The document discusses the author's dream to provide sports facilities and communication skills training to students in his village in Odisha, India. With funds from Godrej-LOUD, he plans to equip 4 schools with badminton and table tennis equipment costing Rs. 1.14 lakh. An additional Rs. 80,000 will provide personality and English classes to 8 students annually. The remaining Rs. 35,200 will buy English books for the schools. The author hopes this small step will help students fulfill their dreams and inspire others to donate for equal opportunities.

1. Godrej LOUD – My Big Dream
The academic percentage of which was the sole criteria to judge a candidate for job as well as higher
education till some years ago has now changed. Now a days organizations look for a more dynamic
individual who are winners in every aspect of life be it sports or personality or communication. So if
someone wants to differentiate himself/herself in this large pool of talented crowd he needs to have a
great overall profile. If we look at the data of the percentage of students in top B-schools of the country
or in top multinational organizations maximum people are from CBSE or ICSE board. It is very difficult for
a state board student from states like Odisha, Bihar, and Jharkhand to beat the competition. Does this
mean they are not talented enough? The answer is an obvious NO. If we analyze properly we will get to
know that the major reason for this is no great extracurricular and not up to mark communication skill.
So what is the reason for such problems?
I have completed my SSC and HSC from a small village school of Odisha
state board. There were many guys in my batch who were extremely talented players in the sports like
Badminton and Table tennis. But due to the unavailability of proper equipment, infrastructure and spots
accessories they were not able to practice so usually they get demotivated which ultimately leads to loss
of interest from sports as a result they are not able to show case their talent at the district, state and
national level.
There were many meritorious guys in my batch who had the required knowledge but were not
confident enough to participate in inter school events due to lack of good communication skills. It
affected many of them during undergraduate post UG in getting a good job in corporate and even
during admission into a prestigious institute for MBA. Now the biggest question WHAT I CAN DO ABOUT
THIS????

2. My big dream:
Since I and many of my friends have faced these difficulties I have always wanted to do something about
this. Now with the help of Godrej-LOUD I am planning to fulfill my dreams. These are the basic things
that I am planning to do with the 1.5 lacks from Godrej-LOUD:
I am planning to take 4 schools of my village area to provide them with basic sports facilities and to
provide some students with required classes for personality and communication skill development.
Analysis of the expenditures:
1 – Providing sports facilities:
 One TT table (Rs6000), 2 bats and 5 balls (Rs1000) per school.
Total cost = Rs7000*4 = Rs28, 000 for 4 schools.
C – Badminton:
 2 rackets (Rs500) , 1 net(Rs500), One packet cork(Rs200) per school.
Total cost = Rs1700*4 = Rs6800 for 4 schools.
So total cost in this section = Rs (28000+6800) = Rs34, 800.
2 - Providing personality development and Spoken English classes:
Here I am planning to take 2 students from each school of standard XI and X each year who will undergo
personality development and spoken English classes. These students will be selected by the teachers of
the school. The basic criteria is that the student should be a meritorious and needful of money(poor
family).
 2 students from each school will be provided with the financial support to undergo personality
development and spoken English classes twice a year during summer and winter vacations.
Cost for two students per year = Rs10000 (Rs5000 each for summer and winter vacation)*2 =
Rs20000.
Total cost for 4 schools = Rs20, 000*4 = Rs80, 000 per year.
So the overall total cost = Rs (34,800+80,000) = Rs1, 14,800.
Remaining amount = 1, 50,000-1, 14,800 = Rs35, 200.
This amount will be divided among these 4 schools so that they can utilize this amount to
subscribe to English comics and short story books at regular intervals. The interested students
can issue these books from the school on weekly basis.
From the remaining amount each school will get Rs8800 which can be utilized for the above
purpose.

3. This is the big dream of my life as there are dreams of many other students associated with this.
I know this is a small step of mine but I hope if this will be a success then many more hands will
come out for such donations. Here I am just trying to give an equal platform to all the students
irrespective of Geographical and financial class so that at least some of them can fulfill their
dreams in life.
We always live for ourselves but if we can give some time from our busy schedule to
the society, which has given so much to us will give a great internal satisfaction to us.
Submitted by,
Asish Kumar Tripathy
XIMB-2012-14 Batch