ANNUAL REPORT 2009-10: GURUSHARAN EDUCATION TRUST

1.    INTRODUCTION

The Trust has its origin for Educational Development and in persuasion of the same; the populace targeted were the downtrodden, orphans and Martyr’s kids. A need was felt for quality education for such kids who has a number of policies and guidelines listed for them for their upliftment but the general awareness is always lacking. Being the player of the back stage they are more than hesitant to come forward to collect their support which is also their right. In such field it is also observed that these students/kids are also trapped in wrong hands. A trend is also seen that despite various efforts such categories of students do not shy away and come forward but has a strong negativity against a policy. An attempt is always made towards moulding their thoughts; but instead of running and convincing such students regularly the positive personalities amongst them are welcomed by the Trust and they are shown the path of excellence.

In doing so a group of such categories of students are formed only on the basis of their competency level. Counseling, guidance and proper mentoring is tried to be provided not only academically but also in various extra- curricular activities. They are exposed to the present day education pattern and with the help of computer aided courses and classes and are kept paced up with the help of online internet facility only for their educational needs.

A word regarding the orphans and the martyr’s kids; despite the large existing policies and financial assistance their rights are directly controlled by the big bosses in their families as their mothers are mostly illiterate or the orphanage claims for their education only till certain time. The Trust apart from motivating and bringing them forward also provides a stick of proper guidance which can become the ladder of their success/educational excellence. The Trust reaches out to places and targets specific location under its scope to be developed.

There is still lot to learn in the process of making them learn.

1.1         Membership

Ser No	Name	Appointment held	Occupation	Remarks
1.	Maj Mitesh Kumar Sinha (retd)	Chairman	Ex Serviceman
2.	Mr Arbaz Rahman	Vice Chairman & Treasurer	Educationist	Treasurer: after the sad demise of Lt Dr S K Sarkar
3.	Dr Jagpati Prasad	Secretary	HOD Comp Dept DAV, Bokaro
4.	Lt. Dr Subodh Kumar Sarkar	Ex Treasurer		Passed away in Sep 2009
5.	Mr Manoj Kumar	Member	Engr in a Motor Company

 

2.    SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

 

2.1   INTRODUCTION

               The Trust extended its attempt if finding a better alternative for the educational purpose and started organizing the facilities under one roof in the best suited area. The attempt also got extended from RANCHI to CHAS (the places are located in Jharkhand) and by the end of 3^rd quarter the Trust established a facilitation center and adopted a school with its health assistance facility in CHAS. Thus an attempt was made to control at least two specific locations where the facility could easily be controlled.

2.2   Mission             

TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS OVERALL DEVELOPMENT OF A YOUTH IN MAKING THEM A STRONG PILLAR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATION.

 

2.3   Vision

Career management with the help of aided: physical, computer and cyber classes will be provided to the students to facilitate them in better performance in their career competitions and various exams in healthy and friendly atmosphere with an addition of extracurricular activities.

 

2.4   Strategic goals

·        The Trust will work on the feasibility of a boarding cum lodging school in the state of Jharkhand.

·       The Trust will initiate its project to reach out the villages and extract out the creams from the rural areas and also provide assistance and help them on educational platform to make a place for them in society.

·        The Trust wishes to stick to its root objective and plans to keep accepting tasks and new challenges as per the objectives of the Trust.

·        The Trust will do all sorts of liaison to get the targeted students to prepare them for career competitions.

 

2.5   Key Activities

Dhyey Classes

A professional library was opened in the office premises of Gurusharan Education Trust and the project was named as DHYEY which means ‘AIM’ of the students in understanding, learning and achieving their objectives as per their capability and liking. For this, only specific students were selected on the basis of their competencies and requirements. They were supposed to clear an entrance test to understand their take off level. The membership had no cost but a promise by them to perform and keep performing

                             

To assist the students a healthy library of specifically Science & IT subject was prepared. It was also aided with a number of CBT (Computer based training) packages ranging from classroom subjects and competitions to personality development were made available. All the systems were connected on LAN with a master computer having the back up of a hard disk full of encyclopedia. The end user computers were the low cost Intel Pentium desktops having 24 hrs internet connectivity facilitated in the premises for online exams and classes.

To assist the students in better understanding of the subjects various subject experts and even engineering graduates were hired in the required time and classes for clarification of the doubt and also conducting the various mock tests.

For the purpose of the DHYEY classes the office at Ganpati Apartment at Dumardaga having 3BHK residential configuration was used having 1360 sqft of space. The phone and the net connection of BSNL was taken connected to 05 Intel Dot Station 01 laptop and 01 desktop with a library of almost 500 books with 02 counseling  and 01 net and 01 reading room.

All the students in 05 km of radius were contacted and membership test were conducted in their premises only. Also these tests were regularly conducted at the centre for other/ left out students. Out of 300 (approx) students only 80 students were extended the membership based on their performance and requirement. The event was duly advertised in local news papers and publicized by proper means.

Apart from this a regular career counseling support in a daily newspaper ‘Hindustan’ was provided by the experts from the Trust every Sunday.

The facility in the Dhyey classes were mostly utilized by the kids of Armed Forces personnel but later many civil background students were also given admission in the project who were needy and desirous and importantly 05 kids from near around Dhabas and Paan Shops were also admitted to support them for their secondary school examinations. The facility was used by 80+ students on regular basis and many students used the library and internet facility without the membership (membership was only exam based and no money was ever collected for the membership).

A career guidance program under the same project was later initiated for the students desirous of joining the Armed Forces/SSB Interview. Most of such students were NCC-‘C’ certificate holders, for them a proper introductory and preparatory class were conducted as a part of soft skill and personality development class.

The regular tutorial classes were conducted for Physics, Math, Chemistry, Biology, Business Studies, Commerce and Economics but at times the concept was misunderstood by many as a normal coaching class running for profit, it was also found that most of the students have more inclination for joining brand names and our attempt was growing as their competitor, the students from relatively better financial background were found misusing the facilities many times, so the need was felt for membership restriction and some serious amendments in the policies even regarding the location.

Manthan

This is another project directed for extra- curricular activities of the students. This includes the activities at Ranchi as well as Chas- 3DD School. The basic idea is to conceptualize SARVANGEEN VIKAS or overall growth of all students by exposing them to all kinds of stage/sports related activities thereby exposing them to the forefront of the society. This will improve their personality and make them a confident human being.

                             

On 15 Aug 2009 an open Quiz competition at Ranchi was organized whereas a general school function at Chas was held.

5 Sep 2009 at Chas was celebrated by various stage shows and honouring many of the teachers and motivating the environment to do better always.

On 2^nd Oct 2009 Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti was celebrated by organizing a sketch competition at Chas and a 3 day event at Ranchi- events like poems & essay competition, group discussion and painting and quiz competition for various categories of students were organised.

14 Nov Children’s Day was celebrated only at Chas.

3DD School & Hahnemann Homeo House-Chas

3DD School Chas is a primary school running in the inner areas of Chas and are facilitating the primary education to the needy students on the CBSE pattern for last more than 20 years and are preparing the students to get into any quality school and providing all kinds of support to the financially weaker section or the marginalized section of the society. With the support of the Secretary of the Trust who has been running the School in the past providing medical and health support to all the locals and rural not only educationally but also through a homeopathic health centre “Hahnemann Homeo House” where he has been organizing the health check- ups and medicals aided camps at different locations. Both these institutions were formally accepted and adopted by the Trust with a motive of expanding its objective through these centers.

Apart from carrying out normal classes on the quality parameters and medical camps the School has been supporting and helping the downtrodden students by exposing them to video classes and other aided materials to understand the subject better. The general count of the students vary from 150-200 from class 1^st to 5^th primarily but also assistance for middle and secondary level education is provided to them. Similarly the Homeo house provides support to all needy and mostly the help is provided on need basis only, also special subjects like adolescence psychology is addressed to both the students and the parents in need.

3.    Quarterly summary

3.1   Quarter 1 (April 2009 – June 2009)

The preparation for the Dhyey classes were continuing, the library was being set with complete set of non course subject/reference books and all kinds of question bank books for Engineering, Medical and NDA entrance test books were purchased. Necessary electric equipment like CFL, Tube light and fans were procured. 05 Intel Dot Stations (P3 Processor) computer were purchased to set up the E- library/café. The BSNL landline with unlimited broad band connection was taken. The required furnitures were made with the existing facilities and rest of them were purchased according to the requirement to set up the centre. On 5^th of April the first entrance test was held at the center and on 6^th it was held at the APS Dipatoli and by now almost 110 students have appeared in the test and amongst them only 32 were given the initial membership to the project. KV Dipatoli and Surendernath School were approached for the tests. During these events the Project was inaugurated by Mrs Anjali Mahajan, President AWWA (Army Wives Welfare Association) 23 Infantry Division; Col Aich SO AWWA 23 Inf Div and Col Anand Bhushan, Group Commander NCC BN at Ranchi were the main guests.

The concept was briefed to everybody and a request by made to them for all possible support. On 20^th April the entrance test was conducted at KV Dipatoli and the tests continued to be conducted at the center. However in the last week the effort expanded from a professional library to tutorial/counseling classes by the arrival of the first volunteer Mr Shesh Narayan Dube to support the concept- who was a youngster, fresh pass out Mechanical engineer from a reputed Engineering College, he was a good mentor and a counselor for his subjects. He started the Math tutorials for Engineering subjects and also started taking classes for various students who belonged to a very marginalized class preparing them for their board examination on his own initiative and interest. By first 1^st week of May all the Science subject classes were covered and even the expertise of the then Project head Mr Sujay Sarkar was used for the Biology subject tutorials.

In between our Treasurer Lt. Dr Subodh Kumar Sarkar fell badly ill and his support and activity stopped for the project’s promotion. However few more volunteers kept coming forward and supported us in whatever means they could. With their support and help the counseling and tutorial classes continued.

In May a master computer was provided by Mr Prabhat Kumar who also launched our website: www.gurusharaneducation.org, the master computer had a data bank of all the CBT packages subject and class wise which was put on LAN through cable and WIFI enabling the students to access the info bank fulfilling their requirement of doubt clarification on that subject/topic.

All Sundays were kept busy by organizing mock test to adjudge the students performance and their requirement of extra classes and counseling accordingly.

In June the decision was taken to start the same project for the 10^th pass students forming a batch for the Dhyey 2012 classes. For such students the entrance/membership tests started at the centre and also at many schools like APS Dipatoli, KV Dipatoli, Loyola Public School and RTC School.

On 26^th of May the trust extended its first other centre at Chas Bokaro adopting the 3DD School and Hahnemann Homeo House which was inaugurated by the Ex principal of KB College Bokaro Mr P K Sinha. One of the Dot stations was handed over to the school as a part of their IT class support for the primary kids.

                             

In between a series of books were also procured on the demand of the students, some books were donated by the 3DD School Library, making the Dhyey Library stronger in quantity and quality. Previously there was no policy of issuing books to the students but now we could start the running of the Dhyey library as any other professional library and started issuing the books to the individuals.

In between the Chairman Maj M K Sinha (retd) was called upon by Hindustan Newspaper for weekly career counseling on every Sunday for the Armed Forces career. Thus a regular counseling support to the general students was also extended with such arrangement, also such counseling support was provided to a local channel PBL Nazar.

3.2   Quarter 2 (July 2009 – Sep 2009)

The July month started with the preparation for the arrangement of the Dhyey 2011 and 2012 appearing students. The evening classes started on full go with 50 + students taking classes in different batches and the counts of students seeking admission and getting into the classes increased regularly. Now some students joined whose parents started paying some remuneration to us as monthly fees but it was accepted only those who wished to pay voluntarily and were able to pay, so a fee structure for the newly introduced batch was also introduced with a very subsidized rates and the aim was to collect students thriving for excellence, the monetary support to run the project for the remuneration of the volunteers and managing various facilities was provided by the Chairman and Maj Purnima Kumari.

Now a good standard of the faculty of all science subjects and one faculty for the entire commerce subject was available to run the project in arranged batches for all the students. The main emphasis was just preparing the students for their career/academic ambition and all the preparation was just to facilitate them for the same. The regular activities continued like the career counseling in Hindustan and the mock test which evaluated the students for their preparation and thus deciding our plan of action.

During this period the 15^th Aug 2009 or the Independence celebration was done by organizing an open school quiz competition in which a number of students participated from various schools. Similarly a number of events were organized at the 3DD School including flag hoisting and a health camp for all the rural kids.

                             

5^th Sep 2009, the teacher’s day observed a few students coming and presenting pens to the teaching faculty at Ranchi. At Chas it was a function to felicitate the best performing teachers and various events were organized on this day by the students.

In the 1^st week of September the SSB classes were started for the students aspiring to join the Armed Forces. The aspirants were mostly the NCC ‘C’ certificate holders and had attempted the interview several times but could not clear the same. So to enhance them in civil streets the lesson was converted more for their personality and soft skill development classes, for them a small batch of 10 students were formed. By this time amongst those aspirants only one of the students became a volunteer and started extending her full time support and later took on the charges as the first contact person of the Trust for this project as a receptionist.

In the last week of Sep the Chairman was invited for an all India meet of NGOs at Gulbarga organized by Bharat Vikas Sangam. The Chairman and Mr Prabhat Kumar attended the same and learnt the nuances to grow an NGO. They also represented our efforts at Ranchi and Chas. Though no formal financial support was provided by any of the present organization but the newer avenues and perspectives were learnt in the 3 day meet where NGO representatives from all the states concentrated under one room and tried to learn by each other’s examples.

During the closure of the quarter the Trust had also applied for Lease of some non running school buildings to establish its own school but the efforts went fruitless but it ensured the development of the Chas centre in a close look which was more than satisfactory and was performing up to the higher expectations.

3.3   Quarter 3 (October 2009 – December 2009)

The quarter started with the event of celebration of Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti. At Ranchi it was started as a 3 day event; since the routine becomes heavily academic and monotonous, so to break that definition of education only with academics the Trust organized some extracurricular activities and other events as per its capability under the project Manthan.

(a)           Pre 2^nd October   with an aim to start the Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday celebration a circular was distributed to all the nearby schools for the kids belonging to age group 10 – 20 years. It was meant to deposit an 800 – 1000 words essay and a poem contest on the subjects: Bapu as a Guru, Global Warming and Education. A very general response was seen as hardly 15 essays and 11 poems could be collected.

               But certainly the standard of the articles deposited was good and even the other presentations in poems and essays were of descent standard. The best essay was of Sk Aminoor Rahmaan, class X, Loyola Public School on ‘Bapu as a Guru’ and second best essay was of Atul, Class IX, Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali on ‘Global Warming’.

               In poem section the best poem was of Rinky Kumari, Class XII, Army Public School, Dipatoli Cantt, “Woh Amar Saya”  and second best poem was of Vipul Anant, Class VIII, DAV Public School, Ashok Nagar, “Raho na raho tum mahka karoge”.

(b)          2^nd October          on 2^nd October Mr Sajal Chakraborty, IAS Ex DC of Ranchi inaugurated the 3 day event by lighting a ‘Diya’ and placing ‘Mala’ on Mahatma Gandhi’s photograph. Then after a group discussion on the topic “Gandhian thought and its relevance to today’s education” was organized in which 6 persons participated who were actively involved with the Trust’s concept. The forum came out with new ideas for the organization to grow the Gandhian values as per its capabilities like organizing Scouts training, First Aid training and workshop in rural areas on health and hygiene. Mr Sajal Chakraborty and Major Mitesh Kumar Sinha (retd) discussed the relevance of the discussed issues to the enrolled students and developing the organization by expanding through the Gandhian values with the help of its volunteers.

 

In the evening a guest lecture by Shri Nand Kishore Murlidhar, journalist Hindustan (also associated with many other news channels) for the students career counseling took a guest lecture and explained the importance of Gandhian values to achieve perfection in achievement of their career goals, to succeed in life by self discipline and motivation than just concentrating on career and academics.

A quiz contest on Mahatma Gandhi was organized wherein 26 students participated of the mentioned age group. The quiz comprised of the events and facts related to Mahatma Gandhi. The quiz contest had 4 rounds after 1^st round best 8 were selected, after 2^nd round best 4 and so on; it had a total of 51 questions on Mahatma Gandhi. Finally Aatish, Class XII, APS Dipatoli was the winner whereas Rashmi Sinha, Class VIII, KV Dipatoli was the runners up.

(c)           3^rd October          a painting / sketching contest was organized on the themes: - ‘Bapu in my view’, ‘Global Peace’ and ‘Me & My World’. 20 students participated in the event and came out with their own ideas. Ravinder Kumar, Class XII, APS Dipatoli was 1^st and Priyanka Singh, KV Dipatoli was 2^nd, also 4 consolation prizes were distributed to Farid, Class XII, KV Dipatoli, Sweta Sinha, Class IX, KV Dipatoli, Priya D Mali, Class XII, APS Dipatoli and Papraja, Class III, DAV Bariyatu.

(d)          4^th October          the closing day was marked by heavy response from the parents and the prize winners along with many volunteers who helped us set up the place to mark the closing ceremony. The event started with a guest lecture by Mr Sajal Chakraborty on the topic “Gandhi- Aaj ke paripekshya mein” who briefed the audience with his dexterity for 45 minutes. He talked only of Mahatma Gandhi and briefed as to how Mr Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi got transformed into Mahatma.

 The root values and thoughts of Bapu were reemphasized Mr Manmohan Prasad Sinha the 1^st generation of Gurusharan and an eminent educationalist in Jharkhand and Bihar.

The complete event was then debriefed by Major Mitesh Kumar Sinha (retd) and pledge was made that the organization will continue the hard work and helps promote the education to the needy ones to an extent and quality of the best standard. He briefed the overall objectives of the organization and thanked the guests, students and volunteers.

The prizes were distributed to the winners and selected sketches were put up on exhibition to the guests.

In the 3 days a total of 54 students participated from most of the schools of Ranchi. The thought itself was so pious that in spite of having a competition a general socializing atmosphere was seen where all students interacted with each other, tried to know about their school’s culture and were able to make new friends at the end of the event.

Chas, Bokaro       3DD School celebrated 2^nd October as Mahatma Gandhi’s and Shri Lal Bahadur Shashtri’s Birthday. The event had the presence and support of Dr Jagpati Prasad, Secretary, Gurusharan Education Trust.

               The day was celebrated with the chief guest Mr AK Sinha, ex Principal KB college, Chas,Bokaro who offered his tributes by placing mala and lighting a diya on the photographs of Mahatma Gandhi and Shri Lal Bahadur Shashtri.

               The event started with a group song by everybody ‘Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram’. Then the Principal Mrs Usha Sinha briefed the students on Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle to make us live in a free and democratic country. Next an act was played showing Mahatma Gandhi and his ‘Teen Bandar’ explaining the use and importance of these in one’s life.

               Next, some cultural programs were organized like Group dance, Solo Kathak Dance etc. the aim was to give exposure and set out the stage fear from the students to build a confidence amongst them and to get them to the fore front of society and explaining its importance in detail.

               Few students prepared and delivered a speech on Mahatma Gandhi and came out with their views on him. The final event was a sketching competition for all the students. They were asked to make the face of Bapu without using any erasers and making no cuttings in a stipulated time of 15 minutes. Following students were the prize winners:

               (a)           Vicky, Class III

               (b)          Zahid, Class I

               (c)           Mony, Class III

 

During the complete event the complete administration was looked after by the trust and at no point of time there was a major dearth of anything which could have hampered the effective functioning of the event. The activities were regularly monitored and emphasized by the local print media also the event was properly covered by a local news channel “365 Din” on 3^rd October properly. This support surely supported and motivated the participants as well as the volunteers. On the whole the event had a satisfactory success in all the spheres and has given a jump start in the career of this organization.

 

14^th Nov 2009 was celebrated at 3DD school Chas, some stage events were organized and best performing students were rewarded based on their academic and extra-curricular activities performance.

This quarter observed the busiest schedule as the number of mock tests increased and the participants appeared more seriously. Almost 90% of the syllabus was covered for both the 11^th and 12^th appearing students, but the 12^th board appearing students were given priority for the extra classes and such preparation. A number of mock test software and CDs were procured; many sample papers were prepared and collected for the board exam preparations of the coming 12^th board exams.

During this period Mr Sajal Chakraborty proposed to extend such facility to Mc Cluskieganj where a strong need for facilities was felt in his views and suggested to grow by making a permanent base at that place.as per his suggestions and guidance the place was surveyed and found that the need of education at those areas are very much restricted despite having a strone potential in the students and also in the place to be grown as a educational hub and it will be a boon if the trust steps into the place for its purpose. Support from Brig Somen Brahma (retd) who had just hanged his uniform, Mr Dipak Rana an eminent personality in extending, facilitating & setting up different educational institutes in the general area Mc Cluskieganj, Mr Hari Oraon Prof Ranchi University and Capt Indrajeet Singh (retd) came forward with all kinds physical, ideological and financial support to promote the education, suggesting and finally deciding to start and run an intermediate college in Mc Cluskieganj and also to grow a similar set up like project Dhyey at Mc Cluskieganj. Many locations were seen but finally Capt Indrajeet offered his property at Vill Konka to be used for the purpose.

The teachers in the meantime had finished their syllabus for the students and had started the revision classes/ doubt clarification classes. The centre was kept open even in the odd hours for the students to make them use the internet and the library for their preparations. 2 more batches were formed and the personality development classes for them was conducted with the help of Mr Ronnie Sanyal an IIM Calcutta graduate and a visiting faculty in the ICFAI Ranchi, these students could not cleared their SSB interview but they picked up various other avenues and performing well and growing in their present profession.

3.4   Quarter 4- (Jan 2010 – Mar 2010)

 

January 2010 started with the mock test series for the 12^th board 2010 examinations and a regular visit to Mc Cluskieganj and the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) for learning the policies and the procedure for opening an inter college.

At Ranchi and Chas center preparations for the academic sessions were on. A series of Mock Tests for the 12^th appearing students were organized for the schools in Ranchi, and the participation was not restricted to our students only but it was advertised in all near around schools and in newspapers for all such students. A series of 03 mock tests were organized in the same fashion the board examinations were to be held; the sample questions of the CBSE and other questions/ sample papers were downloaded and the questions were distributed to the students for a mock test under the close guidance of the counselors. Apart from this all the students were given extra sample question sets for their preparation. During the no class sessions also the classes for the weak students continued and doubt clarification classes for other students were also carried out. The tests conducted were followed by immediate clarification- the answering technique and patterns were briefed by respective faculties.

The classes for the 11^th students were running only for the late joinee (in the Dhyey 2012 appearing classes) and the absentees and also those who wished to attend.

On 6^th Jan 2010 the raising Day of the trust was celebrated as we had finished complete 1 year of forming by offering prayers and re-promising our mission.

On 26^th Jan 2010 the republic day was celebrated at the Chas Centre by the flag hoisting by the Trust’s secretary, he also motivated the students by briefing them about the importance of this event.

Whilst the Ranchi centre was controlled by the staffs/ volunteers the Chairman was busy for the procedure of opening the inter college, where it was found out that an NGO registered as a charitable trust is given no weightage but only a society registered under the Society registration act 1860 is accepted for opening and running the intermediate college only as per the JAC parameters. So a new effort for forming the Gurusharan Education Society started by the present trustees and the other volunteers who had already started to extend their full fledged support to the cause.

The Dhyey project in the meantime in Feb and March was run only for the library and the library and the faculties were present in the requested time for all support to the appearing students. The centre was now used by many non member students also and it was kept open in the office hours only.