Social Interventions...
The interventions made by NGOs and CSRs are widely discussed these days as a solution for issues which are inherent in our system. Our governmental machinery lacks certain essential features and most of these NGOs concentrates on areas which are abandoned by the respective governments. It is not a danger and civil society participation is really good and inevitable in our system 1. Until the participation of these players are not resulting in the withdrawal of state from welfare activities and 2. If they are not misusing the feelings of those so-called abandoned, marginalized people or/and if they are not implementing indirectly the vested interests of influential groups/foreign powers. All other issues can be brought under these two wide categories. The two conditions mentioned above is unavoidable in a Democracy and if an intervention fails to comply with these conditions; it is in fact undermining Democracy. I would like to talk about a panchayat called Kizhakkam