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Bezwada Wilson (born 1966) is an Indian activist and one of the founders and National Convenor of the Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA), an Indian human rights organization that has been campaigning for the eradication of manual scavenging, the construction, operation and employment of manual scavengers which has been illegal in India since 1993. [1]
Common Service Centers (CSCs) are a key component of the Digital India initiative launched by the Government of India. These centers aim to provide essential government and non-government services to citizens, particularly in rural and remote areas, through digital means. By acting as access points for various public utility services, social ...
Kar seva (Gurmukhi: ਕਰ ਸੇਵਾ), from the Sanskrit words kar, meaning hands or work, and seva, meaning service, [6] [7] another concept of Sikhism, is often translated as "voluntary labour". A volunteer for kar seva is called a kar sevak (voluntary labourer)—someone who freely offers their services to a religious cause. [ 8 ]
Ela Bhatt, founder and past president of SEWA, appreciating the fabrics at Qalandia Women's Cooperative. Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), meaning "service" in several Indian languages, is a trade union based in Ahmedabad, India, that promotes the rights of low-income, independently employed female workers. [1]
MyGov[1] (Hindi: मेरी सरकार, romanized: Mērī Sarakāra) is a citizen engagement platform [2] launched by the Government of India on 26 July 2014 to promote the active participation of Indian citizens in their country's governance and development. [3] It is aimed at creating a common platform for Indian citizens to ...
R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH) is a public government teaching hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India [5] which started as Asia's first private medical college. [6][7] It was established in 1886 to ensure self-sufficiency in medical education and services in the colonial era. On May 12, 1958, the West Bengal Government assumed ...
Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama is a branch of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission involved in providing humanitarian, healthcare, education and relief services to poor and needy through the universal principle of serving "God in man", based on the motto, Atmano Moksartham Jagat Hitaya Cha, which was propounded by Swami Vivekananda. [1]
The Indian Army Service Corps (IASC) is a corps and an arm of the Indian Army which handles its logistic support function. It is the oldest and the largest administrative service in the Indian Army. While the history of supply and transport services is as old as the history of organized warfare itself it was in 1760 that the very rudimentary ...