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The school was begun with the intent to provide a progressive, community based educational program, in an underdeveloped region where quality educational programs were unavailable to most children. The curriculum is specially designed to meet the cognitive, emotional and cultural needs of the students. It stresses the need for individual attention so that the educational process engages the student's interests, and learning proceeds according to the individual's ability and needs. A team of dedicated teachers evaluates the curriculum regularly and modifies it to suit the requirements of the students. Teachers have also been actively involved in creating textual materials in a variety of subjects bringing in the local culture through familiar settings, contexts and events. The program aims at developing the children's holistic understanding of the world beginning with the community in which they live. The entire program is designed to help students develop good academic skills and become well-integrated human beings.

The school is situated in a small town in Karnataka. The school aims to help its students develop into mature, intelligent and sensitive human beings. Students are encouraged to make learning meaningful by exploring issues that affect them and their community. The students develop benchmarks of excellence, based on their skills, interest and abilities.

The curriculum stresses that the students must respond to environmental and community concerns in whatever way they can within their sphere of life. For example, students interact regularly with a community-based environmental group to learn about the flora and fauna in the surrounding forests, and to participate in the dissemination of environmental awareness programs to the community. These interactions have helped students to develop fresh insights and perceptions, and to act with greater awareness and responsibility with regard to the earth and all forms of life.

This is a school in a rural setting which aims to provide a holistic educational program to the children of the surrounding villages. The school is located in a region where there is little access to holistic and progressive education programs. The school provides an open and free ambience which is sensitive to the local context and culture. This has enabled children to enjoy and appreciate their schooling experience.

The Vocational Center aims to create a high quality technical force that meets the requirements of modern, competitive, quality-conscious industries. The Centre offers a program that combines practical training in state-of-the-art workshops with theoretical learning. The CVAT provides training in three broad occupational areas - Electrical, Electronics and Mechanical. Recognizing the need for a highly qualified and experienced faculty, CVAT has appointed a highly competent and dedicated team of instructors who work along with German experts to create innovative programs, effective systems and tools, to meet the needs of the competitive industrial climate

CVAT also provides in-service training to industrial personnel from companies known for their excellence in production like Sundaram Clayton, Wheels India, Ford India, TVS Electronics. Outgoing students have been placed in some of the best national and multinational companies in the Southern Region of India.
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  5. The T.S. Srinivasan Center
             for Rural Training. (CRT)

  

CRT is located in a 10 acre organic farm in the dry region of Hosur in Tamil Nadu. The Centre advocates integrated organic farming as a more sustainable alternative to modern agricultural practices which require unsustainable inputs like high cost fertilizers and pesticides.

CRT actively encourages small farmers to change to organic farming practices that are more profitable, eco-sensitive and do not destroy the earth’s resources. CRT has developed and tested new organic pesticides & fertilizers and innovative agricultural practices. The Centre offers training programs in organic agriculture to small and marginal farmers. It has created a network of farmers committed to organic farming who actively engage in experimenting with the new practices and products. Participating farmers have access to a consumer-market network developed by CRT. This network consists of individuals and organizations committed to the creed of organic farming. The network provides a stable and assured market for the farmers’ products thus providing them economical and psychological security.

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