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2010 Global Education Conference
Integrated and Sustainable Development through
Work Centric Pre-vocational Training in the High Schools
Kiran InamdarState Head - CSR
Suzlon Foundation
Dr. Yogesh KulkarniExecutive Director
Vigyan Ashram
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Suzlon Foundation
• Suzlon Foundation – Section 25 Non-Profit Company Leads Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Suzlon Group of Companies around all the Suzlon Wind Farms Neighbourhood Villages
• addresses issues / needs identified by the local communities
• project implementation in partnership with reputed NGOs
• Budget (approx. 1% of PAT)
• Multidisciplinary team to oversee CSR
• 146 projects across 8 states and 2 Union territories in India
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Focus of CSR
• Rural unemployment :Pre-vocational Training Introduction to basic technology (IBT)
in schools• Need of mainstreaming women:
Women’s empowerment through Self Help groups (SHGs)• Degraded soils/ water scarcity:
Soil and Water Conservation• Decreasing livestock production
Grazing land development Animal health care camps
• Poor access to primary health care: Access to Health facilities at minor cost
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Needs in the area
• Suzlon’s biggest wind farm in Asia in District Dhule-Nandurbar
• Dhule-Nandurbar - a backward, draught prone districts with majority tribal population
• Village expectations -permanent employment in Corporates
• Mis match of requirement of highly skilled, well educated few person power and availability of illiterate / uneduated / unskilled tribal villagers
• Hence potential for technical training
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Vigyan AshramVIGYAN ASHRAM
www.vigyanashram.com
Education System - The Backdrop • Non availability of
schools in rural area• Poor quality of
education• Teachers not up to the
mark• Theoretical Bookish
Knowledge• technical education not
easily available • Poor infrastructure• Gap between need of
the industry and education
• Illiterate,Un-educated, Poor & passive parents
• Language – Problem• Male dominated
society - discrimanation between Girls & Boys
• Illiteracy• Un-educated
Population• Less confident youths• Less opportunities• Shortage of person
power• Gap between rich and
poor• People in general
Interested in Easy money, corruption
• Cheating, Thefts, riots• Childeren / Girls /
Women more harassed• Cheap labour• Adiction, alcoholism,
bad habits
PovertyMalnutritionMigrationBraindrainUnemploymentAgitation Increasing gap
between rich and poor
Poor governance
Mean PoliticsLack of hope
for change
4 lakhs/yr
Employment generation in organised sector
Out of 170 lakhs population per year only 4 lakhs employed in organised sector i.e. 166 lakhs are left out of main stream every year.
Introduction to Basic Technologies (IBT)
Developed by Dr. Kalbag at Vigyan Ashram Pabal(Pune,India)
Objective : To achieve Integrated and Sustainable Development through Work Centric Pre-vocational Training to youth
Simple, economical, globaly replicable model
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Rural Development Through Education SystemVIGYAN ASHRAM
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1 Learning While Doing
2 Multiskill training
3 Instructors are Artisans from the village
4 School itself becomes production cum training center.
PrinciplesVIGYAN ASHRAM
Skills
Values Creativity
Logical thinking
Information
Education
‘Learning While Doing’ is
‘Natural way of Learning’
Necessary for achieving five attributes of education
Depends on earlier experiences.
To get diverse experience, learning through work is necessary
Learning While DoingVIGYAN ASHRAM
Multi-skills Training
• About 20 pre-vocational skills are introduced in the High School
• Children get choice for her / his career• Can work in altogether new 21st
technology also• Ex-students have been working confidently
in more than 2-3 technologies at a time• Muti-skills allows risk management• Success ratio is more
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SyllabusVIGYAN ASHRAM
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Instructors are village artisans
• Artisans / microenterpreneurs having skills are their own bosses, experienced and successful self-employeds
• Local micro-entrepreneurs recieves:– the opportunity in village itself
– training for • upgradation of thier skills and • for imparting the skills
– access to students as apprentice too!– Increased earnings through honorarium for teaching the
skills and share in the community services.– Dignity and opportunity to serve the society
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School becomes – production cum training center
• Entire village including school being customer are involved in the project
• Students get opportunity to work with master trainer / artisan on the live projects
• Right from the conception to implementation stage students get first hand practical experience
• Ex-students, women, un-employed youths are also involved
• Villagers get products / services at reasonable cost
• School gets community service charges, fees from the students which is used for the sustainability of the project
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List of Services given by schools
• Simple fabrication• Assembling LED lamps• Soil & water testing• Agricultural equipments• Appliances repairing• Class Room construction• Repairing of Benches, Chairs• Toilets for Girls in the School• Vermi compost, nursery• Food products• Friendship Bands• Kites, Scientific Toys• Solar Driers• Dried Vegetables• Products from Waste• Paper lampsheds• Animal vaccination
Cumulative Value of community services by 75 schools in 3 years is > $ 135000
No of students per year = 11250
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Partners
• Suzlon Foundation• MIT USA• Lend-a-Hand-India• Department of Science and
Technology• GKN Sinter Metal Ltd.• National Institute of Open Schooling • Department of Technical Education• Various High Schools where
programme is being implimented
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Course Material :
1. Work books, Manuals, Video Cassettes
2. Multimedia CD ROMs in Marathi, Hindi and English languages
Problem referral system :
1. Use of Internet is suggested.
2. A portal www.aaqua.org is developed in collabration with IIT, Pawai to give experts advice on agriculture and animal husbandry related problems.
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Related Websites
• www.suzlonfoundation.com
• www.vigyanashram.com
• www.techshala.com
• www.renindia.in
• www.agrocom.co.in
• www.aaqua.org
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Thank You !
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