Ramesh Ramanathan
Co-founderFounder of Janaagraha
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Ramesh Ramanathan is the co-founder of Janaagraha (2001)[1], an Indian non-profit working on road safety & civic and education from Bengaluru.
Janaagraha
Co-founded by Ramesh and Swati Ramanathan, Janaagraha works on civic participation and urban governance reform — city finances, ward-level democracy and civic-learning programmes like I Change My City — partnering with governments across India.
Janaagraha reports the following, on its own site:
- 1.6 million citizens engaged across 2,900 urban-poor settlements in Odisha
- 15,000+ municipal financial statements from 4,300+ cities published on CityFinance.in
- ₹120 crore allocated by Bengaluru through the MyCityMyBudget participatory budget
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Bengaluru
- Founded
- 2001
- Press
- 3
References
- [1] “Janaagraha was founded in December 2001 by Swati and Ramesh Ramanathan.” — Janaagraha. Source
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