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New Delhi: PRAHAR (Public Response Against Helplessness and Action for Redressal) a Delhi based NGO dedicated towards finding solutions for problems of the helpless, today urged the Government to actively use unutilized DMF (District Mineral Foundation) funds and accelerate relief efforts towards protection of lives and livelihoods for the COVID affected communities across states. This is part of the NGO’s ‘National Movement for Livelihood Resurrection and Self Employment’ in the wake of COVID 19 crisis launched recently. According to the data available on the Ministry of Mines website a sum of Rs. 35,925 crores have been collected in DMF funds in total as on January 31, 2020 out of which only 35% or Rs. 12,414 crores have been spent so far, leaving behind a corpus of Rs. 23510 crores to be spent. On March 26, 2020, the Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman during an announcement urged DMF funds to be used to supplement and augment healthcare facilities, screening and testing requirements and any other resources that might be required by the state governments. However, after 3 weeks only negligible progress has been made with few districts making some discretionary use of these funds. This is because of lack of clarity on the modalities of use of these funds for the purpose of saving lives and resurrecting livelihoods in the aftermath of the COVID outbreak. Some mineral states like Goa have already been under deep economic crisis because of the judicial interpretation le...

This issue was raised once again in the monsoon parliamentary session. This time, the expectancy of BGMI and its involvement in a homicide case were mentioned. Yesterday, BGMI was removed from BGMI ban confirmed today as MeitY has banned this app under ‘Prahar’ mentioned that BGMI was no different than PUBG and Tencent was still controlling the app in the background.

PRAHAR, a non-profit organisation working in the area of socio-economic development, has thanked the Centre for getting Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) removed from the App Store and Play Store. Published by KRAFTON, BGMI is said to be the rebranded version of banned Chinese game PUBG Mobile. The Indian government banned PUBG in 2020 along with 117 other apps. Abhay Mishra, president, PRAHAR said “Since February this year, we have raised the fact that BGMI and the banned PUBG are one and the same. In the so-called new avatar, the BGMI was no different from erstwhile PUBG with Tencent still controlling it in the background. We are grateful to the Government of India for taking this step in the interest of security and sovereignty of India” In February 2022, PRAHAR had written to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to block the Chinese game app BGMI. The NGO said in the letter that the mobile game “poses a threat to the sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of the state, and public order.” “We are clarifying how BGMI was removed from Google Play store and the App store and will let you know once we get specific information,” said a KRAFTON’s spokesperson. Registered users BGMI is said to have surpassed 100 million registered users in July 2022. In the last year, KRAFTON, Inc. invested nearly $100 million in Indian startups across esports, and entertainment startups such as Loco, NODWIN, ...

Reforms in Higher Education In the recent years, the issue of IIM Fee Cut has dominated the Indian political and academic scene and has been widely covered in the media. Amidst it all, the implications of the IIM Fee Cut issue for the middle classes in India are unfortunately being ignored and not getting their coverage. PRAHAR has taken upon itself the mandate to bring to centre-stage the public opinion of the student community for whom all policies of higher education are created. PRAHAR’s public debate is based on extensive surveys conducted among the middle-class student groups in metro as well as non-metro towns of India. Public Opinion on Higher Education Reforms The middle class students, and their parents, unanimously agree that higher education is the means to increased economic prosperity, and perhaps the only means for common people, the millions of engineers, who are riding the surge of India as an IT power are a testimony to this. Highlights of the opinion poll conducted by PRAHAR across Delhi, Kolkatta, Lucknow and Chandigarh: • 71% of respondents consider accessibility to institutions of higher education major problem adversely affects career options for students • 58% said that higher fees were a major deterrent for the middle-class students • 70% said the IIM fee cut was a government move in the right direction • 85% opted for government institutions over private institutions, in whom they had greater faith In an Aaj Tak-Dainik Bhaskar-Indian Today-ORG-MAR...

2 nd June, 2009 — one of the headlines in The Hindu read “Water squabbles claim one more life.” From where will the water come for drinking, bathing, cooking, etc if there is no water left fit for that? How will the government manage to provide for the basic water needs of its citizens when there will be no clean water left? We all know very well that water pollution is decreasing our chances of survival on quotidian basis, that paucity of water is going to affect us the hardest, that its already too late to start making amends for our wrongs, and still the authorities are busy in their slumber snores to do something to check the rapid rate of water pollution. River Yamuna is the primary source of water for Delhiites and still the speed of its pollution is not ceasing. A report on the pollution of the river showed that the effluents flowing into the river Yamuna comprise of municipal and industrial wastes mainly. The low self-purification capacity of the river Yamuna is due to the want of minimum flow in the river and discharge of heavy municipal and industrial pollution load emanating from Delhi. Even though Delhi constitutes only 2% of the catchments of the Yamuna basin, yet the area contributes about 80% of the pollution load. There are 16 drains which discharge treated and untreated waste water/sewage into the Yamuna. The municipal sector is the main source of water pollution in terms of volume. Approximately 1,900 mld of waste water is discharged from the municipal se...

About Prahar PRAHAR (pronounced as ‘प्रहर’ which means ‘gatekeeper’) stands for Public Response Against Helplessness and Action for Redressal. As evident from the name itself, PRAHAR attempts to address ‘Helplessness’ which citizens experience, as they struggle with their everyday lives and may find themselves unable to address all alone. Started in 1995, by a group of ex-armed forces personnel, PRAHAR is a non-commercial organization dedicated towards finding solutions for problems of the helpless. We are particularly focused on issues with larger public ramifications- which if not addressed, can have far reaching consequences affecting masses and larger sections of the population. Vision PRAHAR visions to connect with the society and follow the pulse of the nation. Helplessness could be triggered by rapidly changing environment, sudden unemployment, unexpected medical crisis, cheating, exploitation at the hands of those in a monopolistic or opportune position, or regulatory oversights. A key character of helplessness is that they cannot always be fought alone. PRAHAR collaborates with supporters, influencers, donors and like-minded people to provide direction, voice and resources to seek solutions to these problems. In operation for the last 6 years, PRAHAR has undertaken campaigns against several issues of public interest, converting them into national level actionable items.

Street Vendors in India: Children of a Lesser God? As the Mumbai municipal truck turns into the crowded city by-lane, street vendors begin to run helter-skelter. Panic is palpably in the air as tarpaulin covers are hurriedly pulled over legitimate wares, modest attempts at display on wooden carts are taken apart in the blink of an eye, and baskets of vendors’ goods are handed furtively into the permanent shops that line the pavement. For hawkers and street vendors, unexpected visits from municipal authorities are akin to a goonda raid. They create the same terror and usually have the same consequences: harsh punitive measures and open extortion. But it is indisputable that India needs her 20 million street vendors. They are the most visible and ubiquitous segment of the country’s vast informal sector. At the most conservative estimate, they generate an astounding Rs 87,600 crore of liquid cash every year, and the amount they contribute feeds 9.4 million Indians annually. Evidently though, their contribution to the national economy is not significant enough for them to be treated with the dignity they deserve. Macroeconomic reasons apart, street vendors are indispensable to the urban Indian population. Reaching a widely dispersed clientele, serving thrice as many customers as shops in low-income neighborhoods, selling essential goods at 10-30% less, and operating flexible hours to suit their consumers, street vendors are integral to India’s socio-cultural life. The need to ...