Right to Food Campaign
 

About the Campaign: Secretariat

The Right to Food Campaign has a small "secretariat" in Delhi (see contact addresses for details).

The work of the Secretariat is entirely funded from individual donations in rupees with no strings attached. At the moment the secretariat is operated by Gurminder Singh, Devika Lal, and Spurthi Reddy. Most of the work is actually done by volunteers. Aside from a large, floating group of "casual" volunteers, there is a team of committed volunteers who have specific responsibilities and are giving time to the Secretariat on a sustained basis. Some of them are listed below (this is a partial list, not necessarily up to date). If you feel like helping the Secretariat as a volunteer, please send a line to righttofood@gmail.com. Aside from doing something useful, you may enjoy the experience.

If you are willing to help with work relating to the court case, please write to slicdelhi@vsnl.net.

Advisory Group

The secretariat's work is guided by an "advisory group", consisting of one representative of each of the national networks that convened the Bhopal convention in June 2004, as well as members of the former "support group" of the campaign and some "invited members of local campaigns". The advisory group currently consists of the following persons:

  • Annie Raja (NFIW)
  • Anup Srivastava (HRLN)
  • Anuradha Talwar (Paschim Banga Khet Mazdoor Samiti, West Bengal)
  • Arundhati Dhuru (NAPM)
  • Asha Mishra (BGVS)
  • Ashok Bharti (NACDOR)
  • Gangaram Paikre (Chhattisgarh Kisan Mazdoor Andolan)
  • Gautom Modi (NTUI)
  • Jean Drèze (former support group; Delhi School of Economics)
  • Kavita Srivastava (PUCL)
  • Pramod Kumar (Vidya Sagar Samajik Suraksha Seva Evam Sodh Sansthan, Bihar)
  • Sachin Jain (Vikas Samvad, Madhya Pradesh)
  • Subhash Bhatnagar (NCC-USW)
  • Suchi Pande (NCPRI)
  • Suresh Sawant (Anna Adhikar Abhiyan, Maharashtra)
  • Tanveer (NCDHR)
  • V B Rawat (former support group; Social Development Foundation)
  • Vandana Prasad (JSA)

    • A "sub-group" of this advisory group was formed in July 2006 for the purpose of day-to-day guidance to the secretariat. This sub-group currently consists of Anuradha Talwar, Jean Drèze and Kavita Srivastava.

    Contact Details for Volunteers

  • Coordination and Accounting: Gurminder Singh (gsingh.edu@gmail.com)
  • Illustrations: Anitha (anitha.balachandran@gmail.com)
  • IT advice: Vivek (vivekdse@gmail.com)
  • Legal advice: K. K. Roy (righttofoodsccase@hrln.org)
  • Photography: Sohrab Hura (sohrab_hura@doononline.net)
  • Research advice: Jean (dreze@econdse.org)
  • Survey methods: Reetika (reetika.khera@gmail.com)
  • Translation: Adiyog, Vijay Kumar, Ajay Kumar Singh, Gurminder Singh
  • Website maintenance: Arudra, Harish (web.rtf@gmail.com)

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    Last updated: 2 June 2008