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9th ASER Report highlights……..(2)

Posted on February 17, 2014 by SRRF

Bad news of falling standards of education – Statewise status: Class III-V – Students who can read text of Class I All India 55% TOP 5 BOTTOM 5 Mizoram 80.2% Madhya Pradesh 38.1% Meghalaya 80.0% Jharkhand 45.4% Manipur 78.7% Assam … Continue reading →

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9th ASER Report highlights

Posted on February 14, 2014 by SRRF

Recently 9th Annual Survey Education Report report conducted by Pratham has been released. It has several important and interesting findings. SRRF Dialogue would undertake a series of releases on the important findings of the report. First the good news: Over … Continue reading →

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FCRA Prior Permission – Need a Clarification

Posted on February 7, 2014 by SRRF

We have an National Outreach Programme Core team project to fund the Core team @ Rs 31 lakhs pa initially.  We asked the donor in May 2013 for a 5 year MOU but sent him a one year budget of … Continue reading →

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Liberal interpretation of investment by Trust

Posted on January 30, 2014 by SRRF

As many of us would be aware that a Trust’s income as per S. 11 is exempt if it obtains S. 12A exemption certificate. However this does not cover capital gain and Trust is subject to taxation on the same. … Continue reading →

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Neo Natal Infant Mortality Rate major contributor to IMR

Posted on January 27, 2014 by SRRF

India’s Infant Mortality Rate (no. of children dying within one year of birth) has come down significantly to 44 per 1000 (compared to 63 in 2001). Major contributor, almost 70%, to IMR is neonatal mortality rate (NMR), i.e. children dying … Continue reading →

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Time-bound service

Posted on January 25, 2014 by SRRF

CBDT has issued instructions to all Chief Commissioners and Director Generals of Income Tax that wherever applications are made for no TDS deduction or TDS deduction at a lower rate under S. 197, these must be disposed off within 30 … Continue reading →

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CENSUS Results for Delhi

Posted on January 22, 2014 by SRRF

As per Census 2011 Delhi’s population is 16.8 million (2001: 13.85 million). Male: 53.53%, Female 46.47%, children (0-6) 12%. Total number of households 3.44 million (Urban 97.5% Rural : 2.5%). It is the most densely populated city, with 11320 persons … Continue reading →

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Financial inclusion – making progress but still miles to go

Posted on January 20, 2014 by SRRF

Crisil, the rating agency has developed a financial inclusion index for India’s districts. The Index is called INCLUSIX. It is a ready reckoner on how the states and the districts have performed on financial inclusion. It measures achievements on basically … Continue reading →

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Introspection

Posted on January 14, 2014 by SRRF

Dear Friends, We all started as Voluntary Organisation and are Registered as Public Society or Trust, as the case may be. We got NGOised in the recent three decades- thanks to World Bank. It is true that most of US … Continue reading →

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Use of FC funds for radio stations

Posted on January 10, 2014 by SRRF

Dear Members, Request you to kindly enlighten me on whether radio stations can avail FC funds?  Also can FC funds be used to open and operate FM/Radio i stations by NGOs? Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated. Regards Raphael … Continue reading →

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