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Vision Karnataka Foundation is a non political organization and we do not support any party. We are a Think Tank group with diverse competencies and aggregating the implementation of social impact initiatives that is strategically designed for suiting the period of 2020 to 2040 as a vision We believe in the period of 2020 to 2040 India has been compelled by the external environment around the globe to look inward and LOCK DOWN the Indian economy from the negative effects of the ageing world. The dispute between USA and China will impact the economy further. Hence we have to strengthen Karnataka economy Karnataka is 10 years ahead in Asia as an innovation hub and knowledge industry know how. We need to take this success story of Bangalore as both educational Corridor and knowledge Corridor for innovation to the next level via the Districts of Karnataka state. Hence Karnataka will become the critical driving force in India that can be emulated by other states What we need to do Boost ...

What is Localisation ?   Localisation, a trend diametrically opposed to globalization, is based on the belief that those living closest to the resource to be managed (the forest, the sea, the coast, the farm, the urban facility, etc), would have the greatest stake, and often the best knowledge, to manage it. Of course this is not always the case, and in India many communities have lost the ability because of two centuries of government-dominated policies, which have effectively crippled their own institutional structures, customary rules, and other capacities. Nevertheless a move towards localization of essential production, consumption, and trade, and of health, education, and other services, is eminently possible if communities are sensitively assisted by civil society organizations and the government. There are thousands of Indian initiatives at decentralized water harvesting, biodiversity conservation, education, governance, food and materials production, Irreplaceable ...

Yoji Kamata from Japan with his model of Localisation Globalisation and Environment I n 1992, soon after heralding in the new economic policies constituting globalization, the then Finance Minister of India (now its Prime Minister) Manmohan Singh delivered a lecture on environmental aspects of the reforms in Delhi. His main argument was that environmental protection requires resources, which would be created by the new policies. Two decades later, has his prescription worked? Broadly, economic globalisation since 1991 has had the following impacts: Rapid growth of the economy has required a major expansion of infrastructure and resource extraction, and encouragement to wasteful consumption by the rich. The economy has tended to be demand-led, with no thought given to how much demand (and for what purpose) is to be considered legitimate and desirable, and what its impacts are.  Liberalization of trade (exports and imports) has had two consequences: r...

India ’s meteoric economic rise in the last two decades has been   impressive. There is however a dark side to it, hidden or ignored. Well over half its people have been left behind or negatively impacted; and there have been irreversible blows to the natural environment Globalised development as it is today is neither ecologically sustainable nor socially equitable, and is leading India to further conflict and suffering There are, however, a range of alternative approaches and practices, forerunners of a Radical Ecological Democracy that can take us all to higher levels of well-being, while sustaining the earth and creating greater equity According to the Tendulkar Committee on poverty estimation, which submitted its report to the Planning Commission in 2009, the proportion of people who were poor in India in 2004-05 was 41.8% in rural areas and 25.7% in urban areas. The poverty lines used to reach these numbers were Rs.15 per capita a day in villages and a bit...