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.