Himanshu Kumar Sinha – Founder – Technogyan Foundation Subject
Mr. Himanshu Kumar Sinha converse about Technogyan Foundation
We want equality in our society, instead of these divisions on caste, class, gender, race or religion. We work mainly for the most downtrodden in these divisions. For example in Dalits too, Mausor community is the considered to be the lowest in our Country. The condition of this community is terrible. Our effort is to help out all the deprived and depressed backward classes regarding their health, education, livelihood, rehabilitation, especially to inculcate the leadership qualities in the women in order to empower them and nurturing the conditions for enhanced access of target group to services and entitlements from the governments. These are main activities
We have been working in Jharhand state since 2002, with registered under trust act and Now we have again registered under Society Act XXI, 1860 for all over India in 2009. Its offices are many places in Jharkhand along with their volunteers. We train these volunteers. We make the volunteers feel that they are the owners of the organization. This instills a feeling of working among them.

ORGANISATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Locating the developmental anomaly in structural causes such as control/ownership of and access  Wto resources; economic, political and social structures; ideological factors (habits, beliefs, cultural preferences); and insufficient awareness and knowledge; Technogyan Foundation stands committed to the effective empowerment of the marginalised people. It lays a strategic focus on the element of local action, treating it as an essential part of the development process involving changes, most important of which is, in the attitude and action of the marginalised who become participants in the process itself. Rural development is viewed as a complex process involving continuous reorientation and adaptation of traditional values , practices and institutions in order to facilitate appropriate interventions/technologies to enhance quality of life and welfare, and the consequent bargaining /negotiating powers, of the disenfranchised and the disempowered.

VISION
The organisation envisions the establishment of an egalitarian society devoid of any kind of discrimination and exploitation based on caste, class, gender, race or religion: a society that would permit the collective flowering of human potential for humane ends.

MISSION
The organisation’s mission is to work for the effective empowerment of the socially, economically and politically marginalised people through their conscientisation, mobilisation and organisation around issues impinging on their development to ensure their equitable participation in the societal mainstream.

STRATEGY
The methodology adopted by the organisation for the attainment of its goal is one of a harmonious blend of the twin approaches of activism/struggle and development. The way to effective empowerment is one hinging on and oriented towards evolving autonomous community based organisations endowed with capabilities required for the actualisation of a spirit of self-determination and self-reliance. Further community based organisations have strategic networking relationships in all the target areas under the banner of Technogyan Foundation, a frontal organisation with an avowed aim to facilitate issue based interventions from time to time. Strategies deployed for mobilisation involve intensive animation inputs at the village level, periodic larger meets on entitlements related issues and mass contact programmes through `Padyatras”. Protest strategies involve petitioning, demonstrations, sit ins and legal redressal.

OBJECTIVES
Within its developmental perspective, the organisation is committed to the following objectives:
Facilitate the social and economic development of the deprived sections in rural areas with special emphasis on the dalits, the scheduled tribes, women, minorities and the depressed backward classes
Create amidst them an awareness of their physical, social, economic, legal and political environment to induce an attitude of meaningful and constructive action on their part
Enable the empowerment of its target population through organizing them as self-defining groups with a strong sense of self-identity and with capacities to act as a pressure group.
Promote gender equity
Fostering conditions for enhanced access of target group to services and entitlements from the governments
Utilise all the project based interventions as an opportunity for affecting policy level choices at the government level
Network with all like minded groups committed to the cause of empowerment of the poor through people’s action
To ensure human rights of its target group
To promote pro-poor governance.
To strengthen the disaster coping mechanisms of the targeted communities

Registration Details

Management
Himanshu Kumar Sinha
Founder
Technogyan Foundation
Team

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Staff strength
The Technogyan Foundation team presently consists of 14 full time staff and 31 part time staff backed up.

PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES
The programmes and activities being run in the intervention villages include:

• Health Education and promotion of primary health care with an emphasis on reproductive and child health, Water, Sanitation and hygiene.
• Non Formal Education and Adult Education with a focus on socially relevant education and an equal opportunity of participation for the girl child.
• Income Generation with emphasis on facilitating control over and access to land and water based productive resources, ensuring just wages, enabling access to the governmental employment generation programmes. Additionally promote complementary income generating initiatives through thrift and credit initiatives
• Legal Assistance and Education
• Environmental Awareness and mobilisation on the ecologically sensitive issues of the project area
• Capacity Building of Organisational Staff
• Training of social animators and community level leaders
• Training in Panchayti Raj
• Rehabilitation of child labour
• Consciousness raising on relief and rehabilitation related issues coupled with carrying out relief and rehabilitative interventions and running pilots on disaster preparedness.
• Publication of newsletter and information dissemination through thematic publications on issues of relevance to the development of the marginalized
• Computer Training
• Para Medical Training