HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028638 "The way things are going I am not feeling very positive. I am a born optimist; we are spending billions of dollars but is that being delivered efficiently? The answer is no, all of us know that, and that's why we keep going back to the government; public-private—partnerships is going to be the key to move forward, you have the resources we have the management expertise let's join hands. And it has started moving." Anu Aga led Thermax Ltd from 1996-2004, after retirement she remains on the company's board of directors. The chairperson of TFI (Teach For India) was nominated to Rajya Sabha in 2012. "My giving actually started when I lost my son, who was 25 and died in a car accident. Having studied abroad, poverty really bothered him. We who live in India, we become quite insensitive to seeing poor people, but he kept saying a substantial part of our wealth has to go to charity." "It started in a very small way, it's not as if I gave away crores and crores at once. It started with me getting personally involved and I like that model very much, I'm not very happy with just writing a cheque and not getting involved. I was involved with Akansksha and then I was invited to join their board—it ran centres for slum children and I brought it to Pune. "We have six schools, now this is done by the CSR wing of Thermax, but Shaheen (Mistry) then started Teach For India, which personally I support. "From the family wealth, it's my daughter and I who decide on things. The bulk of our giving is to Teach For India and Akanksha, but we also give to an institute called Parivaar in Calcutta, which is for the poorest of the poor. In Bihar we are giving to a school run by an ex-police officer for the rat-eating tribe. The main underlining thing is credibility. Giving without being involved does give me that little fear, but at the same time I would rather make a few mistakes than mistrust everybody. "There is a lovely body called Caring Friends