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(iii) Organising & Attending State-National-International Seminars
(iv) Video Documentation of 100 Luminaries of Literature-Music-Theatre-Journalists
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-CSR Initiative-
Co-ordinated for CSR worth over Rs.150 Crores
these 3 laws were followed -
a. No Bureaucracy
b. No Red-Tapism
c. No Financial Handling
from Industry to College/Students
01. Cognizant - 12,500 Computers for 430 GFGCs. Total Worth more than Rs.30 Crores
02. Infosys - (i) 15,000 Computers for 14 Govt. Engineering Colleges & 88 Govt Polytechnics. Total Worth more than Rs.15 Crores
(ii) Springboard - Enrolled more than 3 Lakh Govt College Students
(iii) Train the Trainer - 8 days Workshop for over 500 GFGC Faculties in 10 batches at Mysuru & Mangaluru on Employability Skills. Total Worth over Rs.2 Crores
03. Rotary - Software's & Logistics for 27,000 Cs - to receive from MNCs, Installing Softwares, Repacking & despatching to 530 Government Higher Education Institutes. Worth over Rs. 3 Crores.
04. Wipro - (i) Santoor Scholarships - Economically Backward 1800 Girl Students of various Government First Grade Colleges received Rs.24,000 per year for 3 years. This is worth more than 10 Crores
(ii) Work Integrated Learning Program (WILP) - 100s of GFGC Students got selected to pursue MTech from BITs, Pilani & VIT, Vellore along with Job Guarantee. They also received, together, more than 16 Crores of Stipend during their Course.
05. ICICI Foundation - Free Job Training for 72 days along with Food & Uniforms & Guaranteed Job Placements for over 1,500 Government First Grade Colleges. Project Worth over Rs.15 Crores
06. Unnati Foundation - 100 hours of Soft skill inhouse Training in over 100 Govt First Grade Colleges. Trained over 10,000 Students.
07. Unacademy - for 12,000 Students of GFGCs, one year online Unacademy Plus Subscription Free. Online Test were conducted thrice at an interval of 6 months each. Wherein more than 2.5 Lakh students enrolled for Tests. Project Worth over Rs.20 Crores
08. TCS - Free Job Trainings & Placements to GFGCs & Govt. Engineering Colleges. 1,000s of Students were Placed apart from TCS in various MNCs
09. Capgemini - Free Job Training & Placements for Govt Engineering Students
10. Indian Air Force - Conducted Workshops across Karnataka GFGCs in association with Indian Air Force Personnels. Brought awareness on Agniveers & Officers Recruitments.
11. India4IAS - Over 200 Placement Cell Officers/Principal's of 10 Districts of Karnataka were trained for various Government Jobs.
12. Yuva Unstoppable - Infra Development projects at various GFGCs.
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Pf Narayana Prasad A, Retd.,
Associate Professor & State Nodal Officer, Department of Collegiate
Education, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru
- is well known for establishing Placement Cells in 430
Government First Grade Colleges of Karnataka in India. He engaged in bring
awareness amongst rural students of Karnataka about Career after Degree. His work spanning across 3 decades. It
is heartfelt to note that even after his
retirement from Government Service, he still involved actively in bringing
awareness about various Jobs, both Government & Industry
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Even though he hails from
world renowned city Bengaluru, much of
his Government Service was in Rural & Deep Rural Colleges. It is in
deep rural Government Colleges, he felt there is a need to bring awareness
about Career after Degree for the College students.
Initially it started on a
casual note, but as the years progressed, started recognition especially
amongst College Students. This led to
the establishment of Job Information & Placement Cell or JIPC as it was
fondly called. No sooner students enter final year, to participate in JIPC
classes became part & parcel of the academic activities.
Initially, getting Industry
to Rural Colleges, especially Government Colleges, was an impossible task. This
is due to many reasons. On one end, Industries were getting skilled students at
Metro cities and on the other end, getting job ready skilled students in rural
areas was a challenge.
Pf Narayana Prasad A
attended Infosys Progeon trainings. Soon after this, started organising Special
Classes on Saturday afternoons and Sundays full day. Wherein, awareness was
brought on Interview Skills viz., Analytical Skills, Communication Skills,
Basic Computer Knowledge, HR Interview Skills, etc., and also trained.
These trainings were well
documented and shared amongst Industries. This attracted major MNCs viz., Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Accenture etc., and they started
visiting rural Government College for Campus Drives. In a span of a decade,
1000 of students were trained without expecting any monitory benefits. And 100s & 100s of students got placed
in all major MNCs as well in Government Organisations.
This was noticed by the
Commissioner, Department of Collegiate Education(DCE), Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru.
Commissioner brought him to the Head
Office as Nodal Officer for the entire State, with an intention to
implement the Placement Cells in all the 430 Government First Grade Colleges of
Karnataka. This was a Great Honour. by
then, DCE had completed 55 years of this establishment wherein nearly 3 lakhs
students were studying in Government Colleges, and Placement Cell was not made
Compulsory. There was no program on guiding Degree College students about
Career after Degree. They were thought Academic and left high & dry in
choosing and preparing for a better Career.
As per the Government
Policy, Commissioners were changed every now & then. But Pf A Narayana
Prasad spared there not only in establishing Placement Cells but also, guiding
& Implementing. To do so, he
travelled more than 45,000 KMs across every district of Karnataka, organised
100s of Workshops for both Professors & Students to bring awareness
about the importance of Placement Cell for a College and best students can get
benefit out of it. As there was no TA/DA provision to pay for his travel, he
spent on many a times, his personnel earnings. A high level Social Cause implementation.
This resulted in 1000s of Rural Government First Grade College degree students getting selected to various jobs, both Government & Industry.
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Pf Narayana Prasad A also involved in the following CSR Activities.
1. During Covid Pandemic, there was a
challenge to provide all basic amenities including Computers to 430 Government
Degree Colleges, 88 Government Polytechnics and 14 Government Engineering
Colleges of Karnataka. In all, 532 Government Higher Education Institutes.
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Coordinated
with Cognizant in providing 12500 Computers
free of cost. These Computers were debonded. Hence, coordinated with Rotary
in procuring Softwares from Microsoft, installing them in all the 12,500
computers and finally repacking & despatching to all the 430 Government
First Grade Colleges of Karnataka. Thru out COVID Pandemic 1 & 2, worked
both at Office & on-field. This was done without any bureaucracy hurdle and
any financial transaction.
Similarly, coordinated with Infosys in providing 15,000 Computers free of cost.
These Computers were debonded. Hence, coordinated with Rotary again, in
procuring Softwares from Microsoft, installing them in all the 15,000 computers
and finally repacking & despatching to all the 88 Government Polytechnics &
14 Government Engineering Colleges.
Together it is
12,500 + 15,000 = 27,500 Computers. Even if it is assumed that each of these
Computers cost Rs. 20,000/- each, then 27,500
x 20,000 = 55 Crores Rupees
Impact - Finally coordinated with all the 532 Government Higher Education Institutes in establishing Computer Labs. Now all the Government HEIs have Department-wise Computer Labs. And because of the availability of Computers, Bachelor of Computer Science and other Computer Courses were stated in more than 150 Government HEIs, especially in rural areas. This is helping rural students in getting Job Oriented Degree Courses at rural areas itself. They need not to reach out to District Headquarters.
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2. Poor rural Girl Students, with an
aspiration of pursuing Higher Education do join Government First Grade
Colleges. Even though, Fee is very less or almost free in Government HEIs,
still these Girls face financial hardships viz., for Books, Dress, Lab fees,
Study Tour, Internet Data, travelling etc.,
(a) Coordinated
with Wipro in providing Scholarships to these Girl students thru Wipro Santoor
Scholarships. Under this scheme, selected Girl students get Rs. 2,000/- per
month thru-out completion of their Degree course of 3 or 4 years. If it is 36
months’ course, then Rs.2000/- x 36 =
Rs. 72,000/-.
In a span of few years,
nearly 1500 Girl students were identified and scholarship amount was sent
directly to the Girl’s Bank Account. In other words, 1500 Girls x Rs. 72,000/- each = 10.08 Crores.
Impact -Rural Girl Student who generally deprived of many things including a decent dress, to pay Lab Fee, Education Tour, University Fee, internet data - to purchase books, pen, pencil etc., With this scholarship, both Girl student as well as Parents of over 1500 these Girls are economically benefited.
(b) Coordinated with Wipro for
WILP (Wipro Integrated Learning Program). Science Students who get selected
under this program, will get an opportunity to pursue MTech., from BITs,
Pilani. Entire fee sponsored by Wipro
and also students get Rs.8 to 9 Lakhs as stipend & other benefits
during the entire course period.
More than 200 Government Colleges students got selected. In other words, the stipend they received totally will be approx. – Rs.8 Lakhs x 200 = Rs.16 Crores
Impact -Rural Economically backward Students who wouldn't have dreamt of pursuing MTech/MS from Top 10 Engineering Colleges of India, became possible. Also, on their way of reaching Top IT Positions earning 5 to 6 figure Salaries.
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3.
When the Placement Cells were
established in all the 430 GFGCs, for the first time in its 55 years of
establishment, there was a need to train the Placement Cell Officers first.
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Coordinated
with Infosys in providing training to these Placement Cell officers of Government
Colleges of Karnataka. As a general rule, a Professor from each colleges has
been designated as Placement Cell Officer. It is additional work along with
Academic Work with no extra allowances. Hence Training them at Infosys was very
important. These training will them to know more about Industry, Its
requirements, its etiquette, expectation from students and present world job
scenario.
10 batches training was arranged at Infosys Mysuru & Mangaluru. Each batch contains 50 Faculties. Duration of 8 days. Totally 500 faculties were trained and launched Placement Cell program
Impact - for the first time in the 5 to 6 Decades History of Department of Collegiate Education, Government of Karnataka, Placement Cells were established in 400+ GFGCs to benefit over 3 Lakh students. Over 500 + Placement Cell Officers were trained in large scale. This in-turn resulted in Strengthening the Placement Cell Activities, benefiting 3 lakhs students.
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4. Degree students, especially
Government Degree College students needed exposure on various subjects
including Career aspects viz., learning excel, doc files, PPT presentations,
Computer languages, Management, Science, Engineering, etc.,
Coordinated with Infosys in Implementing Springboard Online Education Program. This program provides 1,000s of online courses free of cost. This was propagated amongst all the 532 Government HEIs. Students were encouraged to learn courses online and be ready for Jobs. Nearly 3 Lakh students were enrolled from Karnataka.
Impact - 100s & 100s of them completed many many courses. Some even crossed 100, 200, 300 courses. Job Skill knowledge started flowing generating Job Ready Graduates.
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5.
Rural Degree students, especially Girls,
were in need of Job Trainings, free of cost. This is due to their Economic
background. These students had a dream to be trained at Bengaluru and followed
by a Job. All these without incurring any cost on coaching & getting Job.
Coordinated with ICICI Foundation in providing 72
days of free Job Training and followed by a Job Officer. Every batch of
30-50 were trained either in Administrative works or Marketing, as desired by
the student. Campaigning were done regularly. More than 1500 Government College students, including Girls, who
were interested in this type of Training and Job Offers, soon after finishing
their Degree attended these training in batches and everyone
were offered Jobs in various MNCs, Banks etc., without any financial
expectations or any obligations in return. Entire Project worth around Rs.15 Crores
Impact - Socio-Economic Impact started happening. Students, especially Girls from Rural Areas were uplifted thru Job Skilling resulting in Career of their own. Financial Independence was experienced by these Rural Students.
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6.
Many a times, Government College
Degree students in rural areas, need to be trained in soft skills at their
colleges itself. This is a big challenge. Without any monitory support from the
Government. The more you train these students in soft skills, the better work
force you can expect for industry.
Coordinated with Unnati Foundation in imparting 100 hours of Soft Skill training free of cost. This Program initially started in 5 Rural Government Degree Colleges, later expanded to more than 100 Government Degree Colleges across every region of Karnataka. Each batch consisted of approx. 30 students & training them every day for 3 hours, either before the College Academic Classes starts or after the Closure of these Academic classes. It was a challenge. Thru this program, we were successful in training a minimum of 10,000 students. Majority of these trainings happened in 100s of Rural Government Colleges across Karnataka.
Impact - An half-shoot training program. An unique effort to train the rural students in their colleges before the start of the College or after the completion of the College. Enhancing the Job Skills in them as well as Personality Development.
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7. Jobs were of two types. Government
Jobs & Industry Jobs. There was a need inform students about Government
Jobs. Any jobs for that matter, needs pre training. Every job will have a
Written tests followed by few more rounds of Interview. Every year, there were
lakhs of Government Jobs recruitment happens, both Central Government &
State Government. Also from Government undertaking organisations.
Coordinated
with Unacademy – an online portal, known for training students across India for
various Government Jobs. There were two issues – First, they do take fee to
train the students, Secondly, no financial assistance from Government. This is
Challenge. They agreed upon giving
12,000 students free of cost of training under CSR. Then the Question
arises, how to identify these many students from 3.5 lakhs studying in 430
Government Degree Colleges.
It was agreed upon to conduct an online test every six months.
The top 4,000 students get free access to the online premium portal of
Unacademy. They can choose any course from preparing for Civil Services of
central government or Karnataka Government Jobs or Bank Jobs or SSC Jobs etc.,
Every Six months,
nearly 2 Lakhs combined enrollment were
happening. 12,000 students were given free
access to worth of over 30 Crore online coaching facility.
Impact -
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8.
To encourage Government College
students for various Government Jobs, both Central & State and
undertakings, It is felt that the Faculties
who are heading Placement Cells have to be trained. In the absence of any
financial assistance from Government for all these, Private entities who can do
this under CSR were engaged.
Coordinated
with India4IAS Academy in organising one-day workshop for nearly 100 Government
First Grade Colleges from 10 Districts. Wherein, Retd., IAS
Officers trained these Faculties on various Government Jobs as well how to
guide the students, especially Rural Students.
These Colleges
are being provided with free Current
Affairs notes every day, in the past 2 years. The faculties have to read
this as well and most importantly, pass on to the students. All these free of
Cost.
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9. To bring awareness about jobs and train the Engineering Students of
Government Engineering Colleges, very few MNCs show keen interest. Even
though they can do it under CSR, the arrangements, logistic etc., takes lot of
time.
Coordinated with TCS, Capgemini in providing
in-house and online Employability Skill training. Followed by Campus Drive. The
basic aim, of course is to train them to face job interviews of any Industry. 1000s of Government Engineering students
were trained to be job ready at free of cost. Some of them were absorbed by
the Training MNCs itself, others were absorbed in various other MNCs.
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10. Very
less students are applying for Indian Air Force. Of many, one reason we thought
may be lack of awareness about various posts available in Defence Sector.
Coordinated with Wing Commander Office in Bengaluru, propagated across Karnataka Government Degree Colleges thru online web meetings as well arranging College visits by Indian Air Force Personnel’s.
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11. Infrastructure
is one of the main concern in the Government Degree Colleges of Karnataka. They
lack in good Toilets, Rest Rooms for Girls, Desks, Computers, etc., etc.,
Coordinated with Yuva Unstoppable in providing few infrastructure viz., Good Toilets, Rest Rooms, Labs, Good coat of Paint to the College Building, Providing shelter to Assembly Halls etc.,
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12. There was a need to Document Kannada, Hindi & English Litterateurs of Rural Areas. In the absence of was no effort from any organisation.
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https://napshindi.blogspot.com/
https://napsenglishlanguage.blogspot.com/
Started Kannada, Hindi & English Blogs, wherein many Rural as well Highly Acclaimed
Writers were interviewed at their places, video recorded and uploaded in
respective Blogs.
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13. Similarly there was a need to Document Theatre Personalities, Musicians, Journalists of Rural Areas. No organisation was making any effort to do this.
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https://napsmusics.blogspot.com/
https://napsjournalism.blogspot.com/
Started Theatre, Musics & Journalists
Blogs,
wherein many Rural Theatre Artists, Musicians, Journalists were interviewed,
and video documentation were made and uploaded in Blogs
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14. Neither there was Placement Cell not was there any
effort to guide the rural Young Degree students about Career after Degree.
https://dceplacementcell.blogspot.com/
Started training the students for Career after
Degree. And started an exclusive blog, wherein all the Photos/videos of the training
aspects were uploaded as well Job Information’s. Later Helped Department of
Collegiate Education also to start an Exclusive Blog related to Placement Cell
information’s, for the first time in its 59years of its Establishment.
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15.
There was absence of any Adventure Activities to the College Students. Students
should be exposed to Adventure Activities
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Started
Adventure Blog,
wherein documentation of all the Adventure activities viz., Trekking, Rock
Climbing, Rappelling, Parasailing, kayaking etc., were done, both Photos as
well videos.
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16.
Subject wise Blogs were good. But YouTube provided a space, wherein all these
Videos can be converged in one place.
https://www.youtube.com/user/napsanp
Started
a YouTube Channel decades back, started reaching everyone on this earth. Both Photos
& Videos were converted into short movie formats. Now there are over 1400 original contents, Over 3.4
Million viewers and over 17,000 subscribers.
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17. Many New Universities started recently in Karnataka. These Universities are struggling with many issues viz., Finance, Infra, Faculties etc., Students are rolling in to these Universities.
These PG students are in
need of Career after Degree/Post Graduation guidance. Hence, Now I’m coordinating with many of these
Universities of Karnataka in providing basic necessary Information’s on
Career after Education.
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18. Bengaluru North University is situated in Reserved Constituency. Where most Economically & Socially Backward people live. Here, but because of BNU, 1000s of them are pursuing Post Graduate courses.
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These PG Students have to be Skilled. Hence, MoU was done with IntrnForte Company. As per this, every month an online test will be conducted, and Top 20 students will be selected. These students will be given free access to Job Skill Portal of IntrnForte of their chosen Domain. This facility will be extended to 500 students in a period of 2 Years. The commercial cost of each is approx.Rs.5000.00. Hence, Rs.5000 x 500 = Rs.25 Lakhs CSR.
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19. It was also thought that the BNU PG Students were also be well aware & appear for various Government Jobs, both Central & State.
An MoU was done with INDIA4IAS organisation. As per that, they will provide Current Affairs Notes free of cost to all the PG Students daily. Also, a Monthly Test will be conducted based on this without any additional fee. Those students who show consistency in these Tests, will be recommended for Scholarships for 10 month Coaching for UPSC, KPSC etc.,
Most amazing part of this MoU is, this facility is being extended to all the 1 Lakh Plus Degree students from 290 BNU Affiliated Degree Colleges.
The Total cost for this exceeds Rs.50 Lakhs under CSR.
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20. Apart from Students, even Faculties were also in need of Skill Training.
Hence, collaborating with Infosys, till now 101 Faculties from various BNU Affiliated Degree Colleges have been trained at Infosys Mysuru, Mangaluru & Chennai.
These Trained Faculties in-turn, has to train a max of 100 Students of their College. This qualifies for Students visit to Infosys. Followed by, visit by Infosys Trainers to the college to further train and make them Job Ready.
Estimated Commercial Cost of training each faculty being approx. Rs.50,000/- x 101 Faculties = Rs.50 Lakhs under CSR.
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21. Need of Job Awareness.
https://www.youtube.com/@napsanp/videos
It was often seen that, there is a lack of prior knowledge of upcoming Jobs amongst College Students. Hence, efforts are on continuously to provide them Jobs awareness, both Central & State as well as Industry. Awareness about Jobs in few minutes accompanied by Website links, Advertisement Links are being provided free of cost & regularly.
In the past one year, over 100 Job Informations were provided.
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22. Extended Job Informations to other Universities
Apart from Bengaluru North University, now Job Information awareness is extended to Kodagu University, Chamarajanagara University, Nrupatunga University, Bidar University, Mangaluru University, Haveri University, Krishnadevaraya University, Koppala University etc., free of cost.
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23. Extension of Job Informations to Government First Grade Colleges
Job Informations are also provided to 430 GFGCs of Karnataka with 3.5 Lakhs Students free of cost
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24. Rain Water Harvesting is the need of the hour
Every Summer, scarcity of water is felt. Hence tied up with ICICI Foundation, Rain Water Harvesting is being commissioned in more than 12 Government First Grade Colleges & PG Centre, Kolar, as well 3 Aided Colleges, under CSR Project. Each College now have 2 Rain Water Harvesting plant with each of 5000 Liter capacity.
The Project costs over Rs.60 Lakhs
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25. Computer Lab establishment
PG Centre of Bengaluru North University, Kolar had more than 1000 Students studying Humanities, Science & Commerce. Only Computer Lab existed. Collaborated with ICICI Foundation in establishing a Computer Lab with 40 Computers free of Cost under CSR Project.
The Project costs over Rs.28 Lakhs
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26. Plantation for University Campus
A New Campus for Bengaluru North University is coming up in Amaravati, Karnataka. It is of 172 Acres. Collaborating with ICICI Foundation first in Fruit bearing & Medicinal Plantation of 20 Acres. As well as Bamboo Fencing for 172 Acres Land.
The Total Project Costs over Rs.25 Lakhs
---------------------Thanks for your observations ---------------
-------------------– Pf A Narayana Prasad.,------------------------
