1) The document discusses a work-centric pre-vocational training program called Introduction to Basic Technologies (IBT) that is being implemented in high schools in India to address issues like rural unemployment, lack of technical skills, and disparity between education and industry needs. 2) Through IBT, students learn multiple practical skills like agriculture, dairy, sewing, electrical work, and more from local artisans. The school becomes a production center where students can apply their skills. 3) Over 75 schools implementing IBT have provided community services valued at over $135,000 through activities like fabrication, product making, and more. The goal is integrated and sustainable development through practical, multi-skill education.

1. 2010 Global Education Conference
Integrated and Sustainable Development
through
Work Centric Pre-vocational Training in the
High Schools
Kiran Inamdar
State Head - CSR
Suzlon Foundation
Dr. Yogesh Kulkarni
Executive Director
Vigyan Ashram
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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2. Suzlon Foundation
• Suzlon Foundation – Section 25 Non-Profit Company Leads
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Suzlon Group of
Companies around all the Suzlon Wind Farms Neighbourhood
Villages
• addresses issues / needs identified by the local communities
• project implementation in partnership with reputed NGOs
• Budget (approx. 1% of PAT)
• Multidisciplinary team to oversee CSR
• 146 projects across 8 states and 2 Union territories in India
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3. Focus of CSR
• Rural unemployment :
Pre-vocational Training Introduction to basic technology (IBT)
in schools
• Need of mainstreaming women:
 Women’s empowerment through Self Help groups (SHGs)
• Degraded soils/ water scarcity:
 Soil and Water Conservation
• Decreasing livestock production
Grazing land development
Animal health care camps
• Poor access to primary health care:
Access to Health facilities at minor cost
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4. Needs in the area
• Suzlon’s biggest wind farm in Asia in
District Dhule-Nandurbar
• Dhule-Nandurbar - a backward, draught
prone districts with majority tribal population
• Village expectations -permanent
employment in Corporates
• Mis match of requirement of highly skilled,
well educated few person power and
availability of illiterate / uneduated /
unskilled tribal villagers
• Hence potential for technical training
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www.vigyanashram.com

6. Education System - The Backdrop
• Non availability of
schools in rural area
• Poor quality of
education
• Teachers not up to the
mark
• Theoretical Bookish
Knowledge
• technical education not
easily available
• Poor infrastructure
• Gap between need of
the industry and
education
• Illiterate,Un-educated,
Poor & passive parents
• Language – Problem
• Male dominated
society -
discrimanation
between Girls & Boys
• Illiteracy
• Un-educated
Population
• Less confident youths
• Less opportunities
• Shortage of person
power
• Gap between rich and
poor
• People in general
Interested in Easy
money, corruption
• Cheating, Thefts, riots
• Childeren / Girls /
Women more harassed
• Cheap labour
• Adiction, alcoholism,
bad habits
Poverty
Malnutrition
Migration
Braindrain
Unemployment
Agitation
Increasing gap
between rich
and poor
Poor
governance
Mean Politics
Lack of hope
for change

7. 4 lakhs/yr
Employment
generation in
organised sector
Out of 170 lakhs population per year only 4 lakhs employed in organised
sector i.e. 166 lakhs are left out of main stream every year.

8. Introduction to Basic Technologies (IBT)
 Developed by Dr. Kalbag at Vigyan Ashram
Pabal(Pune,India)
 Objective : To achieve Integrated and
Sustainable Development through Work Centric
Pre-vocational Training to youth
 Simple, economical, globaly replicable model
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9. Rural Development Through Education System
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11. 1 Learning While Doing
2 Multiskill training
3 Instructors are Artisans from the village
4 School itself becomes production cum
training center.
PrinciplesVIGYAN ASHRAM

12. Skills
Values Creativity
Logical
thinking
Inform
ation
Educat
ion
‘Learning While Doing’ is
‘Natural way of Learning’
Necessary for achieving five attributes of education
Depends on
earlier
experiences.
To get
diverse
experience,
learning
through
work is
necessary
Learning While Doing
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13. Multi-skills Training
• About 20 pre-vocational skills are
introduced in the High School
• Children get choice for her / his career
• Can work in altogether new 21st
technology
also
• Ex-students have been working confidently
in more than 2-3 technologies at a time
• Muti-skills allows risk management
• Success ratio is more
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14. Syllabus
A g r i, n u r s e ry
P o u ltr y , D a iry
G o a t fa r m in g
A g r i- A H
S e w in g
fo o d p r o d u c ts
R u r a l L a b
H e a lth
H o m e & H e a lth
L iv in g
W o rk s h o p
F a b r ic a tio n
C o n s tr u c tio n
C a r p e n ta ry
M a te r ia l
E le c tr ic a l
D ie s e l E n g in e
N o n c o n v e n .
E n e r g y
E n e rg y ,E n v io
N o n L iv in g
N a tu re
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16. Instructors are village artisans
• Artisans / microenterpreneurs having skills are their own
bosses, experienced and successful self-employeds
• Local micro-entrepreneurs recieves:
– the opportunity in village itself
– training for
• upgradation of thier skills and
• for imparting the skills
– access to students as apprentice too!
– Increased earnings through honorarium for teaching the
skills and share in the community services.
– Dignity and opportunity to serve the society
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17. School becomes – production cum training
center
• Entire village including school being customer are involved
in the project
• Students get opportunity to work with master trainer /
artisan on the live projects
• Right from the conception to implementation stage students
get first hand practical experience
• Ex-students, women, un-employed youths are also
involved
• Villagers get products / services at reasonable cost
• School gets community service charges, fees from the
students which is used for the sustainability of the project
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18. List of Services given by schools
• Simple fabrication
• Assembling LED lamps
• Soil & water testing
• Agricultural equipments
• Appliances repairing
• Class Room construction
• Repairing of Benches,
Chairs
• Toilets for Girls in the School
• Vermi compost, nursery
• Food products
• Friendship Bands
• Kites, Scientific Toys
• Solar Driers
• Dried Vegetables
• Products from Waste
• Paper lampsheds
• Animal vaccination
Cumulative Value
of community
services by 75
schools in 3 years
is > $ 135000
No of students per
year = 11250
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19. Partners
• Suzlon Foundation
• MIT USA
• Lend-a-Hand-India
• Department of Science and
Technology
• GKN Sinter Metal Ltd.
• National Institute of Open Schooling
• Department of Technical Education
• Various High Schools where
programme is being implimented
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20. Course Material :
1. Work books, Manuals, Video Cassettes
2. Multimedia CD ROMs in Marathi,
Hindi and English languages
Problem referral system :
1. Use of Internet is suggested.
2. A portal www.aaqua.org is developed
in collabration with IIT, Pawai to give
experts advice on agriculture and animal
husbandry related problems.
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21. Related Websites
• www.suzlonfoundation.com
• www.vigyanashram.com
• www.techshala.com
• www.renindia.in
• www.agrocom.co.in
• www.aaqua.org
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22. Thank You !
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