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ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
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Sehskritee Mahala 1
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Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 138567" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: navy">Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: navy">Accountability of India's Nonprofits Under Scrutiny</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: navy">By Nilanjana Bhowmick / New Delhi </span><span style="color: navy">TIME MAGAZINE</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">In 2004, Jerry Almeida, then the fundraising director of ActionAid India, was shocked to discover an office in the garage of their Bangalore headquarters where some of the staff were penning letters in a child's scrawl. The letters were sent out to individual donors all over the world, allegedly written by the Indian children people were paying to sponsor. The forgeries were far from the personalized interaction that the charity led the sponsors to believe.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">The transgression is not a lonely instance of unscrupulousness in India's sprawling nonprofit sector. <strong>With 3.3 million registered NGOs, India's nonprofit sector raises between $8 billion and $16 billion in funding every year.</strong> According to Home Ministry statistics, foreign funding to Indian NGOs saw a 56% increase in the 2005-06 and 2006-07 fiscal years. In 2008, the latest available data, the total official foreign aid to India was $2.15 billion. But according to NGO watchdogs, almost half of that money is misused, mostly to support high administrative costs of running organizations. "NGOs who raise Indian donations are accountable to the Indian public, but foreign donors are abroad and there is no accountability. They receive a letter and they are happy that they are helping some Indian child," says Mathew Cherian, chairperson of the NGO watchdog Credibility Alliance. "There are many NGOs who won't even show you their accounts." </span></p><p><span style="color: navy"> </span></p><p><span style="color: navy">NGO accountability — or the lack of it — is, of course, not India's problem alone. A 2008 assessment of 30 of the world's most powerful global organizations cites transparency as one of the least developed dimensions of accountability. In India, the problem is compounded by the highly unorganized nature of the NGO sector: organizations are often required to register under multiple laws without any uniform accounting policy or reporting framework. It's a problem driven both at the organizational and the donor levels. Says Almeida: "Money is important for development but most people get swayed by emotional provocation and pay money to NGOs indiscriminately." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">One of the key complaints against Indian nonprofits is their overspending on overheads. A 2006-07 government report on utilization of foreign funds by Indian NGOs shows that out of the $2.15 billion in foreign aid received, around $680 million was used for organizational expenses, compared with $563 million used for relief and rehabilitation of victims of natural calamities, $435 million for rural development, $269 million for construction and maintenance of schools and colleges, and $263 million for welfare of children. "Every organization has legitimate administrative costs," says Thomas Chandy, CEO of Save the Children, India, which spends around 14% of its funds on administration. "It is impossible to distinguish administrative costs from program costs because it's all set up for delivering programs." Instead of focusing on how money gets allocated, Chandy says, "we should look at the impact created at ground level." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">But there are other uncomfortable questions that also call the credibility of a lot of Indian NGOs into question. Chief among them is businesses using NGOs for money laundering. India's federal investigation agency is currently looking into money-laundering and fund-misappropriation charges against one of the country's most prominent human-rights activists, Ravi Nair. Nair and his NGO, the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre, were indicted by the European antifraud agency in October of last year, though Nair has denied all wrongdoing. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">While groups like Credibility Alliance, iCongo and GiveIndia are working toward increasing NGO accountability through annual reviews and accreditation, they still have a long way to go. Despite being around for many years, these watchdogs are used only by a few hundred NGOs.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Credibility Alliance, for example, has only 600 members. Even international organizations like the Humanitarian Accountability Project, an international agency that seeks a voluntary system of accountability for 40,000 international NGOs, has only 36 members globally. The Société Générale de Surveillance, the world's leading for-profit inspection, verification, testing and certification company, has certified only 68 of the world's approximately 10 million NGOs. USAID-funded ForeignAID Ratings has certified three.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy"> Foreign aid to India has come under the microscope by foreign donors over the past few years, with critics arguing that India — with a defense budget of $31.5 billion, a substantial foreign-aid program of its own and a U.S.-endorsed claim to a permanent Security Council seat — should be able to fund its own development. Today India is still home to 42% of the global population living on less than $1.25 a day, but if the World Bank's forecast that poverty in India will fall by more than a third by 2015 is correct, the government needs to take a closer look at better use of its foreign aid.</span></p><p><span style="color: navy"> </span></p><p><span style="color: navy">In response to these complaints, the federal government has been tightening its grip. New Delhi has banned 41 NGOs from receiving foreign funding in the past few years, and in August, the government revised the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, a 1976 law that oversees NGOs that receive foreign funding. Under the act, organizations have to submit an annual report to the government giving details of the funds received and their utilization. In 2008, out of the 34,803 registered associations, only 18,796 filed their reports. Now, with this year's revisions, NGOs that do not file returns to the Home Ministry will lose the right to receive foreign funds for three years, which will, in many cases, effectively suspend their operations. India's latest five-year plan also advocates a single comprehensive law with a single set of accountability procedures to encourage accountability and transparency within the NGO sector. After all, as Chandy says, NGOs are in the "credibility market" and they cannot afford to be above accountability. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy"><strong>source:</strong> </span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2036307,00.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2036307,00.html</span></u></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 138567, member: 884"] [COLOR=navy]Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010[/COLOR] [B][SIZE=5][COLOR=navy]Accountability of India's Nonprofits Under Scrutiny[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [COLOR=navy]By Nilanjana Bhowmick / New Delhi [/COLOR][COLOR=navy]TIME MAGAZINE[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]In 2004, Jerry Almeida, then the fundraising director of ActionAid India, was shocked to discover an office in the garage of their Bangalore headquarters where some of the staff were penning letters in a child's scrawl. The letters were sent out to individual donors all over the world, allegedly written by the Indian children people were paying to sponsor. The forgeries were far from the personalized interaction that the charity led the sponsors to believe.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]The transgression is not a lonely instance of unscrupulousness in India's sprawling nonprofit sector. [B]With 3.3 million registered NGOs, India's nonprofit sector raises between $8 billion and $16 billion in funding every year.[/B] According to Home Ministry statistics, foreign funding to Indian NGOs saw a 56% increase in the 2005-06 and 2006-07 fiscal years. In 2008, the latest available data, the total official foreign aid to India was $2.15 billion. But according to NGO watchdogs, almost half of that money is misused, mostly to support high administrative costs of running organizations. "NGOs who raise Indian donations are accountable to the Indian public, but foreign donors are abroad and there is no accountability. They receive a letter and they are happy that they are helping some Indian child," says Mathew Cherian, chairperson of the NGO watchdog Credibility Alliance. "There are many NGOs who won't even show you their accounts." [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy] [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]NGO accountability — or the lack of it — is, of course, not India's problem alone. A 2008 assessment of 30 of the world's most powerful global organizations cites transparency as one of the least developed dimensions of accountability. In India, the problem is compounded by the highly unorganized nature of the NGO sector: organizations are often required to register under multiple laws without any uniform accounting policy or reporting framework. It's a problem driven both at the organizational and the donor levels. Says Almeida: "Money is important for development but most people get swayed by emotional provocation and pay money to NGOs indiscriminately." [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]One of the key complaints against Indian nonprofits is their overspending on overheads. A 2006-07 government report on utilization of foreign funds by Indian NGOs shows that out of the $2.15 billion in foreign aid received, around $680 million was used for organizational expenses, compared with $563 million used for relief and rehabilitation of victims of natural calamities, $435 million for rural development, $269 million for construction and maintenance of schools and colleges, and $263 million for welfare of children. "Every organization has legitimate administrative costs," says Thomas Chandy, CEO of Save the Children, India, which spends around 14% of its funds on administration. "It is impossible to distinguish administrative costs from program costs because it's all set up for delivering programs." Instead of focusing on how money gets allocated, Chandy says, "we should look at the impact created at ground level." [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]But there are other uncomfortable questions that also call the credibility of a lot of Indian NGOs into question. Chief among them is businesses using NGOs for money laundering. India's federal investigation agency is currently looking into money-laundering and fund-misappropriation charges against one of the country's most prominent human-rights activists, Ravi Nair. Nair and his NGO, the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre, were indicted by the European antifraud agency in October of last year, though Nair has denied all wrongdoing. [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]While groups like Credibility Alliance, iCongo and GiveIndia are working toward increasing NGO accountability through annual reviews and accreditation, they still have a long way to go. Despite being around for many years, these watchdogs are used only by a few hundred NGOs.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Credibility Alliance, for example, has only 600 members. Even international organizations like the Humanitarian Accountability Project, an international agency that seeks a voluntary system of accountability for 40,000 international NGOs, has only 36 members globally. The Société Générale de Surveillance, the world's leading for-profit inspection, verification, testing and certification company, has certified only 68 of the world's approximately 10 million NGOs. USAID-funded ForeignAID Ratings has certified three.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy] Foreign aid to India has come under the microscope by foreign donors over the past few years, with critics arguing that India — with a defense budget of $31.5 billion, a substantial foreign-aid program of its own and a U.S.-endorsed claim to a permanent Security Council seat — should be able to fund its own development. Today India is still home to 42% of the global population living on less than $1.25 a day, but if the World Bank's forecast that poverty in India will fall by more than a third by 2015 is correct, the government needs to take a closer look at better use of its foreign aid.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy] [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]In response to these complaints, the federal government has been tightening its grip. New Delhi has banned 41 NGOs from receiving foreign funding in the past few years, and in August, the government revised the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, a 1976 law that oversees NGOs that receive foreign funding. Under the act, organizations have to submit an annual report to the government giving details of the funds received and their utilization. In 2008, out of the 34,803 registered associations, only 18,796 filed their reports. Now, with this year's revisions, NGOs that do not file returns to the Home Ministry will lose the right to receive foreign funds for three years, which will, in many cases, effectively suspend their operations. India's latest five-year plan also advocates a single comprehensive law with a single set of accountability procedures to encourage accountability and transparency within the NGO sector. After all, as Chandy says, NGOs are in the "credibility market" and they cannot afford to be above accountability. [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy][B]source:[/B] [/COLOR][URL="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2036307,00.html"][U][COLOR=navy]http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2036307,00.html[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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