Details of SIIRD, IIT Roorkee

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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: [email protected]

Mobile No. +91-9410511537

Guided By:

Prof. V.K. Nangia

Head of Department,

Management Studies

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

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