YOUTH, SKILL, JOBS, INDIA

I am in Lucknow for a week and settling some things down. Please mail me at ashutosh@dfmail.org in case u wish to connect.

. With Fellows,Naveen,Anuja and Jayshree Anuja leads the developments efforts of social enterprises created by Ramalinga Raju, Founder and Chairman of Satyam Computer Services, and his family. Most recently, Anuja was Managing Director of the Doris and Donald Fisher Fund, a San Francisco-based philanthropy created by the Founders of Gap, Inc. Prior to joining the Fund, Anuja was with MovieFone, a media and entertainment company. She was recruited to MovieFone from Merrill Lynch where she was an investment banker in the Financial Institutions Group. Anuja has served on numerous non-profit boards, all with a focus on improving public education. Anuja has a BA from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Harvard Business School

Just thought of giving a bit update.I am working on a business plan to increase ease, accessibility and affordabillity of IT services in rural India.The focus is on 5 districts of Karnataka Dharwad,Gadag,Haveri,Belgaum and Uttar Kannada. Incase you have suggestions,comments wish to join or contribute in any manner possible do drop me a mail ashutosh@dfmail.org call 09008459501 Cheer!! Will let you know once my business plan is done..oosh it really needs too much of thinking.

Hey some bit of myself in the market promoting Khadi via Selling Handkerchiefs

The Computer Skill workshop benefitted the following organizations Water Literacy Foundation Suresh Patil Gram Shikshan Foundation Reena Hombal Raveendra Hombal Navachetana C Kotragoud AG Shivanandappa Chinnayard BM Pattar G.V Patil Feedback from the participants Very Very Useful One Week important for this study We will do practice Teaching a little slow because we are not working daily in computer Your personal help is very good.Next week we want more details on any particular subject-Reena Hombal We love learned lot of new things in internet and email knew about new version of Ms Word I can able to access and browse internet and make a report Internet information MS Word 2007 Control Panel Information- C Kotragoud The program was good whatever taught was clear-Ravindra Hombal Today workshop is very gainful to me.Professional,excellent knowledge about Internet Accessing ,browsing and email options.-Suresh Patil

Cognizance of the plight of Indian child beggars and the need for an institutional rehabilitative framework Summary “States Parties shall protect the child against all other forms of exploitation prejudicial to any aspects of the child's welfare”- Article 36: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC). The Indian government being a signatory to the UN CRC is bound to protect the rights of child beggars. Drawing on detailed field study done by Deshpande fellows in Hubli-Dharwad, we propose a much active and serious role by the government of India in rehabilitating child beggars. Adequate cognizance must be made to the deplorable situation of child beggars and institutional frameworks must be designed urgently to save the child beggars, currently caught in a vicious cycle of unending indignity, abuse and marginalization. Expanding on our hypothesis we put forward reasons for inadequate humanitarian work done for child beggars. We discuss reasons for the failure...

This is an endeavour to reach out to development professionals who need technolgy skills to be more effective. We would give them handson experience on the latest software on the best machine available. It is expected that after the session they are reasonbly more confident in handling technology.They utilise blogs,websites for their advantage and hence contribute more effectively.

Market Oriented Value Enhancement (MOVE) is a method to approach income generating activities for the poor, landless, asset poor, and illiterate with marketing as the central focus. Marketing, for our purposes, is simply defined as understanding the customer’s needs and wants and designing and delivering products and services accordingly. Participants ask, “What does the customer want?” first and then, “How do I deliver it?” Market Orientation simply means shifting the participants focus to customers. Instead of being oriented to their own perceived abilities (or lack of) participants will undertake a business venture according to customer demand. This is market orientation. Value Enhancement is the process of continuously evolving new products and services to cater to customer needs and demand. By adding value to products according to the customers’ wants, entrepreneurs can serve specific market niches that larger producers cannot cater to.

Relax Senior’s Home Marketing Plan- “Cheer up!! Life Begins at 60” The “Relax Senior’s Home” is a full-service old age care facility that cares for people from age sixty and better . Relax will provide day as well as residential services to our customers. Relax will be concentrating on the upper end of the market, two income professional parents. These personally ambitious parents typically want best care for their parents and are willing to pay to have their parents attend the best facilities. Through specialized training of the support staff and innovative systems, Relax will be market leader. Relax is cutting edge in terms of old age activities and development. This curriculum, coupled with a custom designed facility and a low facilitator/customer ratio ensures a top-shelf service for the senior parents and the working children. The “Relax” expects to become profitable by month 11, and has projected 10 lakhs as the revenue for year three. Purpose of Marketing The purpose of Relax ...

Spent early childhood in a tiny village Gairigaon(Kurseong) Darjeeling Was the only day scholar in class,only one from the village Gairigaon boy studying in the prestigious Goethals Memorial School and walked 15 kms everyday to school amidst leeches.Took the toy train once in a while Hindi is my mother tongue but spoke Nepali ,later did i realize the fact. Jesus was he only god i knew for long ,was too confused with the large no of hindu divine figure. Gorkhaland national liberation movement was an everyday influence on me. Fashion designing was my first career choice ,was in NIFT fashion design course after SSLC ,quit to pursue computer engineering Was the president of Sanket,Managed treasury,alumni relations,management technical and editorial board Published signature,malaviyan,eyewatch,sanketakshar and sanket magazine Did less of engineering and more of student affairs Never looked for a job got one to survive Won the tech prastuti national tech fest paper presentation in the 1st se...

Can't agree more for the fact that innovation is the most important factor for entrepreneurs but it is important to highlight the ignored part of innovation. Ideas that work lie in between being outrageously innovative and being mediocre, a great idea is one whose time is now not the future. Though it is important to aggresively be futuristic but the big pitfall might be the complexity of idea itself, ,my mind wanders that the perfect idea would be one that a common man can understand and make sense of while the venture capitalist can see the innovativeness too. The excitement of innovation can make us work on ideas that are too far away from today's world offcourse these are the ones that transform societies but such ideas should have really small practicable implementations. It pays to say ,an idea should be simple.A simple idea is indeed an innovative one. I know all that i say is controversial...but its just a thought i need to keep in mind.

Bank does banking nothing else Technology does not cut down costs its just increases efficiency Be open,accessible Awards may be cause for problems Everybody cheats..poor is no different Men do not snatch jewelery from women it goes against their pride,it makes sense to empower them by gold Economic progress does not mean health equity. Some things are rubbish ,don't take them Business decisions have no space for emotions The more times you talk the more it become ours Delegate power when u are important.