Browsing by Author "Bharatwal, Vakul"

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    Blind people association’s ‘Vision in the dark’
    (MICA, 2018) Bharatwal, Vakul; Garg, Nikita; Mishra, Utkarsh
    BPA has been working extensively in Ahmedabad since 1984.Consistent with the philosophy, it works for providing education, employment opportunities, equal rights and quality of life for them. BPA, understands that gainful employment plays an essential part in the life of a person because it gives him status and binds him to society. Acceptance of disabled persons at work can be viewed as society's acceptance of these Persons without discrimination. The work done by the association is at par with other blind schools and NGOs, what we think as a team which needs to be replenished is the website and to increase BPAs influence circle to national level so that everyone (nationwide) should be familiar with the mission and values of BPA. Blind People's Association achieves and aims at achieving its mission through an array of initiatives that it has undertaken. The steps being taken to bridge the gap between its mission and vision are as follows:
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    Rural Immersion Programme: A research study On rural innovators and organic farmers in rural India - SRISTI
    (MICA, 2020) Jayakumar, Ashwin; Naganathan, Roshan; Chauhan, Cherryy; Karim, Sofiya; R, Padma; Bharatwal, Vakul
    SRISTI created the Honey Bee database of innovations, and supports the publication of the Network’s newsletter in nine languages. These are: Honeybee (English), Gujarati (Loksarvani), Hindi (Sujh-Bujh, AasPaas Ki), Tamil (Nam VazhiVelanmai), Telugu (PalleSrujana), Malayalam (IniKarshakanSamsarikkatte), Odia (Aama Akha Pakha), Marathi (Mrudgandh) and Chinese. SRISTI has helped to establish GIAN, NIF, MVIF, Techpedia.sristi.org and AASTIIK in support of innovators and their innovations. Project Objectives The project required us to develop case studies of Rural Innovators and Organic Farmers. Some of the other secondary objectives that were a part of the scope of the project are mentioned below: ● To understand the working of SRISTI ● To understand the context & realities of the innovator/organic farmer ● To uncover the USP of the proposition ● To get clarity about the Business & Revenue models ● To identify all possible collaborative and networking opportunities ● To create a profile that captured a holistic & overarching image of the work done by the innovator/organic farmer ● To gather feedback from the innovator/organic farmer to improve the profile