Neha Bilandani

Hearing loss affects a high percentage of society. It may be due to diseases effecting middle ear or inner ear, may be congenital, age related or due to noise exposure. Various social and economic losses incurred by such individuals, laws and programs to help such persons are made from time to time. They have...

Despite significant advances in healthcare, low neonatal mortality and child mortality rates are still a distant dream for India. In the country, less than 2% of newborn the babies are screened annually for 1-4 disorders. With the government focus on achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals on child and neonatal mortality, the support of corporates...

Former captain and youngest member of the Tamil Nadu State Women’s Cricket Team. Preethi Srinivasan was listed among top 16 famous Indians with disability in 2014 and recently won awards from Femina and Rotary. Preethi started representing the state at just 8 years of age and captained the Tamil Nadu state cricket team to win...

Bharat Kumar was born  only with a right hand by birth. A Para-swimming champion, he has made the country proud by winning 50 medals. At the young age of 8 years, he was sent to Ghaziabad, to his paternal aunt because of poor financial conditions. His old parents are daily-wage labourers, who dig soil. Bharat...

In the true spirit of bringing cheer, which is really the cornerstone of Christmas celebrations, various corporates went out of their way to spread joy, especially amongst children. SMAAASH hosted a Christmas party for the children of Muskaan Foundation, a NGO dedicated to the people having multiple disabilities. Smiling faces were witnessed at the cannon shooting,...

The Ugly Indians, as a part of the larger Domlur tech-hub transformation initiative, have taken on the transformation of Government Kannada Model Primary School in Challaghatta, Bengaluru. Various corporates and residents in the area are being mobilised to carry out the cleaning up and beautification of the area, having widened their impact to over...

The Direct Benefit Transfer or DBT is an attempt to change the mechanism of transferring subsidies launched by the Government of India on 1 January 2013. This program aims to transfer subsidies directly to the people through their bank accounts. It is hoped that crediting subsidies into bank accounts will reduce leakages, delays, etc The change that happened since...

Noori Saleem is a trans-woman, is the third person to be officially declared HIV-positive by the Indian government in 1987. Today, she runs a shelter for abandoned HIV-positive children known as South Indian Positive Network. Noori was 13 years old, when she left her home as she was unable to deal with the gender identity...

India has, historically, had a very low rate of organ donation. Although this number has improved over the past three-four years, the country still has a long way to go. Every year 3,00,000 Indians need an organ transplant, but only 2 to 3% of this demand for new organs is met. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO),...

Individual Social Responsibility is about continuing to make efforts in order to make a difference in the lives of people. Earlier this month, a dowry-less social wedding ceremony was organised at Palakkad in Kerala. The ceremony witnessed 20 couples tying the knot as part of social wedding. The girls are selected from 2,500 BPL...

Actions are needed now more than ever to prevent and respond to violence against all women and girls. Recently published edition of the Time magazine has named "The Silence Breakers," representing people who came forward to report sexual misconduct, as its Person of the Year. It is a recognition of the cultural estimate sum of this...

India, is the second largest mobile phone market with 1.03 billion subscribers, is the first largest producer of e-waste. Our country discards 18.5 lakh metric tonnes of electronic waste each year, with computer equipment accounting for 70% and telecom 12% according to by WHO 2014. The most dreaded information is that in India, about 4-5 lakh child...