A self-sustaining Educational Institution

Industry-Education Collaboration.

Generally in a typical Educational institution in the country, huge resources like land, building, air, water, and manpower are always available. But, unfortunately, these remain as non-performing assets in the books.

The end results are already visible. The conditions of country-side schools, drop-out rates, and billions spent for the sake of providing education following the principles of socialism. Those billions, unfortunately, have been non-refundable. The Industry, too, consider products of education as 'unemployable'. Most of the entry level candidates have to undergo real industrial training as apprentices.

A pro-active, visionary, and competent management will look for effective practical means to link such idle assets with normal day-to-day activities of humans. While doing so, not only some positive growth will become visible, but almost all academic subjects can be covered.

The normal day-to-day activities being carried out every day in a typical educational institution are listed here around which academic classes can be intelligently programmed.

Priority No.	Field of Study	Core Activities	Key Academic Subjects
1	Energy	Combination of locally specific solar, wind, geothermal, hydel, biogas and cogeneration, building AC, water & waste management	Engg
2	Civil Maintenance	Building and ground maintenance, sanitation, electrical upkeep, Telecomm, instrumentation	Science and Tech
3	Agri based	Food Processing: fruits and vegetables, oil or flour mills	Production Engg
4	Dairy	Milk products	Zoology, bio-tech
5	Fish/poultry	Pond utilisation	Zoology
6	Catering	Mess Maintenance: Internal, external needs for food	Hotel Management
7	Horticulture	Campus beautification, tree plantation, exotic and medicinal plants cultivation	Botany
8	Media/Journalism	To report all such activities	Languages, literature, Hindi, English, local regional language
9	IT	The essential tool for all	Computer Science
10	HR	Looking after the welfare	Personnel Management
11	Accounts	Monitor cash-inflows	Commerce

Important Note: Every activity area has still more academic subjects in common like economics, environment, industrial engineering, history, geography, psychology, philosophy,  sociology, and, of course, Law.

Each such activity brings in 'value addition'- the key feature of the meaning of Life. The material profits are just by-products that make the institution self-reliant and let it have an iota of credibility.

The main requirements to achieve these objectives are:

-The students be inducted after due counselling considering their family backgrounds, strengths, weaknesses and aspirations,

- Putting the right person in the right trade,

- Identification of locally available resources

The most significant takeaways when the academic curriculum is designed or built around normal human activities,, can be listed as:

- The Institution eventually becomes self-reliant
- Renewable energy systems: environment-friendly power, water and waste management 

- Ability to observe 24/7/365 discipline 

- Optimum resource utilisation for value addition
- Emphasis on skill development
- Emphasis on vocational studies, entrepreneurship, tech build-up
- Better interaction with industry

It is up to the management to practice what it tries to preach.

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Festival Season is Here Again

Patna, Nov 13, 2018

An ocean of mankind slipped on the banks of Ganga, Gandak, Kosi, Baghmati and different streams, rivers, and lakes over the state as lakhs of aficionados offered Araghya (regard) to the setting Sun on the event of heavenly Chhath celebrations today.

In Patna, an expected 2.5 million enthusiasts thronged on the 23 km extend on the banks of waterway Ganga to offer Aragya to the setting Sun.

On different rivers spread over the length and broadness of Bihar a huge number of people also offered Aragya to setting Sun with full holiness and devotion on the event of heavenly Chhath celebration.

They offered occasional organic products, including Apple, Sugar Cane, Banana, Coconut and Thekua(a sweet customary arrangement of flour) as "prasad" to the Sun God.

Attired in conventional garments sarees, lady enthusiasts stayed in waist deep water of the river stream and paid regard to God Sun while their relatives, near and dear ones likewise went with them in venerating sun.

In the interim, the official residence of the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at 7, Circular Road wore a happy look where the Chhath celebration is being commended with full energy.