Wednesday 30 May 2012

NGO

Our constitution emphasis on the promotion of social justice,gender inequity,inclusion of citizen's awareness,empowerment,improvement of life along with the economic process.NGOs are the operational arm of government along with the civil society.
                                            In the sixth five year plan,government identified the new areas in which NGOs as a new sector can participate.Seventh five year plan envisage the more active role for the NGOs.In the eight five year plan a chain of NGO sought to be created.In the eleventh five year plan national policy on voluntary sector is endorsed.In this policy government promote the voluntary sector without the much interference and to support the small and voluntary NGOs.
                                            In india NGOs starts from 1839.India has a long history of civil society based on the concept of  "dharma and seva".There were many such societies like prathna smaj,arya samaj etc. It  was 1970s which saw the rapid growth in the formation of registered NGOs.Most of the NGOs were created on the basis of community,health,education,housing,human right,women right etc.Many NGOs tried hard to include the children with disabilities in the school,end class based discrimination ,prevent child labour,promote gender equality,equal wages for all.During natural calamities like earthquakes several NGOs worked together for the rehabilitation ,health of the affected people.Several NGOs worked with hand to hand with government like right to education,national rural healh mission.these laws and schemes are implementing with the help of NGOs.NGOs are also implementing the program like "jeewan dhara",nirmal gram,national rural insurance mission.NGOs successfully influenced the development of laws and policies on several important issues like RTI,anti trafficking,wildlife conservation,women rigth etc.According to the study the largest number of NGOs are in ,maharastra followed by andhra pradesh.
                                             According tho the world bank" NGO is a private organization that pursues that pursues activities to relieve suffering,promote the interest of poor,protect the environment,provide basic social services ".In other words NGOs are "non state,non profit group who pursue purpose of public interest".
                                         The benefits of NGOs are manifold.As india is a large country with huge population.So,practically  it is difficult for the government to take care of all the activities ,country definitely need the help of NGOs.NGOs can proved to be pro poor and game changer if they work actively.

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