Fellowship: Saurabh Sharma

Project Brief: To train college and university students in the use of RTI to initiate campaigns and do advocacy on issues related to students.
Project Type: Fellowships (description)
Primary Focus: other (description)

Secondary Focus: girls

Area: Urban
Supporting Chapter Contact: Silicon Valley
Status: current / ongoing
Project Steward: Shaibal Dutta
Project Partner(s): Uday Gosain
Other Contacts: Amit Sharma
Project Address: , 405, F, Pocket II, Phase I,,Mayur Vihar,,Delhi,
Delhi  110091
Tel: 9101143042669
Stewarding Chapter: Silicon Valley
Jun 2024Silicon ValleyUSD 6240
Aug 2023Silicon ValleyUSD 5945
Dec 2022Silicon ValleyUSD 2770
Apr 2022Silicon ValleyUSD 2956
Oct 2021Silicon ValleyUSD 2828
May 2021Silicon ValleyUSD 2884
Sep 2020Silicon ValleyUSD 2722
May 2020Silicon ValleyUSD 2646
Oct 2019Silicon ValleyUSD 1699
Jul 2019Silicon ValleyUSD 3498
Oct 2018Silicon ValleyUSD 5048
Dec 2017Silicon ValleyUSD 5701
Apr 2016Silicon ValleyUSD 5499
Mar 2016Silicon ValleyUSD 3634
Nov 2014Silicon ValleyUSD 3910
Jan 2014Silicon ValleyUSD 3915
Jul 2012Silicon ValleyUSD 3273
Nov 2011Silicon ValleyUSD 1800
Mar 2011Silicon ValleyUSD 2000
Aug 2010Silicon ValleyUSD 1940
Feb 2010Silicon ValleyUSD 1960
Jun 2009Silicon ValleyUSD 1915
Dec 2008Silicon ValleyUSD 1840
Jan 2008Silicon ValleyUSD 2346
Sep 2007Silicon ValleyUSD 2250
Dec 2007Silicon ValleyUSD 4500

Total = $85719

Saurabh is an Asha Fellow identified for his work in the Right to Information movement. He has been organizing college students and youth to use RTI as a tool to take up socially relevant issues and initiate systemic chances. Through workshops, seminars, campaigns etc they have trained and energized students in the Delhi, Noida area and have also trained citizen groups in West Bengal, Orissa and Bihar. AfE supports their work by providing a fellowship.
To train college and university students in the use of RTI to address issues directly affecting them. To initiate campaigns and do advocacy on issues related to students. The immediate task is the use of RTI in the Delhi PWD to improve roads, curb corruption and involve IIT Delhi students in the technical evaluation and inspection of the roads.
JOSH (Joint Operation for Social Help) was conceived as an idea, a movement, a philosophy, and a way of life. It aims to provide youth of present generation a platform that can provide opportunities for political, social and environmental activism.

Objectives of JOSH

To mobilise youth on matters relating to national and international importance. This also includes creating sensitivity on important social, economic and environmental issues.

To create a network of universities, colleges and other youth groups and to develop linkages among them.

To develop better inter-linkages among students, young professionals and youth from slums, such that all come together on a single platform for sharing, learning, and acting for change.

To promote use of the Right to Information Act 2005, among students and communities, as a tool of strengthening democracy and to promote transparency and accountability in various areas of public importance.

To provide opportunities to youth of interaction with eminent personalities from various walks of life and to provide them with behavioural experiences with an aim to bring out there enabling capacities.
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