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The Teacher-Guardian, a
counselor of these 20 students, helps them to
overcome all types of difficulties by offering
a family like environment. Students from
outside cities need a helping hand to rectify
the areas of study, where the improvement is
required. All students are encouraged to
improve upon by hard work and corrective
guidance. Parents are assured that their wards
are under absolute regular supervision and
continuous guidance. Teacher-Guardian
communicates performance of the student to the
parents. All parents are requested to visit
the college during the first week of November
to January.
Ongoing Activities
1. Drinking Water
Quality Monitoring
The
project is being carried out by the Department of Civil Engineering in the
nearby village called Nildoh. The village depends on water from the open wells
for their requirements. There are several cases of illness in the community,
which prompted the local body to seek help. The water from the open wells is
being tested in YCCE laboratory for its contamination. Since the quality and
quantity of the contamination varies from season to season, these tests will be
spanned over the year. The community
will be advised to take precautions and appropriate purification processes will
be recommended following the analysis of data generated through testing.
2. IT for rural area
The
digital divide between the urban and rural area needs to be dispelled for the
effective implementation of the various governmental initiatives. The
schoolboys from the rural area have been deprived from the newer powerful
technology the digital age has promised.
Under the department of Computer Technology and Information Technology a
project was started for educating the deprived children. The trustees of Nehru
Bal Sadan, MIDC, Hingna, Nagpur, graciously allowed the college to use their
premises to house the computers and conduct the classes. A set of fifteen
computers of latest configuration has been installed at this extension centre.
The first two batches of primary and secondary school students have undergone
the first module of the coaching.
The
efforts are underway to use this facility for educating the children of the
nearby villages. The institute plans to provide transport facility to these
students to facilitate commuting between their villages and the Extension
Centre.
The
results of the first two batches are very encouraging. The institute therefore
has planned to acquire a mobile training laboratory.
The
teachers of the schools from rural areas are also proposed to be trained at
YCCE under this program.
3. Hand Pump
Repairing Project
Remote rural areas invariably depend upon the bore
wells for their water requirement. The bore well pump frequently breakdown and
require repairs. These are usually
difficult to carry out due to remote locations and the community around the
unserviceable bore well thus suffers for no fault. The youth from these remote areas have been identified and they
were given training for three days at YCVCE.
They also actively participated in the actual repair work of bore wells
carried by Panchayat Samiti. This group
will be trained further and will be provided with complete repair kit. Governmental agencies are being pursued to
train these persons further and also allot them work of repairs. The purpose is two folds. Firstly, the bore wells is remote areas can
be serviced faster and secondly the unemployed persons from rural areas will
get the economic benefits. The project
is being implemented with the assistance from Zilla Parishad, Nagpur and
Jalswaraj Yojana of Govt. of Maharashtra.
Programs implemented by students
1. Clean Environment
Drive
The community is made aware of the scarcity of
water and the students of YCCE implement protection of water bodies from
contaminations regularly. Each year, the Ganesh festival is celebrated in the
city of Nagpur with pomp and devotion. At the end of festival, idols of Lord
Ganesh are immersed in the water bodies in the city. Unfortunately, the
material like flowers, fruits, and offerings to Lord etc. is also dropped in
the lakes. A team of the students numbering around 150 pickets the lake of
Telankhedi to request people not to immerse the offerings etc along with the
idols. The program is highly successful. The students collect more than 4 tones
of offerings each year. The program is implemented with the assistance of
Nagpur Municipal Corporation.
2. Traffic Routine
The immersion of the Lord Ganesh at Telankhedi on
Ganesh Chaturdashi draws a huge crowd. The traffic police are extended help in
the form of volunteers from the students of YCCE on this day for around 10
hours. A team of 20 students helps the traffic police in regulating the traffic
and making the announcements for safety of the crowd.
3. Blood Donation
The scarcity of blood in the hospitals poses a
great problem. The students of YCCE have always responded to calls of the
community and have donated the blood. During January 2005 to Jan 2006, the
students have donated 948 units of blood. They also donate the blood in
response to special requests. One such request was made during the floods in
Mumbai. The platelets from the donated blood were air lifted to Mumbai to
combat the epidemic. YCCE students were the single largest group from rest of
Maharashtra to respond to this emergency.
4. Tree plantation
The
students of YCCE have planted trees in each monsoon in and around the campus.
The planted trees are cared for by the Garden Department of YCCE.
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