A daylong orientation-cum-teaching workshop for the officers of National Service Scheme on rural community participation was held at Rabindranath Tagore University on Wednesday.
This workshop was organised in collaboration with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Education Council, Hyderabad, Higher Education Department, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
In this workshop, as many as 40 professors belonging to MSW, Sociology, Education, Life Sciences, Management, Commerce had participated. The main purpose of the workshop was to let the NSS officers understand and solve the problems of villagers by taking the community together.
Various activities were held in five groups in this workshop. These groups have conveyed the problems of the village. Going to the village, the groups gave detailed information about the problems of electricity, water, education, traffic and communication in rural areas. Community participation is extremely vital for most of the rural areas to solve these problems.
At the beginning of the workshop, Professor of Rabindranath Tagore University, Prof. A Gwal said that the communal participation is an vital tool for change in rural society. With the help of this workshop NSS officers and rural communities will work together in rural areas. NSS officer Rekha Gupta presented the schematic of the workshop. 40 participants also shared their thoughts.
Various sessions of this workshop were addressed by Khyati Dhurvi, Programme Coordinator, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Education Council, Hyderabad. In the workshop G Seth, Former Programme Officer NSS, Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Anupama Pandey, Shubham Chauhan, University of NSS Officers, students, heads of different departments were present. The programme was conducted by Virendra Dhir.