The financial training program held at the AIF State office, Odisha

A One day training program on finance was imparted by Mr Subrat Kumar Nayak from Meljol on the 10th of Oct'13 in the AIF State office at Bhubaneswar. All the DE team members including Mr Subrat Sarkar, Operations Director, Odisha participated in the training Program. Every one in the team enjoyed the activities that would help in implementing the Program at the DE Schools for spreading awareness among children about the benefit of saving money.

Meeting with the Chief Gopalpur Project, TATA Steel Ltd

Mr Subrat srkar, Operations Director, DE Odisha, called on Mr Sushanta Kumar Mishra, Chief Gopalpur Project, TATA Steel Ltd, along with Mr Tanmay Kar, Unit Head, TSRDS and Mr Santonu Hazarika, Senior Executive, TSRDS to held up a meeting on the 13th of Sept'2013. The possibilities were explored to collaborate with TATA Steel as far as Education and Livelihood Programs are concerned were discussed as part of the meeting. Ms Sharmishtha Pattanayak and Mr Santibhusan Padhi from DE Odisha escorted Mr Subrat Sarkar during the occasion.

Meeting with the Commissioner cum Secretary ST & SC Dept.

A meeting was organised at the ST & SC welfare Dept. under the chairmanship of the Commissioner cum Secretary for a presentation on Edukit developed by the DE Odisha team. The commissioner cum secretary has shown great interest in Edukit and is exploring the possibilities of translating the same in Oriya language and taking it across to all the tribal schools across the state.

Meeting with the DPC Ganjam, District to brief about implementation of the DE Program

A meeting was organised with Mr Sudam Charan Mandal, DPC, RTE-SSA, Ganjam District and Mr Pradeep Khatei, Programmer, DPO, SSA, Ganjam District on the 03rd of July 2013, to brief about the implementation of System Embedded Model of DE Program across the CAL schools. DPC emphasised on output indicators at school level and said he would visit the blocks of Ganjam District at least thrice a month to check the process and work progress.

The DE briefing meeting held with SSA Functionaries, Kendrapara District, Odisha

A meeting was organised to brief the SSA Functionaries about the system embedded model of DE Program at DPO, Kendrapara District, Odisha on the 01st of July 2013 including Mr Bishnu Prasad Satpathy, Programmer and Mr Amiya Ranjan Nayak, CAL Asst. The meeting was chaired by Mr Kailash chandra Das, DPC, RTE-SSA, Kendrapara and members of AIF team, DE Odisha. The focus of the meeting was to brief the SSA Functionaries regarding effective implementation of the CAL Program to bring about a shift from the BOOT Model to Home grown Model. 

The DE briefing meeting held with SSA Functionaries Cuttack District, Odisha

A meeting was organised to brief the SSA Functionaries about the system embedded model of DE Program at DPO, Cuttack District including Ms Hiramani Mohanty, Programmer and Ms Bagmi Das, CAL Asst. on the 29th of June 2013. The meeting was chaired by Mr Bijaya Kumar Ratha, DPC, RTE-SSA, Cuttack and members of AIF team, DE Odisha. The focus of the meeting was to brief the SSA Functionaries regarding effective implementation of the CAL Program to bring about a shift from BOOT Model to Home grown Model. 

The Review meeting held in Banglore

A five day Review meeting was organised in Banglore from 17th of June 2013 through 21st of June 2013 by AIF, presided by Mr Hemant Paul, Country Director, DE and Mr Sundar Krishnan, Director, DE, India. Mr Subrat Sarkar, Operations Director, DE Odisha, made a presentation on the scope for strategic collaboration with Corporates and PSUs for CSR activities in Odisha. This was followed by a presentation done by Mr Santanu Mishra and Ms Sangita Dash on the evolution of DE Program in Odisha so far and plans for future expansion.