Chapter Activities ! [ Pune, Pilani ]

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This mail includes:

1.BM Pune Chapter Activities
2.BM Pilani Chapter Activities



1.BM Pune Chapter Activities

MOM of Hadapsar Sub Chapter
Hi All,

The Meeting was held at Durlabhs Place on Saturday evening ,5th August 2006.It was attended by:
1)Durlabh
2)Satya
3)SubbaRao*

Since we had a new member attending the meet, we explained him the concept of BM in general and we also discussed at length on how Pune Chapter has grown up over the last few months and the initiatives taken up by it.
We have also discussed various problems faced by Pune chapter as well as the City and we decided to conentrate on the problems and issues concerning Hadapsar and the areas around it.

The following areas where actions must be taken up were identified:

1) The pathetic condition of roads in Hadapsar.
We have decided to file an RTI on the Pune-Saswad Road which is in shambles with crater sized pot holes just after 2 months of repair works.
We have also decided to file an RTI on any funds released for the developement of Hadapsar Gadi tal which lacks proper shelters for commuters and proper bus stops.
2)Visit the slum area on the Pune Saswad road to learn about their condition
and problems.
3)Visit the institute for Handicapped children near our office in Hadapsar.
4)Getting in touch with PMC regarding the unclean premises of dustbins.
Furhter action is required on this issue.
5)Start working on Propagation in Hadapsar.

We have prepared a rough format and content regarding the RTI application on the Pune Saswad Road with the knowledge and understanding we have.It will be posted to the group in a seperate mail. Please have a look at it and suggest improvements.Balajee, I guess you are the right person :-) .We need a volunteer who can file this application by sparing some time in the morning session of the week days.

Update:Durlabh has visited the institute for Handicapped children on Sunday 6th August.He met some officials of the institute and has learnt about the institute and their requirements. He will be visiting it again on Tuesday.
The details would be posted later by durlabh latest by thursday.


Truly,
Satya

We have only one Passion
The Rise of a Great Nation

Visiting Villages

Dear All,

Here I am putting minutes of village trip and list of activities to be done in villages...
We decided to go to new villages and continue with Kolwade in this trip. We planned to meet at Vihang's place. It was heavily raining. We divided in two teams.

1. Puneet, Pradnya, Milind*, Nitin*, Rishikesh (* first timer ever in any meeting/activity)
2. Vihang, Rohan, Praful, Ashwin

I am putting update of first team. Second team's update will come from one of the team members.
First we went Gadewadi and went into some house. There we met some men. Asked questions like upto what std school is there in that village, what is prime crop, population and things like that. School was upto primary level and teacher come from Pune. We got perception that there is no urgent need for villagers. They grow 1-2 crops every year and for rest of the time.
Important thing which we got there was that person there was ready to give some land for experimentation in agricultural sector. His name is Mr. Balasaheb Gade and can be contacted at 020 69520340 . Please take a note of this thing.
Then we went to Mukai. We were treated like strangers. Anyway, but after some conversation we realized that in summer there is problem of clean drinking water. It would need time to get engaged in Mukai. Otherwise here as well there was no high school so we couldn't think about working with schools for career guidance.
Then we went to Urawade. Here school was closed and it was raining very heavily. So couldn't find some people with whom we could have some significant talks. Here high school is there. In future in while going to Kolwade, we will visit again.
Then we went to Kolwade. Puneet has put points below. we need financial support to give books and sports literature to Kolwade village school. Please give all bats/balls/discs/volleyball/any other sport related thing/money to support the village. Even used literature is ok. Something is better than nothing. The head master there, hinge sir has almost single handed brought this school to reality. There was no govt aid , no students who can pay fee, still he managed the school and his consistent efforts has led to 7 classrom building and govt aid in near future. We must not only help school bu the this teacher as well. He has done what is called serving last men of society.

Please contribute/participate as much as you can. No activity can take shape on ground by talking on internet or just reading mails and joining e-groups.


Please get in touch with Punit for anything you want to do in village.

Thanks and Regards,
Rishikesh


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ABHIJEET RAJWADE
09422506600




2.BM Pilani Chapter Activities



Hi,

On account of the clarified mail regarding the social activities of BM and the consent that we would like to become a political party through social service and for social service I am glad to send this mail on behalf of Pilani chapter elaborating the activities that we have chosen this semester.
As many of you know that we do a lot of social service activities, they are being continued with the same spirit. We are concentrating mainly on education and economic upliftment of the BPL people in the nearby Raila village. We took it as a model village to try out these concepts.


On Education
Gyanbodh program:

Incharge: Bhuvana (bhuvanak...@gmail.com)

This happens in two places. The first place is just outside the BITS campus and other in the Raila village. We teach from class 5 to 10 and cover math, science, English and counseling for 9 and 10 th classes. All these kids are chosen from underprivileged background. The normal way of teaching is not followed and not the repetition of what’s taught in school. But we try to make the subject more interesting and fun with games, videos of many scientific phenomenons etc. to attract them toward the subject. The aim is to make them love their subject by making them understand it better. Since all the kids are from a poor background they are all mostly in government schools. So we are planning to provide a scholarship called ‘Shiksha’ for bright as well as poor children to move up to a private school. We have made arrangements with a professor in BITS to be an official in charge for the same. The funds would come out of our own pockets and from the contributions of faculties at BITS. So if any of the other chapter feels they can pool in some money for Shiksha please do contact me for the full working module of the program.

Computer Literacy Program(CLP):

Incharge: Siddarth (sidd...@gmail.com)

This is a very unique program where we target the youth in the villagers of age group 15-25 who have just finished their 10th or 12th and may be a BCA or a polytechnique, but couldn’t find any job and got bored of the same old village life with no electricity nor computers and ultimately plunge into liquor and other bad habits. So we made them fill an application form for the program getting all their details like their educational qualification, their ambitions and what they want to learn in computers etc. Finally we selected 20-30 people and started to teach MS Word, Excel and other basic computer handling with 2 of our laptops. This semester we are planning to make a meaningful work out them as a practice. We are planning to make a database of the population of Raila from these 20 people. Each has to enter in the laptop 10 names and details of villagers everyday. This will be a practice to them as well a database for us. Also our Professors agreed to take them for an hourly basis job for clerical work.

Rural technology club:

Incharge: Karthik and Haasa (kri.hasa.gmail.com, karthik...@gmail.com )

We as a technical people must surely do something useful through our knowledge. This club will focus on how to solve many problems and shortcoming that are faced in villages through engineering knowledge. This plans to involve professors to take up technical projects that can be applicable in a village scenario and to be done by BITS students. This way many people get to see what their knowledge is worth of and how big a change they can make for the poor if they can focus their skills. This club has to go on to get new patenting and new innovations to transform our rural India. Few visible examples are that of the Pedal Power generator, LED lamps from solar power etc.

Story telling sessions in the library:

In the two libraries that we have set up in Dhandar and Raila, we would like to have story telling sessions by our vols and may be inviting faculties. The crux would be to cultivate interest for reading books in young minds. Also it’ll be a good outreach program and popularizes the library.

On Economic development

Self help groups:

Incharge:Swetha (sivapad...@gmail.com)

As improving status of people should be the goal of any social service organization, we started some SHG activities. But it was really challenging as it involves mobilizing the women to trust us and start a new venture which was fogged up with many uncertainties. Also language became a big hindrance. But ultimately after 4 months work we succeeded in bringing to market one of their handicraft works. This was articles made out of paper by molding them to various shapes like pen stand, cups, vases etc. after soaking them in water and making it a paste. We got a profit of 800 Rs/- after selling them. The 4 women whom we employed for the work got 200 Rs/- each for the 20 articles they made.

Vocational training:

This is aimed at giving life skills for high school children to get themselves employed after their schooling. This is basically to improve their skills and knowledge for an alternative work and not certainly discouraging their studies. We are to plan this semester in detail. We have a plan to invite carpenter and IC engine lab workers from our workshop to conduct classes for these children.

Other events:

Independence & Republic day celebrations:

Various activities happen both in campus and in village on these days. India quiz is conducted in the name of koun Banega Crorepati with the same enthu as with the real program. We are getting good response for this every year. In villages our vols go to primary and secondary schools and participate in their programs. They conduct an enthu quiz program with lots of good prizes and inspirational speeches and stories to ignite nationalism in young minds.

National youths day celebrations:

This is widely celebrated as birthday of Swami Vivekananda. Last time we distributed 3000 swamiji’s ‘Call to the Nation’ book and invited Sikar law college principal to deliver a speech on the occasion. This semester also we will try to work out few activities for the same.


These are just brief description of what we do here. We are going to document all these activities so that it would be easy for any others to follow the same module rather than starting from scratch. Lets attack the problem our motherland is facing from all possible angles. Lets not leave any stone unturned and not rest until all possible ways to solve these problems are found. Let our goal be crystal clear as the waters of Ganga.


We Have Only One Passion.
The Rise of a Great Nation.

BM-Pilani. (Ragavendar)

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Thanks and Regards,
Saurabh Bharat
09826959161
Co-ordinator
Information Management Team
(Bharat Uday Mission)

"We have only one Passion
The Rise of a Great Nation."

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