SANGHARSHA Team Leader: Dhananjay Karvir Thakare, SGBA University Team Member: Shruti Jain, SSCBS, Delhi University Country: India

MY DREAM JOB IN 2022 Based on the Education and Empowerment of Youth of Rural and Tribal areas of India. Focus area: The rural and tribal area of CHIKHALI, a small town in Maharashtra, India. Sangharsha Yuva Abhiyan is an NGO already existing in chikhali, and is currently working on imparting primary level education to children. In 2022, as part of our dream job, it will extend its operations. Keeping in mind the massive population of YOUNG INDIA (almost half of the then population in 2022), rural youth will require training in professional areas to help them bridge the handicap that the urban youth, due to better educational facilities, does not ultimately experience. We’ll set up Personality Development Training Centers and Industrial skill training centers in Chikhali, as an extension of the NGO. Our programs will be provided free of cost. Funding will be obtained by sources such as donations, fund raising drives, partnering with companies for their CSR initiatives, and availing governmental and private body schemes and grants. Our programs will be provided free of cost. Funding will be obtained by sources such as donations, fund raising drives, partnering with companies for their CSR initiatives, and availing governmental and private body schemes and grants.

HOW WILL WE DO IT? STEP 1: Focus on education and polishing professional skills We’ll set up Personality Development Training Centers, which will focus on improving spoken english, written skills, proficiency in computer operations, etc. and exploring latent talents like Sports, Literacy, Fine arts, Theatre, etc. Our training institutes will also emphasize on practical training, human values and Rural Entrepreneurship. Special focus will be on the uneducated and unemployed youth to undergo vocational training, so that they can get employed or start their own micro business. Well educated professionals from diverse backgrounds and qualifications will be invited as volunteers for the training centres. Video lectures and voice conferencing of experts for teaching will be used. To ensure quality and success of our programmes, we will take the best points of well established organisations and adapt them to our own system, for example Teach for India, Make a Difference, and many others. To ensure quality and success of our programmes, we will take the best points of well established organisations and adapt them to our own system, for example Teach for India, Make a Difference, and many others. This ensures, that the policies followed by us for different programmes are tried and tested and credible enough, hence reducing the risk factor. This ensures, that the policies followed by us for different programmes are tried and tested and credible enough, hence reducing the risk factor.

STEP 2: Empowerment and employment We’ll provide assistance in setting up rural startups. These will be mainly Agro-based as 75% people in Chikhali are dependent directly or indirectly on agriculture. We believe in Gandhian ways for development, i.e. undertaking SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. The thought behind this is: “ THINK GLOBAL. ACT LOCAL.” Young India needs a system wherein the youth are empowered to turn obstacles into opportunities and realize the potential of their local knowledge and resources. Using intellectual knowledge and local skills is the best way of adapting a business to local needs. Awareness about already existing schemes and policies is a must. Government of India has many schemes which focus on setting up training institutes in rural and tribal area and these also aid in setting up industries. Organizations like DFID, YWCA and Indiaskills are institutions working for the cause of educating the youth. Some organizations like SIDBI finance development in industrial fields. By using such help, and creating awareness about the same, we’ll make it possible for the rural and tribal youth to turn their dreams into reality, sustainably.

THE CHANGE WE DREAM OF By 2022, Agro-based industries will experience an exponential turn, as rural development will be the first point of encouragement by the government. As a result of our plan, the youth of chikhali will be all set to use their resources to the best of their potential and create opportunities for themselves at a time ripe for rural entrepreneurship. They will not only be more adaptive to their local environment and sustain their families successfully, but also their endeavors will generate more jobs in the area, ultimately attracting other young individuals to experience the same. Development in the agro sector will bring high revenue the demand for food products, especially for the ones inherently grown and processed in India, is increasing at a tremendous rate in global market. We dream that this cycle runs successfully and metamorphoses chikhali from a rural underdeveloped area of 2012, to a chikhali of 2022 where the youth is capable of bringing positive change in society and create development in their local area, while preserving its resources and following sustainable practices for a better future of their community, and making a difference in the lives of their own and other people.