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A Sanket M. Yenagi Foundation

SMYLE Foundation, is a private Non-Govermental Organization formed in Bangalore, Karnataka in the year 2017 by Mr.Sanket M. Yenagi, an Advocate practicing in Supreme Court of India and various others High Courts. It is engaged in social welfare activities aimed at alleviation of human suffering and all-round amelioration of society especially for the poor, helpless & weaker sections.

SMYLE derives maximum private funding from Mr.Sanket M.Yenagi, the Founder. Also, it is receiving funds in the form of sponsorship from private sources, such as corporate money, an individual wealth, family wealth and others.

The social welfare activities of the SMYLE are spread across in various dimensions, such as, Adult Education, Scholarship for Poor and Meritorious Students, Distribution of study material to Poor students, Establishment of Free Medical centre, Blood Donation Camps and Other Health Services, Moral and Self confidence building activities, Relief work in Natural Calamities, Campaigning for Pollution Control, Tree Plantation, Helping for marriages of Poor, Self Employment related Workshop, Workshop and seminar related to sustainable development for rural and urban area are organized time to time.

The prominent activities of SMYLE are noticeable during flood in Coorg in 2018, flood in North Karnataka in 2019, mass-marriages, adopting a government school and providing free uniforms and books to 750 students in the school and paying their annual school fees.

A Sanket M. Yenagi Foundation

Power of Youth Foundation, is a private Non-Govermental Organization formed in Bangalore, Karnataka in the year 2019 by Mr.Sanket M. Yenagi, an Advocate practicing in Supreme Court of India and various others High Courts.

Power of Youth derives maximum private funding from Mr.Sanket M.Yenagi, the Founder. Also, it is receiving funds in the form of sponsorship from private sources, such as corporate money, an individual wealth, family wealth and others.

Power of Youth is a collective effort of transformers, visionaries, corporate and the benefactors. An NGO which was cradled in the Bangalore region is now brimming with endless energy and has a vision to spread across the State of Karnataka. In a short time of its existence itself, Power of Youth has shown a tremendous growth. The parent centre has now received several requests fof branches across all other districts of Karnataka, which includes Livelihood Development Centres, Partnership Centres, Jail Centres and for mobile rural camps.

VISION

Create opportunities for school dropouts and deprived youth to help them lead productive and socially useful lives.

MISSION

To give a second chance to the less educated deprived youth through wage or self- employment based on urban and rural livelihood training provided in partnership with stakeholders.
As one of the young and active NGOs in the livelihood space in Bangalore that works for the “out of school” youth, Power of Youth strongly believes that the nation’s strength and future lies in the hands of its youth. Unlike the developed countries where 90% youth opt for some or the other sort of vocational training, less than 5% undergo vocational training in our country despite the fact that India is a country with the largest youth population.

At Power of Youth, we run the only inclusive program in Karnataka. The key features of the program are:

• Admission to anyone who can read and write with no formal education.
• Focus on hands on vocational training (70%practical and 30%theory)
• Vichar Parivartan(SKP)- aproprietary program for attitudinal change and life skills such as decision making,time management,money management,values& perception,health&hygiene,work readiness etc.
• Community Engagement, Counselling and Mentoring
• Job placement and assistance for self-employment
• We adopt a holistic approach of enhancing the less fortunate youth with vocational skills, guidance, counselling and financial assistance.
• Annually, we empower several youth to begin fully employed including those that take a bigger leap of becoming an entrepreneur.
• At Power of Youth, we aim to continue growing and mentoring other local NGOs and like-minded organizations to deliver the same model of livelihood training to achieve a Pan India presence.

From encouraging 50 students to more than 650 students, from the drought to flood affected areas of Karnataka, Power of Youth has expanded its horizons to become a model youth movement.

The prominent activities of Power of Youth are noticeable after flood in Coorg in 2018, flood in North Karnataka in 2019, adopting a government school and providing free uniforms and books to 750 students in the school and paying their annual school fees.

Extramarital sex is not a criminal offence in India anymore.

The country’s supreme court today (Sept. 27) struck down a colonial-era law that prescribed a maximum imprisonment of five years to men for adultery. However, the offence still remains a valid ground for divorce.

A five-judge bench of the court ruled that section 497 of the Indian Penal Code violates women’s right to equality and treats them like the property of their husbands. “It’s time to say that (a) husband is not the master of (his) wife,” chief justice of India, Dipak Misra, read out from the judgment.

Unlike the country’s sexual assault laws, which hinge on the consent of the woman, the 158-year-old adultery law did not consider the woman’s will. Though women couldn’t be punished under the provision, a husband could prosecute the man who had sexual relations with his wife, even if the wife was a voluntary participant in the act.

A wife, on the other hand, could prosecute neither her husband nor those with whom he had engaged in extramarital affairs.

The Narendra Modi government had supported the colonial-era law on the grounds that it preserved the sanctity of marriage and served a public good.

“Protecting marriage is the responsibility of the couple involved. If one of them fails, there is a civil remedy (divorce law) available to the other. Where is the question of ‘public good’ in a broken marriage?” Misra had asked during the hearings in August.

The Modi government was open to making the law gender-neutral by allowing for the prosecution of a woman who has sex with a married man. However, the court has consistently refused to allow for prosecution of women. 

In 1985, the supreme court said, “It is commonly accepted that it is the man who is the seducer and not the woman,” and that making the law gender-neutral would allow for “a crusade by a woman against a woman.”