Section - XXII - The People who are involved now

This section is to give the reader of this Blog a fair idea of the sort of people who are / have been involved with this initiative for the present in Karnataka

• Prof Datye: This group is guided by this pioneer in Water Management and sustainable practices who was with the Central Water Commission and other central government departments

• Mr. Renke: A nomadic tribal in Maharashtra who have inspired all of us by showing that agriculture is sustainable even in a dry place like Solapur

• Dr. Vatsala: An IISc professor who took voluntary retirement from the institute to give technical guidance on this initiative

• Srinath Shastry – a Software Engineer with HP (one of the first volunteers of AID Boston) who negotiated with his company to work part time on alternative / renewable energy as his focus

• Prasanna Saligram is working on the whole issue of Social Mobilisation for this initiative

• Satish Natarajan is a Software Engineer with Wipro earlier but now full time into Organic Farming on Kanakapura Road. He is part of the Organic Growers' cooperative in Karnataka called Sahaja Samrudhdha

• Krishna Prasad, those who know Green Foundation, know him very well. He is also part of "Sahaja Samrudhdha" and helping this initiative with crop management and allied issues

• Srinivas Badiger - A Hydrologist / irrigation expert who works with Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) is helping us out with the water / hydrology / irrigation issues

• CWC - Concern for Working Children is a community based organisation training children on the various vocational activities. They prepare children / youth on artisanship etc.,

• Ms. Asha Dinesh and Mr. Dinesh - They are from the Ashraya Hasta Trust who have been having the patience to support the processes since the past 2-3 years.

• Mr. Ramamurthy of the Paranga Charitable Trust has been supporting us with financial logistics. He has a school called Paranga High School in Torepalya which we are hoping to use as a place to try out the Education at Workplace agenda of this initiative

• Kamesh Reddy and Anmol Sethy, volunteers of AID Bangalore have recently got initiated into this initiative and have shown interest to continue to work part time on this. They would be concentrating on creation of database, multimedia and other ICT support to this initiative