From: Anurag Mittal
I intend to help the families of Indian soldiers who have laid down their lives for our
country. I wanted to contact some organisation who works in this field to ensure that all
the support (financial and in kind) that the government had outlined for these familes is
actually reaching them. The motiviation comes from the fact that many of the families
specially in the remote areas of the country do not get benefited from what is actually
meant for them. I want to do this as a part of my social contribution towards society.
Would you know of any NGO who works in this field? I'll be grateful if you could let me
know.
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Mr Mittal
we could discuss my no is 011-26891513
best wishes
Chauhan, SainikSangh
--- Original Message ----From: Anurag Mittal
To: gs@sainiksangh.com
Cc: karmayog - tanya
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Helping soldiers' families
Greetings Team SainikSangh:
Good to hear from you. Please let me know how can we take this discussion forward. Let me
have your numbers and name of the contact person.
Regards,
Anurag Mittal
09811256020
----- Original Message ----From: karmayog - tanya
To: ww_anurag@hotmail.com
Cc: gs@sainiksangh.com
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: Helping soldiers' families
----- Original Message ----From: Sainiksangh
gs@sainiksangh.com
To: Karmayog.org
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 4:11 AM
Subject: Re: Helping soldiers' families
Soldier League is doing exactly this . Please advse Mr Mittal to get in touch with us
sainiksangh
From: Vishwa Yuvak Kendra
Dear Mr. Anurag Mittal,
Please refer to your email dated 9 February 2008.
We appreciate the good work you have intended to do for the families of Indian soldiers who have
laid down their lives for our country. We are sending two organisations addresses as requested.
You may contact them for information about more organisations working in this field.
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
Suresh Ambekar
Director
Vishwa Yuvak Kendra
Circular Road, Chanakyapuri
Teen Murti Marg
Opp. Chanakyapuri Police Station
New Delhi - 110 021
Tel: (91-11) 23013631 (five lines)
Fax: (91-11) 23016604
Email: vyk@vykonline.org
Army Wives Welfare Association of India
AWWA SECRETARIAT
Room No. 210, South Block
Army Headquarters
DHQ PO, New Delhi – 110 011
Phone No: 23018183, 23012897
ASCON: 5150, 5152
Contact Person: Mrs. Purnima Bakshi
Email: ihrc@awwa-india.org
Website: http://awwa-india.org
Army Welfare Society
AG’s Branch, Room No. 278
‘A’ Wing, Sena Bhawan
DHQ, South Block
New Delhi – 110 011
----- Original Message ----From: Geetha Sitaraman
To: Karmayog.org
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: Helping soldiers' families
Hi, its wonderful of U to think on these lines. God Bless you and may your tribe increase.
In the meanwhile, please inform if you are aware of any Sanstha that distributes unused
medicines ( expensive ones ) to the needy.All are current valid medicines and can be
reached to the place. Please let me know.
Thanks & Regards
----- Original Message ----From: Madhusudan NS
To: Karmayog.org
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Helping soldiers' families
Even I want to do the same.
From: Nirja Mattoo
An organisation, Queens Technical Institute at Pune, helps the Soldiers towards their
rehabilitation.The contact person is Col Yeri associated with this work for many years.
Regards,
Nirja Mattoo,SPJIMR
nirja@spjimr.org
From: complaints-Samaji Yadav
As per my knowledge, Cyber Institute of Information Technology, Dist. Sidhi (MP) is working for
the same. Their email address is cyberiitho@gmail.com. Kindly contact to them for further
information.
S. Yadav
Manager (Complaints)
Core Centre, Noida
Tel: 0120-4235446
From: Navin Gulia
I am a medically 100% physically disabled ex-army man. Now out of army, I am running
an effort called "adaa" for street children. Please see the website www.adaa.in for details
of my project for underpriviliged children.
If you wish to help me in my effort, you can get in touch with me anytime at 9810245996
or navingulia@yahoo.com
Regards
Navin Gulia
Chief of Army Staff's Commendation for carrying out welfare activities for disabled
soldiers
'National Role Model' Award by President Abdul Kalam.
From: K. Dinesh
Please contact the welfare associations of the army or welfare associations of the
Army/Nay/Air force.
Group Capt Deepak Sinha has retired from navy and Infosys and his contacts are:
deepaksinha1@yahoo.com
He may be able to throw some light on this.
Regards,
Dinesh
----- Original Message ----From: Kapil Marwaha
To: Karmayog.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Helping soldiers' families
Dear Vinay,
I was very happy to know about your intentions and efforts.
While we do not work in the field specified by you, I thought I'd just let you know what
we do so that in case there are any youth from soldier's families seeking jobs we could try
and help:
We have been, through alliances with NGOs, assisting youth from low-income
communities to secure entry level jobs with companies, typically after due training,
thereby creating sustainable social and economic value. We are already working with
different NGOs in different cities on these lines e.g. Smile Foundation, Prayas, Aide et
Action, JSS Dharavi, etc., and have placed about 190 candidates in ten cities in the past
nine months with reputed companies in the Retail and Hospitality sector with average
annual salaries ranging between Rs. 48,000 to Rs. 60,000 per annum plus performance
based incentives. Several entry level job openings (i.e. Customer Service Associates),
part time and full time, currently exist in different cities with reputed Retail, Hospitality
and Marketing companies by whom we have been retained. The attachment on Job
Profiles provides more information on the job criteria and salary aspects.
Wish you all the best in your endeavours.
Kind Regards,
Kapil Marwaha
Kapil Marwaha & Associates
4-31 Shanti 2, 19 Pedder Road, Mumbai – 400026.
Tel. – 9819827301, 2352314
From: Kanta Singh
Dear Anurag,
Army Wives Welfare Association is one of the good organisations working for this
issue. The Association is being headed by Wife of the Army Chief and she is responsible
for ensuring that all the benefits reach the women. The whole system works very well and
is very transparent but the problem arises at the user end. Families of the soldiers are the
culprits and they start harassing the widow for money. In some cases, families force the
women to get married to brothers-in-law (who may be too young or too old) to keep the
money in the house. This happened a lot after Kargil but Army makes sure that the
money reaches the woman.
For further details, please contact:
Col. Ajoy Bakshi (Staff Officer
AWWA)
email : soawwa@awwaindia.org
or
email : presidentawwa@awwaindia.org
Mrs. Purnima Bakshi
Director IHRC
email : ihrc@awwa-india.org
Phone No. 23018183, 23012897
AWWA SECRETARIAT
Room No. 210, South Block, Army Headquarters
DHQ PO, New Delhi - 110 011
Hope it is useful.
Regards
kanta
Kanta Singh
Senior Programme Officer
WomenPowerConnect
A-1/125, First Floor
Safdarjung Enclave
New Delhi -110029
Tele- 91 11 41705170/71/72
Cell- 9811301315
kanta@womenpowerconnect.org
From: Akhilesh Sharma
Cc: headoffice
Dear Anurag
At the very outset please accept my felicitations on your commendable idea.
I am a retired soldier and have been with HelpAge India for last about a decade.
To the best of my knowledge there is no NGO working towards this cause at national level.
Generally District Soldiers’ Boards (DSSA) and various Formations of Indian Army provide this
coverage and most of the Army widows are provided with their entitlements. The cases reported
in the media are those where commitments made by outside agencies like Indian Oil are not met.
Also, in some cases legal complications may result in non release of pensions and other
entitlements. Most of the problems relate to army personnel who deserve pensions/ privileges
other than the standard pensions.
I suggest you to meet authorities at Adjutant General’s Branch at Army HQ to find out as to where
and how you can help.
You may like to indicate the area where you are located and I may be able to help you in getting
in touch with the right person.
Regards
Col (Retd.) Akhilesh Sharma
akhilesh.sharma@helpageindia.org
From: "Carol Andrade" <carol.andrade@timesgroup.com>
India Today has a special programme for this. They also report on its
activities on a regular, on-going basis. I think the programme is called We
Care and it stays with the family till actual progress is seen. It's a great
initiative and completely transparent.
Carol Andrade
From: "eat your brains" <seductive_birdbrain@yahoo.com>
i have no clue about this
but i ahve space in my office ot employ one widow in
accounts or general staff or even a disabled army man
can be employed by me
cpn
----- Original Message ----From: "jyoti patkar" <jyoti_30@yahoo.com>
To: "Karmayog.org" <info@karmayog.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: Helping soldiers' families
Dear Anurag Mittal,
namaste,
We do not know any NGO work for soldiers But
our NGO--Parivartan Mahila Sanstha wish to do for
soldiers Pl guide us.
Yours,
Jyoti patkar.
From: SULAKSHAN SHARMA
plz contact NWWA C/o Foc-in-c(West) HQ WNC,Fort Mumbai---400001
Tele-- 022-22663030
Regards
sulakshan7@hotmail.com
From: Badrish K
I do not know about any NGO, but probably you can enquire at the Southern Command Hospital
in Kirkee Cantonment, Pune or the Paraplegic Rehab Center run by the Army. The Rehab center
is next to the Command Hospital in Kirkee, Pune.
regards,
badrish_k@hotmail.com
----- Original Message ----From: Vikas Goswami (LCA)
To: Karmayog.org
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:01 PM
Subject: RE: Helping soldiers' families
Hi Anurag
I am trying to find an NGO of this kind, once when I do that I will respond to you with details.
Thanks
Vikas Goswami
______________________________________________________________________________
_
Vikas Goswami - Lead CSR,
Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd.
5th FLoor, Eros Corporate Towers, Nehru Place, New Delhi - 110019.
Tel - 011-46502222, fax 01146502020, Email : vikasg@microsoft.com
From: plancom@nic.in
There is a link "NGO" on the site of the Planning
Commission<www.planningcommission.gov.in>ehere you can find requisite
information.
Naseem
C&I Division,Planning Commission,New Delhi
plancom@nic.in
From: D Barkataki
Dear Anurag Mittal,
For this we need to know
1. the amount of facilities offered to soldiers
2. List of such soldiers of a particular area
We can be a part of this process for the state of Assam
and can coordinate other areas of NE Region.
D.Barkataki
dbarkataki@hotmail.com
----- Original Message ----From: Kalyan S. Bose
To: Karmayog.org
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:40 PM
Subject: RE: Helping soldiers' families
No Anurag, I do not know of any NGO working in this field, but will try to find you the information.
Warm regards
Kalyan
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Ph # Dir. : +91 22 2272 2938 / Board : 2272 1233 - 4 X : 8740 / Cell : +91 98 203 21121
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----- Original Message ----From: Chetan Kothari
To: 'Karmayog.org'
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:40 AM
Subject: RE: Helping soldiers' families
Dear Anurag,
Even I want to help families of soldiers who have laid down their lives for our country. If you
come across any genuine NGO not connected with political parties, then please be in touch with
me.
Thanks
Chetan
PEOPLES COUNCIL OF EDUCATION
Dr. N. P. Chaubey
General Secretary
E-mail: info@karmayog.org
February 11, 2008
To
Sri Anurag Mittal
Sub: Helping Soldiers' families
Dear Anuragji,
Please refer to your letter dated Feb 09, 2008 expressing your desire to
help soldiers' families . There is a national body called Peoples Council of
Education with which I am associated. The Council is involved in the filed of
education and health. It may consider taking up the task of education of the
children of soldiers if appropriate support is available. Let me know details of
your proposal and your full address.
With warm regards,
Yours faithfully,
(N.P. Chaubey)
General Secretary
----- Original Message ----From: UNMIS-SECTCDR-MALAKAL
To: info@karmayog.org
Cc: UNMIS-PERSOFFR-MALAKAL
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: Helping soldiers' families
dear mr mittal,
its a very good thought.
not many n g o are working on this.
however i will put my staff to dig out something and will get back to u
rajesh -- pl spk
From: Jaya - IndusInd Bank
We wouldnt know of any specific organisation working towards the betterment of family members
of our soldiers. But you can always send your contribution to the Prime Ministers Relief Fund,
specifically mentioning the purpose of contribution.
glob@indusind.com
From: B.N. NAGPAL
I am familiar about one such organisation
AWWA (Army wives welfare association)
The association is usally headed by the wife of Army Chief.
http://awwa-india.org/awwa_journal.aspx
Regards,
Nagpal B.N.
bnnagpal@gmail.com
8.2.2008
Dear Mr Anurag,
I fully support your desire to help our valiant soldiers' families who have lost their sons
in the for the nation.
If you come across any group / persons who help such families then kinldy inform me too
as I too would like to do my bit in this cause.
May God bless you.
G R Vora
Ph - 09869195785
From: heads2you
You can contact , which is Indian Government Nodal Agency for this
purpose
Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA).
Secretary AWWA
Ceremonials and Welfare Directorate
Adjutant General Branch
Army Headquarters
DHQ Post Office
New Delhi - 110011
=========================================
Best Regards
Pradeep Pradhan
Phone : 022- 32506682 / 65144389
Cell :91.9323272361
E Mail : heads2you@vsnl.net
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From: Dharmender Sharma
Cc: sard@bol.net.in
Dear Anurag,
You can contact an NGO called Society for All Round Development (SARD), which works in this
area too. The contact person is Mr. Sudhir Bhatnagar and his email address is sard@bol.net.in
Sincerely,
Dharmender Sharma
dksrenu@hotmail.com
From: Vikas Akalwadi
Namaste,
Maybe this is relevant.
http://humanglory.org/HumanGlory/About_Us.html
“Swamiji runs a school for rural destitute children in Managoli, Bijapur District. This
School has secured 2nd place in national Yoga Competition held in Jabbalpur and has
100% results in SSLC. Children of Kargil martyr’s are given free education in this
school.”
They have many ashramas:
http://www.ramakrishna-ashrama.org/
Regards and thanks,
vikas
Response
From: Seema Kamdar
Wonderful proposal, Anurag.
There is a organisation for war widows and a couple of others that could help with their
addresses, etc. Unfortunately, I can offer little help but there is a journalist called Dr
Arunkumar Bhatt who specialises in defence reporting. If you like, you could get in touch
with him at the Hindu office in Mumbai on 2021099 or I could get his number for you.
I will be happy to help in any way I can.
All the very best,
Seema Kamdar
seemakamdar@gmail.com
Response 2
From: VANDANA CHOUHAN
Bharat Rakshak.com
www.bharat-rakshak.com
Response 1
From: C Uday Bhaskar
for AM
your initiative is welcome...
pl. contact me.....my name is uday bhaskar
retired commodore, indian navy and formerly with the idsa, new delhi
ub
98 106 21252
new delhi
cudayb@gmail.com