Is this budget something that Medha tai should have presented to WCD itself?
No commissioner is dependent on WCD for funds. In fact commissioners of WCD also raise funds for it. So far Medha alone hasn t helped with this due to shortage of time. Also other commissioners have offices, staff, infrastructure and so on as they do not belong to a very grassroots movement like Medha tai and so work like well-funded NGOs (then of course the pro-dam commissioners are like capitalists who have lots of facilities). So there is much help that other commissioners get from their existing groups and contacts to raise funds or facilities to use for WCD work, but Medha being in the position of not accepting foreign funds for NBA and not having specific fund-raisers really has to spend enormous time to raise funds, which she doesn t have. What the commissioners present as their budget has relation to what they raise from funding agencies and what they want to do. Medha is low (zero so far) on the first and probably the highest on the last, which makes it necessary that she has
