Network of NGOs — ‘Wada Na Todo Abhiyan’, ‘Save the Children’, ‘World Visions’ and ‘lEADS’ — sent around 44,000 postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on to push for greater vision on human development at international conferences that will decide the fate of humanity and give direction of human development policies after Millennium Development Goals (MDG) expires in 2015.
The Statewide postcard campaign was part of Action-2015 agenda for international leaders who will represent their countries on various platforms. The campaign was launched on May 5 in 24 districts of Jharkhand. The postcard will stress upon policies that upholds the principles of equality, a system that is just to all and where everyone is secured in all respects. The postcards made an appeal to the PM to ensure that compassionate attitude towards deprived sections of the society should guide any policy framework related to development.
“Gap between affluent and poor class is widening consistently whereas there is a need to reduce it. Therefore it is necessary to focus on distribution of assets in a right way,” said Convenor of Jharkhand ‘Wada Na Todo Abhiyan’, AK Singh. The group of NGOs expressed the Union Government must strongly take up real development issues from the country in three major upcoming international conferences-- Financing for Development to Commit Resources for SDGs scheduled to be called in July, UN General Assembly (September, New York), Climate Conference (December 2015) as the upcoming meetings would shape development polices for next 10-15 years.
The campaign also aims to address funding agencies-government and corporate to take interest in policy planning with emphasis on monitoring of budgetary allocation for various development projects. “Development issues for next 15 years have been kept in mind. The campaign seeks to convey the point to funding agencies that the money that they spent doesn’t becomes just an exercise on their part to save taxes,” said State head, Save the Children, Mahadev Hansda.