Job Avbl.: TARA Home for Boys needs a Child Welfare Officer ,South D

Job Avbl.: TARA Home for Boys needs a Child Welfare Officer (South D Posted by: "Delhi" delhi_height@ymail.com Fri Jun 1, 2012 2:27 am (PDT)
Job Description ow white achcha hain Job Title: Child Welfare Officer Reports To: Executive Director Subordinates: Night staff (2), Quartermaster (1), Volunteers Organisation: ONYVA (NGO) www.onyva.in Project: Tara Home for Boys
Job Summary: A caring, committed adult, educator and role model for 20 boys age 6 to 17, living in a shelter home in South Delhi. Organisation: We are a young but quickly growing Indo/French NGO in Delhi, implementing new standards to shelter and educate children in need of care and protection. We are running two shelter homes in South Delhi: Tara Boys and Tara Tots. Duties and Responsibilities: Taking care of the children day-by-day, the CWO is responsible for the children's overall well being, security, health and manners. He/she makes sure the daily timetable is happening smoothly, supervises the children. He/she is responsible for the children protection and participation to the decision making process at Tara, he/she makes sure that the best interest of the children are always prior to any decision taken by the team. He/she develops and maintains a network of understanding health professionals with whom he/she works in partnership. The CWO works in partnership with the families of the children, nurturing the link to keep the children grounded. The CWO produces the children in front of the Child Welfare Committee. He/she is an articulate professional, able to take initiatives, playing a major role in thinking/decision making processes, writing and implementing policies, very organized and sharp. Profile required Graduate with excellent English Strongly motivated to work with children and be part of an innovative experience Good organizational skills Ability to manage Ability to work in team Proficiency in MS Office skills Experience in working /interacting with children Good knowledge of the JJ Act is a plus Personality: The CWO is a sweet and understanding person but is also able when necessary to show leadership and authority. Maturity and a stable personality are highly important. Location: Close to Malviya Nagar. Salary: Undisclosed Working days: Tuesday to Saturday. Working days: Weekdays: 1pm to 9pm. Saturday: 10am to 9pm. Leaves: 25 working days a year. Procedure to apply for the job: Come and visit our first project, Tara Home for Boys: www.taraindia.org Then send your CV to tara@onyva.in with an application letter answering precisely the following questions: 1-Why do you feel that Tara is different from other Institutional Care programs in Delhi? 2- In what do you feel that your talents match to the job? Applications sent without this letter will not be considered.

click on a bin, e-commerce company helps recycle your trash

Kuppathotti: Click on a Bin
Thu May 31, 2012 3:13 am (PDT)
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/click-onbin/474798/
Click on a bin An e-commerce company that helps people dispose of and recycle their garbage is finding many takers in Chennai Gireesh Babu May 20, 2012, 00:47 IST
Before Joseph Jegan, 29, came up with Kuppathotti.com, he had toyed with several other business ideas, none of which materialised, for various reasons. Jegan was clear about one thing: whatever enterprise he started, it would be an innovative one and helpful to society. One day he forgot to throw away the garbage in his home. An environment-conscious man, Jegan searched online for rubbish collection agencies that could help clear his garbage with maximum convenience for him. He did not find any. That's when Kuppathotti - in Tamil, the word means "waste bin" - was born. Kuppathotti.com is a website where Chennai residents can report non-degradable garbage, especially polythene materials, and get them picked up from home without much effort, and responsibly disposed of. "The concept was entirely new to me," says Jegan, "and I went and collected the information from a few scrap dealers and started this venture. It is 50 per cent business and 50 per cent social service."
Jegan, an MCA graduate, quit his job with a multinational IT firm in Chennai before starting his own venture. His wife Sujatha helps him, and is the managing director of the company. Kuppathotti targets various sections of society but the immediate focus is on middle- and upper-class households, since they generate larger quantities of non-degradable waste. "They feel shy to carry it out of their homes on their own, or are looking to make money out of it. Most of them are unaware of the harmful effects of non-degradable waste," says Jegan. Launched on November 11, 2011, it took around two months to set up the website. In the last six months the site has got more than 7,500 registered customers (registration is free). "We receive 100 per cent support from our customers," says Jegan. Currently, 13 employees help him run Kuppathotti. Customers have to log in to the website and with a few simple clicks, register the waste objects they have to dispose of. Every day a pickup team schedules a visit to a particular area of the city. Before visiting their homes, the team calls the registered customers a day ahead to make sure they are home. Currently, the company visits its customers every 45 days. "The collection executive visits our customers with a weighing machine, based on the customer list we provide," explains Jegan. The customers are paid on the spot for the trash items they have discarded. All the trash is dumped and then segregated in the company's own godown. Once segregated, it is given to the proper recyclers. Jegan says there is hardly anything that is not recyclable in the junk they receive. Kuppathotti does not accept wooden articles, including furniture, because it is difficult to transport. With the initial response being positive, Jegan plans to take the business to all the parts of India and to become an organised junk-collection entity. His company currently collects 10-20 tonnes of trash a month, and is looking to collect at least 50 tonnes a month to deal directly with the big scrap dealers of the region.
"Our future plans include creating awareness on e-waste. And we are also planning to expand our service to other cities in India," he says. These plans require funding and a few companies and funding agencies have already been approached. "It is a service of convenience, and most of our customers are happy with us, since we have an authentic system to weigh and measure," he says. Customers know the price of each trash item from the prefixed price list on the website

Generate power on your rooftop and get paid for it

You can generate power at rooftop and sell it too!
Thu May 31, 2012 2:49 am (PDT)
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_you-can-generate-power-at-rooftop-and-sell-it-too_1679440
You can generate power at rooftop and sell it too! Published: Monday, Apr 23, 2012, 8:13 IST By Sumit Khanna | Place: Gandhinagar | Agency: DNA Very soon, Gandhinagar residents will be able to use their terraces for generating solar power, and earn money for themselves in the process. If you have a rooftop of 1,000 sq ft, you could earn Rs36,000 a year, and that too for the next 25 years, by allowing a developer to use your rooftop for setting up solar power panels. In a first of its kind project, the state government has approved installation of 5 MW of rooftop solar power generation capacity in the state capital. The project would see investments in excess of Rs50 crore. "The capacity will come up on roofs of residential, commercial and government buildings. The rooftop owners will receive Rs3 for every unit of power generated," DJ Pandian, principal secretary, energy & petrochemicals department, said.
According to industry officials, the 5 MW solar power capacity would lead to generation of an estimated 8.5 million units of electricity in a year. This means that rooftop owners would earn around Rs2.55 crore a year by allowing use of their rooftops for power generation. However, 80% of the capacity planned will come up on government buildings. As a result, the state government alone would earn around Rs2 crore a year by allowing installation of solar panels on its rooftops. The government has selected Azure Power and Sun Edison for developing 2.5 MW of rooftop solar power generation capacity each in Gandhinagar, which is expected to become operational in the coming months.
According to officials, Torrent Power would purchase the entire power generated from rooftops, which would help it meet its renewable purchase obligations. "The rooftop owners would get a part of power generation revenue for 25 years. This is the most lucrative rooftop monetization policy in the whole country," Inderpreet Wadhwa, CEO of Azure Power, told reporters. What is more is that the state government plans to replicate this model in other cities. However, what could disappoint Amdavadis is that Ahmedabad is not yet among the cities short-listed for expanding the project, Pandian said.

Medicine for Blood cancer available free in Chennai

Cancer Institute in Adyar, Chennai >>> >>> Category: Cancer >>> Address: East Canal Bank Road , Gandhi Nagar >>> Adyar, Chennai -600020 >>> >>> Phone: 044-24910754 044-24910754 , 044-24911526 044-24911526 >>> , 044-22350241 044-22350241 >>>
>>> >>> thanking you and with kind regards >>> >>> Dr. R. Gopal >>> Director, Dean and Head of the Department >>> >>> Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil University >>> Department of Business Management >>> Sector 4, Plot on 10, CBC Belapur >>> Navi Mumbai 400 614 >>> Tel. ++ 91 22 27565616Fax. ++ 91 22 27575064 >>> Tel. (M) 98203 56428 (R)++ 91 22 2525 6428. >>>

An eco-friendly way to cool your homes

Employment opportunity for handicapped, socially disadvantaged

2-4 Jobs Avbl.: for handicapped / underprivileged in Mumbai
Thu May 17, 2012 2:47 am (PDT) From: Gracias Our company is Opal Electronic Devices based in Andheri (West), Mumbai. We manufacture electronic devices and need workers to assemble our systems. The work is non strenuous , there is no lifting it is basically sitting and assembling components. We are looking to employ handicapped, underprivileged and illiterate women/men for our company, as this would benefit us and more importantly benefit our employees. As of now we are looking at employing 2-4 persons. We would like to hear from you soon. Our contact is 9892391229/9892009048 as well as 26743228. Thanks and Regards Mr. Gracias -- OPAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES Manufacturers, Developers and Suppliers of Very High Quality Electronic Devices

Malnutrition in India

Interventions to fight malnutrition need monitoring of outcomes
Thu May 17, 2012 2:32 am (PDT)
Fighting Malnutrition ....VEENA S RAO Interventions to fight malnutrition must be simultaneous with outcomes being monitored by an overarching body The finance minister's Budget 2012 speech contains the much-awaited, much-needed paradigm shift in government's approach to reduce undernutrition and micronutrient deficiency, the indicators of which are fast qualifying India as the malnutrition capital of the world. It is now clear that high growth rates are not automatically translating into better nutritional indicators, though there is marginal improvement in infant and mortality indicators, as per SRS 2009. Finance minister has included "decisive intervention to address the problem of malnutrition, especially in the 200 highburden districts", as a priority objective in the preamble to the Budget speech, something unprecedented. It adds that "following the decision taken in the PM's National Council on India's Nutritional Challenges, a multi-sectoral programme to address maternal and child malnutrition in selected 200 high-burden districts, is being rolled out during 2012-13. It will harness synergies across nutrition, sanitation, drinking water, primary healthcare, women's education, food security and consumer protection schemes." Finally, the government has shed its Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)-centric approach on which it unrealistically relied for too long to reduce malnutrition, even though ICDS was an integrated development programme, and not one to eradicate malnutrition. A multi-sectoral strategy to reduce undernutrition must first remedy the causeintervention disconnect. What distinguishes undernutrition in India from that in other underprivileged societies is its inter-generational character; the calorieprotein-micronutrient deficit afflicting at least 40% of our population covering all age groups and both genders, brought out in NIN Technical Reports 20, 21, 22, about which we are still in a state of denial, and lack of awareness regarding proper nutritional practices, child and maternal care, care of the girl child throughout her lifecycle, gender discrimination, etc. These three immediate determinants that make undernutrition chronic must be articulated and addressed through a composite programme. Thereafter, remaining multi-sectoral interventions, such as safe drinking water and sanitation, female literacy, that are already ongoing national programmers, should be accelerated and targeted to bring value added to interventions addressing immediate determinants. For example, safe drinking water and sanitation cannot bridge the protein calorie gap, but can bring a huge nutritional valueadded to dietary supplementation, by immediately reducing diarrhoea and infection, and preventing nutrition wastage. Similarly, female literacy, per se, cannot improve nutritional status, but it will delay age of marriage and child birth, provide better awareness and improve maternal and new-born health. An inter-sectoral strategy is not really a difficult exercise. Prof M S Swaminathan has done great service enumerating multi-sectoral essential interventions required to address undernutrition and micronutrient deficiency through the Coalition for Sustainable Nutrition Security in India chaired by him (May 2010). The challenge before the nodal ministry is to knit the interventions together into a composite, practical and implementable scheme that addresses at least a majority of the causes of undernutrition, and ensure that it captures and targets the 40% base of the pyramid. The interventions must be simultaneous so that the benefit of one intervention is not lost on account of the absence of another; and they must cover the entire lifecycle of women and children to create an immediate nutritional impact within one generation on the three critical inter-generational links of malnutrition, namely, children, adolescent girls and women. Only then can the benefits be sustainable enough to break the undernutrition cycle and pass on to the next generation. Integrating multi-sectoral programmes seamlessly requires coordinated and dynamic participation of the ministry of women and child development (MWCD), health and family welfare, food, agriculture, rural development, drinking water and sanitation, human resources development, panchayati raj and the state governments. Operationally, this requires not merely coordination, but mega coordination, between formidable ministries with substantive primary mandates of their own, to which nutritional outcomes have to be glued. Does the MWCD have the necessary clout to ensure this mega coordination and command adherence to nutritional outcomes from ministries whose prime objective is understandably to achieve their Plan scheme targets? Only an authority overarching the concerned ministries, such as the Prime Minister's Office or the Planning Commission, can achieve this, and demonstrate the political will, provide policy direction and oversight, and demand results and accountability. This alone can galvanise administrative priority, innovation, efficient execution and the dexterity to overcome daunting bureaucratic procedures and operationalise inter-sectoral interventions at the grassroots, through community participation and inclusion. A high-level committee should be appointed by the Prime Minister's Council with the specific objective of drawing up an inter-sectoral roadmap to combat undernutrition and micronutrient deficiency in a time-bound manner with quantified, monitorable targets, robust monitoring mechanisms and accountability. The Karnataka Comprehensive Nutrition Mission has been designed on the above pattern, now being piloted in five blocks. To address protein deficiency in women and children, the finance minister has reduced basic customs duty on soya protein concentrate and isolated soya protein considerably. An important reason why undernutrition persists among the poor is because they have no access to low-cost protein-energy foods to supplement their inadequate diets, especially for healthy child growth, convalescence after sickness or diarrhoea, or providing extra calories required during adolescence and pregnancy. In this sector, the Indian market has a complete void. Field evidence confirms that farm labour families spend a week's wages to buy Horlicks for a sick or malnourished child. It is hoped that this incentive will motivate private sector participation in combating malnutrition by producing low-cost, protein-rich food for the poor, who need it the most. (The author, a retired secretary to the government of India, is adviser to the Karnataka Nutrition Mission) URL: http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=ETNEW&BaseHref=ETM/2012/05/17&PageLabel=17&EntityId=Ar01700&ViewMode=HTML Back to to