January 6, 2018

From Just Boiled (White) Rice to a Colourful Food Plate

January 6, 2018

Manmati Singh: Bringing about change-one step at a time

“Talk to me when you will be able to erase all our miseries. Else tie your wisdom in your sari and go away”, he shouted. ‘It […]
January 6, 2018

With Sickle and Stick, they Saved a Forest
by Souparno Chatterjee

June 20, 2017

NGOs, social sector cos bank on innovation

MUMBAI: Innovation — perhaps the most-discussed C-suite topic for global businesses — has till now largely been associated with IT, finance, manufacturing and various consumer-led businesses. […]
April 25, 2017
PRADAN works towards transforming lives of the poorest communities in rural India.

This Delhi-based organisation has touched over 2 million lives as part of rural transformation

If you were to draw a line between 18N-28N latitude on the Indian map, it would contain majority of the 100 poorest districts in India, with […]
March 8, 2017

Women’s Day 2017: Women are our biggest change agents, says Manas Satpathy

Quietly working in seven states of India, empowering women and changing lives of hundreds of villages,is a 33-year-old NGO, Pradan (Professional Assistance for Development Action). Well […]
March 8, 2017

Six-member BS jury picks the best three in CSR

Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy, who turns 72 this August, has spent the past four decades of his life living the dream of creating self-sustaining village communities — […]
February 14, 2017

Partnerships for Rural Integrated Development & Empowerment (PRIDE)

PRADAN proudly announces PRIDE, a collaborative project to create a transformative impact in the lives of 100,000 rural women across 6 states in India, around multiple well-being dimensions with support from the IKEA Foundation.
December 19, 2016

Organic farming brings prosperity to Balaghat dist’s women farmers

Khushboo Joshi, Hindustan Times, Bhopal Practices of organic farming introduced by Professional Assistance for Development Action (Pradan), an NGO, in Paraswada block of state’s Balaghat district […]
December 4, 2016

Rural women in Betul district are now computer-savvy

Bhopal: Somti Gathiya, 43, a resident of Raipur village in Betul district, dreamt of working and earning like an officer and not a farmer. Gathiya, a […]