A PROJECT REPORT ON

“Teaching English to Primary School Students”

Under Prabodhan Sanstha, Jalgaon

- Nishant Mahajan (87)

PRABODHAN SANSTHA
ON THE PEAK OF BEYOND IMAGINATIVE

Prabhodhan Sanstha is an Non – governmental Organisation (NGO)

working in Maharashtra, India.
The organization was founded by Adv. Jayprakash Pundlikrao Baviskar.
The registration number of the organization is
MAH/962/JALGAON/F/922/JALGAON?
The Organisation was established with an aim of providing a better
standard of living to the people by improving the society mainly through
Education and providing opportunities to the poor and women
The foundation of Prabodhan Sanstha Jalgaon came into existence in the
year1988.
The activities carried out under this Organisation are manifold.
The activities under this organization :
➢ Primary School
➢ Dairy Diploma College
➢ Agriculture Diploma College
➢ Industrial Training Center
➢ Gymnasiums
➢ Prabodhan Mahila Audyogik Sahakari Sanstha Ltd
Provides the opportunities of education to the needy poor women and
children. The goal is to move towards economics self reliance for
women by giving them greater access to economics resources. The
effort of the institution is in this direction.
In order to spread awareness about fitness, the sanstha organized mental
and physical games, the sanstha have also been organizing various sports
competitions.
The competitions organized by the Sanstha :
➢ Cricket
➢ Football
➢ Table Tennis
➢ Swimming
➢ Kabaddi
➢ Kho Kho
➢ Carrom
➢ Chess etc.
➢ The sanstha also provides facilities of Gymnasium.

Since 1991 the Sanstha is running a centre for the Rehabilitation of

disserted woman, widow, divorced women.
Women came to this centre and got the training of home Industries,
Tailoring, Cutting, Embroidery and sewing. The sanstha made them able
enough to earn for themselves so that they can lead a happy life
thenafter.
Around 345 women are being trained and given sewing machines by
Prabodhan Sanstha.
Objectives of this Sanstha :

• To organize discussions for different type of literatures so that the

youth of the country can connect with larger truths and ideas of the
society.
Forums for open discussion are organized and competitions are
held.
Essays and debates on different literatures are encouraged so as it
will create a way for people to record their thoughts and
experiences in a way that is accessible to others, through
fictionalized accounts of the experience.

• To organize Lectures to improve the morals of people by bringing

in the reputed and intellectual speakers from different fields. Moral
values reflect an individual's character and spirituality.
They help in building good relationships in personal as well as
professional lives.

• To organize different type of sports activities, competition and

matches of different Game to imbibe in them the sportsmanship
sprit and to grow health awareness.
When students are physically fit, they will achieve more
academically.
Sport develops a sense of friendliness among the children and
develop their team spirit.

• To organize Drama Competition, Music and Dance to encourage

artistic attitude of the youth.
By attending cultural events, a student experiences firsthand the
diverse offerings of culture and artistic expression found in a
community.
• To develop exclusive libraries for guidance and assistance to
students as well as readers in society to improve their span and
outlook towards life.
Libraries provide a flexible space with a wide and inclusive range
of resources to support learning and teaching throughout the
school.
It helps them to have a vibrant role in the development of a culture
that promotes wider reading, motivated readers and learners for
life.

• To Organize Educational Tours, Industrial Visits, Exhibitions and

Seminar etc.
Since the goal of education is to impart knowledge to students,
they gain knowledge and upgrade their skills by using the new
concepts they learn from these educational tours

• To publish
- periodicals,
- Booklets,
- Annual Journal abstracts of related subjects to circulate the same.

• To run primary school, High school and colleges and General and
Technical subjects to equip the youth with latest technical and
Industrial knowledge.
Education gives us a knowledge of the world around us and
changes it into something better.
It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build
opinions and have points of view on things in life.

• To establish Krishi Vigyan Kendra to make farmers aware of the

Agriculture Researches and up to date technology. To arrange
Seminars, Camps, Conferences and practical for the same and to
run Agriculture Diploma School and Colleges.
Educating farmers is the key of seeing India a developed nation,
 improvement in Agriculture can lead to increase in GDP.

• To undertake watershed programs and to enlighten people about

the importance of water in our Country.
Water is vital for survival, life won’t exist without water.
The NGO understood the importance of Water and made it an
objective of securing it.
Activities under Prabodhan Sanstha :-

To achieve its objectives the sanstha is undertaking a variety of activities

aimed at overall development of the society and educating the masses,
thereby creating more and more awareness about the topics essential and
crucial for well-being of the society .
Some of activities which have been undertaken aggressively by us
includes the followings.

1) Self Employment Training and Guidance Program :-

The biggest problem of today’s world is Unemployment.
The rate of birth is higher than the rate of death. Jobs are available but
only to those who are skilled enough to achieve it. The job opportunities
depends on the individual’s skill and training.
People with skills prove out to be the perfect match for the Jobs.
Today there are greater problems of unemployment, so the company
started as small scale training like :
➢ Candle making
➢ Chalk making
➢ Account writing
➢ Tailoring
➢ Jute bag making
➢ Dairy care etc and for small scale.
The Sanstha had arranged this training with the help of Khadi
Gramudyog Mandal, 70 persons people participated in this training. It
turned out to be a successful program and proved helpful for the
participants to achieve the required skill sets.
2) Competition on Youth Problems :-
Number of youth problem comes forward due to Industrial
developments and increasing population.
Now that the sanstha has understood the problems clearly then the
sanstha can give the proper remedy.

The sanstha had also arranged Competition and discussion on youth

service and problems.

3) Publish the Educational & Vocational Information :-

Due to science and technology a number of new vocational and
educational courses coming out. This new incarnation should be
introduced to all the students, so the sanstha collected the information
and published it.
4) Campaign of Pulse Polio :-
Polio is a national calamity which needs urgent attention of society is
accessional being worked upon by our institution.

Pulse Polio Camp conducted by the Central Government in December

and January are the occasions when the institution whole heartedly
works to make these successful, apart from this our institution works
through the year to create awareness about the disease and its prevention
methods.
Pulse Polio was a campaign run by Prabodhan Sanstha which gave free
polio drops to those who need it.
5) Awareness Camp for AIDS :-

The sanstha had run various campaigns to spread awareness regarding

AIDS

The Founder received a testimonial by the late President Abdul Kalam

Azam for his work.
The Sanstha has made necessary arrangement to show the slides about
the serious disease AIDS in the cinema theaters and tried to awaken the
public in general for prevention and control of this disease.

6) One Act Play Competition :-

Before the year 2000, for the last five years the sanstha had been
conducting state level “ One Act Play Competition “ Titled as
“Prabodhan Karandak Rajya Stariya Ekankika Spardha” which had
brought Jalgaon’s name on the cultural map of Maharashtra.
It had an overwhelming response from Mumbai, Nagpur and other
places including Jalgaon District.
During these four days it was noticed that all the participants were
participating with a great pleasure and support.
The hall run house was full and the culture and social exchange became
strong which proves that the purpose of the competition had gone truly
successful.
These One Act Play competitions are being sponsored by the “Social
Welfare Departments” of Governments of Maharashtra. These
programmed have been graced by well-known personalities from theater
and Film world.

7) Cartoon Competition :-
The sanstha had arranged a “Cartoon Competition”.
The competitions were arranged from the last 3 years.
This was a North Maharashtra Level competition. A district level
competition with a good reward attracted many students from the other
districts too
i.e. Jalgaon, Dhule, Nashik Districts.
The number of participants was good and overwhelming.
Till date around seventeen hundred competitors participated in this
competition.
Mr. Raj Thackeray and Mr. Vikas Subnis – Mumbai’s well known
cartoonist had graced these programs by their presence as an examiner
till now.

8) Adults Literacy Camp :-

The main cause of poverty and backwardness in any society is look of
education. Education is the key to the progress of nation. It brings
enlightment and awareness which helps in advancement of country, so
we arrange “ Adult Literacy camp” between 21st January to 27th
January at Diksai, Jalgaon.
9) 1000 Grand Children met President in Rastrapati Bhavan On
Children’s Day :-
Grand Children meets their Grandmother On Children’s Day :-

Concept of taking a thousand children to Rashtrapati Bhavan originated,

during the founder’s daily morning routine.
The idea struck to him when he was reading the newspaper.
He came across an appealing letter from a small girl from Bhusawal.
The letter was about congratulating Pratibhatai Patil on her appointment
as President of India, the pride all Maharashtrians carried because of her
being the President and subsequently requesting the President to come to
Bhusawal and meet her.
Reading this he realized it was practically impossible for the president to
come and meet all the children of Jalgaon and Bhusawal, this is how the
idea originated of making children go and meet the president.
i) A mega programme for the children to meet the President on the
occasion of “Children’s Day” was
organized by Prabodhan Sanstha.

ii) A history was created on 14th November 2007 when the first time
nearly 1000 students met the President in the President House.

It was probably for the first time a Marathi Programme was conducted
for an hour at “Rashtrapati Bhavan”

iii) It was the first time in the “Indian Railways History” an exclusive
students train was organized and huge cluster of student traversed across
2300 kms distance without parents.
An all together 1400 people gained entry into the bhavan at the same
same time.

iv) The selection was made for students on a “Talent Hunt” exam
conducted across 15 Taluka’s of Jalgaon and 91 centers for the Talent
Hunt exam in Jalgaon District.

v) The train had 17 bogies which were decorated with pictures of

leading and eminent personalities such as

▪ Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

▪ Sunita Williams
▪ Saniya Mirza
▪ Lata Mangeshkar
▪ Amitabh Bacchan
 ▪ Sachin Tendulkar
▪ Shital Mahajan etc.
For the physically challenged children - deaf and dumb, blind and
unprivileged, special care was taken.

Out of 1052 students about one third were girls.

vi) The journey commenced on 12th November 2007 from Jalgaon

Railway Station via Bhusawal, Burhanpur, Khandva, Itarci, Bhopal,
Zansi, Agra and Safdarjung Station.
And reached on 13th November 2007.

vii) All the children’s were accommodated at Dr.Babasaheb Bhavan,

Delhi. For 2 night and 2 days and were provided best possible facility
including, Tea, Snacks, Lunch & Dinner etc.

viii) Selected students were in one uniform and were given the best
facilities without the expenditure of a single penny on 14th November
2007
The President of India Shrimati Pratibhatai Patil, the grandmother from
their native interacted with the students at Grand Mugal Garden at
Rashtrapati Bhavan.
ix) Prabodhan Sanstha’s President Adv. Jayprakash Baviskar made a
request on behalf of students to conserve environment and addressed the
issue of Global Warming as well.
Focus was also given on the upcoming threats like Female feticide,
malnutrition, Aids, Polio etc and how can India overcome these issues
and head towards becoming the next super power.

x) A tree plantation programme was held by the President with the

welcome speech.
Prabodhans brief introduction and detailed programe were highlighted to
the President by Adv.Jaiprakash Baviskar.

xi) The President Grandmother Welcomed there Grand Children’s on

occasion of Children’s Day 14th November 2007 and brief the students
about these occasion. She advised students to keep the brotherhood
along with the piece, unity, spiritual values and hard work for a bright
future.

And also congratulated the Prabodhan Sanstha’s President Adv.

Jayprakash Baviskar, teachers, donors and others who made this
programme a success
She gave blessings for a bright future so as to blossom flowers to spray
fragrance throughout nation by their work.
xii) For the first time in history of India’s 60th year independence the
president gave oath to students on special topics.

“ I a responsible citizen of mother India, hereby pledge that I am abided

to protect the beautiful nature of this country.
Trees, Water & Pure Environment are responsible for our existence and
by protecting them I can guarantee a bright future for myself as well is
now imbibed within me.
For this purpose, I promise to plant and nature at least one tree during
my lifetime. As well I pledge to take steps that maintained ecological
balance and prevent global warming and also promote this thought
amongst my country man.”

xiii) The students were given feast by the grand mother the President
and group photo session with President was carried, “Delhi Darshan”
It was organized on 15th November 2007 for all the students by
providing 24 luxury buses for their transport.

xiv) The journey for return commenced on 15th November 2007 at

evening from Delhi and again by traveling same route the train reached
Jalgaon on 16th November 2007 at 8.00 pm.
The railway station was crowded with thousands of people to give warm
welcome to these children.

xv) It would always be remembered as a Grand Programme arranged

by Prabodhan Sanstha with a good team works which created a history
in doing a social work by the former MLC Advocate Jayprakash
Baviskar.
10) Tree Plantation Program :

The huge Tree Plantation Program of 1,11,111 Nos. sapling plantation

was done under the program of the sanstha.

The Objective of this huge Tree Plantation Program was to educate and
encourage those one lakh school children for the environment and
Global Warming and also to include them as President’s messenger for
above subject giving them opportunity to work while learning, other is
employment generation, ie. for taking care of Tree plantation sapling
continuously for 4 years.

Many technical staff shall be employed for the “Rashtrapati Vidyarthi

Paryavaran Sanwardhan Mission” Employed technical staff shall be
Agriculture Diploma Graduate and other more qualified staff in the
Agriculture Degree etc.

Also they established a huge nursery for sapling under the supervision of
Mahatma Phule Krushi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri.
The objectives of tree plantation drive were:

1. Improving the landscape along the road side and ensuring its
diversity

2. To develop beautiful avenue for Providing shade, and learning

experience for the public especially students and children;

3. Preserving and strengthening the ecosystems and natural resources

in order to enable the forests cover to sustain the ecological
balance.

4. A forestation by the school children, as well as strengthening its

connection to Maharashtra’s forest cover;

5. Increasing the awareness amongst the school children about the

importance of green cover and global warming by planting trees on
the road side;

6. Creation of employment and also the “Earn While You Learn

Scheme” for unemployed Agricultural Diploma Students.

7. we wished to implement waste water management program in

highway side villages in order to watering the plants.
8. Schools maintaining or participating in this tree plantation drive
will be given 4 set of computers.

9. Nandurbar & Jalgaon district is also having a huge area under

tribal and has severe malnutrition problems. Under this tree
plantation drive the Sanstha also planted fruit trees all along the
road side and area close to tribal. This will help them to get lots of
fruits and the problem of malnutrition will be minimized up to
some extent.
The trees planted and its subsequent maintenance will be conducted by
qualified agricultural supervisors in a manner that will improve the
existing environment.
ACTIVITIES OF PRABODHAN SANSTHA, JALGAON:

Information Center: - Which includes Urban & Rural vocations,

Government Project, Carrier of Woman, Technical and Commercial
courses, Competitive Examination, Carrier for technical fields.
Mount Tracking Programmed.
Vaccination Camps for Animals.
Employment Guidance Cell.
Educational Arial Photography Exhibition for History Students and
Lovers.
Awareness programs AIDS at national level.
SOCIETY DEVLOPMENT:

1) Dairy Diploma College, Jalgaon.

Was established in 1998 under the affiliation of Maharashtra Animal

Husbandry and Fishery Science University, Nagpur.
Total 120 students take the course of Dairy Diploma, all type of social,
cultural and educational programs and activity are created for the
benefits of students.
2) Agriculture Diploma School at Diksai (Jalgaon) and Nandurbar

Prabodhan Sanstha established Agricultural Polytechnic College at

Diksai (Dist.Jalgaon) and in Dist.Nandurbar in the year 2000. Each
college has 180 academic students every year. So far 1000 students of
Agricultural College have passed out with merit records.
Both college has own about 30 acres of farms for the practical of
Agriculture Field and above both colleges are affiliated under the
Mahatma Fule Agriculture University, Rahuri (Ahemednagar).

Above Agricultural college conducts and participated on social / cultural

/ educational activities. Students are guided for self employment / self
Agricultural Business, Government and private opportunities.

Since 14 years we are into agriculture farming and educating thousands

of poor farmer’s children. In earlier days we went to farmers nearby our
agriculture college and gave them practical education by visiting on their
farms.

10 years ago, our founder president donated their 18 acre family land to
this NGO and now we are farming on total 30 acre land which helps
students to perform practical education. Many part of this land was
infertile and some of it was on nature dependent farming. Today we
have completely transformed the face of this entire land and we now
take horticulture crops with help of tissue culture such as Mangoes,
banana, Pomegranate, Guava, fig, Indian Gooseberry.
3) Matoshri Primary School, Jalgaon.

Was established in 1999 with self help, Finance and hard work, Initially
Balwadi Classes, started, gradually it reached up to 7th standard. Needy
students are given free uniforms, Text Book, School bag etc.

Well constructed with a huge play ground, computer room etc, school
celebrate all type of Cultural / Social / Educational Program and many
carrier activities like festival / Birth Anniversary, Science Exhibition,
Parent Teacher meet medical check up and summer camp are organized.

Matoshri gave us an opportunity to come to Jalgaon

We as a team had to work with Matoshri Primary School. Matoshri had
such drives going on in their schools from a past few years.
This was the 7th time that the graduated students from Metro cities were
invited to their campus.

The founder of the Sanstha Mr. Jayprakash Pundlikrao Baviskar is a

man with Vision. He had always laid importance on Education. During
his lifetime he realized one thing, students from rural areas
underperformed to that of the students from urban areas. The main
reason as per his observations for such a failure was lack of Exposure.
Improper verbal and non- verbal communication just aided in a
successful failure.
He had understood that the exposure and communication were the key
points he can work on for. This is how he thought of such a program.
Students from Metro cities are invited to the school, in which the
accommodation and food are taken care by the sanstha. Additionally, the
sanstha organizes a one day tour in the nearby villages on the last day
prior to leaving.
The purpose of this drive was to bridge the gap of understanding
between the villages and cities. The activity was to teach basic English
to the students and explain the students why education is so important in
the future.

We started our activities the day we arrived at the sanstha. On the first
day itself, the sanstha had organized an Introductory session in a big
classroom wherein the children were told about us and we had to see the
responses of children. We had to check how responsive they were.
We were pretty excited right from the first day, it was something we had
never done before.
As we entered the big classroom for the introductory session, the chaos
stopped and whispers took its place. There was silence followed by
some Murmur coming from the back and the corners. As soon as we
were introduced to them of being teachers for the next few days, the
students started clapping. They were pretty happy that someone is going
to replace their old teachers so that they can flee from doing their
homeworks for a couple of days atleast. The environment of the
classroom was at par. It had a lot of energy and positivity in it.

Mr. Jayprakash Baviskar had asked Mr. Multani to take care of us. Mr.
Multani gave us quick small tour of the school campus.
The school was comparatively a bigger school than I had imagined. I
thought of it to be a school of just a few classrooms but it was a 3
floored building with a structure of Ground+2.
Mr. Multani took us to the centre of the building, there was a big lawn in
the Centre. The lawn was fresh green and the fragrance of freshly cut
grass filled our nostrils with dopamine. He then took us to the canteen, it
was a small on with an occupancy of 10 people at a time. It was a place
where the students and the staff dine. There we met Mrs. Pradnya
Multani, his wife. She told us about the food which was going to be
served for the next couple of days and explained us about the food
timings.
Breakfast – 7AM
Lunch – 12AM
Dinner – 8PM
Our timings were arranged prior to that of the students and the staff. Our
stay was arranged in a close nearby. The place just had a ceiling fan, but
it got the atmosphere much cooler than a normal cooler would do. The
breeze from farms was directly hitting the walls and partly entering the
windows. It helped to sleep so much better.

The very next day, we were given schedule about the classes we had to
take. It was a shuffled schedule. The team was divided in groups of 2.
Azam and Varsha formed a team and so were others divided. A ratio of
1:1 Boy : Girl was maintained.
2 people had to teach a class. The schedule was such that we would be
seeing the same class only once or twice.
We got back to our work after sipping the tea. As soon as me and Vishal
proceeded to take the class, we were greeted by a warm Welcome by the
class. The response was Overwhelming. We personally took everyone’s
introduction. Many of them were Shy. We started talking about random
topics and about the topics that had to be covered. We didn’t expect the
students to be so enthusiastic about learning. We were teaching a 4th
standard class, the English was Lower English. They had 2 textbooks –
An English textbook and a Grammar one.
We started teaching with the English Textbook. We explained them the
stories that were Chapters for them.
We simplified the chapters in such a way that they would understand it
very easily and it would fit in their minds so as it would help them recall
during the exams.
The story telling was fun because the class was very responsive. There
was a 2 way interaction. The class was responding well, as much as we
could have understood from their headshakes. We concluded the story
with a strong Moral. We explained the Moral by giving life examples, so
that the children will remember and understand the morals better.
After we were done, there was an exercise below the chapter which had
some questions under it. We had a good discussion on the questions and
answers. We told them how to write a good paper. We explained them
the importance of having a good handwriting. They were patient enough
to take that well. The class ended on a really good note. We asked if
someone can sing, pratik was an active participant, he came in the front
to sing. He sang really well. We all clapped for him and were full of
Praises.

The next day arrived and this time we decided to go with the Grammar.
Most of the students knew the basic tenses, we still explained them the
basics such a way that they would remember it and get good at it. The
basics of articles were taught. The time flew really fast. We didn’t
expect it to end so fast. We left for the snack time soon.
The very next day we wanted to teach more grammar to the students but
the class and slot was given to some other group. We were asked to
teach English to the students of Standard VI. We made them understand
the techniques of solving the comprehensions. They got good at it just a
few hours.
Time flew very fast. It was just now we were having a good time
teaching and the last day already came.
On the last day we had no class to teach, just a small 2-minute talk in
every class we taught. A talk about education, age, life and aims. We
had to go in every class to see the children we met. We were happy to
see that the kids were satisfied with our teachings. The heart was getting
heavier with every class passing by. It was a very short time, still we had
so much to share, cherish and stay positive.

The day came when we had to go back to our respective cities. Before
leaving, we went on a tour of our village and the nearby villages. We got
in the Jeep and sat comfortably, getting ready for the scenic views. The
jeep started and Mr. Pranjal decided to take us to the farms owned by the
Sanstha first and then the rest later. It took just 10mins for us to get up at
the spot where he wanted to show us. The scenery was beautiful. The
Sun was coming above us, with a cold breeze hitting our faces with such
a beautiful view. The farm of the santha was a 30-acre farm and there
was a river flowing from the middle of the farm. It would had been the
first time I saw such a view where the river is crossing the farm. Mr.
Pranjal said, they never face any water issues because of the continuous
water supply right in the farm. We then went to a local restaurant which
served poha.
The poha was very spicy but very tasty in its own way. We then
continued our journey to other neighboring villages. Soon the sun was
above us and we needed some rest, so we left for some nap. In the
evening we thanked Mr. Jayprakash Baviskar for giving us such an
opportunity and thanked the whole staff as well. We gifted the children
notebooks and pencils because we loved the journey with them. Soon
the sanstha got us to a bus stop and we left for Jalgaon. We had a train
from Jalgaon city the very next day.
The idea of educating them was not as pleasing as the reality was.

4) Matoshri Balak Mandir, Jalgaon.

The sanstha has a Mandir built for children who don’t have a place to
live
.
5) Prabodhan Industrial Training Centre, Pachora, Jalgaon.
The sanstha has come up with an Industrial Training Centre wherein the
individuals would be trained in such a way that they would turn out to be
Skilled employees thus securing jobs and thus helping their respective
families.
6) Prabodhan Health Club, Jalgaon.

Prabodhan Sanstha Health Club was inaugurated in July 2001 for the
young generation. It has been constructed in a18000 square feet plot
with a well built and all the modern Body Building Instruments. About
250 to 300 youngsters use the gymnasium on a daily basis.
Many health related programs, body building competitions were
conducted time to time and prizes and awards were given to winner.

Mr. Jayprakash came out with a sister company to that of the Prabodhan
Santha. The idea was to empower women and help them earn livelihood.
PRABODHAN MAHILA AUDYOGIK SAHAKARI SANSTHA
LIMITED

The idea was to provide employment to the women and make them
independent in today’s world.
 PRABODHAN MAHILA AUDYOGIK SAHAKARI
SANSTHA LTD.

Prabodhan Mahila Audyogik Sahakari Sanstha Ltd. was established in

the year 1988. For the past 29 years Prabodhan has been active in
Jalgaon and Nandurbar area in the field of social, cultural, educational,
sports and intellectual activities.

Prabodhan strongly believes in women empowerment and feels that if

the lady and the daughter of the house is educated and well informed she
is a better position to take care of the family. In line with this Prabodhan
has been tirelessly working towards organizing various skill
development camps for the rural women.
Prabodhan has created various Self-Help Groups in which the following
items are prepared and sold:
1) Different types of Spices
Women sit together and make Spices which are then collected,
packed and sold into the market. This provides them employment
and a help them securing a safe future
2) Variety of Papads.
Women sit together and make papads which are then collected,
packed and sold into the market.

This provides them employment and a help them securing a safe

future
3) Variety of Pickles.
Women sit together and make Pickles which are then collected,
packed and sold into the market.
 This provides them employment and a help them securing a safe
future

4) Snack items like Chivda, Chakli

Women sit together and make Chivda which are then collected,
packed and sold into the market. This provides them employment
and a help them securing a safe future.

5) Making of clothes
Women sit together and make papads which are then collected,
packed and sold into the market.
 This provides them employment and a help them securing a safe
future
These activities under the Self Help Groups assist the women in
developing skills and also supporting the family financially.
Prabodhan has organized various blood donation camps, sports
tournaments and training sessions for rural women etc. Prabodhan
through its various activities managed to reach the interiors of
Maharashtra.
Prabodhan has dedicated nearly 3 decades to socio- economic
development has been distributing school material to the needy children
in the villages thus enabling their education.
Education:
“Shiksha hi Vikas”
With this motto in mind Prabodhan went ahead and established
“MATOSHRI BALAK MANDIR” in Jalgaon city. Matoshri Balak
Mandir essentially admitted students from the economically backward
sections like children of laborers, daily wage workers, etc. in the year
1999. Moving ahead Prabodhan also established “Matoshri Prathamik
Vidyalay” for students for 1st Standard to 10th Standard. Prabodhan
provides uniforms. School books, stationery and School bags to all
students belonging to economically backward classes.

Apart from providing primary education to the young generation of

Rural India, Prabodhan later realized the need for enriching the farmers
of India. Through its widespread activities in the rural parts of
Maharashtra Prabodhan realized that the biggest employer is Agriculture
and if trained properly and introduced to advanced technology the
farmers in Maharashtra can produce “gold” out of their farmlands. With
this target in min Prabodhan set up “Krishi Padvika Vidyalay” under the
affiliation of “Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth- Rahuri.” in the year
2000.
Cultural and Social:

In the field of cultural activities Prabodhan has organized “The

Prabodhan Cup” where state level competitions are held for Dramatics.

In the year 2007 Prabodhan organized a massive event on manifold level.

A massive talent hunt program was organized where 1000 students were
shortlisted out of 2000 children. These children were differently abled and
belonged to economically backward classes. The travel and
accommodation of these 1000 students was done by Prabodhan.
In Delhi, the 1000 students met with the Hon’ President of India: Mrs.
Patibhatai Patil and with her esteemed guidance launched “President-
Students Environment Protection Mission”
In our zest for protecting “Mother Nature” we propose to conduct an
massive tree plantation drive along National Highway 6.

“MAATE kadun GO MAATE che SAURAKSHAN”

Through the various years Prabodhan has spent working in rural

Maharahstra, a very distinct and prominent picture that stood out was
that at least 65% of the households have 2-3 milch animals.
After extensively studying the cattle feed scenario, the uncertainties of
availability of good quality feed and fodder, the adverse effect of
draught on the crops which are later used in feeds etc, lead to the
understanding that these fluctuations lead to inadequate production of
milk, the quality of milk and the health of the animals is also affected.

Prabodhan later successfully bided for the Operations and Management

License of “Vaibhav Cattle Feed Factory” situated at Borvihir, Dhule.
The factory is currently owned by The Maharashtra State Co- operative
Marketing Federation Ltd. and they have awarded Prabodhan M.A.S.S
the License to operate the factory for a period of 5 years.
Vaibhav cattle feed has been available in the market for the past 46
years. The brand was established in the year 1971. The factory is owned
by The Maharashtra State Co-operative Marketing Federation Ltd. The
factory is situated on a land parcel of 18 acres. Out of the 18 acres 11
acres of the land has been utilized for:
1) The factory building.
2) Godown.
3) Molasses Storage Tanks – 7 Nos.
4) Office Building.
5) Canteen.
6) Residential Quarters.
7) Roads.
The balance 7 acres is open land. The entire factory premises are
fenced.
Infrastructure Details:
1) Pellet Machine: the Pelleting machine is manual and the installed
capacity is 100 MT.
2) Godown: there are a total of 4 godowns each with the storage
capacity of 2000 MT. Two out of the 4 godowns are used for
storage of raw material and 1 is used for storage of finished
products.
3) Molasses Storage Tanks: there are total 8 tanks for storage of
molasses with the combined capacity of 6990 MT. 1 out of the 8
tanks is an underground tank. The capacity of the tanks is as
follows

.
4) Office Building: the office building is G+1 structure, where the
ground floor comprises of a well equipped laboratory where the
quality testing of raw materials and finished product is done. There
are 2 rooms dedicated as guest rooms. Other rooms are used as
store rooms and conference room. The first floor of the building is
dedicated for the administrative office.

5) Weighbridge: there are 2 weighbridges installed in the factory

premises each with a capacity of 30 MT.
The Product:
National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has laid down the ideal
composition for cattle feed. As per NDDB and BIS standards the ideal
protein percentage in the feed for milking animals should be 18%, 20%

Product range for Milking Animals:

1) Vaibhav Mahashakti- 18% protein.
 2) Vaibhav Gold- 20% protein.
3) Vaibhav Kohinoor- 22% protein.
Product Range for Non- Milking Animals:
1) Vaibhav Mahashakti- 16% protein.
2) Vaibhav Supreme- 14% protein.
The above mentioned products will be available in pellet as well as
powder form.
Marketing Channels:
Vaibhav has its presence in the market for the past 49 years. Prabodhan
has been active in the rural parts of Maharashtra since 1988. The
association of these two strong entities is bound to create waves in the
cattle feed industry. Prabodhan will be re-entering the market with New
and Improved Vaibhav Cattle feed” through the following channels:
1) Self Help Groups: The existing network of Prabodhan will play a
vital role in this. These SHG’s will be provided the necessary
support in the form of logistics, marketing literature, etc in order to
enable them to sell cattle feed in their as well as nearby villages.
2) Collection centers and Co-operative dairy units: in Maharashtra
there are milk collection centers in the villages and districts where
small and marginal famers who cannot reach the cities or urban
dairies sell the milk produced from their cattle. Prabodhan
proposes to exploit this channel and tie up with these collection
centre owners and provide Vaibhav cattle feed. Similar tie ups are
proposed with co-operative dairy units.
3) JJ Overseas: Prabodhan has appointed JJ Overseas as its official
marketing and retailing partner for Vaibhav Cattle feed. JJ
Overseas has an experience of more than 18 years in practical
farming of Hi-Tech agriculture; they have further diversified their
 activities from farming to manufacturing to supplying state-of-the-
art technological equipments for specialized agriculture. JJ
Overseas has a team of 30 marketing professionals
combing vast expanse of Maharashtra. The strong network of JJ
will be instrumental in the widespread reach in Maharashtra.

Prabodhan will also be closely working with government organizations

and other NGO’s to promote nutrition and well being of the cattle in the
state.

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