Dr Nita Mukherjee describes how HOPES, Mumbai, is helping deal with hazardous medical waste

Increasing health care facilities around the country leads to an obvious increase in the bio-medical waste. A 2005 report estimated that of the total 7,000 tonnes of waste generated in Mumbai, almost 25 tonnes was medical waste. Few municipal authorities in the country have enacted rules for disposal...

The concrete jungles of Mumbai are home to ‘urban tribals’. An NGO called Jaag is trying to rehabilitate them, discovers Gaver Chatterjee

It is hard to believe but the concrete jungles of Mumbai are home to what can be called ‘urban tribals’. When Vitthal Govind Lad, a social worker, visited Kelti Para village in Mumbai’s Goregaon district, he found that even a tabela (cow shed) in the...

Dr Nita Mukherjee explores the factors that led to a successful collective of strong NGOs in Kutch

If a collective of NGOs survives almost a decade -- nay grows in its operations and influence -- even after its proximate cause of disaster relief and mitigation dissipates, it calls for serious analysis. Most NGOs have strong identities, based as they are on the passion of their founders. It’s...