How can a quality education change rural India- a case study of Revnath Choure College Sausar and Saoner

1. RESEARCH STUDENT (AUTHOR )
SANJAY CHOURE
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
REVNATH CHOURE COLLEGE SAONER
Education to All with perspective to
Higher Education – A case study of
Rural Area Sausar (MP)

2. Introduction
Higher Education
 Education is one of the most powerful instrument for reducing poverty
and inequality of society
 Education after 12th is Higher education.
 In India majority of the higher educational institutions are urban
centric.
 gross enrolment ratio is very poor in rural areas.
 The situation is even worse for female population in regard to gross
enrolment ratio
 the population of young people entering the labor force continues to
expand. This young and large population should be educated for the
betterment of the nation

3. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
 Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) in rural India is
estimated to be about 7%, while urban areas have a
GER of about 23%.
 The Gap between GER of Rural and Urban is very
high

4. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
 To determine the status of higher education in rural
areas in India.
 To know the problems of higher education in rural
areas.
 To find out best possible remedies to cope out those
problems..

5. RESULT of the STUDY
A Case Study of Sausar(MP)
Reasons behind Low Enrollment:
 Unemployment : Students were not interested to study as they felt that their
seniors were still unemployed even after graduating.
 Lack of Courses: As number of courses or subject offered were less many students
migrated to cities for studies.
 Medium of instructions: as all the colleges were offering education in Hindi medium
students coming out from English medium schools found it difficult to cope and
they shifted to cities.
 Lack of Professional courses: As only BA, BCom and B.Sc were available that to in
traditional subjects students were not interested to study.
 Lack of Transportation : Its very difficult to reach college from remote places as all
whether road was not available in all villages.
 Lack of Support from Government: As the required norm to open colleges in rural
areas was same as urban it was not feasible to open colleges in rural areas for
private players.

6. Policy of MP Government on Higher Education
 1995 Govt. of MP decided to adopt Permanent non grant
policy for schools and colleges
 Lot of people came forward and opened up schools and
colleges, but they were opened in Municipal Corporation and
big cities only
 Till 2000 not even a single college was opened in rural area on
non grant basis.
 New college were not feasible In rural areas as promoters
thought people in rural area will not afford to pay the fees.
 MP Govt. had asked for FD of Rs. 300000/- and Land Valued
at Rs. 700000/-

7. Revnath Choure College, Sausar
 In 2001 Revnath Choure College became first college to open at Taluka
place (Sausar) with BBA and BCA, At that time even Nagpur University
didn’t had these subjects.
 In initial years students were reluctant to take admissions as they didn’t
knew about these subjects
 All the students enrolled in first year were from Hindi Medium and was
biggest challenge to teach them in English.
 None of the students had seen computer before.
 Earlier every student use to take admission only in BA, B.Com and few in
B.Sc

8. Sausar before 2000
 Industries had come to Sausar including Raymond’s
 More than 5000 people got direct employment
 None of the person from Sausar was absorbed at
Officer/executive level, All were working as laborers
 Reason was that the education required by these
industry didn’t matched.

9. Turning Point
 Revnath Choure College studied the requirement of industries and started
training students as per their requirements.
 In 2004 first batch of RCC passed out with flying colours and the topper got
placed in INFOSYS Banglore
 Out of these 30 students, 18 students joined job in cities like Bangalore,
Hyderabad, Nagpur and Pune. Rest 12 went for higher studies MBA / MCA.
 Today out of these 30 student after 10 yrs:
4 of them are working abroad, 4 of them have become entrepreneur
22 are working in reputed companies in India.
 The highest salary is 70 lakhs per annum, and average salary is approx. 15
lakhs per annum.
 1 student was in the team who got Oscar award for life of PIE movie for
animation.

10. Today’s Sausar
 8 CBSE board schools
 14 MP board English medium schools
 9 senior colleges with post graduate courses.(BA with 12 subject options
including Computers, B.Com with computer option and , B.Sc (Physic,
Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Maths, Biochemistry, Microbiology,
Biotechnology and Computers), BBA, BCA, MCM, PGDCA, MA,
MCom, M.Sc)
 2 ITI
 2 D.Ed
 1 B.Ed
 Literacy rate above 90 %
 Lowest dropout, 1 % dropout ratio after 12th, approximately more than
6000 students are studying in these colleges.
 More than 3000 youth got reputed jobs in various sectors in last 10 years at
managerial levels.

11. Industrialisation
 27 industries have come up in AKVN Sausar giving direct employment
to more than 25000 people approx. 25%of the families are now
dependent on these industry taking out the burden from agriculture
sector.
 In 2013 a call center of Rural Shores for Idea and Airtel was opened
employing more than 500 people out of which 50 % of people were
students passed out from Revnath Choure College.
 CEO of Rural Shores said the skilled and qualified employees they
were looking for are available at Sausar due to so many colleges have
opened up here,
 the rural people here are working at an average salary of 10000 per
month where as if they had to work in cities the average salary there is
20000, thus the company is saving approx 50 lakhs every month. This
is win-win situation for both.

12. Limitations
 These are all self finance colleges without financial
support from Government
 Lack in infrastructure as compared to colleges in urban
areas
 Lack of qualified faculties in rural areas
 Still none of the Engineering or Medical college has
opened up, depriving students of professional education.
 Attraction of students towards metro’s

13. SUGGESIONS
 Government has to change the norms for opening colleges in rural areas.
For Eg: The amount to be deposited with AICTE to open technical college is same
for urban or rural area. In fact the land requirement is more in rural areas as
compared to urban areas.
 Infrastructure can not be same for college having 100 students and college having
1000 students. UGC doesn’t differentiate on land and building requirements on the
basis of strength of students.
 Some incentive must be given to people opening colleges in rural areas.
 PPP model can be floated for rural areas (Infrastructure should be developed by
Govt.)
 Micro perspective on the basis of Taluka is required while framing policies.
 Norms for Teachers or relaxation in NET/SET should be given for few years in
rural areas.
 No new colleges should be given permission in cities
 New IIT and IIM’s other Government institutions should come up in rural areas
only.
 Scholarship facilities should be improved

14. Replication of The Above Model
 We are trying to replicate the same model of Revnath Choure College in
another town Saoner(Maharashtra)
 RCC Saoner started with BBA and BCA in 2009 with 25 students, after 5
years, college enrolled 100 students in BBA first year in 2014.
 In last 3 years 63 students have passed out of which 30 students went for
MBA, 12 for MCA and 8 for other courses in higher studies 7 girls left the
studies nor joined the job due to marriage. 6 joined the jobs immediately
after studies.
 This year in 2015, 29 students will be passing out from RCC Saoner out of
which 10 have already been placed. (Courtesy to HERD Foundation), 22
students have appeared for MBA -CET

15. Thankyou