Hi,
There is a factual error. I am not employed with Prajavani. I write just one column per
week as freelancer.
Regards,
Pavanaja
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] [Wikimediaindia-l] On CIS's grants request from
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Hi all, I have one important question here.
The Foreign Contribution Regulatory Act prohibits money received from abroad to be used as
payments or salaries to anyone employed with the press or media.
I believe Dr. Pavanaja is a columnist for Prajavani. How does this work out?
It's just a preemptive question.
On 12 May 2014 17:45, Hari Prasad Nadig <hpnadig(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Fellow Wikimedians,
As you all know, Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore has sought funding of about
1.8 Crores through the FDC process from Wikimedia Foundation to carry out work on seven
local language projects in India that includes Kannada, Telugu among others. [1]
The funds primarily cover the salaries of the people belonging to the CIS-A2K team among
other administrative expenses and other expenses as outlined on their proposal page.
The proposal was up for Community review and comments until April 30th and many have
recorded their response about it [2]. Several community members have come forward in
pointing out that the staff salaries being paid and that being proposed - are quite on the
higher side (which is up to 2.4 Lakhs per month per person).
Apart from the concerns on extremely high salaries for Indian norms of the team members of
CIS-A2K team, there have been some serious concerns raised about some apparent Conflict of
Interest [3] and non-compliance with the local laws (mainly Karnataka Societies act and
the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act).
However, looks like the proposal has moved forward through the FDC process for funding
despite the concerns raised and has gotten through to the next stage.
More concerns have now been raised by several community members on the Staff Assessment
discussion page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/…
I invite you to participate in the discussion and help steer this in the right direction.
[1] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_C…
[2] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/…
[3] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_J…
Thank you,
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