Michelle Obama says: America, Hope is coming back.
University Grants Commission, UGC, identified 21 fake universities. They do not have any authority to confer any degrees. The degrees obtained from them are not recognized. These include: Commercial University, Daryaganj; UN University; Vocational University; Viswakarma Open University; Adhyatmik Vishwavidyalaya; Gandhi Hindi Vidyapith; Bhartiya Shiksha Parishad; Bible Open University; St John’s University; Raja Arabic University; Sree Bodhi Academy of Higher Education among others. Let us be careful not to enrol in, join them. Let us not honour or offer employment to people based on their degrees.
Anand to Hyderabad. By this time, I was married for 6 years. First child was 5 years old. Exposed to various institutions at Anand, some more intensely. Between two spells at Anand, with/for tribal communities. Together, 40,000+ hrs of intense preparation for something yet to be discovered. Birds’ views, worms’ views side-by-side, serially, in parallel. Portfolios of them. Student, to practitioner to practitioner-academic. Doing as told to executing, managing, leading, mentoring. Across the levels – cutting-edge upwards, apex downwards. Concepts, plans, institutions, frameworks, praxis, architectures, teams, team of teams, networks et al. On concluding shared visioning at Tree Growers, universe was pressing me hard: my work ended here; It was an intense-recurring calling, to get back. I could not ignore it any longer. I started wrapping-up without knowing what I would do.
I could zero on BASIX, DHAN, CDF, OUTREACH to reach-out. OUTREACH and the ‘Participation’ world welcomed me with open arms. With carte-blanche, to start its Hyderabad operations. For AP and North Karnataka. Co-sharpened participatory tools, methods and processes; led participatory processes in tribal-rural-urban contexts; trained; developed individual and collective enterprises; led strat plans, consulting works, and raising resources. Simultaneously, within the first six months of reaching Hyderabad, Akshara came into being to support ‘development’ organizations. Facilitated participatory poverty assessments in tribal, rural, urban sites and contributed to World Development Report 2000. Naandi, then, emerging new foundation, community public trust, has taken me onboard as its first staff to lead program management. I had to develop the programme spectrum and immerse in philanthropy world, raise resources, make grants, nurture and evolve program partners to their potential, and build models for payback, pay forward, Fellows, ‘marginalized for marginalized’, irrigation development and renewal fund to work on tanks, lift irrigations were effective. ISO and benchmarked websites were put in place. But, I could not last in the ‘rich’ world. I had to call it a day. It appeared the Self-help movement was waiting for this, and took me in its fold, to layer ‘livelihoods’ with it. Livelihoods framework, LEAPs, value-chains. To collectivize for livelihoods. To nurture livelihoods associates, livelihoods support individuals, enterprises, groups, organizations, institutions, networks, forums, platforms.
I guess, the raison d’etre was discovered. A pathway, roadmap, direction was found.
Can we build on this reason? Can we see the end and draw the pathways to the end, inch-by-inch, nudge-by-nudge? Can the PVM march on them? Can we be the trustees of NextGen?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we 12 are in the co-existential flow. In N? jeevanayoga for 7L.
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