Author RSSRajiv Gandhi saksharta Pariyojna, a milestone in educating India
RGCT's intervention in this area is Rajiv Gandhi Saksharta Pariyojana which covers over 150,000 children under the largest non-government literacy programme currently run in any district of India.
Rajiv Gandhi Saksharta Pariyojana
The programme's visi...
Healthcare initiatives under Rajiv Gandhi charitable trust (RGCT)
RGCT's healthcare interventions include the Indira Gandhi Eye Hospital & Research Centres, and the Rajiv Gandhi Arogya Yojna.
Indira Gandhi Eye Hospital & Research Centres
Inadequate development of human resources and infrastructure in UP has resulted i...
Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojna(rgmvp)- commited to build the institutions of tomorrow
The first step in the building of institutions of the poor is the formation of the women's SHGs through the process of social mobilisation. RGMVP provides facilitation support and an enabling environment that ensures that every SHG gains access to microfi...
Training Centres for Capacity Building under Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojna(rgmvp)
RGMVP runs five permanent training centres located at Jais, Jagatpur, Lalganj, Deeh- Raebareli and Munshiganj-Sultanpur. These centres impart skill-based training to poor women at nominal or no cost, so that they can find new livelihoods or enhance existi...
Community based environment initiative by RGMVP
Thousand of homes across the Programme area still use non-renewable sources such as kerosene, coal or wood for lighting purposes. The harmful impacts of this on health are many -- breathing problems due to smoke and eye sight weakness due to dim light - a...
RGMVP’s initiative in the field of education commendable
Education is a cause for concern in the RGMVP's Programme area. State-wide, according to the 2001 census, the literacy rate is 57.36 percent while the female literacy rate is 42.2 percent. These figures are far lower for rural areas in which RGMVP works. ...
Innovative livelihood techniques being used at Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojna(RGMVP)
RGMVP's Livelihood Enhancement initiative is built on the Micro Credit Planning (MCP) process through which each rural household can plan its finances through a participatory method based on the following principles:
1. Income must increase
2. Expenditu...
An exemplary example of Community based health care – RGMVP
RGMVP works in an area of Uttar Pradesh that has some of the lowest Human Development Indices in the country. There is lack of health education, prevalence of chronic diseases like tuberculosis, diarrhoea, etc, and reproductive health problems such as hig...
Raebareli on the path to progress, thanking Gandhi family
Reabareli is witnessing all round development under the guidance of Congress President Sonia Gandhi. It is not limited to roads and educational institutes only. There are numerous projects running in this area, which are making huge impact on the lifestyl...
Raebareli thanks Sonia Gandhi for the development
In last five years, there had been historical change in the quality of road running through the area. The condition of roads in Uttar Pradesh is worst and it was same in Raebareli. However, due to the efforts of Congress President there has been reasonabl...
The Gandhi’s and the Raebareli : a continuity maintained by Sonia Gandhi
Though, Sonia Gandhi actively involved herself with public life after her husband Rajiv Gandhi became Congress General Secretary and contesed election from Amethi parliamentary segment in 1981.
When bodygourds of Indira Gandhi opened fire at her, lead...
The Gandhi’s and the Raebareli : The era of Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi : Indira Gandhi,the iron lady and the first ever female Prime Minister of India till date, was born in the hosue of Nehrus on November 19, 1917 in Allahabad.Her fatther Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru was one of the prominet leaders o...
The Gandhi’s and the Raebareli : The era of Feroze Gandhi
Feroze Gandhi was an Visionary politician and journalist. Feroze Gandhi was born in Mumbai on 12 August 1912 into a Parsi family. He was the son of Jehangir Gandhi and Ratimai.
He moved to Allahabad early on and attended the City Anglo-Vernacular High S...
Sonia Gandhi development initiatives in Amethi
The Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (RGCT) was established in 2002 to commemorate and take forward the vision of Rajiv Gandhi - India's former Prime Minister - for the country. The Trust, a registered, non-profit institution, was set up by his wife Mrs Soni...
Kerala is a state with many timeless traditions: Sonia Gandhi
August 8, 2009, Alleppey(Kerala)
Congress President Sonia Gandhi was in Kerala to inaugurate 57th Nehru Trophy boat race ceremony. While addressing peope and numerous contenstants of the boat race in Alleppey(Kerala), she praised the composite culutre...