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COVER STORY | 20 ROUND ABOUT 10 The Coming Saga of Robots PRODUCT OF THE MONTH 14 LG launches 'Dhaakad Phone' with advanced features SPOI CORPORATE 12 Syngenta Receives Honours at the World CSR Congress & Awards SPO FOUNDATION 25 Vodafone Foundation recognizes 50 bold, brave & brilliant women of pure wonder SPOI FEATURE 13 Usage of Braille in packaging industry 15 Importance of accessibility for visually impaired and blind people in confidential things like PIN services 16 Career options available for blind and visual impaired graduates 19 How mobile apps and websites can be useful in

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terms of accessibility for blind and partially sight users?

How to retrieve partial payments made by customer Vertiv does 'The Walk' at Hiranandani Thane Half Marathon 2017

COVER STORY 20 Is Women Empowerment close to becoming a reality in India?

SPOI SPECIAL 26 HelpAge India – the Good Samaritan for the old and disadvantaged OPEN YOUR EYES 32 Intex Provides Education to the Underprivileged TECHNOMANIA 34 Smart Cities Success: Vision, Planning, Funding & Execution SPOI REVIEW 37 Super Sensory activities to spend good time with your kid in holidays

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INDIA MOVING AHEAD .................. FOR

DIGITAL ECONOMY

The digital economy is spreading into everyday life. Its importance can be gauged from the fact that many schools of thoughts regard the digital economy as the third industrial revolution. Digital revolution, also known as ‘The Internet Economy’ or Internet of Everything (IoE), is expected to generate new market growth opportunities, jobs and become the biggest business opportunity of mankind in the next 10 to 20 years.

This can be said without a shadow of doubt that the Internet is the superhighway on which economies surge ahead, and apart from the apparent benefits to the economy and a modern workforce, there is also immense opportunity for traditional industries.

India considers the digital economy as a major growth enabler. This is evident from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s counting “Digital India” among the top priorities for his government. The government dispensation has invested in digitalization for public and private sectors. The commitment of India’s government to spend Rs1.13T (US$19 billion) within the next five years is a testament to the increasing value of Communication Technologies (ICTs).

According to the estimates by the government, IoT industry in India will grow up to INR 940 billion, by 2020. Focus areas include agriculture, water quality, health, natural disasters, security, transportation, automobile, supply chain management, automated metering, smart cities and monitoring of utilities, waste management, oil and gas.

ICT provides unprecedented opportunities to governments and public sector enterprises to deploy enhanced services for citizens across the country. Citizens and businesses can enjoy extraordinary levels of collaboration, productivity and economic prosperity.

Technology is a key investment that will decide the future of cities and their infrastructure. Keeping pace with the trend “Digitisation of everything” and creation of an all-encompassing digital infrastructure top its agenda in the coming fiscal. It is a digital economy budget. Government has pushed the digital theme in every area. Every person, from small shops to consumers, will be pushed towards the digital economy.

Allocation of 10,000 crores for the Bharat Net Project to provide Wi-Fi hotspots to more than 150,000 Gram Panchayats in the country has the potential of democratizing digital access and the changing the cyber landscape in India. The government has set up a computer emergency response team exclusively for the financial sector.

Another initiative called ‘Digi Gaon’ has been launched to provide telemedicine, and to impart education and skills through digital technology. Aadhaar-based smart cards for monitoring senior citizens’ health is a great way to leverage the citizen identity database while blending technology with health.

Last but not the least, the process of digitization is taking place on a global scale, and the benefits for companies on the leading edge of the trend are already being realized. Digital economy has the potential of changing the lives of millions of people of India.

It could prove to be an important vehicle for change and provide the opportunity for India to radically expand its role in the global economy.

Deepak Kumar Sahu President, SPOI | VARINDIA’s Development Initiative For CSR www.spoindia.org 4 SPO INDIA MARCH 2017

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News in Focus

High-level meeting held to monitor implementation of CSR policies A High Level Committee (HLC) was constituted on 3rd February, 2015 by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs under the Chairmanship of Shri Anil Baijal, former Union Secretary, to suggest measures for improved monitoring of implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies by companies.

The Committee had submitted its report on 22nd September, 2015. The constitution of the Committee and its report, including the recommendations, have been placed in the public domain on the Ministry’s website (www.mca.gov.in). The Committee had recommended certain changes in the provisions of the Act and Rules, in addition to recommendations for monitoring of implementation of CSR initiatives.

While the Committee’s recommendations that the Board and the CSR Committee should be managing the monitoring of their own CSR at their level, and that Government should have no role to play in engaging external experts in monitoring the quality and efficiency of CSR expenditure of Companies does not envisage any specific action on the part of the Ministry, the Ministry has included amendments of Section 135 in the Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2016, issued a set of FAQs and instituted the Annual ‘National CSR Award’.

This was stated by Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.

The IET India IoT Panel and NMCG discuss ways to clean the Ganga

The members of the IET India IoT Panel, an IoT focussed panel of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) India, were invited to consult the Government of India’s National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) to discuss the ways to clean Ganga and its tributaries in a comprehensive manner.

Dr Rishi Bhatnagar, Chairman of the IET India IoT Panel; Mr. Shekhar Sanyal, Director and Country Head of the IET; Mr Vivek Mehrotra, Chairman of the IET India IoT Panel’s Ganga Rejuvenation Working Group and other senior members of the IET India IoT panel met Shri Upendra Prasad Singh, Director General, NMCG to discuss the four main areas of concern with respect to NMCG. The leaders discussed and tried to identify ways to improve the water flow in Ganga, better treatment of pollutants via sewage and effluent treatment plants, need for controlling unregulated sewage, open defecation etc., and handling chemical run off from agricultural lands (fertilisers and pesticides) as well as effective means to manage cremetorial wastes in Ganga.

National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) is the implementation wing of National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), but now works under the control of Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. NMCG aims not only at cleaning the river Ganga and its Ghats but also is setting up various biodiversity centres, crematoria and other construction and modernizations of Ghats along the banks of river Ganga. With an aim to support NMCG to put an end to the growing problem, the IET India IoT Panel, the only neutral body, that focuses not only on technology but the application aspect of IoT in various segments, formed a Ganga Rejuvenation Working Group which aims to device a high level plan on how the panel could contribute towards alleviating these pain points. The working group will also create a pavilion at the IoT India Congress 2017, which is an annual event organised by the IET, with a special focus on the National Clean Ganga Mission.

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News in Focus

‘Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana’ to be Rs.3.5 crore contributed by IIFCL launched on 1st April in Nellore for Cancer Treatment

“Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana”, a ‘Scheme for providing Physical Aids and Assisted-living Devices for Senior citizens belonging to BPL category’ will be launched in District Nellore, Andhra Pradesh on 1st April, 2017. Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment said that the Physical Aids and Assisted-living Devices for Senior citizens will be distributed in Camp mode and the Scheme will be implemented through the sole implementing agency, ‘Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation (ALIMCO)’, (a PSU under M/o SJ&E), which will undertake one year free maintenance of the aids & assisted living devices.

The devices will help the Senior Citizens to overcome their age related physical impairment and to lead a dignified and productive life with minimal dependence on care givers or other members of the family. The ambitious Scheme, first of its kind in the country is expected to benefit 5, 20,000 Senior Citizens over a period of the 3 years, he added.

Ministers of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar and Shri Vijay Sampla were also present.

An appeal was made to PSUs to contribute funds under their CSR Scheme towards Health Minister’s Cancer Patient FundCSR for treatment of poor cancer patients. India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL) has taken lead in the matter and contributed an amount of Rs.7.5 crore in 2015-16. 385 cancer patients have been benefitted from the CSR contribution received from IIFCL during 2016-17.

NIRD&PR launches India’s first “Rural Innovators Start-up Conclave 2017”

National Conference on “Empowering Deaf through Indian Sign Language” held

The National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) was launched India’s First focused ‘Rural Innovators Start-up Conclave’ (RISC2017) at NIRDPR, Hyderabad. The focus of the two day event was to build capacities and promote fresh talent by giving them platform to display their innovations, encourage greater learning, and strengthen the cadre of young rural innovators and start-ups.

The Chief Guest for the event, Honourable Minister of State for Science, Technology and Earth Sciences, Shri YS Choudhury noted, “I am immensely happy to be associated with RISC2017, an initiative very close to my heart.

Rural development is an important subject and higher dividends from the rural youth are still at large. This kind of an initiative which focuses on rural urbanisation requires synchronisation modern day development concepts. Since our country is agrarian based we have to take a quantum leap to help farmers improve their income level and reduce cost of living. I believe NIRD&PR can play a major role in capacity building – help farmers get educated in fundamental financial literacy and cost accountancy”.

The cheque of Rs.3.50 crore was presented to Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare, Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste by Shri S. B. Nayar, CMD - IIFCL. Shri Arun Kumar Jha, Economic Adviser, Health Ministry and Shri P.R. Jaishankar, Chief General Manager, IIFCL were also present.

A two day National Conference entitled “Empowering Deaf through Indian Sign Language” was inaugurated by Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment. Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar, Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment; Shri. N.S Kang, Secretary, DEPwD; Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey, Chief Commissioner of Disability and Shri Awanish Kumar Awasthi, Joint Secretary, DEPwD were present.

The Conference has been organized by Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC), an autonomous organization of Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) under Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Delivering his inaugural address, Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot said that the Deaf people mostly depend on the Interpreter during their conversation and due to lack of sufficient number of Interpreters, it becomes very difficult for them to communicate.

That is why a comprehensive Indian Sign Language Dictionary is the need of the hour to facilitate their communication. Indian Sign Language is a natural language which can work like any other natural language. mARCH 2017 SPO INDIA 7

CORPORATES IN CSR

Canon India celebrates the spirit of womanhood

The 20th anniversary celebrations of Canon India takes a leap forward with ‘We@Canon’, an initiative to recognise women power within the organisation on International Women’s Day. Constantly engaging and evolving its employees, Canon holds an array of activities focussing on fostering its women talent.

Speaking about the significance of its women workforce, on this International Women’s Day, Mr. Kazutada Kobayashi, President & CEO, Canon India, said, “The milestone achievement of our 20 glorious years in the country, would not have been possible without the equal contribution of our women workforce. Considering our employees the biggest assets, we endeavour towards ensuring equal opportunity for all our people. Be it at the workplace or at our adopted villages, we reinforce our vision of creating gender equality.

Our policies and initiatives are in line with our vision to create stronger workforce where women can be leaders just like the way they lead their homes.”

Inalsa Celebrates Women’s Day with “That’s What She Said” Campaign

Inalsa small home appliances is celebrating International women’s day by rolling out a unique campaign to salute the different avatars and significant roles of a woman in our day to day life. “That’s What She Said” #TWASS is a unique social campaign which allows people to post their experience and recall the beauty of those magical words which the most important women of their life has said.

Introducing the campaign, Pankaj Gupta, Head Marketing, Inalsa Home Appliances said, “There are words of a Woman, a Mother, a Wife, a Girl friend, a Daughter, Sister or just a Friend which might have made a permanent impact on your life & personality. We are inviting people through our social media campaign to share with us those magical words, along with her name and a picture. We are offering free gift hampers to the lucky winners.”

Fujifilm India marks Vivo #BeBoldForChange pays a International Women’s Day with tribute to inspire women Vivo aims at inspiring women to #BeBoldForChange with a Breast Cancer Awareness tribute video starring popular celebrity Bani J which lends support to

Fujifilm India has organized a Breast Cancer Awareness camp at Action Cancer Hospital, New Delhi marking the International Women’s Day on 8th March 2017.

The awareness program empowers Fujifilm’s commitment to promote early detection of Breast Cancer which can help save lives.

The camp was organized in the premises of Action Cancer Hospital, New Delhi, where Fujifilm’s latest stateof-the-art technology to aid early detection of breast cancer - Amulet Innovality has been installed. During this camp, the participants attended a session on self-detection technique, the importance of early detection and how it aids in timely treatment of breast cancer by Dr. Rajesh Jain, Sr. Surgical Oncologist at Action Cancer Hospital.

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the International Women’s Day 2017 campaign. The video focuses on breaking stereotypes and symbolizes a woman’s individuality and her bold side. It highlights how every woman has her own story and she should be bold enough to stand for what she believes. Vivo India encourages women to be proud of their individualistic identity even in a mere selfie. A #PerfectSelfie is not about how the world wants to see you but it’s about who you are, so let your picture speak your identity.

Vivek Zhang, CMO, Vivo India, said “#BeBoldForChange is the campaign that not just breaks the stereotypes that have been prevailing in the society, but also celebrates womanhood and encourages them to take pride in their distinctive identity and embrace their bold side. Bani J is a popular celebrity who has broken the stereotype surrounding women. Her flamboyance, well-built muscular body and popularity among the youth made her an ideal choice for this campaign.”

Vodafone Delhi’s Gift on International Women’s day

Airtel honours the contribution of its Women distributors

Vodafone India celebrates International women’s day by giving away free 2GB data to all its women Red Post-Paid subscribers in Delhi-NCR. This day long offer comes with no restrictions on the 2GB data usage and the data benefit will be automatically credited to the user’s account and notified through an SMS. With this offer women customers will be able browse internet, shop online, watch their favourite videos & movies online, connect with near & dear ones through video chat and lots more.

This exclusive gift from Vodafone is part of its #ConnectedSheCan campaign which aims at encouraging women to get digitally connected. This offer is a part of the many initiatives

by Vodafone to provide women access to information and help them experience the benefits of going digital. Research suggests that better connectivity helps communities and individuals leverage network access to bring about positive change. It also helps in obtaining high levels of health, education, economic growth and other socio-economic indicators.

Distributors play a key role in ensuring smooth operations for Bharti Airtel’s vast national retail channel that serves hundreds of millions of customers and keep them connected. Distributors are responsible for taking the products and services of a telecom operators to the market.

Airtel has around 300 women distributors who service close to 4 0 , 0 0 0 retailers, as a part of its Anmol Ratna programme. Telecom is a fast paced industry that has traditionally been dominated by male distributors and retailers. These women distributors for Airtel have managed to create their own space and today run successful businesses that are at par or exceed any other top distributor in the country.

Some of these Women Distributors are as young as 19 and some as old 67, with many having been associated with Airtel for over a decade now. Many have come from humble backgrounds and built their businesses against adversities thanks to their hard work and determination, besides some support and encouragement from Airtel.

Idea Cellular and Mahindra Comviva enable security of women

Aspire Systems observes International Women’s Day

Idea Cellular and Mahindra Comviva have announced that Private Recharge, a unique electronic recharge service for women is now live in 14 telecom circles in India. Private Recharge allows women customers of Idea to recharge their prepaid mobile connection and pay their postpaid bills, at any retail outlet without revealing their mobile number. This has been designed keeping in mind security concerns of women customers and their families. It also empowers women as they are no longer dependent on other family members for doing their recharges and paying bills.

In order to initiate the service, the female customer simply needs to generate a ‘Private Code’ by sending ‘CODE’ to SMS shortcode 55515. The ‘Private Code’ is then shared with retailer for completing the electronic recharge, instead of her mobile number. As Private Recharge works through standard SMS service, it can be accessed by all customers via any type of phone in real-time. Idea Cellular’s Private Recharge facility is powered

by Mahindra Comviva’s PreTUPS electronic recharge solution.

PreTUPS stores the mapping between the ‘Private Code’ and customer’s actual mobile number and completes the electronic recharge.

Aspire Systems celebrated Women’s Day between 3rd and 8th March, 2017. Tulips, the Women’s group at Aspire, put together a week-long programme for all women employees at Aspire, with a focus on fitness, health and entrepreneurship • FITNESS: ‘Special Yoga for Women’ session • HEALTH: Breast cancer awareness session by Dr. Rathna Devi, Sr. Consultant Radiation Oncologist, Apollo Specialty Cancer Hospital • ENTREPRENEURSHIP: ‘Showcase and Sell’, where women entrepreneurs across Chennai were invited to set up stalls of any kind including food, textiles and handicrafts etc.

The week-long programme culminated in a high tea event where all women employees were invited to celebrate together to observe International Women’s Day. Aspire Systems has been named among 100 of the ‘Best Companies for Women in India’ in 2016. This Study was commissioned by Working Mother Magazine in association with AVTAR Group. mARCH 2017 SPO INDIA 9

ROUND ABOUT In this world of patents and intellectual property rights, let me begin this article with an acknowledgment, which is quite unusual since such things are always put on the backburner and are invoked at the tail end and mostly go unnoticed. Recently, I read an editorial titled “Robots Could Have What It (IT) Tax”. It is mostly a satirical one, an obtuse dig at the tax authorities for their alacrity in taxing everything that comes to their mind, provided it can generate some revenue. Not being totally simmered by humility, the author of the editorial may have to acknowledge the makers of one Tamil movie “Enthiran” (Robot), which was remade into Hindi and several other Indian languages. Besides being a huge box-office hit, the film casting superstar Rajnikant and the heartthrob of millions – Aishwarya Rai, talks about the life of a robot, who fell in love with a next-door neighbour (Aishwarya Rai) and the hardships and hostilities that robot (Rajnikant) has to undergo until he was destroyed by the very person who created him.

In a more subdued manner, the paper also should have acknowledged me since some time back in this very column, I had tried to simulate a few illustrious people – Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose in the modern world of information technology. I tried to capture their thought process, broad direction of their speeches, writings and leadership qualities and what they could have done had they lived in the present world. How they could have handled their digital space; what would have been their approach to life: how would have they handled their gizmos, apps and other devices that would have connected them with people, places, ideas and what have you?

Everything changes with time and sometimes things leapfrog as if time does not wait for anyone. In today’s world when people are talking about artificial intelligence to make robots to obey commands to do difficult jobs ranging from navigating aircraft to odd jobs like cleaning toilets. Now, everyone is talking about Robots as if they present both prospects and gloom. According to Bill Gates, robots can displace many jobs, even most complex and intricate ones being done by humans of high intellectual.

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the most sophisticated aircraft, a software engineer evolving solutions to most complex problems, a mining engineer who supervises what is happening some 3,000 metres below the earth or of a space scientist who shuttles to the outer space. Robots and AI are a reality: they will replace the jobs that are mundane and can be described by a series of steps or processes.

Will the humans become redundant?

Happily, there are some comforting statements coming from the same quarters, which envision the inroads robotics would make into the digital space. They say robotics will create ten times more jobs in the world than it will replace. It may sound to be apocalyptical.

But I tend to believe it. Not many decades ago, people apprehended about the labour replacement power of the computers. Did it replace any jobs? Rather, it has created millions of creative and gainful jobs around the world. India, which resisted the introduction of computers, I must say, has hugely benefited from it. That seems to be a paradox but a fact. Let us take a survey to know how many Indians do not have seen a computer or do not know its functioning? The same may be the case with robots also. It will make life easier, comfortable and, perhaps, worth living since it might take care of some of human drudgeries and vicissitudes. However, the types of jobs will change – the new jobs will need technical education with a reasonable IQ. However, unemployment will increase, as some people will just become “unemployable”.

The underlying premise is that when one creates a robot and infusing it by ingraining artificial intelligence, there is no limit to its capacity. It can do both good and bad things as its creator (developer) wishes to infuse or manipulate. Does it sound that one has to be extra cautious while creating such edifices? What I have to offer is that robotic is a science, a frontend one. It can create and destruct as if they are two sides of a coin.

Possibly, the West would have felt the pangs of a graying and declining population. They have to have devices to work for, to look after the aged and invalid, cook for people who do not have the time for it, to keep the house for them whenever they are at home and also to do several other household and office chores.

The Coming Saga of Robots

Can these be the case with other countries?

Certainly not! There is unemployment and deprivation in other parts of the world.

Many of the troubles that have erupted and that may erupt in future can be traced ultimately to deprivation, unemployment and denial of legitimate rights of the people. While one side is looking at finding lasting solutions to find ways to employ and feed people, the other side is looking at the prospects of replacing them with robots created through scientific breakthroughs like artificial intelligence? Is there any contradiction in the two situations? It is how we look at it: from a human angle and from a mechanical angle, bereft of underlying human considerations. The other-world has the capacity to help them from the morass of deprivation they are suffering for a long time, even while continuing with their scientific pursuits.

The point is deliverance of multitudes is compatible with scientific pursuits. What makes a difference depends on how we blend them. n

CORPORATES IN CSR

Zebronics Leads by Example with CSR Initiatives Zebronics, India’s leading supplier of IT peripherals, Audio/Video products and Surveillance products, has done many CSR Activities in last 3 months. All the CSR efforts are done through in-house team.

Here the idea is to do the activities in-house in way that it’s not just money spending exercise but the team understands the activities and we do it whole heartily with vision to make a difference.

Yoga and therapy classes for an old age home in Chennai, we have hired one instructor who takes 2 classes weekly. It has been running for past 5 months now.

Under orphan sponsorship program we have included 2 more kids in last 3 months.

Under this program all the education expenses like school fees, books, uniform etc are sponsored till the class 10.

Regular blood donation camp are held at Zebronics campus, 47 people donated blood in the last camp in June.

Buttermilk distribution - In beating Heat of summer, Zebronics distributed buttermilk to provide relief to bikers & walkers in the scorching heat ( 50 litres Buttermilk Distribution for 10 Days, may 2015).

Saplings distribution - Zebronics sponsored 2000 sapling distribution on marina beach, June 2016.

Old age home visit - Zebronics team

took old age home to city darshan (boating, beach, church and temples), followed by lunch, June 2016.

ZEB Learn - Independence day celebration with orphan mentally challenged children, Zebronics Team celebrated independence day with them by organizing fun activities like Drawing competition, Dot, bowling & yoga generic exercise for 100 members along with distributed fruits and gifts. n

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spoI corporate

Syngenta Receives Honours at the World CSR Congress & Awards A key contributor in receiving this award were CSR projects like Syngenta I-CLEAN, other community engagement initiatives in our operational villages and Syngenta KrishiVikas project Syngenta was honoured for its contribution to community developmentat the World CSR Congress & Awards, held on February 18– 19 in Mumbai, India.

The World CSR Congress organized by the World CSR Day and now in its sixth edition, brings together organizations and leaders from around the world to explore ways and share best practices that make a difference to the community at large.

Syngenta received the Best Community Development Award for the best CSR projects that created high impact in the community. A key contributor in receiving this award were CSR projects like Syngenta I-CLEAN, other community engagement initiatives in our operational villages and Syngenta KrishiVikas project.

Syngenta I-CLEAN project: The project is aimed at empowering Rural Prosperity. I-CLEAN stands forInculcating Cleanliness Learning, Education, Awareness and New Habits among communities, especially in rural and remote areas, to enable them to lead dignified, hygienic and healthy lives. With three projects implemented so far, it is now being extended to other regions in Bihar and partnered by three new NGOs to implement in 24 more villages in Bihar.

Community Development Projects: These projects are primarily implemented in Syngenta operational villages. Syngenta has its manufacturing locations, R&D Centers, Seed production villages across the country but primarily in Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa etc. The development activities are planned with active engagement/involvement of local community. The priority areas of focus are – Education, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Tree plantations etc.

Syngenta Krishi Vikas: This initiave supported the farmers in the state of Punjab and Haryana where they were devastated by an unprecedented white 12 SPO INDIA MARCH 2017

(Left to Right) : Jordan Reeves, Consulate General of Canada in Mumbai; P S Jagadeesha, National CSR Manager, Syngenta; K S Narayanan, General Manager (Corporate Affairs and CSR), Syngenta; K C Ravi, Vice President – Commercial Acceptance & Public Policy (South Asia), Syngenta; and Ms. Reeves fly attack resulting in destruction of 6070 percent of the cotton crop. Through this project Syngenta supported 6300 farmers through distribution of treated quality wheat seeds along with cropcare solution kit in collaboration with Panjab Agriculture University and the Agriculture Departments of Panjab and Haryana.

Syngenta has also embarked upon a unique and first-of-its kind Irrigation project for the growers of Mahuawa village of East Champaran District in Bihar by installing Hose Reel Irrigation Machines with a capacity of disbursing water in a 60 metre radius across the fields. This is a joint CSR initiative of Syngenta India Limited and Syngenta Foundation India that aims to tackle a major problem of timely and sufficient availability of water to the growers in this area. This would also help growers in Mahuawa achieve higher productivity with optimum utilization of scarce water resource in the commonly shared land covered under the irrigation

projects. The project would be replicated in other parts in the months to come.

During this event, KC Ravi, Head of Corporate Affairs South Asia was awarded Global Leadership Excellence Award. The jury chose Ravi from a list of around 50 leaders coming from countries including the UK, the Netherlands, the US, Malaysia, South Africa, Canada, Jordan, UAE and India for his thought leadership in CSR initiatives.

“As we continue to develop and grow our CSR initiatives, not only in India but also throughout the region and globally, we are increasingly being seen and recognized as a leader in this area,” says Ravi.

“It is agreat honour and very humbling to be recognized for my own contribution towards CSR. I believe in the value of sustainable CSRbuilt into the fabric of our businessas a real driver of development in the future,” he adds. n

SPOI Feature

Usage of Braille in packaging industry According to the latest estimates by World health Organization, the world is estimated to have 285b million visually impaired people. This group keeps growing all the time due to the ageing population.

This is a significant number. Those with visual impairments often have a hard time with reading the information and instructions on the packets because they are often printed in a small type.

Without access to the information on consumer products, cosmetics, medical packets and travel tickets, blind people will have no safety, independence or freedom of choice. They too have the right to full participation in society.

Medial packaging causes significant problems for visually impaired people. This is because of their inability to read the label, understand the information or open the package without damaging the contents.

Misreading the dosage quantity has the potential to cause serious consequences.

People with visually impairment also face problems with shopping independently.

So there is an urgent need for companies and businesses to incorporate braille labels and produce information in the medical

packaging as well as the packaging of consumer products. It is in essential fitness of things to design labelling so that legibility can be maximized. The organizations should try to make information on food labels accessible to the visually impaired people.

Braille, the embossed language for the blind and visually impaired, finds its use in medical packaging, consumer paper labels, cosmetics and travel tickets. Different governments in the world have made the use of Braille on medial packaging mandatory to better satisfy the requirements of the visually impaired in their countries. It is an absolute must to make information on prescription drug container labels accessible to the blind people or visually-impaired.

Today more than 150 million people around the world use Braille for a multitude of reasons. The quality of the Braille on medicine packaging should be good. Having Braille labelling on medicine packaging is useful. The label Braille helps the visually impaired identify the medicine without sighted assistance. Braille should not be too low to read.

One of the challenges with Braille for

labelling is that it takes up a lot space and therefore only some information can be given.

Apart from the pharmaceutical industry, Braille has been finding its adoption in food packaging, travel tickets and cosmetics.

Braille is used by the pharmaceutical companies to communicate the name of medicinal products, their proper strength, and whether the product is right for children, babies and adults.

The usage of Braille on packaging has evolved significantly in recent years. There are various ways to add Braille to packaging.

These include embossing the card packaging and depositing dots.

Businesses and companies are gearing towards addressing the specific packaging and labeling issues of the visually impaired.

They will be required re-develop labelling and packaging, and ensure Braille accuracy and consistency. It should be incumbent on the manufacturers to make label information accessible to the blinds in one way or another. By using braille in packaging we can ensure the independence of the visually impaired. The use of braille in packaging will continue to increase in future. n

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PRODUCT OF THE MONTH

LG launches 'Dhaakad Phone' with advanced features LG Electronics India Limited (LGEIL) has announced the launch of its new ‘Dhaakad’ smartphone with special ‘panic button’ features.

LG Electronics is the first company to adhere to the TRAI recommendation to have a single number ‘112’ for all emergency calls in the mobile phones across the country, which is referred to as the panic button implementation.

The launch event was graced by Ravi Shankar Prasad, union minister, Communications and IT, Government of India. Pankaj Mahindroo, founder and national president, Indian Cellular Association was present at the unveiling of the phone.

Features of Dhaakad...

Dhaakad smartphone features include 5.3-inch HD In-cell Touch Display that delivers a superb viewing experience. The smartphone has 13 MP rear camera and 5 MP front camera with 120-degree wide angle selfie lens complements the phone.

Other advanced features include a fingerprint scanner, OTG Support, a metallic U-frame for a sturdy but slim 7.9 mm profile with 2.5D Arc Glass design and latest Android OS 7.0 with 4G VoLTE. Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “We are consistently working on initiatives to create a safe and

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(From Left to Right): Amit Gujral, Corporate Marketing Head- LG India; Pankaj Mahindroo, Founder and National President, Indian Cellular Association; Shri.

Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister, Communications and IT, Government of India and Kim Ki Wan, Managing Director – LG Electronics India conducive environment for citizens of the country through technological excellence.

The panic button, 112, is a great initiative and we must applaud efforts of LG Electronics who is developing technology for the betterment of the society. I would also like to congratulate LG for completing 2 decades in India.”

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Mahindroo said, “The emergency dialling number 112 is the need of the hour. I would like to thank LG for spearheading this noble initiative mandated by the government of India.”

Kim Ki Wan, managing director – LG Electronics India who was present at the launch said, ‘’We have devised a new K10 2017 Smartphone with an emergency panic button that can be pressed to generate an alarm by a vulnerable target in case of an unforeseen situation.”

The smartphone has a premium look with its curved elemental design, distinct side character line and a curved metallic frame with 2.5 D curved glass. It has an ‘everybody in’ feature with the 120° wide angle selfie camera with a brighter F2.2 lens which catches the full surroundings of the user. n

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Importance of accessibility for visually impaired and blind people in confidential things like PIN services.

It is of utmost importance that the blind and the visually impaired should be able to live as independently as possible.

They have their own right to control over their personal finances. Needless to say they should have access to automatic teller machines (ATMs), an important part of banking services. Access to confidential information like PIN services is not only a matter of better customer service, but recognition of the rights of persons with visually impairment.

Are internet and phone banking as well as ATM services accessible for the blinds?

A sighted person can take resort to internet banking whenever they like. However whenever it comes to visually impaired persons, many of them are not provided with equal opportunities in banking services as their sighted peers and are excluded from accessing banking services. Information and communication technology (ICT) has made digital access to the banking services a distinct reality. The blind are yet to embrace digital transaction. Since some ATMs may lack Braille systems, the blind

may find it difficult entering of keying in PIN numbers. Full financial inclusion to them means they should have access to a suite of banking services. Access to and inclusion in banking services is critical to poverty reduction and participation in economic growth.

It is true that helping the blinds get better access to banking services remains a daunting task. Since many of the people with visually impairment are not comfortable with internet or mobile banking, they depend on their sighted peers. They tell their PIN to sighted friends who in turn complete the transactions for them.

Financial independence is an integral part of independent living whereby the blinds have equal access as people without disabilities. They should enjoy the same access and control of their own financial affairs. The increasing nature of banking services now available through technology has triggered growing demand for accessibility among visually impaired persons.

The banking sector should work

towards improving accessibility to banking services for visually impaired persons.

Auto Teller Machines and Online Banking are some of the most preferred methods of accessing one’s bank account. ATMs should be made accessible. There is an urgent need to develop user friendly ATMs that can be used effectively by the blinds without the assistance of ordinary people who may take advantage of their visual challenges.

The visually impaired will always find it difficult entering of keying in PIN numbers because some ATMs lack Braille systems. This is even more so with touch screens and the absence of voice feedback for various onscreen functions.

There are several problems faced by the blind and visually impaired persons when they consider banking services. First of all the complex schemes of the banks are hard for people with visual impairments.

Internet banking is become increasingly popular day by day thanks to its ease of use and convenience. It eliminates the need of physically going to a bank. n mARCH 2017 SPO INDIA 15

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Career options available for blind and visual impaired graduates For most blind and visual impaired children, the question of what they want to be when they become high school graduates is often not asked. After attending from special or mainstream schools some of them gravitate to specialised courses.

In most of the cases they are expected to complete these courses.

For blind and visually impaired persons, finding a job is much more possible than in years past. Blind and visually impaired people have a variety of career areas to choose from.

The blinds and visually impaired people, who are high school graduates, should never lose their hope in finding the appropriate job for themselves. There several career options which are ideal for them.

Today good jobs for people with visual impairment are possible to find. Besides, more and more businesses are becoming more welcoming to those who are blind and visually impaired. As a matter of fact, several opportunities can be found within nearly every industry vertical.

The government, technology, financial, healthcare and sectors are increasingly becoming more welcoming to those who are visually impaired.

Assistive technologies such as Braille computer displays and voice-command technology have made it possible for the blinds and people with visually impaired professionals to find jobs in almost every vocation. That said, here are a few particularly compelling options There are several jobs that can be performed regardless of you have vision impairment.

These jobs include self-employment, sales, accounting and teaching.

Accountant An accountant is a professional, who handles financial matters. You can either look for jobs in companies or financial institution firms or choose to become a self-employed professional accountant.

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Call center executive position can help visually impaired professionals making a living for themselves. This is because the call center or customer service jobs are done over telephone.

Financial experts Another high-growth field in the financial sector, persons with visual impairment will be increasingly being preferred as financial analysts who prepare forecasts for industrial, corporate and economic conditions.

You can work either for organizations as a financial analyst or you don’t intend to go out you can also work from home. If you are blind or visually impaired person looking to seek jobs, management and human resource are hiring people like you.

Although there have never been so many career options in the workplace

for a person who is visually impaired, you have always the option of becoming self-employed. These are hey days for entrepreneurship around the world.

Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur.

Same is the case with the blind people and visually impaired persons. Success as an entrepreneur is the result of many things. Hard work, patience and persistence are key to success in entrepreneurship.

In today's economy, it is in the essential fitness of things that those with visual impairment should have a clear understanding of the basics of job seeking. They can avail of programs help visually impaired persons master the basics. They should be aware that they are entitled to equal in relation to employment. There are stringent laws in place to protect bind students, as well as harsh penalties for violators. n

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NGO News

British Man Walks From Kanyakumari to Kolkata for Charity

US Says it Encourages a transparent process for NGOs in India

A British retiree walked over 2,500 kilometres along India's east coast to raise money for a Kolkata-based non-profit. Patrick Baddeley set off from India's southernmost tip of Kanyakumari last October and managed to cross Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and reached Kolkata.

Baddeley carefully documented his journey on Facebook and the page offers a lovely insight into everyday life in India.

Baddeley was walking to raise money for Future Hope, a charity based in Kolkata, which provides shelter and schooling for street children. He managed to raise 11,757 British pounds (close to 10 lakh rupees) from 124 donors on the fundraising platform JustGiving. He exceeded his original target of 10,000 pounds (a little over 8 lakh rupees). The walk, dubbed K-walk, was dedicated to the memory of his late daughter Katie.

"I first went to India as a long-haired student in 1973. Thus began a love affair that has continued to this day," wrote Baddeley on his fundraising page. "I retired at the end of 2015 and for several years had been hatching a plan to do a long walk in India in order to raise funds for Future Hope."

Ahead of the US-based donor NGO Compassion International shutting down its India operations, the US has called for a transparent Indian process for foreign NGOs, which it said has been facing ‘significant challenges’ in the last few years.

"NGOs do valuable work overseas. Certainly these countries and governments have their own reasons for the laws they pass, but we believe it should be transparent and clear why they're shutting down these organisations," the State Department's acting spokesman Mark Toner said at a news conference.

Toner expressed concern over the Christian charity closing down its operations in Indian and said that the US will take up the matter with the Indian government.

"When a group like Compassion International, which we believe is doing important work in India and is closed down, it's a matter of concern. Certainly, we will raise that with the Indian government".

Strong mechanism is required to regulate NGOs - Supreme Court

Dia Mirza joins ‘Save the Children’ as Artist Ambassador

Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are now working without any regulation and doing what they want. Even many NGOs are doing unfair practices. The Supreme Court bench led by CJI Thakur appointed senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi and sought his views on how to fasten accountability on the NGOs when they are funded from the public exchequer.

Favouring a strong regime to regulate NGOs, the Supreme Court suggested that the Law Commission may look into the matter and make suitable recommendations to fill in the lacuna in legal provisions. A bench led by Chief Justice of India T S Thakur appointed senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi as amicus curiae and sought his views on how to fasten accountability on the NGOs when they are funded from the public exchequer.

“They are getting money from all over the world. What is an NGO? Anyone can register a society and it becomes an NGO. There is no central legislation to ensure accountability, no legal brainwork done at the central level to control them. Unless some mechanism is put in place centrally, nothing can be done,” observed the bench.

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The gorgeous beauty Dia Mirza is known for lending her support to human causes. This time former beauty queen has joined hands with 'Save the Children' NGO. Dia, who has appeared in several successful Bollywood films is also a proud Swachh Bharat ambassador. She is highly active and an effective voice in supporting many social causes, most notably nature conservation and children’s welfare.

This time Dia, who is an Artist Ambassador for 'Save the Children' NGO has committed to help raise awareness about malnutrition, quality education, gender equality and child trafficking. She will use the reach of her celebrity to champion the rights of children in India and around the world. On this day she also made an impassioned appeal in a video message to create an unstoppable movement for change.

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How mobile apps and websites can be useful in terms of accessibility for blind and partially sight users?

It can be said without a shadow of doubt that mobile apps like voiceover and talk-back can be used to assist people with visual impairments in many aspects of everyday life. The past several years have witnessed the exponential rise in the numbers of smartphone users worldwide. The same period has also witnessed a gigantic increase in the capabilities of these devices which have more processing power and memory storage that was not thought of few decades ago.

Today you can talk to your Smartphone and get the answer to your questions.

The growth of digital services has resulted in the convenience for users and created cost and time savings for users. The most vulnerable groups of people, the blind and visually impaired persons, should not be left behind when it comes to the use of mobile phones. It is of utmost importance to pay attention to giving them a positive mobile experience as well.

Companies have realised the importance of creating mobile services that are easy to use and which aid the user in accessing the devices. When it comes to accessibility, the developers are addressing the specific challenges related to the capabilities of the visually impaired to cater to them in the digital

world.

Making the digital ecosystem a better place for the visually impaired persons.

Mobile phones are important in our daily lives, including the lives of people who are blind or visually impaired.

They make banking transactions and travel plans alongside their fully sighted peers. However not every mobile phone is optimally designed for use by users with visual impairments.

A part of Google’s Android Accessibility Service, the TalkBack is

an application that stands blind and visually impaired persons in good stead when they are using and interacting with their mobile devices. It uses spoken word, vibration and other audible feedback to let the visually impaired uses know what they are selecting on their screen, what they are touching, and what they can do with it.

TalkBack can be turned on via the phone's Settings > Accessibility menu.

A visually impaired person may need the help of their sighted peers for the initial setup, but after that the phone will speak every time they turn it on.

The Apple iPhone operating system, known as iOS, has an accessibility feature named VoiceOver for visually impaired users. VoiceOver is currently available in all new models of iPhones and iPads.

Mobile apps have made life easier for the blinds and visually impaired persons. They had to take the help of their sighted friends to read things that are only in visual print. But apps have given them luxury of reading things and doing really anything in new ways.

Voice-over and TalkBack are a game changer, granting the same access to the digital world to blind persons as everyone else. Companies are beginning to realize that visuals blind people matter too. n

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Session I: Building India’s Cyber Security Framework

Is Women Empowerment close to becoming a reality in India?

Throughout ages womenfolk have been at the receiving end of discrimination at the hands of men, whether it is at home or in the society. Despite women empowerment as a subject starting to gain prominence in the last few decades, the plight of women in many countries continue to be a topic of concern and the wave of change that has started in the late 20th century for emancipation of women has not reached them yet -

Monica Malhotra Kandhari MD - MBD Group “Woman and man will both stand with some positives and negatives, hurdles or opportunities which are peculiar to an individual in a given situation. Life throws a lot of challenges and we need to sail through with positive attitude and enrich ourselves to face the worse.”

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Women empowerment that is a universal phenomenon, refers to the creation of an environment for women where they can make decisions of their own for their personal benefits as well as for the society. It means emancipation of women from the vicious grips of social, economical, political, caste and genderbased discrimination. It means granting women the freedom to make life choices.

Women empowerment will directly lead to the overall development of the society.

It can also lead to the end of many ills that exist in the society - domestic violence, treating women just as an object without understanding their worth and so on.

“Woman empowerment to me is the ability to have the right to choose and decide what one wants to do in life.

Not having to take a decision by being constrained by one’s gender is true equality and empowerment. It is good

Dr. Shubhangi Sharma, Executive Director - IPLM, NASSCOM Foundation “Just be yourself; in whatever circumstances or situation you are, be the way you are. Don’t try to imitate anybody and be sure of yourself.”

that there is lot of focus on gender equality at work, home and society. Real empowerment of women happens by improving their social, economic, political and legal strength. It involves building a society, an environment where women can breathe freely and has equal say both at home and the workplace. We must work towards creating a place where there is no fear of oppression, discrimination and suppression,” views Ritu Chhabria, Director, Finolex Industries Ltd, and Founder Managing Trustee Mukul Madhav Foundation.

At Mukul Madhav Foundation, Finolex Industries has been working for women empowerment in Ratnagiri. The company has set up tailoring, computer, sewing, and embroidery classes. Women get to master a skill and they make and sell products. This leads to their financial independence and builds their confidence.

“When you are leader or a mentor, your team learns more by your deeds

Achal Khanna, CEO - SHRM India • Know Yourself and Know What You Want: Know your strengths, your society, your challenges, your developmental areas – Know yourself to be able to work on it. Explore what your aspirations are and work towards them.

• Network with meaningful others: who can give honest feedback and who can help you build yourself in a better person each day • Don’t depend on others for provisions or reservations; stand up for your own capability & worth and be independent • Empower other women: to be able to positively contribute to the upliftment of others

Sunita Sahney, Founder Director, Finova Capital “When we see those strong and powerful women around us, either through TV, social media or in real, we get inspired. However, we need to learn the difference between being inspired and actually feeling empowered. One can feel empowered only once they start practicing the ideologies that inspire them. Furthermore, there are few things that I think are important for women to actually feel empowered, such as Regularly exercising, because it is not just about your physique, it is about feeling healthy physically and mentally; standing up for yourself-saying no to people wherever necessary and most importantly, only being around people who treat you as equals.” than your words. I have more women working in my organization than men.

All are treated equal and their skills and knowledge is what matters more to me.

I always see to that women around me are happy. They have the confidence that I am with them in case of crisis.

I encourage my women staff to keep themselves upgraded with technology and also in their respective field of work.

Knowledge is strength and that will take them a long way,” says Ritu.

According to Smita Apsingekar, Chief Operating Officer - Yitsol Technology, though the term Women Empowerment refers to strengthening the social, economic and educational powers of women, she feels that GENDER EQUALITY is the real meaning and the only way to achieve it. “Woman empowerment demand equal Social Rights, Political Rights, Economic stability, judicial strength and all other rights for the woman,” she says. “There

should be no discrimination between men and woman at any phase of life. It is a demand of time that the society should create an environment, for women where they can make decisions on their own for their personal benefits, family and as well as for the society. They should have complete control of their life, both within and outside of their home and workplace.”

She further continues by sharing a beautiful quote by Swami Vivekananda – ‘There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved, It is not possible for a bird to fly on only one wing.’ “It’s very important for women to respect other women as well,” she says. “When you treat each other with respect and as equals — man or woman — it leads to a better and more evolved society and community. Women are powerful enough to do anything. We can give birth, influence a nation, and ultimately change the world. But it seems like the

Fahmida Ozair, CEO - SoftAge “Women should focus on acquiring education, which will lead them to financial independence thereby boosting their self-confidence. Simultaneously they should focus on their personal front, contributing towards setting up a family and creating a proper home- work balance.

Two quotes which sum it all - one by Mahatma Gandhi - “There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men.” And the other one by Dr APJ Kalam - “When women are empowered, a society with stability is assured.

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special COVER STORY story hardest thing for women to do is have healthy relationships with other women.

Issues arrive amongst women because of competition, envy, and judgmental attitudes. Once a woman starts respecting another woman, the society automatically will follow the footsteps. As a woman I will say, for us it's all about self-reliance, liberation, sense of pride and courage to fight social injustice.”

“Women Empowerment has become an important issue, world over and I wholeheartedly support every woman that makes the efforts to rise and construct her life according to her dreams,” observes Shobana Mahansaria, Co-founder Dolphin POD. “For me, personally, being empowered means being independent.

Being confident to live my life and run as many businesses as I can handle and to be an equal amongst my peers, socially and professionally. We cannot and should not expect anyone to give us leeway because of gender. Instead we should focus on strengthening ourselves as individuals. We don't have to prove we are better than men. When we work hard, face our challenges and overcome our obstacles with determination and grit, we are equals. It's a state of mind, not a state of things.”

Sunita Sahney, Founder Director Finova Capital asserts that a woman has everything she needs and doesn’t require any extra, special or better treatment.

However, she feels that what really needs to be treated is the environment around her. “I think women empowerment is about creating an environment that is more inclusive and empowering, enabling women to take decisions on their own, along with 0% tolerant policy to any gender-based discrimination. Women should be able to live their lives with a sense of self-worth, respect and dignity and have equal rights for social and economic justice, and companies must ensure such an environment,” she says.

“We are operating in a space that has for long been dominated by the male counterparts. However, women are increasingly claiming their share in the financial space as well, including acing the professional studies and otherwise.

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Smita Apsingekar, Chief Operating Officer - Yitsol Technology “Whenever I think about women empowerment, a very well said quote by Margaret Thatcher flashes in my mind - "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

Men can talk about woman empowerment, but in real mean it can be achieved by the woman herself. Ladies, believe on your capabilities, your talent and the enormous power which nature has gifted you. Education is the key of empowerment. If a girl is educated, she will have confidence. She will have employable skills. Employment will lead her to financial independence.

Entrepreneurship will make her stronger and daring to take up new challenges.

Raise your voice against any disrespect, humiliation, and exploitation. Raise a voice against gender bias society. As a mother, only we can mould our future generation. Only we can educate them about gender equality. Start believing in yourself. We can change the world...only we can.” and transcends to different women we encounter in everyday life, belonging to underprivileged sections of the society.

This implies to creating a safe and professional environment for domestic helps, giving them paid offs, encouraging them or their daughters to pursue education, amongst other endeavours,” Sunita says.

“Empowerment is all about an individual and changes in his/her cognitive processes,” says Smitha B S, Lead Community Outreach - Careworks Foundation. “Women empowerment refers to uplifting the political, social,

educational and economic strength of women. Every woman should be able to think and take independent decisions in every walk of her life. I believe, this is more about personal cognition and awareness from which other changes in society follow suit.”

“Despite the advancements we have made in being inclusive and finding parity-women empowerment still has long ways to go. As a senior leader in the organization my touch-points are to find avenues to mentor women to take on leadership roles, help them manage crisis and find a work-life balance. I feel work-life balance often plays a key role in the career growth of women. I also actively support women teachers in the various school development initiatives to upskill themselves and become better role models,” believes Smitha.

“Empowerment of women means developing them as more aware individuals, who are politically active, economically productive and independent and are able to make intelligent discussion in matters that affect them. Women empowerment as a concept was introduced at the International women Conference in 1985 at Nairobi, which defined it as redistribution of social power,” says Fahmida Ozair, CEO – SoftAge. “I have been a strong advocate of women empowerment and gender equality. For me it means 2 things – a person being able to shed off helplessness and able to take decision of her life on her own. Women are as diverse as men are but sadly they are never seen as an individual. They are always seen in context of some relationship – a mother, sister, wife or daughter. We need to start seeing women as human beings who have as much strength and as much weakness as any living beings can have and accepting the woman in the size and form they are. Also, women need to be accepting themselves as the way they are rather than chasing a vision which is not their own,” comments Dr. Shubhangi Sharma, Executive Director - IPLM, NASSCOM Foundation.

She further continues, “Most of the time womens’ lives are entangled in the struggles in being herself and being able to really be life the society wants her to be. That struggle makes a woman a much distorted personality. So for women to

Challenges to Women Empowerment Smita of Yitsol Technology points out some of the challenges that exist in the sectors of Education, Poverty, Healthcare and on professional front • Education: Where education is concerned. The gap between women and men is severe. As per the census 2011, statistics says that 82.14% of adult men are educated, only 65.46% of adult women are known to be literate in India. The gender bias is in higher education, specialized professional trainings, which hit women very hard in employment and attaining top leadership in any field.

• Poverty: Poverty is considered another big hurdle in woman empowerment. Due to this, women are exploited physically, mentally and sexually. In poor families, priority is often given to providing education and vocational training to the young males, and sometimes girls go to work to support their brothers’ schooling. Poverty and lesser education make women more vulnerable to health hazards, sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV/AIDS), unwanted pregnancies and social and family abuse.

• Health and Safety: The health and safety concerns of women are paramount for the well-being of a nation and important factor in woman empowerment. Maternal health is the major area of concern, not only in rural part but even in urban part of the nation.

• Professional Inequality: This inequality practiced in employment is sandbagging the promotions. Women face countless handicaps in male customized and dominated environment in Government Offices and Private enterprises.

• Morality and Inequality: Due to gender bias in health and nutrition there is unusually high mortality rate in women reducing their population further especially in Asia, Africa and china.

• Household Inequality: Household relations are highly gender bias, not only in India but across the globe. Working or nonworking women are loaded with a burden of housework, childcare and routine work. In this scenario, the personal growth of woman always remains a secondary factor in their life.

• Woman, a sex symbol: Since the dawn of time women have been depicted as sex objects. As long as women continues to being used as ‘sexual objects’, it will be very difficult to get rid of patriarchy and some of the weakest forms of masculinity expression associated with it-such as rape and violence. Such exploitation is unacceptable. A major thought shift that needs to happen across the world. Women is not a reproduction factory and not a pleasure factory.

understand herself and be comfortable in the skills that she possess is what I think is women empowerment.”

“Talking about Women Empowerment, gender equality, better treatment and raising their quality of life hold good. Having said this, just by ensuring these three would not bring out women empowerment in totality.

Women need to be given enough freedom, which would free them from all social, moral and religious limitations.

Further they need to be provided with the right environment through which they can identify opportunities to grow, develop and take decisions for their own good as well as for the upliftment of the society in which they are a part of.

This could be at their workplace, home, or any other place, where they have an opportunity to make a positive impact,”

Shobana Mahansaria, Cofounder, Dolphin POD “Being a woman, one should work towards success in their life; personal and professionally. Stay focused on your dreams and be ambitious. There is more to grasp as your vision becomes larger.

Be self sufficient and live life beyond the norms of life's labels of wife, mother, sister and daughter. Be the best version of yourself with your efforts.”

says Achal Khanna, CEO - SHRM India.

In the opinion of Monica Malhotra Kandhari, MD - MBD Group, women empowerment refers to ‘women equality with men’, whether that relates to better treatment, raising quality of life or treating them equal at work/home/ society. “Today, the society in general has evolved to be more equal, one that opens up a level playing field for everyone to partake from irrespective of gender, caste, or creed. Whether men or women, we all are complete in ourselves; skill, competence, and hard work are just about all that is needed for a man/woman to really succeed in any given field. I would suggest that don’t get into man-woman world. We as woman should constantly evoke and not focus on being better than the other gender.” mARCH 2017 SPO INDIA 23

special COVER STORY story Challenges to Women Empowerment in India...

There are several challenges that are plaguing the issues of women’s right in India. In most of the contexts, women empowerment is essentially rooted to the economic and social structure of a country and gets manifested in various forms. There are various issues which pose myriads of challenges towards the vision of Women Empowerment. Targeting some of the issues like lack of education, poverty, inequality at workplace & home will directly benefit the empowerment of women.

“One major challenge is the lack of education. It is not just literacy that I am referring to, but education should involve teaching essential values in gender equality from childhood,” comments Ritu.

The Indian family structure and the discrimination that children see at home when they are young and impressionable stays with them and sets the base for their behaviour towards the opposite gender when they grow up. “The society is biased and favours the male child, be it for education, nutrition or other growth opportunities. Girls are forced into child marriage and they seldom get an opportunity for self-growth after that.

Having said that, women empowerment has become quiet the buzzword and the movement has continued to gain strong support. I hope this brings steady changes across the country,” opines Ritu.

“Even though by law, we are all equals, it is age old societal traditions and taboos that

Smitha B S, Lead Community Outreach - Careworks Foundation “Change yourself and empower yourself. We own the power to change our lives.”

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prevent women from stepping out into the arena, fully armed with their intelligence and knowledge. However, I feel, as a country that's bursting with new ideas and thoughts, we are stepping over that fragile line of gender bias and contributing to every field of progress. In present times, I see a lot of great achievements by Indian women on global platforms and I’m sure like me, it gives every woman impetus and pride in her field of work. To achieve, you have to be dedicated. Whether man or woman,” contends Shobana.

“The foremost challenge in battling gender parity is the general mentality of people in India or otherwise. We as Indians, right from our childhood, are conditioned to live our day to day lives as per the patriarchal norms; not just men but women as well. Ensuing that there are still so many women across the country that endorse and impose patriarchy and this is the biggest challenge. Apart from that there are very few women who come out of their closet to talk about any injustice or atrocities they have been through. I think these are the primary challenges that conjure newer and additional challenges,” believes Sunita.

Being equal to their male counterparts is still a far cry for Indian women, is what Smitha of Careworks believes. “Take for example in education, where exists a huge gap between women and men. Women are facing challenges to reach higher positions as professionals due to the existing gender bias in higher education and specialized professional training courses. Similarly poverty is still one of the greatest threats to women empowerment. The health and safety concerns of women are of paramount importance. Even on a professional front inequality is prevalent giving rise to difference in payscale between men and women of similar calibre. To sum it, gender bias in terms of different education provided to a son or a daughter at home is another factor that can be seen as a letdown to women empowerment in India.”

The Constitution of India not only grants equality to women, but also empowers the state to adopt measures of positive discrimination in favour of women.

There has been a lot of improvement in the position of women, but their true empowerment is still awaited.

“Women in India now participate in areas such as education, sports, politics,

Ritu Chhabria, Director, Finolex Industries Ltd, and Founder Managing Trustee Mukul Madhav Foundation “Dear woman, it is your right to be heard, it is your right to be educated.

Demand your rights if you are denied.

Never doubt your value, strength and calibre. You are powerful, valuable and deserving. Never hesitate to voice your opinion and never heed to suppression.” media, art and culture, service sector and science and technology, but due to the deep- rooted patriarchal mentality in the Indian society, women are still victimized, humiliated, tortured and exploited and their opinions are not considered worthy enough. Even after almost seven decades of Independence, women are still subjected to discrimination in the social, economic and educational field. There is awareness but total acceptance may take some more time,” views Fahmida.

“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women” – Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru It is an irony that in a country like India, where goddesses Kali and Durga are worshipped as an epitome of Shakti (Power), women are still looked down as subordinates to men. The need of the hour is education and awareness that needs to be imparted for every individual to have a broader perspective on this issue.

This is what the world needs, as this is not just a problem specific to India, but it is a global problem that needs to be looked at a global level.

And who better than us (women) could lead this change! n Samrita Baruah samrita@varindia.com

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Vodafone Foundation recognizes 50 bold, brave & brilliant women of pure wonder The Vodafone Foundation in India recognizes the power of mobile technology to address some of India’s most pressing challenges relating to education, health, equality and access. The foundation is committed to enable people and technology to drive innovation, disseminate knowledge, and create shared value to improve lives.

The Vodafone Foundation in India stands committed to invest in the three critical areas of women empowerment, education and agriculture. All its programs focus on harnessing relevant technology solutions for greater productivity and impact. The foundation operates through collaborative partnerships with NGOs, corporates, other donor agencies and government bodies to create greater shared value. The Foundation connects and empowers communities with our flagship program Connecting For Good which includes supporting key NGOs to develop relevant solutions and help scale leading social enterprises. The Foundation also curates, strengthens and promotes usage of social sector related apps through the “Social App Hub”. Further, we identify, fund and mentor existing bestpractice innovations through our Mobile for Good initiative. Employee engagement is another key focus of the agency through our different initiatives, such as World of Difference which provides volunteering opportunities to our employees across India.

Dr. Seema Rao, India's first woman commando trainer, is a pioneer in close quarter battle and has trained various Indian Special forces for 18 years without compensation. Ms. Aditi Mittal, one of the first women to do stand-up comedy in India, will make you laugh hard with her incredible wit and intelligent humor.

Ms. Abha Khetarpal Maurya is a disability rights activist and has penned numerous books and research papers on the subject.

Imagine 50 such inspiring and brave women coming together and making you go ‘wow’ with their life-altering stories.

Women, truly of Pure Wonder!

Vodafone Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Vodafone India, will recognise the spirit and achievements of these women on 10th March, 2017 in New Delhi, where the ‘Women of Pure Wonder’ coffee table book featuring them will be launched.

P. Balaji, Director – Regulatory, External Affairs & CSR Vodafone India Announcing the initiative, P. Balaji, Director – Regulatory, External Affairs & CSR Vodafone India, said, “With the Women of Pure Wonder series, Vodafone Foundation aims to acknowledge the contribution of women in India and the positive social change they have brought

in the society. The first three editions of the book have been well received and we are proud to carry forward the legacy this year as well. Our salutations to all the bold, brilliant and brave women across the country whose inspiring tales are represented by the 50 women featured in this edition of the book."

Vodafone Foundation launched first edition of Women of Pure Wonder book in 2013, narrating stories of India’s unknown women champions. The second edition – Women of Pure Strength, illustrated how astutely women can steer the mast amidst waves of diverse social and cultural milieu. The third edition of Women of Pure Wonder featured women of extreme vision, valour and victory.

Published by Roli Books, Women of Pure Wonder will be available at leading bookstores including and Flipkart and Amazon.

Vodafone India celebrated International Women’s Day throughout the week of 6th to 10th March with the theme #ConnectedSheCan. It encouraged women to become self-sufficient, independent and empowered using the power of mobile connectivity and improve the standard of health, education and economy in their lives. n mARCH 2017 SPO INDIA 25

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HelpAge India – the Good Samaritan for the old and disadvantaged HelpAge India is a leading registered national level NGO. A secular Non- profit organisation set up in 1978, it has for almost 40 odd years have been working for the cause and care of disadvantaged older people, so as to improve their quality of life, make significant changes in their lives, so as to enable them to live better and healthier lives. SPO India talks to both Madhu Madan, Country Head - Resource Mobilization - HelpAge India and Manjira Khurana, Country Head, Advocacy & Communications - HelpAge India individually to know more about the organization’s latest mission and the support that it receives from different quarters of the society to help fund the cause that it has been single-handedly working for -

What is the focus area of HelpAge India at present?

HelpAge India has 3 focus areas –

1. Basic healthcare for those elders who can afford none 2. Providing sustainable Livelihood options to needy elders 3. Digital Empowerment of elders (teaching them how to use smart phones, computers, applications like WhatsApp, Facebook, using google search, internet banking, paying utility bills online etc. HelpAge has developed an instruction Handbook for the same.)

What kind of support do you receive from other corporates, NGOs and volunteer groups in furthering this cause, given that the elderly cause is not something that everyone vouches for?

A large part of our donors base are individuals like you and me. Even though the elder cause is not the most popular cause, some of our initiatives do bring in support from the public and we have many donors who regularly donate to HelpAge. Previously CSR spending was voluntary. India has become the first country in the world to mandate a minimum CSR spend (2% of average profits in the past 3 years) for corporates that are above a certain size so as to tackle social issues and bring the private sector resources to address the fundamental challenges India faces.

Thus where we once got funding mainly from PSU, now a lot of corporates from the private sector have come forward and helped our healthcare initiatives. Today we have a total of 136 Healthcare Units.

Corporate employees as well as other volunteers support us during our events, health camps and advocacy initiatives.

Support from Corporates: HelpAge has over time partnered with over 100 corporates that have given us support via their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. This has enabled HelpAge to undertake several 26 SPO INDIA MARCH 2017

Madhu Madan Country Head - Resource Mobilization - HelpAge India new projects as well as expand some of our existing projects.

• One of HelpAge India’s largest programmes that CSR funds support is Mobile Healthcare. HelpAge India currently operates over 160 Mobile Health Units across India, one of the largest fleets run by any NGO in the country, which bring essential primary healthcare to the doorsteps of the elderly and the communities they live in. In addition, the program creates

widespread health awareness in order to proactively address noncommunicable diseases such as Diabetes and Hypertension.

• Many companies also extend significant support for our Vision Restoration program, funding free Cataract Surgeries.

This is one intervention that has a huge and immediate impact, enabling visually challenged elders to be able to see again and live with independence and dignity.

• Some of HelpAge India’s other programmes supported by companies via their CSR initiatives are Livelihood Support through Elder Self Help Groups, Disaster Relief, Health Camps, Old Age Homes, Physiotherapy, Helplines, etc.

Support from NGOs: HelpAge India partners with grass-root level NGOs across India, to ensure deeper penetration of its programmes into the unreached interiors of country and a wider outreach of its nationwide initiatives for the cause and care of the disadvantaged elderly.

Support from Volunteer Groups: Every year, HelpAge India engages with over 250 volunteers across the country, who support the organisation in both on the field and within the office. Volunteers offer their services at Mobile Health sites, Health Camps, Cataract screening camps, our partner Old Age Homes, and other programmes. HelpAge India also receives support from several Volunteers at our Head Office and State Level Offices for administrative and outreach work within the offices. Numerous educational institutions and corporate houses also depute teams of volunteers to extend support to the organisation.

How do you raise fund for your different initiatives?

What is the mechanism like?

HelpAge India raises funds from the following sources – a. Individual donors b. Corporate donors c. Institutional donors - bilateral and multilateral funding agencies d. Government a. Individual Donors HelpAge India raises funds from individual donors via Direct mailers, online appeals and we use many methods to run these more efficiently. We also have programs in many schools to sensitize children to the issues of the elderly right from an early age, and they also help to raise funds for the work we do in addition to the teams that raise awareness for our work through direct interaction with potential donors. b. Corporate Donors In line with the provisions of Section 135, several corporates make project based grants to HelpAge India under their CSR initiatives. HelpAge India’s Corporate Fundraising team across

India reaches out to and engages with potential corporate donors, understands their CSR policy and requirements, and provides them with customized proposals for funding of relevant projects.

Several corporate employees also support HelpAge India via Payroll Giving (on a monthly basis). c. Institutional Donors and Government HelpAge India raises funds from several bilateral and multilateral funding agencies, and also receives grants from the Government for specific, large-scale projects. Detailed project proposals as submitted by HelpAge India, after discussion with the said parties to gain an understanding of partnership possibilities and areas of intervention. This funding is not very large

What is the state of CSR in the country? How difficult or easy it is to do CSR in the country without government intervention or support?

In India, CSR has largely been voluntary and sporadic, until very recently. Following the DPE guidelines (issued in 2010), which required Public Sector Enterprises to make CSR an integral part of operations; we have seen corporate funding for CSR increase.

Moreover, Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013, which came into effect from 1st April 2014, mandates all qualifying companies to spend 2% of their profits on CSR. Government intervention mandating CSR spend by companies has indeed enabled HelpAge India to raise funds more easily from the corporate sector via their CSR initiatives.

With the coming of the CSR in the Companies Act of 2013, how has it impacted your fund raising programs?

Post the introduction of Section 135, HelpAge India has seen a significant increase in companies wanting to extend CSR funding, particularly from the Private Sector. HelpAge has been able to undertake many new projects as well as expand some of its existing projects. CSR funding from corporates to HelpAge India has doubled since the introduction of Section 135 in 2014.

What kind of targets do you set for your organization on quarterly basis? How do you try to meet these targets?

HelpAge India aims to raise over Rs. 100 crores annually from donors within the country, i.e. an average of over Rs. 25 crores per quarter which goes towards funding the work we do.

To ensure that the NGO’s fundraising target is met, we have experienced professionals in the areas of direct marketing, business development, corporate partnerships, and donor support.

HelpAge also has a very experienced in-house Programmes Team that plans and implements projects on-ground across the country This is amply supported with strong support functions and systems – IT, Finance, HR, Audit, Communications, and Procurement etc. that support fundraising, enable smooth flow of operations within the organization, and ensure excellence in operations and delivery of the field. mARCH 2017 SPO INDIA 27

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“90 million elderly are disadvantaged who would need support in whichever way possible” Since you are mostly concerned with securing elderly rights and liberty in the society, what kind of initiatives are you taking that concern their well being?

Our goal at HelpAge India is to fight poverty isolation and neglect. From welfare, development to rights – these are the three areas we look at. If you consider a disadvantaged elderly, what does he need – he needs 2 meals a day, essential healthcare support, some disposable income, and if any government schemes are on, he should be part of it. So we have to secure him and his right to food, healthcare, and access to whatever schemes or social security aid that the government has put out for him. Our major work is in the area of healthcare – we have these mobile healthcare vans which go across India. These are initiatives funded by corporates.

There are specific corporates who would identify specific areas where they want us to work. Each medical van would have a doctor, a paramedic, a compounder and a social worker. Each van would cover 10 points of call in a week, which means that if the van is at Point A in the morning on a Monday, afternoon it will be at B and evening at C. The next Monday it will again start at Point A. This ways it gives regularity in the check-ups and treatment of the elderly population.

We also do health camps, that can be preventive health camp as well as interventions to take a patient back into formal system of healthcare. For instance we would do cataract camps in the unreached rural areas, where we will identify the cataract patients and get them to the hospitals to get the cataract surgery done.

We are also in the field of cancer care and concentrate primarily on palliative care. We have also concentrated on livelihoods and accordingly spend the fund available in equipping the elders who in return could help themselves. We have also formed elder self help groups in identified rural areas where the groups are mentored and taught to access institutional bank credit.

What kind of presence do you have in the country as of now?

We are present in each of the state capitals and have our field officers at other locations as well. Essentially we have our own state office. Of course we have very few people but we do work with partners; for instance in the area of cataract surgery, there are hundreds of identified partnered hospitals with whom we work.

Again in the area of Cancer Care, we work with other NGOs to give palliative care. Since it is not possible to have our presence everywhere, we identify people with whom we can drive a common cause and eventually work with them. Corporates give us financial support, but with NGOs we figure out where the financial support can be directed to. There are times when we would give grant to a partner NGO to do our work where it is not possible for us to 28 SPO INDIA MARCH 2017

physically reach and carry out the work.

What is the number of partners that you work with today?

The number of partner NGOs we work with today varies from time to time. All that we know is that we reach out to 1 & a half million elders every year. But we keep saying that that is too little. Because there are a 100 million elderly in India today and we know that of them, 90 million still need to work to survive, because they are that poor. So we can easily say that 90 million elderly are disadvantaged who would need support in whichever way possible. We keep saying that while we think that the work we do is meaningful, but it too little a scope for a country as large as India.

Do you also involve youngsters from schools and colleges into your awareness campaigns, given their high level of participation in social causes?

We have a program called SAVE, which stands for Student Action for Value Education, where we reach out to schools and we try and talk about elder values and age care values with the children. We invite them to work with us, be it through a fund raising program or a visit to an old age home. We try and involve the children in these activities. We have found that probably this initiative is successful because over the years I have met so many people who have said that, yes we have fundraised for HelpAge when we were in school or college.

HelpAge India has launched a security app for senior

In the 'HelpAge SOS' App as it's called, one has to just touch the app and the phone will ring at the helpline which is there at the periphery of that calling zone. The app will sense the geographic location and reach out to the nearest helpline center citizens recently. Could you throw some more light on its adoption and usage?

One of the distressing facts about India is the prevalent level of elder abuse. Over the past 5 years HelpAge has carried out pan India surveys among elders to ascertain the prevalence, extent and severity of Elder Abuse in India. Of those surveyed, half of the elderly (50%) reported experiencing abuse. By abuse I don’t mean physical abuse alone, but it also indicates verbal abuse and neglect. The commonest abuse is neglect, which in Hindi we call it ‘andekha’. Like for instance, there is an elder in the room but you don’t acknowledge that elder. That can happen in each of our families today. If there is a family discussion or dinner going on, all the active members would have an opinion but the elder would be just sitting in a corner all alone and debarred from having any say in family matters. This kind of behaviour is taking away substantially from one’s behaviour.

The other abuse is a serious one, which is abandonment. People have been turned out of the house, denied food, medicine or some even kicked or beaten. Most of the time people don’t know how to report it or whom to call for intervention. Even when someone complains, he/she does not want the identity to be revealed.

In the survey done, the Daughter-in-law (61 per cent) and Son (59%) emerged as the topmost perpetrators. The elder victims cited that the primary reasons underlying their abuse are-'emotional dependence on the abuser' (46%), 'economic dependence on the abuser' (45%) and 'changing ethos' (38%). Unfortunately 41 per cent of those abused, did not report the matter to anyone, "Maintaining confidentiality of the family matter" was cited as the major reason (59%).

We then decided to come up with an app which will have many aspects to it and not just have a feature for reporting an elder abuse.

In the 'HelpAge SOS' App as it's called, one has to just touch the app and the phone will ring at the helpline which is there at the periphery of that calling zone. The app will sense the geographic location and reach out to the nearest helpline center. The caller need not even have to give the identity but he needs to confirm the address. The SOS stands for 'Save Our Seniors'. Its 24x7 functionality aims at helping elders in distress at any given time. The App currently is functional only on Android Smart Phones; HelpAge is working on making it functional on other operating systems as well.

The App has two other core features. One is to empower the elder with 'Information on Critical Issues' related to them, such as: 'How to make a Will', in a large number of cases of abuse the reason is Property, learning how to make a Will, can help safeguard

our elders. It will also house information about the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, as most elders don't even know that such an Act exists to protect them, as per which if the carer/ child responsible for the elder's well-being does not do his duty, he/she can be fined or even jailed. There is also information on How to take care of their Health in later years, How to live an active life, about their Rights & Entitlements, Financial Planning etc.

The third feature of the App provides real time GPS enabled information on retail outlets that provide discounts to senior citizens who are members of the HelpAge Advantage Card program. Any elder can avail this benefit card by simply contacting HelpAge. n Samrita Baruah samrita@varindia.com mARCH 2017 SPO INDIA 29

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IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO PAY IN FULL

PLEASE SEND A PARTIAL PAYMENT How to retrieve partial payments made by customer When you make your payments to the sellers in small instalments without paying in full and at once, you are making partial payments. Hence when you make partial payment that is less than the due, the cash receipt indicates that you have made the part payment and there is still some amount left that you have to pay to the supplier or vendor.

When you pay an instalment for the money that you owe to the vendor, a cash receipt is issued to you. The receipt shows the total payment, the partial payment made by you and outstanding amount.

It is pertinent to note that if any dispute regarding payments between you and supplier arises, you can use the issued receipts to prove that you have paid a certain amount to the supplier. It has been seen that when a customer makes the payments in cash, he or she demands for the cash receipt. However such is not the case with the payments made with check or credit card.

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Partial Payment Receipt Form is a document used to acknowledge the receipt of a partial payment. The form includes the name of the individual who had bought from you and made the payment.

It also contains the name of the person who had received the partial payment on behalf of the vendor or supplier. Date when the partial payment is received by the vendor's accounts department must be mentioned in the form. Apart from these, the form must contain details of the order placed by the customers as well as those of earlier and current payments made by the customers. The mode of payment chosen by the customer i.e. cash, debit card, check and credit card must find mention in the Partial Payment Receipt Form. Last not the least, the signatures of the person making payment and the one receiving payment are included in the form.

If you’re an owner of a business, all of your transactions must be getting recorded on receipts. This will stand you in good

stead because anytime you are in doubt about your transactions, the receipts will come to your rescue. Partial Payment Receipt Form is one of the payment forms.

A Partial Payment receipt is a lot like a cash memo or a cash receipt which is handed over to a customer after he or she makes a purchase. It contains details of the products purchased, and the mode of payment used, along with other details like date and signature.

A Partial Payment receipt is the small piece of document issued to a customer by the supplier or vendor after a purchase.

It is seen that each vendor or supplier has its own payment receipt, and they all are different from each other.

The main reason behind using a Partial payment receipt is to keep a record. If you are the owner of a store or are a supplier, you can ill afford to neglect the importance of payment receipt.

There are several ways to create partial payment receipt form. n

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Vertiv does 'The Walk' at Hiranandani Thane Half Marathon 2017

Vertiv, formerly known as Emerson Network Power, has always recognized the importance of contributing to the society. Through this marathon, Vertiv has made a modest attempt of supporting a cause that fundamentally speaks to people and creates awareness on the importance of a healthy lifestyle.

Vertiv participated in the fifth edition of the 'Hiranandani Thane Half Marathon 2017' (HTHM) which was flagged off on Sunday, 12th February, 2017. The annually held charity marathon is recognized by the Athletics Federation of India and directs all registration funds gathered toward charitable institutions. The charity partners for the 2017 marathon are Akshay Patra and Rotary Club of Thane North End.

The theme for 'The Walk' this year was 'Running for Expression'. "Now, more than ever, there is a need to come together as a united community to help create a better tomorrow. We need to strive for a better, healthier tomorrow that further motivates us to create better, healthier communities," said Laxman Aglawe, Vice PresidentServices, Vertiv, India, "Global warming is one common, looming threat that we need to solve as a unified force. Using running as an expression, Vertiv ran to symbolize its commitment to creating solutions that aid a greater, greener, renewable tomorrow. Our focus is to work with the Indian government through our product portfolio and further the goal of a Smart and Digitally advanced India" HTHM adopted the concept of 'Running for a Cause' further dividing

the marathon into four categories – Half Marathon (21.097km), Green Run (10km), Fun Run (4km) and Half Marathon Pacers. On a micro level, the marathon aimed to create awareness about the importance of maintaining a healthy, well-balanced lifestyle. Owing to hectic schedules and demanding deadlines, people tend to neglect themselves.

Vertiv designs, builds and services critical infrastructure that enables vital applications for data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities.

Vertiv supports today's growing mobile and cloud computing markets with a portfolio of power, thermal and infrastructure management solutions including the ASCO, Chloride, Liebert, NetSure and Trellis brands. Sales in fiscal 2016 were $4.4 billion. n mARCH 2017 SPO INDIA 31

OPEN YOUR EYES

Intex Provides Education to the Underprivileged Intex Technologies, one of the leading mobile handset and consumer durables company, undertakes all CSR projects / programs in India. The CSR Committee of the company decides on locations for implementation of the CSR projects / programs.

The company primarily focuses on following welfare activities: a) Eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition, ‘promoting health care including preventive health care and sanitation including contribution to the Swach Bharat Kosh set-up by the Central Government for the promotion of sanitation and making available safe drinking water. b) Promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocation skills especially among children, women, elderly, and the differently abled and livelihood enhancement projects. c) Promoting gender equality, empowering women, setting up homes and hostels for women and orphans; setting up old age homes, day care centres and such other facilities for senior citizens and measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backward groups. d) Contribution to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund or any other fund set up by the Central Government for socio-economic development and relief and welfare of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, other backward classes, minorities and women. e) Rural development projects. f) Slum area development.

Intex Technologies has partnered with ‘Teach For India’ to support its initiatives aimed at narrowing the gap of educational inequality in the country. As part of the collaboration, Intex will support the education of underprivileged children, deprived of their basic socio-economic 32 SPO INDIA MARCH 2017

Ms. Ishita Bansal CSR Representative Intex Technologies needs, thereby helping them enter the mainstream of society.

This collaboration aimed towards narrowing educational inequality in the society and catering to transformational needs of economically underprivileged children.

As part of its association with ‘Teach For India’, Intex will support exemplary education through the sponsorship of one Fellow; provide professional leadership development of ‘Teach For India’ Fellows (PD & training sessions, city conferences, etc.) and sponsor stationary kits for 500 children in ‘Teach For India’ classrooms.

Ms. Ishita Bansal, CSR Representative, Intex Technologies, said, “The initiative to support ‘Teach for India’ in its educational initiatives means a lot to us as through this we will able to make a difference in the lives of children today and in coming years. At Intex, we equate education with

empowerment and believe that it is the best gift that can be given to an individual, ensuring their upliftment in the society.

Going forward, we hope to engage ourselves with similar such activities aimed at supporting the underprivileged and bringing a positive impact in their lives.”

Through its Fellowship program, Teach For India provides an opportunity for India’s brightest and most promising individuals to serve as full-time teachers to children from low-income communities in some of the nation’s most under-resourced schools. The aim is to provide supervision, guidance and inspiration to significantly improve their academic achievements, communication skills, self-confidence and overall personality development.

Said Ms. Dhwani Thakkar, City Development and Communications, Teach For India, on the partnership, “We are deeply grateful for the support of Intex Technologies in our mission to eliminate educational inequity in India.

Intex’s sponsorship enables us to provide a quality education to children in the most disadvantaged communities and put them on a significantly improved life path – both academically and holistically.

We hope to continue engaging with Intex Technologies to help reach our vision that one day all children will attain an excellent education” Intex Technologies has always endeavoured to actively support community building initiatives in every sphere that the company operates in.

Some of the major CSR activities include partnership with Gyan Shakti Vidyalaya for the educational and social upliftment of underprivileged children, partnership with Jaya Foundation to support children fighting Cancer through a fund raising program - Nanhee in Mumbai and collaboration with Snapdeal in supporting the cause for underprivileged children as part of ‘Joy of Giving Week’ where 50,000 stationary kits were distributed to underprivileged children. n

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TECHNOMANIA

Smart Cities Success:

Vision, Planning, Funding & Execution India's 100 Smart Cities Program success will be dependent on four parameters - Clear Vision, Long Term Planning, Adequate Funding and Module Based Execution India has rolled out 100 Smart Cities Program in a big way and things have started to roll out in different cities.

Presently, majority of the tenders floated in the market is related to project management consultant (PMC); infrastructure projects like transport, smart roads, streetscaping of roads, smart solar projects, smart solar rooftops, development of green space, piped natural gas and smart car parking system; and setting up command & control centre. Different cities have floated their tenders depending upon what their priorities are for the future but the city planner before floating tender should also focus on four parameters - vision, planning, funding and execution.

If these four parameters are taken seriously by the town planners, things will become easy for all stakeholders and the city will really be smart.

Clear Vision

The vision for all 100 Smart Cities

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will differ from one another depending upon how city planners plan their city to be smart. For e.g. the new Kalasatama area of Helsinki is an experimental innovation platform to co-create smart urban infrastructure and services. This centrally located old harbour area is growing into the smart city district of Helsinki.

Eija-Riitta Korhola Former Member of European Parliament

"Smart Helsinki vision is one more hour a day.

Smart city needs to be sustainable and should be doing more with less"

The vision of Kalasatama is that smart services save one hour of citizen’s time every day which is a very noble concept. Time is city residents’ most precious resource, which is why Smart Kalasatama aims to manage time efficiently. The vision has been created together with local residents and all stakeholders, is for everyone to gain an extra hour of free time every day.

Time will be saved by improving the flow of traffic and logistics, as well as guaranteeing first-rate local services and flexible facilities for remote working.

The vision is very simple but executing this simple vision is not easy.

The objective is to deliver services to

Dr Chandan Chowdhury Dassault Systemes

"Creating a virtual model of the city make an existing city smarter. Make changes in the virtual city and understand the impact of various decisions prior to implementing them in the physical form�

people rather than vice versa, reducing daily commuting. The time saved is spent on activities that bring happiness, whether that means relaxing in the local park, cooking with the children and studying or dance classes. Smart services help in improving both quality of life and time management.

Speaking on building better cities for people, Eija-Riitta Korhola, former member of European Parliament said, "Smart City needs to be sustainable and should be doing more with less."

Long Term Planning

Smart cities become smart only when all aspects of planning are taken into account be it long term or short term planning. Once the planning is finalised, it needs to be put into a dynamic three-dimensional (3D) city model for a particular city so that collaborative data can be shared by all stakeholders be it city planners, public, private and research sectors, thereby enabling users from different sectors to develop sophisticated tools and applications for test-bedding concepts and services, planning and decisionmaking, to solve emerging and complex challenges for any city.

One such example is Virtual Singapore. Virtual Singapore is a dynamic three-dimensional (3D) city model and collaborative programme initiated by the National Research Foundation (NRF) at a cost of $73

"Path is different for each city but each city has a clear path. Pune is the first city with a municipal bond with AA rating from Fitch as our financial position is strong" Kunal Kumar Commissioner, Pune Municipal Corporation

million for the development of the platform as well as research into latest technologies and advanced tools over a period of five years. The platform is targeted to be ready by 2018 and will be deployed progressively.

This project is championed by the National Research Foundation (NRF); Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore; Singapore Land Authority (SLA); and the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech). NRF will be leading the project development, whilst SLA will support with its 3D topographical mapping data and become the operator and owner when Virtual Singapore is completed. GovTech will provide expertise in ICT and its management as required in the project.

Other public agencies will participate in Virtual Singapore in various phases depending upon the project and what is being executed in Singapore.

Virtual Singapore is a collaborative data platform, including the 3D maps of Singapore. Virtual Singapore includes semantic 3D modelling, which comprises detailed information such as texture, material representation of geometrical objects; terrain attributes, for example, water bodies, vegetation, transportation infrastructure, etc.

Models of buildings encode the geometry as well as the components of a facility, such as walls, floors, and ceilings, down to its fine details, as in the composition of granite, sand and stone in a building material.

Virtual Singapore will be developed based on geometric and image data collected from various public agencies, and will integrate different data sources to describe the city with the necessary dynamic data ontology. The 2D data and information co-ordinated through existing geospatial and nongeospatial platforms such as OneMap, People Hub, Business Hub etc. will enrich the 3D Singapore City Model.

Advanced information and modelling technology will allow Virtual Singapore to be infused with different sources of static, dynamic and real-time city data and information e.g. demographics, movement, climate.

Speaking about virtual model, Dr Chandan Chowdhury of Dassault Systemes said, "Creating a virtual model of the city make an existing city smarter. Make changes in the virtual city and understand the impact of various decisions prior to implementing them in the physical form.�

Adequate Funding

With proper security and privacy safeguards, Virtual City will enable public agencies, academia and the research community to make use of the information and system capabilities for policy and business analysis, decision making, test-bedding of ideas, community collaboration and other activities that require information.

All these features help in better town

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TECHNOMANIA planning and give a smart look to any city so that all problems whether it is long term as well as short term are solved virtually before doing the physical work for any smart city.

The central government proposes to give financial support to the Smart City Mission to the extent of Rs 48,000 crores over five years i.e. on an average Rs 100 crore per city per year. An equal amount will have to be contributed by the state/urban local bodies. So, in toto, the available funds from ULBs, state government, and central government is to the tune of Rs 100,000 crore for smart cities development. This amount will not be sufficient for all modules of smart city development as project cost of each smart city will vary depending upon the level of ambition, model, capacity to execute and repay.

The success of this endeavour will depend upon the robustness of special purpose vehicle (SPV) revenue model and comfort provided to lenders and investors. A number of state governments have successfully set up financial intermediaries such as Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Orissa, Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar which can be tapped for financial support.

The central government funds and the matching contribution by the states/ULB will meet only a part of the project costs. The balance funds will be mobilised from urban local bodies through collection of user fees, beneficiary charges and impact fees, land monetization, debt, loans, etc; Innovative finance mechanisms such as municipal bonds with credit rating of ULBs, pooled finance mechanism, Tax Increment Financing (TIF); Central government schemes like Swachh Bharat Mission, AMRUT, National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY); Leverage borrowings from financial institutions, including bilateral and multilateral institutions, both domestic and external sources; and Private sector through PPPs. Some municipal bodies are looking at Tax Free Municipal Bonds for e.g.

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Virtual Singapore

Virtual Experimentation: For example, Virtual Singapore can be used to examine the coverage areas of 3G/4G networks, provide realistic visualisation of poor coverage areas, and highlight areas that can be improved on in the 3D city model.

Virtual Test-Bedding: For example, the 3D model of the new sport hub with semantic information within the Virtual Singapore could be used to model and simulate crowd dispersion to establish evacuation procedures during an emergency.

Planning and Decision Making: For instance, an app could be developed to analyse transport flows and pedestrian movement patterns. Such applications would be useful in non-contiguous urban networks such as our parks and park connectors in Punggol.

Research & Development: The rich data environment of Virtual Singapore, when made available to the research community with the necessary access rights, can allow researchers to innovate and develop new technologies or capabilities.

like Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Chennai and Madurai (Tamil Nadu), Bangalore (Karnataka), Hyderabad and Vizag (Andhra Pradesh), Ludhiana (Punjab) and Nagpur and Nashik (Maharashtra) have also opted for the model. In 1997, Bangalore Municipal Corporation had floated Rs 125 crore bond and Ahmedabad first municipal bond was for Rs 100 crore in January 1998. In 2010, Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation issued bonds worth Rs 30 crore.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is planning a bond offering of Rs 2,300 crore, the country’s largest municipal bond issue till date. Even Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is also planning to float municipal bonds bonds of Rs 200 crore. All this will be a win-win for urban local bodies as they require large amount of funds so that they provide all basic amenities as well as extra amenities which will bring happiness to citizens.

Module Based Execution

In India, the Smart Cities Program will always lack fund for any smart city, so city planners will need to focus on executing different modules of smart cities in phases. In order to make city smart, the smart city planners should also focus on all the above points -

clear vision, long term planning and adequate funding so that execution does not act as a bottleneck. The module based execution will help in making the jigsaw puzzle of smart city look smart when the final module gets deployed only when the big picture is infront of all stakeholders. All this module based execution will definitely help Indian cities to come at par with Mercer's Quality of Living Ranking where in the 19th edition Vienna tops the list.

Slagin Parakatil, principal, Mercer Quality of Living Ranking said, “A city’s infrastructure, or rather the lack thereof, can considerably affect the quality of living that expatriates and their families experience on a daily basis. Access to a variety of transport options, being connected locally and internationally, and access to electricity and drinkable water are among the essential needs of expatriates arriving in a new location on assignment. A well-developed infrastructure can also be a key competitive advantage for cities and municipalities trying to attract multinational companies, talent, and foreign investments.”

“Most cities now align variety, reliability, technology, and sustainability when designing infrastructure for the future,” added Parakatil. n

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Super Sensory activities to spend good time with your kid in holidays Super sensory activities for the blind child have come to the forefront of the conscious attention. The reason is not far to seek. To engage a visually impaired kid’s senses during play is a great way to develop their skills. It is all the more important when the kid is visually impaired.

Super sensory activities for visually impaired kids have the potential of encouraging learning, enhancing body awareness and strengthening their understanding of auditory clues. The super sensory activities must be safe for the kids to enjoy them. These activities should be adapted for the visually impaired. It is in the fitness of things that these super sensory activities should be performed under the supervision of adults.

Sensory activities stimulate the senses of the kids.

These senses include touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight.

They help the children develop cognitively. Many are in the mistaken belief that there is no use for a visually impaired child to participate in sensory activities. But this is not true.

Sensory activities are a great way to build language skills for visually impaired kids. If you are blind it is very difficult to understand the meaning of the word ‘slimy’ without touching something slimy. Sensory activities can help a blind kid be kind be confident, productive, make friends, develop positive feelings about others, Searching for toys for visually impaired kids can seem stressful. This is even truer in the case when you don’t know the child well. When you choose a toy for a visually impaired kid, you should think about all the senses.

Though there many ideas for super sensory activities most of them don’t take visually impairment into account.

Hence it is essential to develop accessible sensory activities. Playing with sound toys should be on any list of the best toys for kids who are blind or visually impaired.

It would be a good idea to change the colors in the sensory activity. Some kids with low vision respond to certain colors, like red or yellow. You can also add sound make an activity accessible to the blind kid. When you are developing a sensory activity which includes paint, it is advisable to include puffy paint.

This will help your visually impaired child feel their art when it dries.

There are several creative ways to make holidays special for your visually impaired kids.

If you kid puts everything they touch directly to their mouth, try to include those items that are safe to eat. For instance, you can use tapioca pearls instead of using water beads in your sensory activity.

Last but not the least, it would be a daunting task to supervise those kids who have the propensity to put everything they touch directly to their mouth. Hence you should ensure that the toys are safe and don’t contain chemicals.

It takes a lot of time to think of super sensory activities for visually impaired kids.

However one thing is for sure. Whenever you create super sensory activities, keep it simple, fun and accessible. n

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movers & shakers

U Venkateswarlu appointed as joint secretary in the department of social justice and empowerment

Mihir K Singh appointed as joint secretary in the department of animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries

U Venkateswarlu, 1986 batch Tripura cadre lAS and financial commissioner at ESIC under the ministry of labour and employment, has been appointed as joint secretary in the department of social justice and empowerment, on lateral shift basis by temporarily upgrading a newly created vacant post of director in the department of social justice and empowerment to JS level for a period of two years.

Mihir K Singh, 1993 batch Bihar cadre lAS and current joint secretary in the ministry of information and broadcasting, has been appointed as joint secretary in the department of animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries, on lateral shift in place of Adhithela Prasad, 1986 batch lAS.

Anita Karwal appointed as joint secretary in the department of school education and literacy

Niva Singh appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of minority affairs

Anita Karwal, 1988 batch Gujarat cadre lAS, has been appointed as joint secretary in the department of school education and literacy in place of Satbir Bedi, 1986 batch AGMUT cadre IAS.

Niva Singh, 1988 batch Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) officer, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of minority affairs in place of Ms Rakhee Gupta Bhandari, 1997 batch Punjab cadre IAS.

Bhanu Pratap Yadav appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of new and renewable energy

Manoj K Pingua appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of information and broadcasting

Bhanu Pratap Yadav, 1992 batch Indian Audit and Accounts Service officer, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of new and renewable energy in place of T Kapoor, 1987 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS.

Manoj K Pingua, 1994 batch Chhattisgarh cadre IAS and current joint secretary in the ministry of tribal affairs, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of information and broadcasting, on lateral shift basis in place of Anshu Sinha, 1999 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS.

Prakash appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of home affairs

Vinod Kumar Tiwari appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of tribal affairs

Prakash, a Central Secretariat Service officer, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of home affairs in place of 1993 batch UP cadre IAS Veena K Meena, 1993 batch UP cadre IAS.

Vinod Kumar Tiwari, 1986 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre Indian Forest Service (IFoS) officer, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of tribal affairs in place of Manoj K Pingua, 1994 batch Chhattisgarh cadre IAS.

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