Asha Meeting

14 May, 2006                       

 

Attendees: Anita, Sanjeev, Gaurav, Santhosh, Anitha, Sandhya, Arvind, Syona, Ram, Vivin, Murali

 

BJSA (Bharatiya Jan Seva Ashram)

 

Gaurav gave background of the project.

 

BJSA works across 90 villages, they work on awareness programs, work on rights and also runs many schools. One of the school

 

Q: How are the children doing?

A: From Vallabh and Anita and SanjeevÕs visits we understand that the children had been doing well.

 

Q: How about the finances?

A: Vallabh will follow up with the finances and go over them.

 

Please look at Q & A prepared by Gaurav.

 

- Addition of Rs. 10000 for teacher training 4 teachers 10 days. Sahabag Shiksha Kendra at the teacher training.

- Present strength 57-> ~100. The number 100 is based on feedback of teachers.

- Most of them are children of laborers.

 

Q: There is a private school and there are children going to the school now, will the same children who will come to this school now.

 

Q: How many kids are not going to school now?

 

We will require the database (backend) for maintaining the SAC programs Arvind, Vivin and Gaurav to work on this database.

 

 

Coordinator the different activities.

 

Q: New teachers and old teachers being paid the same?

A: Training period will be the same and will be paid Rs. 200 lesser.

 

The office is in the main town and not in the village.

 

Medical expenses of children who fall sick Rs. 300-400.

 

Q: What is the PHC access to the area?

 

Q: How many students are in 4th grade and what will they do next?

Q: What will the kids do next after the school there stops?

 

Q: ASS also medical setup Ð Arvind.

 

Nandlal Fellowship

We went over the answers to the questions we had asked before.

Vote: Unanimous.

 

Right to Education

Draft version of the bill that implements Article 45 (change of constitution to include elementary education as a fundamental right is available). The bill is presently open to public for feedback.

 

There are also many articles (critiques) and other documents (stats, info on other forms of education, etc) and we need volunteers to read the documents and discuss to give feedback.

 

Since the bill may require significant effort these will be in separate meetings and will be inclusive of all groups that are interested in education Ð so far vols from AID and Vibha have expressed interest in participating in discussions.

 

The following people volunteer for reading documents

-     Santhosh

-       Ram

-       Sanjeev

-       Gayathri

-       Murali

-       Anita