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Human Development and Research Centre
Journey
2012-13 Seasonal Hostel and April 2013 to present….
Banaskantha District Danta block45 villages
LEP 15 Villages inclusive of 45 villages.
Key Objectives
Enhancing awareness about the RTE at the community level, particularly about the various provisions of the RTE Act such as the SMCs and the SDPs and the various entitlements of children under the same.
To train SMCs and community around the principles of the RTE Act, developing the ownership education issues and tackling the strategies.
Support SMCs for preparation, submission and implementation of SDPs
Pilot an effective interface model among the district and block level officials of the Education Department, elected representatives of the District and Taluka Panchayats, Sarpanches and Panchayat members, school principals and teachers in the Taluka, through the instrumentality of a Block Level SMC Association
Relevance of the LAMP program / Community background Situated at the foothills of the Aravalli Mountain range,
Danta Taluka is a predominantly tribal block, located about 150 km north of Ahmedabad city. It has a total of 186 villages with a tribal population of 52% (2001).
Danta Taluka is home to Adivasi communities such as Dungri Bhils and Garasiya Adivasis (Education status of Dungri garasiya is much lower compared to that of the Dungri Bhils)
Mainly agricultural and mining (marble and quarry labour work)
Literacy rate very low
Continue….. Villages in the inter-state border – highly underdeveloped in
terms of infrastructure, services, education, health etc. Low accessibility of government entitlements There are primary schools in all villages; but not accessible to all
the hamlets, with the children having to walk through forests and fields for over 3-4 kms in certain villages. The school infrastructure is not adequate in all the villages and there is a lot more that needs to be done.
Migration is rampant and people are out of their villages for an average of 6 months in a year, in most of the tribal villages, affecting the education of children to a considerable extent.
The LAMP has for the first time addressed the issue of denial of education to the Adivasi children in a systematic way, through awareness, monitoring RTE Act implementation, capacity building of SMCs and seasonal hostels.
Coverage
No: of Villages Covered: 45
No: of Schools Covered: 45
LEP
Number of LEP classes: 15
Number of girls: 217
Number of boys: 233
RTE-SMC
No: of SMCs Covered: 45
Extent of completion of ActivitiesSr. No. Planned activity Extent of
CompletionRemarks
1. Training of 45 SMCs 100% Complete
2 450 children assisted through LEP
100 % complete L1 Week 11th , Mid line survey completed
3 Block level federation Complete 2 meetings with the roles and responsibility.
4 SMC convention Complete
5 RTE Awareness campaign Complete
6 Citizens leader’s training Complete
7 15 SDP plans Complete 9 SDPs are prepared . Rest of 6 villages have collected data and they need to be put in format
8 15 VER In process
9 BAL MELA Next week. Competitions with the presence of the LEP children parents.
Challenges/ Difficulties and Gaps..
Geographical Area… scattered houses and hamlets …difficult to reach to parents.
Mindset/ attitude of the people … people into hardlabour work and migration – making education apriority in such a context is a challenge
Initial lack of understanding of the depth of program
Late initiation of the programmes
Lack of transport facility.
RTE
Implementatio
n Coverage
Cumulative till
previous month
New covered
this month
Any decrease
in coverage
this month
Tota; Concerted
Areas
Broad based
Areas
No. of SDPs
prepared
5 4 00 9 15 15
RTE Training
Cumulative
number till
previous month
Total trained
this month
Repeat
trainings this
month
Cumulative
number till this
month
Concerted
Areas
Broad based
Areas
No. of SMCs
trained
29 16 00 45 45 45
No. of SMC
members trained
315 137 0 452
No. of Youth
Group
members/Volunt
eers trained
45 32 00 77 45 0
No. of PRI
members trained
19 3 0 22
No. of SHG
members trained
0 0
Total number of
people trained on
RTE
1331 600 0 1931 0
Coverage…. LEP classes 15 III-V - No. of children 450 Girls 217 and boys 233
Learning…… Hamlet wise volunteers enable better implementation
Use of local communication methods for meetings likeDHOL ...
Preplan for community meetings and usage of effectivematerials like List of SMC grants, Charts etc.
Continuous follow up with the volunteers and SMCmembers…
Respecting cultural and community boundaries
Future Vision Expand and replicate the interventions of this year to all
the villages in Danta Taluka and initiate work in a limitednumber of villages in Amirgadh Taluka
Continue the capacity building of SMCs into the next stagewhere community would be fully functional and capable ofdirecting the SDPs
The SMC association of Danta Taluka to be enabled tobecome a model of area level monitoring of RTE,anchoring the collaboration with all the stakeholders –children, the elected representatives, government andcommunity.
Strengthening the community reach through volunteers.
Plan for next 3 years.. Prioritizing the linkages with the education
institutions of the existing villages with thegovernment institutions
Coverage of new villages
SMC district level federation and linkage with thedistrict education body
Cluster level meetings of SMC members
Community support classes
Strengthening the block level SMC formation foradvocacy.
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