Vivek Umrao Glendenning

is a Social Entrepreneur. He was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and his native-forefathers were from Rajasthan.  He is a permanent resident of Australia.
He is a Journalist, Editor, Thinker, Author, Scholar and social policy critic & analyst and Media Activist. He has been exploring Social Economy, Participatory Local Governance, Education, Citizen Media, True Values of Democracy, Freedom of Expression, Social Accountability of Governments, Indigenous Issues, Conflict Resolution in Violent Areas and Other social issues for more than one decade on ground for the forgotten & non-privileged masses.

Founder of the Ground Report India Group

  • Ground Report India Quarterly Print Journal:
    • A team of journalists led by Vivek Umrao Glendenning goes to the national or semi-national tours for exploring ground realities covering 5000 to 15000 Kms in 40 to 70 days for each edition of quarterly print journal.
    • This journal is a quarterly print journal because Vivek Umrao Glendenning wants to establish a citizen media of the ground realities. Two months on the ground and one month for editing, printing and posting.

    For details of the Ground Report India and ground tours of months and other information, please visit the link given below-
    Ground Report India Quarterly Print Journal

  • Ground Report India international eJournal:
    One of the most widespread international eJournals for India for ground reporting and citizen media in the world having more than 90,000 subscribers in more than 60 countries and circulated to 1.4 million (14,00,000) persons. Committed for professional journalism, ground reporting, freedom of expression and the people.
    www.groundreportindia.com

The co-founder of a 150 beds Community Hospital and Nursing College in Khagaria, Bihar
The community hospital was founded without any grant by any funding agency. The team started to go villages to villages periodically (weekly & monthly) for public contribution. Foot marches were done to motivate and for open talks with villagers for the need of a hospital and nursing college.

The co-founder of an Open Social University for Tribal Community in Bastar, Chhattisgarh
This University is a non formal social university which has been working for 5 years for Agricultural Training, Education Centers, Forest Plantation, Vocational Training Programs and Local Marketing of Agricultural Products.

  • More than 80 ponds in around 70 villages (2 acres to 5 acres area per pond)
  • 35 Farming centres in around 30 villages (1 acre to 10 or more acres area for per farming centre):
    Rs 10,000 per month average income per farming center
  • More than 1,50,000 trees per year on an average are being planted with the motivation of open social university in Bastar region
  • More than 100 SHG (self-help-group) were formed for tribal women and farmers in Dantewada
  • An unit of hand-loom with the strength of 27 workers
  • 650 women are working with sewing machines
    Rs 20,000 per month average income per lady

Foot marches for public contribution to construct Gokul Social University in Aurangabad, Bihar
An university was planned as the centers for farmers for training, motivation and supports. Vivek Umrao Glendenning acted for 3 years as the founding Vice Chancellor of this non-formal social university. Under his guidance many centers in many villages in various district of Bihar were formed.

Re-establishment of an entire village which was ruined by fire in the year 2007
Because of a big fire, more than 750 family houses were completely burnt in the year 2007 in Khagaria, Bihar. Immediate relief and rehabilitation works were executed by the team co-led by Vivek Umrao Glendenning and Er Dharmendra Kumar Yadav. New homes were constructed and supports for employments were provided by the team.
Credits for financial supports- A.I.D. (USA), Dr Claire Jean Glendenning (Australia), Lia Darby (Australia), Vivek Umrao Glendenning, Dr Swami Vivekanand Yadav, Er Dharmendra Kumar Yadav and others.

Flood Relief Works

  • Relief and rehabilitation works in Bihar flood – 2008 were done exclusively in Madhepura, Naugachhia, Khagaria, Saharsa, Supaul, Katihar, Samstipur, Araria, Purnia and other districts of Bihar by the local volunteers team co-led by Vivek Umrao Glendenning, Shankar Agrawal, Abhinandan Kumar Jahanvi, Nagendra Singh “Tyagi”, Mira Sinha, Er Dharmendra Kumar Yadav Prafull Chandra Ghosh, Ramnarendra and others.
    Credits for financial supports- Asha for Education (USA), A.I.D. (USA), Dr Claire J Glendenning, Vivek Umrao Glendenning, Shankar Agrawal, Amla Ruia and others.
  • Vivek Umrao Glendenning travelled in flood suffered areas by spending more than 10 hours per day in boat in high turbulent flood stream of the river Koshi for more than 8 weeks to cover very interior and untouched areas.
    Because of his visits of very interior areas, administration was forced to release more than 80 million Rs and 12 trucks relief materials within 24 hours. These areas were not attended by any NGO and government administration though more than one month after flood.
  • Relief and rehabilitation works for months in the year of 2007 in Bihar were done by the local voluntary team co-led by Vivek Umrao Glendenning, Er Dharmendra Kumar Yadav and Nagendra Singh “Tyagi”.
    Credits for financial supports- A.I.D. (USA), Dr Claire J. Glendenning, Amla Ruia, Umesh Rashmi Rohtagi (USA), Vivek Umrao Glendenning, Prof H. C. Verma, Gopal Krishna (Canada), Dr Swami Vivekanand Yadav, Er Dharmendra Kumar Yadav, Er Rupesh Kumar Garg (MS, USA) and others.

Mass meetings and public talks by Vivek Umrao Glendenning
Vivek Umrao Glendenning’s speeches in the mass meetings or public talks
co-organized / co-led by Vivek Umrao Glendenning

Working with International Organizations:

Member: The Chartered Institute of Journalists, London, UK
Member with editing rights: Wikimedia, Australia
Member: International PEN, England
Member: International PEN Sydney Centre, Australia

Managing Director: Ground Report Media Private Limited
Editor: Ground Report India, an international eJournal ISSN 1839-6232
Editor: Ground Report India, print quarterly journal

Founder Coordinator: Local Governance & Decentralized Economy Social Group (LGDESG)

Part of training manual of INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE

(Contact Vivek Umrao)

He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and contributed in an international research on Decentralised Energy Systems with Indian Institute of Management.