Browsing by Author "Shivprasad"

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    Reforming Bihar’s Public Education System
    (MICA, 2018) Sarkar, Roopkatha; Basu, Samprit; Shivprasad
    20% of the habitation in India has a secondary school. 60% of the schools have less than two teachers each. 76% of the students drop out of school before tenth grade. 27% of 14-18-year old can perform a simple division problem. EdJustice is a unique people’s campaign completely run by volunteers who are deeply involved in the effort to rejuvenate the public education system. Begun and now functional in Bihar, this initiative by Mr. Sanjay Kumar who was a former student and resident of Katihar, Bihar is focused on that region and other neighboring areas. Edjustice’s campaign Bihar Jan Shikha Yatra is aimed at spreading awareness and creating a movement. The People’s campaign is divided into three phases:
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    Rural Immersion project : Vrutti Foundation
    (MICA, 2020) Jain, Aditya; Verma, Ananta; Gundale, Mansi; Pandit, Shaurya; Shivprasad; Jain, Shubham
    Vrutti is a non-profit social enterprise, founded in 2002 and is committed to find solutions to end poverty, marginalisation and create wealth and build resilience for small producers and farmers. It follows a holistic and long term approach (including financing, distribution, training and go to market support) helps small producers grow their way out of poverty and uncertainty and to be 3 times more profitable and to build lasting pathways to prosperity. It offers a complete bundle of services, using a market-based model that helps our organization remain financially sustainable and expand to reach more and more farmers every year. It serves smallholder farmers/ small producers, with a Farmers First approach. Services include capacity building, institutional building, financial & market linkages, training on good practices in agriculture, soil, water and livestock. Vrutti encourages farmers to produce and move towards responsible farming ,using sustainable inputs and practices and therefore ‘model’ its approaches, ‘cost’ them, and ‘integrate’ them to be adopted by communities or market or public policy.