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A Campaign and Contest. Millennium Development Goals: How should we deliver on these promises ?. The jury. Amitabh Behar Executive Director, National Centre for Advocacy Studies & Convenor Wada Na Todo Abhiyan Annie Raja General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Women
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A Campaign and Contest Millennium Development Goals: How should we deliver on these promises?
The jury Amitabh Behar Executive Director, National Centre for Advocacy Studies & Convenor Wada Na Todo Abhiyan Annie Raja General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Women Ashok Bharti Chairman, National Confederation of Dalit Organisations B MurlidharanUnited Nations Coordination Advisor Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Eminent journalist Yamini Mishra Executive Director, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability
Individuals with feasible business plans should be supported through low-interest loans after a scrutiny of their ideas, and trusted with the implementation. Ambika Ghuge Miranda House & Sadananda Satapathy Delhi
I want to study and learn Aishwaraya Menon Jesus & Mary College & Aparnaa Menon Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi
Prateek Rajvanshi Indian School of Business Hyderabad Set up mass-scale solar projects in desert areas such as Rajasthan and bio-fuel projects in agricultural-intensive areas like Uttar Pradesh…Implement a national-level waste management strategy to check pollution and recycle waste efficiently.
Nooreen Fatima Lucknow
Akrati Jindal Women's College, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh Divide the country in – *Most Corrupt Region *Medium Corrupt Region *Least Corrupt Region Most Corrupt Region should be reduced to a Least Corrupt one. Open a separate branch for judiciary to deal with corruption cases. Punish the guilty within 2 to 3 years…
Anjana Agarwal & Shruti Viswanathan National Law School of India University Bangalore A period of six months be added to undergraduate courses... For these six months, students will be required to help achieve different MDGs depending on what discipline of study they belong to and what training they have received.
Siddharth Rajkonwar Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology Delhi Like the freedom struggle, India must now embark on a development struggle and battle ills like poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease and casteism… Accountability in the implementation of development programmes must not be compromised at any cost.
Shashi Bhushan Singh Mudra Institute of Communication Ahmedabad The Government alone cannot meet MDGs… Any radical change in the history of any nation, has not taken place without civic participation.
A still from a film by Shilpi Gulati & Sharanya Gautam Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
‘No Bribes Week’… ‘No Bribe Fortnight’ should take place. … The effect we want to see will be when we bring forward the ‘No Bribes Month’. An individual taking a bribe would never pass for a gentleman again. Once this happens, the future India will definitely step up. Ramya Potireddi and M.K. Allu Hyderabad/Boston
Gourav Kumar Agarwal Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Pair up states - one very developed compared to the other. The developed state helps the other state to develop... The revenue loss can be compensated by the Centre as subsidy.
Girls drop out by the time they reach Standard 5... There must be an effort to provide skill-oriented training after Standard 5 so that the students find some practicality in studies and don’t drop out. Neeraj Kumar Singh Indian Institute of Technology Chennai
Praveen Kumar Kirori Mal College, Delhi
A voluntary team of 20-30 could be formed in all colleges for being agents of change. The teams can be sent to villages for arranging free medical camps, trainings on various skills, talks andplays on issues of MDGs. S. Arul Durai Madurai Institute of Social Sciences Madurai
Samir Sharma Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi Only a successful agriculture sector can cater to the problem of growing population, absorbing unskilled and unorganised workers… This is not to suggest that industry and service sector should be neglected, but focus must be given to agriculture…
Shinjini Mondal & Hitesh Bhaskar Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai School curriculum for higher classes should include community participation and awareness generation for women’s education and their empowerment. This will make people sensitive to women’s issues.
Bharat Bhatti St. Stephen's College Delhi ….the most important thing that needs to be done, if Millennium Development Goals have to be attained is: Galvanise the youth and provide them opportunities so that they can have a say in the nation building process.
Nupur Tiwari G B Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Pantnagar Reliance by a huge proportion of population on a sector with zero employment elasticity is an unsound economic practice. Diversify the skills of people in rural areas so that they can take up non-farming professions.
Katuri Kodanda PaniIpurupalem, Andhra Pradesh/Delhi Establish MDG-Council at the national level with branches at the state level and have retired civil servants and judges, NGOs and media persons, as members.