Hey India - Got some books you don’t want but don’t have the heart to throw out? wouldn’t it be great to know the details of an NGO that’s collecting books to start libraries in tiny poor villages in the hinterland?
Are you in search of a regular supplier of organic veges in Mumbai? Well, there are distribution points for organic vege stalls at various points in the city?
Want info on where the worst spots are to get mosquito or water borne diseases? Just check the noticeboard. The pan Indian noticeboard that actually has a global reach.
From my desk in The Netherlands, I check Karmayog regularly because there are often great titbits of information, names of NGO’s, interesting articles and various bits and pieces that I can pass onto the Bharat Diaspora.
Started as a forum for social and civic issues, in 2004 its now got a massive database of 60,000 pages of information listing, amongst other things, 15,000 NGO’s. So if you want to know about how to plug into civic society in India, you could do worse than checking out Karmayog.
on Sep 29th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
It is nothing short of amazing at how the government of India can go to such lengths to launch a space probe in order to research the far side of the moon, yet it willingly and completely ignores such a database to learn more about the poeple of its own country.