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Anshu Gupta is an Indian entrepreneur. He founded the non-governmental organization Goonj. [1] Goonj works on bridging urban and rural inequality. It does this by channelizing the urban surplus to initiate rural upliftment, disaster relief, and rehabilitation.
Goonj is working to bring equity and dignity between cities and villages using underutilised urban material particularly cloth as a tool for development across the country. Goonj undertakes disaster relief, humanitarian aid and community development in parts of 23 states across India. It focuses on clothing as a basic but unaddressed need.
Goonj (NGO), established 1998, Indian humanitarian aid and development non-governmental organisation based in Delhi; Goonj, annual cultural festival of University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh
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The fellowship of ADF Fellows is ₹37,000 per month for the first two years followed by ₹42,000 per month for the third year. house rent allowance (HRA) is also provided to these scholars at the rate of 8%, 16% and 24% as per the Government of India (GoI) norms In addition, Contingency Grant of Rs.15, 000/- per annum is also given to ADF ...
A stipend is a regular fixed sum of money paid for services or to defray expenses, such as for scholarship, internship, or apprenticeship. [1] It is often distinct from an income or a salary because it does not necessarily represent payment for work performed; instead it represents a payment that enables somebody to be exempt partly or wholly from waged or salaried employment in order to ...
Ashoka funds the stipends by raising funds from donors, which it uses as venture capital. [20] Of Ashoka fellows with ventures that are more than five years old, Ashoka says that more than 80% have had their solution implemented by others; 59% have directly affected national policy; and each Ashoka fellow is helping an average of 174,000 people ...
The plan was originally proposed by Canadian statesman Sidney Earle Smith in a speech in Montreal on 1 September 1958 [1] and was established in 1959, at the first Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) held in Oxford, Great Britain.