1. Match Making & Employability

2. SIIRD : An Overview
•SIIRD stands for Students Initiative for Integrated Rural
Development
•The beginning of this organization goes back about 3
years when a group of B.Tech students of IIT Roorkee
approached Prof. Vinay K. Nangia, Head, Department of
Management Studies to work in the field of Rural
Development.

3. SIIRD : An Overview
• It was observed that even after the prevalence of so
many government schemes and working of NGOs in
this respect, the development is not up to mark.
• Lack of coordination among multiple players such as
Governments, NGOs, Academia and Industry in rural
development emerged as the key issue to be dealt
with.
• And therefore, In 2006, the project entitled “Student
Initiative for Integrated Rural Development” (SIIRD)
came into existence.

5. SIIRD : Objectives
• to strive for the development of the targeted
village(s) by undertaking demand driven
initiatives to reduce disparities in current status
of villagers, fulfillment of their needs and
opportunities for achieving their aspirations and,

6. SIIRD : Objectives
• to coordinate and synergize the efforts of
multiple stakeholders involved in rural
development by developing a model of
collaboration among Academia, Government,
Industry and Society

7. Finding a Model Village
• Our 1st step was to identify a model village on the
basis of its physical connectivity with rest of world,
diversity in social make-up of population which
should be representative of Uttarakhand’s
population, terrain and availability of basic
infrastructure.
• The SIIRD Team has carried out baseline surveys of
more than 15 villages in 3 districts of Uttarakhand
before settling on Charba, the targeted village,
located in Sahaspur block of Dehradun district.

8. Uttarakhand

9. Observations of Our Model Village: Charba
•Terrain is plain.
•The population of the village showed a lot of
diversity as people of all religions and castes
live here. This village is having population of
Hindus, Muslims, SCs, STs etc.
•Major problems of villagers were:
•Lack of awareness about Govt. schemes
•Lack of education
•Unemployment
•Healthcare issues
•Electricity shortage
•Gender issues due to orthodoxy

11. Our Previous Initiatives

12. The ICT Initiative
SIIRD has concentrated upon creating awareness
about INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY(ICT) for development of the village.
Mode of achieving the goal:-
 Spread ICT Awareness
 Impart IT Training to Champions
 Foster Entrepreneurship in field of ICT

13. The ICT Initiative
Creating awareness
o Demonstrations about the benefits of ICT have been
given in different parts of Charba.
o Hands-on exposure to computer and internet is given in
the demonstrations along with application oriented
usage of ICT .
o A large number of villagers participated in each
demonstration.
o These demonstrations helped SIIRD team in identifying
‘champions’

14. The ICT Initiative
Training of Champions
o Under this initiative, Computer center trainers of Charba
are being trained by SIIRD team.
o 3 training programs have been successfully completed.
o TOT programs have enhanced skills of the trainers in MS
Office, Photoshop, etc and would impart better
education to the rural people.

15. The ICT Initiative
S. Computer Center Owner of Venue for
No. Center Training
1 Aikawa Computer Mrs Sunita IIT Roorkee
center Rawat
2 Millenium Computer Mr Rajpal IIT Roorkee
Center
3 Global Computer Mr Brijesh Global Computer
Center center, Charba

16. The ICT Initiative
Turing Champions into entrepreneurs:-
•Soochna kutir are information kiosks through which people can obtain information
related to various topics.
•Soochna kutir will help villagers get information about topics such as Mandi rates,
exam forms, etc.
•Soochna kutirs have been provided with free internet connectivity and the
sanchalaks have been taught how to use uttaraportal.in:- the web portal which can
provide any info regarding Uttarakhand, developed by Prof. H. K. Verma, Deputy
Director of IIT Roorkee and a mentor to our SIIRD team.
•All the citizens of the village can get all these facilities from our Soochna Kutirs at
very minor charges.

17. Creating Awareness among local people about the benefits of internet and uttaraportal

18. Primary School ICT Education Initiative
Purpose:
To educate the students of primary schools of village Charba district
Dehradun about basic knowledge of Computers and make this education
system sustainable.
Preparation of a tentative course material
• A course material in English was prepared by the team members.
• The team consulted the syllabus of class 5th for preparing the course
material.
• The topic covered in the presentation were :
 Definition of Computer.
 Parts of Computer.
 Input Devices.
 Output Devices.
 Storage Devices.
 My Computer, My Document, Recycle Bin
 Basic software like paint, calculator, notepad, clock.

19. Primary School ICT Education Initiative
Involvement of Government
• The team decided to involve the government into
the initiative.
• The team contacted with the Geeta Nautiyal
(Bashik Sikhsha Adhikary (BSA)) and S P Semwal
(coordinator: Computer Aided Learning
Program(CALP))
• An official letter was taken from them so that the
team could teach the students of the primary
school.

20. Primary School ICT Education
Initiative
• Sustainability
– The team had a meeting with Mr. G.J.
Kulkarni and Mr. Sharath Hangal (Guest
Faculties, DoMS, IIT Roorkee) and told them
about the primary initiative.
– They agreed to arrange around 8-10
computers for the primary schools.
– Ricoh India would be providing the computers.

21. Primary School ICT Education Initiative
Teaching in Primary School
• The team made the final course material by consulting the teachers.
• The team taught the students of classes 3rd, 4th, 5th of Primary school .
Class No. of students
5th 25
4th 26
3rd 32

22. e-Health
Aim: This initiative aims to connect villagers to hospitals and doctors in city by
teleconferencing.
Work done: Many visits haven undertaken to make aware the villagers about e-
Health, to find out health care status and also to find out views as well as demands of
villagers about e-Health.
Work in progress: Contacting Himalayan Institute in Dehradun for providing the
facility their doctors through teleconferencing in village Charba.

24. The Beginning
The idea of this whole connect starts with the visit of Faculty
Members of IIT Roorkee to the village Charba.
After detailed discussion of the faculty members and the
students with villagers, they felt the need of skill development
for employability of the villagers.

25. Our Observations of the Village
The people of the village are either unemployed or underemployed.
The skill sets of the people were not up to mark to the industrial expectations.
Some people showed their mismatch of interests with the work they are doing.
Computer education/literacy of the people is weak.
Lack of interests of children in studies was also observed.
People are not aware of the employment schemes supported by the government .

26. Some important points of discussions were
• Sector specific skill gap analysis is a prerequisite for any initiative of
skill development to enhance employability. (A questionnaire in this
regard is circulated.)
• Identification of sectors which are labour intensive and facing a
problem of skilled labour. Eg. Auto electricians are not available to
handle latest electric/ electronic circuits of automobiles.
• A database of local area should be prepared who can be employed
with skill development. (Survey is on with the help of IIT Roorkee
students).
• Industrial Associations like CII can act as interface between
Industries and trainees to help them identify meaningful
employment.

27. Here are the faculty members

28. Our Aim
Improving the employability of the unemployed or under-employed people of
the Charba village by skill development or getting their existing skills tested and
certified.
Methodology
•Surveying of the local areas and create awareness among the locals about this
initiative and convincing for the training program.
•Contacting Industrial bodies like CII, local industrialist understanding their
needs and expectations from their employees.
•Developing a required framework for training these students taking in
consideration the demand of the industry and to their own personal interests.
•Starting training program, taking regular updates about the improvement in
the students.
•Assessing of the students will be done by external assessing bodies, for
instance, CII can help in the process of assessment.

29. Salient features
Courses and Curricula:-
Demand driven short term training courses based on enhancement of
Employable Skills to be decided in consultation with local industry.
Functional literacy will be provided to the trainees. These will be a set of
minimum skills which are sufficient for gainful employment. Emphasis in the
curricula will also be on soft skills.
Courses would also be available for persons having completed 5th
standard.

30. Salient features
Training:-
•IIT Roorkee will facilitate, promote and train the persons.
•Optimum utilisation of existing infrastructure to make training cost effective.
•Flexible delivery mechanism (part time, weekends, full time, onsite/offsite) to suit
needs of various target groups.
•Different levels of programmes (Foundation level as well as skill upgradation) to
meet demands of various target groups.
•The services of existing or retired faculty or guest faculty to be utilized.

31. Salient features
We Expect:-
The trainees of the course will be recognised by the local industry.
Facilities of the industries can be used to give hands-on experience during
the training.

32. Salient features
Proposed courses:-
Accounting
Computer courses
Quality control & management
Rest courses will be decided on the basis of the demand shown by the industries.
Few hours on Soft skills will be compulsorily be included in each training program.