The prestigious Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) has spurned Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh’s offer to help restructure and professionalise the 25-year-old crippled CAPART, (Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology). The Government agency that was set up with an aim to fund NGOs working for …
The prestigious Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) has spurned Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh’s offer to help restructure and professionalise the 25-year-old crippled CAPART, (Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology). The Government agency that was set up with an aim to fund NGOs working for …
It is a government agency that was set up specially to fund non-profits working on rural development. But of late the Council for People’s Action and Advancement of Rural Technology (CAPART) has been plagued by allegations of corruption and inefficiency. After a few failed attempts to reform CAPART, the government …
The 2007 National Policy on the Voluntary Sector aims at creating an enabling environment for voluntary organisations and facilitating their partnership with the government. But it suffers from a major lacuna in that it fails to comprehensively address the central aspects of autonomy, credibility and the nature of partnership itself. …
a planning Commission expert committee recommended early in March that an autonomous body under the Union ministry of rural development (mord) be professionalised. The autonomous body
