NON-FCRA PROJECTS: SCHEME OF JAN SHIKSHAN SANSTHAN

OBJECTIVES

1. To improve the occupational skills and technical knowledge of the neo-literates and the trainees and to raise their efficiency and increase productive ability;

2. To provide academic and technical resource support to Zilla Saksharata Samities in taking up vocational and skill development programmes for neo-literates in both urban and rural areas;

3. To serve as nodal continuing education centres and to coordinate, supervise and monitor 10-15 continuing education centres/nodal centres /nodal continuing education centres;

4. To organize training and orientation courses for Key Resource Persons, Master Trainers on designing, development and implementation of skill development programmes under the scheme of Continuing Education for neo-literates;

5. To organise equivalency programmes through Open Learning Systems.

6. To widen the range of knowledge and understanding of the social, economic and political systems in order to create a critical awareness about the environment;

7. To promote national goals such as secularism, national integration, population and development, women‟s equality, protection and conservation of environment etc.

FUNCTIONS

1. Identify appropriate target areas and target groups by developing socio-economic profiles.

2. Identify and procure the list of neo-literates from Zilla Saksharata Samitis and ensure that at least 25% of the clientele of JSS is neo-literates.

3. Organise training programmes for Key Resource Persons, Master Trainers and Trainees in vocational courses and for neoliterates.

4. Identify and ascertain a variety of educational and vocational needs of different categories of clientele groups.

5. Plan and organise polyvalent educational programmes and other activities including literacy, post-literacy, and continuing education to suit the learning requirements of target groups.

6. Explore, innovate, work out alternatives and try new methodologies to meet the needs of different target groups through programmes of education and training.

7. Cooperate with educational, cultural and other social organisations involved in organising programmes and activities to meet educational, vocational, social, cultural and welfare needs of target groups.

8. Act as a coordinator, facilitator and catalytic agent by developing a system of net-working in collaboration with other educational and technical institutions, development departments, welfare agencies, employers and workers‟ organisations, voluntary agencies and economic enterprises.

9. Undertake training and orientation of Resource Persons/instructors involved in planning and implementation of various programmes.

10. Organise equivalency programmes through Open Learning Systems.

11. Organize library and reading room facilities. The libraries will have literature suitable for neo-literates and sale counters for distribution of literacy material at subsidised rates to the neo-literates and other interested readers.

12. Provide consultancy services to agencies and enterprises planning to organise programmes for training and education of similar target groups.

13. Organise educational and vocational training programmes with special concern for deprived sections, women/girls and unemployed youth to provide new skills, refine/sharpen/upgrade the existing skills leading to employment, self employment and income generation.

14. Promote organisation of forums such as co-operative societies, mandals and associations of women, youth and workers with a view to undertake collective activity for socio-economic development.

15. Provide follow-up services to beneficiaries of the JSS.

TARGET GROUP

1. The Jan Shikshan Sansthan will concentrate on the socioeconomically backward and educationally disadvantaged groups of urban/rural population such as men, women and youth, employed, self-employed, neo-literates, prospective workers and their family members as well as unemployed youth.

2. Priority is to be given to adult neo-literates/semi-literates, SC and ST, women/girls, oppressed, migrants, slum/pavement dwellers and working children.

BUDGET

Rupees 35 Lac yearly.

TIME FRAME

Round The Year.