The growth in the number of medical chain shops across the state has been a major area of concern for the smaller medical retail and wholesale shops. In order to put a check to, and protest the growth of such chain shops, the Karnataka State Chemists and Druggists Welfare Association was formed.

We've all been evidence to this. All of us might have stumbled upon this at some point of time.

India is a union of linguistically formed states, and hence governance in India is a matter of managing people of different languages/identities. Even though these remain written truths, there're subtle ways in which our identities have been forcibly compromised with, and attempts to mask various identities under one off identity have been made almost everywhere in the past 61 years of India's existence.

Tata Jagriti Yatra 2008 will be an inspirational train journey undertaken by around 400 young and enterprising participants, between 18-25 years, from India and overseas. These youth will participate in the 18 day train journey interacting with social and economic entrepreneurs across the country thus encouraging the spirit of social entrepreneurship.

The train will leave Mumbai on December 24, 2008 and covering 13 cities and villages of India before returning to Mumbai on January 10, 2009, thus covering around 8000 kms.