The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Management school for NGOs opens

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Management school for NGOs opens

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Social initiatives can only succeed if stakeholders combine spirituality with good management practices. But society’s collective mindset of insensitivity and corrupt bureaucracy that only chooses to look at statistics, have made delivery of social initiatives to beneficiaries very difficult, said M.N.Venkatachaliah, former Chief Justice of India on Saturday.

Mr. Venkatachaliah, who inaugurated the Centre for Social Initiative and Management (CSIM), which offers customised courses on social entrepreneurship, consultancy services on NGO management and volunteer management, said it was time to develop a model or prototype of solutions for the mounting number of problems that keep the country from developing into a healthy, prosperous nation.

Quoting several statistics that paint an alarming picture of India in 2020, Mr. Venkatachaliah said the projected demand for water would go up by 50 per cent, and so would the demand for power.

The country already needs 6,000 primary schools, and 3,500 paramedical units in remote areas where no service is available. “The child health indices are appalling, and they require enormous funds, attention from Government, policy makers, and from NGOs who can make a difference in increasing access to services,” he said. Courage and truth lead to emancipation, he said.

CSIM is a project of MSDS Trust, Chennai, and the “management school for NGOs” has branches in Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Details can be had from CSIM at Ph: 25635398, and www.csim.org.

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