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Invitation to Third International Conference of India Development Coalition of America, January 10, 2007 at IIT-Delhi Dear NGO Leaders and Enlightened Citizens,
It gives me immense pleasure to invite you to the Third International Conference by India Development Coalition of America (IDCA), to be held at IIT Delhi on January 10, 2007. The conference is organized to promote networking, learning together and working together to transform India from the grassroots. For your information and convenience, I am attaching documents about IDCA, and the Conference. The conference will start at 9 AM with registration. The Inaugural session will start at 10 AM. In the afternoon we will have 4 parallel Sessions from 2 PM. The concluding session will be held from 5 PM. Delicious and healthy Lunch and dinner will be served along with tea/coffee during the day.
The conference theme is:
Empowering Grassroots for Sustainable Development in India
We are planning parallel sessions on four basic human needs:
Water, Education, Healthcare, and Sustainable Livelihoods.
Additional topics may include: Governance, Agriculture, Energy, and Environment.
Invited Keynote speakers include:
HH Swami Ramdevji, Honorable, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India, Shri Nanaji Deshmukh, Deendayal Research Institute, HH Maharana Arvind Singh, Mewar, Arvind Kejriwal, Parivartan, Dr. Devinder Sharma, Dr. Arun Shourie, MP, Professor P. V. Indiresan, Sunita Narayan, CSE, Dr. Gulab Kothari, Mrs. Sudha Murty, Mr. Bhaskar Save, and Dr. Vandana Shiva. We are inviting NGOs from all parts of the country and hope many will be able to participate to network, collaborate, and develop good friendships based on common concerns and hopes. We are also inviting NRIs/PIOs who are planning to come for Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas in Delhi from January 7-9 or visiting for social or business reasons during that time of the year. We are hoping to attract about 50-100 NRIs from various parts of the world. We have plans to come with a souvenir of the conference, and we hope to share this with the NRIs at Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas to spread the message. We want to promote partnerships between governments, private sector, NGOs, NRIs and communities to make a real difference in the lives of the people.
IDCA was started in Chicago in 2004, after a 2003 conference of 15 NGOs representing a diverse group of people and activities.
The Mission of IDCA is to Empower NPOs/NGOs and individuals to help accelerate sustainable development in India.
Its is an Illinois Not-for-profit, 501(c) (3)) Corporation. It is a membership organization of NPOs and individuals. We are working on developing 5-10 chapters around US and 5 chapters outside US and India.
Since 2003, we have organized 5 conferences in Chicago and 3 in India, one each in Delhi, Hyderabad and Jaipur. These events were well received by the NGO leaders who participated and it has helped them to build new friendships and cooperation to better do their work.
We have been organizing seminars and forums in Chicago on Water, Education, Healthcare, Livelihoods, Environment, and Governance.
We also organized meetings in New York and Washington DC. Most recently, we organized our Fourth International Conference, and International Water Summit in Chicago. These meetings were well attended by delegates from India, Canada and many parts of US. We are now developing several projects to help solve some of the pressing problems in various areas of India. We have established some contacts with NRIs in UK, Dubai, singapore, Australia, and Malasiya. We have been visiting NGOs and learning about their work and needs and sharing with the NRI community in the US and elsewhere to seek their support.
In India we have organized meetings of several NGOs IIT-Delhi with cooperation of the Faculty of the Center for Rural Development and Technology. In our Delhi conference in 2004, we had the pleasure of inviting Professor Indiresan, who shared his ideas about the concept of Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Area (PURA) project. Following this we organized a Learning Journey to visit NGOs in Haryana and Rajasthan, and Madhay Pradesh. We have several IIT alumnae also working with us.
Personally, I have been supporting, Shikshantar Andolan (www.swaraj.org/shikshantar) , an Education and Development Think Tank, based in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Its Mission is to Rethink and Transform Education and Developmet for the good of the masses. It was started by our son Manish Jain (Ed. M., Harvard 94') and his wife Vidhi in 1998, barely a year after their wedding in India. Our daughter Shilpa Jain (A. B. Harvard, 98') joined them in 1999. It is funded by The Swaraj Foundation, a US based 501(c)(3) Not for profit Corporation also founded in 1998 in Illinois. You will be happy to know that Shikshantar is supporting organic farming. They have published a small booklet in Mewari, "Jaso Anna Vaso Manna" to promote organic farming. They have published extensively in Hindi and English, and most publications can be downloaded for free from their website.
If you would like to present the work you are doing, please send 1/2 page bio-data and 1 page summary of what you want to share (both in single space, 10 pt. Arial type) at; info@idc-america.org by November 22. You will hear back from us by November 28 and the presentation will be due by December 5. We will provide our input by December 15 and final version will requird by December 22.
Looking forward for a favorable response by November 22.
With very warm regards,
Sincerely,
Mohan l jain
Mohan L. Jain, Ph.D.
President, India Development Coalition of America www.idc-america.org m.jain@idc-america.org "Working Together to Accelerate Sustainable Development in India" 630-303-9592 (O) 630-325-7571 (R) “No matter how rich we are, as long as we have no compassion,
If you want to remove poverty, share with the poor.---Mother Teresa
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