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www.asianviews.net
Editorial Board
Chief Editor & Director:
Hridayananda Gogoi
Team:
A R Changmai
M Mahanta
S Sarmah
M G Borthakur
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This web- journal also
prefers to associate with the activities of ASIA FOUNDATION, a
NGO.
1. Objectives of ASIA FOUNDATION are as follows:
(Registration under societies Registration Act XXI of 1860)
(a) The Name of the Society: 'Asia Foundation'
(b) The office of the society is
Situated in the Province/State: The Central office of the society shall be
in Guwahati.
(c) The objectives for which the society is established are:
The name of our society 'Asia Foundation' itself is an implication of
enhancement, development and achievement of total work-culture of the
society so as to keep the regional cultural educational &
socio-economic development & promotion in pace with the Asian regional
cultural educational & socio-economic co-operation as well as
globalization. It is a non-political and non-government socio-cultural
economic and educational organization.
The advent of globalization and liberalization of Indian economy opened
much larger avenues for the fittest one in the job market and the Total
Quality Management (TQM) has become a Corporate-Mantra. A great majority of
people in developing Nations like India in general and North East India in
particular having lack of awareness, lack of technical skill/training and
necessary resources are still resorting to the old ideas, approach, strategy
and work-culture not suited with the fast changing scenario of the present
competitive world.
Keeping in view the long-standing setback of work-culture of different
sections of people of our society, the organization, shall make utmost
effort to create an atmosphere of work-culture in our society so as to
enable us to fit for and adjust and compete with the globalize world. For
this purpose, it aims at accelerating all round socio-economic-cultural and
educational development of the society with a focus on unemployment issues
also so that preservation & promotion of culture & civilization in
all respects should be possible in a wider way.
Realizing its growing importance the society shall set out the
following objects:
(i) To encourage and create an environment of a fertile field of
work-culture of the masses through its time bound plan and awareness
programmed of multifarious activities.
(ii) To work for encouraging the sense of discipline, punctuality, dignity
of labor and humanitarian values in order to check the growing rate of
unemployment, under-employment and different forms of violence, intolerance
and violation of statutory rules and regulations.
(iii) To bring sense of unity and integrity among various classes of people
so as to remove caste barriers in the path of economic development of North
East India in general and of Assam in particular through cultural
integration.
(iv) To promote self-employment and income-generating activities through
need based job oriented vocational/technical training or education among
the poor and down-trodden people not only to solve the problems of poverty,
over-population, disease and unemployment within the frame work of our
culture but also to adjust our self to the rhythm of the new world of
globalization by strengthening the moral fiber of the nation, keeping in
mind humanism of our arts and rationalism of our science;
(v) To work for universalisation of primary education with a special focus
on low-literacy percents and on the educationally backward communities with
the goal of raising educational status and quality of life of them;
(vi) To foster and encourage education and studies amongst women, adults
and children of the poor and downtrodden for building adequate linkages
between literacy and other developmental process.
(vii) To work for the welfare of (a) women and children, (b) orphan, beggar
and destitute, (c) physically handicapped boys and girls and for (d)
educationally and socially backward communities.
(viii) To guide, initiate and devote to research oriented studies in
history, education science and socio-economic, demographic, cultural,
religious and literary field of society.
(ix) To protect, preserve and develop cultural heritage of Himalayas, folk
art, culture and folk literature of the state of Assam in particular and of
the N.E. Region in general;
(x) To upgrade the traditional skills and equip them with modern technology
so as to meet the market demands;
(xi) To involve in the promotion of small and lift irrigation projects,
especially in the drought prone, dry and hilly areas to ensure food
security in the village level;
(xii) To work for food processing & preservation, environment
preservation, restoration, plantation of trees and floriculture and
nursery.
(xiii) To strive for providing drinking water facilities and sanitation
programmes with govt. and non-govt. assistance to the rural and urban poor
and downtrodden people.
(xiv) To promote sanitation and hygiene and arrangement for free medical
aid to the poor needy and make them aware about HIV, Hepatitis's and other
diseases along with old age care.
(xv) To empower the women and the socially deprived and disadvantaged
Groups with a three-pronged strategy: (a) Social Empowerment, (b) Economic
Empowerment and (c) Social Justice as the agent of social change and
development;
(xvi) To help the poor to adopt modern poultry, duckery, piggery, diary and
other agri-allied activities.
(xvii) To construct, open and run educational, social, cultural,
vocational, technical, and economic institutions and training centers for
the poor and educationally as well as economically backward sections of the
society.
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