{"id":1585,"date":"2002-01-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/25\/2002-01-25-ngos-leave-kutch\/"},"modified":"2002-01-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-25T12:00:00","slug":"2002-01-25-ngos-leave-kutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/25\/2002-01-25-ngos-leave-kutch\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs Leave Kutch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Times News Network<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>BHUJ, GUJARAT, January 24, 2002: Soon after the killer quake on January 26 last year, as talk of rehabilitation of Kutch began, non-government organizations (NGOs) started to be mentioned as the &#8220;prime movers&#8221; for this purpose. But a year later, the NGO experiment in rebuilding Kutch has been, at best, a mixed success. Though 64 NGOs, including a number of religious organization, are working in Kutch (76 in the entire state), a large number of them have abandoned their plans and have gone away. &#8220;To start with, they did not realize that rehabilitation is a complex process and involves more than just constructing houses,&#8221; says Maheswar Sahu, chief executive officer of Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA). &#8220;After initial surveys, they realized that they did not have the requisite experience.&#8221; Also funding was growing scarce, another factor in the rebuilding of Kutch.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Times News Network BHUJ, GUJARAT, January 24, 2002: Soon after the killer quake on January 26 last year, as,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}