NSS Project Report - 2013 (1)

Collaborating For

Better Tomorrow

Ichhe Dana

Nourish Dreams to flourish

Registered under West Bengal XXVI of S/IL 52102

Project report

Ichhe Dana Nourish Dreams to flourish

Project Objective and Planning

The primary objective of this project is to take up social initiatives which will be beneficial for the people of the society. The initiatives are believed to play the vital role to sensitize common people of the society about the responsibility towards the underprivileged section. Now-a-days when we are seeing our surrounding becoming more and more selfish and losing the greatest virtue of life humanity, a trend of decreasing interest towards real social responsibility is being observed especially in youths. Being said that even we cannot ignore our own responsibilities just by blaming the people of the society. While doing the introspection questions comes up like: Why the youths are not getting interest in doing social developments, if we try to give it a thought, are we allowing the GenY to actually interact to know about the social responsibilities in a meaningful and interesting way? Are we trying to encourage the youths to look at it in a simple way. Cant we make doing Social Work a fun event which will make our society happy and we can see the youths coming up to make this world a beautiful place to live. Let us take an example, Suppose an young has come up with a budding interest to do something for the society, at the very beginning he has been asked to go to a remote village, far away from his home, to do some extensive day long field survey under the scorching heat of sun to collect data about the socio economical condition of the people living in the village. Or suppose he has been asked to donate a sum of 5000 Rs. towards the charity. In both the cases will the young be encouraged to cater the responsibility. In most of the cases NO, rather he will be shattered with wrong perception about doing social work. For him in first case the concept will remain as a very complex one and not-so-easy job and in second case he will never get the actual flair and seriousness lies within. So, what can be the solution to the concerns raised above? Ichhe Dana believes that the participation of the youth is a must to make progress. Thus we vow to build a community of social investors committed


to social causes to inform, enable and enhance the need of social investing. We seek to nourish, transform and empower dreams and envision paying back to the society we belong and all this in a simple yet interesting way which will encourage the people to join the cause. Ichhe Dana is fortunate enough to have Techno India as the philanthropic partner of this concept. The pilot project Collaborating for Better Tomorrow has been planned and executed by Ichhe Dana in collaboration with the Techno India, Salt Lake and Techno India Alumni Association. This initiative is conceptualized to cover the course syllabus of Extra Curricular Activities (Code: XC181). Total 725 students of 1st Year B-Tech participated in this initiative. The program has been broadly Categorised as:

A. Individual Efforts 1. Self-Contribution for society 2. Contribution for society with our thought process

B. Group Efforts

1. Case studies and Seminars 2. Participate in Group Activities/ Social Drives

We have conducted a psychometric test for all the students to understand their strengths, weakness, approach towards social cause, their knowledge about the real scenario of the society and their interest areas. The assignment was planned particularly according to the result of the test.


Project Implementation

Category: Individual Efforts

Self-Contribution for society: Under this initiative we have planned to organize collection drives which include easy collecting materials like Educational Stationeries and documents, dry Food Items, unused medicines/medical equipments, Clothes etc. Students have been requested to collect the items from their family members, neighbours or persons known to them. This is because through this way the students will be getting appreciations and encouragement from their near ones which in turn will generate interest towards social work within the Students. The collected items were segregated type wise and distributed by Ichhe Dana among the people in need. Different initiatives under the category:

Collect 1 old/New cloths Collect 1 new copy, 1 new pen/ pencil, 1 eraser and 1 ruler Collect 2 packets of food (any one items: Like rice (200 gms min),

Dal(200 gms min), Biscuits(2 packets),cakes(2 packets) or any other dry items ) Any One Item per Student

Collect old medicines (Should be within Expiry date), used spectacles or other medical equipment. Any One Item per Student

Collect outline photographs, maps etc. for arts and craft camp Collect Good Bengali, English movie with sub titles, cartoons

movies, Documentary or other inspiring events video Donate Study material/Books for students aspiring for Engineering

or donate old books for class 1 to class 12 of his/her own

Contribution for society with your thought process:

We can bring positive changes in the society with our thought process. It

was planned to prepare posters to help in creating mass awareness on

different issues like: Environment and need of Renewable Energy, Child


Labour and child education, Gender issues, Waste Disposal, Need of Blood

Donation, Rights of the Specially Abled people, Anti Drug Campaigns etc.

Students have been encouraged to participate according to their likeness and choice like: those who are good in painting uses their painting skills to create picture and message for Social event, those who are good in hand writing prepared Handbills and posters with the messages for Social events, Students having interest in the field of photography captured pictures of Transport, road side, rail lines, dust in railway platform, plastic garbage, unhealthy dustbin, smoke of factory: cars, Ecology: ponds, fields, agriculture etc. Different topics under the poster category:

Blood donation Health related issues and on anti-Drug, Dengue, Malaria etc. Pollution and Renewable Energy resources

Child labour, Environment: Tree plantation, Save water

Fun learning and advantages of visual learning

Child Education , Mass Education

Honouring the Senior Citizens, Specially Abled people

Issues of Traffic and Road condition

Gender disparities

Waste Disposal Management

Slum problems and probable solutions

Need of Cloth & Medicine for the underprivileged section

Important phone numbers (Medical, Police, Child Care, Woman cell,

Electricity, fire brigade etc. HOT LINE Numbers)


Category: Group Efforts

Students have been divided into groups based on the psychometric test organized by Ichhe Dana - the coordinating social organization of the program. Each group have been identified to undertake and participate in one initiative under each category as follows:

Case studies and Seminars:

Different case studies were provided by the coordinating Social Organization and relevant seminars were organized to help Students to understand what are the basic issues in society and how can we counter that. Renowned Govt. and Social Organizations like West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA), Nature Environment Wildlife Society (NEWS) and Ichhe Dana felicitated the seminars on:

- Alternative Energy, Progress status and role of Government, NGOs and Society

- Environment, Bio diversity & Climate Change - Education System in India : The impacting factors : Ray of Hope

Participate in Group Activities/ Social Drives:

Various Group Activities were planned with the objective to have significant impact on the Society. Like minded students were identified based on the psychometric test and were combined to form groups of social change agents. Each group undertook one of the following initiatives to drive:

Waste Disposal Management - A group, formed with the likeminded students, organized and demonstrated methods of Waste Management to the street shops and pedestrians. The group also demonstrated awareness posters prepared by their fellow classmates. This initiative covers many vendor stalls and reaches a large number of people with the message

Blood Donation Camp A Blood Donation Camp was organized with the administrative assistance of the college authority and volunteered by the Students. The Students group who organized this camp also demonstrated relevant posters, banners and did week long awareness campaign to generate interest among the


potential donors. Total 170 donors including Students as well as Faculty members and staffs of Techno India donated blood

Puja Parikrama with Senior Citizens Under this initiative the

primary objective was caring the aging in-mates by creating opportunity of reliving the life. Some of the Puja pandals were listed based on the route plan and the students have been requested to be present at any of the listed pandals which is near to their home. When the bus with the seniors arrived at the respective Puja Pandals the Students guided the Senior citizens to enjoy their visit and to pay homage to the Goddess Durga. During this the Students interacted with the aged people to know about them. The response both from the students and senior citizens was overwhelming. All of them enjoyed the togetherness

Kite flying festival This event was one of the series of events planned with an objective to spread the message against child labour and to bring smiles in the faces of the underprivileged children. A group of likeminded students organized the Kite flying festival with the underprivileged children at the college ground. The children enjoyed their time to their fullest and enthusiastic participation of the students made the event a memorable one

Movie Show Another unique of its kind event planned with the same objective. A movie show was organized where the students, faculty members and children enjoyed their time watching a meaningful movie in which a strong social message being passed in a very simple way

Cricket match with the Team of Specially Abled people The objective of this event is to create mass awareness regarding the fact that the Specially Abled people do not need sympathy but just an equal opportunity to prove that they are able to perform well, same as any other able person. The Team of BSIDWS an organization working to ensuring the rights of the Specially Abled people, played two exhibition matches with the Team of Students from Techno India to win the Friendship Trophy. The matches were played in the college ground with a big crowd as supporting spectators. The matches were played with high spirit and sportsmanship. Ambulance with First Aid facility was provided by the social organization - Medical Bank during the matches.

Showcasing Talents: Musical Event The Thanks Giving ceremony cum the closing ceremony was planned in a unique way. The


students with extracurricular talents in the field of music were chosen to showcase their talent. We also invited the children of the dance team of Ichhe Dana who performed two dances. To honour all the performers it was planned to put a contribution box to collect Rs. 5 from each of the audience as a token while they are entering the auditorium. The accumulated contribution has been handed over to the college authority to procure Educational Stationeries for the underprivileged children. A packed house of audience enjoyed much throughout the program. The children from Ichhe Dana were fortunate enough to be loved and blessed by the honourable Principal Madam along with all faculty members and students present there. Followed by the Thanks Giving Ceremony we had a High Tea program where the honourable faculty members shared their thoughts and suggestions on the initiative Collaborating for Better Tomorrow.

As this initiative was implemented under the course Extra Curricular Activities (Code: XC181) each Student was evaluated by the Implementing Organization based on the Impact Quotient (IQ) concept and a score was tagged for every individual. IQ scorecard has been shared with the College Authority for their reference purpose. As an organization we have tried to achieve the objective of the initiative and we hope that this initiative is successful to have positive impact on the society. We believe that participation of other organizations to spread this proposed model will surely nourish dreams to flourish and we will be able to pave the way for a better future, a better society and a better India! Thank you Techno India for being the pioneer of this unique initiative.


Special Thanks

Mr. Satyam Roychowdhury, Honourable Managing Director, Techno India Group Thank you Sir for your guidance, encouragement and unparallel support

Prof. (Dr.) Rina Paladhi, Honourable Principal, Techno India Thank you Madam for your willingness to do something for the society in a meaningful way and for giving us this wonderful opportunity. Without your continuous support and attention this initiative wouldnt be possible

Mrs. Subhra Sarkar Program Coordinator, Techno India Thank You for your enormous effort and guidance that too always with a smile to accommodate all our requests, requirements. We were fortunate enough to have you as the program coordinator on behalf of the College which made our job easy and hassle free

Honourable Faculty members of Techno India Thank You for your wonderful assistance to encourage the students and for your glorious presence in the events

All the beloved and caring Staffs of Techno India Thank you for providing us the support at the grass root level

Administration Department of Techno India Thank you for arranging all the necessary admin support ensuring smooth execution of the program

Techno India Alumni Association Thank you all the members of TIAA who actively participated in the initiative and volunteer to organize the events

Students of Techno India Heartfelt Thanks to all of you for proving the worth of the whole initiative. It is your enthusiastic participation what made this initiative successful and memorable one


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