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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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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1 Learning While Doing

2 Multiskill training

3 Instructors are Artisans from the village

4 School itself becomes production cum training center.

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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

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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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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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