Chandrakant Singh is the new face of a patriot and a leader. With fire in his belly and a world class education, this man saw a crying need for education in his village and he did something about it. He has set up a school where kids get hands on as well as remote instruction via internet. The computers are run by generators as the village has no electricity and the internet must be wireless. Thanks to the drive and technical knowhow, the kids in the village are getting something they could not have otherwise.
We at Aam Aadmi, salute Chandrakant and his friends. Mother India needs true leaders like him and the kind who are born in the right families.
An interesting point in the article is that Chandrakant’s professor at IIT Mumbai, told him to “make a plan for revenue-generating, self-sustaining model instead of taking the charity route.” I find this suggestion very interesting. So while charity MUST not and SHOULD not be put aside, the suggested model by Prof. Surya Narayan has a great deal of merit. Charity does tend to breed complacency and instills a sense of superiority in the mind of the donor while instilling a sense of victimhood in the mind of the recipient. As it has been set up, the parents and the students can take pride in the school as something they have actually earned rather than received.
Ex-IITian starts world-class school in Bihar village
Madhuri Kumar,
PATNA: In a remote corner of the state, at Chamanpura village of Gopalganj district, a story is unfolding of unique enterprise and innovative methods in school education. Situated about 30 km from Gopalganj, this school, known as Chaitanya Gurukul Public School, was founded in 2009 by an ex-IITian, Chandrakant Singh, now based in Bangalore. Bereft of electricity till date, about 450 children, both boys and girls, are imparted lessons in physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer through Skype, video conferencing and Internet. Eight of Singh's associates, sitting in various corners of the world, have joined hands to teach children right from Class I to Class VII, through video-conferencing. Apart from distance learning, 16 teachers, who reside on the campus, are helping the students in their studies. Here, teachers mark their attendance using a biometric finger-printer and students too log their attendance in computers.
The article can be read at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Ex-IITian-starts-world-class-school-in-Bihar-village/articleshow/7419365.cms
We at Aam Aadmi, salute Chandrakant and his friends. Mother India needs true leaders like him and the kind who are born in the right families.
An interesting point in the article is that Chandrakant’s professor at IIT Mumbai, told him to “make a plan for revenue-generating, self-sustaining model instead of taking the charity route.” I find this suggestion very interesting. So while charity MUST not and SHOULD not be put aside, the suggested model by Prof. Surya Narayan has a great deal of merit. Charity does tend to breed complacency and instills a sense of superiority in the mind of the donor while instilling a sense of victimhood in the mind of the recipient. As it has been set up, the parents and the students can take pride in the school as something they have actually earned rather than received.
Ex-IITian starts world-class school in Bihar village
Madhuri Kumar,
PATNA: In a remote corner of the state, at Chamanpura village of Gopalganj district, a story is unfolding of unique enterprise and innovative methods in school education. Situated about 30 km from Gopalganj, this school, known as Chaitanya Gurukul Public School, was founded in 2009 by an ex-IITian, Chandrakant Singh, now based in Bangalore. Bereft of electricity till date, about 450 children, both boys and girls, are imparted lessons in physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer through Skype, video conferencing and Internet. Eight of Singh's associates, sitting in various corners of the world, have joined hands to teach children right from Class I to Class VII, through video-conferencing. Apart from distance learning, 16 teachers, who reside on the campus, are helping the students in their studies. Here, teachers mark their attendance using a biometric finger-printer and students too log their attendance in computers.
The article can be read at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Ex-IITian-starts-world-class-school-in-Bihar-village/articleshow/7419365.cms
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