Career guidance for rural high school students by Manjunath Guruwin, Semester 1

We conducted a workshop in government school of Shirgoan village for high school 10^th and 9^thstd students for creating the educational awareness.

Career guidance - SMSR

                Initially we interacted with the students and asked them about their interest in education, what they know about career opportunities after schooling. Soon after this session we created a awareness by a role play depicting importance of education.

                 

               As we wanted to know the talents of the rural students we conducted a talent show where the students actively showed their interest and participated in activities like singing, dialogue delivery, Mimicry, puzzle game, pin the tail of elephant and direction games.

             The students were shy in nature but our motivation made them to eliminate stage fear, we were delighted to know that some of them had aims to become district commissioner, army officer, engineers etc. At the end of the session the students gave us the feedback that they got clear picture of choosing their career after schooling which brought smile on our team’s effort.

               

             This is how we were successful in conducting a workshop in shirgaon village by creating awareness about education to the rural high school students.

A study on Rural immersion by Apeksha Shetty, Semester 1

Rural life - SMSR 

Rural immersion study programme was conducted for a short period of four days at Shirgoan, Belgaum.  This study has impacted a lot on us, as it was completely a new experience for us we understood how people in rural areas survive with limited resources and difficulties they face in daily activities. 

Comparing our life with their life, it was painful to know that we are not satisfied with the facilities we have, but even though they are not getting basic facilities they are surviving without many complaints.

We got to know that complaining is a easy job but compromising is a difficult job. Then we learnt how compromising plays a vital role in our life by working in a team and analyzing rural immersion field visits.

There were only few students who belonged to rural background in our batch. Our institution took a step forward towards rural immersion programme to make students realize the concept of rural which would add value to our career and be competitive as future market of our country is in villages.

So finally I thank our institution for coming up with such an innovative learning perception and giving us the opportunity to experience the rural life.

Rural immersion programme experience by Bhargavi.H.Tangod,Semester 1

Rural immersion programme - SMSR,Hubli

We had been to shirgoan, a village near chikkodi, where we studied rural environment. We came to know about the lifestyle ,living standard, resources availability of rural people..

We also visited government schools,farms, hospitals, gram panchayat, APMC and collected required information which helped us to know their current educational status, health issues, current and marketing procedures for the agricultural products of this village.We aimed our field visit on PURA project which is projected by D.A.P.J Abdul Kalam . Based on this project we came out with four connectivity’s that is physical, electronics, knowledge and economics.

According to these connectivity’s we collected information  from the rural people by personally visiting their houses, which helped us to encounter the problems faced by them and came to know how they manage their life with available resources. We came to know the facilities provided to the rural people by government and its ground reality.

We had expert lecture series by BEO,DYSP, PDO, PWD,TMO which was very useful for us to understand  the importance of management practices done in rural area .

BEO explained about the educational system in shirgoan village, how it works,how they the students,teachers and overall educational system with the help of government educational schemes, BRC’s, CRC’s and SDMC.

PDO shared views on the income and expenditure ,total irrigated and non-irrigated land ,major cultivated crops, statistical information of shirgoan village.

PWD officer said about the importance of planning in infrastructure development in rural area. Guest explained how the investigation on cost is made and how tendering process is carried out.

DYSP addressed about police department’s  law and order procedures and explained the importance of controlling on illegal activities, crimes, harassment, child labour in rural areas.

Taluk Medical officer provided awareness about child marriage,child bearing age of women, role of primary and secondary health care services,health care schemes by government.

Through all these interactions we gained knowledge about the particular department in detail and how system works in rural areas.We are very thankful to our faculties and seniors who made our ideas to explore through rural immersion programme.

KLE SMSR outbound trip –fun adventure experience by Swathi Maharajanavar,Semester 1

Kadumane homestay is located 12km away from Dandeli,joida taluk. We met Mr.Narasimha who shared lots of information with us………Joida is one of biggest taluk in Karnataka covered with 93% of forest and is almost as big as goa state.

Fun adventure at KLE SMSR

He gave us information about how mobile tower signals are affecting bees population.King bees have a life span of 4-5 months and queen bees have life span of 4 years. Scientists are trying to know about the essence ejected by this queen bees…this essence if detected is believed to extend human being’s life by 10 times.

Dandeli is blessed with nature and green lush which made our trekking experience memorable.It was totally outdoor unforgettable experience which unleashed our inner monkeys and confidence……there were laughs when we fell , there was concern when we laid behind by clap sounds……..there was coordination near slippery slopes…………..precautions from leeches………at last our stomach was happy and a full packed journey ……………

INDUCTION PROGRAMME FOR THE BATCH 2015-2017 by Meghana Shellikeri, IIIrd Semester

KLE Technological University - SMSR

The program was kick started with a famous quote"Coming together is beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success....."   The two eminent personalities from Indian Air Force - Mr. C S Havaldar, retired Air Commando and Mr. Vasant Wai, retired Junior Warrant Officer were invited as Chief guests for the day. Both the personalities shared some memorable incidents from their long successful career. According to them, a major quality every student should develop during his/her MBA course is “adaptability”. They also elucidated the importance of communication skills for management students.

Management is all about communicating with others. Mr. C S Havaldar also brought out similarities between military and management. Addresses by both the personalities were knowledgeable and enlightening for the first year students.

Post lunch session was the informal induction program conducted by second year students. Events conducted were 'Buddy system' - where the first year students  paired up with second year students. The latter had to cram and introduce their buddy in an innovative approach which was quite entertaining. The second event was 'Treasure Hunt' which was a team building bustle,where both first and second year students had great fun. The first year students enjoyed while searching for the clue around the campus and they were asked to perform various witty tasks by their seniors to get hold of the clue. The event concluded with avowal of the winners. Later Prof. G S Hiremath gave a gist of the course outline and wished students good luck before he concluded the day.

Power Punch: Contemporary issue of MAHADAYI- KALASA BANDURI project by Amruta Kulkarni, III Sem

The years pass by and we don’t even realize whats going on in our surroundings. The Mahadayi Kalasa Banduri Nala project dispute is going on from past 4 decades and it has taken a very aggressive path from last 76 days. Mr. Vikas Soppin who is supporting leader of farmers in this dispute has enlightened us with the actual status of the project on 1^st Oct, 2015 in KLTU SMSR. Mr. Vikas has completed his BE, MBA and joined in with farmers struggle to resolve this ongoing dispute. Since he is equipped with techno-managerial skills, the situational leader dsicovered this side of his personality and has become quite a force to be recokned with. He explained the project details through a technical lens and summarised the  dispute in four parts namely: the detailed project, benefits, problems & solution to resolve this dispute.

 Karnataka- Goa- Maharastra are the main states involved in this water dispute. The Mahadayi river originates in Karnataka and flows towards Goa, partially in Maharashtra state and finally meets Arabian Sea. It has its upper riparian area in Karnataka & lower riparian area in Madovi which meet the drinking water needs of the town in north-western districts. The Karnataka farmers wanted this Mahadayi river should divert to Malaprabha river in the monsoon season so that the Navildhar dam capacity will increase from 11 TMC to 37.7 TMC, so that 5.28 lack acres of land will receive sufficient water for irrigation. Belgaum, Dharwad, Gadag, Bagalkot districts & surrounding villages will get benefited from this diversion.  This diversion of Mahadayi to Malaprabha has become the biggest problem from last three decades. To address this water dispute a committee was formed in 1980 under the leadership of Mr. S. R Bommai & a settlment was reached with Goa Government. Goa was supposed to take electricity (Two power plants to be located on Karnataka- Goa border) and Karnataka would be allowed to divert water from Mahadayi river.  But this settlement could not hold due to change in the respective state governments.

In 2002, they come up with another project i. e Kalasa- Banduri nala project. To stop this project the Goa Govt. approached Supreme Court. The Supreme Court didn’t interfere because it was interstate water dispute and in 2010 a tribunal was setup to resolve this dispute but the tribunal is yet to give out its verdict. Mr. Soppin said the tribunal is going to give the verdict in Aug 2016. But according to me, it is a developmental project because;

 

" If project becomes successful then 5.28 lack acres of land get irrigated--> Opportunity to farmers – multi cultivation --> Contribution to GDP --> Economic growth of the Country"

                                                                                                                                    This lecture allowed me to gain an insight into the project and the disputed issue for which farmers are struggling from many days. It was observed that, every year more than 200 TMC ft of water is being drained into Arabian sea from Mahadayi river, & Karnataka Govt. has been trying their best to convince Goa for the diversion of 7.55 TMC ft of water from the river by asuuring them that this diversion will not affect their ecosystem in any way. But the dispute has not been resolved even though little Govt. intervention can solve this issue permanently. Hope to see this dispute reaching its conclusion soon.