DE State Level Steering Committee Meeting

DE State Level Steering Committee Meeting under the Chairmanship of the Principal Secretary, School and Mass Education Dept, Govt. of Orissa, was held on the 13th of May 2010, in the chamber of the Principal Secretary, Orissa Secretariat, Bhubaneshwar. The meeting was attended by Commissioner-cum-Director SSA, Director Secondary Education, Director TE & SCERT, Director Elementary Education, FA-cum-Additional Secretary, SME Dept, Joint Secretary SME Dept, Asst. Director MIS, SSA and the State Program Manager, American India Foundation Trust. A detailed presentation on the DE Decentralized Resource Centre-cum-Training Model, to be implemented in 104 Secondary and Upper Primary Schools of Orissa, spread over six districts (Bargarh, Sambalpur, Cuttack, Kendrapada, Ganjam and Gajapati) for the academic year 2010-2012, was made by the State Program Manager, American India Foundation Trust. A number of critical issues were discussed as part of the meeting and decisions were taken based on a consensus.

Photo Essay - Drought in Khaira

An excellent photo essay by the trainees of LOKDRUSTI, Nuapada. What is most interesting is the fact that these people who were novices twenty days ago could pick up computer fundamentals fast as part of our rigorous training program and could make this excellent photo essay. Although some more finesse was required as far as the voice over was concerned as a first photo essay for the group it is definitely great going. The local dialect and the photographs make the photo essay transport you to Khaira village, in Boden block of Nuapada district and makes you understand and empathize with the hardships faced by the people due to extreme heat and drought conditions. 

DE-LAMP Pilot, LOKDRUSTI, Nuapada

 

 

A 15 day training program on computers fundamentals for the teachers of the 13 Residential Resource Centre's run by LOKDRUSTI, got over on 29th of May 10. DE Trainers Sanjay Kumar Biswal and Mohan Chand Padhan, slogged on an average of around ten hours a day in converting people completely ignorant about computers to ones who are now comfortable plotting graphs on MS EXCEL. I personally visited LOKDRUSTI on the 24th of May 10 and was astounded by the transformation. Each of the trainees will be given a Laptop, provided by the American India Foundation Trust, to be used for teaching children, in the Residential Resource Centre's. The children in these residential centre's are left behind by their migrating parents who mostly go to work in the brick kilns of Andhra Pradesh. Migration starts from November and peaks in December with the parents returning in May-June of the following year. This is distress migration at its worst, affecting parts of Bargarh, Bolangir and Nuapada districts.

DE Working Group Meeting

DE Working Group Meeting under the Chairmanship of Director TE and SCERT  was held on the 5th of May 2010, in the chamber of Director TE and SCERT in SCERT Bhubaneshwar. Members attending the meeting were Director Elementary Education, State Program Manager, American India Foundation Trust, Deputy Director (Academics) SCERT, Deputy Director Science SCERT and Asst. Director MIS, SSA.   A brief presentation on the DE Decentralized Resource Centre-cum-Training Model which included the training calendar - for the administrative and academic staff to be trained at the SCERT Resource-cum-Training Centre and selected teachers to be trained in each of the six zonal centres (Two in Sambalpur, Cuttack, Dolipur, Khalikote and Berhampur), was made by the State Program Manager AIFT.