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

By Maj. Gen. Surat Sandhu

When will India catch up?
Have we prepared our society to access resources and built up their capacities? Sadly, we have not. The problem is we are trying to give people fish instead of teaching them how to fish. We’ve made our NGOs dependent. INGOs still bring in well more than $1 billion each year, but not even a tiny fraction of 1 percent is used to build up this critical and vital ability.