Orphanage visit- Bal Sahyog

 To celebrate the spirit of love and happiness, the Net Impact Delhi University team visited Bal Sahyog Orphanage, Connaught Place during the diwali week. It is a Children’s World, serving thousands of children in its Home and Contact Centres in the slums of Delhi by providing nutrition, health care and protection. It provides homes, open shelter, middle school and Vocational Training through NIOS.

 

“Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they’re not real before you hold them in your arms, but once you do, everything changes.”

                                                                                                               -David Platt

A DAY WELL SPENT

The members involved the children into various fun activities. Painting competitions, talent hunt and storytelling sessions were organized for them. In the interactive sessions with the children, they told us their stories, their daily routine, their ambitions and much more. There was a lot of singing and dancing to spread happiness to the young children. The members also brought sweets and other stationery material and even played badminton and cricket with the children. The visit surely left the young children with a priceless sparkle in their eyes. The members of Net Impact definitely succeeded in making their day happy and cheerful.

After visiting the orphanage and interacting with these children, you start appreciating the little things in life when you see people who don’t have them. Only at such times do you tide over the insignificant and immaterial things and appreciate the bigger picture. We cannot do all the great things for these children but we can do small things with great love and bring a smile on the faces of these little humans. Our very purpose of visiting the place was to leave a little love and happiness and I can assure you that our purpose was fulfilled. 

-THANK YOU

WRITTEN BY- SAKSHI BANSAL

CURATED BY- POOJAN SEHGAL
                                                

Learn the secrets to startup success 

Setting up a business startup is not a difficult task these days. It doesn’t require a big working space, all you need is a dedicated team of members that can meet or discuss its strategies and plan in a café or at home or in a small room or anywhere it wants.  

It’s correct to say that, the next Bill Gates will not build an operating system and the next Mark Zuckerberg will not create a new social network. So this gives us a message that copying is not a shortcut to success, it will not help you to achieve your dreams. You need to think innovative, something different and out of the box. 

Always Remember: 

• The biggest leaps in progress are vertical, not horizontal. 

• Monopolies are good for both business and society. 

• Founders need a vision to take their business to a next platform. 

“Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.” 

What’s important in a startup is to start small and expand slowly in a focused effort. Just like in any career or study, it is not necessary to have a diverse curriculum but to be superior in a limited set of things. Every company needs to lay a solid foundation to survive in the long run. So when you start out on the long road of building up a business, the first days are absolutely crucial. 

The key message: A startup can survive by making incremental improvements to existing products and services, but it will only really become a giant if it can get high-profit margins. It is hard to say what the future will look like when even the most farsighted founders can’t look more than 20-30 years ahead. We can’t take for granted that the future will be better, and it means that we need to start changing the today. We need to go from zero to one to infinity.

AUTHOR'S PROFILE- 

WRITTEN BY - JASKIRAT SINGH SAHNI

CURATED BY- POOJAN SEHGAL

GENDER EQUALITY IN A WORKPLACE

Gender equality has been a trending topic of today’s world but its solutions are still unknown to many. This issue is often talked about but it still remains isolated in the world where opportunities are taking birth every second, without defining whether it is meant for a man or a woman.

 A Pew Research Center study revealed that close to 50 percent of entry-level employees are women, but women hold only 17 percent of the senior most jobs.  This is not really a great advancement compared to the last survey conducted in 2012, when that number was 16 percent. Hence, it is imperative that this issue is still a matter of discussion.

Your Gender Doesn't Define Your Capability

The question arises, what really is the practice of gender bias at the workplace? Well, inequality in gender pay, inadequate recruitment of women at the workplace, and of course, the mentality of the society on the role of a working woman are some of the many examples observed in our country. In fact, according to the research of the World Economic Forum (WEF), India is nowhere even close to the top 20 countries with equal gender pay. If we want to change it, the people of our society have to start thinking about gender bias as a material issue.

 Is there a way out? Yes, there is! The first and foremost being the promotion of gender equality through training and education. The management personnel should be made aware of the gender bias going on in the organisation. Not only this, increasing the recruitment of female employees is another effective solution. Another point of consideration is the act of showcasing the successful women of the companies as it will not only be a reflection of women solidarity at the workplace but also a source of encouragement for junior female employees to work hard. Another measure is to establish a policy that ensures equal compensation for men and women performing the same task. Beyond equal pay for equal work, the policy should also ensure that both genders are treated equally in terms of other aspects such as recruitment, training, hiring and promotion.

There are many solutions to the gender bias in a workplace

The solutions to this issue do not reach an end point here. There is yet another solution for this problem, that is, the implementation of quota system for women. India is truly a country for the reserved and not the deserved. The quota system has helped so many undeserving citizens get decent jobs in the country. But if the country's government really wishes to overcome the problem of gender bias then why can’t it introduce quotas for women? If the quotas can be introduced to those who hang around in expensive cars and live in lavish homes but pretend to be helpless in front of the government then they can surely be introduced for the women who fight for their rights every day.  In today’s time there cannot be a better answer to the issue of gender inequality than the introduction of quota system for women. This can increase the recruitment of female employees in an organisation, act as a relief for young girls with aspirations and improve the overall status of women in a workplace.

In the end all I would like to say that the women of our country are like flowers of a plant, all they need to bloom is adequate manure and sunlight in the form of support and opportunities.

AUTHOR'S PROFILE-

WRITTEN BY- PRABHASIS SINGH

CURATED BY- POOJAN SEHGAL

ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed unless it is faced. Living in a dynamic and constantly burning socio-economic environment gives us a hundred issues to ponder upon, but seldom a possibility to put forth our views.

Keeping this in mind, Net Impact Delhi University provided an opportunity to prove your wordsmithery by organising an Online Essay Writing Competition.

Top three writings were awarded a certificate from Net Impact and their entries were posted on the Facebook page.

The topics of the competition were as follows:
1. Large corporations tend to violate human rights and get away with it. What can be done to ensure the protection of the victimized individual?
2. Has media in India, presented biased views, if so how has this affected general public’s opinion?
3. Economic survey 2016 - 17 points to sluggish employment growth. What skill development initiatives can bring Indian man force competitiveness to Global levels?

Multiple entries per person were allowed and the last date of submission was 10th June.

The winners of the same were as follows:

First Position: Krishanu Ranwan, New College, University of Toronto
Essay link: http://net-impact-delhi-university.blogspot.com/2018/06/essay-writing-competition-first-position.html

Second Position: Harsimran Kaur, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, University of Delhi
Essay link: http://net-impact-delhi-university.blogspot.com/2018/06/essay-writing-competition-second.html

Third Position: Udayveer Singh, Tiny Tots School
Essay link: http://net-impact-delhi-university.blogspot.com/2018/06/essay-writing-competition-third-position.html

Our heartiest congratulations to all the winners!


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ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION - THIRD POSITION

Large corporations tend to violate human rights and get away with it. What can be done to ensure the protection of the victimized individual?

INHUMANE INC. 

Imagine having a tiny group of people who will follow all your commands, will work all the hours you want, won’t take leave until its parts are broken and all of this in return of only a small maintenance fee. Sounds like the future with Robot workers? This is the harsh reality of many labours working for multinational corporations in the present day.

With no possible way to detect such violations and with no sets of specified working conditions, the large corporations around the nation are open to using human labour at their will with no one to question them and only the fellows who are in desperate need of money to provide shreds of evidence against them.

This blackhole for workers is a clear violation of human rights at so many levels and still will be left unnoticed by everyone who can take an action. These victims are ignored by the local public; what can they expect from the people at the top.

The way to kill this mammoth of a problem are the arrows of humanity and reporting such problems to everyone who will listen. And what will be better is the creation of a panel for humanity just like there’s for the care of the customers, only this time, focusing on the people working hard to make the products these customers get and sooner or later, every inhumane practice in workplace will have to bow down to the power of rights.

By Udayveer Singh
Tiny Tots School

ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION - SECOND POSITION

Large corporations tend to violate human rights and get away with it. What can be done to ensure the protection of the victimized individual?

Large corporates take the privilege of exploiting their workers and earning profits from them. In China, the working conditions in the manufacturing plant of various big corporates are too bad. The workers work like machines under very extreme working conditions and get wages not equal to minimum wages. Is it not a right of a worker to get what they deserve after putting so much hard work?

In case of Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh, even after severe cracks on the walls & continuous warnings, the building was used for manufacturing garments for some big brands like Benetton, Walmart, Mango etc. On Apr.24.2013, the building collapsed making it the deadliest garment-factory accident in history. 1134 people died & approximately 2500 were injured due to collapse.

 The question is who is responsible for this? Only the manufacturer? Is it not the responsibility of corporates also to check the working conditions before giving the contract? Corporates should consider worker safety as their first priority. It is not the right of every worker to have a safe and secure working environment? Although they are not their employees directly, but they work for them.

 Corporates should discuss the working conditions and wages before entering in contract. A committee should be formed to keep an eye on these issues. There should be sudden inspections so that the manufacturer can’t lie. The UN should keep an eye on such accidents & take strict actions against the culprits so that other can learn a lesson from them.

By Harsimran Kaur
Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce
University of Delhi

ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION - FIRST POSITION

Large corporations tend to violate human rights and get away with it. What can be done to ensure the protection of victimized individual?

A corporation is recognized as a legal person under the law. Its ultimate objective is to create value for shareholders. This means that all decisions are taken keeping profit-maximization as highest priority in mind. All else is secondary. This single-minded pursuit of money and consequently power & influence is the central feature of any corporation.

Its other features are that it is amoral, lacks empathy and displays a lack of conscience & concern for others because profits take precedence over these other more humane traits.

If an individual were to have these same characteristics, then they would be diagnosed as a sociopath or a psychopath. In my opinion, a corporation- in its entirety, is a psychopathic institution.

With this background, one must understand that psychopaths are strictly motivated only by Rational Utility Maximization. So, there’s only one effective key to engaging with a corporation. We must make it so that their Utility is maximized only when they are ethical and humane. This can be done by raising the costs of pursuing alternative non-humane courses of action.

They can be made to internalize their externalities, or they can be forced to be broken up in case of a monopoly. Increasing the necessary percentage of CSR is another way. Most importantly, election campaigns must be completely insulated from corporate influence in every way.

 No appeals to emotion, ethics or humanity will ever be effective over the long term here. Only raising costs of non-desirable actions can protect victimized individuals.

By Krishanu Ranwan
New College
University of Toronto