Activities Undertaken

As our objective was to cover all the sections of the society, different programmes were kept for different sections of the village folks. The programmes were carried out in 8 panchayats one after another as given below:

Ä 3-days  programme for school going students

Ä 1 day programme for teachers and govt. servants

Ä 1 day programme for guardians

Ä 1 day programme for villagers

 

 

 

 

3 Days Programme for School going students

The objectives of this programme were to make the students aware about the role of values for a successful career and a happy life. Stories of great personalities pursuing human values were depicted to them from Puranas and history. Through this programme it was also stressed that a healthy body, refined mind and intellect with spiritual awareness is the key of a purposeful life.

Practical training was imparted as Yogasanas and different physical exercises to the students to keep them physically fit. They were also taught about the role of meditation in the life and practically demonstrated the method of concentration. Different competitions like recitation, music, essay and painting & drawing competitions were held to expose the students about our great cultural heritage and lives of the great people of India. To encourage the students, the winners were also awarded prizes at the end of these competitions. On the third day a transact rally was carried out by the students through the village street to make the people aware about the importance of value for the society in general and life of a man in particular.

The following activities were conducted in 3 days programme in each panchayat:

Ä Vedic Chanting

Ä Bhajans and Prayers

Ä Yogasanas

Ä Meditation

Ä Games were taught & practiced to enhance concentration, power of observation, memory power, power of communication, alertness and smartness

Ä Good qualities and how to acquire them

Ä What is citizenship and how one can be an enlightened citizen

Ä Values in Indian tradition and culture

Ä Audio visual programmes on Ramayan, Mahabharat

Ä How to inculcate good habits in ourselves

Ä Children were encouraged to enact incidents from the life of Sri Ramakrishna and Swamiji.

Ä Competitions (Recitation, speech and drawing)

Ä Transact Walk (Rally)

Ä Certificate and prize distribution

 

For the keen participation of the students breakfast and lunch was provided to students all through these 3 days in each panchayat.

A development can not be called a real development without values. Creating awareness on moral values and spiritual values will help to build a positive, harmonious society and responsible citizens which will propel social and economic development in the state and the country, it would make people aware of their rights, instill dignity of labour, build their self esteem on one hand; build character, personality with self-confidence, faith and shraddha on the other hand. Moreover total quality development is possible when society is enlightened with spiritual knowledge.

Ramakrishna Mission Ashram, Morabadi, Ranchi has been actively involved in the field of rural and tribal development, in the field of self-reliance, education, health, culture, social welfare and women empowerment for last four decades.

For sustainable development of quality and standard of living of the rural masses the Ashrama has initiated a powerful movement of moral value inculcation in each and every section of society in rural and tribal areas. This movement was initiated through a project called “Door to Door Value Education” in the year 2006-07 and was completed in the year 2007-08. This project has brought an immense change in the mindset of the people which reflects in their words and actions. To carry out this movement in an intensive way and involving people from A to Z sections of the society. We also conducted the programme, “Uplift the Morals of Prisoners” started in 2005-06 and completed in 2007-08 successfully. Realizing the necessity of promotion of moral values in rural and tribal areas, we started a programme in Angara Block of the Ranchi District under the name “Value Education Programme”. Now the programme is complete in 8 Panchayats covering about 30 villages.

Introduction:

The foreign invasion, exploitation and influence of the modern system of education brought by Lord Macaulay to build a team of loyal officers to British Empire, delusion created by the Western Culture on the educated masses of the country, globalization and industrialization and media programmes are responsible for the fast erosion of values in the masses of India.

According to Swami Vivekananda no other development like political, social, economical etc is possible without the spiritual and moral values. So the priority is to flood the whole society with moral values. The curse of lack of values, corruption, violence, unhealthy competition, lack of self-confidence, lack of mutual loving relation and selfishness has broken the backbone of the society. All sort of nervousness, worry, concern, apprehension, disquiet, fear is prevailing in the society of rural tribal villages is prevailing presently. The only remedy is to re-inculcate the human values in the society.

To be particular about Ranchi and its neighbouring villages, Divyayan has been continuously making efforts  to inculcate moral and spiritual values along with  its efforts in eradicating economical insecurities among the people of its adopted villages through its various activities meant for self reliance like on campus and off campus training programmes on agriculture and allied-subject, providing suited agricultural technologies and inputs, formation of village level organization, Kisan clubs and forming Self help groups for starting small enterprises with judicious exploitation of Natural Resources.

Our approach is always to achieve sustainable development which can be attained through development with values and ethics. We have never discouraged the economical development achieved through globalization but it must not change our value system and our culture.

Keeping all these things in mind this project was undertaken in an intensive way to cover all section of the rural society, especially the teachers, children, guardians and village folks. With our limited resources, it was decided to launch the programme in Angara Block of Ranchi district. The objectives of the programme are as given below:

Objectives:

Ä To inculcate moral values in school going students.

Ä To bring behavioral change in terms of hygiene in school students.

Ä To train the teachers and govt. workers about the role of values and ethics for creating a conducive atmosphere for students to bloom with values

Ä To bring awareness in guardians of the students about the role of values

Ä To orient the common masses about the values

Operational Area

Project Execution Methodology

Area and No of participant involved Area Wise

Number of students participated in 3-day programme (Panchayatwise)

1 day programme for guardians

A separate programme was organized for guardians in each panchayat. The aim of the programme is to aware guardians their role in inculcating values in their children and to create a conducive atmosphere for their children to lead a value rich life. It also aims at inculcating values at family level.  The following activities were undertaken under this programme:

Ä Vedic Chanting

Ä Bhajans and Prayers

Ä Meditation

Ä Classes on Responsibilities of Guardians towards their Family and children.

Ä Awareness about the values through the stories of Ramayan and Mahabharat

Ä Group Discussion

Ä Expectation of parents from their children

Ä Character building in children: when and how

Ä How to motivate children and create good tendencies (samskars) in them

Ä How to guide the children to lead a life with good human values

Ä Audio visual programmes on Ramayan, Mahabharata, Sri Krishna

Ä Question Answer Session

 

Lunch was provided to all participants in these programmes in each panchayat.

Number of Participant participated in 1-day programme for Parents and Guardians (Panchayatwise)

1-day programme for  Common Villagers

Aim of these programme is to cover all those who were not covered under above given 3 programmes. Our aim was to touch each and everybody of the operational area of the project. This programme was generally conducted during evening i.e. from 6p.m. to 9 p.m., so that people can attend the programme after returning from their daily business. This programme consisted of

Ä Religious discourse

Ä Value based play

Ä Audio Visual Programme

Ä Bhajans

Ä Exhibition on teaching of Sri Ramakrishna and life of Swami Vivekananda

This programme was conducted in 30 different villages of operation area of the project involving  6151 villagers

Number of Participant  participated in 1-day programme for  Common Villagers (Panchayatwise)

Value based play staged in the village

Value Education programme for common villagers

Value Education programme for common villagers

Audio Visual Programme for common villagers

Value based play staged in the village

Value Education programme for common villagers

Group discussion among guardians and parents

Prasad Partaken by the Parents and Guardians

Audio Visual Programme for Parents and Guardians

1 day Programme for Parents and Guardians

Prasad Partaken by Students

1 Day Programme for teachers and govt. servants

A separate programme was organized for teachers and govt. servants in each panchayat. The aim of the programme is to make the teachers realize that they are the builder of the Nation and they play an important role in establishing a happy, prosperous and harmonious society through educating children in values in addition to the secular syllabus of the school. Govt. servants and Siksha Samities were made to realize that corruption free and good governance can take a Nation to its highest level. The tools used here mainly the group discussions and debates.  The activities under taken are as given below:

Ä Vedic Chanting

Ä Bhajans and Prayers

Ä Meditation

Ä Classes on Moral Values

Ä Group Discussion

Ä Role of Teacher in building the Nation

Ä Role of Govt. village Siksha Samiti Workers in good governance

Ä Development of human values in students

Ä Problems and their solution in real life situation

Ä Debates on “Human values are essential for a good & happy life”

Ä Question Answer Session

Ä Lunch was provided to all the participants in these programmes in each panchayat.

Number of participants participated in 1-day programme for teachers and Govt. workers (Panchayatwise)

Group discussion among teachers

Meditation class for Teachers

Value Education class for teachers

Prize Distribution

Game to enhance concentration

Spiritual Discussion

Bhajan and prayer

Colouring and Drawing Competition

Essay Competition

Students Practicing Meditation

Students practicing yoga

Value Education Programme 2009-10

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