This 32-year-old Kolkata-conceived lady could have picked a simple life. A Master degree holder from Harvard Kennedy School’s Public Policy program, she quit her place of employment at World Bank, took a cumbersome undertaking to give this nation the change it needs today.
While India’s 2019 Lok Sabha decision is in its last stage and the residents are casting a ballot with enthusiasm, in a selective discussion with Life Beyond Numbers, Rwitwika Bhattacharya shares why her drive, Swaniti, is significant in light of the fact that when information isn’t right, every arrangement worked around that information will undoubtedly crash and burn.
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Swaniti is a non-partisan social enterprise, which works with policymakers and elected representatives to deliver development solutions across the country by providing end-to-end solutions, including knowledge support, on-ground implementation, and data tools, to both elected representatives and government administration in order to improve public service delivery.
While the idea of starting Swaniti was conceptualized in 2009, but it was only in 2012, she completely put her mind and soul into it. She says, “The idea was to provide a fellowship program, which is the flagship aspect of Swaniti initiative. We thought, why not include young people to work with parliamentarians for constituency development.”
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What Swaniti does?
A non-profit organization that conveys improvement arrangements on issues of open administrations. It gives ‘on-the-ground’ backing to powerless networks by having capable experts assume a synergist job in the conveyance of open administrations. The activity plans to discover answers for the most problems that are begging to be addressed crosswise over creating countries in South Asia, through on-ground intercessions, inside and out research, and information examination.
To make the initiative effective, Swaniti works on three areas– knowledge and research, on-ground engagements, data and technology.
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Additionally, the organization has presented Jaano India stage as it accepts that data, and explicitly, information is basic to the accomplishment of any majority rules system. A stage that investigations envision and introduce to the residents’ information focuses. From ‘what number of medical clinics are there the nation over?’ to ‘which ventures utilize individuals over geologies’ to looking at the exhibition of MPs, this one is a far-reaching stage. “It was for the current year on Republic Day, Jaano India stage was propelled. It utilizes shrewd apparatuses to change information into significant choices,” she says.
