Latest NGOs Events & Happenings Part-2

Latest NGOs Events & Happenings Part-2 Dated on July 27th,2011


Education – New course


1. Description of the project


a. Status:New


b. Project Team : Drishtee Education team along with Chief Operating Officer


c. Objectives/Goal of the project:


To identify the scope of running PGDCA program through our franchisee network by seeking the affiliation from the respective universities offering the course through the Open and Distance education.


2. Role & Responsibilities of the intern:


a. Intern Work Location : Noida Head Office (will require to travel on demand)


b. Mandatory Language : English & Hindi


c. Intern’s deliverable s:


Identify the requirements for the Private institutes to run the PGDCA program


identify the Universities offering the affiliations to such private institutions as study centers


Do cost benefit analysis and propose the Universities for approach


Prepare and initiate the proposal for study center with universities


Collecting the right and required information,


Initiating the positive leads of universities for required work


Efforts taken for generating the database.


d. Resources required to accomplish the role/tasks


Proficient in computer , efficient and meticulous,


Good communication skills (spoken & written)


Good presentation skills


e. Intern’s value add to Drishtee


On getting affiliation Drishtee will able to bring the mentioned course available for the rural students through the existing franchisee network which will add tremendous value to the rural citizen , increase in education vertical portfolio .


3. Qualifications :


Education qualifications:


Pursing or completed Masters in Business Administration, or equivalent


b. Experience :


Fresher


c. Skills & Interests:


Good verbal and written communication


Analytical skills


Extrovert


Great PR & Networker


4. Value proposition for the intern/volunteer.


Internship certificate on successful completion of the project .


5. Expenses :


a) Stipend: No


b) Accommodation: No


c)Travel Allowance: If required as per company policy


d) MISC: If required




7. Feedback , Monitoring & Evaluation :


Formal and informal feedback directly with the project team and Mentor.
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A million trees a year can meet targets, not Delhi need: Experts

A million trees a year can meet targets, not Delhi need: Experts

Officials counter charge of creating monocultures, depleting groundwater with wrong choice of trees,/i>

Close to a million trees are planted every year in Delhi as part of the city’s greening programme but environmentalists say there is little ecological basis behind the selection of tree species to be planted.

Worse, they could lead to long term problems like the creation of monocultures and the depletion of groundwater. But, this is a charge officials deny.

According to Ajay Mahajan of the NGO ‘Kalpavriksha’, the city’s civic agencies which are in charge of planting trees along roads and in parks, focus only on three or four types of trees.

“For roads, the current favourite is a tree called ficus benjamina. You’ll see it on avenues and central verges. Lakhs of these were planted during the Commonwealth Games. In some areas they’ve also planted a lot of frangipani. And for parks they choose polyalthia longifolia, which looks like the Ashok tree but actually is a different variety. Certain types of palm like the fishtail palm are also planted.”

Mahajan says of all four varieties are basically ornamental trees and none are native to Delhi.

“This kind of plantation is only to meet official targets. These trees are planted very close to each other and grow like hedges. So, they don’t provide shade or help in climate moderation. The temperature difference on the roads that have tall trees— like in Central Delhi — and those that don’t can be up to four of five degrees, he said.

Source: indianexpress

NGO protests disposal of Carbide plant toxic waste to Nagpur

NGO protests disposal of Carbide plant toxic waste to Nagpur

The Union Carbide plant is lying defunct since the infamous Gas Tragedy that struck Bhopal on the intervening nights of December 2-3, 1984, following leakage of deadly methyl isocyanate gas that claimed thousands of lives and maimed lakhs of others. The NGO claimed, which is also a fact that the huge amount of toxic waste lying in the defunct factory has contaminated the ground water source in the areas located around the plant. Earlier too, a similar decision taken by the concerned authorities to dispose of the toxic waste at Ankleshwar in Gujarat and at Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh was also withdrawn following strong protest from people at both the places. PTI MAS DK

Source: ibnlive

2 held in shooting of girl in have prior arrests

2 held in shooting of girl in have prior arrests

Court records show the two men being held in the shooting of an 11-year-old girl in San Francisco have a history of arrests for alleged property crime.

Nineteen-year-old Lazarus Thomas of Daly City and 20-year-old Caprice Shadon Mitchell are accused in the shooting late Friday night in the city's Western Addition neighborhood that left Linda Ngo with a life-threatening wound. Police say the men were in an argument when one of them pulled a weapon and opened fire.

A stray bullet went through a nearby apartment and hit Ngo in the chest.

Thomas and Mitchell have been booked on suspicion of assault, shooting into an inhabited dwelling and brandishing a firearm.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Thomas was sentenced last week for a second-degree burglary conviction. Mitchell has been arrested before on suspicion of burglary, but not convicted.

Source: timesunion

Destitute woman with twins runs away from hospital

Destitute woman with twins runs away from hospital

Pregnant with twins, a mentally unstable beggar woman was admitted to the state-run LNJP Hospital on Saturday in keeping with the metropolitan magistrate's order. The judge took note of her precarious condition and need for specialized care and ordered her admission to hospital. But in a shocking case of apathy by the hospital, the 24-year-old went missing on Sunday evening.

While the hospital authorities feigned ignorance, the patient was found at Hanuman Mandir by activists late on Monday. A shocked Kiran Walia, women and child development minister, has now written a strongly-worded letter to the hospital authorities on the incident. Walia had monitored Anita's (name changed) rescue which was carried out by St Stephen's hospital Mother NGO, a team from the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences and the Delhi Police on Saturday.

When Walia called LNJP to find out about Anita's health, she was surprised to discover the doctors had no clue. The minister's persistent queries jolted hospital staff into action and they found that Anita was missing. The staff admitted they had no idea where she had gone, this, despite court orders directing the hospital to take responsibility for the high-risk patient who is in the last stages of pregnancy. Even Walia had told TOI on Saturday that she had asked LNJP to take special care of the woman.

Further inquiries revealed that Anita had become violent on Sunday evening and tried to run out of the ward. The authorities at LNJP tried to justify their lax behaviour by telling the minister that the nurses had followed Anita outside but when she refused to return they had left. Walia sought information on whether a police case had been registered so that Anita could have been traced. But the hospital authorities had no answer.

Finally, a team of activists from St Stephen's hospital found Anita at Hanuman Mandir on Monday evening. Minister Kiran Walia visited the Hanuman Mandir complex to meet Anita. She, however, refused to go back to the hospital and said she preferred to remain on the street. Walia said Anita will be monitored by doctors and counselors from Mother NGO who may convince her to return to the hospital for treatment.

On Saturday, the rescue operation carried out to admit Anita to a hospital showed how complex procedures make the simple task of admitting a patient a lengthy undertaking fraught with problems. Though Anita was picked up from Hanuman Mandir at around noon on Saturday she could only be admitted to LNJP Hospital at 8.30pm in the night due to a series of bureaucratic hurdles.

Anita lives at Hanuman Mandir complex with her husband and four children. They earn a living by begging and selling flowers and balloons to visitors. The couple is into substance abuse like many others in the area. Community workers from Mother NGO found her during a survey of the homeless last year.

Source: timesofindia