Dear All, Thanks Shiva for this mail. I was fortunate to see the whole operation in action when I went to Krishnagiri (to initiate a Public Private partnership by NASSCOM for Rural BPO projects) which keeps track of all the students attending school. The Collector explained how the volunters go to the child's house when he does not turn up to school. To ensure that the students come regularly, all the basic needs of the family are first met and students attend a transit school first before they slowly enter the mainstream education. It is indeed a good model to follow. Constant monitoring and tracking ensures the success of this project. Krishnagiri, declared as one of the most backward districts in Tamil Nadu, is in fact setting a shining example in another area too - Rural BPO. Below is a link on the latest partnership of Fostera with Fostera, a rural BPO organisation promoted by the District Administration of Tamil Nadu with Adventity. http://www.bpotimes.com/efytimes/fullnewsbpo.asp?edid=27061 | Monday, June 16, 2008: Adventity has partnered with Fostera, a rural BPO organisation promoted by the District Administration of Tamil Nadu, to set up a rural BPO in Krishnagiri. Fostera will provide the infrastructure for the new facility, whereas Adventity will provide end-to-end training of the resources for the pilot batch of hires. Adventity will provide work related to voice and non-voice operations to be executed by Fostera. | The new centre is expected to carry out data conversion activities and is expected to employ around 100 people initially. The company is also looking at setting similar centres in other 'B' class cities in India in the long run.
Kumar Subramanian, chief executive officer, Adventity, said, "Our partnership with Fostera will provide us with access to talent and infrastructure in semi-urban areas like Krishnagiri and many more such regions in India. This region remains fairly untapped and gives us an opportunity to provide employment to the youth of Tamil Nadu. We are delighted to have been chosen by Fostera to launch this BPO unit." |
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From: Shiva Pas <shivapas@yahoo.com>
Subject: [India_Vision_2020] Krishnagiri offers a new lifeline to dropouts
To: india_vision_2020@yahoogroups.com, bangaloreteam2020@yahoogroups.com, indiasudar-ka@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 4:48 PM
| | Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu is setting an example in tackling primary school dropouts. With the help of technology and nearly 10,000 volunteers, the district is getting the dropouts back to school. Using software aptly named, back2school, developed by Chennai-based Arbiter, the district administration monitors each schoolgoing child daily. And the results are showing: 8,000 of the 8,867 school dropouts are back in school. The project is the brainchild Krishnagiri' s district collector Santhosh Babu. Every time, a school reports a child abstaining for even a day, a reminder pops up on Babu's computer. Immediately, the root of the problem, which is usually family debt forcing children to work, is analysed and sorted out so that nothing comes between the children and their education. A major success story is in Undiyalnatham, a remote village from where 25 children missed classes for a good part of the year. On enquiry, it was found that these children belonging to the Irular tribe worked as 'watchmen' in Andhra Pradesh, which has been their livelihood for generations. These 25 children, the first generation of their tribe to get formal education, are now back in school. The method is simple. Every time a child is absent, the class teacher reports it to the headmaster, who in turn reports this to a volunteer, who then updates the collector's office through a computer in the local panchayat. This is how Babu gets the alert on his computer. Representatives of the NGO Sarva Siksha Abhiyan and the Unicef then solve the specific problems, which sometimes involve clearing family debt. The money comes from the district administration. The effort involves a 10,000-Village Volunteer Force (VVF) consisting of child volunteers, panchayat presidents and headmasters of the 1,700-odd schools in the district. "The VVF members will keep going around the villages and collect data about students missing from the classroom. The volunteer is picked from the same village so that she is familiar with the child's history," Babu said. He hopes to achieve 100 per cent attendance by the year-end. The objective is to ensure that every child in the district passes at least the 10th so that s/he will be ready to work in rural BPO centres. | | |
