A workshop was jointly organized by VANI, New Delhi and UPVAN Lucknow on 11th Oct '2009 at SSK, Lko on new Taxation and U.P.State NGO Policy.

Mr. Harsh Jetli, CEO, VANI was the key speaker. He said that this new Taxation on Voluntary Sector will affect this sector adversely. The main problem with this bill is that Govt. is putting all institutions under one Umbrella without differentiating in their commercial and non commercial activities. The reason is that many religions organization, schools, hospitals who are doing commercial activities are also registered under same 1860 society registration act.

State Level Planning workshop on Social Audit in NREGA under 'Jano Pucho Jancho Abhiyaan' organised by UPVAN at 10th Oct 09.

A workshop was organised on 10th Oct 2009 by UPVAN at SSK, Lko on Social Audit in NREGA under its "Jano Pucho Jancho Abhiyaan".

Mr. Moinuddin, former Secretary, Rural Development Department and Mr. S.P. Jain, former Director, Panchayati Raj Centre, NIRD, Hyderabad were key speakers. A short film on 'Social Audit in NREGA' was shown. Social Audit Booklet was also released by Sri Moinuddin, Sri Ashok Singh and Sri Vasudev.
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Upvan Organised Stand Up and Take Action Orientation meeting with member organization on 7th Oct 09 at SSK.

Stand Up and Take Action Orientation meeting with member organization and IEC material was distribution among them.

Awareness rally has taken place and all participants had taken part in oath taking activity and in rally.
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UPVAN has organized “JANO PUCHO JANCHO ABHIYAN” orientation meeting with the workers of member organizations on 26th September 09 at SSK.

Upvan has launched the campaign based on social audit in NREGA .In this campaign action research will be conducted in 16 village Panchayats of 8 districts of Uttar Pradesh with the help of member organizations.

Chief Guest was Mr Sayed Moinnuddin, Former deputy commissioner of Rural Development ministry.He told each and every provision of NREGA act. He also explained the importance of social audit in NREGA.
In this meeting IEC materials related to social audit like pamphlet, manual, posters,pocket guide have been distributed to the workers of member organizations.  
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Steering Committee Meeting was Organized By UPVAN on 23rd sep 09 .

Objectives of the Steering Committee Meeting are Identification of Issues and Activities to be highlighted and made during Stand Up Event.,09, Identification of areas for the event ,Strategy formation on Identified Issues and Activitiesand Finalization of Activity Plan .
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Annual Action Planning Meeting on MDGs was held on 14th Sep 09.

Objective of this meeting was Planning and strategies different aspects of Social watch report -2009, Stand Up and Take Action Event -2009, Regional Workshops on MDGs and Issues related with advocacy of MDGs in Uttar Pradesh.
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