Press Note - Trust in students bears fruit

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There is a lesson to be learnt from a Delhi-based NGO of prominent Punjabis, Gyan Sewa Trust. Out of 23 students of rural schools whom this trust provided specialised coaching, 17 have cracked PTU's CET. The trust had started the project last year by organising coaching classes. Faculty was arranged from among the best available in Delhi.
   Apart from running classes regularly, a 25-day crash course was also held which was funded by author and journalist Patwant Singh. Jagroop Kaur, whose father runs a small shop at Khadoor Sahib, had only dreamt of getting into an engineering course, but now she is eying a seat in BTech. ''Without this coaching, perhaps I would

not have been able to crack the exam,'' she admitted. Tejinderjit Singh, son of a head constable, has got 1319th rank. He gives credit for his success to the classes. Varun Kumar of Nawanshahr is seeking admission to Thapar Engineering College, Patiala.
The trust had started coaching centres at Khadoor Sahib, Talewal near Barnala and at Nawanshahr. Talewal centre had to be closed due to non-cooperation of teachers, and students shifted to Khadoor Sahib.
   ''There were apprehensions regarding the level of students in villages to comprehend and follow classes conducted by subject experts from Delhi. But the students of first batch have proved such apprehensions wrong,'' said trust chairman HS Phoolka, a senior advocate.
 
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Press Note - 90% Result of Engg. Entrance Exam.
 

Gyan Sewa Trust started coaching classes in villages in Punjab in April 2006, has shown excelant results in CET ( Engg. Enterance) exam declared yesterday in Punjab. 90% students which got specialized coaching from faculty engaged by Gyan Sewa from Delhi and attended classes held by Delhi faculty at Khadoor Sahib in Dist. Taran Tarn, have cleared the exam for admission into Engg. Colleges.

One student got admission in Thapar Engg. College which is considered best college in Punjab. 5 other students are below the rank of 4000 and are likely to get admission in premier colleges of Punjab.The highest ranking of Gyan

Sewa students is 1319 which is considered as excellant rank.There are about 12000 seats and about 1 lac students appeared in this exam.

Gyan Sewa Trust started these centers as an experiment to show that students in villages do not lack talent, but due to lack of educational resources.The aim is also to uplift standard of education in villages and to create an environment where villagers realize the importance of education.

The students are from poor families. Son of peon got admission in Thapar Engg., others parents are -- labourer, machanic , barber, clerk and small farmers.

 
 

Press Note - Coaching for Rural Students
 

Gyan Sewa Trust is starting a Special 25 Days Coaching Class at Khadoor Sahib in District Tarn Taran for preparing village students for entrance examinations in the professional courses like Medical, Engineering, Biotechnology, Architect, etc.   The Trust has engaged highly qualified faculty from Delhi, who will stay at the village for 25 days and will prepare the students.

The Trust is already running two centres, one at Khadoor Sahib and the other at Nawan Shehr since the last one year and is holding classes every weekends, when the faculty from Delhi goes to these places to teach the students.   Now, to give continuous practice to the students, who are appearing in these entrance exa-

minations this year in May, the Trust has planned a continuous 25 days course.

The moto of the Trust is to provide equal access to educational resources to the rural students, as are available to their counterparts in the cities. When the village students are expected to compete with the students from big cities, it is an unfair competition because these students are deprived of the resources, which are available in the cities.   To provide them equal opportunities at their doorstep, the Trust has started these classes in villages itself.

The course programme would be inaugurated by the former Chairman of UPSC (Union Public Service Commission), SJS Chhatwal and Dr. T.S. Kler, renowned Heart Specialist from Escorts Hospital, would be the Chief Guest at the function being held at Khadoor Sahib on 15th April, 2007.  The programme would be concluded on 12 th May, 2007, when the Education Minister of Punjab, Smt. Upenderjeet Kaur is expected to address the students at the function.

The crash course would be attended by the students from Banga, Rahon, Nawam Shehr, Talewal and Khadoor Sahib areas.   Some of the students are from very poor families.  Some of the students are children of labourers, drivers, barbar, plumber, peons, mason and other students are children of farmers.  
 
This special course is being run free of charge.   All the expenses of this course are being borne by the eminent journalist, Sardar Patwant Singh, who is sponsoring this 25 days programme. Similarly, the Trust will run its other programmes also on sponsorship basis from eminent citizens and philanthropists, who wish to uplift students from villages.   Those, who wish to sponsor these activities can contact the Trust at gyansewa.
 
 
The Tribune, Tuesday, August 8, 2006, Chandigarh, India
 

With a noble mission to offer as good an education in the countryside as available in cities, some Delhi-based Punjabis have launched an ambitious project, Gyan Sewa, in at least 100 villages of Punjab.

As part of the pilot project for the first year, two coaching centres have already been set up in villages—one at Talewal village near Barnala in the Sangrur district and the other at Khadur Sahib village in the Tarn Taran district. Every weekend, subject experts from Delhi teach here students of classes XI and XII and train local teachers. Mr

H. S. Phulka, a senior advocate of the Supreme Court, says it is their endeavour to enable students of rural areas to qualify for medical and engineering seats.

Patwant Singh, an eminent journalist, is the founder of the Gyan Sewa Trust, while its trustees include Mr H. S. Phulka, Dr G. S. Grewal, Dr Raghbir Singh Basi and Mr Avtar Singh Dhindsa.

According to Dr Maninder Kaur Phoolka, the gap in the quality of education available in the cities and in villages has been widening. As a result, the education level in villages has been going down drastically.

To check this disparity, the Gyan Sewa Trust was formed to set up projects and take quality education (accessible, so far, to students in metros like Delhi only) to the remotest villages of Punjab.

The trust decided to pick the best possible resources available in Delhi and take these to the villages. To bring students from villages to cities for education would probably have cost less than what it would take to transport the faculty from Delhi to the villages. However, notwithstanding the cost factor, the trust decided to reach the subject experts from Delhi to villages to spread awareness among villagers and to train their teachers.

One of the first projects this year is of setting up coaching centres in villages to prepare the students for various entrance examinations.

Mr H. S. Phulka says, in big cities, there has been mushrooming of centres that train students exclusively for these examinations.

However, students from villages do not have this privilege, even though they may be more intelligent than city-bred youngsters. They just lack the opportunity to study professionally for professional courses. Instead, they choose ordinary streams like BA and B.Sc.

There are hardly any jobs after plain graduation or postgraduation. This generates a lot of frustration among the rural youth. In the next five years, the trust proposes to set up 100 coaching centres in villages. It also plans to launch campaigns against female foeticide, drug addiction and cruelty towards women.

Villagers from these 100 places would be educated about the disastrous consequences of these evils
 
 
The Tribune, Saturday, April 8, 2006, Chandigarh, India
 
Six prominent Delhi-based Sikh citizens have formed a trust to help rural students in Punjab for preparing them for competitive examinations in view of they being placed in disadvantageous position due to non-availability of coaching facilities. It also plans to launch a campaign against “female foeticide”.
The trust, which plans to launch “gyan sewa” pilot project by opening coaching centres in Bhadaur, Tappa, Bhairupa Talewal, Sukhanand and Khadoor Sahib villages this year, proposed to expand the facility to at least 100 villages next year, senior advocate H.S. Phooka, who was pioneering the cause of anti-Sikh riots victims in the Capital at various

forums for the past two decades and is one of the trustees, told The Tribune today.

The other trustees are: author Patwant Singh, Delhi Medical Association senior vice-president G.S. Grewal, economist Raghubir Singh Basi, State Bank of Patiala Director Avtar Singh Dhindsa and former General Manager of Modern Food Industries Dr Maninder Kaur Phoolka.

“Alongside gian sewa, the trust is also starting a campaign against female foeticide and making people aware of the virtues of a girl child,” Phoolka said.

The emphasis would be on promoting the competitive skills of rural students, particularly girls and for this purpose eight teachers, two each in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and computer science would be hired from Delhi to teach the students in each centre for four days in a week, Phoolka said.

Besides, the trust also proposed to launch vocational training centres in villages of Punjab for girls to enable them to prepare themselves for gainful employment, he said.
 
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