Dear Friends,
On Saturday we had been to Myrada. This is was ad-hoc meeting as our
Tumkur visit was cancelled due to unavailability of the HM in 4 schools.
Me, Uday and Raaghu went to discuss the Gulburga Learning Centers
continuity for this year as there was some news of opeing 5000 Tution
Centers. Kiran Sir clarified the news and said that its govt. which is
trying to do some projects like this. Some time back one survey team
from govt. came to educational survey and Kiran sir mentioned our work
in setting up the Learning centers and team was very much impressed.
Continuing his talks, Kiran sir updated that govt. work will take more
time and asked us to continue the support and also open some more
Learning Centers in the surrounding areas. He suggested that lets take
up 2 – 3 circles around main CMRC’s and then support completely. We
would see the results.
We briefed about NBD, in which we are supporting 50+ schools. Also told
about Kolar which is newly added this year. Archana madam (Myrada)
updated Myrada is also present in Kolar and they have formed CMRC’s. For
the benefit of the local, there is a local FM channel which is called as
"NAMMA DHWANI(our voice)" and is run by CMRC’s. Its FM Station 90.4, and
which is spread across 152 Villages. Archama Madam said that we can use
this also to spread the awareness about education.
We briefed him with this years IS new projects and was very much
impressed and said that he would support all the initiatives from
Myrada’s side.
We briefed about:
1 – IS Learning Packages -> what is this, how it would be executed etc.
2 – IS Science Lab -> Idea behind opening this, what’s the use etc.
3 – IS 5 -> The plan, how we are going to execute, beneficiaries, give
back from beneficiaries.
4 – IS Learning Centers -> We gave more detailed information about this
program. Updated that we would keep friday’s and Saturday’s only for the
non-academics topics.
5 – IS Sports Kit -> We said that we would be including this in this
years agenda and provide the sports material to govt. school to get the
sports talent.
6 – IS Career guidance -> In the discussion this was the most hottest
topic Currently, in search of jobs and better money next generation of
farmers are not willing to continue the farming as this involves lot of
challenges and after working for days together in fields the "money
factor" is very less compared to urban jobs. So, most of the farmers
sons are getting deviated from there ancestral work which is kind of alarm.
Going forward (and one or other day) what will happen is that we would
rent our lands and then get the same food grains for more money and
profits are let out. To avoid this we were discussing about how to
improve the situation. We have several challenges in-front. To tackle
this Myrada is doing wonderful work of creating social awareness by all
there programs. We can also extend our by our means "education". Our
idea should be no one should be migrated from there local cities in
search of jobs. Migration is happening because of less job opportunities
in local areas.
Basically we need to build the strong career guidance which will enable
the local to get the local jobs. Some of the points which we discussed
in these lines are mentioned below:
1 – Requested Kiran sir to get us the Gulbarga report about the Job
opportunities.
2 – Based on this report we will have to come up with the programs which
are district specific. Which would be helpful in getting trained in the
specific area with which the individual can get the jobs locally. For
this myrada will support and they will utilize there training centers to
train and which will be driven by IS.
3 – Create the awareness Career path to students through Learning
Centers & CMRC’s. Idea here is to share our thoughts to Myrada trainers
and they will spread through there programs.
4 – Through education connect the latest agriculture technology to rural
students. For this we need to contact the agriculture universities and
there on need to decide how to proceed.
5 – Right for the primary education prepare the rural kids to get
exposed to Agriculture field and other technological field so that right
from the start kids will know options which are there in future.
While talking we expressed our willingness to create awareness in most
of the North Karnataka region and for the same Kiran sir introduced to
Mr. Cyril W Vas who is responsible for the Bellary district from Myrada.
Where Myrada is also created CMRC model. Cyril sir said that quality of
education is really poor in this area. Especially in rural areas. Cities
are better but still requires attention. Cyril sir said that we need to
concentrate more in Ankola, Bellary & Bidar. We are planning to visit
these place during 1st week of June as now school holidays started.
Going towards costal Karnataka, there is improvement requirement in
Bhatkal surrounding areas in Karwar District. We said we will visit
these places some time in June once the schools are started.
We concluded the meeting with Sugar Care Juice 🙂 and said that we will
come up with the plan to execute more projects which will cover more and
more areas.
Please share your views on this.
India Sudar 