01/03/2018
Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan is the initiative by the government of India. Its basic aim is to lift up the villages in India, to make them progressive and to bring the vision of ‘self dependent villages’ first idealised by Father of our nation : Mahatma Gandhi into the reality.
To walk some steps closer towards this aim, College Of Engineering, Pune organised a village camp in Kusgaon for 3 days from 16 March to 18 March. During this 3 days, technically sound students and faculties of our esteemed institute interacted with villagers of Kusgoan.
During this camp we performed the activities such as offering technical solutions to the water distribution system for village Kusgaon by conducting Civil Engineering Survey. Along with this activity, students visited all the households to make the villagers aware of the Governmental schemes by displaying posters and communicating with them. Career guidance was also be given to the school students.
A meeting is held by Prof. Ranjekar in village Shivapur in which Mr. Harale, Block Development Officer, Panchayat Samiti, Bhor ; Sarpanch of Thikekarwadi, Mr. Santosh Thikekar; Dr. Kailas Bavale, Mr. Kuldip Konde, Ex Chairman, ZP Pune; Mr. Amol Pangare, Ex Sabhapati, Panchayat Samiti, Bhor were present where the concept of ideal village and the part of Engineers and citizens as a whole in making the village an ideal one was the main part of discussion.
Along with Prof. Ranjekar, UBA coordinator COEP, Chief Rector COEP; Prof. N.M. Mohite, Prof. S. M. Nawaghare, Warden Doke were also present throughout the camp to guide the UBA volunteers. Here are some glimpse of success shared by UBA Student Coordinator Miss Sayali A. Dhinge and COEP CSAC Secretary Mr. Ambarish Abgul...
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