We launch free Legal Help. Also read about our Women's Day event.

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Greetings Members,
Mission & Vision
Moneylife Foundation is a notfor-profit organisation with a mission to spread financial literacy and be the voice of Indian savers. Our vision is to give a voice to those of us who work hard, earn, save and still don't seem to have a say in the decisions that affect us, because we are neither a vote bank nor part of any vested interests.

We are late with the newsletter this time because there was simply too much going on at Moneylife Foundation. I am delighted to announce the successful launch of Moneylife Foundation's Legal

Trustees
Sucheta Dalal sucheta@moneylife.in Debashis Basu editor@moneylife.in Dr Nita Mukherjee nitamuk@gmail.com Walter Vieira waltervieira@gmail.com

Resource Centre (LRC) on 21 st February by Ms Yukta Mookhey, Miss World 1999. We have tried to keep the LRC rather low key until we are geared up to handle more queries. But we have already received 27 queries in this short time and have responded and closed 23 of them. As we expected, the majority of queries relate to property issues or cooperative housing society matters. Mr Shirish Shanbhag has done a wonderful job of answering nearly a dozen queries while our Mr Yogesh Sapkale has anchored the LRC effort. What is the Legal Resource Centre? We plan to provide information and guidance for those who need legal help in choosing the best forum or formulating a plan of action. The LRC has a rich panel of legal experts led by Advocate Jamshed Mistry and many leading activists who have offered their expertise to enable us to provide free guidance. We have initially restricted our effort to 10 areas filing complaints with financial regulators, consumer complaints, Right to Information, the IT Act and issues that affect life and liberty, guidance on Wills, transmission of assets, realty and housing society issues and guidance for effective whistle-blowing. Please post requests only from the LRC website because it is important that you read our terms and conditions. Do check out the coverage of our launch event and uploaded video. We request corporates to consider the LRC for your CSR activities which would benefit your company's stakeholders and employees. Our education effort, our helplines and our future plans fall squarely within this definition. On International Women's Day we had a heart-warming event. We had the honour of felicitating two amazing activists, whose efforts provide help, support, courage and finance to people suffering from Multiple Sclerosis and Spinal Cord Injuries. Both these gutsy women have led by example and are an inspiration to all! Sheelatai Chitnis heads the Multiple Sclerosis Society of India and Dr Ketna Mehta founded Nina Foundation with her brother Dhaval.Do take a look at these lovely videos.

Special Invitee
Adv Jamshed Mistry jamshedmistry@gmail.com

Affiliations
Moneylife Foundation is a notfor-profit organisation, registered with the Charity Commissioner of Mumbai.

Moneylife Foundation is an affiliate member of OECD project of International We launch free Legal Help. Also read about our Women's Day event. Pls Share Network on Financial Education.

Who better to be our chief guest and keynote speaker than Ms Moneylife Foundation has been Usha Ananthasubramanian, chairman and managing director accepted as a Supporter of of Bharatiya Mahila Bank the first and only government bank Consumers International, for women. The bank has put together six unique products a global federation representing 240 consumer organisations that could transform savvy women, who run profitable home that work together with its businesses into entrepreneurs. Ms Ananthasubramanian's members. It serves as the only empathy and seriousness about the cause she has taken up independent and authoritative was apparent in her speech peppered with examples of how global voice for consumers. women and self-help groups are already being funded byPM] the file:///Y|/All%20html/Foundation%20Monthly%20newsletter/February%202014/index.html[3/18/2014 12:24:23 Bank. Check the video of the keynote address here.
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Donations are eligible for tax benefits under Sec 80G of the Income Tax 1961 (50% tax exemption). Moneylife Foundation is registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 and has a valid FCRA license granted by the Ministry of Home Affairs New Delhi, and thus can accept donations in any currency through non-Indians.

Our theme this year was "Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs."

As part of DSP BlackRock's Winvestor financial literacy initiative for women, we started with a special talk on "Savvy Saving for Smart Women!" by Nisreen Mamaji, a well known financial planner. If you missed her talk, read more about the session or watch the video here.

On 28th February, we screened 'A Thin Dividing Line', Paranjoy Guha Thakurta's documentary on the double taxation avoidance treaty with Mauritius and its implications. Do check details here. Advocacy: We wrote to the RBI about the use of funds credited to the Depositor Education and Awareness Fund Scheme. We urged the RBI to ensure that that the interests of banking customers are protected, and the benefit of the scheme reaches the maximum number of people. We wrote to the RBI seeking an investigation on the corporate debt restructuring CDR of a whopping Rs9,000 crore to the Lanco Group. Its founder, L Rajagopal, a member of parliament (MP) was ignominiously suspended for spraying pepper inside parliament. Do check all our memorandums here. Help us make our voices heard: If you have benefitted from our information, our network, our helplines or our seminars and believe that we need to reach out to a larger constituency, do please consider giving something back to help us grow. Your donations are eligible for tax benefits under Section 80G of the Income-Tax Act. To donate, click here. As always, I thank you for your support and look forward to your feedback always. Thank you and best regards,

Our journey so far

202 Events 28,910 Members 120 Speakers 1,42,500 Attendees

Do check our long list of events at this link. Please tell your friends and colleagues about our work and help us strengthen our voice. Membership is free, they can join and utilise the many benefits by clicking here.

Sucheta Dalal

Founder Trustee, Moneylife Foundation

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