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| A Grand Giveaway of Books; Send In Your Nominations for Corporate Governance Awards |
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| Dear Moneylifers, |
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| In July we started a serious reorganisation and declutter of our Knowledge Centre in Mumbai. As regular members would know, Moneylife's Knowledge Centre has not only served as a venue for our Daily Clinic counselling sessions, seminars and workshops, but had a modest library of books of over 1000 books. A majority of these books were from our trustees and the collection grew with donations from members and some of our counsellors and speakers. |
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| Moneylife members have had exclusive access to this excellent resource comprising books on investments, finance, travel, health, management, economics, valuations, capital market related reports, RTI, as well as reference books on law, property matters, biographies and much more. We have opened up this collection for book lovers in Mumbai willing to visit the foundation and browse through the collection. We are delighted that Rizvi College found 160 books useful and several of our members have already picked up dozens of books each. We trust and hope they will value the spirit in which they have been shared and encourage people to read more and learn about Moneylife Foundation. |
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| Former Central Information Commissioner, Mr Shailesh Gandhi has joined our effort by donating 30 wonderful books to giveaway. If interested please do call our office 022-24441058 or 022-24441059 during business hours and plan a visit. This offer will be open until Independence Day. |
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| Nominations for 2nd Corporate Governance Award |
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 Our inaugural Corporate Governance Awards programme last year, was a huge success and gave us the opportunity to highlight a few amazing companies who create great value through good governance. It is now time to once again seek out nominations and honour a new selection of companies who have shown excellence in corporate governance. Please send your nominations to [email protected] with one paragraph to explain why you think the company deserves to be considered. We will continue to accept nominations until 15 August 2022. |
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| Every nomination will get due consideration and go through a rigorous evaluation process to create a shortlist which would then be placed before an unbiased jury. The jury will undergo deliberations to further whittle down the shortlist to a final few, from which the winner and runner-up for our 2nd annual Corporate Governance Award will be chosen. |
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| Last year, Hyderabad-based Natco Pharma Ltd and Chennai-based Thejo Engineering Ltd were the winner and runner-up respectively, from among five finalists who are each shining examples of good governance. Mr M Damodaran, former SEBI chairman, had announced the awards and also shared wonderful insights on what constitutes good governance and the many areas that need improvement. You can watch the video of the event on our YouTube Channel here as well as interviews with each of the finalists, conducted by Debashis Basu and R Balakrishnan. |
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| Adv Shirish Shanbhag's Counselling Sessions |
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| With a resumption after two years to our in-person counselling sessions, our expert on matters of cooperative housing societies, Adv Shirish Shanbhag is now available every Thursday between 3-6pm for guidance. You can call our office during business hours to book an appointment. But please do so in advance, as the demand for Adv Shanbhag is such that slots get booked quickly. |
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| While counselling on other matters continues online through our helplines, we intend to restart other sessions as well based on your response and feedback. Do send us your suggestions at [email protected]. |
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| In fact, we have a whole series of 'how to' articles on various issues which you can access here: https://www.moneylife.in/howto.html Do share this resource with your friends and colleagues, and also encourage them to become members of Moneylife Foundation! |
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| Expanding Financial Literacy Videos to Other languages |
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| Our efforts to present our financial literacy videos in languages other than Hindi and English continue with new videos being published last week in Marathi. Now you can learn about credit cards and also how to stay safe from online frauds in Marathi! These videos and others will soon be available in Punjabi, Gujarati and Tamil as well. |
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| You can subscribe to our YouTube Channel for regular updates and notifications when a new video is released, and also encourage your friends and family to do so as well. After all, the more number of people that watch and learn from these short videos, the more financially literate we can all be. |
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| We are also happy to send them to you in the language of your choice on WhatsApp and Telegram if you share your numbers at Moneylife Foundation's WhatsApp number (+91 7045156415). This is also a good opportunity for you to join our WhatsApp broadcast list as well as our telegram channel. Join to stay in the loop about Moneylife Foundation's activities. |
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| Our video, 'Truth About Gold Loans' has been dubbed in Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Tamil. The one on credit cards, avoiding online and banking frauds and understanding whether bank relationship managers can be trusted are Hindi at the moment and other languages will happen soon. |
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| Do send us your feedback on these and if you have benefitted from our work, please do not forget to pass it forward by introducing our videos, free helplines and membership benefit to others. Do register for a free membership and also encourage your friends and family to join as well. |
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| File your RTI Applications with Expert Guidance |
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| RTI Advice App पर विस्तृत गाइड से विशिष्ट उपयोग के मामलों के लिए आरटीआई आवेदन दाखिल करने का तरीका जानें। हिंदी और मराठी भाषाओं में उपलब्ध। |
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| Many of you are already aware of our 'RTI Advice' app, which was launched for both android and iOS devices a year ago. The app helps you get expert advice on your RTI queries in any language or format (text, audio or video) and access to over 900 queries that are already asked and answered by our 14 highly regarded RTI experts. |
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| Don't worry about how to navigate the app—we now have user guides for you in English, Hindi and Marathi! Download the app or access the guides from our website here. |
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| Moneylife TV & Helplines |
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| Catch up with our financial literacy work through – Moneylife TV and Moneylife News Bites. |
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| Get guidance and counselling through our Legal Helpline or Credit Helpline. |
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| Also, Moneylife Foundation is now on Telegram and Instagram, so do follow us on these channels to stay updated on our activities and events. |
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| Sucheta Dalal |
| Founder-Trustee, Moneylife Foundation |
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| Trustees: TS Krishnamurthy, Walter Vieira, Sucheta Dalal, Debashis Basu. | | | | Moneylife Foundation is registered with the Charity Commissioner of Mumbai, is an Affiliate member of OECD's International Network on Financial Education, is a Supporter Member of Consumers International, Development Partner of Advocates for International Development (A4ID), and is a winner of the 10th MR Pai Memorial Award. | | |  | | | | Donations are eligible for tax benefits under Sec 80G of the Income Tax 1961 (50% tax exemption) and MLF is registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010. 80(G) Reg No: DIT(E)/MC/80G/685/2010-11 dated 7.2.11 effective 8.+9.2010 | FCRA Registration No: 08378138  | | | |
