Background

Nagar Shikshan Mandal was established in 1951, just after independence to start a school in the village Sindi (Dist. Wardha). The trust has following schools

1)      Kesarimal Nagar Vidyalaya Sindi (High School)

2)      Swargiy Sau Ramabai Vazurkar Nagar Kanishith Mahavidyalaya (Junior college)

3)      Matoshree Sitabai talatule Prathamik shala (Primary School)

4)      Academic and cultural academy (Opening soon to promote the sports and cultural activities as well as to support professional courses as per the New education Policy.

The Development in rural through education is the major aim of this organization. A vast potential lies dormant amongst the children in rural areas and providing basic amenities is necessity for the development. Realizing that rural children are ruefully deprived of quality education at primary level Nagar Shikshan Mandal decided to take education one step ahead and started non aided primary school and Science Junior College.

Our goals can be briefly stated as follows-

1.      To initiate village children to literacy and education right from pre-primary level .

2.      To achieve this through intense participation of local village residents, educated up to 12th grade and perquisite qualification and empower them by special training , so that they create among children a lifelong interest towards education and self-development.

3.      To promote all-round personality development of rural children. Although most of the schools would give stress on the curriculum, trust believes that at this age all round personality development is needed in areas like sports, arts and cultural activities. This has always been kept in ethos of the schools.

4.      To accelerate the process of social change in the rural ethos with children as the catalysts.

There has been a steady growth of our activities over last 65 years considering the fact that the organization did not get any special funding and only local people donated to sustain this school. Major achievements could be pointed as follows.

·   The middle school and high school established by our organization has become as one of the major schools in this area, So far about 10,000 village children have received training.

·   We have started junior college about 35 years back to provide quality education for the village children. The situation faced by student in the village was again the same which was faced in 1951. Many students were not able to complete their education beyond 10th standard in the village. This junior collage is now established as a major collage for many students in the local area in science also. The junior college for science has also been introduced about 10 years back. This facilitated large number of local students who had to otherwise take admission in remote places to pursue the science stream in their junior colleges. This was especially a problem for girl students in the villages and as a result they were not opting for

science stream. But several girl students now could opt for science stream and continued their education in science, engineering and information technology.

·   The Information Technology Laboratory is catering to all junior college students who opt for It as elective in their curriculum.

Some of the salient features of these activities are as follows.

·   This school and college has also resulted in employment for many people in rural area.

·   Since Trustees knew that the school has to operate in rural area which has large mass of poor people, no donation has been taken for the admission in the school. This is followed strictly till to date.

·   Trust works strictly on the non profit basis and do not keep surplus cash other than required for the day to day running of the schools and present plans.

·   School is also engaged in various social educational activities and has made impact at local level and also on satellite villages near to Sindi.

In this report we are summarizing some of the representative activities, which school has organized in last three years apart from regular teaching learning activities.

1.      ATAL Laboratory

The Niti Ayog, Government of India has started this big ambitious project ATAL labs. We are very proud that our school Kesarimal Nagar Vidyalaya is recipient of this prestigious gran. This among the few schools in the district. tWith a vision to ‘Cultivate one Million children in India as Neoteric Innovators’, Atal Innovation Mission, an initiative of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), Government Of India, is establishing Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATLs) in schools across India. Our staff worked towards the objective of this scheme, which is to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in young minds and inculcate skills such as design mind - set, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing, rapid calculations, measurements etc. Young children have got the chance to work with tools and equipment to understand what, how and why aspects of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).

The school got the financial support from GoI and we also provided necessary infrastructure for the project. In order to foster inventiveness among students, several activities were organized with this facilities including the camp for robot making organized with the help of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.

2. NSS activities

National Service Scheme, Popularly known as NSS is an extension of activities to the higher education system to orient the student youth to community service while they are studying in education institutions, under the aegis of Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of India.

A NSS volunteer who takes part in the community service programme would either be a college level or a senior secondary level student.

Various activities were organized under this scheme and some of them are listed below.

i)       Help to families of Covid-19 affected pateints: About 250 families in sindi railway and villages nearby. were supported under this program. They were given food and other items and

ii) Tree plantation. Around 250 trees were planted in and around Sindi.

iii)   Cleaning of the areas near railway station.

iv)   Street play with theme of importance of water

v)      The martyrs were remembered on Kargil day 26th July.

vi)   Management of pilgrimage at Dhaga village.

vii) The seven day Shramdaan camp was organized for a voluntary contribution by the teachers and students. Street plays and other activities were arranged around the themes like on various social issues including but not limited to water conservation, preservation of diversity in nature. The camps were held at smaller villages so that students also learn about the staying independently in different environment.

Following are the typical activities which are organized by the schools in academic sessions.

3. Student Gathering:

Every tear student gathering is arranged will all the activities such as sports and drama, science exhibition and other activities. Local patrons have instituted prizes for academic achievement and those are also distributed as a part of gathering. Parents are also invited to attend some of the functions.

4. Teachers –Parents Meeting:

Every Year teachers and parents meeting called to discuss various issues. Parents association has been formed and all parents are given the details of the results, and other activities in the school. Feedback of the parents are recorded ad action taken on this feed back is discussed with officials of the parents’ association.

5. Meeting of Head Masters association

All the headmasters of Seloo taluka were invited to discuss the issues regarding administration and academics of the local schools. Master plan was made to have collaborative efforts to ensure the progress of all the schools in the Taluka. This occasion was also used to plant trees in the surrounding areas and school.

6. Literacy Campaign

International literacy day has been celebrated with enthusiasm and rally was organized. Teachers and students encouraged local citizens to take part in the rally and many of them took part in the rally.

7. Sant Gadgebaba Sanitation Campaign.

In this campaign teachers and students cleaned the surrounding areas in the town. Importance of cleanliness and teaching of Sant Gadgebaba was told to citizens. On the last day of the week rally was organized to emphasis the importance of sanitation. Students also gave talk on these issues and life of Sant gadgebaba.

8. August Revolution day.

In the remembrance of the    national activist such as Saradar Patel, Maulana Azad and Queen of Zanshi, rally was organized in the town. Students took part in the rally along with teachers.

9. Blood Donation Camp:

In the remembrance of Late Mr.Babasaheb Talatule, Formal Charman of trust, bolld donation camp was arranged. Apart from the teachers and students about 80 citizens of the town had taken part in the camp.

10.    Awareness of AIDS:

The rally had been organized in the town with banners depicting the consequences of AIDS and what precautions should be taken.