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INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AMBUJ DIXIT

PROFESSIONAL STUDIES(IIPS) ARPITA GUPTA
PRIYA TIWARI
MMS(5Yrs) IIIrd sem

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

For the successful completion of this project we gratefully express our sincere thanks to

respected Prof. Katherine Combellick, and our respected director, Dr. Ramani for their

inspiration and wisdom.

Our project guide, Mrs. Yamini Karmakar(program co-ordinator), who steered us out of
every pitfall, cannot be thanked profusely in any length of prose. It was she who

energized us to initiate this project and inspired us to prove her sanguine expectations.

We feel a deep sense of gratitude to Ms. Mrinalini Shrivastava, and Mr. Vipin Gupta for

their constant help and guidance in giving the important information.

We are also thankful to the principals and staff of various schools for their friendly

behaviour and constant cooperation.

Last but not the least we would like to thank all those who have directly or indirectly

helped us in the development and completion of this project.

PREFACE

As the new millennium unfolds itself, there is a plethora of technologies before us. But
before we get smothered with the bliss and convenience offered by this new era, lets

have a look at the other side of the coin: ILLITERACY!

To build a strong empire, a deep and an impeccable foundation is a must. Today, the

whole world is raving about advancement, digital revolution and what not, but is it really

worthwhile when 50% of the population is illiterate and 75% computer illiterate! People

consider technology as a panacea for all the problems but with all this we`ll deal only

with the symptoms- no matter how conscientiously we do it, the situation will keep

getting worse. The problem can be tackled only if we get to the root of the matter. That’s

why we need to do something now. Before its too late.

The main goal of the project is to take a mentorship role in community. The project seeks

to develop potential of the young generation so that they can contribute towards the

country as a whole. Their potential can be then converted into a cultural advantage,
enabling the participants to become good citizen by learning how to manage themselves

and serve the community.

There are umpteen souls on this earth who are deprived of all wealth, prosperity, human

dignity and happiness. Medical ethics says, “Prevention is better than cure”. To give

charity to a beggar is social service, to create social atmosphere so that nobody has to beg

is social change. To protect a weak person by giving him weapons is social service, to

make him strong enough to let him manufacture and use his own weapons is social

change. To assure protection to sacred minorities may be social justice, to give them

power so that they can defend themselves is social transformation. Thus, here lies the

importance of this project that stands not only for social service or social justice but also

for social transformation and economic emancipation.

CONTENTS:

1.INTRODUCTION
 2.OBJECTIVE

3.METHODOLOGY

4.COURSE STRUCTURE

5.INDUSTRIAL SURVEY

6.COMMENT ON EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDIA

7.RESPONSE AND FEEDBACK

8.FINDINGS

9.RECOMMENDATIONS

10.LIMITATIONS

11.CONCLUSION

APPENDIX
INTRODUCTION:

CDP stands for ‘Community Development programme’.

The goal of the project is to take a mentorship role in community. The project seeks to
develop potential of the young generation so that they can contribute towards the country
as a whole. Their potential can be then converted into a cultural advantage, enabling the
participants to become good citizen by learning how to manage themselves and serve the
community.
As we have said that the goal of the project is that of a mentor, guiding the people the
younger ones, who are just living to live, who are just studying to study, who are
neglected by the society, who are not even aware of the of their own future, who are not
even aware of their existence.

CDP is a collective phrase for all the activities carried out for the community, for the
upliftment of mental and social level of the people, for helping the people to stand to the
level of normal people, any task done for the welfare of community comes under this
project.It is not only upliftment of the poor people, it is also about making each and
every person a good one, so it is not an hour or 2 hour task, it’s a ongoing activity being
done each and every minute, every hour and everyday as it starts from the self.

In this project, the CDP governing committee planned to undertake following activities:

i. Tutoring at different schools of Indore.

ii. Tutoring old people who would like to learn how to read newspapers etc. or just
spending time with the old or sick people at hospitals reading newspapers and doing
other chores.
iii. Lady students acting mentor to girls in troubled condition at love or otherwise
(such as work, with a service that offers assistance to the girls or initiate a help-line or
hotline at the university)
iv. Help dying people or people with AIDS and other disease.
v. Spending time at community centers that provide food to the homeless or
beggars or people displaced from their homes and doing chores such as cooking food,
serving food cleaning tables and dishes etc.
vi. Helping rehabilitate street children by guiding them to join child rehabilitation
centers and then assisting them to learn various crafts and literacy.

In Indore the CDP project has been encouraged by Dr. Ramani (Director IIPS), and the
Course Coordinator Ms. Yamini Karmarkar. The project was undertaken by the students
of IIPS under guidance of Ms. Mrinalini Shrivastava. For this purpose, students were
grouped as teams, to give free tuition, guidance and counseling to the student community
in different schools so as to bring them into the main-stream of the society and help
them in making their career.

OBJECTIVE:

The CDP`s work is to gather the kind of momentum and scale that the present situation
demands and become a national movement indeed. There is a need for many more
people to come together and explore ways of creating an effective platform for building
a movement for fundamental change. This process requires a deeper dialogue on many
more issues and questions than those we have addressed so far.

The forte is to take initiatives, formulate strategies and design training programmes
which are flexible and easily adaptable to economic realities and basic requirements for
children of different strata of the society.

In our case, the children of age-group, 13-18 were the nucleus of our project. This is, in
fact a very difficult age.for the child, it is more difficult as he himself is trying hard to
understand all the stimuli overwhelming him, starting from physical changes. They are
inconsistent from day to day, not because they are fickle, but because they are in a
continous experiment with life, trying to find the right level of comfort. So, we
concentrated on such adolescents and teenagers from the less-privileged strata of society,
who face numerous dilemmas and who get least opportunities to clear their mind
completely.

METHODOLOGY:
Students of IIPS were very enthusiastic about this project. Their enthusiasm can be

judged by the contribution they made for the programme.

We students ourselves made the program, and designed the whole matter keeping in

mind the mental level of the students. This thing has made our project a grand success,

because the course structure is designed in such a manner that will definitely help

students. The teachers also appreciated the course content.

After making the outline of “What we will do?” we ourselves chose the suitable schools
and systematically approached to those schools.
In schools we first described about the CDP project and its history. Then we made them

understand the main purpose behind this project that is to make the students more open

to the current scenario and also to make them aware of the future prospects of different

fields of education. We explained them the way in which we work..

Then we went to the schools, interacted with the students, judged them and accordingly

started following the pre-decided course of action, but, afterwards in few schools we had

to change our course structure so as to reach our aim. It was a new experience for all of

us to teach the students and then only we came to know about the various situations a

teacher has to face.

According to our experience and mistakes which we committed in class 11th and 12th we

made the students aware and showed them the way to acquire the best results.

Everybody enjoyed helping the students and interacting with them about their daily

rigmarole.
 IIPS AS A VANGUARD OF CDP

DETAILS OF THE DESIGNED STRUCTURE TO TEACH

STUDENTS
In this programme we dealt with the problems that youngsters face in deciding their

careers i.e. which stream to choose, what to do and what not do.

Subjects that were taught to the students include:

1.Indian Culture: In this, we made them talk about the core cultural; key factors of

the Indian society, what culture is basically. Also we explained the true concept of “

Aham Brahamashmi” , “ unity and diversity “ etc. We taught them the concept of

humanity and dharma, artha, Kama, and moksha.

2.General Awareness: In this, we dealt with the current affairs to keep them in touch

with what is going in and out of the country in politics, sports and business. Educating
them about health and safety, sex and sexuality, govt. laws, their rights and duties etc.

3.Group discussion/personality development programs: This was a step to give

exposure to the students and boost confidence in them so that they meet the outer

world in a better way. We attempted to carve their personalities through SWOT

(Strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat) so that they get smart enough to give

way to their ideas and shape their values and thinking, telling them about public

speaking, group skills, how to face people etc. Encouraging them to hit the balance

between the four key dimensions of life- physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

4.Arts: We taught them economics - the way the money runs in the country,

geography - natural phenomena, how climate and vegetation affect the culture of a

place. In English- we dealt with literature, grammar and writing skills. Get them

accustomed with poetic and story writing skills. Helping them grow up in literary
 field.

5.Science: In science, we aimed to make them familiar with the concepts of science

and technology. And to aware them of the basics of computer that is the demand of

the dynamic society.

A group of students guided the students to opt for their careers. We developed a

systematic set of various career options, which the students could pursue. We opened

new doors of opportunity before them and how they can benefit from it in the coming

future. We did our task to the best and guided them very effectively as we had

undergone same dilemmas and situations.

INDUSTRIAL SURVEY:
In India, there are number of organizations working for weak, deprived and

underprivileged people. There is a plethora of NGO`s and GO`s contributing to the

development of women, backward classes and children. But during our survey, we found

that most of them does not focus entirely on children. Still organizations like CRY,

childline, care, salam balak trust , atc. have done good work to ensure that children need

not remain emotionally, morally or materially deprived.

There is one staggering fact which limits the desire of people to contribute to such

charitable activities in India, there isn`t one cohesive group that works NGO`s in India,

with the credibility and scalability to take money and deploy it well among the NGO`s in

India. People don`t have a vehicle and even awareness is lacking sometimes. Such

institutes are required to come up as that vehicle that can embrace the mission of charity
and can provide a tool with which the ordinary man can contribute small amounts to

make a difference. Other larger contributors too, must be assured that their money will
be

deployed well among the charitable causes that are close to their heart.

Still, there are hundreds of organizations working with children all over India, with little

or no resources. And for each underprivileged child there are atleast a handful of people

who want to help. These organizations concentrate on raising funds for such children to

deliver them better services, to educate them and counsel them. Even though we have

been able to make a difference there`s still a lot more to be done, when we look at the

enormous task still ahead of us.

Over 3,00,000 chidren still live on the streets of our towns and cities. Around

111,000,000 are forced by circmstance to do some form of work. Out of that number,

over 15,000,000 are bonded labourers. The fate of the girl child is even more disturbing.

One out of every six girl childre does not live to see her 15th birthday. One-third of thoe

deaths take place at birth. Many of these deaths are due to gender discrimination.

Moreover, we observed that there were least organizations devoted to adolescents and

teenagers. In the age group 13-17, an individual faces numerous dilemmas and problems

which remain unsolved, if not solved correctly. Therefore, we decided to concentrate on

this group of children.

In a sense, the present national policies and its agenda does not cognizance of the issues

of the struggling and innocent children- the future of the nation.

COMMENT ON EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDIA

CURRENT STATUS:

India in the last 50 years has developed an extensive education system and has created

a vast body of highly skilled academic people equipped with scientific and technological

capabilities, humanists, philosophical thought and creativity. Still, the new system of

education has not been able to solve the basic problems of the education. One of them is
that there is a greater emphasis upon learning things than upon developing the talents of

the children. For this the examination system has to be blamed because within a period

of 3 hrs, it is not possible to test the knowledge of a student. Chance plays an important

role in these types of tests. So far we have not been able to develop or discover a better

examination system. Even the system of evaluation is under fire. It is not possible to

evaluate the ideas of the children in terms of marks so accurately. Moreover, evaluation

is more or less subjective.

The present education system burdens the students with a large number of subjects. We

have to unlearn at a later stage what we learn at a junior stage. This is not helpful in

bringing the latent qualities of the children. They should be made to think themselves

and should also be able to form their own opinions. This is possible if we begin with

specialization right from the junior stages.

Radhakrishnan in one of his essays has pointed out that our education system has lost

contact with our culture. Unless the coming generations are familiar with the national

culture it is not possible to have proper type of progress in any direction. Indian culture,

rich as it is, has not lost its relevance, even today; western people after being dissatisfied

with materialism have started running towards Indian culture. So it is necessary that our

children should be taught about the basic principles of our cultural heritage. The

inclusion of the biographies of Nehru and Gandhi do not acquaint with culture

thoroughly.

The educationists have always been thinking of making education job-oriented. In fact

education should not be tagged with any particular aim. It should be for its own sake.

Education is meant for mental enlightenment and for disciplining emotions and thinking.
It should satisfy curiosity and arouse greater curiosity. But our education is responsible

for the development of repulsion child, even at an early stage, a positive hatred for

learning.

At present it is difficult to bring drastic changes in the system of education because a

very large number of the people will be affected. Had this been done when India got
independence it would have been easier. A common man never wants to leave the beaten

track because it does not involve mental exertion. That is why for a change, there is

always a greater resistance. So it is necessary to bring changes slowly and slowly. But

none can deny that our educational system needs complete overhauling.

Response
The enthusiasm of our people right from the beginning to the end reflected the common
felling of interest and eagerness. First of all there was sense of satisfaction in helping the
student in making them aware of all the facts as well as helping them in making their
own future. Beside so many they were ready with their socks up to do hard work and
help the school students and interact with students to give something to them, something
subjective, something hidden, some vision to see forward, some enthusiasm to stand up
with the world to fight and be competitive in this digital era.

Our people really enjoyed the work and they feed back from the students of the school
was fantastic. Students gradually started taking interest in us and their lots of quarries
which were unanswered finally got the answered .we were right, the students w3ere in
dilemma over their future and we can proudly say that when we were having last talks
with them they really forced us to think to tackle this project again and
continue it.

The response from schoolteachers was also over whelming. They contributed fully with
us when they made some efforts to understand our project, they also became interested
and contributed in their own way. In school some teachers some teachers even attended
our classes and told us 5that they really got something to learn and said that those type of
classes helped in reducing gap between the students and the teachers and promised that
in future f if need be then they will help us fully and in return we promised them to be
there when ever they will need something from us .
Response from Fordham

As we were in contact with the students there, right from the starting we became net
friends and shared our day-to-day experience with them. We shared a friendly
relationship (information also), which we are still continuing. Madam Kate the convener
of this project out there in Fordham came here and met us (a few students as it was a
vacation time).

Findings

“ India the IT power, India the power of future, an emerging power”, we all like this and
feel great when we hear it but first abreast yourself with the facts of India, our country.

India will stand when its legs will be strong enough, to support the whole body and we
the people sitting out here constitute each and every part of Indian body except the legs.
India’s legs are the people who are living out there in 5the villages being brought from
the III class education, who don’t even have the complete knowledge about the
profession (agriculture) they are doing, many of them who don’t even have the minimum
qualification of primary education up to class 5th, which our constitution declares as a
fundamental right of every citizen of India so proudly. So we are having legs but they
are paralyzed.

So what we found is that today’s student should be so nurtured that at least he/she should
be so aware to make something big out of him and this problem does
not exist only with the student’s of lower strata but even the students in public schools
and others. So here are some of our findings: -

• None or very few organizations are dealing with the personality overhauling of the
students
• Rat race in India it is worth to mention that engineering and medical
streams are national hobbies whether they fulfill the basic aptitude and attitude need
required by the subject or not.
• Schools are not cared or looked after by the staff, as well as students ,due to their
unconcerned attitude.
• Lack of enthusiasm and awareness from both sides.
• Faulty Govt. policies.
• Huge communication gap between teachers and students. Teacher losing respect and
students losing love and trust from each other.

All the problems above seem to be very small but in all they are breaking the backbone
of Indian education system.
SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT IN INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM:
The objective of our education should be full and integrated development of the
student’s personality providing balance of the student’s personality by providing balance
of the five essential components in this respect- physical, practical, ethical, moral and
intellectual besides highest sense of idealism, patriotism and service to humanity. Our
future welfare will depend more on our spiritual strength than our material wealth.

Following are some points that should be considered by government, private units, and
individuals to improve upon our current education system:
First of all we will have to change the meaning of literacy in India. It is not just
signing the name or writing the name, it is much more than that. It is enhancing the
creativity through knowledge; it is about acquiring through knowledge of any particular
subject
Our Indian education is lacking in many things even then if implemented properly it is
one of the best education system. But the problem is that it doesn’t reach to the bottom
line of the society.
The strength lies on the basis on which it is standing. So first of all our education system
should be such that it should reach to the lowest possible group, people should be made
literate in terms of knowledge not in the sense described officially.
There should be a balance between the rural and urban schools means, the education in
urban schools should not be different than those of schools in rural areas. Quality
education should be provided in rural schools also.
Quality education should not be limited to upper class or rich class in fact the lower class
people should also be given the opportunity to acquire quality education.
Primary school syllabus should be revolutionized and proper implementations of the
various Govt. plans for primary education should be followed.
More and more colleges and schools should be opened for the convenience of the
childrens of the village.
Experienced professors and teachers should be head of these schools.
Training camps for the teachers should be held regularly.
Latest methods of education should be adopted.
Quota system should be abolished and in place of that the backward candidates should
be give financial help and financial help should be given on the basis of the pay of the
family
The old and outdated policies of the Govt. should be revised and if necessary should be
dissolved
People must be continuously taught about the population explosion, which is the root
cause of all the problems. Each and every problem existing India is due to the over
loading of people.
Private firms should voluntarily come forward and adopt some schools in the rural areas.
There is lot of black money in India .to catch that money a trust should be set up in
which the money given as the charity should be exempted from tax
Govt. rules should be made easy in the sense that interference of politics in the field of
education should be minimized.
CCA activities should be introduced in the rural schools and there should be
participation of schools in various events and functions.

Teaching about the Indian culture should be made necessary from class 5th onwards.

Balanced and responsible behaviour of the teachers towards students, they must be
enough aware that student’s life depends upon them

Last but not the least and most important is that vigilance commission should be given
free hands to inquire about the funds given to various schools and state Govt. which will
help in keeping check over the corrupt officers and ministers

Limitations
It was a very good opportunity, which knocked our doors and provided us a chance to contribute for our
society in one or the other way in an efficient manner

We tried our best & thus putting our best foot forward but as there is the scope of improvement everytime
and as our project was not on a big scale, we found many
things that if we were having with us we would have contributed much more.
We were able to cross every hurdle, which we could have done through hard work and devotion, but we
were feeling help less where things were out of our hands,
which we think tied our hands and limited our steps in contributing to society

Money and time were the biggest factor. As this was the work voluntarily taken by us so whatever
expenses were there were borne by us, which created a sort of monetary vacuum but however we managed
it.

Time was another big factor which proved another jolt for us .we were doing this project beside our
college schedule so we had to do everything in two hours which
we got in morning that is from 9-11 or 10-12 and in that we had to keep in mind the schedule of school as
many were having their exams at that time or their
schedule of their was different.

Mind set of teachers and students :

Earlier there was no support from the student and teachers we had to try really hard to get them under one
roof, as when we use to go to classes there use to be handful no of students which showed directly that
what is the mindset and what type of devotions is
there in students. The students were taking it as a chance to bunk the classes and the teachers as chance to
miss classes and relax. The situations of some schools was really very pathetic we really wanted to bring at
least some change in the mindset and we think
that we left the students in much better condition compared to what in which we found them.

Volunteer ship :
No relation from ngo and go’s . Any work done by NGO and GO’s get the approval easily and they have
better data, experience and information in this field .we had got no guidance and there was noone to show
the path at odd times when we needed a sort of motivation from experienced people but we are highly
thankful to our faculty and director who supported us and gave all the possible help to us.
 Conclusion
The mission of promoting digital revolution only ends when it is able to take the
bottom line of people along with it otherwise there will be an irregular and polarized
growth in Indian community leading to a highly unnatural structure which will create
chaos. As statement made by a prominent personality says that if a student will not sit
on Internet everyday for ten hours then the student will be behind by 1 year
everyday.
We believe that information has the power to bring about change and hence is an
essential tool in the fight for social change. Disseminating child related need based
information can be one of the biggest measures for this cause. So the essence is that
instead of resting on the laurels achieved in the field of technology and digital
revolution, its inevitable to ponder over the loopholes like illiteracy, poverty,
unbalanced growth, inequality, and many and then to use the same technology, first
and foremost, to deal with such staggering issues.
NAME OF SOME ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN SOCIAL WORKS

Tarun Sanskar
contact

H O Mishra, V P Chaturvede
1784, Ranjhi
Jabalpur
482005
Madhya Pradesh
330881, 332045 (O), 330230 (R)

BAHA'I VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE

FOR RURAL WOMEN
INDORE, INDIA

Baha'i Vocational Institute for Rural Women

180 Bhamori
New Dewas Road
Indore
MP 452008
India
Tel: (+91) 731 5544066
Bharatiya Kushta Nivaran Sangh, Sonapara
 Address:
Shri Pardeep Kumar Sao Bhavan
Sonapara, P.O. Champa
District Bilaspur - 495 671
Contact:
Pardeep Kumar Sao
Akhil Bharatiya Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram, Jashpur Nagar
Address:
Jashpur Nagar, Dist. Raigarh
Madhya Pradesh - 496 331
(Serving whole INDIA)
Contact:
R.K. Deshpande
Kripa Prasdji
Phone:23253,23370

Akhil Bharatiya Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram, Ranchi

Address:
Old Commissioner Comp.
Ranchi - 834 001
Contact:
Pranay Dutt
Phone:
201360
315506
Akhil Bharatiya Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram:adult
 education, craft training/agricultural

Vanvasi Vikas Parishad, Jabalpur

Address:
955/5 Right Town, Madan Das Road
Jabalpur - 482 002
Contact:
Maniram Pal
Phone:
314894
Eklavya
Bhopal Group for Information and Action
Dr. Anwar Jafri
E1/208 Arera Colony
Bhopal - 462 016
Ph: 67150, 61380

The Shramik Vidyapeeth

The objective is to impart technical and vocational skills
forproductive activity and knowledge to improve the quality of lifeof
urban industrial workers and unemployed youth in rural areas.
Contact
Dhobhighat Road, North Kanara Dist
Karwar
581 301
Karnataka
Tel: 08382-20010
Fax: 08382-27670

The Sahyog Kushthayagna Trust

Main Aim
Main interests:
1. Rehabilitation of leprosy afflicted persons
2. Hostels for children of leprosy afflicted parents
3. Residential training centres for the mentally retarded.
Contact
Suresh Soni, Subash Thakkar
Rajendranagar Crossing
383276
Gujarat
91-2772-83337

Shri M G Patel Sarvodaya Kendra

Main Aim
Main interests:
1. Land and Water management
2. Agricultural development and afforestation
3. Education, Health andIncome generation
Contact
Hashmukh Patel, Dr Gautam Bhattacharya
C/O Shramik Vikas Sansthan, Stadium Complex, below Haumor,
Navrangpura
Ahmedabad
380009
Gujarat
91-79-6423491
91-79-6423491

Shrujan Trust
Main Aim
Main interests:
1. Developing economic self-reliance among rural women
2. Providing training for skill formation and entrepreneurship
development
3. Creating wealth generating opportunities for artisans
Contact
Chandaben Shroff, Ashish Sharma
Behind G E B Sub Station, Post Bhujodi, Dist Kutch
Bhuj
370020
Gujarat
91-2832-40272
91-2832-40272
 Jalaram Seva Sangh
Main Aim
Main interests:
1. Poverty alleviation
2. Health and sanitation
3.Community education
Contact
M T Darji, S K Pandya
C/O Manubhai Darji,
Madhuvan Park Society,
Mahavirnagar, Himatnagar
Sabarkantha
383001
Gujarat
National Alliance of People's Movements

http://www.cfar.umd.edu./~venu/NAPM/index.html

National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)

C/o Shram Sadhana, D.V Pradhan Rd.,
Hindu Colony, Dadar (East),
MUMBAI- 400 014
INDIA
Ph. (022) 414 2918/414 4336 (O)
Sanjay M.G. 536 9724 (R)
Fax.: C/o (022) 821 6365 (Attn. Ramesh Kacholia)
COORDINATOR

PATKAR MEDHA
NARMADA BACHAO ANDOLAN,
B- 13, SHIVAM FLATS,
ELLORA PARK ROAD,
BARODA, GUJARAT - 390 007.
PHONE: 0285 - 382232 (O/R)
FAX: C/O.0285 - 330430
Single Women's Organization.
Contact: Indira,
F/7 Sagar Apartments,
Behind Doordarshan,
Opp.Sarthi Hotel,
Bodak-Dev Road,
Ahmedabad 380054
International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Development
ICECD
a voluntary non-profit, non-governmental organisation, is a pioneer
in the field of women development.

ICECD, 1, Tapovan Society, Ahmedabad-380015, INDIA

Phone : (91-79) 466297, 461620,
Fax No: (91-79) 5500066, 5500124, 6568603
E-mail: icecd@ad1.vsnl.net.in
Kutch Kalyan Sangh, Bhuj, Kutch
 Address:
Kutch Kalyan Sangh
(Behind Santhosh Maa Mandir)
Bhuj, Kutch - 370 001
Gujarath
Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj
Address:
Muni Seva Ashram
Post Goraj, Dist. Vadodara
Gujarath - 391 765
Contact:
Anuben G. Thakkar, President
Shri Apang Parivar Kalyan Kendra, Bhavnagar
Address:
Shri Apang Parivar Kalyan Kendra
Swastik Society, Ambawadi, Bhavnagar
Gujarath - 364 001
Contact:
Banessih Chauhan, President
Phone:
22008
Friends of Women's World Banking, India
Address : G-7 Sakar I
opp. Gandhigrano Station
Ashram Rd.
 Ahmedabad 380009, India
Telephone : 91 79 6420119
Facsimile : 91 79 6420119
Contact : Ms. Vijayalakshmi Das
Membership : National

Relevance : Provides housing finance to low-income

women.

Disaster Mitigation Institute of Foundation for Public

Interest
Address : 25 Yasundhara Colony
Gulbai Tekra
Ahmedabad 380006, India
Telephone : 91
Facsimile : 91 79 462 357
Contact : Mr. Mihir Bhatt
Membership : National

Relevance : Work on disaster prevention,

mitigation, management, relief administration, reconstruction
planning and implementation.

SRISTI
The Society for Research and Initiatives for
Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (sristi) is a
 non-governmental organisation which was set up in
1993 to strengthen the capacity of grassroots inventors,
innovators and ecopreneurs engaged in conserving
biodiversity and developing eco-friendly solutions to
local problems.

SAATH - Integrated Slum Development Programme Summary

Contact Person & Address:
Rajendra Joshi
2nd Floor,
18 Amber Society, (Opp. Kameshwar School)
Satellite Road,
Ahmedabad - 380015
Phone: 079-764-0832
Project name: School for the Blind
Aim of Project: To help the running of the school, procurement of
special educational material
Present status: The school provides academic and vocational training
for 122 blind children.
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: Blind School, Valsar Gujarat
GROUP National Association for the Blind
LOCATION 86, D.N. Shopping Center, Opposite Gandhiji Library
Nanakwada
District Valsar, GUJARAT 396001
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List of the students who participated in CDP Project: -

● Abhay Shyamdeo
● Abhay Tandon
● Abhinay Saxena
● Abhishek Deb
● Abhishek Mehrotra
● Abhitanshu Tiwari
● Akshaya Singh
● Ambuj Dixit
● Amit Gangodkar
● Amit Shrivastava
● Amrita Burman
● Anmol Mishra
● Arpita Gupta
● Ashish Kapur
● Ashish Kumar
● Deepak Agarwal
● Gourav Srivastava
● Huzefa Malak
● Jatin Hura
● Kaushik Chatterjee
● Kumarjeet Banarjee
● Mantu
● Navin Jhawar
● Neha Mittal
● Nivriti Grover
● Nupur Jain
● Preetish Gupta
● Priya Tiwari
● Pukhraj Chauhan
● Rahul Choudhary
● Ramesh Kumar
● Ranjan Barnwal
● Ravi Kumar
● Rekha Khandelwal
● Sandeep Barod
● Sandeep Chabbra
● Saunak Ghosh
● Saurabh Vineet
● Shailly Pandey
● Shalabh Kushwaha
● Shalini Saboo
● Shashank Shukla
● Shikha Sharad
● Silpi Sinha
 ● Shradha Khandelwal
● Siddarth Soni
● Smriti Samaiya
● Sourav Roy
● Sujoy Mukharjee
● Sumit Harkauli
● Swati Yadav
● Utsav Rao
● Vaibahv Chalisgaonkar
● Vikram Kumar
● Vishal Rathor
● Vivek Sinha

These students are divided in groups and every group was look after by a group leader.
With the consent of all students on the basis of performance and feedback Miss Neha
Mittal had been chosen as the Best Group Leader.