Your views on Maoism and Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India
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Vivek U Glendenning “Social Nomad”
Local Community International Awards
Visitors: 331 Vivek Umrao Glendenning “Social Nomad”, the founder of Ground Report India group and the author of a hindi book “Mansik Samajik Aarthik Swarajya ki Oor“, has been working on an idea of establishing awards for the people work for indian communities. Introduction of the book is available in Hindi at http://groundreportindia.org/books/introduction-towards-consciousness-social-economic-self-sustainability/ and of […]
Editorial
Visitors: 308 Thank you very much for reading the current edition of The Ground Report India quarterly journal titled “Ground Efforts for Empowerment and Self-Sustainability of Tribal People”. I prefer to see things at the actual ground level. I try my best to keep my eyes and mind open to see things as they are, without […]
Conflict Resolution: POTA-Cabin to the Education City, shaping the tribal children for a better society in the Maoist affected area :: The other side face of the South Bastar region of Chhattisgarh
Vivek Umrao GlendenningThe Founder and the Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe Vice-Chancellor & Co-Founder, The Gokul Social UniversityOm Prakash Chaudhary IAS, popularly called OP Chaudhary or OP, was appointed as the district collector in South Bastar (Dantewada) in the last week of March 2011. For about two months he was busy conducting elections for the vacant seat […]
A tribal youth with continuous constructive ground efforts and success stories for tribal community over the two decades in Dantewada, Bijapur, Sukama and Jagdalpur districts of Chhattisgarh : Is he not a real ground hero?
Visitors: 762 This article is based on the vision, efforts, struggle and achievements of a common tribal youth, who started to work when he was a teenager of just 15 years. This article does not follow the trend made by NGO business persons to project the paid employees of NGOs as the HEROES. This article […]
Dwarko Sundarani, 90 years old legend, has been empowering the tribal community for the last 58 years in Bihar at Samanvay Ashram
Vivek Umrao GlendenningThe Founder and the Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe Vice-Chancellor & Co-Founder, The Gokul Social UniversityDwarko Sundarani and Vivek, the chief editor of the Ground Report IndiaDwarko Sundarani, 90 years old, is a follower of Vinoba Bhave and has been serving the tribal and local communities in Gaya district of Bihar state for the […]
Dr Debal Deb : A Legend of the principle of local self-sustainability on the ground
Visitors: 1,659 In this exclusive ground report, I write about the models of self-sustainability established by Dr. Debal Deb, founder of the rice seed banks Vrihi and Basudha. Dr Deb has a PhD from the Calcutta University, West Bengal and post doctorates from the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and the Indian Institute of Science, […]
Nilanchal Seva Pratishthan is a lovely home for orphans, blind, deaf and mentally retarded children
Visitors: 640 Children are not a project liability for funds for the Nilanchal Seva Pratishthan (NSP). On my visit to the NSP, I observed and realised that NSP is a family home for children. NSP provides residential and non-residential education to tribal and non-privileged children of the Puri region in Odisha including orphans, blind, deaf […]
Dr Prakash Tyagi follows in the footprints of his father to serve the tribal community of the Thar Desert, Rajasthan
Visitors: 650 Dr Prakash Tyagi follows in the footprints of his father to serve the tribal community of the Thar Desert. Nowadays there is a new tradition formed by NGO owners to handover the NGO to their children, even though these children never served the community or the NGO as volunteers. But Dr Prakash […]
Nandlal Baba a real hero of the tribal community in the Bastar region
Visitors: 419 There is a breeze of NGOs sponsored tribal heroes in the media, on the internet and also social networking platforms for the Bastar region. Most of these sponsored heroes were or are paid employees of the NGOs working in this region. But Nandlal Baba is a young tribal person, who does not […]
Are the state and central governments really not serious for conflict resolution in the Bastar region? : Myth or Truth
Visitors: 493 Bastar region of Chhattisgarh is a Maoist affected area thus without any doubt there are violations of human rights from either sides by government forces and Maoists. Human rights violations do not happen only by the government forces, they do happen by Maoists in the matter of common tribal people. It could […]
Varun Arya : A visionary education entrepreneur who is establishing a model for professional institutes
Visitors: 730 The Marwar Education Foundation bought around 100 acres of barren land. This was a land with no grass, no trees but covered with salt. Varun Arya and his team from the Marwar Education Foundation took around seven years to treat this land with water harvesting structures and other natural treatments. At present, the land has 15 lakes of sweet water, […]
An important announcement for journalists of rural, semi urban and non-metro city areas
Visitors: 252 Ground Report India wants to motivate young Indian journalists and non-paid ground social activists of rural, semi-urban and non-metro urban areas for thoughtful, visionary and accountable journalism / citizen journalism. If you as a journalist prefer to work on real ground to get sincere reports/articles/photos. You may earn money for your original reports,articles […]
Editorial – Why is this edition of Ground Report India on water and agriculture?
Visitors: 241 For the past 20 years, more or less, I have been working, or have been associated with various known social personalities and media celebrities of social activism in India. These personalities include international awardees, mainstream political persons, RTI/RTF/RTE/ NREGA activists, activists who follow Gandhi’s ideology, organizations who pursue Gandhi’s ideology and others in […]
Miracle Achieved by the Joint Efforts of a Local Community and a Government Administration :: An "Economy of Water" by a Visionary Crusader UMAKANT UMRAO
Visitors: 1,472 United Nations, UN, selected Dewas district’s community water management works in the best three water management practices in the world under the category of “Best Water Management Practices” for 2011-2012. The link of UN website of the award is given below- (the third rank in category 01) http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/finalists2012.shtml Dewas, Ponds, Reva Sagar, Local […]
Editorial
Visitors: 208 There has been much excitement in the Ground Report India team as we move from a monthly eJournal (which will still continue) and bring to you this detailed quarterly journal. This print magazine has arisen out of our concerns and awareness for a balanced media representation of the ground realities of present day […]
What does India really need for Transformation? : Electoral Politics Or Live Sources for Self-Motivations of Masses
Visitors: 171 For the past 20 years more or less, I have been in touch (active or passive), have been working or have worked with various known Social Personalities, Media Celebrities of Social Activism in India, known/ unknown Ground Activists, International Awardees, Mainstream Political Persons, RTI/RTF/RTE/ NREGA Activists, Activists of Gandhi’s Ideology, Organizations of Gandhi’s […]
Anna Hazare, his demands for ending fast, media-sponsored-movement and celebration of victory on the parliament
Visitors: 216 a very layman who cannot see the big things in this media based movement (About the photo- Vivek Umrao Glendenning is talking with the mass for decentralization of powers and economy with the around 100,000 villagers in a mass meeting organized by his organization.) Just because I had/have different views on Anna Hazare’s […]
Anna Hazare's hi-profile mass movement :: will it lead towards a better democracy or towards a chaos-fascism
Visitors: 281 Vivek Umrao Glendenning MCIJ International Journalist, the Chartered Institute of Journalists, London Member, Wikimedia /Wikipedia Australia Member, International PEN Member, International PEN Sydney Centre All discussions given below are based on advertisements received by me via sms/emails/updates in social networks and made by Anna’s team to get popularity-sensation. I am a very common […]
Tribals planted more than 80,000 saplings (young trees) in Dantewada, Bastar region of the Chhattisgarh State
Visitors: 240 GRI Exclusive Dantewada, Chhattisgarh Tribals planted more than 80,000 saplings (young trees) in Dantewada, Bastar region of the Chhattisgarh State without any financial support by government or non-government funding agencies. Koya Wes Social Institute, an voluntary social organization, formed by the local tribal youths has been motivating local tribal communities for trees plantation. […]
Special Edition on Water Issues
Visitors: 153 Dear Friends, Thank you for appreciation and contributions to establish and empower the Ground Report India (GRI) as a ground voice for the common people. The Ground Report India is planning a Special Edition in the month of September 2010 on Water Issues and ground works on Water Issues in India. Please send […]
Social Economy, Social Capital vs Virtual Economy, Virtual Capital — Vivek Umrao Glendenning
Vivek Umrao GlendenningWe believe that all the basic needs of human beings to stay alive, are produced by common society since the beginning of society. Capital was produced by common society and still it is produced by common society. In current market systems there is no accountability towards common society. The Current market and various […]
Proposed Changes in Indian Governance Systems — Vivek Umrao Glendenning
Vivek Umrao Glendenning• Any government employee, from chief secretary to village guard, who gets any salary or facility from government; should be directly called as SERVANT (SEVAK) replacing Officer. It should be compulsory in all name plates, all documents and in all types of conversations. (It is contradictory that people take oath as we are servants of public […]