An organisation in Udaipur shows that NGOs are vital for a vibrant democracy reports Dr Nita Mukherjee
Dr Mohan Singh Mehta founded Seva Mandir in 1968, out of his abiding interest in issues of citizenship. Those days, development was still a task of the State; voluntary organisations and NGOs then were either charity-based ‘social work’ or set up as protest groups. Seva Mandir began with...