India has the means to help its poorest residents. What it doesn’t have is the fundraising know-how.

By Maj. Gen. Surat Sandhu

Without the emancipation of this section of Indian society, the UN Millennium Development Goals will never be achieved. And this is the section of society that NGOs are addressing. Every NGO says it can do much more, but for want of funds. Resource mobilization in India is in its infancy; there are no professional fundraisers.