Frankly speaking, that day I was not the only one who gave a standing ovation. It was certainly the day to be celebrated; when the awaken educated mass from Jharsuguda came down to one horizon to smell the real fragrance of quality Education. On 25th June 2011, it seemed the sun came out with an extra spark for Gyanendra Pani, a student of Badmal High School who scored 563 out of 600 with 93.83% in the HSC exam 2011 and topped in Jharsuguda District.
On 26th June 2011, while going through an Oriya daily on my table, I picked a bold heading written there, “Vedanta Vidyarthi Vikas Yojanara Safal Rupayana (In Oriya: Promising transformation of Vedanta Vidyarthi Vikas Yojana”. As the issue was related to Vedanta, I started reading the whole article excitingly but my stimulation mounted to the pick, when I found out the success story of Vedanta Vidyarthi Vikas Yojana(VVVY), an Educational Project driven by Vedanta CSR team which brought a tremendous success in its periphery which was never happened earlier. Gyanendra Pani, a student of Class 10th who was enrolled in the Badmal VVVY Centre had scored 93.8% in the Orissa HSC Exam and 140 out of 263 students passed in the periphery villages where the project had been operated.
On 14th July 2011, Vedanta felicitated all the successful students belonging to its peripheral villages who were enrolled under its flagship CSR educational programme ‘Vedanta Vidyarthi Vikas Yojana’ (VVVY) and have passed this year’s matriculation exam with good marks, in a convocation ceremony. Present during the occasion were Mr. Sibnarayana Misra, Collector Jharsuguda, Mr. Pramod Suri, VAL CEO, Mr. Abhijit pati, VAL COO, Mr. Gautam Behera, Chief functionary of AJKA, more than 250 Students, Parents, Teachers, Community Representatives, Members of AJKA team and Senior officials of Vedanta. Luckily, I was there to witness the whole convocation ceremony and enjoy each moment of success.
All the dignitaries, students, Parents, community members and Coaching Staffs applauded the efforts of Vedanta CSR team for its tireless effort in pulling off such a much-awaited success in the Education arena in this locality. Parents were like; they were waiting for the day since so long. Mr. Suri and Mr Mishra jointly awarded and handed over a Laptop to Gyanendra for his special achievement. He has given all his credits to VVVY specialised systematic Class module for this success. All the successful students of the programme were awarded during the occasion.
I felt so much excited about the Project that I just driven through the project success and started collecting each and every possible information regarding the same. Few glimpses of the project herewith;
Vedanta Vidyarthi Vikas Yojana (VVVY) is a visionary CSR project that is being implemented by Vedanta in its ten core peripheral villages, with an objective to improve the quality of the education, moral standards and reduce the dropout rate of the Secondary school students from standard 8th to 10th by providing Supplementary and Remedial Teaching. The project has been running with one of the best education expert NGO partner, AJKA by formulating quality parameter and indicators with specialised systematic Class module. This year (2010-11) 831 students had enrolled in these ten tutorial centres to avail quality education facility in the midst of dedicated expert teachers, special designed study materials and moral life skill education. As a result of these dedicated intervention and robust strategies, this year 140 students passed from 263 students with 17 first class awardees, certainly repeating to the previous year’s statistics, in which, out of total 23 students who had appeared, 18 students had passed the HSC examination. With the augmented popularity in the previous year, VVVY had extended its project to five more locations such as Badmal, Sripura, Debadihi, Parmanpur and Gudigaon in addition to earlier five villages such as Bhurkamunda, Brundamal, Banjari, Katikela and Kureibaga with well defined objectives and strategies in the 2010-11 academic years. During the project, apart from regular morning classes, parents’ teachers meeting, orientation of students, life skill education to students, monthly unit test are being conducted with defined indicators and deliverables.
This project certainly in turn has given a phenomenal satisfaction in the faces of students and Community Masses as the success rate has shown a positive footprints over the quite miserable past track records in the HSC Examination in these areas.
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