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United Way of Baroda-Price Hike !

NAVRATRI baroda

United way?

The nine glorious nights of ‘Navratri’ to Vadodara is one of the biggest and much awaited festival of the year. Every garba loving person of city makes it a point to go to United Way because of the smart marketing. Perhaps, the only reason is Mr. Atul Purohit,United Way of Baroda’s brand name.

This year United Way went online which is obviously way better than standing in never-ending queues for hours in the heat. While filling up my registration form all I spotted was FOR MALE – BY GIVING RS. 2500/- AS DONATION. (EXTRA RS. 25 TOWARDS ONLINE CONVINENCE FEES) THIS VOLUNTARY DONATION IS NON REFUNDABLE. What a shocker!

The entire concept of female fanatics paying Rs 200 as security deposit which is refundable whereas the male fanatics paying Rs 2500 which is donated. Why the discrimination? Isn’t the basic definition of ‘Equality’, to be equals be it male or female? Even if a reasonable hike of Rs 100 or Rs 200 is still understandable but a direct jump of Rs 500 is way too much. As for the girls, nearly 50% of them don’t go back to take their security deposits and the ones that do are persuaded to donate the amount. May be, to the United Way of Baroda male species aren’t good enough to be honoured with the courtesy to be asked to willingly donate the amount. In those 9 fancy days, every male garba fanatic has to almost pay Rs 2300 extra (if compared), get only approximately 2 hours to play, moreover pay for the parking, food and after garba hangouts. Even opposing in the time of inflation won’t do any good, but they can at least increase the time limit to after midnight. I definitely think United Way of Baroda doesn’t believe in ‘Equality’.

The whole idea behind setting up this organisation was to mobilize the resources from the local communities and apply them to strengthen social sectors in the city by funding to non-profit organisations. Everyone in the city knows United Way of Baroda makes money in crore which is pure profit before a week of Navratri after deducting all the expenses and as for the sponsorship their profits are decided after the 9 eventful days. Gone are the days when United Way’s main objective was to be non-profitable body. Today even though the funds go the right places, United Way of Baroda is become a full fledged business as the outcome is less than the income.

Let’s see at the approximate calculations of the income generated by our famous NGO funding organisation:

  • United Way has around 40 to 50 canteen stalls which include both VIP and General stalls out of which 10 stalls are for beverages and the rest are for food.
    • The income generated from the rent of beverage stall is around Rs 3 lakhs to Rs 4 lakhs and the rent of food stalls is around Rs 50,000.
    •  On an average 100 (approximately) people with V.VIP passes donate about Rs 35,000 to Rs 40,000. They are provided with car parking space for two cars and VIP seating arrangement to watch garba.
      • Donation generated (100 x Rs 25,000 = Rs2500000)
      • Sponsorship usually starts from Rs 5 lakhs to Rs 10 lakhs and the revenue generated is nearly Rs  Rs4000000(approximately).
      • 35,000 to 40,000 participants attend United Way out of which 10,000 to 15,000 of are male participants and the rest are female participants.
        • Income generated from male participants (15,000 x Rs 2,500 = Rs 3,75,00,000)
        • 50% out of the female participants donate their security deposits (25,000 x Rs 200 = Rs 20,00,000)

 

Calculation

Source Quantity Cost Total
Stall 40 Rs70,000 Rs2800000
VVIP 100 Rs25,000 Rs2500000
Sponser Rs4000000
Participants(Male) 15000 Rs2500 Rs37500000
Participants(Female) 20000/2 Rs200 Rs2000000
48800000

Total Approximate income Rs 4,88,00,000 (Approx)

 

Note: We have published this article just for the awareness with no intention to harm the image of any particular organization of person.This article can be taken as oppose for the Unexpected price hike in the Male pass rate.

7 Comments

  1. અમિત પટેલ અમિત પટેલ September 12, 2013

    Cool. At least you write truth.

  2. Mayank Mayank September 13, 2013

    I get it
    They are charging more to get a class of people in the garba ground.
    I understand your anger over price but I think its needed to maintain the class of people on the garba floor.

    What I really want from this website is to give me a list of other places to be at the time of Garba

    • Saumil Joshi Saumil Joshi Post author | September 13, 2013

      Do you judge CLASS public on basis of MONEY ? Mentality of a person decides their CLASS !!
      Rich People don’t Stare girls ?
      And yes we will publish the list soon.

      • Sona Pandya Sona Pandya October 7, 2013

        Truly said……its mentality of such creeps who stare girls and being girl can firmly understand this, the pious Navratri festival is abused with this vulgarity. Anyways, I can sense your fury on sudden hike in male pass rates, but will urge you that the amount paid would be use for a noble cause, no worries where they use it but we are fulfilling our liability by paying it for a betterment now its upto them were they allocate this fund.

  3. Dhrudip Thakkar Dhrudip Thakkar October 8, 2013

    The price hike and security deposit for female participant is to exclude certain class of people. not only that they organised garba just opposite to Bhailal Amin Hospital where many heart patient get their treatment, so being a so called NGO its their moral responsibility to not to organised Garba to such a place. you laugh out loudly when you read their mission statement

    To solve problems of the community.

    Identifying needs of people, recognizing issues and respond to tackle the issues.

    To increase our financial resources in order to meet the growing needs of the community by getting prospective donors at individual and corporate levels.

    To facilitate in the following fields:
    Training and development, Environment, Women Empowerment, Youth, Children welfare, Disability, Senior citizens, Education, etc.

    Dear United Way Of Baroda To fulfill this aim you have to fallow certain principal that you don’t have. you have a only one principal that make the people full in the name of NGO and make as much money as you can.

  4. Smith Smith October 9, 2013

    United ways net profit of this year only from garba is 100000000.

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