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MINUTES OF MEETING (14 February, 2010)

ATTENDEES:  Pradeep Ghosh, Shibani Ghosh, Shrey Kataria, Harshit Vyas, Piyush, Pushpraj, Shivangi, SwadeshPraharsh Bhandari, Himanshu Kalra, Abhishek Singh Rathore, Graima Garg

MINUTES:

The group discussed on the agenda as follows:

1. Pehal 2010:

Sponsor-ship/Award Team is ready with the letter to be taken with. Soon the co-ordinator’s would channelize Swans to the various institutes and corporate as per a schedule.

Teams of Events – grouping of members was done based on the need of members in each event.

Also each team was asked to decide and allocate work to its members such as- a member for logistics, stage work, registration table etc

Before the next meeting, A list of things required at the venue would be made by the event heads and the co-ordinators.

2. Swans also landed up on the solutions of “What can be done with the non-working Swans”, such as:

They won’t be allowed to go for fun-trips.

Their Swans membership may be cancelled

They would not be awarded any feathers

Or,they would be asked to go through the 7-day assessment period again!

3. Arambh, Muskan and Arushi:

Abhishek, Harshit and Himanshu (Leaders of the above mentioned flocks) were asked to manage their flock members and get the new members registered in the organization as Cygnets as soon as possible. Also they were asked to maintain an attendance record of their flock members.

MINUTES OF MEETING (10  January, 2010)

ATTENDEES:   

    SWANS: Ashish Nair, Garima Garg, Pradeep Ghosh, Rajul Gupta, S.K. Goswami, P. Shashank, Shibani Ghosh, Swati Jain, Anjali Jain, Harshit Vyas, Praveen Kumar Singh, Swadesh Saraf, Ekansh Nigam, Shrey Basu Roy, Kanika Tyagi, Abhishek Singh Rathore, Piyush Gupta, Himanshu Kalra, Paras Sahni, Mayank Arora, Shrey Kataria

    CYGNETS: Sampada Agarkar, Rahul Dhown, Rahul Jain, Amrit Jain, Sanjeev Sariya, Devesh Lathi, Rashmi Batham, Piyuli Ghosh, Ruchi Digarse, Manohar Ranawat, Ravindra Patel, Anay Kudape, Himanshu Rai, Lokendra Patel   

    INVITEES: S.B. Ota (ASI), Ankita (ASI), Chetna (ASI)

MINUTES:

The group discussed on the agenda as follows:

 1. Heritage Activity @ Bhojpur:

Swans with ASI members would visit Bhojpur for Awareness campaign on 12th February 2010 and have been asked to assemble at the ASI office at 8.30 a.m. on 12th morning.

 2. PEHAL 2010:

• • Shrey and Kanika updated the Swans about the progress of PEHAL 2010.

  • The promotion has been done in nearly all the colleges. Those colleges that are yet to be covered for promotion shall be done by Tuesday i.e. 9th Feb.

  • The sponsorship team and the awards team have been combined into one.The members of this team are: Shrey, Abhishek, Harshit, Himanshu, Garima, Shreya and Swadesh. A list of specific institutions and corporate was made which will be targeted for sponsorship. Pradeep sir will be taking the lead in this regard.

 3. Need Assessment of Arushi and Muskan :

• • Swans and Cygnets were informed about the volunteer requirements of the two NGO’s/Groves, which have also been put up on the Swans web-page - NEW GROVES IN BHOPAL.

  • Also Swans interested in contributing in these groves were asked to contact –

   Abhishek Singh Rathore (Flock Leader, Arushi), and Himanshu Kalra (Flock Leader, Muskan)

 4. SWANS - Weekend School for slum children

Swans is to give shape to its new idea of teaching Extra-Curricular activities, various arts and crafts to the slum children on weekends. A separate flock has been formed for this activity. Below is the list of members of this Flock:

Shreya Basu Roy( flock leader), Swati jain, Garima, Rahul Dhown, Sampada, Rajul, Kanika, Paras and Ashish. Other swans who are interested may pl contact Shreya (Flock Leader).

 5. Swans Ponds

The mentors of various SWANS PONDS were given the information letters meant for the School Principals- to introduce and understand the concept of swans ponds and get them registered.

The list of the Ponds and their Mentors is given below:

• • 1. Mount Carmel school – Abhishek, Pushpraj

    2. Old Campion school - Shivangi, Rajul

    3. St. Josephs Convent school – Kanika, Swati

    4. Sharda Vidhya Mandir school - Garima

    5. Mahatma Gandhi school - Swadesh, Praveen

    6. Bal Bhavan school - P Sai Shashank, Anjali Jain

    7. Maharishi Vidya Mandir school - Himanshu and Piyush

MINUTES OF MEETING (30 January, 2010)

ATTENDEES:   Mr. Pradeep Ghosh, Ashish Nair, Garima Garg, Kanika Tyagi, Paras Sahni, Swadesh Saraf, Shivveer Singh, Kirtika Nema, Snehal Chakankar, Krai Laad, Mrs. Ratna Mukherjee, Gyanendra Tiwari, Himanshu Kalra, Shrey Kataria, P.Sai Shashank, Rajul Gupta, Subodh Agarwal, Gaurav Lara

MINUTES:

The group discussed on the agenda as follows:

        Pehal-2010:

    Posters printed and handed to the groups. Invitation letters to be given on 1st Feb. 

    Six (6) groups were made area-wise with members and heads for the distribution of the Posters. They are:

                    AREA                                                                      GROUP HEADS

1)      Karond, Gandhi nagar                                                    Rajul Gupta

2)      Anandnagar bypass, bhanpur                                         Subodh Agarwal

3)      Patel nagar, Anand Nagar, Raisen Road                            Paras Sahani

4)      Thrilanga, Shahpura, Ratibbad, Nehru Nagar                      Praharsh Bhandari

5)      HOshangabad Road, 11mile, Obehdullahganj                      Piyush Gupta

6)      Jahangirabad, Hamidiya, Old city                                    Garima Garg

Pachmari Adventure Camp:

         The tentative date for the trip has been postponed for the month of April. It will be a 5-day camp and cost around Rs. 1250/-

     Also interested swans are requested to contact Mr. Pradeep Ghosh, Garima or Ashish before the next meeting i.e. by 6th Feb 2010 as they need to fill a registration form.

MINUTES OF MEETING (21 January, 2010)

ATTENDEES:   Ashish Nair, Garima Garg, Praharsh Bhandari, Swati Jain, Anjali Jain, Pradeep Ghosh, Abhishek singh Rathore, Harshit Vyas, Himanshu Kalra, Pushp Raj Patel, Shrey Kataria, Piyush Gupta, Sonam Shrivastava, Shivangi Mittal, Priyanka Sahu, P Sai Shashank, Rajul Gupta

MINUTES:

The group discussed on the agenda as follows:

Final discussions on PEHAL-2010:

The design of the Poster was finalised and the Poster team was entrusted to get the posters printed by 27th January. 

The guidelines and Rules and Regulations for different events were proposed by the respective event teams, discussed and finalised. 

The King and Queen were entrusted with the task of finalising the venue for Pehal-2010.

It was decided that the next meeting be organised immediately after the posters are printed for distribution to the respective teams.

MINUTES OF MEETING (10 January, 2010)

ATTENDEES:   

SWANS: Ratna Mukherjee, Pradeep Ghosh, Abhishek singh Rathore, Harshit Vyas, Himanshu Kalra, Pushp Raj Patel, Shrey Kataria,  Anurag Dhyaani, Saurabh Mukherjee, Ankita Rawat, Shreya Basu Roy, Garima Garg, Shivangi Mittal, Shashank P. Sai, Anjali Jain, Swati Jain, Sonam Shrivastava, Kanika Tyagi, Praharsh Bhandari, Abhijeet Shrivastava, Rajul Gupta, Paras Sahni, Shibani Ghosh, Ashish Nair, Bhavesh Deshmukh.

CYGNETS: Rahul Jain, Ananya Mukherji, Almas Khan, Ruchi Digarse, Isra A. Khan, Piyuli ghosh, Rashmi Batham, Aastha Singh, Rashmi Sharma, Piyush Verma, Himanshu Rai, Piyush Ghosh, Tanishk Reddy, Anay Kudape, Lokendra Patel, Manohar, Disha Malviya.

INVITEES: Mr. S.B.Ota (Regional Director, Archaeological Survey of India), Mr. Rakesh Prasad Soni (SDO, Forest Dept.), Mrs. Pooja Saxena (Archaeologist). 

MINUTES:

The group discussed on the agenda as follows:

Briefing about Sanchi Camp:

The Swans who went for the six-day Heritage Camp organised by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) at Sanchi briefed the other Swans about the learning from the trip. They explained the various aspects of Archaeological Heritage preservation conservation and the role of citizens and tourists that they learnt from the ASi team. They also explained how ASI expects SWANS to spread this awareness about heritage among public through school children.

Evolving SWANS PONDS concept from the Sanchi Camp:

The school children who were part of the Heritage Camp were also present at the meeting. During the  meeting the SWANS ponds concept was discussed as follows:

Concept of Ponds:

• • Mr. Ghosh then carried on by highlighting the concept of “Swans Ponds”. Now like an institute is called a Swans nest, a school would be termed as a Swans pond. The children will be called CYGNETS and will form flocks to work in CLUBS rather than groves. He also shared with the Swans and cygnets some guidelines and criteria for selecting students for these ponds(which will be put on the website as and when agreed upon).

  • Swans has already found cygnets in the following schools/PONDS and also provided them with the following mentors:

1. Kopal Hr. Sec. School – Shashank, Harshit

2. Mt. Carmel School       -  Shivangi, Himanshu

3. Bal Bhawan School     -  Anjali, Shrey 

4. Sharda Vihar                -  Pushpraj, Abhishek

5. Old Campion School    -  Rajul, Piyush

6. St. Xaviers School        -  Praharsh, Sonam 

• • Mr. Rakesh Prasad Soni proposed some activities that can be conducting in the clubs specially the environment club and Nature cure Club such as growing of saplings, visit to Delabari Sanctuary.

Heritage Flock:

• • Mr. S.B.Ota from ASI briefed about ASI’s objective of integration of the various NGO’s and individuals working in isolation. ASI basically require Swans for Manpower, Maintenance of heritage sites, asking schools for their space and time and also creating awareness among the teachers themselves. He even suggested activities to be conducted under the Heritage Club.

  • The School students also shared their learning experiences at Sanchi and Bhimbetika.

Pehal 2010:

Shrey Kataria and Kanika Tyagi were made the Co-ordinators of Pehal10. Work distribution was done. The revised list of swans under the organizing committees and teams is given below:

WEBSITE:        Ashish (Leader), Palaash, Vivek

POSTER:          Praharsh (Leader), Abhijeet, Sonam, Anjali, Ashish, Swati

SPONSORS:     Madhur (Leader), Pushpraj, Garima, Sourav, Anurag

AWARDS:        Abhishek (Leader), Pradeep, Shrey, Harshit

Working Models competition    :    Rajul (leader), Abhishek, Garima, Abhijeet

Technical Paper presentation   :    Himanshu (Leader), Rahul, Anurag, Swati

B-Plan competition                 :    Sonam (Leader), Harshit, Shivangi, Sourav

Nukkad Natak competition       :    Shashank (Leader), Praharsh, Anjali, Ankita

  Movie Making Competition       :    Bhavesh (Leader), Ashish, Paras,

The site for Pehal 2010 is http://pehal.weebly.com/

1. Need Assessment of Arushi has been done and Swans will soon start contributing to this particular grove.

2. Swans have been asked to ponder on the tentative dates for the Pachmarhi Adventure Camp.

3. Social Credits assessment: Flock Leaders have been asked to assess the members of their flocks and submit the same as soon as possible.

4. Swans have been asked to carry their identity cards not only when they go to the museum school but also when they come for meetings or represent swans in any school/institute/organization.

5. The next Swans Meeting will be held on 20th January 2010 at 3:00 p.m. at RMNH, Bittan Market, Bhopal.

MINUTES OF MEETING (19 December, 2009)

ATTENDEES:   Ratna Mukherjee, Pradeep Ghosh, Snehal Chakankar, Praharsh Bhandari, Abhishek Rathore, Palash Goyal, Pushpraj Patel, Himanshu Kalra, Madhur Tiwari, Shrey Kataria, Abhijeet Shrivastava.

MINUTES:

The group discussed on the agenda as follows:

Visit by SWANS to Archaeological Heritage site Bhimbaithika (MP):

    The Swans that went for the one-day orientation organised by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) at Bhimaithika briefed the other Swans about the learning from the trip. They explained the various aspects of Archaeological Heritage preservation conservation and the role of citizens and tourists. They also explained how ASI expects SWANS to build up a livelihood model for the surrounding villages through the Heritage site.

Inter-School debate and Heritage Camp at Sanchi:

    The Swans discussed about their role at the Inter-school debate being organised by ASI on 21st Dec 09. They also discussed about various activities to to be conducted by SWANS at Sanchii,

PEHAL 2010

• Tentative dates of PEHAL 2010 have been rescheduled to 7-8 Mar 2010.

• The themes and events were decided as given below:

  • THEME: Application of Modern Technology and Business Practices for Rural development

  • EVENTS: 

  •             a) Working Models competition on 'Application of Modern technology for Rural development'

  •             b) Paper presentation on 'Application of Modern technology for Rural development'

  •             c) B-Plan competition on 'Application of Modern Business practices for Rural development'

  •             d) On-spot Nukkad Natak competition.

    Every Swan will participate in at least one or more competitions representing his/her college/institution. 

    Swans organising a particular competition will not participate in the same.

    Organising Activities and Teams:

        WEBSITE:    Palaash, Vivek, Ashish,

        POSTER:      Praharsh, Abhijeet, Sonam,

        SPONSORS: Madhur, Pushpraj,

        AWARDS:    Pradeep, Shrey, Abhishek, Harshit,

        Working Models competition    :    Abhishek,

        Technical Paper presentation   :    Himanshu,

        B-Plan competition                 :    Sonam, Garima, Shrey

        Nukkad Natak competition       :    Praharsh,

    Swans can participate in the above activities by joining the above teams. 

MINUTES OF MEETING (15 November, 2009)

Attendees:   Shibani Ghosh, Ratna Mukherjee, Pradeep Ghosh, Manisha Garg, Gaurav Jaiswal, Suchal Chakankar, Kirtika Nema, Neha Chouhan, Roopak, Abhinesh Malaiya, Pradeep Kumar, Rajul Gupta,Garima Garg, Praharsh Bhandari, Sonam Shrivastava, Gyanendra Tiwari, Swati Jain, Sunil K. Shah, Ramesh K. Shah, Rajesh K. Shah, Ram K. Shah.

Minutes:

The group discussed on the agenda as follows:

Dhunwani Flock: Members of the flock visited Dhunwani on 8th Nov to take forward the initiatives they started during the last camp. The subgroups of livelihood, education and health described their activities as follows:

• • Education - Rajul Gupta: Swans have taken he initiative of preparing the Std IVth and Vth kids of the village to appear in the Navodaya exam. Rajul also took a session for the children and found their weak areas. A Xth pass villager Chandan has been associated for this activity. Swans of the Education subgroup will visit Dhunwani every weekend to train the kids and direct Chandan what to do in the rest of the week. Chandan will be paid a salary to train the kids for 2-3 hours everyday. Rajul will share the Navodaya format and curriculum with his team members and Chandan.

  • Health – Sonam Shrivastava: According to the Survey done in the  last trip to Dhunwani village, Swans found that the villagers suffer from deficiency of calcium and iron, specially the woman folk. Hence, in the coming trips and visits, Swans will brief the villagers about their Diet and nutrition.  

  • Livelihood – Praharsh Bhandari: An area around the school has been identified to develop as a vegetable garden with a compost pit. In the next visit the area will be cleaned off weeds by the villagers. Swans will take vegetable seeds from Bhopal to sow them in quarries. A water track will be made from the nearby well to the garden. This well usually used for lifting drinking water always has spill overs. The spillovers will be routed to the vegetable garden through the track. Swans will also try to develop a water lifting and irrigation solution from the nearby canal using solar energy. This flock will undergo a training on water and soil sample collection by Indian Institute of Soil Science (IISC). In the next visit, the samples will be collected accordingly. After analysis of the samples by IISC, Swans will develop the area as per their direction.

Rural Education Plan: Swans is also intiating a project named parallel to the Navodaya model. Selection will be done from the    Navodaya entrance exam. The students in this project will be taught rural technologies, so that they can become resources for rural development. The project will be initiated in January 2010 and the first session would begin in June 2010.

ASI (Archeological Survey Of India) supported Heritage Flock: Swans is coming up with a new Flock called the HERITAGE flock with the help of the support of ASI.  ASI will train the flock on creating awareness on and conservation of Heritages. This flock will assist ASI in spreading the awareness among school students through visits and camps supported by ASI. The first such awareness will be done through an “Inter-school debate” to be organised in December 2009 followed by a 5 day camp from Dec 25-30. Tentative dates are:

• • Dec 6:        Orientation of the flock by ASI at one of the heritage sites.

  • Dec 20:      Inter School debate.

  • Dec 25-30: Heritage Camp with the selected students

Swans of this flock will accompany the school children for the 5-day camp, where Swans will educate and train the kids on the conservation of our heritage sites.

Mumbai SWANS: Description regarding the developments of Swans in Mumbai was given by Manisha Garg, which includes need assessment of NGO’s and approaching the various colleges and explaining the concept of SWANS through PPT’s.

Museum School Flock: The idea of running The Museum School as a Swans project is in progress. The flock decided to get trained by OASiS in the coming six months and initiate the project from the next session starting June 2010.

Friends of Forest: The Forest department has initiated a Friends for Forest group, and has invited SWANS to be a part of it. Swans has decided to form a Flock for the same and has requested the Forest department to allocate an area within the Ecological Park at Bag Mugalia. Forest dept will train the flock on plantation and care. This flock will develop the allocated area accordingly.

PEHAL:  Tentative dates for Pehal 2010 have been decided as 20-21 Feb 2010 and discussion regarding the theme, various events and activities to be organized is in progress through the Swans Connect link on the Swans website. It was decided to finalise the theme by 30 November 2009.

Swans can become a part of the new flocks as per their interest and convenience and inform the King and Queen Swan of their interest by writing to swans.bhopal@gmail.com.

MINUTES OF MEETING (11 October, 2009)

AARAMBH FLOCK

• Till now this flock used to visit the centres on Saturdays and Sundays. During the meeting it was decided that this flock will henceforth be made functional on all 7 days.

DHUNWANI FLOCK

• The Livelihood, Education & Health teams shared the discussions they had with the villagers during the 2 day camp.

• Certain tasks were decided which needs to be carried out during the next visit to Dhunwani by the flock members.

• It was decided that the SWANS would visit Dhunwani to monitor work every 15 days. 1 person each from livelihood, education and health team is required to be a part of the monitoring group for that visit.

PEHAL 2010

• Tentative dates of PEHAL 2010 have been decided to be 20th & 21st February 2010.

• The themes and events are yet to be decided. All swans & cygnets are requested to take part in the discussions which is being done on the SWANS forum regarding the theme and events. Please visit: SWANS CONNECT for the same.

FRIENDS OF FOREST

• A new flock is being formed which will be a part of “Friends Of Forest” which is an environment based Flock, details of which can be accessed @ http://www.bhopalforestcircle.org/Revised-Frieneds.doc . Friends Of Forest will be having its meeting on the first Sunday of every month. The next meeting for this flock will be held on 1 November at the Ecological Garden, Katara Hills. Those Swans who are interested in joining this flock are requested to send in their names to swans.bhopal@gmail.com.

MINUTES OF MEETING (13 September, 2009)

AARAMBH FLOCK

• The old flock has been dissolved and three new flocks have been created with the flock member lists as follows:

1.Bajaria: Himanshu(flock leader), Gaurav Arya, Mayank Arora, Pushpraj Patel, Vikram Shrivastava, Laxmi narayan Patel.

2.Kabaadkhana: Abhishek(flock leader), Dilip, Vijay, Shrey, Suyash.

3.Ayodhya Nagar: Harshit(flock leader).

PARVARISH FLOCK

• A new time-table will be made by the Flock Leaders for the Museum School & 10th flock which the volunteers will have to follow from now onwards.

DHUNWANI FLOCK

• Some of the problems existing in Dhunwani (Forest Village) were discussed and some suggestions were made by the volunteers. These include:

1.Water Problem: Though Dhunwani has a very good ground water level, the availability of drinking water is not up to the mark. Hence measurements for betterment of well, hard water treatment methods and collecting water samples (for analysis) were thought of as the initial steps.

2.Education: Awareness about child education and the right way to implement it in real life needs to be done. Preparing children for Navodaya School’s admission test was also proposed.

• It was also  proposed that the  SWANS  create awareness about malaria / dengue, cleanliness, education  (both children and adult) etc. through Nukkad  Natika which will be performed during the tribal festival at  Neelgarh  on 1st October (night). A group was formed for the same.

• To implement our strategies we require a map of the village. The mapping of  Dhunwani would be done during the Dhunwani Camp (1st October – 3rd October).

DHUNWANI CAMP

• The contribution money for the  "Dhunwani Camp"  has been decided to be Rs. 300, which takes care of the food requirements, tent house and the half of the travel expenses for the trip.

MINUTES OF MEETING (09 August, 2009)

ATTENDEES: Garima Garg, Abhishek singh Rathore, Harshit Vyas, Piyush Gupta, Saurabh Mukherjee, Madhur Tiwari, Himanshu Kalra, Anuvrat Chaturvedi, Suyash Trivedi, Vikram Shrivastava, Laxmi Narayan Patel, Mayank Arora, Dilip Chainani, Vijay Singh Bhadoria, Gaurav Arya, Push Raj Patel, Shrey Jain, Shivangi Mittal, Shashank P. Sai, Anjali Jain, Divya Sharma, Jyoti Soni, Aradhna Sharma, Swati Jain, Sonam Shrivastava, Kanika Tyagi, Varsha Verma, Rajeev Verma, Himanshu Saxena, Praharsh Bhandari, Subodh Agrawal, Gaurav Lara, Gyanendra Tiwari, Abhijeet Shrivastava, Rajul Gupta, Paras Sahni, Manisha Garg, Shibani Ghosh, Ashish Nair, Bhavesh Deshmukh

 Minutes: The following issues were discussed in the meeting held on 09th of August:

·     SWANS volunteers agreed to the idea of taking Museum School (parallel to PARVARISH) as a separate project of SWANS.

·     To make the AARAMBH flock heterogeneous, volunteers/members from multiple institutes were invited to visit the AARAMBH centre at Ayodhya Nagar By-Pass. The following people have shown interest to visit the centre:

Vijay Singh Bhadoria, Dilip Chainani, Gaurav Arya, Mayank Arora, Laxmi Narayan Patel, Vikram Shrivastava, Suyash Trivedi, Anuvrat Chaturvedi, Madhur Tiwari, Pushpraj Patel, Shrey Kataria, Himanshu Saxena, Swati Jain, Divya Sharma, Shivangi Mittal, Anjali Jain.

The meeting point was decided to be Chetak Bridge, in front of Jyoti Cineplex on 14th August at 1:00 pm. Abhishek Singh Rathore, Harshit Vyas, Himanshu Kalra and Saurabh Mukherjee will be accompanying the group.

·     A tentative date for organizing PEHAL 2010 was decided. It may be held during the first or second week of February. The final decision regarding the dates will be made in the next meeting.

·     Those SWANS and Cygnets who wish to register themselves for the 3 day, 2 night camp at Neelgarh & Dhunwani (Ratapani Sanctuary) may do so by sending your Name, Address and Contact No to swans.bhopal@gmail.com latest by 15th September.

All Swans can participate in the camp. Those cygnets who would have completed 7 days of their assessment period till 30th September 2009 can also register themselves for the camp. The details of the camp will be announced later and groups formed from among the registered participants for organising the camp

·     The volunteers have approved of the idea of having a SWANS T-shirt. The cost of T-shirt (cloth and printing) will be notified in the next meeting. 

MINUTES OF MEETING (25 July, 2009)

Attendees:   Pradeep Ghosh, Garima Garg, Bhavesh Deshmukh, Harshit Vyas, Praharsh Bhandari, Abhishek Singh Rathore, Ram Jaiswal, Avan Shrivastava, Paras Sahni, Kanika Tyagi, Mohini Verma, Rajul Gupta, Subrat Goswami, Anjali Jain, Swati Jain, P.Sai Shashank, Abhijeet Shrivastava, Vijay Singh Bhadoriya, Shivangi Mittal, Ankita Rawat, Divya Sharma, Priyanka Sahu, Sonam Shrivastava, Shibani Ghosh, Subodh Agarwal, Ekansh Nigam

Minutes: The following issues were discussed in the meeting held on 25th of July:

• Dhundwani Flock: A trip has been planned in the month of October to Dhundwani village, which will be a 3 day, 3 night camp. The members interested so far are: Divya, Sonam, Ankita, Shivangi, Vijay Singh Bhadoria, Abhijeet Shrivastava, Shashank, Anjali Jain, Swati Jain, Mohini Verma, Rajul Gupta, Ram Jaiswal, Avan Shrivastava, Harshita Vyas, Abhishek Singh Rathore, Bhawesh Deshmukh, Pradeep Ghosh, Garima Garg, Ashish Nair, Chanchal Gaur, Paras Sahni, Kanika Tyagi

• Aham Bhumika- Project for collection of old toys: Some collection points were decided in different areas where the volunteers can store the toys or things collected by them. One such point is in Ayodhya Nagar. Further information will be provided as soon as all the points will be decided.

• 10th class flock: Kanika Tyagi(10th Class, Flock Leader)floated information regarding the need for volunteer's to teach (specially ECONOMICS) to Lakhan-The 10th class Student. Till monday i.e. 27/07/09 a time table will be made after consulting Mrs. Shibani Ghosh(Parvarish).Also if their are SWAns/Cygnets interested in joining the 10th Class Flock, they are requested to contact the Admin Flock.

•  Digdarshika: As circulated earlier, the volunteer requirement is a group of 25-30 Swans, Some have already given their names.As soon as Subodh Agarwal(Need Assessment Flock Leader) will fix up a date with this particular NGO, Swans will start their work in this grove too.

MINUTES OF MEETING (28 June, 2009)

Attendees:   Dr D P Sharma, Ms Ratna Mukherjee, Mrs Shibani Ghosh, Mr.Pradeep  Ghosh, Mr. Subrat Goswami, Garima Garg, Bhavesh Deshmukh, Neha Vijay, Ashish Nair, Praharsh Bhandari, Subodh Agrawal, Tanmoy Shrivastava, Himanshu Saxena, Paras Sahni, Kanika Tyagi, Mohini Verma, Sonam Shrivastava.

Minutes: The following issues were discussed in the meeting held on 28th of June:

• Mr. Subrat Goswami introduced an NGO named "AHAM BHUMIKA" to SWANS for which sooner a flock will be made. Its need assessment was done in the meeting itself.

• Also, the village named "DHUNWANI" which Swans visited recently will be taken up as a project of SWANS and a flock will be created for this, too. The data collected from Neelgarh and Dhunwani will be entered and analysed. Following the analysis, the flock will plan an integrated solution for the village, discuss with Forest officials and implement it. Pradeep sir will guide the flock. Praharsh was made the Flock Leader for this flock.

• Dr D P Sharma said that Mr Anurag Shrivastava (IFS) known to Dr Sharma can help us in the project planning exercise for Dhunwani, and can provide help from his department.

• Shibani mam and Ratna mam would submit the requirements of their NGO named "WE" to the need assessment flock.

• The need assessment of DIGDARSHIKA would be done after 5th of July by the need assessment flock (Subodh, Flock leader) under the guidance of Pradeep Sir.

  • The document content for the Public Relations flock is being developed by Ashish and Ratna mam( Secretary, SWANS). This would be further given to the SWANS (Subodh, Avan and Ram) who start their internship at Madhya Advertising from 17th July onwards for developing a presentation.

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  • The assessment of swans now onwards would be done on the basis of the judgment criteria/parameters designed by XLRI, Jamshedpur and IIM Indore, as SWANS has received the combined methodology. 

• The PR Flock will start liaising with colleges. Trinity college has shown some interest and the PR group will fix up dates and time with them.

• Also, As discussed before, the RENEWAL of yearly membership and assessment of Swans will be done twice in a year, basically in the month of February and August as decided in todays meeting.

• Please note that from now on Parvarish is being held on Saturdays too.