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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?

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Visitors: 715 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

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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

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Visitors: 1,533 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

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Visitors: 593 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

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Visitors: 599 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 […]

Are the state and central governments really not serious for conflict resolution in the Bastar region? : Myth or Truth

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Visitors: 451 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

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Visitors: 671 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

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Visitors: 234 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 […]

Miracle Achieved by the Joint Efforts of a Local Community and a Government Administration :: An "Economy of Water" by a Visionary Crusader UMAKANT UMRAO

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Visitors: 1,366 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 […]

Anna Hazare, his demands for ending fast, media-sponsored-movement and celebration of victory on the parliament

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Visitors: 182 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

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Visitors: 242 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 […]

FORUM FOR GLOBAL HARMONY AND NON-VIOLENT ALTERNATIVE – OUTLINES OF THE POLICY STATEMENT : T N PURWAR

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DEVELOPMENT OF NON-VIOLENCE

The smallest unit of human society is a family, which is based on love and compassion. But what an anomaly that the coordinating agency or federating authority of families, which is known as the state, is based on repression and violence! So as it is to change an unjust system or destroy an oppressive state violent methods are needed. Gandhi experienced and realised the cruelty inherent in the anomaly. He felt the depressiveness of the situation. He visualised human society as a family, where love and compassion should be the way to resolve various conflicts. Gandhi introduced non-violent methods based on a threefold action: Satyagrah (insistence to truth), Asagayoga (non-cooperation) and Atmanigrah-atmabalidan (self-abnegation, self-sacrifice). The combination of all of these is crystallized in Savinaya Avajnya Andolan (civil disobedience movement) by individuals and communities against the oppressor and oppressive authority. Gandhi successfully fought the British imperial authority with his non-violent methods and led the Indian subcontinent towards Independence.

TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL SOCIETY –Triloki Nath Purwar

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Triloki Nath Purwar(The article was written in 1971, before the Bangladesh war) Headlines THE CRISISMAN’S NATURESOCIAL DEVELOPMENTNEW DIRECTIONFUTURE SOCIETYTHE SUBCONTINENT THE CRISISHuman society has been experiencing a suffocating and depressing situation in community living the world over. The conflict between nationalities and ideologies is sapping our creative energies in various spheres of life. In the […]

Social Economy, Social Capital vs Virtual Economy, Virtual Capital — Vivek Umrao Glendenning

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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

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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 […]