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Teaching the Teacher is the Main Key to sucess
Building an effective education system for a world after Covid-19 needs to include a collaborative stakeholder engagement and customized solution for all target groups. education sector was already trailing.
Reaching far and wide, despite the pandemic
Kshitij Mishra has been walking the tough path of empowering communities through sound healthcare and good education for decades. And the commitment to spreading happiness continues despite odds.
Telemedicine can provide timely access and last mile
Telemedicine has been gaining traction after the Government of India and the Medical Council of India released their new guidelines for the use of telemedicine during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Covid 19
Why a response strategy to deal with the post COVID world is urgent
If we don’t act now, the COVID induced social crisis will be the biggest the world has seen. A concerted effort involving the public and private sectors to create a universal social safety net can be a viable damage.
Health and Hygiene
Why driving the WASH agenda is every citizen’s responsibility?
Although the government can help creating the necessary infrastructure, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is intricately linked to personal habits. That makes every citizen responsible for driving it from the front.
Digital Literacy
Inclusion along with digital literacy should be at core of Digital India
As we celebrated the World Literacy Day this week, in the neo-normal scenario induced by the pandemic, it is evident to all that we need to move beyond just literacy to digital literacy, particularly at the grassroots.
Primary Healthcare in India- solutions for change vis a vis Sustainable Development Goals
There are several definitions of primary health care, but most have the following key elements. Primary healthcare includes preventive, promotive and curative care;
Care is provided within or closer to the communities.
Factoring Process Indicators in Programme Evaluations: Rationale and the Way Forward
Healthy people are vital to economic and social development. The last decade has witnessed multidimensional changes in health and more so in reproductive health in India. Although India has made significant progress in improving the health.
Decentralizing health management for meeting local health needs
with growing population and advancement in the medical technology and increasing expectation of people for quality health care, it has now become imperative to establish a system to render accessible and effective healthcare services.
CSR Partnership
Maharishi PatanjaliEducation Group’s Mission Education Program: CSR Partnership
Socio-economic progress of a nation depends on how literate its citizens are. Though there has been a six fold improvement in the literacy rate since independence, yet the current literacy figure is lower than the average world literacy rate…
Dalai Lama
Globally renowned humanitarian His Holiness The Dalai Lama endorses & commits
Inaugurates Maharishi Patanjali Education Group’s special initiative “World of Children. In what was a crowning moment in an illustrious career spanning more than 15 years, Kshitij Mishra, Founder which is the main head of the Company.
Education and Nutrition
Nutrition for Education – Nourishing, nurtutring, educating and empowering children
When six year old Kiran Wagh joined the Mission Education centre at Kalyan in Maharashtra, her teachers took note of her extreme health condition. She was visibly malnourished, looked much younger than her age and was covered in dirt…
Empowering Grass roots
Empowering Grassroots – changing nation!
The growth of the non-profit sector in India in the last two decades has been phenomenal. India has possibly the largest number of active non-government, not-for-profit organizations in the world. Official estimates put the number at 3.3 million. From relief services to educational initiatives…
CSR Mandate
From Philanthropic Act to Strategic Policy
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, businesses have often been perceived as an anti-social development – the empowerment of few, against the many. In India, because the industries came in along with colonialism, people’s perception of the sector has been adverse. It is a fact that industries.
Health
Health cannot wait for the poor
The queues in front of the hospitals are ceasing to reduce, so are the agonies of the people .The sudden change in the economic scenario has brought many changes in the country, wreaking overnight havoc in the lives of the average people. The most affected are the rural and urban poor.
Gender Equality
Taking boys and men along the path of gender equality
Violence against women and girls have rocked our consciousness and fuelled an unprecedented public outcry across the nation. And for the first time, men and women came out in unity protesting on the streets. The India that we see today fringes on modernity and social prejudices
Child Sex Ratio
Daughters no more dearer? Why This Inequality
Over the past decade, gender equality has been recognized as key not only to the health of nations, but also to their social and economic development. But even though India is a signatory to the goal, unfortunately it lags far behind in terms of gender equality as a major portion of our population.
Youth Empowerment
Enabling the young to garner demographic dividend
Today, more than half of India’s population is below the age of 25. In another seven years, India’s average age will be just 29 years, in comparison with 37 in China and the United States, 45 in Western Europe and 48 in Japan; making it the country with the largest young population in the world…
Online Skills Training
Get ready with online skills training: easy, free and convenient
Globalisation and a thriving Indian economy have opened up tremendous employment opportunities in retail and service sectors mostly. The opportunities have also brought along a new perspective to the way these jobs are performed and the skills needed…
Remembering Dr. Kalam
A Life like no other – Remembering Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
Looking at the glorious chronicles of the life of our beloved Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, it comes as no surprise that he was bestowed the luck of passing away while doing what he loved to do – teaching. “If people will remember me as a good teacher.
Medical Education
Reforming Medical Education to benefit masses
India is the country with the highest number of medical colleges in the world. All 315 odd medical colleges in India produce some 30,000 doctors and 18,000 specialists. Yet we are almost at the bottom in terms of the number…
Employment and Equality
Integrating Women in India’s Growth Story
“Gender equality does not imply that all women and men must be the same. Instead, it entails equipping both with equal access to capabilities; so that they have the freedom to choose opportunities that improve their lives. It means that women have Equal access to resources and rights as men, and vice versa.
My father does not understand English but he loves to hear me use it.
I want to improve the conditions that my parents live in. I am working towards it.
Our daughter is our strength and hope. She is the youngest in the family, but she motivates everyone”- Shashi’s mother. She can say this because Shashi has emerged a fighter in the midst of a lot of problems. Her mother is proud of her and so are her other family members.
