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Strengthening grassroots innovation ecosystem: ideas for action Over the last three decades, Honey Bee Network volunteers and institutions spawned by it  viz., SRISTI [Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions], GIAN [Gujarat Grassroots...

Press Note Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Ignited Mind Children Creativity and Innovation Awards, 2020 In the memory of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the Honey Bee Network, SRISTI and GIAN have jointly organized an annual...

The farmer leaders are demanding: an assurance that their farm produce will be procured whether in APMC or outside at minimum support price [MSP]; in the contract farming there should be a more helpful mechanism to...

The connection between the growth and development of the brain of a child up to six years and education in mother tongue is an extremely poignant point of the new education policy.  It is scientifically valid...

The new education policy requires higher education to: ….. …form the basis for knowledge creation and innovation thereby contributing to a growing national economy. The purpose of quality higher education is, therefore, more than the creation...

Anil k Gupta Inclusive Innovations help in overcoming  either one or more of the six factors that could exclude people from the benefit of their impact such as spatial, sectoral, seasonal or temporal, social, skill and...

A manifesto for ‘migrants’: Towards a new social contract The conditions in which  a  large number of wage workers lived during the lockdown period and then went back to their homes in different states have bruised...

Never before had so many additional workers sought job under NREGA as will happen this year.  Because of reverse migration, there could be at least 20 – 30 million additional workers needing gainful employment during this...

anil k gupta anilg@gian.org In the post-pandemic period, revival of economy, particularly rural and informal economy is first priority.  However, conventional methods and approaches will not take us very far in reorganizing and greening our economy.  ...

किसी भी समाज़ को विकसित करने का प्रयास उस समाज़ की महत्वाकांक्षाओं   के अनुसार ही होना चाहिये। पर अगर आभावों  से  ग्रस्त इतिहास ने उन समाज की अपेक्षाओं को कुंठित किया है तो हमे उनकी अभिलाषा और अपेक्षाओं को बढ़ाना...