques. awareness, gain district,Tamilto Coimbatore Nadu, of areas prone drought in graduates unemployed and besides NGOs workers, extension fertigation, farmers, the and educating micro-irrigation on University, programme training a Towards Agricultural Nadu Tamil - Coimbatore Centre Technology Water Agriculture related additional income. of source a being besides Uttaranchal, of regions hilly the in cover green the of the wastelands, reducing the stress on forest for fuel and wastelands,fodder which andwould help increasingin reviving of the forest, reducing the degradation of plantation the promoting Towards Forest ResearchInstitute(FRI), Dehradun economic andpoliticalconditionsthatdetermineagricultural development.
o te tt, aig no con te niomna, social, environmental, the account into taking state, the for Lantana in the forest lands and village village and lands forest the in 150,000 250,000 500,000 500,000 493,000 99,000 and (iv)undertakingdetailedhouseholdsurveyof10%thefamilies survey; field for questionnaires household and village developing sampling;(iii) 20% on based villages project four activities;randomlysampling project (ii) the proofing project through: (i) visiting all the project villages to assess the status of Towards conducting an impact evaluation of the Trust’s ongoing ‘Sahyog’ H. H.drought MaharajaHanwantSinghjiCharitable Trust (MHSCT), Jodhpur Drought Proofingin West Rajasthan for efficientuseofinputsandresource enhancementinNorth-WestIndia. agriculture), (conservation systems residue crop managed surface and tillage zero- promote and adopt to efforts participatory farmer Towardsundertaking New (CASA), Agriculture Delhi Sustainable of Advancement for Centre programmes. building awareness and doctors barefoot local the health, to training child and orientation reproductive and care health preventive on members SHG the to trainings SHGs, new of formation through Kolkata, in SHGs women through Environment Socio & rights of protection Towardsand women’sdevelopment for health initiative an Development for Management (PRISM), Kolkata Institute Professional and review oftraining materialreports, thereby addingvaluetothe projects. in the Rajasthan microfinance initiative, through field visits, discussions with staff Towards reviewing and providing resource support inputs to the Trust’s grantees Kalanjiam Foundation, Madurai Activities Supporting Microfinance and Related Livelihood Enhancement Enhancement Livelihood Related and Microfinance Supporting by microfinanceinterventions. identifying and developing good community level stories by of state the difference the made in microfinance for climate positive a create (c) and component; microfinance the anchoring and advising by programmes large/significant to (a) include: Centre acting as a knowledge hub for microfinance; the (b) providing handholding support by undertaken tasks and roles microfinance key of The area Rajasthan. the in in institution support level state a as positioned is Towards(CMF),Microfinance Centrefor which the for support phase inception Indian InstituteofHealthManagement&Research(IIHMR), Jaipur Sakh Se Vikas (SSV)(RajasthanMicrofinanceInitiative) Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional . 250,000 200,000 340,000 500,000 90,000
97 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 98 SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional on education and development of persons in the age group of 11-20, in 212 villages inRajasthan. in 11-20, of group age the in persons of development and education on focusing camps programme field a is residential which Dashak’, for ‘Doosra under adolescents for curriculum needs-based a of development Towards Foundation forEducationandDevelopment, Jaipur teaching of and research environment. quality the enhancing of aim the with Kerala, in both Pandalam, department of KannurAnthropology University the and the in Economics members Department of faculty NSS College, of building capacity research Towards Centre forDevelopmentStudies, Trivandrum of learningresources. schools, besides programme planning for developing a proposal for the government improving outreachon book a of publication the on focus would Sutradhar which during resources, learning of dissemination and development Towards Sutradhar, Bangalore of Thane district, Maharashtra. files and reference material in print, for pre-primary teachers in the tribal region films,pre-schooldesigned programmes,well resourcecum manual instruction short of consisting package, training multi-media a of development Towards Gram Mangal, Pune for future activities. plan financial a preparing teachers,besides the of visits exposure and training school,the of costs operational the of part for provided been has support The Towards improving systems of the ‘Anand Niketan’, an alternative school Avishkar ShikshanSansthan,in Nasik Nasik. them secure employment. helping children, challenged mentally trained of abilities the about awareness its five year polytechnic course for mentally challenged children. The film builds Towards producing a film titled ‘Breaking Barriers’ to document and show-case S. P. J. SadhanaSchool, Bombay EDUCATION empowerment, byprovidingthemtraining and linkingthemwithbanks. Maharashtra, district, Yavatmal women’son groups,focusing old in of consolidation and groups new 35 through federation SHG a of formation Towards Priyadarshini MahilaMandal, Yavatmal 500,000 200,000 500,000 421,000 496,000 424,000 200,000 Vahangaon inPunedistrict, Maharashtra. and at students tribal toilets to catering six School, Secondary Bhairavnath Sri besides the at urinals classroom, additional one of construction Towards Priyadarshani EducationSociety, Kamshet respectively, Pune in children besides slum providing support for for developing centre and implementing a tuition fund raising a plan. and centre learning Khelghar,cum and activity Sankul an Anand of costs Towardsoperational part Palakneeti Pariwar, Pune NCLP Schoolforoneyearbefore mainstreaming them. the in them teaching and Mandal besides Pebbair from labourers child Pradesh, 100 identifying Andhra Pebbair, in School (NCLP) Project National Labourers SIRD’s Child at children girl of enrolment cent per 100 ensuring Towards Society forIntegrationandRuralDevelopment(SIRD), Kothakota ecology andbiodiversity. between human beings and their landscape by improving their knowledge about livelihoods, land management and development, besides fostering a new alliance holistic measures that are beneficial, both to themselves and nature, in areas of Towards the project ‘School in the Forest’ which aims to help individuals discover Munnarakkunnu Trust, Bangalore of quantum the in increase an for fellowship. and Management Rural in Programme Fellow the under students two of fellowship of extension Towardsthe funding Institute ofRuralManagement(IRMA), Anand Deena development andinitiationofafinancialplanningexercise fortheschool. the of costs operational the Bandhu primary for school in Chamrajnagar, support Karnataka, besides support for partial teacher providing Towards Deena Bandhu Trust, Chamrajnagar potential andfinally, developandimplementsuitablecurriculum. the child, experiment on methods of Nai Talim for the full realization of children’s carephysical,takes the of of development socio-psychological and intellectual broad the that environment educational which an provide to be would project the of objectives during Talim”, “Nai of concept the reinvigorating Towards Nai Talim Samiti, Wardha in Phaltan, Maharashtra. teaching ofEnglishasasecondlanguageinselectgovernmentmiddleschools teacher’sfor handbook,a and reader supplementary a Towardsof publication Pragat ShikshanSanstha, Phaltan Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional 500,000 500,000 496,000 200,000 350,000 500,000 442,000 350,000
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SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional oad srnteig n wdnn te cp o te clgcl Society's Ecological the educational programme ineco-restoration andnatural resource of management. scope the widening and strengthening Towards Ecological Society, Pune educational booksonscience. translating and experiments science innovative documenting material, simple using science learning of possibilities the demonstrating of aim Pune,the with Towards support for ‘Pulatsya’ - the children’s science activity centre at IUCAA, Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune and features magazineinHindi, forneo-literates andsemi-literate readers. news bi-monthly ‘Pitara’,of a issues six of publication Towardsthe supporting Nirantar Trust, Delhi from Kolkata, West Bengal. teachers 15 for teaching science of programme training year one a Towards Jagadis BoseNationalScience Talent Search(JBNSTS), Kolkata Karnataka, covering22teachersand1,000students. district, BangaloreNorth in schools 12 in concepts studies social and language Kannada illustrate to aids teaching creates which ‘Poorana’, project Towards Dhwani Trust, Bangalore the internet. and translating educational books on science, digitizing and uploading them on experiments science innovative documenting material, simple using science centre at IUCAA, Pune, with activity the science aim children’sof the demonstrating - the possibilities ‘Pulatsya’ of for learning support phase second Towards Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, (IUCAA) Pune is beingimplementedinsixdistrictsof West Bengal. Goal-Oriented, Motivated and Innovative Middle School Science Teachers’, which Towards a planning phase for the project ‘Building a Community of Educationally Jagadis BoseNationalScience Talent Search(JBNSTS), Kolkata validation workshopswere felicitated. 2005, during which, 70 innovative teachers that had been selected at earlier held TowardsRatan Sir the Tatasupporting TrustConferenceInnovations Pedagogic Ahmedabad (RJMCEI),J.Innovation Ravi IIM-A,Educational The for Centre Matthai rehabilitate mentallyillwomen. Paripurnata andstrengthening thecapacitiesofitsstaff totreat, shelterand Towards Paripurnata, Kolkata HEALTH providing intensive skill and vocational training to the ex-residents of ex-residents the to training vocational and skill intensive providing
177,346 200,000 211,915 150,000 250,000 475,000 470,000 245,500 203,000 in envelopemaking, screen printing, tailoring, etc. students according to their abilities, whilst the latter imparts vocational training teaching on focuses differently former TheKarnataka. for district, Kodagu in students Rehabilitation’ abled for ‘Centre and Education’ Special for organisation’s ‘School the of activities the covers which ‘Swastha’, project Towards The CoorgFoundation, Pollibetta, Kodagu publishes theoutcomesofresearch andshares itwithvariousagencies. plan, dissemination a develops (iv) families;and their and disability intellectual service delivery within of the community and model addresses a the various needs develops of persons (iii) with families; their and disability intellectual with persons of needs the assesses (ii) survey; a through disability intellectual with infants and children with intellectual disability. The project: (i) identifies children Towards conducting research in a slum in Delhi, for enhancement of services to Samadhan, NewDelhi (PDD) and Autism. (SLI), Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia (DVD), Pervasive Developmental Disorder for children with communication disorders such as Specific Language Impairment Towards development and standardization of indigenous evaluation procedures The ComDEALL Trust, Bangalore child’s needs. their of understanding better develop to parents the to facilities training and for becoming an effective and efficient service provider; and providing counseling on children below 10 years of age; strengthening SETU’s organisational systems Towards a research project to assess the impact of developmental intervention Setu DevelopmentalInterventionCentre(SETU), Ahmedabad in themainstream oflife, tothebestoftheirabilitiesandpotential. into the educational system, thus creating opportunities for them to participate Pradesh Bhopal,Madhya in slums from children disabled Towardsof inclusion Arushi Trust, Bhopal recovery. after them rehabilitates and ailments physical and mental their for treatment medical provides Guwahati,Assam, in streets the from individuals ill mentally Towards their programme ‘Nav Chetna’, which identifies and picks up homeless Ashadeep, Guwahati and theirfamilies. patients the for opportunities learning providing and health about awareness community increasing groups, carers and self-help of formation centres,care clinics,day monthly district, Kolaron Karnataka, of focusing block Siddlaghatta Towards developing a community mental health care model in 70 villages in the The RichmondFellowshipSociety(India), Bangalore Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional 247,000 100,000 497,000 365,000 499,000 200,000 200,000
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SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional groundwork foraneffectivehealthcare system. Samastipur of the laying issues,thus health district,Bihar, block on awareness of lack overcome to Vadyapati the in community the empowering Towards Swasti SewaSamiti, Samastipur creating awareness amongthepublicregarding AIDS andrelated issues. and equipment classroom procuring facilities, recreational creating samples, HIV positive parents,of whichchildren includes for setting up home a medicala Kiran,laboratory for Asha testing the blood of development general Towards Asha Kiran, Kottayam, Kerala emergency medicalservices toroadaccidentvictims. finally, engaging and trained drivers, room attendants, control citizens of 7 Baroda X and police 24 personnel for a providing establishing by ambulances and centres, developing an universal access phone number to connect all hospitals care medical city,creating the of ambulances 43 the all with networking and upgrading by Baroda in services medical emergency their Towardsenhancing Lifeline Foundation, Baroda Rajasthan. from Mewat area, which extends from south of Gurgaon in Haryana to Alwar in hailing patients needy on surgeries removal cataract 350 Towardsperforming ICARE CharitableEyeHospital, Noida music inBombay. sacred contemporary and classical in performances four organizing Towards Fr. J. B. FernandesSacred MusicFoundation, Bombay Hindi verse. in Upanishad Ish the Ma’sParamof Pujya of renderingelucidation musical a is which ‘Ishopanishad’, of distribution and marketing production, the Towards The Arpana Trust, Madhuban, Karnal, Haryana for theEducationInternshipProgramme. the four southern states of India; and (e) giving internship to 12 fresh graduates (d) Programme’; of cultures Bridges the of traditions living the exhibiting museum a to visit a organizing ‘Building the conducting (c) manuals; developing (b) 4-7;interpretive standards for culture and arts of curriculum the in areas the develop and outlining streamline (a) on: to focus projects programmes.The order education art organisation’s in projects five supporting Towards Madras CraftFoundation, Chennai ARTS &CULTURE villages inDahod, Jhalod, andFatehpura blocksofDahoddistrict, Gujarat. 15 in mortality maternal reducing thus midwives, of skills Towardsenhancing Sakhi, Dahod 300,000 450,000 500,000 487,000 500,000 250,000 200,000 200,000 rvdn adodn upr oslc ihreuainisiuin nteat. 250,000 besides portfolio,providing Culture handholding support to select & higher education institutions Arts in the arts. its supporting of aim the Trust, with the for appraisals 300,000 / reviews / projects special 10 approximately conducting Towards Centre fortheStudyofCultureandSociety(CSCS), Bangalore themes relevant anduseful forthesociety, withafocusoncommunityhealth. oad tann ppeer ad ok artists folk and puppeteers training Towards The Puppet, Pune the baseofdistributionatleast10otherindependent/smallpublishers between eight of India’s leading independent academic publishers, and widening Towards partial funding support to set up mechanisms Womenof Unlimited, NewDelhi distribution collaboration the UDRIlecture series. outreach tool; enhancementofworkshopsandurbanstudios; andaugmenting an as website its of development UDRI;strengthening Towardsand expansion Urban DesignResearchInstitute(UDRI), Mumbai to seeks that healing. course certification (ABT) of therapyprocess towardsarts the of style new a of efficacy demonstratethe Therapist Based Arts a Towards World CentreforCreativeLearningFoundation, Pune youth groupsacrossfivelocationsin Tamil Nadu. among skills theatrical basic building and Towardsawareness theatre creating Koothu –PPattarai Trust, Chennai eeomn o a il ipeetto o plc avcc rl, besides role, advocacy policy or assessing theeffectiveness ofthesectoral orthematic programmes. implementation field a or Development the role played by SRIJAN, either in Human Resource Development / Organisation Towardsresourcereview,human development strategicand a identifies which Self ReliantInitiativesthroughJoint Action (SRIJAN), NewDelhi foster socialdevelopment. other,to essential skills developing and projects action on together working by which enabled young social activists from around the world to learn from each Maharashtra,Pune, in School”, Summer “International an organizing Towards Centre for Youth Development& Activities (CYDA), besides Pune direction strategic and roles operationalizing performanceappraisal andtraining plans. organisational on collective building understanding on focus would organisation strategic the which, and during development planning, organisational of process a catalysing Towards Mobile Creches, NewDelhi CIVIL SOCIETY&GOVERNANCE
Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional o eeo promne in performances develop to . 250,000 200,000 250,000 480,000 477,500 500,000 250,000
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SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional besides developingshorttermvolunteeringassignments foryouthinDelhi. civic about awareness creates responsibility which among 3,000 urban youth Fellows’, in five reputed institutions ‘India in north India, project the Towards Mitra Technology Foundation, NewDelhi life skillsforunder-privileged urbanyouth. / livelihood on capacities build and facilitate to fellowships and fellows existing to grants activity time one same,small the on research includes which youth, artisan for programme fellowship enhanced an for work preliminaryTowards Samvada, Bangalore the showcase commitment andconvictionoftheyoungpeopleinsector.to view a with film, and short Youth of form the the in initiative, within Society Civil partners Trust’s the of efforts documenting Towards Pravah, NewDelhi and funding foreign of benefits reduce itsadverseeffects. the maximize to how on lessons draw and which seeks to study the impact of foreign assistance on the Indian civil society Towards their research titled ‘Civil Society and Foreign Development Assistance’, Sampradaan IndianCentreforPhilanthropy, NewDelhi organisations. to become more effective in pursing visions of planned change in development organizational of facilitators change, with grooming the objective of for providing change facilitation training programme for individuals a initiating Towards HID Forum, Bangalore development issuesandfostersspiritofvolunteerism. for with contact in programme youth the brings internship which Delhi, of summer students undergraduate a the Fellows’, ‘India project the Towards Mitra Technology Foundation, NewDelhi their on write and reflect to experiences. practitioners OD encouraging and identifying the non profit sector, through identification of themes/areas for documentation, Towards acquiringknowledge on practice ofOrganization Development (OD) in Satyam Foundation, Hyderabad dogs andemergency relief tostray animalsinPanaji, PondaandMargao, stray Goa. of sterilization shelters, animal PFA of enhancement capacity Towards People For Animals (PFA), Margao organisations. non-profit in management middle and workers grassroots of capacities build Towardstrainingof series a programmes to skills media and communication in Communication forDevelopmentandLearning, Bangalore
250,000 215,000 300,000 500,000 250,000 408,000 250,000 250,000 200,000 psychology inBangalore, Karnataka. career on consultation national a of organisationTowards preparationand the The PromiseFoundation, Bangalore of conduct and role the Mass Media. evaluate creatively and critically to them enabling thus Trivandrum,Kerala,in schools ten in students among awareness media imparts which Society”,Democratic for Education “Media project Towardsthe Trivandrum Mediact (Media Education for Awareness and Cultural Transformation), in Chennai. Towardsshelter the rescuedinjuredin the andanimals treatfeed to and funds People For Animals (PFA), Chennai and adoptionofstray pups. camps anti-rabies organizing cases, cruelty animal against action legal taking Towards treating and rescuing wounded and sick animals in Ghaziabad, besides People For Animals (PFA), Ghaziabad spaying /neuteringthemandvaccinatingbefore release. them, catching Kolkata,by in dogs stray of population the Towardscontrolling People For Animals (PFA), Kolkata sterilise 420dogs. to Chandigarh in program (ABC) Control Birth Animal an conducting Towards People For Animals (PFA), Chandigarh an Animal BirthControl(ABC)program for dogs in Agra, UttarPradesh. Towards establishment of a help line for destitute injured animals and conductingPeople For Animals (PFA), Agra shelter PFA’s at animals stray of house inDehradun, Uttaranchal. immunization and control birth Towards People For Animals (PFA), Dehradun shelter forwildanimals. animals,emergencydomestic an to besides service ambulance an and shelter Towards operating expenses of its facility in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, People For Animals (PFA),which Bhubaneswar provides Institutional grants : Small Grant Programme Grant Small : grants Institutional 250,000 244,000 500,000 333,000 239,289 250,000 500,000 250,000 241,000
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3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 )NDIVIDUAL GRANTS )NDIVIDUAL 'RANTS FROM ITS ESTABLISHED LINKAGES WITH VARIOUS GOVERNMENT AND MUNICIPAL HOSPITALS IS ALSO EXPLORING AND TO SAVE THEMSELVES FROM IMPENDING lNANCIAL RUIN 4HEREFORE OVER THE PAST DECADE THE 4RUST APART KIDNEY #HARITABLE TRUSTS AND BENEVOLENT INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN THE ONLY RECOURSE FOR THESE FAMILIES DOES NOT COVER THE ENTIRE COST OF TREATMENT ESPECIALLY FOR CASES LIKE CANCER AND DISEASES OF THE OF SEVERAL SECTIONS OF SOCIETY 4HOUGH MEDICAL INSURANCE HAS BEEN GAINING POPULARITY IN )NDIA IT %SCALATING STRESS lNANCIAL AND HOSPITALIZATION BILLS AND MEDICINE COSTS HAVE RENDERED DECENT MEDICAL ATTENTION BEYOND THE REALM EMOTIONAL IN RESULTS FAMILIES MOST FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL ! -EDICAL %DUCATIONAL NEEDS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION WITHIN )NDIA AND ASSISTANCE FOR EDUCATION RELATED TRAVEL s -EETING MEDICAL EXPENSES DURING CRITICAL ILLNESSES s 4HE )NDIVIDUAL 'RANT 0ROGRAMME PROVIDES lNANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS FOR HUMANE APPROACH TOWARDS IDENTIlCATION OF NEEDY INDIVIDUALS TOWARDS HONING SYSTEMS THAT ENSURE A COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMATIC AND MOST IMPORTANTLY FAIR AND 0ROGRAMME 7HAT CHARACTERIZES THIS 0ROGRAMME ARE THE CONTINUOUS EFFORTS EXPENDED BY THE 4RUST IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE THE 4RUST HAS SINCE INCEPTION LAID GREAT EMPHASIS ON ITS )NDIVIDUAL 'RANTS )N KEEPING WITH THE BENEVOLENT NATURE OF 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA AND HIS PROCLIVITY FOR HELPING OUT INDIVIDUALS OVERSEAS 3ANCTIONS OF -EDICAL 'RANTS EXTENDING AND STRENGTHENING LINKS TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS WITHIN HOSPITALS ALREADY HAVING A LINKAGE $URING THE YEAR UNDER REVIEW THE 4RUST FORMED FRESH INSTITUTIONAL LINKAGES WITH SIX HOSPITALS BESIDES NEEDY ESTABLISHING LINKAGES WITH CHARITABLE AND PRIVATE HOSPITALS THAT GIVE CONCESSIONS TO THE POOR AND GET A CHANCE TO LEAD NORMAL FRUITFUL LIVES HOSPITALS )T IS HOPEFUL THAT THIS SUPPORT WOULD GO A LONG WAY IN ENSURING THAT YOUNG CHILDREN WITH SUCH DISABILITY WOULD lNANCIALLY SUPPORTING DESERVING PATIENTS IN NEED OF #OCHLEAR )MPLANTS BESIDES EXPLORING SIMILAR LINKS WITH OTHER LEADING AN INSTITUTIONAL LINK WITH THE %.4 $EPARTMENT OF 0 $ (INDUJA (OSPITAL AND 2ESEARCH #ENTRE IN -UMBAI WITH THE AIM OF RESULTS ARE OBTAINED IF THE IMPLANT IS CARRIED OUT AS SOON AS HEARING LOSS IS DETECTED 4HIS HAS SPURRED THE 4RUST TO FORM -EDICAL OPINION FAVORS #OCHLEAR )MPLANTS AS A TENABLE SOLUTION FOR MOST CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM HEARING DISABILITIES "EST SCHOOL AND IS EAGER TO PRACTICE TENNIS THE PHONE SOMETHING WHICH OTHER HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN WOULD lND ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE (E ALSO ATTENDS REGULAR WITHIN 2AJUS LIFE &ROM A HYPERACTIVE WHINY CHILD FOREVER CLINGING ON TO HIS MOTHER 2AJU CAN NOW EFFORTLESSLY TALK OVER 4HE #OCHLEAR )MPLANT PERFORMED AT THE 0 $ (INDUJA (OSPITAL HAS DONE WONDERS AND BROUGHT A SEA OF TRANSFORMATION 4RUST WHICH RESPONDED WITH A GRANT OF 2S DElNITELY BEYOND THEIR MODEST MEANS 4HE FAMILY SOUGHT ASSISTANCE FROM SEVERAL CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS INCLUDING THE 2S &OR HIS PARENTS WITH 2AJUS FATHER BEING THE SOLE EARNING MEMBER OF A FAMILY OF FOUR THE AMOUNT WAS MOST (OWEVER THE PROMISE FOR A BRIGHTER AND AUDIBLE FUTURE FOR 2AJU CAME AT A HEAVY PRICE n THE COST OF THE IMPLANT BEING TO THE HEARING NERVE 4HE INFORMATION IS THEN TRANSMITTED TO THE BRAIN WHERE INTERPRETATION OF THE SOUND TAKES PLACE 4HE IMPLANT IS ESSENTIALLY A SOPHISTICATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE DELIVERING SOUND INFORMATION IN THE FORM OF ELECTRICAL IMPULSES THAT #OCHLEAR )MPLANT WAS THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR 2AJUS DISABILITY AWARENESS PROGRAMME AT THE (INDUJA (OSPITAL -UMBAI ! SERIES OF TESTS WERE PERFORMED POST WHICH IT WAS ESTABLISHED DIRECTED THEM TO PLACE HIM IN A SPECIAL SCHOOL )N THEIR QUEST TO SECURE A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR 2AJU THE PARENTS ATTENDED AN HEARING LOSS AND 2AJUS PARENTS WERE ADVISED TO TAKE HIM TO THE !LI 9AVER *UNG (EARING )NSTITUTE -UMBAI WHICH LATER SUDDENLY EXPERIENCED CONVULSIONS FOLLOWING WHICH HIS EYESIGHT DEVELOPED PROBLEMS &OUR MONTHS LATER TESTS DETECTED THE LULLABY HIS MOTHER SINGSx4HIS WAS THE SILENT REALM OF SEVEN YEAR OLD 2AJU %ARLIER AS AN EIGHT MONTH OLD BABY 2AJU )MAGINE A WORLD WHERE THE CHIRRUPING SOUNDS OF A SPARROW CANNOT BE HEARD A WORLD WHERE A CHILD IS UNABLE TO HEAR ED T FC TE OL!TR NEGIG CCLA IPAT TI CID ED A LEADS CHILD THIS NORMAL LIFE IMPLANT COCHLEAR A UNDERGOING WORLD !FTER THE FACE TO 2EADY )NDIVIDUAL GRANTS
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SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Individual grants Individual career shorttermrefresher course, ortoattendrelevant andmeaningfulworkshops/seminars. mid a for or education, higher pursue to abroad travel for assistance airfare partial provide to (ii) (i) tooffermeritscholarshipscoveringtuitionfeesonly, forhigherstudiesinIndia; and Grants madeunderthisprogramme are twofold: Education grants sanctionedduringtheyearhasincreased by5%. is a marginal increase over the amount sanctioned during 2004-05. Correspondingly, the number of During 2005-06, the Trust sanctioned Rs. 82.69 million (US $ 1.84 million) towards medical grants, which a specifictimeperiodandreview isundertakenpriortocontinuingthesame. hospitals were suspended and one is on hold. All new linkages established by the Trust are valid threefor with links period, same the During anvil. the on are suburbs, its and Mumbai in especially be effective April 2006 onwards. Similar collaborations with other hospitals/organisations of repute, disadvantaged families in need of financial assistance during their medical crisis. This linkage would and needy of referral the in result would linkage this and programme banking community its for Trustthe with relationship programmatic a shares Foundation,Madurai,which Kalanjiam the with linkage a exploring is Trust the Besides, Mumbai. Hospital, P. Hinduja D. the of Department ENT few.a Limited,and the name Mumbai,Hospitals Wockhardtwith to established also was linkage A Institute,FamilyHeart Holy include linkages Mumbai,new TheMandal,Charutar KaramsadArogya * The amountmentionedisforgrants sanctionedandmayvaryfromactualdisbursals. Cancer Kidney Heart Burns Others Tuberculosis Total Medical: Detailsofgrantsmadefrom April 2005toMarch2006 o fapiain N.sntoe Rs. inmillion No. sanctioned No. ofapplications 3,813 1,517 894 458 898 21 25 1,263 505 300 346 82 12 18 26 100.0 82.69 96 35.8 29.63 54 30.8 25.45 17 26.3 21.77 .6 4.9 4.06 .4 0.7 1.5 0.54 1.24 * % EXCHANGE PROGRAMME SUPPORTS TEACHERS IN THEIR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EXPOSURE TO BESIDES FOR THE lRST TIME AWARDING TRAVEL GRANTS UNDER THE 4EACHERS %XCHANGE 0ROGRAMME 4HIS AWARD TRAVEL GRANTS TO THE "RITISH #HEVENING SCHOLARS AND (IGHER %DUCATION ,INK 0ROGRAMME SCHOLARS $URING THE PERIOD UNDER REVIEW THE 4RUST ALSO CONTINUED ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE "RITISH #OUNCIL TO AND THE CUT OFF PERCENTAGES CRITERIA WERE REVISED DURING THE YEAR UNDER REVIEW STIPULATING PARAMETERS SUCH AS BASIC ELIGIBILITY THE SCHOLARSHIP !PART FROM THIS THE 4RUST ALSO ENCOURAGED DIRECT APPLICATIONS FOR WHICH PRE SET 3CIENCES *AMNALAL "AJAJ )NSTITUTE OF -ANAGEMENT 3TUDIES ETC RECOMMEND MERITORIOUS STUDENTS FOR REPUTED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS LIKE THE )NDIAN )NSTITUTE OF -ANAGEMENT 4ATA )NSTITUTE OF 3OCIAL IN )NDIA AT PRESENT WHICH SEEKS OUT AND AWARDS MERIT ABOVE ALL ELSE 5NDER THIS 0ROGRAMME LEVEL -OST IMPORTANTLY THIS IS A MERIT SCHOLARSHIP AND IS PERHAPS THE ONLY SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE STRUCTURED PROGRAMME AT BOTH THE UNDERGRADUATE FOR CERTAIN DISCIPLINES ONLY AND POSTGRADUATE 4HE 4RUST HAS PUT FOCUSED EFFORTS TO MAKE THE 3CHOLARSHIP FOR (IGHER 3TUDIES IN )NDIA INTO A WELL N #MOWAT /FC IN /FFICE #OMMONWEALTH AND BESIDES A MEETING AT THE &OREIGN SESSION IN WAS 0ARLIAMENT THE %UROPEAN 5NION 0ARLIAMENT WHEN THE PROGRAMME INCLUDED A VISIT TO THE OF HIGHLIGHTS THE ETC !MONGST 'ARDENS "OTANICAL 2OYAL LIKE :OOLOGICAL 3OCIETY OF ,ONDON INSTITUTIONS IMPORTANT TO VISITS IN 5+ WHICH INCLUDED SEVERAL lELD EXPERIENCE MONTH THREE HIS 3UJOY SENT A DETAILED REPORT ABOUT RETURN HIS UPON SUPPORT ITS FOR THE 4RUST THANKING AIRFARE 7HILST 2S TOWARDS HIS INTERNATIONAL ,ONDON OF SUM A SANCTION TO PLEASED CLOSE TO THE 4RUST 7HEN 3UJOY APPROACHED THE 4RUST IN -AY WITH AN APPLICATION FOR A TRAVEL GRANT THE LATTER WAS 3UPPORTING QUALITY PROGRAMMES THAT ENDEAVOUR TO PROTECT THE COUNTRYS FRAGILE ECO SYSTEMS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE THAT IS PAY FOR HIS INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL BETWEEN )NDIA AND 5+ INCLUDED THE ENTIRE COST OF THE PROGRAMME ALONG WITH BOARDING AND LODGING COSTS 3UJOY WAS REQUIRED TO ARRANGE AND 3EPTEMBER &OR A KEEN ENVIRONMENTALIST LIKE 3UJOY THE OPPORTUNITY WAS A DREAM COME TRUE 7HILST THE SCHOLARSHIP THREE MONTH PROGRAMME WAS ORGANISED BY THE 5NIVERSITY OF 7ALES "ANGOR 5+ AND WAS SCHEDULED TO COMMENCE FROM "RITISH #HEVENING 3CHOLARSHIPS TO ATTEND A PROGRAMME IN %NVIRONMENT -ANAGEMENT AND 3USTAINABLE $EVELOPMENT 4HE HIS MAIL IN -ARCH ! LETTER FROM THE "RITISH #OUNCIL INFORMED 3UJOY THAT HE HAD BEEN SELECTED AS A SCHOLAR UNDER THE 3UJOY "ANERJEE A $EPUTY #ONSERVATOR OF &ORESTS AT THE -INISTRY OF %NVIRONMENT AND &ORESTS RECEIVED A PLEASANT SURPRISE IN R "NRE AIS OHR ATCPNS T MEIG T H &RIN AND &OREIGN THE AT MEETING A AT PARTICIPANTS #OMMONWEALTH /FlCE IN ,ONDON OTHER AMIDST "ANERJEE -R )NDIVIDUAL GRANTS
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SIR RATAN TATA TRUST • ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 Individual grants Individual in 2004-05. total grant outlay of Rs. 20.63 million (US $ 0.46 million), as against Rs. 20.41 million to 1,112 applicants During 2005-06, the Trust supported 1,237 individuals towards their higher education goals through a or privateschools. leadership skills of school principals. The selected teachers / principals are either from government enhance to opportunity providing besides etc.,methodologies, learning teaching cultures, other Conferences / abroad Mid-career training presentations Others Total Studies abroad Studies inIndia * The amountmentioned isforgrants sanctioned andmayvaryfromactualdisbursals. Short termcourses/ Education: Detailsofgrantsmadefrom April 2005toMarch2006
Sanctions of Education Grants (individual) 1997-2006 (individual) Grants Education of Sanctions o fapiain N.sntoe R.i ilo* % Rs. inmillion* No. sanctioned No. ofapplications 1,798 1,259 180 256 53 50 1,237 1,085 41 33 72 6 06 100.00 20.63 54 74.80 15.44 .9 8.20 1.69 .6 6.60 1.36 .0 1.00 0.20 .4 9.40 1.94 %XPRESSIONSx KNOWLEDGE TO CHANGE THE ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURE OF THE COUNTRYx THE @%NVIRONMENTAL OF 3CHOLARS #HEVENING MANAGEMENT 3UBSTANTIAL $EVELOPMENT 0ROGRAMME SO THAT THEY CAN USE THEIR ACQUIRED SKILLS AND FUTURE HELP TO CONTINUES THE 4RUST THAT HOPE x) -ELBOURNE IN CONFERENCE SIGNIlCANT THIS ATTEND TO ME FOR POSSIBLE IT MADE AND BURSARY TRAVEL x)T IS SIGNIlCANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE GENEROSITY OF THE 4RUST WHO FUNDED MY VISIT THROUGH ITS UNAFFORDABLE 4HE 4RUSTS ASSISTANCE TO THESE NEEDY PATIENTS HAS GIVEN A RAY OF HOPE x ARE DIFlCULT TO PROCURE )T IS TRAUMATIC TO REALIZE THAT TREATMENT FOR THE CONDITION IS AVAILABLE ALBEIT x.EURO SURGERIES ARE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE AND THE FUNDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM THESE FOR THE POOR x4HANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TOWARDS KIDNEY TRANSPLANT OF MY COLLEAGUEx HAD GIVEN UP ALL HOPE OF HIS SURVIVALx x9OUR TIMELY AND GENEROUS INTERVENTION HAS ENABLED OUR ONLY SON TO ENJOY A NORMAL LIFE JUST AS WE CAREERx OF AWARDING SCHOLARSHIPS TO OUR STUDENTS TO PURSUE THEIR STUDIES AND STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN THEIR x7E WOULD LIKE TO CONVEY OUR SINCERE AND HEARTFELT APPRECIATION TO THE 4RUST IN THEIR NOBLE GESTURE AND MY HAPPINESS TO THE 4RUST FOR WITHOUT ITS TIMELY SUPPORT THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLEx x)NSPITE OF BEING CRITICALLY ILL MY SON APPEARED AND PASSED HIS -""3 EXAMS ) OWE THIS SUCCESS !USTRALIAx LOST HOPE 7HEN ) RECEIVED YOUR SCHOLARSHIP IT GAVE ME A NEW LEASE OF LIFEx x) HAD SEARCHED AND APPLIED FOR A SCHOLARSHIP FOR HIGHER STUDIES TO SEVERAL ORGANISATIONS AND HAD DISEASEx TREATMENT TO OUR PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM CANCER 9OUR HELP GOES A LONG WAY IN COMBATTING THE DREADED 4HIS IS TO PLACE ON RECORD OUR SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR TIMELY EXTENDING A HELPING HAND FOR MEDICAL n !NAND ,ALBIGE FATHER OF THREE YEAR OLD 6IVEK WHO UNDERWENT OPEN HEART SURGERY n , , +OMALAM 4HANJAVUR 4AMIL .ADU A RECIPIENT OF THE 4RUSTS SCHOLARSHIP n 3HARAD *AGTAP FATHER OF 2AHUL WHO WAS A RECIPIENT OF THE 4RUSTS SCHOLARSHIP n /IHIKA #HAKRABARTI !RT 0SYCHOTHERAPIST RECIPIENT OF THE 4RUSTS TRAVEL GRANT n $R 2 3 0 2AO $EAN +ASTURBA -EDICAL #OLLEGE -ANIPAL +ARNATAKA n "ARNA -AJUMDAR RECIPIENT OF THE 4RUSTS TRAVEL GRANT AFTER SECURING THE n -S +AREN 0INTO -EDICAL 3OCIAL 7ORKER +%- (OSPITAL -UMBAI 3HRI 3IDDHIVINAYAK 'ANAPATI #ANCER (OSPITAL -IRAJ -AHARASHTRA n 0ROF $R 9 3 4ORO #HIEF !DMINISTRATIVE /FlCER n $EEP *OSHI %XECUTIVE $IRECTOR 02!$!. "RITISH #HEVENING 3CHOLARSHIP AS WELL AS A MEDICAL GRANT )NDIVIDUAL GRANTS
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3)2 2!4!. 4!4! 42534 s !..5!, 2%0/24 &INANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS )NCOME %XPENDITURE S N 53 IN 2S IN OTIUINT HRT OMSINR "ALANCE SURPLUS $EPRECIATION 53 IS APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO 2S 53 IS APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO 2S #ONTRIBUTION TO #HARITY #OMMISSIONER 0ROPERTY %XPENSES !DMINISTRATIVE %XPENSES 0ROGRAMME 'RANTS #HARITIES !PRIL n -ARCH S N 53 IN 2S IN EAE)CNIEO NETET 2EFUND OF #HARITIES 2EBATE )NCENTIVE ON )NVESTMENT 0ROPERTY )NCOME $ONATION n )NTEREST $IVIDEND )NCOME !PRIL n -ARCH ILO MLIN MILLION MILLION ILO MLIN MILLION MILLION 0ARTICULARS 0ARTICULARS ILO MILLION MILLION ILO MILLION MILLION S N 53 IN 2S IN S N 53 IN 2S IN n n n n n !SSETS ,IABILITIES S N 3I 53 IN 2S IN 53 IN 2S IN -ARCH !S ON -ARCH -ARCH !S ON -ARCH #ASH AND "ANK "ALANCES /UTSTANDING )NCOME /THER $EBIT "ALANCES -OVABLE 0ROPERTIES )NVESTMENTS )MMOVABLE 0ROPERTIES )NCOME AND %XPENDITURE !CCOUNT /THER #REDIT "ALANCES )NVESTMENT 2ESERVE &UND AND /THER FUNDS 4RUST &UND 53 IS APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO 2S 53 IS APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO 2S ILO MLIN MILLION MILLION ILO MLIN MILLION MILLION 0ARTICULARS 0ARTICULARS &INANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS -ARCH -ARCH ILO MILLION MILLION ILO MILLION MILLION S N 53 IN 2S IN S N 53 IN 2S IN
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%MAIL SRTT TATACOM (OMI -ODY 3TREET -UMBAI "OMBAY (OUSE 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA 4RUST 4HE 3ECRETARY !LL COMMUNICATION SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO OF THE PAST AND PRESENT ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANISATION AND THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE FUNDS ARE SOUGHT AND E PROJECT PLANNING AND APPRAISAL ! LETTER OF ENQUIRY SHOULD BE SENT TO THE 4RUST ALONG WITH A BRIEF DESCRIPTION B FOCUSED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES C MAINSTREAMING OF INNOVATIONS D SETTING UP OR STRENGTHENING OF INTERNAL SYSTEMS IDEAS ,ARGER ORGANISATIONS CAN ALSO APPLY TO THE 3MALL 'RANT 0ROGRAMME FOR A STRATEGIC PLANNING ANDOR EVALUATION OF LESS THAN 2S MILLION AND EMPLOYING NOT MORE THAN PEOPLE FOR SEED SUPPORT TO IMPLEMENT NEW AND INNOVATIVE 'RANTS UNDER THE GRANT WILL BE MADE AFTER A RIGOROUS AND THOROUGH APPRAISAL OF THE INSTITUTION LAID DOWN IN THE %NDOWMENT 3TRATEGY AND THE FOLLOW UP 3TRATEGIC 0LANNING %XERCISE CARRIED OUT IN 4HE MISSION DRIVEN INSTITUTIONS WHICH HAVE EXHIBITED ENTERPRISE AND INITIATIVE FOR AT LEAST TEN YEARS WHO MEET THE CRITERIA %NDOWMENT GRANTS EXPENDITURE 4HE 4RUST DOES CONSIDERED 4HE 4RUST DISCOURAGES REQUESTS FOR SUPPORT TOWARDS THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION AND PURCHASE OF LANDCAPITAL THEMATIC AREAS OF SUPPORT THAT HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED IN THE 0ROGRAMME 'RANT CHAPTERS OF THE !NNUAL 2EPORT ARE APPRAISED METICULOUSLY IS WHICH AND USED AS THE DETAILED OPERATIONAL DOCUMENT FOR PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION /NLY PROPOSALS FALLING WITHIN THE PROPOSAL A INVITES THE 4RUST NOTE CONCEPT THE OF ASSESSMENT TO 3UBSEQUENT 4HE CONCEPT NOTE SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS STATING ITS RATIONALE OBJECTIVES APPROACH STRATEGIES MILESTONES EXPECTED OUTCOMES AND THE ESTIMATED BUDGET PURPOSE FOR WHICH FUNDING IS SOUGHT THE PROBLEMS TO BE ADDRESSED AND A BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT /RGANISATIONS SEEKING PROGRAMME GRANTS SHOULD WRITE TO THE 4RUST WITH A CONCISE CONCEPT NOTE CLEARLY STATING THE &OR AND 'OVERNANCE AND !RTS AND #ULTURE AS ITS lVE THEMATIC AREAS 4HE 4RUST SUPPORTS ITS THEMATIC AREAS THROUGH 4HE 3TRATEGIC 0LAN OF THE 4RUST HAS IDENTIlED %DUCATION (EALTH 2URAL ,IVELIHOODS AND #OMMUNITIES #IVIL 3OCIETY 'UIDELINES FOR 'RANT !PPLICATIONS 0ROGRAMME 'RANTS 4HE #URRICULUM 6ITAE OF THE PROJECT LEADER s ,IST OF MEMBERS OF THE "OARD s ,IST OF PRESENT FUNDING AGENCIES s 2EGISTRATION CERTIlCATE UNDER THE 3OCIETIES !CT OR THE 0UBLIC 4RUST !CT s .ARRATIVE REPORT AND AUDITED STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR TWO PREVIOUS YEARS s STRATEGICALLY POSITION THEIR INTERVENTION IN THE lELD s MAKE EFFECTIVE USE OF HUMAN RESOURCES s HAVE CLEAR REPORTING PARAMETERS AND MONITORING MILESTONES s BUILD IN LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY IN DESIGN AND COST EFFECTIVENESS IN DELIVERY s AIM AT MAINSTREAMING INNOVATIONS ON SCALE s HAVE A CLOSE BOND WITH THE COMMUNITY s ARE FROM ENTERPRISING ORGANISATIONS WILLING TO INNOVATE s 3MALL 'RANTS s %NDOWMENT 'RANTS s 0ROGRAMME 'RANTS s 3IR 2ATAN 4ATA 3MALL 'RANT 0ROGRAMME ARE MADE SELECTIVELY AFTER A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMMATIC RELATIONSHIP WITH THE 4RUST TO THOSE THE 4RUST GIVES PREFERENCE TO PROJECTS THAT NOT SANCTION ALL THE PROPOSALS INVITED BY IT ARE MADE TO ORGANISATIONS WITH AN ANNUAL EXPENDITURE 'UIDELINES
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