Donation from Rotary Indiranagar

President Prabhakar has graciously presented a Cheque for Rs 35000 as the contribution from the club for the Free SSLC coaching Scheme adopted by MRI VTI in 10 Govt Schools in East Taluk of Silicon Valley of Bangalore.

On behalf of the beneficiaries I deem a privilege to thank the President Prabhakar for the benevolence.

Meeting with Parents of SSLC Students

Mr Venkatesh, Headmaster of Government High School, Hoody, Bangalore, has taken a unique initiative to organize meeting with parents to partner with then in providing supportive environment to the children. On 18th Jan, we visited one such meeting. A total of 115 parents came for the meeting. Mr Venkatesh explained to them the purpose of Sunday special classes and the progress of children because of such classes.

We talked to many of those parents. They were really enthusiastic about helping their children take study more seriously and providing suitable environment at home. I should note that most of those parents are from economic lower strata and themselves illiterate. They are barely able to meet the ends. At the same time, they are committed to help their children for better future.

SSLC Tutorial on 11/01/09

Plan to include more schools in SSLC Project

Meeting of Dy Director of Public Instruction with Head-masters of Government High Schools in East Taluk

Date: Sunday 4th Jan 2009
Venue: Government High School, Hoodi
Time: 10am to 1pm

For the 1st time in many years, the Deputy Director of Public Instruction & Block Education Officer assembled on a bright Sunday morning on 4th Jan 2009 at the Government High School Hoodi to motivate the Head Masters to improve the result for the SSLC Exams. M/s Yashoda Bopanna DDPI & Mr. Nanjundaiah BEO, Rtn R. K. Makhija, Dr. Ansuya, Mr. Deepak & Rtn. Manish were welcomed by Mr. Venkatesh, District Level award winning teacher from Hoodi School.
By 10am the meeting was called to order. In all 14 head masters assembled. The audience was introduced to the activities of Makhija Rotary Vocational centre primarily for training of underprivileged & failed students in learning a skill and be self employed in 90 days. Later on the projecst of coaching SSLC students was added on in order to reduce the alarming rate of failures which stood at 60% each year. Since 3 years in a row, coaching for SSLC students is carried out on 14 Sunday mornings at their own schools with the help of dedicated Head Masters and Teachers. Year 2007-08 witnessed a further fall in the passes. But those who attended MRI Sponsored SSLC Coaching classes fared well.
Smt. Yashoda appreciated the activities of MRI and urged the headmasters to rise to the occasion & grab the golden opportunity to work ceaselessly and improve the results. These children of today are the further leaders of India and need the support at all levels. If just for 3 months they are induced and motivated to put in their best effort, they can reap the harvest by climbing the ladder to success or without our help they can become criminals and resort to unhealthy activities and be a nuisance to society. In her clarion call, Mrs Bopanna infused positive waves and beckoned the gathering to improve their skills and work hard to better the results. The HMs then set their own achievable targets and have vowed to perform and be accountable. She reminded that in the present setup the need of the hour is performers and complacent teachers and HMs could make room for performers. “The future of India lies in your hands and you need to awake, rise and stop not until the goal is reached”.
In the interactive session, she answered the problems faced by HMs and promptly assured them of assistance. There is a shortage of English Language teachers and qualified, experienced volunteers are invited to assist wherever feasible. Some of the schools have requested the Rotary to adopt their schools as well, as they need help. Presidents of Rotary Clubs of Whitefield, Jeevanbheema Nagar, Diamond District and IT corridor could take up these schools as they are in close vicinity to their areas.
Our Team with Rtn Manish Katyan, Major Deepak Iyer are ready and are willing to guide and assist where ever required for this cause of Literacy forCommunity Service.

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SSLC Tutorials on 09/03/08

Devasandra & G C Pallya schools

SSLC Coaching 2008-09

We are back !

	Let’ go! – Mr Makhija leading students to their 1st speciall class in Hoody School.
	We want to study. – Mrs Makhija getting 1st hand account from students of Hoody School.
We have started the SSLC special classes program for this year. On Sunday 14 Dec, we visited Govt High School Hoodi and Govt High School G C Pallya.
Govt High School Hoodi
In Hoody School, Mr Venkatesh started with taking 1st special class of Mathematics. A total of 130 students came for the class. We identified a bakery that would provide hot badam milk and distributed biscuits to the children. I would like to note that last year Hoody school had exception result (82% students passed) and was the top-performer in the district. Additionally 96% students passed in English which is an excellent achievement.
Govt High School G C Pallya
In G C Pallya school, the Head-mistress Mrs Bagum started the session with special class for English. A total of 105 students came for the class. Here we arranged for the hot badam milk from the same vendor that we had for the last year.

Free Medical Screening Camp at MRI

On march 20th, Free Medical checkup is conducted at MRI VTI, thanks to Dr. Devi Devaraj.

Today from 12.30 to 3.30 pm she single handed checked 41 students mainly girls and women who attended the classes during that period. She was assisted by Dr Ansuya and Rajaram.

The camp was very successful as it gave these students awareness of problems they have if any and some of them were not aware.

Medicines or tonics were prescribed where ever necessary.Some of them have been advised for follow up treatment.

The medical screening camp was appreciated by one and all with a request to have the programme quaterly so that awareness of their health condition becomes known to initiate follow-up.

- R K Makhija

             

Farewell of 10th Std students at Sir M. V. PUC College

Today, we were invited to a Farewell Function organized by the Management of Sir M Visweshwariah PU College at Airport Road for the students of Standard X who will passing out.The Secretary and Asst Sec of the Management were present along with all the teachers and about 130 out of the 180 students of the class.

The exams are scheduled from 31.3 to 5.4.08 for SSLC.

On this occasion, since Manish & Deepak were pre occupied, I invited Dy Director of Vocational Education Mr Ramachandra to come and introduce the Modular Employable Scheme initiated by the Government of India.

Speaking on the occasion he urged the students to put up their best in the remaining 15 days and make them selves and their parents proud by their performance which has been encouraged by the Rotary Indiranagar for the last 14 weeks. He expressed great satisfaction that such a novel scheme has been functioning at this school for the last 2 years and both the past Vice Principal and the current vice principals were praise for the self less dedication of Rotarians in helping these students.

Further, he explained how the GOI has presented this scheme and only those who attended classes regularly, could easily pass in the exams which are mainly practical, with 20% theory and 10% for the personality and presentation. They will be awarded Certificates for each course they study and will also get a refund of the Fees and Assessment fees paid.

The students were thrilled and welcomed the scheme and at least 50% of those present have shown interest to enroll before the 10the April 2008 because they know that they will be learning a skill during the holidays for Free. and have to spend only for traveling.

Mr K M Mallappa Reddy, Sec and Mr Appai Reddy, Jt Sec were all praises for the Rotary for their valuable assistance to the student community of their college. Photos will be coming shortly.

On 14-3-2008 Mr Nagaraj Murthy from the NCVT visited the MRI VTI and gave a briefing to the faculty members and cleared their doubts aout the assessment procedures.

- R. K. Makhija.

Teacher’s Take: Innovation in Education

	Mr Venkatesh Head-master, Government High School, Hoody, Bangalore
Innovation in education: We’ve compiled 200 mathematics formula, concepts and questions and distributed those to the students for practice. We’ve identified a group of 15 academically weakest students in the class and are paying special attention to them. Everyday, after regular classes, those students are given 1-2 hours of extra classes. During Sunday’s special classes, these students are taught from 8.30AM-6PM. We’re determined to get all of these students pass the SSLC exam.During Sunday’s special classes, all students are given test papers, based on last year’s exam, for practice. Students evaluate test copies of each other and give feedback. We’ve conducted Parents-Teachers meeting at regular interval to guide parents and get suggestions from them. This parents-teachers coalition is helping in improving students attendance.
MRVTI has played a big role in enabling us to work towards better future of students. The ‘Sunday’ tutorials, organized by them, is making qualitative change in students performance and we are seeing tangible results. Thanks to them.

Teacher’s Take: Expecting Better Results

	Mr K. H. Ramkrishna Reddy Vice Principle, Sir M. Vesvesvaraya Composite P. U. College, Koneagrahara, HAL, Bangalore – 17
For improvement of SSLC results, we’ve conducted special classes for 10th standard students from Jun 2007 – Dec 2007 from 9AM – 10AM everyday. From 3rd Jan 2008-13th Mar 2008 we are conducting group studies everyday from 9AM-10.30AM and 4.15PM-5PM. Study groups have been formed of 10 students and 1 teacher. In continuing our endeavor of helping students getting better results in SSLC, we asked MRVTI to help us through their tutorial programs on Sundays. These special classes started from Jan 1st week from 9AM-1PM. Along with the teachers from our school, volunteers from MRVTI have helped us in conducting these classes. Because of these special classes, and the earlier effort we did, we are expecting 75%-80% students would successfully pass the exam with good results.
Note that being a government-aided school, we give admissions to students who are mostly from economically weaker section. Not only this, we also give admission to students coming from Telegu and Tamil education medium. This makes our job really challenging and that’s the reason we need to put extra effort to make sure that students pass the exam with good results.