‘Namakaga’- a fortnightly promotes Knowledge based Development Journalism.

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The ‘Namakaga’ a bilingual (both English and Tamil) fortnightly published from Trichy is a community-based knowledge management fortnightly on comprehensive development news. This fortnightly is closely related to the Knowledge Management for Development of community, self help groups, school community, special educators and comprehensive development workers.’Namakaha’ also covers the social issues to be addressed to and also covers the success stories implemented by NGOs and Government Departments. It never fails to critically make an analysis of socio, economic, political, environmental and other public associated concerns and issues and publish the same. The ‘Namakaga’ publishes case studies and short ‘Self Help groups’ interventions, schools interventions' which have a knowledge management component to such topics of  poverty alleviation, health, agriculture, education, gender empowerment, policy issues, and so forth. ‘Namakaga’ is concerned with the role of knowledge in development processes. This includes knowledge management from small community-based organisations to large multilateral ones; knowledge process with the grassroots; and description and analysis of knowledge networks. The Namakaga’also aims to promote cross-fertilisation with other fields and, in particular, to provide a platform to share information on approaches that throw light on the development sector-wide knowledge system. Namakaha also publishes articles that knowledge about development across the life span of articles of the biological, social, and cultural factors that affect development. Namakaga News and articles address human development, studies of other species those are appropriate and have important implications for human development. By challenging current assumptions and promoting cross-fertilisation, the Namakaga’ seeks to stimulate new thinking and to shape future ways of working. Development is understood to be a process involving a broad palette of human factors, concerned with individual people living in very different conditions across the world. As such, development efforts are aimed at strengthening people's abilities to respond to the challenges they encounter in their environment at individual, family, community and wider societal levels. It is a process of empowerment of marginalised people, which involves the transfer, development and leveraging of knowledge in such a way that they are better informed of their personal development possibilities and livelihood opportunities, and better equipped to capitalize on them. From this perspective, development initiatives can succeed only if there is a thorough understanding of the cultural and socio-economic environment of the intended beneficiaries: development depends to a large extent on how well knowledge of these factors is applied. The Editor Mr.L.ShanawasKhan is an educationist and he tries to promote development journalism and Namkaha is first of its kind in Tamilnadu as commercial fortnightly.-Govin