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A rural development initiative taken by the students of
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
STUDENTS INITIATIVE FORINTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT
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AIM
o Develop the targeted village by evolving a demand driven initiative based model bysynergizing the efforts of multiple stakeholders, specifically, villagers, NGOs, Government,
Industry and Academia in the field of rural development.
o Sensitize students of IIT Roorkee with rural ethos and develop a sense of social responsibilityamongst them.
o To be a Model Student Group for India, Source of inspiration for various institutions to workfor Rural Development.
ABOUT SIIRD
SIIRD stands for Students Initiative for Integrated Rural Development.
This project was started in January 2006 when a group of B.Tech students of IIT Roorkee
approached Prof. Vinay K Nangia (Chair Professor, Government of India Knowledge Economy
Project, Head, Department of Management Studies, and Coordinator, Uttarakhand DevelopmentCell, IIT Roorkee) to work in the field of Rural Development. The project then evolved into
Students Initiative for Integrated Rural Development.
SIIRDs first step towards Rural Development was to identify a model village. Factors such as
physical connectivity, terrain and availability of basic infrastructure, diversity in social make up of
population representative of the culture of Uttarakhand, were borne in mind while exploring the
villages for a location ideally suited for a functional model on the ground to show-case the best
practices of public-private-partnership collaboration.
The SIIRD team carried out baseline surveys of more than 15 villages in 3 districts of Uttarakhand
and identified Charba, a village in Sahaspur District of Dehradun as the model village.
Various demand driven initiatives have been taken up by the students for the betterment of the
villagers and development of the Charba, a brief report of which is appended.
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1. Information & Communication Technology (ICT) awareness InitiativeObjective
To create awareness about the use andbenefits of Information & Communication
Technology and develop a healthy relation
with the villagers.
Methodology
Meetings of villagers were convened and theuses and benefits of Information &
Communication Technology were
demonstrated. Door to Door demonstrations
were also done.
Practical hands-on exposure of computer andInternet was given to villagers The villagerswere also provided an opportunity to
experience the use of computer and Internet.
These demonstrations helped SIIRD team toidentify champions (villagers who were
supportive and willing to help carry our
initiatives forward).
Large scale demonstration of ICT benefits
Team members addressing large gathering
Training session by SIIRD team member
SIIRD Team members with champions
Achievements
The team identified 15-20 champions in the villagewho help the team during visits.
About three-fourth of the village has been coveredby door to door demonstrations and the team has
spread its presence in the village.
Training of Trainers program: All the ComputerCentre trainers of Charba have undergone training
imparted by IIT Roorkee students in 3 training
programs.
Softwares like Microsoft office, basic flash, basicphotoshop, elementary C, Tally, etc. were taught to
them.
DEMAND DRIVEN INTIATIVES
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2. Entrepreneurship initiativeObjective:
To find the suitable entrepreneurs in Charba
village for running the Soochna Kutir
(JANADHAR) to ensure awareness and usageof Information & Communication Technology
in Charba.
e-Governance:
Janadhar is the e-Governance initiative of the
government of Uttarakhand. It was started in
March 2005. The initiative was taken up with
funding from the UNDP and technical
guidance by the Indian Institute of
Technology, Roorkee (IIT).
The main objective of the e-Governance
inititiatve is to deliver information of public
interest and services related to various
government departments at the doorsteps of
the citizens of Uttarakhand by setting up
citizen-centric information kiosks (Soochna
Kutirs) for e-Governance in the state.
Janadhar
Achievements
Suitable entrepreneurs were identified for runningthe Information Kiosks (Soochna Kutir) to ensure
the awareness and usage of benefits of
Information & Communication in Charba.
8 Suchna Kutirs (Information Kiosks) were studiedin Naintal by 5 students.
3 Soochna Kutir (Information Kiosks) were set upand inaugurated in Charba under the UNDP
funded e-Governance project by Prof. H.K. Verma,
Deputy Director, IIT Roorkee.
Training of the personnel manning the SoochnaKutirs (Information Kiosk) was done in UNDP
office, IIT Roorkee.
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3. Primary School ICT Education Initiative
Objective:
To provide basic computer education to the
students of primary schools of village Charba
and make this education system sustainable.
Methodology:
Identifying Primary stakeholders (students,parents, teachers, team members) and
obtaining their views on computer education
Preparing course materials in Hindi forteaching in primary schools in consultation
with the teachers in conformity to the private
school course structure.
Integration of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA)with SIIRD thereby ensuring sustained
government support to the primary school ICT
education initiative.
SIIRD team member interacting with students
Team member discussing course material with primary
school teacher
Team member helping a student
Team members installing computers.
Achievements
16 Computers donated by Institute ComputerCentre, IIT Roorkee were initially installed in
primary schools of Charba and were later
transferred to the SSA, Dehradun office.
15 Computers donated by INFOSYS installed in3 primary schools of Charba.
Course structure (in Hindi and English)prepared.
Details & database of all 4 Primary schools. ICT education imparted to students of primary
schools by SIIRD team.
Met Mrs. Geeta Nautiyal, District EducationOfficer, Dehradun District and obtained
approval for integration of Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyaan (SSA) with the primary school ICT
education initiative
About 10 Videos made which to serve as self-learning tool kit illustrating the usage of simple
software like notepad, calculator, etc.
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4. Girls Education InitiativeObjective:
To train the girls of Charba in ICT and make them
champions so that they may in turn impart
training to other villagers and thus make this
education system sustainable.
Methodology:
To train the girls from the village so that theycould further train the students in the village.
The focus is on training the girls of age group12-15 years.
SIIRD team & Charba girl teaching students
SIIRD team member teaching girls of Charba
Achievements:
Training given by IIT R girls- 14 Charba girls were trained in ICT at IIT
Training given by combined efforts of IIT Rgirls and Charba:
- 20 students were trained at house ofMr. Baljeet Singh (Champion) 15
thMay
2009.
- 36 students were trained in PrimarySchool no. 3 on 16th May 2009. 5 new girls were trained from Charba by
IITR girls from 8th
to 10th
August, 2009.
5 girls were trained at Charba during themonth of January 2010.
5. Agriculture Initiative
Objective:
To give improve the agriculture status by increasing the rate of production in agriculture using scientific
tools and research.
Methodology:
Integrate multiple stakeholders (like Krishi Vigyan Kendra, IFFCO etc.) in this initiative To focus on a specific group of about 12-15 farmers who would be champions in agricultural initiative. Expertise of Professors and students of Biotechnology department will play crucial role in this
initiative.
Achievements:
Basic survey of agricultural practices in the village Charba. Identified 5 potential farmers for the target group of this initiative.
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6. Employability InitiativeObjective:
To improve the employability of the unemployed
or under-employed people of the Charba village
by skill development or getting their existing skillstested and certified.
Methodology:
Creating a platform for villagers & industry toreduce the gap between them.
Designing of training module & training thevillagers to impart necessary employment
skills.
Recruitment of the trained villagers. Training session for villagers in Haridwar
IIT Roorkee faculty member in training session
Achievements:
In consideration of the industrialdemands, motivational training of 5
villagers was done in Haridwar.
Most of the trainees showed a positiveresult and were able to find better
employment oppurtunities.
7. Health InitiativeObjective:
To improve the health status of village by the
help of Health Institutes in nearby areas, mainly
by organizing Health camps and to connect
them with doctors in village by
teleconferencing.
Achievements:
General health pattern of the village wasidentified through intense surveys.
Collaboration with Lady Hardinge MedicalCollege, New Delhi for organizing general
health camp in Charba on 2nd
October 2010
Health Camp was led by Dr. Kishore Arya(General Secretary, Resident Doctors
Association, Lady Hardinge Medical
College). It was a ten member team
comprising of specialists in Psychology,Dermatology, Gynecology, Ophthalmology.
SIIRD team talking in a clinic in Charba
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387 patients were given treatment in thecamp
Impressed by teams determination and thequality of work the CMO Sahaspur, Dr. Viraj
Shah agreed to provide the subsequent
treatment to villagers
SIIRD COLLABORATES WITH ACARA INSTITUTE
Acara Institute is a US- basedorganization which works with
universities to help develop social
entrepreneurship programs and social
businesses by conducting Acara
Challenges.
The SIIRD team members participatedin Acara Challenge 2010 and devised B-
plans addressing the problems in the
adopted village Charba.
One of the SIIRD team collaboratedwith University of Minnesota called
BioServe won Acara Challenge 2010.
Acara sent the team BioServecomprising students of UMN to workupon their business model along with
SIIRD team which aimed at installing
plastic biogas plants in Charba.
Another Acara Challenge team amongfinalists called My Rain worked on Drip
Irrigation system in Charba.
SIIRD has good relations with Acara andUniversity of Minnesota and intend toextend their full support in future.
SIIRD team member with UMN students at CHARBA
SIIRD team members with BioServ team
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SIIRD ON REDIFF NEWS:
Gurdeep Singh & Gaurav Nemade represented SIIRD in the Rural Transformation track atPanIIT Global India Conference, 2008 held at IIT Madras.
SIIRD Team at ISB, Hyderabad
SIIRD team got the chance to present its work at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad on26
thAugust 2010 in AIESEC International Congress 2010 which saw the presence of 700+
attendees representing 107 countries in the AIESEC network. There were speakers from
companies like Microsoft, DHL, Alcatel Lucent, TATA Consultancy Services etc.
SIIRD team with Nirvana cable,
CEO and Founder, Global Village
Commons, Inc.
SIIRD Team at ISB Hyderabad
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SIIRD at PanIIT Conclave 2010
SIIRD, among its major achievements, presented its work at PanIIT Conclave 2010. Team got huge
applause from various alumni, ministers, industrialists, CSR heads etc.
CURRENT ASSOCIATIONS OF SIIRD
1. United Nations Development Projects (UNDP) e-Governance initiativeo Integrated the Uttarakhand governments UNDP funded e-Governance project by
setting up 3 soochna kutirs (Information Kiosks) at Charba.
o Principal Investigator: Prof H.K. Verma, Deputy Director, IIT Roorkee.2. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan for primary school ICT Education
o Integrated SSA for the primary school ICT education initiative.o Officials-in-charge: Mrs. Geeta Nautiyal, District Education Officer, and Mr. S. P.
Semwal, District Head of Computer Aided Learning Program (CALP).
3. Confederation of Indian industries (CII)o Integrated CII for the employment initiative and arranged for the training of the
unemployed youth of Charba.
o Officials-in-charge: CII, Uttarakhand unit at Dehradun.4. INFOSYS :
o Integrated Infosys for the Primary School ICT initiative through which SIIRD received15 computers which were successfully installed in 3 primary schools of Charba.
o Officials in charge: Mrs. Sudha Mahesh (Board of Directors, Infosys) approved thedonation.
SIIRD members at PanIIT 2010- Left: sitting among the panellists
with Mr. T Vijay Kumar. Right: posters of SIIRD at PanIIT 2010
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Regards,
Gurdeep Singh
Project Leader,
Students Initiative for Integrated Rural Development (SIIRD).
B.Tech, IV Year, Biotechnology,
IIT Roorkee
Email: gurdeepgsg@gmail.com
Mobile No. +91-9410511537
Guided By:
Prof. V.K. Nangia
Head of Department,
Management Studies
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Email:nangvfdm@iitr.ernet.in
vinaynangia@gmail.com
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