1 2 1 Message from the President 8 The Case Against Coal

2 Executive Director’s Letter 9 Powered By The Sun

Freedom of Speech in India Nuclear Energy “You can’t sink a rainbow! 3 10 You can’t muzzle dissent Why We Need Civil Society Clean My Chai in a democracy.” 4 11 5 Voices of Reason 12 Toxic Air

6 How Greenpeace Uses Its Funds 13 Mobilisation

Mobile Engagement- Fundraising CONTENTS 7 14 Radio Sangharsh +Mobiles

3 4 Statement by Members of the Greenpeace India Executive Committee

We speak in the context of the steadily worsening ecological and climate change situation in India in which civil society bears the crucial responsibility and role of bringing to light what is happening, and suggesting corrective policies and measures. Greenpeace India has had the most serious threat yet to its continued existence in India. This year we have withstood repeated assaults on our right to campaign on environmental and social justice issues in India. On the 6th of November, Greenpeace India Society received notice from the Registrar of So- cieties (RoS), summarily announcing cancellation of its registration as a society. The Executive Board of Greenpeace India Society was “directed to pass a special resolution and dissolve itself” within one month of the order. We believe this order is completely unjustified, especially, as we have complied with the law to the full- est. After a detailed review, we are convinced that the order contains several inaccurate and baseless allegations. For instance, we have been accused of not submitting a detailed response to their earlier notice (the show cause notice dated 16th of June), when we actually have copies of receipts stamped in acknowledgement of our response dated October 5th. Most seriously, we found that it had failed to comply with the order from the Madras High Court dated August 4th. For over a year now, the courts have upheld Greenpeace India’s right to exist despite attempts by a variety of government authorities seeking to silence our voice. In all the cases where we have ap- proached the courts so far, we have had favourable verdicts upholding our freedom of speech and right to dissent. We have therefore agreed unanimously to direct the organisation to take all necessary steps to appeal this order. In the current climate, where a singular and flawed vision of development is being pushed through at all costs, Greenpeace has not only an urgent need to continue its campaigning, but a moral imperative to do so as well, as do other civil society organisations. If the Government has concerns it should call for discussion and not act in this manner. Speaking as we do in defence of this country’s environment, our campaigns have raised important questions about the costs of development projects being pushed ahead. These include large-scale environmental damage, displacement of people, and grabbing of land, forests and water from farmers and adivasis. We believe strongly that asking such questions is a necessary part of a healthy demo- cratic debate around what kind of development India wants to pursue, and at what cost. Towards this end Greenpeace India is happy to have also contributed viable alternative solutions, es- pecially those benefitting the poor, such the solar micro grid powering Dharnai, a village in Bihar. We are proud of the many achievements of Greenpeace India in defense of this country’s ecological and environmental wealth, and the rights of communities dependent on natural resources. We are deter- mined to continue our campaigns: for clean air, safe food and clean energy. These repeated attempts to muzzle Greenpeace only show the government’s unwillingness to engage in a healthy democratic dialogue. We remain committed to upholding our right to dissent. Greenpeace cannot – and will not – be silenced in this way. Message In conclusion, we’d just like to say that as the Board, we have performed due diligence and are confi- dent that Greenpeace India has acted as per the laws of this land, in letter and spirit, and will continue to work to protect the interests of India’s future. Signed by Members of the Board Ashish Kothari - Chair of the Board and member of Kalpavriksh, Pune, Author From the Amala Akkineni - Actor and founder of Blue Cross of Hyderabad G. Gautama - Director of Palar Centre for Learning (KFI) Dr. Biswajit Mohanty - Chartered Accountant and former member of National Board for Wildlife Tara Murali - Architect and Trustee, Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group, Chennai Paranjoy Guha Thakurta - Senior Journalist, Author Board Dr. Harish Hande - Chairman, SELCO India 5 Executive Director’s Letter

After a yearlong­ legal marathon, campaign victories and much support pouring in, Greenpeace India has only thing to say: we will survive, stay and continue to campaign. Thanks to all of you!

In June 2014, we were ambushed by an Intelligence Bureau report which was leaked to the media. Our funds were blocked, our activists were assaulted and ridiculous accusations were slapped on us. And yet, today we stand strong with an iconic victory in Mahan where we have saved over a thousand hectares of forest and the livelihoods of thousands. We continue to run campaigns on air pollution, solar street lights and sustainable agriculture.

In the last year, Greenpeace India faced severe hardship externally and internally. But the good news is that the staff now feel stronger than ever before and the focus is to get back to active campaigning on the issues that matter to us and to our supporters. We have demonstrated that our financial independence and transparency is inconvertible. We have shown courage in taking on our detractors. We have nothing to hide and are not afraid to talk truth to power.

Today, we stand strong with six court rulings in our favour. We have faith in our judiciary, in the role of a strong civil society, and in the strength we derive from our valuable supporters. We will continue to fight for our democratic right to share our view of development and to dissent.

I am an optimist. The setbacks we suffered this last year have only helped us realise that there is no bigger force than the power of people’s movement. That is something the government can’t take away from us. With your support, we will do what it takes to make sure that we strive for a safer future for all. 8

Greenpeace India is a campaigning with ideas, people and finances. In India we organisation, not a think tank or a research are legally registered to receive such financial institution – although we do both. We support under the FCRA. investigate, document, expose, take action As the media spin, and the smear attacks and lobby for change. We might not be a escalated, the Ministry of Home Affairs large organisation but our ability to do these attacked - targeting Greenpeace India’s things comes from the support of lakhs of funding, intercepting bank transfers and ordinary Indians like you who choose to use arbitrarily suspending our FCRA status. This your democratic rights to agree or disagree hit the organisation hard, and we had to make with government policies and corporations. some near impossible choices about which You have the right to take action online and staff to keep, and which campaigns to keep offline, to campaign for clean air, safe food, on running. There were a lot of tears. Six clean energy and to save India’s forests. months later the Delhi high court ruled the People working together can and will create MHAs actions to be arbitrary, illegal and a green and peaceful future for everyone. unconstitutional. The court found that there #PeoplePower created our country and our is ‘no material against Greenpeace and that freedom of speech is as important today as no material has been put on record by the in 1947. We will campaign to protect those MHA’. They directed that the frozen amount rights. will be credited to the FCRA account and So what happens when governments try to Greenpeace will have access to it. take your rights away, when the democratic space for disagreeing with powerful people Offloading Priya Pillai– after the attacks and institutions starts to shrink? What do you on our funds, we’d had a hint that the MHA do? would start targeting staff when they stopped a UK national and Greenpeace employee with Lies and mistruths – in June 2014 at the a valid visa from visiting Greenpeace India for height of the campaign to save the forests of a meeting. Mahan the media reported that a government Greenpeace India has (or had) around 350 agency had leaked an alleged secret report. India staff, an Indian senior management The report accused civil society groups team that reports to a board of notable Indian and non-governmental organisations like citizens. We are part of a global organisation Greenpeace India of being responsible for so there are occasionally 1-2 foreign national almost everything imaginable. Most of these working with the organisation, with valid visas allegations were simply lies, many were crazy or permits, usually in a short term advisory and some were completely distorted versions position. Decisions are made by Indian of reality. As the saying goes ‘throw enough nationals in India about how we campaign mud, some will stick’ and because the – but we coordinate with other offices to alleged report was secret it’s impossible to develop a global vision and programme. In challenge. contrast with many global organisations and Greenpeace India is a legally registered businesses operating in India, we believe that India society with 75,000+ India donors. India’s problems need to be solved by Indians Freedom We don’t accept money from governments – and they call us anti-national. or corporations only from individuals In January 2015 the MHA struck again or occasionally from trusts founded by challenging a fundamental human right – individuals. Over 70% of our funds come by offloading Priya Pillai from her flight to from Indian citizens but we are also part of a London to talk about the behaviour of a UK of Speech global federation of Greenpeace offices with registered company in India. Whatever your presences in over 55 countries around the views about our campaign to save the forests world - stretching from Indonesia to Brazil. of Mahan, the United Nations declaration of Each office decides its own agenda and human rights promises us freedom of travel. in India campaigns, but we also support each other Offloading Priya from her flight at Delhi airport, 9 10

and issuing a look out circular in her name, our history of 14 years of campaigning for you watch at the cinema, to what you eat, because of what she might say is outrageous. India’s environment - we created a tidal wave what you study and your freedom to visit This is a clear violation of her right to freedom of social media, perhaps inspiring the MHA other countries and cultures – appear to be of speech. In the media storm that followed to force organisations to register their social under attack. And the groups that campaign – India agreed and a few months later so media accounts – clearly they were feeling for those rights, or for a vision of India where did the courts describing the MHAs actions the pressure. people matter more than money, are the as undemocratic, saying you can’t muzzle most under threat. More and more people dissent in a democracy. They ordered the And then you did something amazing – are taking a stand and there is a new unity MHA to remove the lookout circular and with no budget to support you, we invited in Indian civil society in the face to the offloaded stamp from her passport. you to organise events for world environment government crackdown on our freedoms – a day – to tell the world why you support movement Greenpeace India is proud to be Closing Greenpeace India – despite victories Greenpeace India and also to celebrate part of. in the court and public support for our rights to India’s environment. From Assam to Kerala, freedom of speech, the MHA attacked again in cities and villages India spoke – and at Continuing attacks – by the time in April – freezing the accounts of Greenpeace least 248 groups of people organised events you read this, there will have India, stopping the donations of 77,786 Indian (we lost count) – many for the first time ever. been more MHA attacks on your citizens to a legally registered Indian society. We are humbled by your support and your rights to support organisations And of course any idea that the organisation spirit to carry on campaigning for a green and like Greenpeace India. Since might receive legally regulated support from peaceful India. the court ruling to unfreeze our other Greenpeace offices. accounts, our bank accounts With less than a month to go before the rent Finally the courts gave us a lifeline – ordering have been frozen again (and then was due, before we had to either pay salaries the MHA to unfreeze some of our accounts, unfrozen). There is a very real or issue redundancy notices to our staff, and giving us access to domestic funds to carry threat that government agencies with our campaign work paralysed due to the on campaigning. So we launched new will force the Greenpeace India lack of funds - the time had come to make a campaigns to make our cities safer and society to close, and we will decision. Do we go quiet, pray to the courts smarter, with solar street lights. And we again have to appeal to the to save us, and hope that if we shut up about started the new phase of our air pollution courts. We’re also expecting a the issues that matter to you, or that threaten campaign to get government to face up to the crushing series of tax demands in corporate interests – then the MHA will leave impacts of pollution on our health. We tested an attempt to bankrupt us. us alone? Or do we stand up for what we some new ideas for our forests work and we Whatever happens next, so long believe in, for freedom of speech, for your carried on with the campaign to keep the as the idea of Greenpeace survives rights to campaign for save India’s forests debate about freedom of speech alive with in India, so long as you are willing to and for clean air? innovate new tactics like the Bollywood film be an advocate and a campaigner for So we asked you and in a poll 82% of you competition, independence day projections, positive change – then Greenpeace said we should launch a people powered Twitter thunderclaps and the Dubsmash India will survive. campaign to save our democratic right to mobile app. Zindabad dissent – so we did. [Nov 2015] Greenpeace India staff wrote to the executive But this isn’t about us – Greenpeace India for director committing to work without salary for better or worse has made a lot of headlines at least a month, civil society organisations about our struggle to exist in the face of the offered us work space if the office was closed MHA crackdown, but this isn’t just our story. down and donations poured in from across Thousands of civil society organisations have India to support our work – and our survival. had their FCRA cancelled and they have been We launched an online campaign ‘you can’t forced to close down. All across our society muzzle dissent in a democracy’. Greenpeace your right to say what you think, and to have a volunteers and friends organised events and voice in the decisions that affect the future of photo ops to say #ISupportGreenpeaceIndia, India is being curtailed by new laws, rules and we held press conferences with allies, who the leverage of influential decision makers – also organised on our behalf and we organised both in government and in large corporations. a banner drop off our own building. By telling India is changing. the stories of our staff, our supporters and Everything from internet freedoms, to what

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Title Three Writ Petition filed in the Delhi HC challenging the FCRA suspension order. Court issues a stay order Title Two Title Two allowing Greenpeace access to 2 Madras HC issues a stay on the 12th - Priya Pillai wins her case accounts. FCRA cancellation order and against the Union of India in the A criminal defamation complaint directs the Writ Petition to be Delhi HC. The quashing of the against Kumi Naidu, Samit Aich converted into an Appeal. Title One lookout circular in Priya’s name, and Priya Pillai filed by Essar 7th- Intelligence Bureau report is its removal from a database as Power in Singrauli. No one has Title One Madras HC orders the Registrar ‘leaked’ and calls Greenpeace well as the expungement of the been served notice yet. The Filed writ petition in the Madras of Societies to respond to anti-national and a threat to ‘offload’ stamp from her constitutionality of criminal HC challenging the RoS intent to submissions made by Greenpea- national economic security. passport is ordered. defamation in the SC is being cancel GP’s registration ce within a period of 8 weeks. pursued.

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Title Four Title Five Title Six Title Four Title Four 11th - Priya is offloaded and MHA issues FCRA suspension Registrar of Societies conducts MHA cancellation of our FCRA 6th- Greenpeace receives a prevented from boarding her order an inspection of our documents registration issued via order notice from the Tamil Nadu flight to London where she was and issues a show cause notice Registrar of Societies (RoS) scheduled to address British (to cancel Greenpeace’s Delhi Court accepts Greenpea- announcing cancellation of its Parliamentarians informally on registration) ce’s request to withdraw petition registration. the rights of forest-dwelling from Delhi HC and shift it to communities affected by coal Chennai HC 20th- The Madras HC orders a mining. stay on the government order cancelling Greenpeace’s registra- 20th - Greenpeace wins the tion. Says principles of natural foreign funds block case in the justice were not followed. Delhi High Court. Freeze is lifted and GP is allowed to access the funds. The Crackdown on Greenpeace: A Timeline

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The Intelligence Bureau has This is an attack on civil society. discredited itself by submitting a half- A strong democracy is one that baked, laughable report on NGO’s celebrates activism and provides foreign funding and the consequent space for freedom of expressions and acts of “economic terrorism” opinion. indulged by them.

NANDITA DAS SHYAM BENEGAL Actress & Director Director & Screenwriter

The difference between democracy We need an independent voice and dictatorship is that democracy to stand up for the rights of allows reason in informed dissent. communities , the poorest of poor , Many NGOs institutionalise this animals that have no voice and the dissent on behalf of civil society and environment at large. As citizens they do so within the framework of we have the freedom to express our law in a democracy. opinions.

LALITA RAMDAS MAHESH BHATT Former Head Greenpeace International, Director, Producer & Screenwriter Founding Member Greenpeace India

Greenpeace has fought many causes around the world and is not allied VOICES to any government or corporate house. This is an attempt to silence voices that do not toe the line of the government and to promote the interests of transnational OF corporations.

MALLIKA SARABHAI REASON Dancer, Choreographer & Social Activist 15 16

10reasons we need civil society

India would still be a British colony and Indians would be second class 1 citizens in their own land.

Because if it were not for civil society and legitimate protest, South Africa 2 would still be ruled by a racist apartheid government, slavery would still exist and women would not be allowed to vote.

Because without civil society, the world’s nuclear powers would still be 3 using the planet’s oceans and atmosphere as a testing ground for their atomic bombs.

Because without civil society, India would not have a Right to Information 4 Act, the single most powerful tool to check corruption.

Because without civil society, trophy hunters would have wiped out 5 India’s lions, tigers and leopards decades ago.

Because without civil society, untouchability would still be legally 6 permissible in India.

Because without civil society, widows would still be expected to commit 7 sati on their husbands’ funeral pyre. WHY WE Because without civil society, we would still accept corruption as an 8 inevitable part of India. 9 Because without civil society, widow remarriage would still be frowned NEED CIVIL upon and dowry would still be widely accepted and legally protected. Because without civil society, awareness about children’s rights--ranging 10 from child labour to child sexual abuse-would still be swept under the SOCIETY carpet. 17 18

This past year has been a rollercoaster for us at Greenpeace with all the issues coming at us from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

I have worked in Greenpeace for four and a half years and am very motivated to continue working here. My work involves meeting people who are already supporters of Greenpeace, giving them up- dates of the work we are doing and also re-initiating their support. The most fulfilling and memorable part of my job was when I volun- teered for the coal and forests campaign towards the end of 2011. Travelling to Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh, interacting with villag- Nanik Balani ers whose livelihoods were at stake and working with the team on Key Donor Officer the ground was highly motivating. I know for certain that I want to continue working with Greenpeace and raise funds to protect the environment and the planet.

Conversations with supporters during this challenging phase have been very encouraging. They did not agree with many of the actions that took place- whether it was the clampdown on us or our activist Priya Pillai getting offloaded at the airport on her way to London. I convey to them that Greenpeace is not anti-government and not anti-national. Our objective is to save the environment and see that we get fresh air to breathe, clean, fresh water to drink and safe food to eat. Even when it comes to renewable energy, Greenpeace has been advocating it for years. The present government has slowly realised its necessity and is working along these lines. Recently, the Cochin airport has become the world’s first solar powered one. The work that Greenpeace does in providing solutions at the grass- root level is also something I talk about a lot. We set up a solar microgrid in Dharnai village, a place where the people did not have

FUNDRAISING access to electricity for decades. Showing the way forward is a big FUNDRAISERS SPEAK” part of what Greenpeace does. Fundraisers are not just fundraisers. They are in equal measure campaigners. In today’s fast-paced urban life, to stop individuals in public spaces – streets, markets, exhibitions, workplaces – and Whether it is the Delhi HC verdict or the stay order in the cancel- start a serious conversation with them about the environment is no mean feat. To draw individuals lation of Greenpeace’s registration by the RoS, our supporters are hurrying along in noisy surroundings into a discussion on environmental problems and solutions, to consistently seeing how the judiciary is ruling in our favour. Various engage them long enough to convince them to support us, is a job that requires passion, confidence, people have various opinions but I see our role as also being a persistence and incredible amounts of positive energy. And it is an invaluable source of feedback to disseminator of the right information. I don’t just talk to supporters us on our work, from the world outside. once. I send them emails with links to information, direct them to our website to check out the work we are doing and give them time to read and process the information. Our interactions can go on for What the fundraising team achieved in 2014, with all the challenges thrown at us, makes their work 3-4 months, sometimes even 6 months. truly remarkable. Their loyalty to Greenpeace India, their motivation and their commitment to the organisation’s campaigns saw us through some very insecure times. It has been a very challenging year for us and I am certain that we will be able to do even better in 2016 with the Clean Air campaign. And the results? In addition to the regular donors of around 40,000, we were able to acquire 33,000 new individual donors. This generated a total of Rs. 20.77 crore income for the organisation. The team also helped in enrolling close to 1.2 lakh non-financial supporters for the cause.

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I have worked in Greenpeace for three and a half years and am work- I have worked in supporter services for the last four years. Handling ing in the Middle Donor Programme. I interact with new supporters various supporter queries and communicating with our supporters over phone calls and email. Despite last year being challenging is part of my job. The clampdown on Greenpeace began with the with news reports and unfounded allegations against Greenpeace, leaked IB report and continued with various allegations. This was there was a moment that was immensely heartening to me. The a challenging time for our team. We were prepared for anything to month during which the IB report was leaked and Greenpeace’s happen. We knew we had to stand together and be strong. There international funds frozen was also the month when we our sup- was never a moment when we felt insecure or thought that we porters rallied behind us. Donating more than they ever had, May should give up. Our department is one of the departments with a 2015 became the month in which we raised the maximum funds very crucial role to play- that of engaging with supporters and com- ever. This was such strong validation of the support of the people. municating our work and philosophy to retain their support. We put in our best and gave each of our supporters information about Satabdi Chaudhuri Jesintha Senthamarai every development during the past year clearly and in a transparent Middle Donor Officer Supporter Services manner. We were also aware of how much pressure our whole or-

FUNDRAISERS SPEAK” ganization was going through and we felt proud to be a part of this mission that was so much bigger than ourselves.

A single conversation with a supporter would sometimes last 45 minutes. Speaking to people about how crucial the work that Greenpeace does is and why organizations such as Greenpeace are needed in the world was something I did. I would give them I have worked with Greenpeace for five years. This past year we details of our finances, updates of the court cases in which the have constantly been in the news and I have noticed that even judiciary was repeatedly ruling in our favour and speak of how sig- people who didn’t know about us previously want to know what we nups from new supporters for our campaigns were increasing de- do. I am happy to be part of an organization that does work that is spite the various trumped up allegations. We, the employees of important and meaningful. Greenpeace, had volunteered to work without salaries and did so because of our conviction in the cause. The big victory of saving the forests of Mahan happened because so many of our activists It began with us being labelled anti-national. That was the begin- left their homes in cities to go to Mahan and carry on the fight to ning of this challenging phase. Explaining the law and sharing the save the forests. validation that we have received from the courts with our support-

ers is something that I had to do. It was not just Greenpeace, but FUNDRAISERS SPEAK” Milan Lewis also other organizations that worked for a social cause that were Supporters quickly realised that all the facts were not getting equal Supporter Services targeted during this whole phase by the government. When it came coverage in the media. It became clear quickly that there was a to the move to block our accounts, our supporters were with us section of people who didn’t want Greenpeace to continue doing every step of the way and also felt the move was unlawful. Do- the work it was doing. Greenpeace has been incessantly work- mestic funds are donated to Greenpeace by individuals. We do ing to save the environment in India for over fifteen years through not accept funds from any government or private industry. When changes in the government at the Centre and cutting across party all our financial details are clearly available on our website and the lines. The outcomes that we have brought about is a big reason balance sheet is shared, how can the government block access why our supporters are standing by us. Our record speaks for itself. to our funds? Another pivotal incident was when Greenpeace ac- I always tell supporters to think about what answer we will give our tivist Priya Pillai was offloaded at the airport. As an Indian citizen, children if they ask us what we did while the environment was be- she has the freedom of speech and movement and was prevented ing threatened? What did we do to safeguard their future and that from exercising it by the government. She fought the case against of the planet’s? Being part of Greenpeace means being part of a the government’s action and won it. Even the recent Madras High movement to save the earth. Court verdict staying Greenpeace’s cancellation and the court’s re- mark that the Tamil Nadu Registrar of Societies had not followed principles of natural justice validates our stand. This past year was a trial by fire and we came through with flying colours with our supporters standing firmly with us.

No matter what the obstacle, Greenpeace will survive.

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In 2014, we continued our campaign to protect one of India’s oldest sal forests in Mahan is also a symbol of a wider problem. Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh from being India has some of the most beautiful and destroyed for coal. The Mahan coal block biodiverse forests in the world but they allocated to Essar and Hindalco was opening are threatened by industrial development, up the forests of the region to destruction for especially coal mining. Around half of India’s coal. Junglistan, a pan-India movement of coal reserves are located in forest areas people who want to protect India’s forests in Central India, where coal fields are in joined hands with Mahan Sangharsh Samiti proximity to at least 10 tiger reserves. Coal (MSS) to protect Mahan’s forests. Formed mining in these areas will destroy more in February 2012 by the people of Mahan to than the forests. In most forested regions in protect their rights, livelihoods and forests, central India where industrial activities such MSS has been protesting actively against the as coal mining already exist, one can see a destruction of their forests and livelihood. pattern of people’s resources and livelihoods being destroyed, leaving them with uncertain Why Mahan? futures. The promise of jobs, hospitals, Mahan is one of India’s oldest sal forests. schools and roads which are promised in Adjacent to the Sanjay Dubri Tiger Reserve, exchange for land never see the light of day the forest is an important wildlife corridor, with and the people end up displaced. Singrauli 102 migratory species present. It contains district alone produces 10% of the total coal rare species of birds and tigers. Elephants, based energy in the country and yet the region leopards and sloth bears have also been is energy-starved and villages have little to no occasionally spotted. Developing the Mahan access to electricity. coal block would fell 5 lakh trees and risk the lives of all these species. Mahan’s forests are the last unfragmented stretch of forests left in Singrauli. The Mahan The Mahan coal block was allocated to Mahan block was chosen because it was the first of Coal limited (a joint venture between Essar the seven projects that would open up the and Hindalco) and was denied clearance four surrounding forests for coal mines, leading The Case times by the Forest Advisory Committee, part to destruction of 20,000 hectares of forest. of the Ministry of Environment and Forests Stopping this mine would save not just the because of the region’s rich biodiversity, forests but also wildlife and livelihoods and the communities’ dependence on the forest we would have set an example for what is for livelihoods and various other reasons. going wrong in India’s development pathway. Another issue with the coal block was that For the clearance was fait accompli - Mahan Our Activities Coal ltd claimed that it had already invested The year 2014 began with a dramatic action 3600 crores in the project to build a power by Greenpeace activists at the Essar Group’s plant and therefore should be given the mine. corporate office in Mumbai in January. Twelve of our activists scaled the building wearing The forest is just as important to people. tiger costumes and draped it with a massive Forests Thousands of people, in over 54 villages, draw banner which declared that Essar destroys their sustainable livelihoods from collection of forests. Community members from Mahan forest produce, such as mahua, tendu, char, staged a dharna in front of the Essar office too chironji, various types of mushrooms and protesting the mine which would impact the medicinal plants. The forest also has a cultural lives of over 50,000 people from 54 villages. and and spiritual significance for the villages of The symbolic protest against the proposed the area. It contains cremation grounds, local destruction of Mahan forests – a biodiversity- deities (such as Dih baba, Thakuraiyin Tai) rich sal forest in Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh and many other such cultural associations drew a lot of attention. The demand was People that are important to the people. for Essar to drop its plans of plundering the 25 26

forests with their proposed coal mine, and for before the event. The in-principal Stage I the PM to sack the Minister of Environment clearance was granted to Mahan coal block and Forests, Veerappa Moily, who had been in 2012 with 36 conditions, which included granting environmental clearances at break- implementation of Forest Rights Act (FRA). neck speed to big ticket projects, with a This involved holding free and fair gram complete disregard for forests and human sabhas in villages that would then decide and wildlife that depend on them. In a matter on whether they want a mine or not. Despite of 20 days, the Environment Minister cleared the fraudulent gram sabha held in 2013 and 70 projects worth Rs. 1.5 lakh crore which Union Minister of Tribal Affairs, Mr K.C. Deo’s clearly indicated a lack of considering each letter to the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh project properly. detailing FRA violations in Mahan, minister Moily granted Stage II clearance. Even Moily’s The sequence of events leading to the predecessors Jairam Ramesh and Jayanthi allocation of Mahan block to Essar was Natarajan had opposed the clearance given also questionable. Having been rejected by to Mahan coal block. Moily’s predecessor Jairam Ramesh, official Following this on February 27, 2014, documents showed that the company had thousands of villagers including a large pushed for the mine without implementing number of women and children from 12-14 the Forest Rights Act. As for obtaining the villages in the Mahan region of Singrauli came consent of the Gram Sabha based on which together for a mass public rally in Amelia the NOC (no-objection certificate) was given Village to oppose mining in Mahan forests. to the coal mine, it was fraudulent. Official The rally marked the beginning of a Van documents of the Gram Sabha resolution of Satyagraha that demanded that the Stage II Amelia village proved that fraud had been clearance be revoked with immediate effect. committed. In March 2013, a special gram sabha on FRA was conducted in Amelia In April 2014, a group of 26 volunteers from village in Mahan region. Though 184 people across the country travelled to Mahan forests attended the gram sabha, the resolution has for 15 days to help the villagers fundraise by the theme ‘Green Cities’, young volunteers members Bechanlal Shah and Vijay Singh, 1,125, signatures – many of them have been collecting Mahua flowers- a non-timber forest from the three cities asserted that they do not were only documenting the incident on forged. Seven of the signatories had been produce that is the main source of livelihood want development at the cost of biodiversity camera. Following the arrests, over 150 dead for three years. for many people. Collected between March and the lives of forest dwellers. villagers including women moved into the and April every year, the flowers and fruits Local police illegally arrested two Greenpeace Mahan forests to protect it from being marked In retaliation to Greenpeace’s protest, Essar are then used for making various edible items activists and two members of Mahan for destruction by an Essar-led coal mine. filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace India and local liquor. The money earned by selling Sangarsh Samiti at midnight from their office There were threats and ultimatums issued and Mahan Sangharsh Samiti (MSS) - an these fruits forms a major chunk of the annual in Waidhan, Madhya Pradesh in May 2014. by the local police and pro- company people organisation set up to defend the rights of income of villagers. The four activists were roughed up by the against MSS and Greenpeace members as those whose livelihood depends upon the On the occasion of Earth Day, several police, denied bail and taken into judicial people went into the forests everyday to stop Mahan forests seeking a gag order against young volunteers came together in New custody. Slapped with charges of armed the company and forest officials from marking Greenpeace and Rs. 500 crore as damage to Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore in a show robbery, assaulting a government servant the trees in the forest . their reputation and image. of support to save the Mahan forests as and obstructing government work, one of Bechanlal Shah, one of the MSS member In February 2014 on Valentine’s Day, the part of urban solidarity events. A crowd- the Greenpeace activists also reported being arrested was denied bail by the lower court environment minister Veerappa Moily met funded advertisement in the day’s Business beaten up by the police when he refused to and was in jail for 28 days after which he with head honchos of leading companies Standard issued by Greenpeace also urged sign a confession. These protestors were was granted bail by the Jabalpur High including Essar Oil and Essar Foundation political parties in India to save Mahan forests engaged in the growing Van Satyagraha. The Court. During the period that Bechanlal at the National Convention organised by from the stage 2 forest clearance given to the harsh arrests took place within 48 hours of a was in jail, more than 1200 MSS members UN Global Compact Network. Greenpeace Mahan Coal block, when the new government protest on Monday, when members of MSS, joined in a peaceful protest before the office activists staged a peaceful protest dressed takes over. The solidarity event was attended which included several women, confronted Superintendent of Police demanding that the in tiger suits and holding placards that said by celebrities including Ali Fazal, Prahlad the Essar officials and asked them to stop clampdown on MSS members be stopped ‘Essar loves Moily, Axes Forests’. Stage Kakkar and Kitu Gidwani in Mumbai and marking trees. The two Greenpeace activists, and false cases lodged against activists be II clearance for the Mahan coal block had Manoviraj Khosla, Suresh Heblikar and Akshay Gupta and Vineet Gupta, who were withdrawn. been granted by the minister just two days Prakash Belawadi in Bangalore. In sync with arrested along with Mahan Sangarsh Samiti MSS along with Greenpeace activists

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challenged the forest clearance given to India, who support the community’s struggle. the Mahan coal block at the National Green On the day of Rakshabandhan in August Tribunal in Delhi asking for a stay in the 2014, over 8,000 rakhis were tied to a massive felling of trees in Mahan and demanded sacred mahua tree by more than a thousand that the clearance granted to the company people from the villages of Mahan. Rakhis be cancelled. The company gave a written from all across the country were sent to undertaking to the court that no tree would pledge a promise to protect the great ancient be felled in the forests of Mahan till October forests of Mahan. Of these, 1,000 rakhis were 2014. At the same time, Greenpeace activists sent by the villagers of Dharnai to the people also filed cases at the Jabalpur High Court of Mahan. A festival that celebrates humanity, challenging the inaction of the Superintendent brotherhood and fraternity, Rakshabandhan of Police (SP), Singrauli with regard to the is about making relationships stronger and fraudulent Gram Sabha, leading the court to promising to protect and care for all that is order the SP to conduct an investigation. On important to us. The residents of Dharnai also May 18, 2014, in an unprecedented show of sent a heart-warming letter pledging their support over 1500 volunteers from 133 cities support and solidarity with the Mahan forests. across the globe turned into Van Satyagrahis Following the crackdown, members of civil as they raised a banner to save forests of society came together in August 2014 to Mahan. The solidarity event was aimed at condemn the way the police were treating drawing the attention of the new Indian peaceful activists whose only demand was for government towards saving Mahan forests. their rights to be granted. Mahan Sangharsh Volunteers from major cities in India from Samiti (MSS) supported by prominent almost all the states, and far flung places members of civil society organisations urged such as Budgam in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian government not to trample over the Imphal in the north-east and Tirunelveli in rights of the forest dwelling communities of south took part. Enthusiastic volunteers from Mahan region in Madhya Pradesh to benefit various cities in the USA, Canada, Greece, corporate giants. The press conference also Czech Republic, Thailand, Philippines, saw the release of a report-Power for the Tunisia, Yemen, Slovakia and Nepal also took People-that explores the socio-economic part in the global event. Volunteers staged status of the communities living in Mahan photographs with messages that included the forests and the impact the proposed coal hashtag #IamMahan and #StandForForests mine will have on the communities. The report along with placards naming their cities. stated that about 60 percent of the families In June 2014, the Intelligence Bureau in a in the two villages (Amelia and Budher) ‘leaked’ report accused Greenpeace India of studied have land-holdings of less than an acting against national interests for, among acre. They heavily rely on non-timber forest other things, opposing mining in the Mahan produce (NTFP) as agriculture alone cannot coal block. This report was then used to meet their nutritional and economic needs. A block access to funds from Greenpeace delegation of MSS and Greenpeace activists International. also delivered a memorandum to Tribal Barely two months after four forest rights Affairs Minister, Jual Oram demanding that activists were unlawfully arrested from the ministry should uphold the rights of the Greenpeace’s Waidhan office, local police people in Mahan and ensure a free and fair officials once again arrested two Greenpeace Gram Sabha. Greenpeace also wrote to the activists, Akshay Gupta and Rahul Gupta National Human Rights Commission, Asian in a midnight raid in July 2014 at the guest Human Rights Commission and UN Special house in Waidhan. A few days earlier, the Rapporteurs, complaining about the illegal police had seized a mobile signal booster and arrest and detention of activists in Mahan. solar panels that Greenpeace had set up in In a landmark judgement, in September Amelia village to help the community share 2014, the Supreme Court scrapped 204 information with over a million people across coal block allocations, including Essar and

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Hindalco’s Mahan Coal block awarded by the of the Mahan forests and later held a public government between 1993 and 2010. The SC meeting to celebrate the great win. had also declared the allocations illegal and People power won over powerful corporate arbitrary. The decision is a huge victory for and government interests to save the forests the environment and people of India against of Mahan – millions of trees have been saved the corruption and irregularities rife in the and thousands live assured that the forests coal sector. It also indicated a new turn in the they depend on for their livelihood would energy industry in India and will have serious continue to provide for them. However the consequences for the new government’s threat to India’s forests is still present with the excessive reliance on coal power as the government’s ambitious efforts to triple coal engine of economic growth. The court’s ruling production in the coming years. Environmental will also spell the end of cheap coal in India. laws are being diluted for projects to get In September 2014, the National Green clearance and there have even been attempts Tribunal (NGT) declared the forest clearance to amend laws that give the impacted granted to Essar and Hindalco’s Mahan Coal community a way to exercise their rights over Ltd invalid, and found the appeals to be their land (Forest Rights Act and the Right to “infructuous” due to the irregularities found Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land in the blocks. The Environmental Impact Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Assessment (EIA) were therefore void. To Act, 2013). If the government is committed celebrate the landmark verdict, thousands of to development for all (sabke saath sabka villagers in the region came together in a rally. vikas), the time has come to move away from On January 11, 2015, Greenpeace activist, dirty, polluting, corrupt coal. Development Priya Pillai was illegally and arbitrarily is possible without destroying our natural offloaded at the Delhi International Airport. resources or uprooting the lives of millions of Priya was on her way to the UK to address forest dependant people. Greenpeace India British parliamentarians on the human rights is committed to playing a key role in moving and forest rights violations by a subsidiary our country towards a cleaner and greener of a British registered company – Essar energy path. Energy – in the forests of Mahan in Madhya Pradesh. The illegal offloading by overzealous government agencies was not just a violation of her basic right to personal liberty and freedom of speech but also deliberate attempt to malign her reputation. Pillai filed a writ petition challenging the action and the alleged lookout circular issued in her name. The circular has no legal basis as Pillai neither has any conviction against her, nor has she ever evaded arrest or trial in any case. On 22nd February 2015, in response to an RTI filed by Greenpeace, the MoEF responded that Mahan will not be auctioned as it falls under ‘inviolate’ forest. Government documents with Greenpeace show that other forests in the Mahan region have also been identified as very high quality forest. four coal blocks including Mahan have been kept away from mining because they fall in inviolate area and their high biodiversity. In March 2015 MSS gathered in hundreds to make offerings to the “Dih Baba” the protector

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India has immense solar potential to fuel its Bihar is one of India’s most energy-starved development. ‘India Energy [R]evolution’, states with over 80% of the population not an expert study published by Greenpeace, having access to power, Greenpeace came has shown that by switching to clean energy up with a solution of approaching the problem sources such as wind and solar, India could in Bihar with a bottom-up electrification bring electricity to the 300 million who still and top-down financing model. On July 20, lack it. At the same time, this would create 2014, the village of Dharnai in in the district millions of extra jobs, compared to the low- of Jehanabad, Bihar began owning and manpower coal sector. In 2012 Greenpeace operating its own electricity production system India published a report called “e[r] cluster: located right inside the village after 30 years for a smart energy access”, advocating a of life without electricity. Greenpeace India ‘bottom up’ grid expansion through cluster and partners BASIX and CEED facilitated the based development of renewable energy. installation of a first-of-its kind, decentralised They advocated a network of decentralised solar microgrid. It provides electricity to more energy plants (stand alone and micro-grids), than 2,400 people, 450 households and 50 developed with support from the state commercial establishments, including 60 government agencies in collaboration with streetlights, two schools, a training centre the private entrepreneurs for a high impact and a primary healthcare centre. The 100 and accelerated economic development kW micro-grid: includes 70 kW for electricity of the state. To show how this can be generation for the community, and 30 kW for done, Greenpeace along with partners 10 solar-powered water-pumping systems of ran renewable energy campaigns, from a three horsepower each. The decentralised, demonstration project in andvillage in Bihar expandable and sustainable approach of the to the campaigning for solarising the rooftops microgrid is a critical catalyst to power up of Delhi. growth in rural villages like Dharnai, as well as bridge the deficit in urban areas as proposed Villages without electricity rely on wood fire, by us. This solution can be integrated in diesel generators, and kerosene lamps for the current government’s renewable energy their daily tasks. While boys come home and agenda for energy access to every household study in the daylight, girls as young as six, by 2019. have to finish household chores before they Through a cluster-based microgrid approach can get down to studying by the dim-light of powered by solar, we managed to build a hazardous kerosene lamps. The World Bank system in the village of Dharnai that services estimates that breathing kerosene fumes the needs of all clusters of the village. The is the equivalent of smoking two packets microgrid has been set up with the approval of cigarettes a day and two-thirds of adult and participation of the people of Dharnai. females with lung cancer in developing nations The project has been initiated and funded by are non-smokers. Lack of access to modern Greenpeace India and operated with the help energy services further turns the absence of of BASIX, a livelihood promotion institution, basic facilities, like sanitation and health care, and Centre for Environment and Energy into pressing problems. Most people travel Development (CEED), which is a network of POWERED over five kilometers to and from the nearest NGOs and think-tank organisations in Bihar town to charge their mobile phone for a price. that support renewable energy development Their world would be engulfed in darkness in the state. With the launch of the microgrid, once the sun went down. In Bihar, reportedly no longer do women in Dharnai rush to get 50% of rape cases happen when women or dinner ready before dark. No longer do men BY THE girls go to the fields to defecate. There are wrap up the day’s work by dusk or check if well-documented studies of women who they have packed their torches when leaving walk miles to collect water or fuel, describing the house at night. the experience as walking into harassment According to the latest figures, over 250 out SUN zones. of 497 households in Dharnai have registered 33 34

for an electrical connection and the number night, rural housewives have resumed their a prime solution. In each regional consultation electrified village in Bihar, to show clearly the keeps growing each day. Around 90% of the college studies which she abandoned before the key stakeholders of neighbouring district impact of solar in the urban scenario (Delhi) wiring is complete and people are enjoying marriage; and women no longer have to trade have been participating. Local politicians and in the rural scenario (Dharnai). We were in the benefits of locally sourced and produced in food for kerosene. Lighting up homes to social entrepreneurs and grassroots the middle of preparing for the launch of our electricity from the solar-powered microgrid. in a village like Dharnai also means giving innovators have all been participating in the one-of-a-kind micro-grid, when the IB report The system has been operational on a trial women and girls in rural India a chance at discussion. Conducting these consultations was ‘leaked’ in June 2014 and our funds were basis since March 2014. A 20-member Village education; a chance to live their lives with across 38 districts of Bihar, we expect to frozen. Electricity Committee (VEC), a local body dignity and respect; and a chance for better engage prominent people from Bihar to made up of residents of each cluster or tolla health and livelihood. Access to energy endorse the Dharnai microgrid model as In July 2014, the New Delhi Municipal Council manages the power supply system within the acts as catalyst that drives other socio- principal source for energy access. The (NDMC) announced its plans to use solar clusters of Dharnai with inputs, advice and economic improvements. Reliable electricity results of these discussions will be presented power to meet its needs. It will be feeding participation of villagers. The well-managed in the evening has improved educational to keep the people of Bihar and India engaged the power generated into the grid and 40 system works well through discussion. opportunities for village children, and brought in the conversations about renewable energy buildings have been identified for solar rooftop In August 2014, eminent JDU leader the safety of street lighting. A dependable solution models such as Dharnai. installations. Once installed, New Delhi would and former Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish power supply has boosted the local economy, become the second ‘Solar City’ in India, apart Kumar visited Dharnai to witness first hand and brought a welcome improvement to the The project has been receiving widespread from Chandigarh. Even the Delhi Metro has Greenpeace’s decentralised renewable social life of the villagers. It’s motivating media attention from around the world. In announced plans for a rooftop solar power energy project there. He spent some time because the affordable micro-grid became a September 2014, CNN International featured plant to meet its needs! observing the systems installed at the reason for an entire community to join hands Dharnai Live project in their show ‘Connect local Kisan (farmer) Training Center. He and work together to solve its energy problem, the World - TransFORMation section’. The intensifying clampdown on Greenpeace interacted with various representatives from and to make this project a success. With an Greenpeace campaigner, Abhishek Pratap meant that by August 2014, we decided to Greenpeace, CEED and BASIX present, electricity system in place after 30 years of also had a conversation with CNN highlighting scrap our hugely successful Delhi campaign and was shown how the system worked. waiting, Dharnai now has all the elements to the project and spoke about how the model Addressing the gathering, Nitish Kumar spoke build a strong local economy. can be replicated. He spoke about the about the importance of renewable energy, The focus for Greenpeace is now on transformations in Dharnai since it and even spoke of a day when it would be developing consensus for a policy framework has received access to energy. the only real source of energy. Explaining the to support the expansion of the decentralized Dharnai was also chronicled great cultural and religious significance of the model. The framework would need proper in The New Internationalist sun in this region, he urged the local villagers financing to make it viable. These are the Magazine in March 2015 in their to therefore look upon solar energy with the two areas we are working on to expand the feature co-written by Greenpeace same respect. He also spoke of the need for access to energy in the state. Dharnai has campaigner Pujarini Sen, awareness of the benefits of solar energy and set the stage for more than 300 million Indian on “Power to the People” also the drawback of coal like excessive and citizens to follow its example and declare their showcasing decentralized dangerous pollution. Greenpeace received energy-independence from the centralised solutions from 3 countries praise from him for our efforts to protect the power grid that has left them in the dark for in the Global South. environment. The Energy Secretary of Bihar decades. Additionally, Dharnai also and Director of BREDA (Bihar Renewable As part of the energy dialogues inspired featured in their Best RE Projects Around the Energy Development Agency), both of whom by Dharnai’s success, we are currently World in the same issue. accompanied Nitish Kumar, have started conducting several regional consultations in speaking to Greenpeace on scaling up the Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur and Aara to provide SWITCH ON THE SUN model and we hope to see this project scaled a platform for civil society organisations, up in the near future. think-tanks, PRI members, journalists, Our biggest Renewable energy campaign The secure power supply of the new solar entrepreneurs and grassroots innovators to in 2013 was “Switch on the Sun” and the altogether, despite our team of campaigners micro-grid has brought immense benefits come together and talk about the way forward proposal for a Rooftop Revolution, based on volunteering to work without a salary for the to the community. Household lighting, for Bihar as well as India. a report which stated that Delhi could reach month of June. Working with a much smaller agriculture, business activity and social These platforms have become very successful 2GW by 2020 followed it. By January 2014, team, the campaigners tried to create zero infrastructures like schools, and health in bringing together various stakeholders to we had successfully lobbied to include the budget campaigns, and tie up loose ends centers all have guaranteed electricity. Since chart out the right path to tackle the energy ask for solar in the manifestos of all 3 major of the Delhi campaign. We were also able to electricity touched Dharnai, it has meant crisis in Bihar and decentralised energy leading political parties – Congress, BJP and again put solar energy on the manifesto for improvement of quality of life in the village. production models like the one we installed AAP. 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The people of Delhi had been breathing from all the five schools revealed particulate extremely poor air during the winter of matter 2.5 to be at very unhealthy levels. 2014 with PM2.5 averages peaking at 320 According to the World Health Organization, micrograms/cubic meter, 6 times the Indian air pollution impacts the most vulnerable safety limits and 14 times that of the WHO’s. sections of the population and children Ahead of the United States President Barack are among the worst hit. Studies by US Obama’s Delhi visit for the 66th Republic Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Day celebration in January 2015, the choking have concluded that exposure to PM2.5 in levels of air pollution in the city had been children will mean reduced lung functioning, peaking again. Greenpeace India decided increase in asthma and respiratory illnesses. to do a real-time check on the pollution The International Agency for Research on levels along the trail the President is likely Cancer classified particulate matter pollution to take. Following President Obama’s trail, as carcinogenic to humans in 2013, and Greenpeace used an air-monitoring device designated it as a “leading environmental called PDR 1500, to track the pollution levels cause of cancer deaths”. in six different locations at which President The annual PM2.5 averages of Delhi are higher Obama was expected to highlight what the than that of Beijing and this winter, Delhiites president would be exposed to and to bring witnessed several bad-air days with the Air attention to what ordinary citizens of Delhi Quality Index averaging at critical pollution are exposed to on a day to day basis. This levels.With more than 35 lakh school-going device monitors fine particulate matter with children in the 6-14 year age group, all of a diameter of 2.5 micrometers. World over, whom are subjected to heavy doses of PM2.5 has been recognised as a major health pollution while at school and otherwise, the hazard resulting in a wide range of illnesses children in Delhi are breathing in toxic air. including that of cancer. Its impacts are felt Shocking results found air pollution levels most on the respiratory, reproductive and monitored in five schools across the city to cardiac systems leading to an increased rate be several times the safety limits. According of mortality. to the WHO, air pollution is responsible for The data and readings taken were then one in eight premature deaths worldwide. In compared with the safety standards for India, it is estimated that more than 6 lakh PM2.5 set by that of the WHO, USEPA and premature deaths occur every year due to Beijing and turned out to be very shocking. hazardous levels of pollutants in the air. Delhi Despite the wet weather, the real-time, instant loses 10,000 people annually as a result of exposure levels were found to be poor and breathing toxic air. While there is a need for a unhealthy. The peak pollution levels were comprehensive effort from the government to more than three times the permissible Indian curb the pollution levels, the more immediate Standards for PM2.5 (24hr Avg limit), more need was for the precautionary measures than nine times WHO’s permissible limits that can ensure the health and safety of the (24hr Avg limit), more than six times the US children and citizens of Delhi. To make this standard and more than 2.5 times the average happen, we demanded that Satyender Jain, level in Beijing. the Health Minister for Delhi issue a health In February 2015, Greenpeace launched a advisory to protect Delhi’s children on highly campaign asking the Delhi Government to polluted days. protect children from toxic air and along with In March 2015, Greenpeace along with Centre a set of precautionary measures to tackle air for Occupational Environment and Health pollution in Delhi. The air-quality monitoring (COEH), met the Delhi Health Minister Shri CLEAN survey carried out by Greenpeace inside five Satyendra Jain. A blueprint was submitted for prominent schools across Delhi found the the health advisory to restore the health of its PM2.5 levels to be 4 times the Indian safety citizens and particularly the children during limits and 10 times that of the World Health the bad air quality days. The Health Minister AIR Organisation’s. The real-time monitoring data Shri Satyendra Jain accepted the proposal 37 38

and ensured that he will look into the aspect of health advisories for schools in Delhi. The proposal of the health advisory highlighted various aspects of pollution levels, repercussion of pollution levels along with recommendations that can be implemented on a day-to-day basis for schools as well as the general public. The Delhi Health Minister promised to issue a Health Advisory for Delhi-ites on bad-air quality days and promised to look into the matter seriously. The minister has also said that the Govt will be launching a campaign on air pollution soon and that he will look into the health advisory recommendations submitted. In April 2015, the central government announced a landmark initiative called National Air Quality Index (NAQI) with the intention of providing real time data to the public on air pollution. The initiative currently covers only 16 cities across the country. Greenpeace India then started the second phase of its campaign - Clean Air Nation. The demand was to improve the NAQI system by making the data available to the whole country and for the government to take immediate action and initiate a health advisory system for the public. To highlight the need for immediate action and a health advisory system, Greenpeace India once again conducted detailed 24 hour monitoring inside school classrooms to expose the high levels pollution children are exposed to while in school. Greenpeace India also published a comparative analysis between pollutions levels in Delhi and Beijing. The analysis showed that Delhi would have been shut for 29 out of 30 days in November 2015, if it had a health advisory system like that of Beijing. China has a clear and time-bound action plan to fight air pollution whereas in India we are still debating it. There have been initiatives taken by various state governments to fight pollution such as car-free days, odd-even car days, and even proposals to shut down highly polluting thermal power plants in the vicinity but we are nowhere close to solving the air pollution crisis. The government’s own data suggests that the air quality in several north Indian cities is worse than the air in Beijing and many other cities in China, and yet we remain tentative in recognising this ‘Airpocalypse’ as a pollution disaster. India can no longer deny that we are in a state of crisis and that this crisis creates an imperative to devise policies to put an end to India’s air pollution crisis. This is an opportunity to test India’s emergency response plan and design coordinated action plans for a ‘Clean Air Nation.’

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The secrecy that shrouds the civilian nuclear industry in India makes it almost impossible for citizens to know accurately the details of accidents that have occurred, or indeed sometimes whether accidents have occurred at all. Yet the sector teems with rumours and eyewitness accounts of near-misses, leaks, cracks, radiation exposures and safety violations.

The costs paid by Indian citizens, in both health and environment, seem to be far greater than the meager 2.7% of electricity currently provided by India’s civilian nuclear sector. An even greater injustice is that it is often the same factions of society - the nameless day labourers who are not educated in the dangers of radiation - that are brought in to clear up the mess, as are then overlooked when it comes to distributing reliable supplies of electricity.

The frequency and similarity of many of these incidents and accidents is disturbing. It discredits the Department of Atomic Energy as the head of a nuclear industry, and the ability of the AERB to ensure safety in that industry.

In February 2014, marking 3 years of TEPCO’s Fukushima disaster, Greenpeace organised a Fukushima Bearing Witness tour in which activists from Poland, Germany, France, South Korea and India participated. From India, two leading antinuclear activists, G. Sundarrajan, Satyajit Chavan and Greenpeace Campaigner, Hozefa Merchant travelled to Fukushima to meet the victims and understand the impact of the disaster on their lives and in the region. The activists and Greenpeace demanded stringent safety and unlimited n-liability, as they brought back the stories from the Fukushima. Following this in March, leading anti-nuclear activists and Greenpeace raised their pitch against the government’s move to bypass supplier liability provisions in their full spirit, in current negotiations with Russians on Kudankulam 3&4. Speaking at a press conference organised by Greenpeace to mark the third year of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear accident, the activists spoke about their recent visit to Fukushima. Eminent lawyer and senior AAP member, Prashant Bhushan, also participated in the press conference.

The issue of liability and the injustices of the present system were discussed at length. Activists spoke about witnessing the problems with the liability system after speaking to victims and visiting the contaminated region in Fukushima. Creating unfair privileges for the nuclear industry, it allows firms to be complacent about the structural integrity and the design of the reactor they supply. They also referenced the lawsuit filed against General Electric, Toshiba and Hitachi in Japan, to hold them accountable for the accident. The lawsuit was seen as a way to bring a paradigm shift in the way liability legislations are framed around the world. The demand for the nuclear industry to be stripped off its privileges and held accountable for its performance was reiterated. Making nuclear suppliers pay for their mistakes would not only benefit the potential victims by making more funds available, but would also increase accountability and transparency and create incentives for the companies across the nuclear supply chain to prevent failures. The activists demanded that the government refrain from being short sighted and contrive ways to bypass the law to NUCLEAR help foreign firms, whether it be the Russians at Kudankulam or the French at Jaitapur.The anniversary was also marked by the Greenpeace website hosting a Fukushima walkthrough ENERGY with information about the current situation there and testimonies from those affected. 41 42 Sustainable Agriculture My Food My Life

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Safe food and clean drinking water- why are these two simplest of things so scarce in the world we live in? In a bid to understand the issue of food safety we looked at all facets of the food and agriculture systems in our country and came to the stark realization that a major, immediate threat to the well-being of the populace is the rampant usage of pesticides. While there is a huge problem of pesticides in our country, and even across the rest of the world, there is also a very strong alternative which has been proven effective, one that has been very beneficial to farmers in terms of crop yields, incomes and to consumers in terms of food safety- ecological agriculture. But a shift towards ecological agriculture which would ensure safe food can only be created through greater consumer awareness and consumer demand.

The Campaign We decided to create much-needed awareness amongst consumers by testing commonly used Indian tea brands for pesticides. Tea was chosen because it is one of the most popular beverages in India which every strata of society enjoys and also because it sees some of the highest levels of pesticide usage among the various crops in our country. So, an effective intervention and a shift towards ecological agriculture in such a sector could pave the way for replication in other sectors of food production. Between June 2013 and May 2014, Greenpeace India tested a sample of 49 branded packaged teas from 8 of the top 11 companies that dominate the branded tea market in India and which also export to countries like Russia, UK, US, UAE and Iran. These include the well-known brands of Hindustan Unilever Limited, Tata Global Beverages Limited, Wagh Bakri Tea, Goodricke Tea, Twinings, Golden Tips, Kho-Cha and Girnar. We tested a total of 49 samples of which at least 46 contained pesticide residues. A total of 34 pesticides were found. 59% of the samples contained a cocktail of pesticides and 59% also had one pesticide residue level exceeding EU MRLs.

Following the findings, we initiated a lengthy process of engagement with the top eight tea marketing companies including Unilever, TGBL, Wagh Bakri, Girnar and Twinings. We shared our demands with the companies which included a commitment to phase out pesticides starting with pilots across agro ecological regions that they source from and support for initiatives with the Tea Board of India to put support systems in place for the 250000 small tea growers. Prior to the launch of our public campaign, the Tea Board of India committed to phasing out class 1 pesticides immediately and agreed to explore phasing out class 2 pesticides by 2020. We launched the campaign with a report- Trouble Brewing in August 2014 and called on the tea industry to save Indian tea from pesticides The study exposes the presence of pesticides, considered highly and moderately hazardous by the World Health Organization (WHO), in leading national and international tea brands. The report also reveals the presence of other pesticides which have not been approved for use on tea crops in India. A large number of the samples tested positive for a cocktail of toxic pesticides. DDT was present CLEAN in almost sixty-seven percent of the tea samples even though it is no longer registered for use in agriculture in India and was banned in such applications as long ago as 1989 (although it is still in use for control of disease carrying insects and may be present as a contaminant of other pesticides). Many tea samples tested positive for Monocrotophos, a highly hazardous organophospohorous pesticide. It is to be noted that Food and Agriculture MY Organization (FAO) urged developing countries to phase out these pesticides post the tragic incident last year where 23 school children died after eating school meal contaminated with monocrotophos. The cocktail also includes neoniconitoid insecticides such as imidacloprid, which are associated with reproductive or developmental impacts in animals, as well as CHAI affecting bees and other beneficial insects 45 46

To highlight the urgency to move away from pesticides Tata Global Beverages, the second largest Indian tea company, as part of their Sustainable Greenpeace India has also placed seven billboards Plant Protection Formulation project has focused on developing ecological at the Bandra Worli Sea Link, each urging the tea pest control formulations for plant protection in tea and has indicated companies to “Clean Chai Now”. Activists climbed initial success in their field trials which was the outcome of extensive 80-feet billboards along the Bandra Reclamation road research into pest biology and ecology. with the intention of descending only once the major The Tea Board of India too has in 2015 announced the details of their tea companies committed to phasing out pesticides Tea Development Scheme with a corpus of Rs 200 crores (around 30 from tea. Thousands of supporters wrote to their million Euros) allocated specifically for small tea growers (one of our major favourite tea brands demanding #CleanChai. After demands). And it also clearly states an intent to promote organic cultivation more than 50 hours, both Hindustan Unilever and among small growers. They have also incorporated other elements of our Girnar had given their assurance of cleaning their chai. recommendations submitted earlier to the Tea Board including working on collectivization Soon, tea companies that accounted for 65 % of the (even though that aspect, at present, is not limited to organic farmers). And this is inspite market share- Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), Tata of our supposed pariah status in the corridors of power in Delhi especially in the light of the Global Beverages Ltd(TGBL), Wagh Bakri and Girnar malicious government reports from the previous year. committed to explore the phase out of pesticides starting with feasibility studies and pilots. Offering Alternatives Two months and 50,000 supporters later this is what ensued. Hindustan Unilever Limited, Tata The biggest grouse that people have against organic farming (which is a subset of ecological Global Beverages and Wagh Bakri, the top three tea brands, which occupy approximately farming) is that there are huge investments required and that it also entails huge crop losses 60 percent of the branded tea market in India, have committed to working with independent in the initial periods. We did a massive exercise of visiting tea plantations in all major agro experts to guide the pilot studies to find ways to eliminate pesticides at the very plantations climatic zones to ensure that any demand we made of the tea companies to clean up did of their very producers. The three companies will invest in these research pilots. Girnar, also not adversely impact the farmers, especially the small growers, in any way and that it would on the top ten list of tea companies, but relatively much smaller, has given its in principle only open up new avenues for them. Tea is one of the largest monoculture crops in our support to these initiatives, and any such move by the Tea Board of India. That makes it country. Monocultures are much more difficult to control and combat on the pest and soil four tea companies embarking on this new journey. management fronts and we were sure that feasibility in tea, once proven, would pave the way for ecological farming on most other crops since the arguments of the naysayers would While research is the first step, it will lay a strong foundation for alternatives in the tea be negated by the ecological tea movement. Since facts cannot be disputed that’s exactly cultivation business. Moreover, the research has been defined with the right objective – to what we did - married the idea of ecological farming with cold hard facts documented from eliminate the use of pesticides in tea altogether. So far, the dominant discourse has been to ecological tea plantations. understand ways of reducing pesticides. This is based on the assumption that pesticides Our journey of documentation took us from the hills of Darjeeling to the plains of the are a necessary evil. This assumption has been torn apart by the Non Pesticide Movement, Terai and the Dooars and across the Brahmaputra into the Bodo Territorial Administration which has been well established in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh albeit in other crops. region, to Meghalaya and finally down south to The severe limitations of the industrial agriculture school of thought, is that it mainly deals the Nilgiris. The stories we heard and facts we with issues by doling out symptomatic treatments. If it were to be likened to a human being, collected are being shared as case studies, as it would be akin to handing over antibiotics for a cold and fever or a skin disease without part of our latest report “Hope Brewing: Kotagiri understanding the underlying cause, or without looking at the body as a whole. to Kachibari- Case Studies On Ecological Tea What Greenpeace has been proposing to the industry is a holistic, ecosystem approach. Cultivation”. The case studies are about the This approach meant letting go of the pesticides float, the industry has held on to for men, their passions and the techniques they decades. As long as a single drop, even a single drop of pesticides becomes necessary for have adopted which have made the tea they survival, the industry will continue to remain on the pesticides treadmill. grow truly sustainable - economically viable, This first step is a reflection of willingness to let go off the addiction. To let the soil, and production neutral, providing safe working the ecosystem recover and become so robust that it will gain immunity to ward off pests, environments to thousands of workers and and have the resilience to withstand the onslaught of diseases and vagaries of changes in finally protecting the consumers who consume climate. That’s a huge step. their tea from the threats posed by pesticides. While the companies take all the necessary steps to make this happen, let’s celebrate their We hope these case studies go a long way in willingness to take up this challenge. removing myths in people’s heads about the In 2015, Hindustan Unilever, the largest Indian tea company, announced the conclusion of feasibility of ecological farming on all fronts. We the initial feasibility studies done by CABI and the launch of its pilots in Assam in association have also made policy recommendations which with the Tea Research Association (TRA). The association of the TRA indicates a significant were framed based on firsthand accounts of shift within the tea Industry since it has close links to the Indian Tea Association (the largest growers, workers and also after interactions industry grouping) and also the Tea Board of India (the apex regulatory body). with industry experts and also distinguished individuals from the ecological farming movements across India.

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BIHAR LIVING SOILS VILLAGE MODEL Soil is the soul of agriculture. In the present chemical-based agriculture paradigm, the soil health is under great threat. Indiscriminate use of chemical inputs has caused a huge damage to the physical and biological characters of the soil. The ever decreasing presence of biomass in the soil is further deteriorating the soil health. Although farmers are aware of the problem, they are unable to move towards ecological fertilisation due to lack of biomass. Greenpeace India, in collaboration with farmers, launched an initiative in 2014 to address the biomass availability issue. GP India partnered with the farmers of Kedia GM MUSTARD village of Jamui District of Bihar, to create a biomass-based ecological fertilisation village model, utilising government schemes. The model utilises the biomass produced Greenpeace along with a number of individuals and organisations have brought to the in the village for preparing eco-fertilisers. The initiative also helps the farmers prepare light the threat of GM Mustard, which the Government is secretly trying to approve for climate resilience and safeguard the health of their soil, food and that of the for commercial cultivation in the country. This is despite concerns raised by eminent villagers themselves. With the financial help from the Bihar government under its bodies such as the Supreme Court’s Technical Expert Committee that our regulatory plan to promote organic farming in at least one village in every district, the villagers of system is not equipped to take such decisions. Kedia are laying vermicompost beds, using biogas units and also setting up an eco- If GM Mustard indeed gets approved, it would eventually pave way for other GM food friendly toilet model, popularly known as Ecosan Toilets. The Kedia farmers have also crops to flood the country. But thousands of people told the Government that they developed and are using indigenous ecological pest management solutions such as did not want a modified version of mustard when there were safer ways of cultivating ‘Amritpani’ and ‘Agniastra’. the crop. In fact, one of the major funders of the Genetically Modified Mustard project – NDDB In just eight months, the farmers of Kedia have completely stopped using chemical (The National Dairy Development Board) more popularly known by its brand Mother pesticides and have adopted locally prepared ecological pest management solutions. Dairy and Dhara Oils - has backed off from funding any further development of GM They have significantly reduced application of chemical fertilisers by using other Mustard. Rajasthan, the biggest cultivator of mustard, and Punjab which also grows natural elements as fertiliser supplements. The transformation has caught the a fair amount of mustard have publicly opposed GM Mustard. Even Haryana has attention of the Block Agriculture Officer who has requested senior officials to adopt declared that it will not allow any more GM field trials in the state placing the interest the village to develop as an Model Organic Village. Last season they reaped a bountiful of the people first. harvest without chemical despite unseasonal rains which wiped away standing crops Faced with public resistance, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee has not elsewhere. met as yet to take the decision on commercialisation of GM Mustard. Thanks to people in July 2014, Greenpeace India also began assisting Patna Zoo in creating an power, we have managed to keep 2015 GM-Free! Greenpeace activists along with urban model of management of waste by reducing and segregating the waste and their supporters continue to work on this crucial issue to guarantee safe food for all. composting all the biomass residues including animal excreta, kitchen residue, food leftovers and leaf litters to produce ecological fertilisers. This solution will go a long way in solving the issue of urban waste as well as mitigating the biomass crisis.

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The work of our mobilisation team supports all of our campaigns – it is hard to imagine any public facing push without a blog, social media content, emails, graphics, videos and more. As the campaign grows the work Inof our2013 offline we organisedsupporters 40+and volunteersevents for kicksthe inArctic to create even morecampaign, pressure forin 2014change, we andorganised you are 110+ growing events stronger. to say #IAmMahan, in 2015 our supporters organised 250+ events to say #ISupportGreenpeaceIndia in the face of the MHA’s attack on civil society and your rights MOBILISATION to dissent in a democracy; https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ZGhgWFCrTGQ

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The Secret Mission that Launched Junglistan Cancellation of Coal block Allocations 2014 started with 8.6 lakh mobile activists When the Supreme Court cancelled 214 standing up to save forests. The list was coal blocks allocations, this victory was informed about the protest at the Essar communicated to supporters along with a office in Mumbai and asked to join the secret request for donations. Sent to 40118 people mission to save forests. 3133 people went on the call for donations to help continue our to support the campaign against the Essar- fight generated 1835 leads. led coal mine. Crowdfunded Ad A unique aspect of this this campaign was The request to donate for an advertisement the segregation of smartphone users and in the newspaper to ask the new government those using phones that had regular features. to save forests received a huge response Smartphone users were sent a link to sign with 20154 people confirming their intention the petition and regular feature phone users to donate. were asked for their details and Greenpeace 2014 Mahan Arrests tweeted support on their behalf. Throughout When Greenpeace and Mahan Sangharsh Missed call Lead generations People reached Leads generated the course of the campaign for Junglistan, Samiti (MSS) activists were arrested for this differentiation of segments was used for peacefully protesting the destruction of the Total mobile Activist list 1968150 NA each step of the engagement journey. forests in Mahan, 117229 people showed People who picked up the secret mission 114477 3133 The Valentine’s Day protest against Veerappa support and condemned the incident. IVR call for Junglistan Moily had mobile support with smartphone 7656 people responded to this showing their Coal Block cancellation fundraising ask 40118 1835 users receiving a Facebook link to spread the support to our activists. Junglistan Crowdfunded Newspaper ad NA 20154 message that Essar axes forests. Human Art engagement 117229 7656 5481 smart Phone users were sent with a link MSS Rapid response for Mahan Arrests Referral ask for Palm oil 47089 1492 Cocktail push for Pesticides 585443 9932 IVR Push for Toxicity 66516 1819 ( People who picked up calls ) SMS push for Toxicity 64697 1505

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to share on FB. “Essar Quit Mahan”. between local authorities, policy makers and his pension. villagers of the region of Mahan in central In Amelia, Virendra reported four handpumps Palm Oil India, where local and tribal communities in the village that were not working on Radio Radio Sangharsh Annual The campaign against palm oil continued lack access to any mainstream media Sangharsh and the resultant water scarcity data July-13 to Sept 15 with us reaching out to 47089 people with an outlets. This often poses serious barriers to faced by the villagers for a month. Since then, update - big brands like Cadbury, L’Oreal and their socio-economic development, as their the pumps have been repaired. Total calls made for recording 2385 Wilmar had committed to zero deforestation grievances about government and corporate In Amelia, the people who were part of Amelia Actual No of Stories recorded 991 in their supply chain. The next step for our and economic exploitation remains unvoiced. Samiti did not receive their bonus from selling mobile activists were to refer friends for the What started off as a test eventually proved their tendu leaves for the year 2012. They had No of blank call 1394 campaign to save the tigers in Sumatra. 1492 to be an invaluable asset in the struggle appealed to the Forest Ranger, DFO, Forest Total no of call published 228 new people joined our campaign as a result for justice for the citizens of the region. For Guard, Superintendent and other concerned of the mobile push. the first time, villagers turned into citizen officials but to no avail. Once Kripanath The next step was asking them to support our journalists by using their phones to call and reported this to Radio Sangharsh, the Amelia campaign and ask P&G to stop destroying voice their local problems as an act to bring Samiti received their bonus in a week’s time. rainforests for palm oil. A unique strategy people and communities together to fight a employed during this campaign was a common cause. Number of Calls Published missed call-to-tweet tool. One missed call to Month people Blank calls Recorded Calls the number on the message would trigger a The Radio Sangharsh team- Anirban who called in tweet helping make the campaign hashtag Chakrabarti, Vivek Goyal, Sachin Singh and become a trending topic on Twitter. Arvind Shivakumar with the support of CGnet January 158 55 103 8 Cocktail Push for pesticides. Swara’s Shubhranshu Choudhary and Smita February 206 46 160 18 During the pesticides push we reached out to Choudhary trained people in the villages to March 249 79 170 18 a database of 585443 people. A WhatsApp use the everyday technology of the mobile engagement was employed for this campaign. phone to tell the world that what is happening April 141 49 92 22 During the course of the campaign we asked in their villages. The Amplifiers are trained May 138 97 41 17 people to join an offline event by sending in using the Radio Sangharsh platform, June 80 63 17 21 their selfies with chai. Our WhatsApp number citizen journalism and basic interviewing and July 139 76 63 22 received selfies from 246 people, which were reporting skills. The 45 amplifiers went on to 2014 then used to make a picture collage. train other villagers in their respective villages. August 241 64 177 18 Clean Air Nation Even during the clampdown on Greenpeace, September 153 52 101 19 The Clean Air campaign began in Delhi and villagers called in to show support and October 120 69 51 14 the call was for supporters to demand a health denounce the actions of the government. November 195 82 113 12 advisory on highly polluted days. 66516 people answered the call which translated to How Radio Sangharsh Works December 126 55 71 9 an overall response rate of 38.26%. To report a story, you need to give a missed January 52 25 27 9 RADIO SANGHARSH- Awaz Adhikaar Ki call to +91 990 291 5604, upon which our February 75 35 40 4 We live in a world where mobile phones are no system will call you back. It’s free of cost, time longer a luxury but a necessity we can’t live efficient and user friendly! Voice instructions March 99 25 74 5 without. So why not use it to help someone from the other side allow you to record your April 36 19 17 3 in need? That’s how Greenpeace India set up own story in 3 minutes, or navigate through May 44 27 17 3 Radio Sangharsh in November 2013 with the the other published stories over the phone June 39 20 19 0 help of CGNet Swara, a tool that brings the power of online connectivity and expression July 39 24 15 0 to phone users in the rural India. Combining Impact Jan 2014 to present 2015 August 45 26 19 4 technology with powerful social expression In Suhira, Babai Shah, an 80 year old man’s September 10 3 7 2 and citizen journalism, it was aimed at creating name was missing from the pension list. October a decentralized platform that would provoke Despite requesting the village sarpanch and and enlarge the debate around the right of his secretary to enlist him, his name was not November indigenous people. It also had the objective included. After recording a complaint through December of using mobile phones to bridge the gap Radio Sangharsh, Babai has begun receiving TOTAL 2385 991 1394 228

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Balance Sheet for the Financial year 2014-15 Profit and Loss Account for the Year 2014-15

How Does Particulars 2014-15 Particulars 2014-15 Fixed Assets 4584076 Fund raising and Public Awareness Expenses 6503085 Cash and Bank Balance 3538262 Organisation & Support Expenses 3727562 Money on deposit 12277600 Campaign Expenses 2341103 Prepayments 172982 Campaign Support Expenses 922008 Greenpeace Receivables 1040091 Contribution to other Organisations 1860000 Advances 7210726 Profit carried to Balance Sheet 13169156 Total 28823737 Total 28522914

Particulars 2014-15 Particulars 2014-15 Use Its Liabilities Donations from Local Donors 27720758 Corpus Fund 15547562 Interest Received 802156 Add-Excess of Income over Total 28823737 Expenditure from Income 13169156 and expenditure for the year 2014-15 Funds? Accounts Payable 107019 Total 28823737 Greenpeace India raises a majority of its funding from Indians - according to our provisional fundraising figures for FY 2014-15, INR 20.76 crore was donated to Greenpeace India by 77,768 Indian citizens - accounting for nearly 70% of total income. Greenpeace India Society

Balance Sheet for the Financial year 2014-15 Profit and Loss Account for the Year 2014-15

Particulars 2014-15 Particulars 2014-15 Fixed Assets 10420334 Fund raising and Public Awareness Expenses 104324945 Cash and Bank Balance 93608173 Organisation & Support Expenses 54361840 Money on deposit 4977256 Campaign Expenses 50365063 Prepayments 2477518 Campaign Support Expenses 44126245 TDS/Taxes paid 15750701 Advances 2048839 Profit carried to Balance Sheet 30521439 Total 129282821 Total 283699532

Particulars 2014-15 Particulars 2014-15 Liabilities Foreign Grants 96185340 Corpus Fund 85957966 Donations from Local Donors 179958862 Add-Excess of Income over Interest Received 7552830 Expenditure from Income 30521439 Other Income 2500 and expenditure for the year Total 283699532 2014-15 Accounts Payable 12803416 Total 129282821

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