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Bengaluru, Karnataka
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Practices in Bengaluru, Karnataka
eVidyaloka - digital classrooms with remote volunteer teachersNGO founded in Bengaluru in January 2011 by Satish Viswanathan and Venkat Sriraman that sets up digital classrooms in rural public schools with teacher shortages and connects them by videoconference with volunteers from around the world, who teach science, mathematics and English in the regional language. As of 2025 it reports 17 states, 90 districts, 950+ schools and 200,000 children impacted. Since 2024-2025 it collaborates with Microsoft on the BRAIN program to bring AI courses to 300 rural schools in seven states.I Change My City and My City My Budget (Janaagraha)Janaagraha runs I Change My City, a civic web and mobile platform launched in 2012 that connects citizens with municipal agencies to report and resolve infrastructure complaints, and its flagship participatory budgeting campaign My City My Budget. In Bengaluru, with the BBMP, the campaign collected 16,261 proposals from the 243 wards in 31 days (2021-22 cycle), several of them incorporated into the municipal budget.Hasiru Dala (waste picker integration and dry waste centres, Bengaluru)Grassroots organization founded in 2010 in Bengaluru, Karnataka, by Nalini Shekar and Anslem Rosario to organize the city's waste pickers. It secures government occupational identity cards for waste pickers, integrates them into the municipal system and operates dozens of Dry Waste Collection Centres (DWCC) run by waste picker-entrepreneurs (85+ DWCCs). A study with WIEGO calculated the CO2 emissions avoided by the DWCCs. In 2015 it spun off Hasiru Dala Innovations, a 'for-purpose' inclusive circularity company co-founded by Nalini Shekar and Marwan Abubaker, with Shekar Prabhakar as CEO.