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Date: 10th August, 2023 Mica is a mineral which is used vastly in electrical products, automobiles, paint, toothpaste and cosmetics. Koderma and Giridih districts of Jharkhand and Nawada and Jamui districts of Bihar are richly endowed with good quality mica deposits. Bal Mitra Gram (BMG)TM or Child Friendly Village (CFV)TM model of Kailash Satyarthi Children’s… Continue reading SIGMA Foundation completes a study on “Impact of The Bal Mitra Gram Programme on The Protection of Child Rights in the Mica Mining Districts of Koderma And Giridih, Jharkhand”

Date: 3rd August 2023 There is need to ensure that the large adolescent population in India (253.2 million) reach their full potential and productivity for the growth and development of the country. This idea is embedded in the launch of the Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) programme by the GoI, under the ‘National Adolescent Health Strategy’… Continue reading SIGMA Foundation completes “Endline Assessment Of Strengthening Implementation Of Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) Program In Bhadrak District, Odisha”

Date: 2nd August, 2023 SIGMA Foundation conducted “Baseline Study and Training Need Assessment of Anganwadi Supervisors and Anganwadi Workers for Implementation of Targeted Counselling During 1000 Days Window.” In order to improve the maternal and child health care, Government of Assam, have organized and improved the service delivery to mothers and infants along the continuum… Continue reading SIGMA Foundation completes “Baseline Study and Training Need Assessment of Anganwadi Supervisors and Anganwadi Workers for Implementation of Targeted Counselling During 1000 Days Window” In Assam

Guwahati, 3rd July, 2023 – SIGMA Foundation conducted a study on Status of Child Trafficking in North Eastern State on being engaged by North East Diocesan Social Service Society (NEDSSS) with support from Catholic Relief Services (CRS). The study brought out an overall situation on child trafficking in the seven Nort-Eastern states of India using… Continue reading In Solidarity Against Child Trafficking

23/06/2023 – Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI), established in 1901, organized a Special Session with Shri Binod Kumar, IAS, Municipal Commissioner, KMC on ‘KMC’s Vision & Strategy: E-Governance, Ease of Doing Business and Solid Waste Management’ on 23rd June, 2023 at the Conference Hall of the Chamber. SIGMA Foundation was invited by the Chamber to join in this important session… Continue reading Attending the MCCI Special Session with Shri Binod Kumar, IAS, Municipal Commissioner, KMC on 23rd June, 2023

05/06/2023 – SIGMA Foundation observes World Environment Day, 2023 by conducting a state level consultation on Climate Change Impact at Nijalay, PHED. The eminent officials present were Mr. Surendra Gupta , ( IAS), Principal Secretary, PHED, Mr. Prabhat Kumar Misra(IAS), Principal Secretary, Department of Irrigation & Waterways and WRIDD, Mrs. Sandhya Yadav, Scientist E, CGWB,… Continue reading SIGMA Foundation organizes a State level Consultation on Climate Change Impact on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH Services) under Jal Jeevan Mission Program

30/05/2023 – SIGMA Foundation is a pioneer in innovative application of Information & Communication Technology for monitoring various programmes and processes, including those for the water supply sector. It has developed a Digital Water Supply Monitoring System (DWSMS) for (i) monitoring the water supply service parameters like (i) pressure of water, (ii) residual chlorine level,… Continue reading SIGMA Foundation Successfully Commissions the Digital Water Supply Service Monitoring System in Howrah District, West Bengal

Water For People, an international NGO working in the WASH sector entered into an agreement with SIGMA foundation  to conduct  a PIM and Base Line Survey in (i) Patharpratima and Sagar Blocks of West Bengal and (ii) in Sheohar district of Bihar, where they have already made some interventions over many years and is planning… Continue reading Post Implementation Monitoring (PIM) & BASELINE Survey in Sheohar District of Bihar

Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) is responsible for installation and maintenance of rural piped water supply schemes (RPWSS). After the 73rd Amendment of the Constitution and gradual empowerment of the Panchayats, the State Government had been considering to hand over the responsibility of O&M of the PWSSs to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) or Gram… Continue reading Assessment of Management Practices and Functioning of the Rural Piped Water Supply Schemes Handed Over to the VWSCs: Survey in Nadia and Hooghly districts of West Bengal

SIGMA Foundation is going to present three technical papers on the august occasion of “XII International Water Congress” on 22-23rd November at, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. Significantly, 26 scientific papers have been chosen to be presented out of more than 200 abstracts received from various parts of the World. SIGMA Foundation is… Continue reading Presentation in International Water Congress