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Annual Report 2006 - 2007                                                        

This last year has been marked by many transitions. As India prospers in the eyes of the world, international willingness to extend development aid to development institutions in India is beginning to wane. This is cause for concern for many institutions such as ours. Seva Mandir, in this last one year, has had to curtail its field programmes and adjust to the reduced availability of funds.

Another consequence of the booming economy is the attrition of staff due to rising salaries in the country. More and more people working for organizations such as Seva Mandir are finding it difficult to resist the temptation of taking up jobs that effectively triple their salaries. Adjusting to the pressures of declining funding and staff attrition poses a serious challenge. In response, Seva Mandir has started making concerted efforts to adjust to these new realities. Fund-raising has been started in the United States along the lines of the efforts made by the Friends of Seva Mandir.....

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