All-round Education since 1931 Vidya Bhawan Annual Report 2018-19 Aims and Objects of Vidya Bhawan

1. To promote sound education which implies the full and harmonious development of the individual according to his or her aptitude with a sense of social responsibility 2. To develop a broad and open-minded outlook on life and a healthy sense of citizenship 3. To disseminate sound ideas on education among parents, teachers, guardians, policy makers and administrators in particular and people in general 4. To conduct and promote educational experiments and research 5. To promote vocational and professional education based on employment needs of the society at large 6. To promote social, educational and economic development of rural and urban society 7. To promote adult literacy and continuing education 8. To promote environmental avenues and conservation 9. To promote values, based on equal respect for people of all races, religion, gender, social and economic background Dr Mohan Sinha Mehta Founder, Vidya Bhawan (1895-1985)

'Its positive purpose was to provide for children an atmosphere of freedom for growth, and to promote in them a sense of civic responsibility. No doubt, this might in due course undermine our out-of-date social structure and the strongholds of reactionary forces. But the staff and students of Vidya Bhawan would not, it was clear, line up behind external organisations for any sectional or political ends.'

Mohan Sinha Mehta

(Naidu, P.S. ed. 1960. The Story of Vidya Bhawan. Silver Jubilee Volume (1931-1956), Part 1, Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur, 1960, p. 7)

‘Given the necessary spirit of humility and patient accommodation, truth and sincerity can be left to themselves to win their battles against ignorance, prejudice and misrepresentation'. (First Annual Report, p. 15)

Contents

President's Report 7 A Word from the CEO 12 Education Advisor's Report 14 Report on Institutions 16-46 Vidya Bhawan Senior Secondary School, Fatehpura (VBSSS) 16 Vidya Bhawan Senior Secondary School, Ramgiri (Basic School) 19 Vidya Bhawan Public School (VBPS) 21 Vidya Bhawan Govindram Seksaria Teachers’ College (VBGSTC) 25 Vidya Bhawan Gandhian Institute of Educational Studies (VBGIES) 29 Vidya Bhawan Rural Institute (VBRI) 32 Vidya Bhawan Aanganwadi Workers Training Centre (VBAWTC) 35 Vidya Bhawan Polytechnic College (VBPC) 36 Vidya Bhawan Krishi Vigyan Kendra (VBKVK) 39 Vidya Bhawan Prakriti Sadhna Kendra (VBPSK) 41 Vidya Bhawan Education Resource Centre (VBERC) 42 Vidya Bhawan Wellness Team (VBWT) 45 Report on Estate 47 Credibility Alliance Norms Compliance Report 48 Financial Statements 49 Office Bearers (All positions as on 31.07.2019)

Members of the Board of Control 1. Shri Ajay S. Mehta President 2. Shri Bhagwat Singh Babel Vice President 3. Shri Hemant Kumar Bohra Hony. Secretary 4. Shri Anil Shah Hony. Treasurer 5. Shri Salil Singhal Member 6. Shri M.K. Agrawal Member 7. Shri Kulbhushan Kothari Member 8. Shri Riaz Tehsin Member 9. Shri Siddharth Member 10. Shri Narendra Kothari Member 11. Dr. Suraj Jacob Mukhya Sanchalak (Ex-officio) 12. Shri Prasoon Kumar Educational Advisor (Ex-officio) 13. Shri S.P. Gaur Organising Secretary (Ex-officio) Members of the Executive Committee 1. Shri Ajay S. Mehta President 2. Shri Riaz Tehsin Former President 3. Shri Bhagwat Singh Babel Vice President 4. Shri Hemant Kumar Bohra Hony. Secretary 5. Shri Anil Shah Hony. Treasurer 6. Dr. Suraj Jacob Mukhya Sanchalak 7. Shri Prasoon Kumar Educational Advisor 8. Shri S.P. Gaur Organising Secretary 9. Shri Akhil Prakash Trivedi Chief Finance Officer 10. Shri Bharat Mehta Member 11. Smt. Chandralekha Bharti Member 12. Shri Dilip Galundia Member 13. Shri Dinesh Galundia Member 14. Dr. F.S. Mehta Member 15. Shri Gopal Krishna Bumb Member 16. Shri Naveen Vyas Member 17. Shri Liaquat Hussain Member 18. Shri Mahendra Bapna Member 19. Smt. Revti Raman Shrimali Member 20. Dr. Sayeed Ahmed Member 21. Shri Surendra Jain Member 22. Shri C.S.R. Mehta Member 23. Dr. A.B. Phatak Educationist 24. Prof. Farida Khan Educationist 25. Prof. Vikram Vyas Educationist Members of the Finance Committee

1. Shri Anil Shah Hony. Treasurer 2. Shri Hemant Kumar Bohra Hony. Secretary 3. Shri Bhagwat Singh Babel Vice-Prisdent 4. Shri Arvind Singhal Member 5. Shri Kezar Ali Kurabarwala Member 6. Dr. Suraj Jacob Mukhya Sanchalak 7. Shri S.P. Gaur Organising Secretary 8. Shri Akhil Prakash Trivedi Chief Finance Officer Heads of Institutions

Institute Head Contact

Vidya Bhawan Senior Shri Pushpraj Ranawat Tel: 0294 – 2411095 Secondary School, Principal Email: Fatehpura [email protected] Website: www.vbsschool.org

Vidya Bhawan Senior Smt. Renu Jadav Tel: 0294 – 2450806 Secondary School, Principal Email: [email protected] Ramgiri Website: www.vbbasicschool.org

Vidya Bhawan Public Smt. Neerja Jain Tel: 0294 – 2421170 School Principal Email: [email protected] Website: www.vbpublicschool.org

Vidya Bhawan Smt. Sushma Talesra Tel: 0294 – 2451814 Govindram Seksaria Principal Email: [email protected] Teacher’s College Website: www.vbgstc.org Vidya Bhawan Smt. Bhagwati Ahir Tel: 0294 – 2450806 Gandhian Institute of Principal Email: [email protected] Educational Studies Website: www.vbgies.org

Vidya Bhawan Rural Dr. T.P. Sharma Tel: 0294 – 2450403, 2453088 Institute Director Email: [email protected] Website: www.vbriudaipur.org

Vidya Bhawan Shri Anil Mehta Tel: 0294 – 2451309, 2452997 Polytechnic College Principal Email:vidyabhawanpolytechnic@yah oo.co.in Vidya Bhawan Krishi Shri A.S. Jodha Tel: 0294 – 2451313, 2450922 Vigyan Kendra Head & Sr. Scientist Email: [email protected] Website: www.vbkvk.org

Vidya Bhawan Prakriti Shri R.L. Shrimal Tel: 0294 – 2450911 Sadhna Kendra Coordinator Email: [email protected]

Vidya Bhawan Smt. Preeti Misra Tel: 0294 – 2451497 Education Resource Director Email: [email protected] Center Website: www.vberc.org

Vidya Bhawan Society Office

President: Shri Ajay Singh Mehta Mukhya Sanchalak: Dr. Suraj Jacob Organizing Secretary : Shri S.P. Gaur Education Advisor: Shri Prasoon Kumar Chief Finance Officer: Shri Akhil Prakash Trivedi Executive Officer (HR & Legal): Shri Zahid Mohammad Estate and Welfare Officer: Shri H.R. Bhati

Tel: 0294-2450911, 2451679 Email: [email protected] Website: www.vidyabhawan.org ABOUT VIDYA BHAWAN

Vidya Bhawan (VB) is a dream about new connecting farmers with science and relationships between education, society and innovation, and a Prakriti Sadhana Kendra to humanity. The limits of that dream are defined ecological conservation and study. On the one not by India and Indians but by the hand it thus has teacher training institutions possibilities of humanity. VB respects the and on the other students pursuing their linguistic and cultural practices and cognitive education from nursery to doctoral levels. potential that students bring to schools and This unique mix of institutions gives VB an colleges and builds on this potential in opportunity to internally learn and share this collaboration with teachers, parents and knowledge with the education sector at the society. Through creative exploration and national and international level. And at each reflection, VB hopes to shape students and one of these institutions, sports, music, dance staff who are responsible, pluralist global and other activities constitute an integral part citizens, sensitive to the welfare of others and of the curriculum. the environment. Neerja Jain, the Principal of the VB Public Established in 1931 by Dr. Mohan Sinha School shares a telling narrative of the arrival Mehta and his colleagues in Udaipur, VB of the music teacher, Manish Adiwal, in the drew inspiration from Gandhi, the scouting school. In the beginning, only 3-4 students movement and the freedom movement, would turn up; the rest would hide in toilets, realising that we would need responsible behind trees or classroom. Manish was not citizens and visionary leaders. The ideas of frustrated; he simply left the music classroom democracy, equality and inclusion were and the instruments unlocked. Students had essential components of this vision. In fact, free access to the place and could play the the origin and growth of VB in the context of instruments as they desired. Soon, the noise swaraj and reformation movements subsumed and 'dum-dum' sounds changed to intense not just freedom from colonial rule but also interest in music. Students stopped hiding from colonial mentality. from the music classes. She says: Today VB is a group of 10 educational Most often, music is seen in isolation and institutions directly serving over 4000 something to indulge in only during free time. students and indirectly serving several tens of This is not true. The impact of music could be thousands more, and over 550 staff members. seen in our annual kaavya goshthii, the These institutions include multiple Schools rhythm added to the poems of students; their (the oldest, Senior Secondary School; the involvement in music and the confidence Basic School dedicated to the rural gained therein was also reflected in greater population; and the Public School), an engagement with Science, History and Education Resource Centre for developing languages than witnessed hitherto. There are and implementing schooling innovations, similar stories about chess, coding and Teacher Education Colleges (the older photography. Govindram Seksaria Teachers' College and As Tagore said, words fail to articulate several the newer Gandhian Institute of Educational aspects of human knowledge and emotion; Studies), a Polytechnic, a post graduate level that space must then belong to 'lines and Rural Institute, a Krishi Vigyan Kendra for colours, sounds and movements'. ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 PRESIDENT'S REPORT

The year 2018-19 was a productive year in from this arrangement. The total outlay on the many respects. In my view it is a year of salary increase was modest and amounted to inflexion. The grant-in-aid was stopped in 70 lakhs only. The salary revision, though 2012. Vidya Bhawan has transited from an expectedly delayed in its conceptualisation institution defined by a grant-in-aid culture to and implementation, goes a long way in the freedom of being substantially creating a pan Vidya Bhawan identity. With autonomous. This freedom has been exercised some exceptions, based on the different meticulously by Dr. Suraj Jacob, Vidya purposes and origins of institutions, all staff Bhawan's Mukhya Sanchalak (Chief members are now treated by uniform rules and Executive) and Shri Prasoon Kumar, are defined by similar grade structures. Education Advisor. They along with their During the course of the year a great deal of senior colleagues have worked beyond the effort went into creating a participatory call of duty to steer Vidya Bhawan back to its culture of management. Budgets and action founding vision of working for a more plans for the year were prepared in a democratic, plural and just society. participatory manner. All staff members in Equitable, Participatory Management each institution were involved in these Approach exercises. Getting staff members to feel that One of the most significant developments they matter to the future of Vidya Bhawan has during the course of the year was the been the motivation underlying this approach. introduction of a new salary structure in Vidya Common Facilities Bhawan. The demand for better emoluments had been a longstanding request of staff One element in the strategy to build a members. After a great deal of thought, a participatory and pan Vidya Bhawan culture framework was evolved that revised salaries has been to create facilities that are common based on the principles of promoting equity to all institutions; their students and staff alongside fairness in our salary structure. One members. One shining example of this has major plank of this arrangement was to been the renovation of the auditorium located dissolve the distinction between temporary in the Govindram Seksaria Teachers Training contract staff and those who have permanent College (GSTC) campus. A capable sound status. The salary revision covered close to all engineer was hired to design the hall so that the 600 plus staff members of Vidya Bhawan. there are no sound distortions. High quality The net result was that those in the lowest sound equipment was installed to avoid grades with salaries less than Rs. 10,000 got frequent renting of equipment. These an average increase of around 30%, while improvements were facilitated by the Mohan those in the range of Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 20,000 Sinha Mehta Memorial Trust which raised a got an average raise of around 15%. Those in the highest levels of salaries got average grant of Rs. 15 lakh for this purpose. The increase of 10%. The maximum benefit auditorium is being used more than ever accrued to those who had long years of service before to screen films for students and staff. It but were on a temporary status. Many of these is also being used by all the institutions of people happened to be in the Sahayak Vidya Bhawan for their annual day and category, though many teachers also benefited cultural functions.

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In a similar fashion, a beautiful open air cafe Foundation as an academic mentor to has been built in the Rural Institute campus government teachers. He is young and brings with the generous donation from Mr. & Mrs. to the flagship school great energy and Gaj Singhji Mehta. This cafe serves over 2000 educational depth. students and staff attached to the Rural Dr. Sugan Sharma retired from the Gandhian Institute and Polytechnic College. In addition, Institute of Educational Studies and was the staff of other institutions in Vidya Bhawan succeeded in 2018 by Dr. Bhagwati Ahir. premises and families living on the campus Bhagwati ji was earlier the head of Vidya also have access to this facility. This cafe Bhawan Kala Sansthan Shikshak Prashikshan brings students and faculty together and could Vidyalaya (VBKSSPV). Bhagwati ji, like encourage good conversations, including Pushpraj ji, is young and has potential to discussion on social matters that should provide leadership. She, along with the concern us as citizens. Yet another common Principal of the Vidya Bhawan Senior facility that is being improved is the mess Secondary School, Ramgiri, has the unique located in the Senior Secondary School privilege to reintroduce Gandhian ideas and campus. One more floor is being added with enrich the educational experience of students the help of donations from the Bajaj and staff on this campus. This is the site of the Foundation and Ms. Anju and Mr. Anil Pasari. Vidya Bhawan Basic School which was The new mess will allow us to optimise use of inaugurated by Dr. Zakir Hussain in 1941. our hostels in both the Senior Secondary After an open search, recently Ms. Renu School and Govindram Seksaria Teachers Jadhav became Principal of the Ramgiri Training College. School upon the retirement of Mr. E. H. Qazi. Ms. Jadhav has considerable experience in On the infrastructure front there have been Vidya Bhawan and is striving to strengthen many improvements across all institutions. our open and enthusiastic student culture. Among these the most significant has been the setting up of a new Mechatronics Centre at the Dr. Divya Prabha Nagar, Vidya Bhawan Polytechnic College. This facility was built at Govindram Seksaria Teachers College a cost of over Rs. 5 crore by the Saraswati (GSTC), was succeeded by Dr. Sushma Singhal Foundation. The Centre is designed to Talesra in 2018. She has been a longstanding train students with ITI and related faculty member of GSTC and brings with her backgrounds to integrate the disciplines of vast academic and administrative experience. In all these cases there was an open search to electrical engineering, electronics and find the best possible candidates to head mechanical engineering. theses institutions. New Leadership On the non-academic side Ms. Riddhi Shah, Another significant dimension of the year has previously the head of the educational been the appointment new heads to programme at Seva Mandir, joined Vidya institutions. Ms. Madhulika Kothari retired as Bhawan's Wellness Team to provide the Principal of the Senior Secondary School leadership. This Team is doing pioneering in July of 2018. Her successor, Mr. Pushpraj work in helping students and staff to Singh Ranawat, worked for ten years in Vidya overcome professional and personal Bhawan's Education Resource Centre, difficulties so that they may give their best to including leadership of the Shiksha Sambhal the institution. In the course of the last three Project supported by Hindustan Zinc Limited. years, since the Team started work it has He subsequently joined the Azim Premji provided much needed counseling support to students and staff.

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Academic Activities programme directly to the nursery section and all junior section classes (1-5) from this year On the academic front there have been many itself. The Basic School and Public School are developments of note. One of the highlights of initiating it in nursery classes and Classes 1-3 the last year has been inputs provided by Mr. and 6. There is a detailed weekly schedule for Shashank Vira, a distinguished educationist. classroom support in schools by resource He is being supported by the Saraswati teachers from the ERC. School teachers Singhal Foundation to broaden the participate in review meetings every educational experience of the students fortnight. Students under the programme are studying in the Senior Secondary School and showing significant improvements in the Public School. Under this initiative, language proficiency and cognitive capacity. students are learning coding skills, creative ERC also conducts workshops for resource writing and photography, besides engaging in persons which help to enrich the national a systematic fitness and sports program. The discourse on education. Rama Kant Agnihotri carpentry workshop in the Technical Section and A L Khanna in collaboration with the ERC of the Senior Secondary School has been team produced a book for the Central Teacher revived. Plans are also afoot to reopen the Eligibility Test (CTET) which was published metallurgy workshop. by the Oxford University Press. Sixteen issues In 2018-19, Vidya Bhawan awarded over 100 of the journal Language and Language scholarships to students of our schools and Teaching (supported by APU) meant for colleges in need as well as those excelling in teachers and teacher trainers have already academic, sports and cultural activities. These been published. scholarships are supported by dedicated funds In the Rural Institute there has been a that specific individuals and trusts have given consolidation of different departments to to us. We are actively engaged in expanding bring about synergies across disciplines. The scholarship funds. admission to the Rural Institute has also All the three schools are working on a become a more merit-based process. A great bilingual medium of instruction under the deal more attention is being paid to motivate 'Language Plus' programme. This is a bold students to attend classes and for them to see and innovative experiment created by Vidya value in learning as opposed to just getting a Bhawan and much of Vidya Bhawan's image degree. At the Polytechnic College, it is hoped improvement depends on its success. that the addition of the Mechatronics Centre Language Plus was conceived to enhance will catalyse an overall improvement in the proficiencies in English and Hindi in our motivation of staff and students. The schools, and therefore enhance cognitive Polytechnic is working with the Udaipur capacities and performance in all curricular Nagar Nigam on waste water management subjects. Facilitated by Kamal Mahendroo and on the treatment of sewage. This is an area and Rama Kant Agnihotri and their team at where Vidya Bhawan can become a center of Vidya Bhawan's Education Resource Centre excellence. In the KVK there are a few new (ERC), the programme is entering its third initiatives. Among these the most notable is year with a new challenge, to get school collaboration with Basic Health Trust to leaders and teachers to adopt the programme improve the nutritional status of children in as their own and take the responsibility for remote villages of Salumbar and Gogunda planning and charting its future course. The blocks. KVK's work on improving the fertility Sr. Sec. School has decided to take the of cows is highly successful and members of

9 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 the dairy federations in Gujarat are sending front is mixed, what is reassuring is that with a their senior veterinary doctors for mid-career few exceptions the students are well-settled trainings. and are taking an active role in multiple School activities. Some of them are excelling Overall it can be said that many new platforms in sports and are part of the State hockey team. have been created for the academic environment of Vidya Bhawan to improve. The Bajaj Foundation has been gracious to There are regular poetry recitation gatherings consider a new proposal from Vidya Bhawan and also workshops for teachers to learn new to improve infrastructure in the Public School research methods. and the Ramgiri campus, besides helping build a new floor to our school mess. This Education Projects despite our failure to execute a 3 crore project Like the previous year we were fortunate to to build a teacher training mid career hostel. receive continued support from a number of This building could not be built because the donor institutions. HZL continues to support Nagar Nigam failed to give Vidya Bhawan the Shiksha Sambhal Programme in 60 building permission. Dealing with the Nagar government schools in five districts where Nigam was an unfortunate experience as it they have operations. It was gratifying to note took them eight months to deny us permission that as a result of Vidya Bhawan's intervention without giving us any reasons. spearheaded by the Education Resource Looking Ahead: Finances, Image and Centre, the school results in scores of schools Vision have improved significantly. Vidya Bhawan continues to struggle to Another initiative that was continued with achieve financial viability. Despite generous support of HZL is the Unchi Udaan (high donor support from a variety of sources our fliers) programme to enable bright students deficit stood at 3.5 crore at the end of the year. from government schools to study in Vidya At the same time, institutional support has Bhawan and get coaching for entry into also occurred, for instance a generous grant of engineering colleges. This apart, Vidya 50 lakh of untied funds from the India Shelter Bhawan is also partnering with Seva Mandir Finance Corporation, made possible by its in the large Khushi programme supported by Managing Director Shri Anil Mehta. Just HZL where we work with 1350 Aaganwadis before the close of the year Vidya Bhawan in Udaipur district to improve the health and was fortunate to get a 4.5 crore grant from cognitive abilities of students. Interglobe Aviation Ltd to work in 25 The Colgate Palmolive Company continues to government schools over a period of three support around 50 students from extremely years. poor economic backgrounds to study in Vidya In the past year, many people have supported Bhawan. The early schooling of some these us in fulfilling our commitment to quality students was made possible by Seva Mandir, education for all sections of society. Support which conceputalised this unique scholarship has come in big ways and small, in cash and programme to give children living in remote kind, including the valuable time of our well- villages a second chance to acquire good wishers. Major infrastructure related work education. The students have shown was done with financial support received remarkable resilience in adjusting to life in an from institutional as well as individual urban boarding school. Vidya Bhawan is donors. Specific funds have been established, trying its best to help them cope with for example for scholarships and for staff academic challenges. While success on this

10 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 welfare. Others have supported the costs of were in the pre-independence period. Vidya sports coaching and participation of our Bhawan is uniquely positioned to building students in national tournaments. Still others plural and democratic values among its donated fans, incinerators, water coolers, students, addressing the challenges of poverty music systems, and so on. All this support has and hunger through its work in agriculture and not only made for a higher quality experience early childhood care. It is also in a position to for school and college students and our staff, raise awareness and work towards ecological but it has also increased our confidence and sustainability and mitigating the threat of motivation to fulfil our mandate. climate change in our local context. Overall perceptions about Vidya Bhawan Finally my deep gratitude to colleagues in the continue to suffer from the image that it is a Society Office: Shri S.P. Gaur, Organising Hindi medium institution for those from Secretary, Shri Zahid Mohammed, Executive modest socioeconomic backgrounds. This Officer (HR & Legal), Shri Akhil Prakash perception is mistaken and special efforts are Trivedi, Chief Finance Officer and Shri needed to alter this perception. Vidya Bhawan Hemraj Bhati, Estate and Welfare Officer for is committed to providing good education to their exceptional contributions. They along all sections of society, education that will with the eleven heads of institutions are contribute to responsible citizenship. A responsible for taking Vidya Bhawan forward positive development over the past year has against great odds. been the greater focus on internal discussions, I would be remiss if did not thank all the within and across Vidya Bhawan institutions, members of the Board of Control, the regarding our identity and vision. This Executive Committee and the Finance process will enable Vidya Bhawan to better Committee for their support and guidance. articulate our work and philosophy to the Their role has been exceptional in giving the outside world and regain our leadership role in executive the freedom to pursue a education discourse. participatory culture of management. Vidya Bhawan has a long way to go before it My thanks are due to all those who can realise its full potential. It was created as a participated in the making of this report, response to supporting the national movement especially to Rama Kant Agnihotri, Jaya through education. At the time students were Rathore, Bhawani ji and Rajesh Sen. encouraged to recognise their responsibilities to work for a democratic, plural and just social order. These concerns of building a more (Ajay S. Mehta) inclusive society are as valid today as they President

11 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 A WORD FROM THE CEO

Reflecting on another eventful, high-energy education is needed today more than ever. year, there are many gratifying glimpses of Fundamental global, national, local issues energy and initiative for 'quality education' such as climate change and social conflict can and 'social change' detailed in the pages of this be addressed only through fresh, critical, Annual Report. Perhaps they also offer pixels integrative thinking. We are in planning stages for a broader narrative of institution-building for an environmental hub around climate and institutional renewal. action through our Prakriti Sadhna Kendra. Our Wellness Team and affiliates are working This past year, through multiple formal on conflict and violence (physical, activities and informal conversations, across psychological, structural). Our educational different institutions of Vidya Bhawan, we programmes such as Language Plus respect have strengthened our common identity and cultural practices and cognitive capacities in a commitment. This is an important multi-cultural world – and in fact use these for organisational challenge as our education strengthening proficiencies in language, activities include a range of formal instruction science, and so on. Rural community outreach courses (schools, colleges, and in-service & through NGOs enables students from remote skilling programmes) as well as publications, tribal areas get a wide exposure at Vidya research, seminars & workshops,on-farm Bhawan, and in turn offer us the difficult and agricultural demonstrations, and outreach worthy challenge of managing diversity in the activities in scores of government schools. classroom and instilling confidence in This range of education activities creates a young minds previously used to modest rich tapestry for implementing Vidya opportunities and aspirations. New Bhawan's ambitious vision. I interpret this approaches promise to make mathematics vision in the following cascading manner: to more realist and inviting. Modernisation is enhance knowledge; to create capacities for enabling initiatives such as mechatronics, livelihoods; to help better navigate the world; coding, photography and creative writing. to cultivate a pluralist, democratic spirit; and Old traditions are being revitalised – for to identify and work for the common good in instance, sporting activities including society. These aspects of Vidya Bhawan's volleyball, chess, archery and hockey are vision are interrelated. While we have flourishing. Outreach in Mewar villages is programmes directly linked with livelihoods addressing problems of child malnutrition and – pre-service teacher training, engineering cattle infertility. In partnership with diploma courses, and so on – we resist today's government, the corporate sector and NGOs, general tendency to reduce education to our students and staff are involved in action merely an instrument to a job. Even in our job research around critical regional matters of training programmes, we try to emphasise water and sanitation. These new initiatives are knowledge and understanding as well part of a longer history of innovation at Vidya democratic sensibility and broader outlook on Bhawan, where back in the day education was society and the environment. In a consumerist taken out of the classroom ('vanshala') and world with slipping democratic values, these connected with self-governance ('shala become prime challenges. panchayat'), where our students cycled to Despite the challenges to execute it, we villages for spreading adult literacy and believe our ambitious vision around improving rural sanitation, managed a farm

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and integrated work and education in the matters of social justice if our own Gandhian tradition. institutional culture is riven by unjustifiable inequalities and questionable understandings The progress over the last year has cast into of gender, caste, consumerism, narrow sharper relief three broad challenges facing nationalism, and so forth. So it is critical that Vidya Bhawan. The first has to do with the we deliberate and construct internal external environment changing to the extent procedures and relations of respect, that 'education' is increasingly reduced to understanding and care. There are many crude, narrow job-related skilling – rather ongoing efforts regarding this: participatory than also knowledge for broader understanding budget-making, consultative internal as well as critical, constructive, action- meetings and communications, creation of oriented thinking about relationships, society, multiple forums to express and discuss on and the environment. In this broader context, internal matters big and small, including it is challenging to keep aloft our flag of opportunities to explain institutional challenges expansive understanding of education, but & decisions. We have tried to be attentive to conversely, this context makes it all the more seemingly small but important matters such as important to do so. The second challenge has re-ordering names in the staff roster to do with finances. Planning is on to improve alphabetically, away from previous listings by resources from the three potential sources order of administrative hierarchy – and in the open to us – fees, external support (grants and case of our Polytechnic, even removed from project work) and asset monetisation – while sign boards the last names that signal navigating potential compromises inherent in caste/status in our highly unequal society. In these strategies. the last year, we also went through a long and While Vidya Bhawan is in a phase where careful exercise to revise salaries – despite our financial management and fund-raising are overall financial challenges – keeping critical, I believe that our longer-term ability important principles of equality and justice in to meet our high-minded vision depends mind. Ultimately, I feel, it is how we treat almost entirely on how we address our third ourselves that will shape the education we challenge, a staff body and institutional provide and the larger impact we can have. culture that breathes the spirit of that high- To conclude, it has been a high-voltage year, minded vision. In my view of society, today's one of several that Vidya Bhawan has overall socialisation hardly produces the embarked on in its current phase of transition deeply respectful, independent-minded, and rejuvenation. And it has been a year in pluralist-spirited individuals that must which, I believe, both Vidya Bhawan's raison populate Vidya Bhawan for us to meet our d'etre and its challenges have come into vision. Hailing from the lower middle class, sharper relief to light the path ahead but also to many in our staff have understandable remind us that what we seek to do is concerns and anxieties around salaries, important. abilities, aspirations and generally 'making it' in a fast-changing and somewhat confusing world. Added to this, we can hardly take on (Suraj Jacob) Mukhya Sanchalak

13 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 EDUCATION ADVISOR'S REPORT

The year started with the selection of a new Vidya Bhawan's Language Plus initiative is Principal for Vidya Bhawan's flagship also an important achievement as it tried to institution, the Senior Secondary School. The show how languages children bring to school selection process was rigorous with scores of can become a resource for linguistic and applicants. It should make Vidya Bhawan cognitive growth. It succeeded in creating a proud that the selected candidate received his cohort of students, teachers and resource training in Vidya Bhawan itself. persons to discuss academics issues around language and making an attempt to align Many educational activities were classroom practices with theoretical claims. strengthened in this past year. Hindustan Zinc limited (HZL) and Vidya Bhawan continued We face several serious challenges in their collaboration to run the Shiksha Sambal improving the quality of education. I believe it Programme (SSP) in 60 government schools is important to be candid about this. School across six districts of Rajasthan to help Class examination results in general have not X and XII students to improve their results. improved sufficiently. More early and careful SSP succeeded in improving Board examination preparation could create an Examination results significantly, in addition opportunity to talk to teachers about areas of to enriching interactions with schools and improvement. Regular writing, reading field personnel. Further, Vidya Bhawan comprehension exercises and grammar convinced HZL to support SSP activities with questions could improve examination results Classes VII and VIII also as it made more considerably. Tests of comprehension ability sense to start working with students to prepare in all our teaching institutions indicate that for the Board exam from younger cohorts. substantial numbers of school and college Similarly, Vidya Bhawan's institutions such as students need enormous guidance in the Gandhian Institute of Education Studies improving proficiency in Hindi and English. and the Basic school showed improvements in Since language proficiency is low, progress in examination results. Towards the end of other subjects also becomes difficult. We have March, Indigo airlines entered into not been able to fully utilize the linguistic and partnership with Vidya Bhawan to work in cognitive potential students bring to school government schools in two rural blocks of and other teaching institutions. Udaipur district, offering us yet another opportunity for working on quality of Other challenges are related to internal and education, in keeping with Vidya Bhawan's external outreach to stakeholders. We can do original mandate. more to interact with parents and communities to enable more conducive Meanwhile, in the Bageecha scholarship learning environments outside school and collaboration with Colgate Palmolive and college, including better use of digital Seva Mandir, Vidya Bhawan continued to technologies for communications. We can work with several hostel students hailing from further strengthen our nascent efforts to work remote villages with poor previous exposure with parents and communities to rethink to schooling and lack of familiarity with the discourses around education, whether they be languages and syllabi used in the school. It about the role of language, rote-learning or was a big challenge to make these students expectations of teachers. Further, we can put feel at home and catch up with the required more energy into pedagogies that create grade-appropriate standards. greater openness and trust in teacher-student

14 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 relationships, thereby also ensuring improved academic situation. This will be accompanied quality of education. Having started some by detailed, institution-level plans to improve serious discussions on the issue of education, broadly conceived to include both punishment – corporal and other – we can now scholastic activity and other educational link these with our broader values and activities. The Academic Advisory Council at aspirations of non-violence. Indeed, the big Vidya Bhawan has discussed several challenge is to ground our broader vision of fundamental points that can now be inclusive education, pluralism and freedom in channelized into these detailed plans. everyday school and college practices to rethink conventions around punishment, test performance, and so on. (Prasoon Kumar) To address all these challenges, we are Educational Advisor working on a white paper on the present

15 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 REPORT ON INSTITUTIONS VIDYA BHAWAN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL, FATEHPURA (VBSSS)

Established in 1931, VBSSS comprises three from the programme. As this programme is sections namely Nursery, Junior and Senior. intended to develop children's skills in both The Nursery section houses 3 classes i.e. English and Hindi languages children were nursery, LKG and HKG, Junior section has provided lot of materials in both these classes I to V and classes from VI–XII are part languages. At the end of session children of senior section. At present the school has a showcased the importance of this programme total 970 students from nursery to XII. The by presenting plays and poems. school offers three subject streams i.e. Students were taken to Fatehsagar, Sanjay Science, Commerce and Humanities. Gandhi Park, Swaroop Sagar and Vivekanand Sections wise highlights of the year are as Park as part of their educational visits. follows: Plantation drive was taken up by students Nursery Section during rainy season. They also prepared posters depicting the significance of rain. More than 120 Kindergartners are being Along with celebrating various festivals of groomed in this section. Montessori based national and religious importance students teaching learning techniques are used to actively participated in competitions i.e. prepare these children socially as well as Poem Recitation, Extempore etc. In addition academically. This year the section has to this students enjoyed the activity 'cooking commenced some of the innovative activities. without fire' and prepared more than 50 Students are taken to visit different areas in dishes. the campus and feed the birds. To promote good health the school has instructed all the The most cherished and regular activity of children to bring with them both cooked as Junior section is 'Balsabha' in which all well as raw food material i.e. fruits, salad, students are given opportunity to go on the sprouts etc., that can be eaten during their first stage and showcase their talents. As part of lunch break. this activity, children performed dances, dramas, songs and poems based on various Students also visited Sanjay Gandhi Park and themes. Gulab Bag and enjoyed the natural surroundings to the core. Festival and events Senior Section like Guru Purnima, Teacher's Day, Academic Domain Rakshabandhan, Janmashthmi, Green Day, Montessori Day, Gandhi Jayanti etc. were Based on the results of the previous year, 14 celebrated in the school during the reporting girl students received the "Gargi Award" period. The annual cultural function marked being given by State Government of the end of the session that saw many Rajasthan. Overall board results of the year are given below in the table: colourfully performances by our tiny-tots. S.No. Class Total no. of Pass % Junior Section students

th Language Plus programme was implemented 1 X 75 74.66 2 XIIth (Humanities) 34 94.12 across all the 3 VB schools was the highlight 3 XIIth(Commerce) 23 91.3 of the year. Students benefitted a great deal 4 XIIth(Science) 58 91.37

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Co-curricular Activities Gandhi, his belief in volunteerism and self- reliance etc. An exhibition was organized at The first activity of the new session was the end of project. A cultural evening was also "Yoga Day" in which students practiced Yoga organized at school's open theatre. Tiny tots of steps under the guidance of a Yoga Instructor. nursery section also became part of this As a warming up activity some movies were programme and performed group dance and screened for the students in the month of July. group song- raghupati raaghav raaja raam. At the same time the quiz competitions were This was followed by performances by senior also organized by subject teachers. "Saturday students. Meet" for the students was held regularly; experts from various walks of life interacted basant panchami is another major event with students during these meets. Various celebrated in VBSSS. Range of cultural competitions like extempore, debate, poem activities related to spring were presented by recitation, music etc. were organized the students. School campus was decorated throughout the year. Alongside these activities with flowers and leaves. The scholarships the NCC and Scout Guide training were also were distributed by old boys union. imparted to the students unfailingly. Other Activities Foundation Day: The 87th foundation day of The school has been working on some Vidya Bhawan was celebrated on important experiments for the past two years. "Muktakashi" stage. The theme for the event One such experiment is Sevamandir-Colgate- was rainy season. Mr. Pushpraj Singh Vidya Bhawan scholarship programme. Ranawat, Principal of VBSSS welcomed the Around 50 students from tribal villages are guests. All VB institutions collectively staged studying in Vidya Bhawan under this various performances based on the theme. programme. Along with academics, students Songs and poems depicting the significance are also taking keen interest in sports and of trees, classic dance and songs around other activities of the school. 3 girl students of nature and its beauty were the attractions of this batch got selected at state level the day. The cultural programme was competition. followed by shramdan and plantation. Former Another experiment being carried out at student and RAS Officer Mr. Ashok Yadav school is Unchi Udaan in collaboration with was the chief guest and Ms. Jyotsna Tiwari Hindustan Zinc Ltd. and Resonance Coaching was special guest of the function. Classes. 52 students are studying in Vidya Anniversary Project: Anniversary project and Bhawan School and were accommodated in vanshala were the most cherished activities of Vidya Bhawan Hostels. These students are the year. Considering the 150th birth being groomed to clear the entrance anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the theme of examination for IIT and other engineering the anniversary project 2018 was kept colleges alongside their studies. The 'Gandhi- a life of philosophy'. As part of this programme has been successful as 3 of our project students prepared charts, models, students Laxman Khatik, Sanjay Jingar and posters and files etc. around the theme. All the Rani Khatik cleared the entrance examination students of the school split in 8 groups and for IIT. Some of the other students could also prepared about 400 projects. This project get admissions in prestigious engineering enabled students to touch every aspect of institutions. Gandhi's life, his contribution to freedom movement, his ideas about education, his Three Parent Teacher Meetings (PTM) were journey of becoming Mahatma Gandhi from held during the reporting period. A movie

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'Satat Prayas' was screened in the first PTM of claimed Nehru Cup. The physical training the session. This movie depicts the journey of instructor of the school Mr. K.K. Yadav was Vidya Bhawan since its establishment. The also selected for the 9th Senior National parents also expressed their views about Hockey Championship. Vidya Bhawan. School Modernisation: With the financial and With an objective to instil the sense of technical support from Saraswati Singhal leadership in the minds of students and to Foundation, school started some innovative demonstrate the whole process of democratic activities. Coding club was started in procedure, the school organised Shala collaboration with Raspberry Foundation in Panchayat election. The students filed their which students are learning software coding. nomination letters and delivered the speeches The school has also started creative club and in classes as well as in school assembly so as photography club. to convince the student voters to cast their Plans and Challenges vote in the favour of the candidate of their choice. The school is planning to gear up the efforts to reach the target of 100 percent board results. Sports Activities: Three of our students Another plan is to modernise the nursery namely Jayveer Nath in gymnastic, Vipin in school and improve the basic amenities of the National Crudo and Suresh Kumar in hockey school campus. Declining number of got selected at the national level. 41 students admissions is a major threat to school and were selected at state level. Vidya Bhawan's reason for it is parent's inclination towards under 17 Hockey team won Hockey English medium schools. championship and under 15 Hockey team

18 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 VIDYA BHAWAN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL, RAMGIRI

Eestablished in 1941, Vidya Bhawan Senior school visited City Palace, Udaipur as part of Secondary School, Ramgiri, focuses on rural their educational visit. children. The school currently has a strength During Sept 1 and 7, our school's Volleyball of 438 students and has 37 teaching and non teams of boys under-14 and under-17 teaching staff. participated in the District Level Volleyball Academic Domain Competition. The under-14 volleyball team Class X and XII results have done us proud. 28 reached the semifinals. out of 29 students of Class X got first division makar sakraanti festival was the biggest in social studies. Nikita Lohar topped the celebration at Ramgiri School last year, in class with 89.33% marks. The details of the which students from nursery to Class XII board result are as follows: participated. About 150 students of different

Class classes performed on the stage. Socially S. No Range XII XII significant programmes on different themes X (Commerce) (Humanities) like "Beat Plastic", "A Fight against Social 1 I Division 13 7 6 Injustice", "The Importance of Books", and 2 II Division 16 4 13 "Physical Disability can't be a Barrier 3 III Division - 2 1 Success" were held under the guidance of Ms 4 Supplementary - 1 1 Manju Shrimali. Along with these, various 5 Fail - 2 2 events e.g. International Yoga Day, World 6 Total Strength 29 16 23 Literacy Day, Green Day, Vidya Bhawan Result in % 100% 81.25% 86.95% Foundation Day, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day, Co-curricular Activities Teachers' Day, Hindi Divas, basant panchami, Science Day, Children's Day etc. Balsabhas was a regular activity throughout were celebrated with a lot of vigor and fun. the year. Theme and occasion based competitions like drawing competition on Collaboration with other VB Institutions road safety, storytelling, writing in English, through various celebrations: rakhii making, essay writing, lamps and A Visit to a Science Exhibition in July 2018 at greeting card making, rangolii etc. were VB Polytechnic on the theme "Technology for organized round the year to give platform to Smart City" was undertaken. Health Checkup student's talents. Puppet show was the most was conducted at school for class VI to XII in enjoyed activity for primary students. collaboration with VB Wellness team in the Plantation and shramdaan activities were also month of January. VB Foundation Day and conducted to develop ownership in students basant panchami were celebrated at VB about their school and surroundings. Senior Secondary School, Fathepura. National festivals Independence Day and Educational visits and excursions are also Republic Day were celebrated at VBGSTC important activities of school as it provides and VBRI respectively. Scholarship award students with an opportunity to explore and ceremony was organized on Feb 7, 2019 at VB know about new places. Primary section Auditorium by Vidya Bhawan Society in visited Sajjangarh Biological Park and which 22 students of various classes were Kumbhalgarh Fort. Classes VI to X visited awarded scholarships. A talk on the topic "Our Chittorgarh Fort and the History group of responsibilities towards our City" was held at

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VBGIES to commemorate the birthday of Election awareness rally organized by the Late Shri Jagat Mehta. government. Three counseling sessions were Nikhil Rana, of class IX, was selected to play organized for our girl students. Separate space volleyball at state level. Bhawana Joshi of is created for them where they can share their class XII Commerce secured 1st position in problems, be it physical, emotional or social. the Quiz Contest on Maharana Pratap, held at To help new students feel comfortable and get Alok Sr. Sec. School. settled in the new environment of the school counseling session was organized in the Students' Enrichment Program: Keeping in beginning of session. A period is kept for mind the holistic development of students and group meetings where students can freely inculcate all the life skills needed to be interact with their class teachers. successful in today's world, ample opportunities were provided to them round Other Aspects the year. A "Baseline Test" was conducted for To provide the students and staff members classes 9th and 10th to help teacher develop with better facilities, few of the changes or their teaching strategies. Students of class infrastructural work was done in the school 12th Arts conducted a Geographical Survey at last year. Pure and cool drinking water plant the village "Dangiyo ki Hunder" under the was set up in the month of March. Old and guidance of our Geography teacher Mr. broken chairs in the staff room were replaced Kamlesh Sharma. The students interacted by 25 new chairs. with the villagers by asking them many PTMs (Parents and Teachers Meeting) were questions regarding the transport facility at held after almost every examination to discuss village, the soil, water resources, crops, children's performance with teachers. These environment etc. PTMs also serve as a forum where parents can On March 25, the students of class XI of both interact with teachers. The first PTM was Commerce and Arts streams visited VB conducted on July 31, 2018 after 1st unit tests. Auditorium where the scientist, Anil It was also a parent's orientation programme. Bhardwaj ji interacted with them regarding On this occasion, The Mr. Prasoon Kumar, Astronomy. He also talked about Chandrayan, Educational Advisor, VBS also interacted Mangalyan and solar plants. with parents. The parents were given a brief Under the supervision of Mr. Narendra report of the past year's activities results etc. Meghwal, a quiz competition on science day through a power point presentation. Two more was organized for Classes VI to XII.. Students PTMs were organized in January and April of Classes XI and XII participated in an respectively.

20 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 VIDYA BHAWAN PUBLIC SCHOOL (VBPS)

Established in 2001, VBPS is a nominal fee support in providing enriching experiences paying English medium school affiliated to for the students. Creative writing workshop Central Board of Secondary Education was conducted for our students by a well- (CBSE). Through a balanced mix of academic known story writer Ms. Ratna Vira. The two work, sports and co curricular activities, the days workshop revolved around creating schools tries to create opportunities for all stories from one's personal experiences. round development of students. Photography Workshop, focused on the Academic Domain intricacies involved in capturing our heritage, Board Results for the session 2018-2019 are was conducted by a well-known photographer, Mr. Amit Pashricha. The two days' workshop given below in the table: had a session on the use of camera and the Class S.No Range 12th 12th tricks involved in it; it also included an 10th (Commerce) (Humanities) outdoor session where the students and the 1 I Division 60% above 27 7 2 teachers were taken to Sahastra Bahu Temple 2 II Division - 45-59.4% 07 5 - 3 III Division 33- 44.4% 01 - - to practically implement what they had learnt 4 Supplementary - - - the previous day. A total of 30 students from

5 Fail - 1 - VBPS & VBSSS participated. To take this a 6 Total Strength 35 13 2 step forward, photography for all school and Result in % 100% 92% 100% VBS events is being done by the members of Except that one student failed in Commerce, the photography club only. The students also the results of the school were 100 percent and participated in the Rajasthan Heritage most students passed with first division. Photography Competition 2019, under the Support Classes were organized for Class X in initiative of INTACH, Udaipur Chapter. Science and Math. The whole class was Participants with an eye for recognizing a divided into two groups and the classes were unique heritage were welcome. Rishabh taken on rotation basis by specific teachers. Vaishnav of Class IX won an appreciation The smaller group enabled the teachers to prize. work more effectively with the students, Coding Club was started as a pilot project with especially the non-performers. Another major 30 selected students from classes IV–VIII. support was the voluntary services of Mr. The students were trained for application and Anurag Bhandari, an Engineer by profession, game development on Scratch development who worked with the students on their platform with the help of Raspberry Pi. The concepts in Math in close co-ordination with Khoj program, an initiative by Secure Meters, the subject teacher in the months of December involved the students in trying their hands at & January. This greatly helped in improving various experiments and understanding the the Math result. 'why' of it. They worked on model of lungs, Mr. Shashank Vira, Consultant, Hearth mirror image, finger prints, blood group and Foundation, under the sponsorship of balancing. Saraswati Singhal Foundation, extended Inter-Institutional collaboration: Within

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Vidya Bhawan, the rich resources available in terms of counselling students with behavior are utilized for the better learning and problems and making them a part of the main understanding of students. The students of stream. Classes V visited VB Krishi Vigyan Kendra to The teachers participated in Munshi get a first- hand experience of agricultural Premchand and Mahadevi Verma Jayanti practices which included harvesting celebrated by the language Group of Vidya practices, tools and machines, irrigation Bhawan. These goshthis threw light on the life system, vermi compost etc. The students saw a live demonstration of how threshers are used and work of these legendry writers. to separate husk from the grains. In Co curricular Activities December, the students of Classes VI – XII Debating workshop was organized for Class also visited Prakriti Sadhana Kendra to know VII and VIII students with an objective to and learn about the myths that surround the provide our children an opportunity to snakes and first aid in case of snake bite. They develop their debating and public speaking also watched the activities of the various skills, The KMM (Keep Moving Movement) species of birds there. visit was purely to prepare and motivate the On 25th March, 2019, Vidya Bhawan students to face and cope with their future Polytechnic and PRL group organized challenges including examination stress. Science outreach programme & Indian Planetary Mission. Students were exposed to Students of Classes IV and V were taken to a the work done by our scientists in it. They site given by the UIT for tree plantation. The were also exposed to the working models objective was to make it a fun activity for the based on magnetic field effect, locating the students and further contributing to their city polar star, motion, convection etc. and whilst also learning about the importance of documentaries on PRL, Mangalyaan Mission nature and how one can take care of it. and the History of Indian Space Programme. Science Fair was organized in December. The To promote reading habits across Vidya theme of the fair was 'Environment and Bhawan a workshop on 'Book Reading' was Science in Daily Life'. Students presented and organized by Areefa Tehsin, author of several explained the principles involved in the fiction and non-fiction books. It was around working models of water cycle, electric the book 'Steed of the Jungle God' which is a bell/boat/heater, vacuum cleaner, pin-hole collection of essays which recounts her father's (Raza Tehsin's) days in the jungles of camera, solar city etc. The art & craft fair was Rajasthan. The stories narrated by her were a display of the students' creativity. The main told as they were lived. Her flowing narrative, focus was on the use of waste material for plucking memories left a significant impact creating various items. on the audience. There were stories about daan utsav was celebrated during October 2 to discovering species, encountering ghosts, 8, 2018. The students adopted a Govt. School local folklore and putting it to rest, ghostly near Merpur, Kotra which lacks basic presences and wild life. infrastructure. The need was identified Wellness Team organized a Health Check–up through one of the SBI Fellows who worked program for Classes I to XII under which in Merpur and shared the same with the eyes, height, weight, teeth and hemoglobin Principal, VBPS. The students & staff ran a was checked and reported to the parents for drive which saw active participation. The further action. It also provided a lot of support

22 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 donation collected in good condition Students of VBPS participated in a fun filled comprised books, stationery, bags, shoes etc. creative event, The Bout organized by G. D. Some new books were donated from the Goenka International School, Udaipur and library as well. balmela too was a fund raising INTACH. It was a friendly competition drive to contribute for Kerala's flood victims. amongst various CBSE Schools of Udaipur. The staff and students collected Rs.14 050/- The students won laurels in debate, face which was contributed to the Kerala Chief painting, poster making, sketching, solo Minister's Fund. singing and slogan writing. The School Band, Other Aspects The Three Octave, won the Ist Prize. Sports: The session 2018-2019 saw an increase in participation in football, hockey, judo and badminton. Jahanvi Paneri of Class X won silver medal in CBSE Judo Nationals under 17 year age group. Khushi Nagda and team won silver medal in CBSE Hockey clusters. Dakshita Kumawat from class 5th and Charvi Patidar, Neelam Dhayal and Riya Soni from class 6th won silver medal in CBSE Chess Nationals. 'Chess in School' initiative was started in September 2015 by a donor from the U.K. The Chess Classes have not only provided a stimulating hobby for the students but have also helped improve their learning, thinking, analytical power, planning and decision making skills. Besides boosting their self- To acquaint the students with the glorious confidence, it has made them self- disciplined history of Maharana Pratap, the students of thus improving their concentration and class VI-XII were taken to Chittorgarh and academic performance. It's a matter of great Pratap Gaurav Kendra as part of their pride that the school has 7 International educational trip. Apart from knowing the rich rankers. The details are as follows: heritage of Mewar, the students of the photography club honed their skills by S.No. Names of International Years Ranking Rankers capturing the beautiful monuments inside 1 Vrashank Chouhan 11 1495 Chittorgarh Fort. 2 Charvi Patidar 10 1262 Teachers' capacity building: The teachers 3 Himanshu Trivedi 11 1171 attended a series of workshops organized by 4 Dakshita Kumawat 10 1163 the C.B.S.E. on Capacity Building in Class

5 Sehdev Singh Jhala 11 1081 room Management, Gender Sensitivity and 6 Rishabh Jaju 14 1043 Life Skills. Apart from this, the Primary 7 Kavyansh Bagdi 14 1099 Teachers were a part of the series of Language 8 Aditya K Bhagora 12 1212 Plus workshops organized by the Society till

23 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 the 1st week of January, 2019. These vertically and horizontally, more classrooms workshops included trainings, reading are required to accommodate all activities and material, case studies, onsite support and classes. Looking into the financial constraints engagement through internet, group and keeping in mind the requirements, VBS discussions, sharing, assignments and administration approached Bajaj for financial assessments. The focus mainly was on assistance. English & Hindi without ignoring the For the academic session 2019-2020 the language the learners bring from home. The school will be introducing Artificial program focused on the linguistic, Intelligence (AI) as a new subject introduced mathematical, social and cognitive growth of by CBSE–Department of Skill Education. the learners. The school will start AI 'Inspire Module' of 12 Infrastructural Progress: As per our hours at Class VIII itself. commitment to provide better and safe With the revival of the Carpentry Section in infrastructural facilities to our students and the Technical wing of VBSSS, Classes V to staff, several parts of school building were VIII of VBPS will lay their hands at carpentry, renovated. Office block was renovated to help thus promoting skill based, age old traditions organize the office as it was important to of Vidya Bhawan from the academic session provide space and better working conditions. 2019-2020. Being at the school's entry point it required to With an intend to start Visual Arts as a subject be presentable and welcoming for the visitors. at the senior secondary level in coming years, The renovation of the block has helped create painting will be introduced for the academic a lot of storage space and a reception area for session 2019-2020 for Classes I to VIII. the visitors. Old toilet blocks were dismantled and converted into classrooms with good With the financial assistance of Saraswati ventilation. Besides, the Art room has been Singhal Foundation, Edu Sports program will given an opening at the back. This open space be launched in for the VBSSS & VBPS from has been developed for the teaching and the Academic Session 2019-2020. The learning of various arts, like block printing, program aims to promote activities in the form batik, tie & dye, clay modeling etc. With a of games in tune with the psychomotor, separate room, students' work of art is now put cognitive and affective stages of development on display and has also protected it from for students of Classes I to V. The coach taken damage. This has encouraged more craft is for the game of football so as to take the activities in school. evening coaching for students interested in the game. Challenges and Future Plans With this, we move ahead with a firm Lack of classrooms is one of the major determination to steer the school ahead. challenges. With the school growing both

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VIDYA BHAWAN GOVINDRAM SEKSARIA TEACHERS' COLLEGE (VBGSTC)

Established in 1942, VBGSTC offers courses house workshops were organized for M.Ed. in Bachelor of Education, Master of first year students during September to Education and Ph.D. (Education). It is December 2018. The simulated teaching was affiliated to Mohanlal Sukhadia University, conducted in two rounds i.e. first round Udaipur and has been approved by the National between October 15-23, 2018 and the second Council for Teacher Education (NCTE). Along round was conducted from October 24 to with it, the college conducts many sponsored October 27, 2018. research activities in collaboration with the C.T.E. Programmes UGC, NCERT and ICSSR. In-service programmes: As a C.T.E., Vidya Academic Domain Bhawan GSTC is involved in the quality A week long orientation programme was enhancement of teacher educators of CTEs, organized for B.Ed. and M.Ed. students at the DIETs and secondary level in-service beginning of session in August, 2018. teachers. The six days residential workshop Students were introduced to the various for Key Resource Persons regarding newly compulsory and specialization papers. Apart developed modules of Physics, Chemistry, from that, the practical aspects related to Political-Science and Sanskrit was organized teaching-learning process were also dwelt during December 17-22, 2018. R.S.C.E.R.T. upon. Micro-teaching programme for B.Ed. organized two workshops for State Resource first year students was conducted in two Groups (representatives from different phases i.e. orientation about components of districts of Rajasthan) in VBGSTC during micro-teaching and then during September February and March 2018. Dr. Girish Sharma 12-28, the students worked on various skills to was selected as a State Resource Person by achieve standard proficiency level of all the State Institute of Educational Management desired skills. and Training (SIEMAT)– Rajasthan According to the new two-year B.Ed. Leadership Academy. He imparted training to curriculum, the first year and the second year 40 institutional heads and lecturers in ten- students of B.Ed. underwent 28 days and 96 days Leadership Programme during days of internship respectively, in various December 12-22, 2018. schools. The external internship viva voce of B. Ed. IInd year (2017-19 batch) was Publications: Pratibimb the yearly magazine organized on the 9th and 10th of July, 2018. of the VBGSTC was published during the The students presented their comprehensive reporting period. Along with providing details reports which included their experiences and of activities performed throughout the session reflections. B.Ed. students of the session it also serves as a platform for students to presented their final lessons on August 8-9, showcase their creative ideas and skills. CTE 2019. Internal internship viva of B.Ed. first newsletter is another quarterly publication and second year (2018-20 batch) were which covers the information about all the conducted in the month of February and curricular and co-curricular activities of pre- March 2019 respectively. service and in-service workshops. From this With regard to progression of dissertation i.e. session onwards, the newsletter will be topic selection, synopsis presentation, tool available only in soft copies, so as to save construction and presentation, series of in- paper.

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Co-Curricular Activities course of interactions, the students had hands- One of our elderly ministerial staff, Mrs. Narsi on learning experience on development of Bai and caretaker of VBGSTC Girl's Hostel, teaching-learning aids. Mrs. Rani Jatav hoisted the flag in the 72nd A programme entitled 'Interesting Facts of Independence programme hosted by Science in our Daily Life was organized on VBGSTC. It was followed by an exhibition of March 7, 2019. The programme was aimed at flax boards that dealt with the theme imbibed developing understanding of natural in 'Nai Talim' of Mahatma Gandhi. phenomenon of Science and using it to devise Cultural and literary activities are organized ways of elevating our living standard. Faculty every Thursday under Union programme and and students of Science and Geography students themselves conduct these activities. departments participated in an event Other activities of the college include organized by Vidya Bhawan Society in celebration of Teacher's Day and Makar collaboration with Physics Research Sankranti, get-together programme for the Laboratory (P.R.L.) on March 25, 2019. On new B.Ed. and M.Ed. students, campus this occasion, the space scientists described beautification and plantation, TLM making the principles and facts of space science with workshop and exhibition etc. Richa Soni (B. the help of experiments, exhibition and short Ed. Ist Year) stood third and Bhawna (B.Ed. movies. On March 25, 2019 the College IInd Year) got the consolation prize in an inter- organized a counseling and career Talk in college debate competition on the theme collaboration with Achievers Classes. The 'Relevance of four year B.Ed. integrated course students were motivated for preparing for the in the present scenario'. A programme named competitive examinations. 'safalta apni mutthii mein' was organized on The Open Air Session, an educational January 23, 2019 in association with initiative of the VBGSTC, was conducted at Rajasthan Patrika, a newspaper conglomerate vijaypataka parshwanath mahateerth, Sirohi and Gillette Shaving Company. The students during February 4 to February 7, 2019. A total gained knowledge on 'How to develop a smart of 200 students from both M.Ed. and B.Ed. Ist and confident personality' with ABC year participated in the session. As the name (Appearance-Behavior-Communication) rule. suggests, the main objective of the A two-day Sports Day event took place in the programme is to have an intimate month of February 2019. Dodge ball was environmental experience and overall organized for the faculty members' viz. male development of the students through staff v/s female staff. In the valedictory collaborative learning. The theme of this session, the winners were felicitated with the year's Open Air Session was on 'Gandhian traditional malas of the College. Philosophy'. The students conducted Under the auspices of Centre for Cultural educational surveys that involved the study of Resources and Training, Government of the demographic profile of the region viz. India, the VBGSTC organized a six day Mandawa and Sarneshwar villages. The Distance learning programme Introducing students also taught the villagers the use of Cultural Inputs in Curriculum for pre-service waste materials in crafts. teachers during February 25 to March 2, 2019. The main objective of the workshop was to One more important activity conducted this create an awareness of the natural and cultural year was danotsav in which the faculty and heritage and to use specific art forms and students donated cloths to the needy ones. The puppetry as an aid to education. During the session also consisted of the daily

26 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 programmes such as Cleanliness, Yoga, On October 1, 2018, Mr. M.G. Varshney, Morning Assembly, Games, Silence Hour, Pacific Hospital, during his lecture, dealt with Serving food, creating bhitti patrika (Wall the prejudices that one has regarding donation magazine). Night programmes of the three of blood. 41 units of blood were donated by the days included mazlis (Evening Concert), students and the faculty in the blood donation Camp Fire and Cultural Eve programmes. On camp organized in collaboration with Bharat the final day, i.e. February 7, 2019 an e- Vikas Parishad on October 3, 2018. exhibition was organized in which the report A panel discussion was organized on the of the collected data was presented on the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of projector in the form of various pictographs. Mahatma Gandhi on October 2, 2018. The Other Aspects theme was Gandhi Ki Nai Taleem Evam Shiksha. The panelists included Dr. On September 27, 2018 the faculty of Parmendra Kumar Dashora (Fr. Vice VBGSTC interacted with Ms. Preeti and Mr. Chancellor, V.M.O.U.), Shri Riyaz Tehseen Saurabh from Himachal Pradesh who have (Fr. Chairman, V.B.S.) and Prof. Mohan been engaged in developing a programme Prakash Sharma (Fr. Director, VBGSTC). named 'Q.Y.O.N.' i.e. Question Your Own Then, during the open discussion, the students Notions. They have been trying it through posed queries related to corruption, teacher's organizing workshops in order to enhance religion, mental slavery, etc. to the panelists. levels of consciousness on how we go about ASER (Annual Status of Education Report) is leading our daily life as socially responsible an autonomous assessment, survey, individuals. evaluation and research unit within the The College helps the students in exploring Pratham network. The students of VBGSTC placement opportunities by means of inviting undertook an educational survey for ASER various educational institutions for campus report 2018. Followed by field training in recruitment. Students who are in the final year October 2018, the students were sent to the of the course and are likely to graduate/post rural areas for data collection of. graduate at the end of the academic session The College is also a centre for distance appear for these interviews. Seven Students of education of B. Ed. which is affiliated to B.Ed. IInd year and 5 students of M.Ed. IInd Indira Gandhi National Open University. The year got selected for campus placements. classes for B. Ed. Ist year and IInd year were Nine subject Societies were formed at the organized during 25th of October to the 6th of College level. On August 30, 2018 the November 2018. 52 students of Ist year and 45 Societies' election on different posts i.e. students of IInd year attended the programme. President, Union representative, Secretary, Students and faculty members of college Cultural Secretary, Literary Secretary, Games participated in an election awareness rally Secretary were conducted. organized by the government to sensitize the In keeping with the institution's vision of voters about the importance of participation in constant upgrading of faculty members, every an electoral process and to ensure a Saturday, a Faculty Enhancement Programme responsive, accountable and democratically is organized under various themes viz. elected government. understanding naii taliim, discussion on On November 24, 2018, an extension lecture objectives of lesson plans, different skills of was organized on the topic 'Quest for Self micro-teaching etc. Discovery' by Mr. Narendra Sharma, Advisor

27 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 of Secure Meters. He discussed that a good Panchmadi addressed the students and faculty teacher was developed if s/he looked into of college in a self leadership workshop her/himself and learnt how to teach. Every organized on December 13, 2018. They began child has the potential; the need of the hour is the session by making the participants brain to find a mentor who could draw out his/her storm about the focus point of one's self, i.e. internal abilities. He motivated the students what a person wants to gain or wants to be. through different instances. They also talked about Quiet time, Life's Balance Sheet and Self I-Care. From December 8 to December 14, 2018, the extension department of the College Challenges organized a series of lectures (six lectures in ? VBGSTC being a private enterprise is all) on 'History of Education in Colonial India facing a financial crisis. To fulfill the during 1780 to 1845' by Shri Varadrajan College requirements, the big challenge Narayan, faculty of Azim Prem ji University. is to garner the operating resources. He, in his lecture series, talked in detail about ?Reestablishing its legacy and reviving the concepts and ideologies related to past innovations is another challenge different education systems that prevailed before the college. during British Period. He examined the ? reports presented by different committees in Seats for both B.Ed. and M.Ed. courses the British Era. The main focus was on Warren remain vacant because of centralized Hastings, Duncan, Wood's Dispatch, admission process. Macaulay, Hunter Commission and other ?Irregularity among the students due to contemporary educational committees. government recruitment related Ms. Neerja Jain, Principal of Vidya Bhawan competitive examinations. Public School, Mr. Pushpraj Ranawat, ?Lack of accountability and collective Principal of Vidya Bhawan Sr. Secondary efforts among all stakeholders. School and Ms. Gayatri of Education for Life,

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VIDYA BHAWAN GANDHIAN INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES (VBGIES)

Established in 2008, the institute focuses on and conduct objective and meaningful developing professionals having an research. Dr. Kanwraj Suthar and Dr. Mohan understanding of sustainable future, in the Jat coordinated the workshop. Shri Ajay light of Gandhian Philosophy of education. Mehta, President, VBS and Dr. Suraj Jacob, The composite unit offers both B.Ed. and D. CEO, presided over in the closing ceremony. El. Ed programmes. A team of 30 teaching and A weeklong celebration of Gandhi Jayanti non-teaching staff members is serving the was organized and talks and discussions with institution. There are 200 seats for B. Ed. and eminent educationists and senior citizens of 100 seats for D. El. Ed course. VBGIES in society were held. Topic for the discussion collaboration with NIOS also conducted was 'Society's expectation from institutions training for about 200 untrained in-service working with Gandhian Philosophy'. teachers. Valuable suggestions were shared by Academic Domain educationists like Riaz Tehseen, Prof Dani, Ample opportunities were provided to student Prof Arun Chaturvedi, Veddan Sudhir, Ashok teachers to develop their teaching skills Mathur, T.M. Dak, R.R. Singh and Narendra keeping in mind the quality of teaching in Sharma. Various creative and interesting various subjects with skill development activities related to Gandhian Philosophy and programme. Simulation Teaching Programme thought were undertaken through Charts, was held in two phases (two teaching Posters, Quiz and Power Point Presentation subjects). 100 B. Ed First Year Students were etc. Blood Donation Camp, Rally, Nukkad divided into nine subject groups. Student Natak, Daan Utsav and an interaction with teachers did this work in the guidance/ the students of govt. school were held supervision of subject experts. Teaching successfully. learning materials were also considered in VBGIES in collaboration with NIOS evaluation. The TLM prepared by the students conducted Personal Contact Program (PCP) during the Simulation Programme in both for 200 untrained in-service teachers. 12 day their teaching subjects were displayed at an workshop on various aspects of activity based exhibition during November 15-19, 2018. learning was held. The PCP classes for the in- A seminar on Research Methodology was service teachers enrolled in the NIOS D. El. held and over 60 participants from various Ed. programme began on September 1, 2018. Teacher Training Colleges of Udaipur The classes were held in three batches of five actively participated in it. Eminent days each. The first batch classes were held educationists Prof. A. B. Phatak, Prof. D. N. during September 1-5, 2018, in which Dani, Prof. M. P. Sharma, Prof. Divyaprabha information related to assignment work, Nagar, and the renowned social science health and physical education, and work subject research expert Dr. T. M. Dak were the education was shared with the participants. resource persons. The participants were The second and third batch classes were held divided in groups and were guided on how to during October 6-10, and October 28 – develop research proposals; self made tools, November 2, 2018. The assignments were

29 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 completed by the participants and submitted representatives from VB Society and school on November 15. The final phase of NIOS students visited the exhibition. Dr. Sushma work was completed during December 31, Intodia shared that the camp helped in 2018 -January 5, 2019. A 12 day workshop developing the values of discipline, voluntary was organized wherein discussion was held work, team work, coordination, etc. In the on action research, project work, community cultural programme, the support staffs were related issues, concept mapping, continuous invited as Chief Guests. and comprehensive evaluation, timetable, One week scout and guide camp was held at portfolio, types of assessment, etc. On the last Prakrati Sadhana Kendra. On each day Yoga, day a contributory lunch was organized by the Trekking, Camp Fire and other activities were participants. The workshop ended with a held. In the night session students performed feedback session on the two years course and folk music and dance from local areas. They the classes held at the institution. performed skits on superstitions and Co-Curricular Activities environment conservation. Shri Narendra Two vanshaalaa camps were organized. In Audichya, and Zilla Secretary supervised the April 2018, it was organized in a training activities and motivated the students for institute operated by Seva Mandir in Kaya participating enthusiastically. They explained village with the assistance of local the grading of certificates given to scout communities. A total 150 students, 100 from guides by the State Secretary. Students used B. Ed and 50 from D. El. Ed participated local resources to decorate the camp venue. enthusiastically in this camp. Another day The activities included bird watching, long non-residential camp was organized in trekking. Lt. Col. Shri Premshankar Shrimali, January 2019, at college premises to study Shri R. D. Singh Gill, Hindustan State local communities. The theme this year was Organization Commissioner and Shri "A Study of Local Environment in the context Khoobilal Sharma and Nimbark Ganga of Gandhian Values". A two day orientation Society participated and discussed the programme was held before the camp. importance of camp, discipline, etc. In the Students discussed the topic and prepared the night session students presented patriotic survey questionnaires in their respective songs. Students learnt how to tie different society groups. The camp was inaugurated by kinds of knots. In the night session, songs, Shri Kailash Sharma, Sarpanch, Badgaon. On dances, mimicry, etc were presented. On the the first day the student teachers went to the final day, Shri Ajay Mehta, President, Vidya neighborhood areas of Manoharpura, Bhawan Society, Shri Ramnik lal Shrimal, Badgaon, Ramgiri, for data collection. In the Director, PSK, were present. Dr. Bhagwati evening games were held. Silence hour was Ahir who was present throughout the camp, observed which the students appreciated. In motivated the students to learn from all the the night session, the camp committee activities. Shri Hemant Trivedi coordinated meeting was held to discuss the problems. the programme. Every morning, prayer and meditation session The Students of Science Club of B. Ed. and D. was held. On the fourth day, an exhibition was El. Ed. Programme were taken on a visit to the held where information gathered in the survey DST Office at Udaipur for an educational trip. was shared through charts. Staff, students, They observed various models based on

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Science Concepts and discussed the scope of Eligibility Test (NET) Examination science teaching. Ms. Meena Kalra and Ms. (Education) conducted in July 2018. On Sonika Rathore coordinated the visit. October 29, 2018, (Dr.) Archana Singh was Rajasthan Patrika organised a special career awarded the Ph.D. Degree by the Pacific development and personality grooming event University for her doctoral research under the named safalta apni muthi mein in association guidance of Dr. Madhu Sharma and Dr. N. with Gillette Guard in various cities of India. N.G. Mathur. On November 28, 2018, Dr. As part of this event, the patrika team Sarita Jain, our Hindi Lecturer was appointed conducted a session on personality Zilla President of the Udaipur (Urban) Wing development for the VBGIES students. They of the Samta Sahitya Academy. On January also conducted a written test for direct 30, 2019, (Dr.) Yateen Chaubisa was awarded recruitment. One of the B. Ed. first year the Ph.D. Degree by the Mohanlal Sukhadia students Pannaram cleared the test competing University for his doctoral research under the with others at the state level and will now guidance of Professor Sushma Talesra, attend the personal interview. Five Splash Principal, VBGSTC. Mrs. Meena Kalra was Infotech is an innovative business process awarded the Teaching Professionals' outsourcing company that provides backend Olympiad (TPO) 2018 Certificate by Centre as well as voice support services to its for Teacher Accreditation (CENTA), customers in and out of India. Shri Gopi Bengaluru for her achievement in the Sharma, Assistant General Manager and his Olympiad. Dr. Kanwraj Suthar our Faculty, team visited the campus and interacted with guided two research scholars as a Ph.D. the staff and students and shared about the Supervisor of the Pacific Academy of Higher available opportunities. Education. The Art Work-Painting of our Art Other Aspects Lecturer Dr. Mohanlal Jat was selected by the During this period our staff members have Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. Mrs. Tripti made us proud in many ways. Dr. Poonam Rathore and Mrs. Durga Kumawat cleared the Dave, cleared the RPSC third grade teacher Research Entrance Test conducted by MLSU examination and she left the college in on March 11, 2019, and got enrolled in the October 2018 to pursue a career in the Ph.D. Program 2019. government services. Mrs. Veena Lohar was Financial support was provided by the Bajaj invited as a judge to screen local talent during Foundation for the construction of a hall, the auditions for the Cultural Programme Gandhi Peace Foundation Centre, Open sponsored by Wonder Cements and organized Theatre and 20 tree guards. Two display by the Udaipur Municipal Corporation during boards were donated by one of the relatives of October 28-29, 2018 in preparation for the faculty member. Four Speaker sets for Deepawali Mela held in the city during morning assembly were procured with the October 28-November 11, 2018. Mrs. Aruna financial assistance provided by alumni. Mathur cleared the UGC-NTA National

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VIDYA BHAWAN RURAL INSTITUTE (VBRI)

Established in 1956, VBRI has 3 main different departments of college to provide the academic Departments/ Centre's offering students with a forum to explore subject undergraduate and post graduate courses in related content as well as contemporary Social Sciences & Humanities, Commerce issues. Various quiz competitions were and Science. Along with teaching, the faculty organized by different departments of college. members are also engaged in research To mark the demise of former prime minister activities. There are more than 1300 students Mr. Atal Bihari Vajapayi, world affairs forum in the college. organized an event ‘Atal ji- A Poet and a Great Academic Domain Philosopher’. VBRI is working with the vision of Members of the faculty enriched academic 'Empowering rural youth through quality ambience of the college. Advanced practical education'. It believes in a balance of chemistry textbook for B. Sc IInd year, was curricular and co-curricular activities for the published by Dr. Saba Khan and Dr. Rehana quality education of the students. University Khanam, (Apex Publishing House). Dr. Saba level annual exams for all the regular and khan was felicitated with “Shikshak Ratan” private students were conducted during award by Shikshak Prakosht, Rajasthan February-May 2018. Internal semester exam Pradesh Congress committee, Jaipur on of BBA and M.Sc. were also conducted during Teacher's Day, 2018. A book on B.Sc. papers the same period. Admission process for the in Chemistry (2016-17) by Dr. Saba Khan, Dr. academic session 2018-19 started in the Rehana Khanam, Dr. Anjana Rawal was month of June 2018; merit based admissions published by Sidharth Publishers & took place in various UG and PG courses Distributors, Delhi. offered by the college. A handsome number of publications in VBRI is also a centre of Indira Gandhi national and international Journals/Books National Open University (IGNOU). Exams was done by our faculty members. Faculty were conducted for students enrolled with members have attended various national and IGNOU in June 2018. Practicals for international conferences, workshops and Certification course in library science was seminars throughout India. A session was first held for the first time at our centre this organized by the Cell against Women year. Induction programme was organized Harassment of VBRI. twice i.e. in October and March 2018. Session Dr. Anita Jain delivered a lecture on was also organized to highlight the "Conservation and Restoration of Medicinal importance of distance education and the Plants: Biodiversity in Tropical Dry Forests of process of registration and re- registration in Rajasthan" on 22 March 2018. Dr. Harshita IGNOU was also discussed. The college also Bhatnagar, Department of Commerce and coordinated with PRATHAM for ASER in Management, Co-chaired the technical survey program for Udaipur district. session at National conference on Seminars, talks by experts, extension- Reinventing Management for Modern Age at lectures, talent meet etc. were organized by JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth (Deemed

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University), Udaipur in association with Industrial visit was organized for BBA UCCI on 28 February 2019. Dr. Manoj students at Udaipur Cement works Ltd. These Rajguru delivered lecture on “Ye kahan aa types of visits were organized to relate gaye hum yuhi saath chalte chalte- Non theoretical concepts with practical aspects violence and nuclear power” at VBGIES in (Learning while Doing). Similarly the month of August. Ms. Upma Bhatt got geographical tour was organized for 60 Young Scientist Award - 2019 in the students at Khumbhalgarh on January 8, International Conference on Photobiology, 2018. A nature exposure programme by Photochemistry and Plant Biotechnology held students of Botany department was organised at Department of Botany MLSU Udaipur. at Jawai dam, Pali in association with the Co-Curricular Activities Department of forest, Rajasthan on Jan 19, 2019. Department of Chemistry and Zoology Events like Guru Purnima, Garba, Hindi organised a visit to biochemistry lab and week, Geography awareness week etc. were microbiology department respectively at organized to introduce students about the College of Food and Dairy technology, importance of these special days and also to MLSU for B.SC and M. Sc students. give platform to students' talent. Fresher's party to welcome new students and farewell Our students have shown keen interest in party for outgoing students were two games and sports. Abhishek Nanama important events celebrated by students for represented MLSU in World Archery students. Championship. Two students named Suraj Sahu and Ramkishor Kuriya of our college got Annual Cultural Festival of VBRI, Malhar- prize in inter college sports competition. 2018 was held in the month February 2018. Prateek Rajprohit, student of M. Sc previous The diligently organized event was to attract Chemistry secured 3rd position in the best student talent from across the college. intercollegiate chess competition, MLSU With competitions in the field of Mehndi, held at Oswal College, Mangalwad. Prince Painting, Rangoli, dance, and music a quirky Sen, student of M. Sc previous, participated in twist, MALHAR promises to be an MLSU intercollegiate athletics tournament unforgettable event. and won a silver medal in 400 meter run. He Three one day camps i.e. on 28 September, 30 also participated in 8.2 km marathon “Run for November 2018 and 25 January 2019 were reason” organised for promotion of girl's organized by NSS wings. Blood donation, education. Inter collegiate Archery essay competition etc. activities were tournament was organized on college ground. conducted during the camp. A 7 day camp was VBRI won the tournament and 8 individual also organized at Vidya Bhawan Prakriti medals. Sadhna Kendra, during December 23-29, Other Aspects 2018. Various activities around the theme Student Union Election was organized biodiversity were carried out during the camp. successfully in the month of August 2018. Dr. Shivani from Badgaon PHC delivered a Ajvendra Singh Jhala won the post of lecture on Medical awareness and Professor president. The youth parliament was also Satish Aacharya delivered a lecture on organised in the month of January 2019. It was Swadeshi Yuva Jagran for NSS students. sponsored by Ministry of Parliament Affairs,

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Government of India. 250 saplings of Sehjana ?Financial deficit is the biggest problem plant were planted in VBRI campus in a faced by our college. Many important plantation program organized in collaboration activities could not be carried out because with VBKVK. Plantation was also done for of this deficit situation. development of Botanical garden. Vehicle free campus, new cafeteria, campus Placement cell of college is actively putting in beautification are some of the things being efforts for creating placement opportunities worked upon and will be implemented in the for students. Dainik Bhaskar Newspaper, Five beginning of the session for sure. We are Splash Company, Macleods Pharma Ltd., working on drinking water management to Mumbai, PI Industries, Udaipur etc. ensure availability of drinking water all the organized campus interviews for our students time. Teaching plan and academic calendar and some of them got selected to work with will be prepared in advance for smooth these firms. Placement cell in collaboration functioning of teaching activities along with with different departments of college extracurricular activities. We are putting organized seminars on Digital Marketing, efforts for seeking research affiliation from Communication skills & Goal setting were the university and development of common organized for students. research lab. Minor and major research Challenges and Future Plan projects will be prepared in the coming ?Improvement in results session for different funding organizations like UGC, ICSSR etc. Infusion of Information ?Maintenance of existingfragile Technology is the need of time, so we are infrastructure in our institute is the planning to put more emphasis on IT blended biggest challenge. We also need learning, designing web portal for the student, appropriate instructional resources such student attendance and teaching plan, as libraries, laboratories, scientific preparation of academic calendar, emailing equipment, computers, and internet the notices etc. We are also planning to accessibility. enhance girl students' participation in NSS, ?Capacity building of faculty members is sports and cultural programmes. another area which demands attention.

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VIDYA BHAWAN AANGANWADI WORKERS TRAINING CENTER (VBAWTC)

VBAWTC was established in 1982 with the The center used to work as per the work plan objective of improving the work style and provided by ICDS but due to changes in the professional capacity of Aanganwadi Workers government policies the center has been and Helpers. Since its establishment the closed. The team engaged in AWTC is center has organised various trainings for 497 examining further possibilities for centre's batches comprising a total 16553 Aanganwadi work as they have a long experience in this Workers and Helpers in 146 batches. field.

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VIDYA BHAWAN POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE (VBPC)

Established in 1956, VBPC has remained one Seminars, Workshops and Lectures: Seminars of the most reputed technical institutes of and workshops are one of the regular features Rajasthan. It imparts quality technical of VBPC as it keeps the students updated with education with the vision to develop and build the latest technologies and provide the latest technical manpower, which is not just highly technological information. Two workshops skilled in specific field, but socially and i.e. on Programming Language PHP by environmentally sensitive. The mission of the Department of Computer Science and institute is to train the students so as to make Information Technology and on Electrical them employable and ready for the world of Safety by Department of Electronics were work through effective skill training, industry organized during the reporting period. A institute interface and co-curricular activities. seminar was held by the Department of Academic Domain Computer Science and IT on “Cyber Security”. Expert Mr. Himanshu Taylor, Considering its the overall leadership and Ethical Hacker and Cyber Crime Investigator quantum of activities during the year, the from Rajasthan Police threw light on Cyber Polytechnic received the prestigious 'ISTE Crime and Security Measures. The students Best Student Chapter of Rajasthan Award and faculty of Polymer Science & Rubber 2018' amongst the Students Chapters in Rajasthan Section. Technology participated in Asia Rubber Tech Expo 2018 at Bangalore.About 150 students To provide job oriented skill development and faculty members participated in the training in the fields of Mechatronics, workshop conducted by Vidya Bhawan and Automation and Advance Manufacturing, the Physical Research Laboratory and got Mechatronics Centre has been established in valuable knowledge about the universe, the premises of VBPC with the support of Mission Chandrayaan and Mission Mars. Saraswati Singhal Foundation (SSF) and Bosch. It is the first ever world class training Lecture on Pre-placement training oriented centre in the state of Rajasthan. Fully students about resume writing, online equipped laboratories and classrooms have application through e-mail, online job portal been setup on the newly constructed building companies. A guest lecture was organized for of 12000 square feet built up area. Initially, the the students of Polymer Science & Rubber 6 month course is designed for ITI holders. Technology by Mr. Sunil Jagasia, Operation SSF has also supported the training of five Plant Head, Future Tyre Group. He gave faculty members of Polytechnic at Bosch valuable information on defects in tyres, tyre Vocational Center, Bangalore. curing technology etc. Detailed lecture on A new program has been launched in the year Polymers, i.e. its classification, properties and 2018-19 in Rubber Skill Development with applications, difference between rubber and the joint collaboration of the Polytechnic, the plastic etc. was organized for the students of VB Rural Institute, Indian Rubber Institute, first year. An expert lecture was organized for Quality Council Forum of India and J K Tyres the students of first year to provide practical & Industries, Kankroli. This programme is knowledge of Computer Fundamentals to the specially designed for B.Sc. and M.Sc. beginners. students aspiring for future in Rubber and Industrial Visits and Excursions: Industrial Polymer Industry as there is a great demand of visits provides the students with a practical skilled manpower in this field.

36 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 perspective on the globe of work; to develop in Car, Authorized Car Parking Management insight about practical work experience; to System, Smart and Hygienic Dustbin, provide opportunity to interact with the Automatic Water Pump Controller, Solar industry and know more about the industrial Based Room Cooler, Forest Fire Detection environment. The students of Electronics System etc. Department visited Tempsons Instrument Pvt. Co -Curricular Activities Ltd. and learnt a great deal about the temperature measuring sensors like Various days i.e. Hindi Divas, Engineer's Day, Thermocouple, RTD, Pyrometer, Thermal Vishwakarma Jayanti were celebrated to Imager and industrial Thermal Camera. provide the students with a platform to During an educational tour to Vadodara in enhance their social and intellectual skills. December 2018, Civil Engineering students Fresher's Day and Fete 'Meljol' Fair was of second and third year visited the Statue of organized to encourage companionship, Unity and Sardar Sarovar Dam. It was helpful synergy and harmony among seniors and regarding the mega technical structural juniors. Vibrant cultural performances were knowledge being built these days. The presented by the new entrants. Department of CS & IT visited SAC For all round and holistic development of exhibition of ISRO Ahmadabad and got students, the Polytechnic conducted a sports valuable knowledge about various types of week in the month of January, 2019. Field and satellites, manufacturing process and the track events like cricket, volleyball, kabaddi, different parts of satellites. 100 meter race, 400 meter race, cycle race, Participation in Smart India Hackathon: The long jump, javelin throw, discus throw, shot student team of VBPC “Rigid Squad” was put for boys; and carom, badminton, 100 selected by AICTE for Smart India Hackathon meter race, three legged race, discus throw, to solve the problems given by the Industries spoon and marble race, cricket ball throw for and Government Ministries. The team girls were organized. Around 250 students participated in the Digital Programming participated in the events. Competition held at Nagpur. The students Students voluntarily contributed their developed a Labour Schedule Management services for the cause of community and the Software for SME of Goa Shipyard Limited, nation, thus helping them develop their Government of India Undertaking-Ministry personality through NSS. The NSS Unit of the of Defense under the mentorship of the faculty Polytechnic organized cleanliness drives, Mr. Bhuwan Ameta and Mr. Hemant Menaria. plantation program, yoga classes and Art of Student's Projects: Every year students living sessions round the year. develop innovative real-time projects by Other Aspects applying their knowledge and skills. This is an The Director of Technical Education Prof. exercise to transform their theoretical D.S. Yadav visited the institute and interacted knowledge into socially useful and productive with the faculty members. He appreciated the applications. The final year batch 2018-19 efforts of the institute and likened VB developed innovative, society oriented Polytechnic to a “Light House” for all projects on the theme of “Societal Welfare Polytechnics in Rajasthan. through Technology” in order to provide smart engineering solutions to the technical The training and Placement Cell regularly problems of the society. The important keeps in touch with reputed industrial projects are Anti-suffocation System for Kids establishments. As a result 46 students have

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been selected by the companies while accidents in the sewer and septic tank cleaning studying. work were explained and needed precautions To ensure parent's participation in all were discussed. Experimental training was activities of the Polytechnic and to discuss the given to wear safety belts, open the lid, save academic performance of students, Parent- eyes, wear helmets etc. Teacher meetings are conducted regularly. An VBPC, VB Wellness Center and Jatan Orientation Program for the parents and Sansthan organized a two day workshop for students of First Year was conducted in the girls on “Menstrual Health and Hygiene”. On beginning of the session and two PTMs were World Toilet Day the 16th Community of organized during the academic session. Research and Practice Seminar Series on Dr. Anil Mehta participated in the conference “Sustainable Water Resource and Sanitation Management” was conducted in collaboration of SAARC countries on 'Sustainable with the Polytechnic, Centre for Policy Sanitation Solution” in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Research, New Delhi and SCI-FI Sanitation. His research focused on the Fecal Sludge The series seeks to provide platform for Management Plan “Partnering for Mewar”, a discussing the experiences of the researchers joint venture of Vidya Bhawan, Nagar Nigam- and practitioners on urban sanitation. Udaipur, Hindustan Zink Ltd. and CPR and presented the jointly developed 'Septic Tank The Polytechnic organized a seminar on Manual' to Mr. Mayadune, Secretary, and world food day Senior IFS officer Shri Water & Higher Education, Sri Lanka. He also Venkatesh Sharma, Prof. Monika Dave from discussed about the participation of M.G. College, Former officer of EPRO Pallav engineering students in Sanitation and Dutta expressed their views on food safety, Research with the minister of Urban zero hunger, climate change due to wastage of Development, Water Supply and Drainage food, nutrition etc. Rauff Hakeem. He gave a presentation on VBPC is running free skill development 'Integrated Water Resource Management' in courses to empower and increase the the Technological University of Moratuwa. efficiency of individuals; improve productivity The Shiksha Shakti Foundation (SSF) and economic growth of the country. The six Banglore provided scholarships to fifteen month trainings on House Wiring, Motor needy students of Polytechnic in the memory Winding & Repairing, AC & Refrigeration, of Late Shree Harcharan Das Govil & Smt. Mobile Repairing, Data Entry Operator, and Munni Devi. Beauty Culture were conducted by the Community Development through the Our Technical-Social Commitments: To Polytechnic. A total 81 people benefitted from increase awareness about safety measures and these trainings. According to the received sensitivity towards septic tank and sewer feedbacks, 16 trainees got employed and 33 cleaners, a workshop was conducted in the trainees got self-employed after the Polytechnic. The diseases and causes of completion of the training program.

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VIDYA BHAWAN KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA (VBKVK)

KVK is now 34 years old and has reached the 645 demonstrations of Blackgram (PU-31), farmers in the remotest areas of Udaipur. It Groundnut (GJG-31), Sesame (GT -3), Gram hopes to synchronize agricultural technologies, (GNG -1581), Mustard (NRCHB 101) and trainings of farmers, farm women, rural youth Green Gram (IPM 2-3) were conducted at and extension personnel. It is also involved farmer's field. The demonstrations followed in skill development programmes for complete package of practices of respective sustainable livelihood. Udaipur is an area crops. This resulted in 16-33 percent increase dominated by tribal populations and in production. Field days were organized at malnutrition in women and children is the production stage of the crop with a motive common. KVK works with 28 villages in the “believing by seeing”. Along with the partner blocks of Bhinder, Jhadol, Phalsiya, farmers, other farmers were also invited. Gogunda, Jhadol, Salumber and Girwa. KVK Front-line demonstrations on agriculture is making efforts by educating or creating machinery, high yielding varieties of awareness among 442 farm families about vegetables, integrated pest management and nutritional gardens, backyard poultry, goat up gradation of low productive local goat rearing and growing of minor millets and breed were also conducted at 524 farmers. For growing underutilized fruits. KVK is also nutritional security, demonstrations on making efforts for easy availability of 320 kitchen garden and backyard poultry were quintal seeds of pulse crops like gram to the conducted with 300 and 142 families farmers. It is conducting demonstrations in respectively pulse and oilseed crops in 337.8 hectare area On Farm Trials (OFTs) were conducted to and also collecting feedback information of assess the new technologies and to refine new farmers which will be sent to research technologies on farmer's field. These OFTs stations. It is also famous for its animal were conducted to assess: infertility training, treatment and ?Alternate variety of bottle guard management as it is providing training to veterinary officers of different institutions. ?Protection measures against Yellow Mosaic Virus in Blackgram Main Activities ?Protection measures against pod borer in Training and Demonstrations: Training is one gram of most important mandates of KVK. 3281 farmers and farm women got benefitted from ?Nutritional management for infertility 103 on and off campus training programmes treatment in cows and buffaloes and organized during the reporting period. This ?Suitable protection measures against includes trainings on crop production, sucking pest in Mustard. integrated farming, vegetable cultivation, Extension Activities dairy and poultry management, farm machinery, drudgery reduction, value addition Innovative Farmers Meet: One day farm and resource conservation technologies. 40 innovators meet was organized by institute men and women participated in the two skill with support of ATARI, Jodhpur. The aim of development trainings, i.e. on Nursery the meet is to promote farm innovations. The Worker and Dairy Development conducted participant farmers shared their experiences under ASCI. with each other. The program was chaired by

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Dr. S.L. Mehta (former VC, MPUAT), Dr. Other Activities S.K. Singh (Director ATARI), Dr. Rashmi Newly constructed seed processing plant was Singh (PS), Dr. Jyoti Ranjan Mishra (PS), Dr. inaugurated by Dr. N.S. Rathore, DDG G.S. Tiwari (DEE) and Sh. A.S. Mehta (Education), ICAR, New Delhi. In view of (President VBS). They all appreciated the providing better quality planting material to innovations done by the farmers from farmers, we prepared 5000 fruit plants, 8000 Haryana and Rajasthan. Dr. Singh said that ornamental plant and their seeds, 50000 innovations should be related to the area and vegetable seedlings and 250000 flower easy to operate and available. Dr. Mehta said seedlings. Events like International Yoga Day, that we will demonstrate new innovations at Kisaan Diwas and Soil Health Day were also our center. 20 other KVKs participated in this celebrated during the reporting period. KVK program. Total 174 scientists, innovators and scientists gave TV talks on DD Kisaan farmers took part in the programme. Channel through Hello Kisaan Live Program. Kisan Mela: Nearly 1500 farmers from Future Plan and Initiatives different Panchayat Samitis of Udaipur district participated in the fair organized by 1. Training of Veterans on Infertility Agriculture Technology Management Treatment through Establishment of Agency (ATMA). In this mela female farmers Centre of Excellence also gave their presence. Farmers and farm 2. Increase availability and production of women participated enthusiastically in planting material and vegetables various competitions organized at the seedlings exhibition and fair venue. 75 great farmers 3. Seed multiplication of pulses at farmers were awarded certificates. On this occasion and KVK fields many entertainment championships were 4. Promotion of organic farming with organized among the farmers and the winners emphasis on bio-pesticides and bio- were rewarded. Another fair was organized at fertilizers Kolyari village of Udaipur with support from NBPGR, Jodhpur. Combat against malnutrition in tribal women and children

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VIDYA BHAWAN PRAKRITI SADHNA KENDRA (VBPSK)

Established in 2009, VBPSK is working to Snake catcher Mr. Chaman Singh generate awareness and build sensitivity delivered the lecture on different types of towards environment and ecosystem. The snakes found in Udaipur. Centre organizes various co-curricular ?Seven days residential camp for seventy activities with a view to create awareness students of NSS Unit-VBRI was held at regarding environmental issues that have the Center in which different activities relevance for students. The infrastructure at based on the prescribed syllabus were PSK comprises two large classrooms (open done. Apart from this, students also Room) and six dormitories (eco huts) to house learned about environment and the numerous groups of students visiting the ecosystem. Dr. Satish Sharma renowned centre. environmentalist and chief guest Activities delivered an impressive lecture on the ?World Environment Day was celebrated role of plants and animals correlation. on June 5, 2018. ?Forty one students from Vidya Bhawan ?One day leadership workshop for all the Basic School participated in a nature trip HoIs of different VB institutions was and workshop organized at VBPSK. held on February 26, 2019 at PSK. Trekking and bird watching was held Various aspects on education, leadership under the guidance of Mr. Chandra Veer and administration issue etc. were Singh and Dr. R L Shrimal. discussed in the workshop. Mrs. Neelima Other Aspects Khetan and Mrs. Poonam discussed The surroundings of the huts were cleaned up worker and management relationship. to 10-20 ft and trench was dug near the ?On February 28, 2019 Dr. Satish Sharma bamboo zone so that fire cannot be spread. visited the PSK and gave important Monkey jack device was purchased to remove guidelines about the medicinal plants Lantana bush during rainy season. Stone wall which can be procured for future is maintained to avoid unauthorized generation. occupancy by outsiders. Presently water and ?Vidya Bhawan Gandhian scouts unit electricity at the center is supplied through organized seven days residential camp at solar system but efforts are on to get electric PSK during March 7 and 13, 2019. Scout connection from Ajmer Vidut Vitran Nigam, students learned about flora and fauna Udaipur. Trekking trails are being prepared. and medicinal plants in the campus. Fiber sheets on two dormitories will be Trekking programme was held under the replaced by new steel sheets. We are planning guidance of Dr. R L Shrimal and Bird to develop a herbal park in the 5 Bigha land expert Shri Vinay Dave. near the Centre. ?Ten foreign students from Princeton University participated in two days residential camp held in March 2019 and attended yoga shivir, trekking and other educational activities. ?Students and staff members of Vidya Bhawan Public School attended a one day nature camp organized at PSK.

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VIDYA BHAWAN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER (VBERC)

Established in 1995, VBERC always opens importance of community and school new doors for flow of new ideas around interface. Presently two VBERC interventions- organizing learning for VB institutions and Jharkhand and Rajasthan- are focused on the organizations it works with. The journey building community relationship around of VBERC so far is of taking new challenges schools. VBERC is working in two districts in its work and culture, both internally and with the community to enrich a child's while engaging with outside organizations. learning context; part of it is building a social Over last three years it has taken the new capital around need for good education that challenge of reaching high school; involving does not overemphasize education for formal immediate community around schools and jobs. This year the project expanded its reach improving larger discourse on Early in more schools and the surrounding Childhood Education by clearer vision of its community. It conducted several organized link with formal school education. It has led to interactions with selected community level adding new challenges to its broad vision: of women; they are called change vectors, to creating ability in students to take informed build idea on the nuances of good education. decision, acquire problem solving ability and Several school libraries and joint school develop creative instinct. community programmes like bal melas were Main Activities organized to build school-community relation. The next challenge is how to change Working with High School: Educational the existing power dynamics between school interventions in schools have hardly reached and community. Both, the school and high and higher secondary school. Without denying the role of a good score in a final year exams, VBERC's effort over last three years has been that students learn with conceptual clarity without indulging in blind memorization. The success of such effort depends on the other factors and it is a challenge to make learning interesting for Class X and XII. VBERC, in collaboration with Hindustan Zinc CSR, took the challenge to work with ten thousand students in 60 government schools across 6 districts in Rajasthan. In the third successive year, the result of all the 60 schools for Classes X and XII has improved by more than 8 percent, compared to similar government schools in the area. VBERC for the next year will work on similar ideas with the Indigo airlines (CSR) in 25 schools of Udaipur district. School-Community Interface: School and community together contribute towards a child's learning. VBERC also realizes the

42 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 community, will have to understand the 4. Introduce child to language sound broader objectives of education. Presently it is structure and pre-number skills too narrowly focused around education and The fourth point invites for nursery rhymes employability. and working with children on categorization Mobile Library: This is another community and other pre-mathematics skills. The level program by VBERC. Mobile library challenge is making nursery teachers and provides children of Udaipur slum to explore system unlearn on the importance of holding the subjects of their interest to read and know formal learning and reviewing the basic about. These libraries give children more fallacy in mixing pre-school with school option to read and know what they learn in the activity. schools. Unlike the idea of conventional Language Plus: The Language Plus programme libraries in schools, the mobile library avoids is in the third year of its implementation. It linking it with explicit reading skills. It focuses specially on English and Hindi believes in giving children the freedom to without ignoring the languages learners bring choose, the freedom to decide what they want from home. Along with it overall linguistic, to read and what they don't want to read and mathematical, social and cognitive growth of how much they want to read. The jury is not out to judge a child ability to read in the learners was also worked upon. It was decided mobile library. to provide students the comfort and space where they can articulate their feelings and Early Childhood Education: Started two years views freely and fearlessly. The first target of back, first in Vidya Bhawan Nursery and now Language Plus, then, is to hear children talk in in ICDS program, VBERC is leading the any language in which they feel comfortable, dialogue in the region on the purpose of Early be it Bagri, Mewari, Marwari, Gujarati, Hindi Childhood Education (ECE). Starting formal or English. This inevitably involves the need education in nursery kills the very purpose of to listen carefully; the role of the teacher ECE intervention. As a result, instead of acquires a unique importance here as she is to motivating children to go to school, starting ensure that irrespective of what language formal education quite early in life dissuade children use, the message needs to be children from school. VBERC experience of understood by all. The processes of code- looking at ECE while evaluating national mixing, code-switching, translation and programmes run by PLAN international, translanguaging play a crucial role. There is UNICEF, have empirical evidence how starting formal education before 6 years also an integrated approach to curricular creates mental stress in a child rather than issues; given a text, it may be used for encouraging them for schools. VBERC language, drawing, shapes, environment and distilled the following principles for CEC, mathematics. after wider consultation with known experts This year the plan is to expand the Language and organizations: Plus programme in the middle school. 1. Mentally prepare a child to stay away Improving language proficiency of students from home has to match with the same of teachers in more than one language-the first and the second 2. Develop social skills in child for in-group language. It has emerged as a major challenge peer interaction with expansion. 3. Build enough confidence in a child for Publications: VBERC has a long history of dialogic relation with adults and school publications i.e. magazines, books, teachers

43 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 proceedings. One such regular publication is of expanding its intervention with CRY and Language and Language Teaching (llt.org.in) support new organizations like Bharati journal, a joint publication of VBS and Azim Foundation, IIMPACT and Towards Premji Foundation. The journal this year Alleviation of Poverty (TAP) this year, apart published a special issue on literacy. The from working with INDIGO airlines in rural layout was modified to make it more Udaipur. appealing to the readers. In the year 2019-20 VBERC plans to further Other project works of VBERC include consolidate its work in Rajasthan, within working with the QUEST alliance in Vidya Bhawan and in the govt. schools in rural Samastipur, CRY in Rajasthan and Udaipur. More engagement with community Chattisgarh. The organization is in the process is also on the cards.

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VIDYA BHAWAN WELLNESS TEAM (WT)

Wellness team is working towards building a through local entrepreneurs and the story of motivated and happy community which is their challenges and struggle of life. WT also self-empowered and a social contributor. Our conducted a session with volunteer teachers to mission is to promote mental, physical and help them reflect about their attitudes and social well-being of students, staff and the behavior during the whole camp. community in general, through awareness Health Check-up Camps: In collaboration building and counseling. WT has created with Geetanjali Medical College and Wellness Advisory Committee (WAC), Hospital, the Medical Health Check-Up consisting of 12 members, one from each of Camp was organized for 1370 students across the Vidya Bhawan institutions. The major role all the three schools of Vidya Bhawan. The of WAC members is to identify students or purpose of health check-up camp was to staff, who may need help, talk to them, understand the physical health status of our address their needs and then refer them to WT. students and to take necessary actions for the Monthly meetings are conducted with WAC identified cases. A basic First-Aid Kit with all members to establish communication and the basic medicines was prepared and equip them with basic counseling and distributed across VB Institutions. listening skills. Volunteer and Fellowship Program: WT has Activities designed Volunteer Programme Policy and is Counseling Support: It was started with 50 constantly involved in hosting volunteers at students of Unchi Udaan (Class XI and XII) Vidya Bhawan in general. Presentations were extending to 36 students of Bageecha Group. done on various platforms to build Counseling support was also provided to staff relationships with different organizations for and students approached themselves or were the same. suggested by teachers/ HOIs of different VB Awareness Activities/Workshops: Various institutions. activities/workshops on different topics i.e. Dance Drama Production: It focuses on Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health, students of VBSSS Fatehpura who have Menstrual health & hygiene Swine-Flu shown emotionally vulnerable behaviors, awareness drive etc. were organized for like aggression, excessive quietness or students and staff during the reporting period. fearfulness. The program aims to develop a Staff Engagement: WT has started strong sense of self-worth, respect, empathy, “Community Lunch” as part of monthly staff discipline and perseverance in the students so engagement activity to provide VB staff an that their attitude gets alter in the classroom hour to have lunch together, interact and enjoy and other spaces. It also acts as a forum where together through sharing of time and food. On these students can confidently and openly June 21, 2018 WT organized a Yoga Session. express their viewpoints, thoughts, ideas, and experiences. Hostel Engagement: The engagement with the students of Calcutta Sadan and Bageecha Shiksha Sambal Camp: WT designed and students (a total of 35 students) was started in coordinated two weeks-sessions with 250 the month of July and August respectively. students of Shiksha Sambal Camp. The first The sessions revolved around imparting week was focused on basic hygiene, values like self-worth, strong sense of belief, menstrual health, emotional well-being and respect, ownership and creativity, developing gender inequality. The second week was confidence, building awareness around health based on introduction to different vocations and hygiene and conducting activities around

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5 pillars of Wellness. It was done through Hygiene, Gender Inequality, Religion activities like enacting a given situation in a etc. group, showing videos, discussions etc. ?As part of student engagement activities Scholarship Award Ceremony: Vidya Bhawan WT is planning to start 'Meri Kahani' receives donations for scholarship allotment talks to help students showcase their every year. Scholarships, amounting Rs.6 talents and leadership journeys towards Lakh, were awarded to 98 students across all overcoming their struggles and also VB institutions in an event organized on provide them exposure to various fields February 7, 2019. The WT worked on filtering including personal stories of struggles as and adding more relevant information in the key influencer. Another plan for student scholarship form by considering applications, engagement is developing Miyawaki home-visits and students performance in academics, sports and co-curricular activities. forest in the premises of Calcutta Sadan hostel. This will be taken up in Brochure: A brochure, explaining the major partnership with an organization named work areas of Vidya Bhawan Wellness Team Pukaar. Hostel students will be involved and helpline number was designed to create in plantation and their care and awareness about the existence of WT. maintenance. Challenges ?We are planning to conduct health ?Team size and constant changes in the checkups for all the 3300 students of Vidya existing team is a major challenge in Bhawan colleges and approximately 500 fulfilling the yearly commitments of employees of VB institutions. team. Addressing large number of students and staff across VB is another ?WT is planning to conduct workshops big challenge. on stress management, listening, communication skills etc. with WAC ?Lack of funding is a challenge in members and staff across VB institutions outsourcing resources and organizing workshops. to equip them with skills to cater their personal needs and also extend their hand Future Plans to help others. ? WT is planning to design awareness The practice of Community lunch being activities/workshops on Good Touch- followed in VB society will be extended Bad touch, Menstrual Health and across all VB institutions.

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ESTATE DEPARTMENT, VBS OFFICE

Estate team is taking care of infrastructural and a new mezzanine floor in the library of the development works with support from VB Public School is in progress. In the last various donors at different sites in different few months, the office block was renovated VBS institutions and residential campuses. and old toilets were dismantled and converted Details are as follows: into teaching spaces. A Cafeteria was constructed on the campus of In VB's Ramgiri campus, we are at the final the Vidya Bhawan Rural Institute with the stage of planning for construction of 3 financial support from Shri Gaj Singh ji classrooms, construction of open theatre and Mehta. It was inaugurated in February, 2019 renovation of the Gandhi Peace Foundation and made open for students from July at the building. Roofs and other repair work was start of the new academic year. done and geysers installed at the Girls Hostel Renovation and construction of dining hall/ of our teacher college (VBGSTC) with the mess at the Aravali Sadan was another financial support from Seksaria Charitable important project taken up last year. Bajaj trust. holdings & Private ltd. (BHIL) and Ms. Many of the staff quarters across various Angela Parsari contributed for the purpose. campuses were renovated completely. These Along with it new equipment was also quarters were in very bad condition; hence installed to provide better work conditions to massive renovation including electric fitting the mess staff. Construction of 4 classrooms and plumbing related work was also done.

47 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 CREDIBILITY ALLIANCE NORMS COMPLIANCE REPORT

Vidya Bhawan is registered as a Society under Section 5 of the Certificate of Registration under Societies Registration Act No. VII of 1941 bearing No. 5079/1941 dated 10-09-1941.

Tax exemption is granted to it under section 80(G) of Income Tax Act 1961. The Unique registration number is AAAAV1234A/08/2017-18/S-026/80G and is valid unless specifically withdrawn. Its FCRA Registration No. is 125690033 dated 04-08-2016 and is valid for five years w. e. f. 01-11-2016. Main Bankers: (i) ICICI Bank Ltd., Vidya Bhawan Society Branch, Udaipur (ii) State Bank of India, Badgaon Branch, Udaipur

(iii) Yes Bank, Main Branch, Udaipur Auditors: M/s. Shashi Kant Mehta & Co., 32, Arvind Nagar, Sunderwas (North), Udaipur, Rajasthan.

Distribution of staff according to salary levels:

Slab of gross salary (in Rs) plus Male staff Female staff Total staff benefits paid to staff (per month) Less than 5000 0 0 0 5,000 – 10,000 60 30 90 10,000 – 25,000 182 134 316 25,000 – 50,000 54 42 96 50,000 – 1,00,000 16 03 19 Greater than 1,00,000 07 0 07 Total 319 209 528

Staff remuneration [Gross salary + benefits] in Rupees:

Head of the organization: (including honorarium): NIL Highest paid person in the organisation (staff or consultant): 24,00,000/- Lowest paid person in the organisation (staff or consultant): 57,722/-

Staff International Travel: None Cost of National Travels by Board Members/Staff/Volunteers: Rs. 3,82,792/- Remuneration paid to members of Statutory Governing Body for attending

meetings: Nil

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59 60 We request you to donate to Vidya Bhawan Society:

By Cheque / Demand Draft / Banker's Cheque: Cheques can be accepted in favour of "Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur"

Electronic / Online Transfer (In case of Indian Currency Contribution): The Details for NEFT / RTGS transfers are given below: Name of Account - Vidya Bhawan Society Name of Bank & Branch - State Bank of India, Udaipur Main Branch, Madhuban Account No. - 10449994281 IFSC - SBIN0001533 Branch Code - 1533

Electronic / Online Transfer (In case of Foreign Currency Contribution): The Details for NEFT / RTGS transfers are given below: Name of Account - Vidya Bhawan Society Foreign Co. Account Number - 10420856094 Name of Bank & Branch - State Bank of India, A.D. Branch, Badgaon, Udaipur IFSC Code - SBIN0005887. Branch Code - 5887 "Contributions made to Vidya Bhawan can be claimed as a deduction under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act". Vidya Bhawan Society Dr. Mohan Sinha Mehta Marg Fatehpura, Udaipur (Raj.) 313004 Tel. 0294 2450911, 2451679 Fax: 0294 2451323 e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] www.vidyabhawan.org

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