Manifesto for revitalizing MSMEs For any developing country, most jobs are generated by micro, small and medium enterprises. And yet, the policy and institutional framework often is very weak. The reasons are not far to seek. Given heterogeneity of resources, domains, financial conditions and other interests, a unified leadership seldom emerges. Within a region, sometimes…
Jaisa ann, waisa mann, as you shall eat, so shall you think… let satt vikta ( nobility and purity) pervade in all our life spaces, all our work spaces and all our thought spaces All of you are kindly invited to visit sattvik traditional food festival during dec 21 – 23, 2013, Pl do attend…
32nd shodhyatra in punjab http://www.sristi.org/cms/32ndshodhyatra We are trying to pursue following goals during the 32nd shodhyatra: a) recognise the selfless volunteers, community members and other functionaries in different field of social action such as education, technology, agriculture, biodiversity conservation, pollution control, nature conservation, looking after elderly and sanitation etc., b) we are particularly keen to…
PRESIDENT OF INDIA LAUNCHES INNOVATIVE “IN-RESIDENCE” PROGRAMME FOR WRITERS, ARTISTS AND INNOVATION SCHOLARS ON BIRTH DAY Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi : 12-12-2013 The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee launched an ‘In-Residence’ Programme for writers, artists and innovation scholars yesterday (December 11, 2013) at Rashtrapati Bhavan on the occasion of his birthday. He also kicked…
when we published articles on milk as a means of controlling viral disease, Indian scientists as usual ignored the evidence, now that The Economist has published news about mother’s milk being effective in hiv prevention, hopefully planners and science leaders will wake up, Ah! colonised minds, we missed two decades of possible comparative advantage incidentally,…
32nd Shodh Yatra Punjab,28th December, 2013 to 2nd January, 2014 we pay tribute to the valiant efforts of Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal who mobilized local communities to clean the Kali bein river when state and the legal systems proved inadequate in the matter The next Shodh Yatra will bepursued in JalandharDistrict, Punjab, from 28th December…
what do we do with trees uprooted in odisha: “The high-velocity cyclone Phailin that hit Odisha about a week ago is estimated to have destroyed around 26 lakh trees in the state”. after the last super cyclone, the sp of jagatsingpur had written to us ( the letterw as published in honey bee newsletter) how…
Managing an Entrepreneurial surge: learning to replicate good ideas The national media obsessed as it is, with grand trivia and hero worship, a la Thomas Carlyle ( 1869); a series of very important policy innovations coming from south of India have been missed. I think, we need to underline their significance and create a…
why should start-ups suffer so much in the decade of innovation During last two years, despite umpteen rounds of discussion, it was realized that the new India Inclusive Innovation Fund ( IIIF) would only invest in existing companies which were engaged in innovative products and services for serving poor people. No doubt, the poor people…
Rethinking the framework of project management While talking to a very large community of project management professionals in Bangalore recently, it became obvious that the project management framework needs a thorough rethink. The effects of the project, I had argued in 1981, start manifesting right from the stage of its conceptualisation, to its announcement, grounding…