RTI

Case Study

Students learn to use RTI for green concerns 

Gurgaon ,Nov 19-  From demanding to know the status of and expenses incurred in river- cleaning projects to the level of pollutants being let out into the environment by industries, school students from across the country learnt how to use the Right to Information (RTI) Act to address environmental concerns at a conference here.

Organized by a non, -profit , Program for Environmental Awareness in Schools(PEAS), the three daylong conference , which concluded Sunday,  hosted more than 500 students at the Tagore.

Sanaya Nariman , an Educationalist and chairperson of the Delhi chapter of PEAS, said: ‘To be able to take any action, we first need to know what is happening in your cities and its environment and the RTI Act can empower school students to do so’.

‘We are encouraging students to file application under the RTI Act to know the status of and expenses incurred on government projects to clean up various rivers and lakes. The students can also ask for the levels of pollution being let into the air, lakes and land by industries; Nariman, daughter –in-law of Fali S Nariman, former Additional Solicitor General and senior advocate , told IANS.

The seventh national conference by PEAS was presided over by Director General of police Kiran Bedi and the Chairman of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCRT), Krishna kumar.

Diptesh Pawa, a Class 9 student from St.Mary’s School in Mumbai, said: ‘Everyone must be aware of green issues facing our planet. After all every living organism needs oxygen to live’.

Pawa, who has been Involved with PEAS for the last two years , as already planted six trees to do his bit in convincing   he environment, and now plans to use the RTI Act to make an impact.

Sanaeya Daruwala, Class 10 student from Mumbai’s Activity High school, said: she was concerned about the climate change. ‘I have made several power point presentations in my school to make my fellow students aware of the fact that we are responsible for global warming and how we can live more responsibly.

PEAS Founder president Ken Gnakan said contrary to popular notion that schoolchildren are too young to understand green issues, the kids show more concern.

‘Thanks to the RTI Act, students to can make a lot of difference, besides spreading awareness in their homes, neighbors and schools,’ he said.

The RTI act 2005 is a watershed legislative measure for Indian democracy. A crucial law for the promotion of transparency and accountability from the government, it allows citizens to demand information (in the form of records, documents, samples and orders) from the government regarding any government department or office. The provision of penalty clause also reduces the chances of denial of granting information or giving incomplete information on part of government officials.

The conference included an eco-fashion show to help students learn how they can use waste items at home and eco-friendly fabrics such as jute to make useful products.

 

 

 

 

 

6th Feb 2009

"SMALL AIM IS CRIM"

Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam

When I was in B A I am very eager  to listen DR.A P J Abdul kalam's Speech but at that time we didn't have TV in our home therfore I have been went to my Uncle's home to watching TV for Dr.A P J Abdul kalam speech. When I hered KALAM Zee was coming to our DCSE I felt very happy. And I felt I am lucky to met  the Excellent human being Dr.A P J Abdul Kalam on 6th Feb 2009.

"MANAGER SHOULD BE A FACILITATER"

Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam

On 6th Feb he has came to B V B campus at 11:00am and  innograted R H Kularni memorial hall and DCSE auditorium building and Sudha Murty, Narayan Murty, Mr.Prabhakar khore, and Mr.Manivannan also was there.

Kalam zee addressed us 

Kalam jee asked many questions to students :

1. How many of you want to  join Industries?

2. How many of you want be a Social Enterpreuner

3. How many of you want to study in research and teaching?

4. How many want to give I am out of box an Innovative solutions for national problem.

Students rised their hands according to their interests but Kalam zee answered, there are 4 things to keep in mind always. 1 Have a  great aim 2 Acqure knowledge continiusly 3 Do hard work and 4 Parsueness.

 Problem should not come as Captan you should capan of Problems. 

A MORAL STORY

The Three Questions 

King Akbar was very fond of Birbal. This made a certain courtier very jealous. Now this courtier always wanted to be chief minister, but this was not possible as Birbal filled that position.

One day Akbar praised Birbal in front of the courtier. This made the courtier very angry and he said that the king praised Birbal unjustly and if Birbal could answer three of his questions, he would accept the fact that Birbal was intelligent. Akbar always wanting to test Birbals wit readily agreed.

The three questions were
1. How many stars are there in the sky
2. Where is the centre of the Earth and
3. How many men and how many women are there in the world.

Immediately Akbar asked Birbal the three questions and informed him that if he could not answer them, he would have to resign as chief minister.

To answer the first question, Birbal brought a hairy sheep and said .There are as many stars in the sky as there is hair on the sheep’s body. My friend the courtier is welcome to count them if he likes.

To answer the second question, Birbal drew a couple of lines on the floor and bore an iron rod in it and said.this is the centre of the Earth, the courtier may measure it himself if he has any doubts..

In answer to the third question, Birbal said Counting the exact number of men and women in the world would be a problem as there are some specimens like our courtier friend here who cannot easily be classified as either. Therefore if all people like him are killed, then and only then can one count the exact number.

 Message by this story : Please don’t jealous on others ability. All will get positions according to their ability, knowledge. So be proud rather than jealous.

 

 

 

Village study

KARADIKOPPA VILLAGE

Karadikoppa village is very beautifull with greenery crops. Agriculture is main job for karadikopppa villlagers. It was wonderfull expearence for me I got karadikoppa village to study. I learn many things through this village study.It was good opportunity for me to intaract people and gaining knowledge by them.

WELCOME TO YOU ALL

here I am sharing my expearience regaurding my village study

A girl stared crying in FGD I asked to her why? She said "her father was drunker when he drank he use to beat her mother. Now he is no more but how ever she is MISSING her father" - a 16 year young girl.

Another woman expressed her love in another way she invited me for lunch I deniede but she told no! "you are like my doughter you came here for laerning so you should came and have lunch in my home" this shows how the village people respect other peopel eventhough they are sternger for them.

In village study we are four member Fathima, Chandru, Devdanam and Mahantesh we started our missen by walk from Gram Chetana Surshettikoppa to karadikoppa. on the way we passed three other villages. It was really memorable for us. we went karadikoppa on 11h Feb 2009.

Karadikoppa is a small village of Hubli taluk, which is 17 KM away. It is 40 KM away from district HQ Dharwad. This village had situated on the bank of Shalmal Kuradikeri, Inamveerapur, Bommasamudra, Kamplikoppa and Mishrikoti are the surrounding villages to Karadikoppa. We stayed in Mahadevi Sidlingannavar’s house.

Before going to karadikoppa we visited Inamveeerapur village there we observed 'SUSTAINBLE AGRICULTURE MODULE OF AME FOUNDATION '

History of village

Village has 100 years history. karadi means bear and kopppa means settlment, early it was a thick foresrt and its use to live bears 100 years back the whole village shifted on the hill becouse of heavy rainfall.

We started our village study with PRA tools. PRA means participatetory Rural appriasal. Mr. Prakash But sir took theory classes to all DFP Fellows for ^ days. On 10th Feb we had PRA in kamlikoppa village. After that on 11th we all went to Karadikoppa village.

PRA tools used

• TRANSACT WALK

•SOCIAL MAP AND RESOURCE MAP

•VENN DIAGRAM

•TIME LINE

•SEASONAL MAPPING

•MATRIX RANKING (CROPS)

•FGD

•OBSERVATION AND INTERACTION

My Happist Moment

I studied my highscool in MGCM Kanyvidalay Dandeli. during my highscool, once I wrote a my English fair very poorly and badly.  Geeta Naik my English teacher observed my fair and thrown it out from the door. She scold me very much. Whole day I remained Stood up on the bench and she didn't allowed me to take my  note book . In the evening teacher herself came to me and said"by tomorrow you have to complete the fair and has to submit to me ". And  had inspired me to do the work. 

Within one night I had completed all my assignments and submitted to my teacher. At that I purchased new note book and I wrote very clean. She felt  very happy because I has written it beautifully as per her expectations for the incident and me to work hard regularly. Even I felt very happy because whole night I didn't sleep and I understood my ability to do the work. 

I can say on that day I was very happy and satisfied.

I always recollect this incident and inspire myself

development dailogue

Deshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Hubli, has Conducted “Developmental Dialogue” on 26^th Jan to 29^th Jan 2009. It is a three day conference of Social Entrepreneurs of world. More than 250 social entrepreneurs participated in this conference from USA, UK, Kenya, and Peru and from our country also. In this process I got an opportunity to be with delegates, I communicated with all them because I was in registration committee with Laxmi. And also there are other people in this team: Malini, Lata, Chandrshekar,and Gayatri.   

Apart from this I and my 3 Cohort fellow have don an entrepreneurial activity. We sold Dharwad famous Pedha in Developmental Dialog. This activity also promotes me to speak with delegates.

At evening we had dinner in Hotel Naveen, it’s a very beautiful hotel. I wonder to see Lady Drummer they are performed very nice there, their energy, their confidence were very good. But there was no   support from the audience at that moment I felt very bad, because artists expects only claps. There was less claps.

The last day of the ‘Development Dialog’ is very good experience to me. We sold 58 kg Pedha. At evening we went to Hotel Trupti International. The small children from Dharwad performed ‘Bharat natya’ and some of them sung a song. It’s a refresh session for me after the three days.  

Developmental Dialogue was most memorable moment for me. I learnt how to communicate with people in a politely.

 

leadeship activity 2

Hi all

On 1st Feb participated in PULES POLIO immunization program at K H D C

  collony Nekar Nagar Hubli. By the help of Baba Institute of Nursing Pules polio centre. In our Group I and D B Vanageri were leader. We went home to home and av

erred people about im

pact of polio and we brought  a children to pulse polio centre and gave the  couple  of polio  drops.