Recent tragedy at mumbai train station in which 22 people lost life due to rain & congestion induced stampede has raised some important issues of governance. Former railway minister who is otherwise a very efficient minister in every role so far, has blamed bureaucratic inertia fr the death. He said in a signed article that…
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‘Only five children from government school in tamilnadu could make to medical admission’- a recent headline after one of the girl aspirant committed suicide. Disenfranchisement of children of the Poorest families going to government schools is not going to be tolerated for too long. The country can not be run only by those who can…
The recent decision of the Government of India to create new institutions of global excellence with an expenditure of ten thousand crores rather than investing in improving the existing ones is a bit strange. It implies that it is alright to let majority of existing intuitions remain ‘mediocre’ because apparently they don’t need any reform.…
The regions with low population density, difficult terrain, poor telecom coverage and uncertain weather require different norms of development than the regions with contrasting conditions. This must be quite obvious to the planners and administrators. But students from iima who went to Uttrakhand as a part of shodhyatra course felt otherwise. They felt that several…
Floods have stated receding in many parts of the country but as I said last week, new problems are going to arise. Some problems still persist and arise every year. Let me focus on needs for innovations in low cost filter ( like life straw which filters water when you sip through it), which marooned…
The floods in different parts of the country do not draw as much attention as they should. But floods in north Gujarat have, thankfully, drawn enough attention at the highest level and thus deserve to be analysed from the perspective of ‘what next’. As is well known that apart from the loss of human life,…
Lot of young students are wanting to learn from everyday life, teachers and peers in school. Some are curious to learn about ever changing nature but very few from the way nature changes and still renews itself. There are many students who are not bright academically, but are very good in animal care, gardening, cooking,…
Global Innovation challenges-1: a call for creative connections with children, youth and women When any society learns to live with solvable problems by reinforcing inertia, indifference and also internalizing helplessness, then imagination gets stifled first. Once imagination gets constrained, innovations are unlikely to follow. UNICEF and SRISTI have joined hands to announce a global challenge…
Seeking solutions to problems faced by the women, children and youth, particularly disadvantaged ones, worldwide is a challenge itself. I have shared six inclusive innovation challenges so far: a) overcoming anaemia among women through extremely affordable solutions, b) creating awareness about women’s biology, including menstruation among particularly boys and the rest of the society so…