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PRADAN organized the third annual event Samagam for 2022. The event also marked the completion of 40 years of existence of PRADAN.

PRADAN organized the third annual event Samagam for 2022. The event also marked the completion of 40 years of existence of PRADAN.

PRADAN organized the third annual event Samagam for 2022. The event also marked the completion of 40 years of existence of PRADAN. This year’s event had eminent speakers like Shoka Nodo UNDP Resident Representative, India, Anoop Nautiyal Founder, Social Development for Communities Foundation, Ms. Reshma Anand, CEO, Hindustan Unilever Foundation, Ms. Sonali Srivastava, Head, Anode Governance Lab, and Foundation, Dr. Saurabh Garg, IAS, CEO, UIDAI, and, Mr. Bhim Singh, IAS, Collector, District of Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, to name a few.

The State of Adivasi Livelihoods Report 2021, released by a Delhi-based non-profit, revealed that tribal villages are deprived of public services that are available to non-Adivasi villages in the same region.

Saroj Mahapatra has been appointed as the next Executive Director with Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), which is one of India’s foremost agencies working on uplift of rural areas and people.

The people of a parched village in Sivaganga district have come together and dug a tank for themselves with the help of an NGO . They inaugurated the tank with much fanfare recently.

Mr. Saroj Mahapatra has been appointed as the next Executive Director with Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), which is one of India’s foremost agencies working on uplift of rural areas and people.

Rinku Gope’s hamlet Paharkol lying in Bankura district of West Bengal has become an attraction for outsiders. This Adivasi woman belonging to the Santhal tribe has helped revive a hillock believed to be the resting place of local deity Paharsene.

On Women's Day 2022, check out these four organisations that are helping empower women in various ways.

district of Madhya Pradesh, remembers her grandmother collecting and preserving seeds of vegetables and various varieties of paddy for the next crop season. Her grandparents never invested a rupee in buying them from the market as they had their own little seed bank at home. The dried seeds stored in earthen pots saved money and provided them independence from the market.