Eminent psychologist and educationist Dr Jawahar Surisetti has brought the social revolution called Gyaandaan that is rated by India Innovation Fund as one of the top 10 social innovations in the country to Chhattisgarh.
It has been seen that the various imbalances in the social structure force inequalities between the advantaged and the disadvantaged. While the well to do students throw away their books or sell it in the form of scrap, poor students leave their studies due to the lack of these books. Gyaandaan acts as a bridge between the disadvantaged and the advantaged to reduce these inequalities.
In this ingenious but simple innovation, Dr Jawahar collects all educational materials like books , notebooks,pens, compass boxes and any other material and creates a central library . It is from here that books that are required by students are issued to the needy for one academic year after which they are again brought back to the library to be reissued to another student.
Gyaandaan has helped more than 3000 students and has collected more than 10000 books in Maharashtra . This process of redistribution not just helps students who wish to study do so but also reduces the drop out rate.
In Raipur there are a deluge of helping hands that have sprung up for this social cause. Maharaja Agrasen International College has agreed to house the library and undertake the redistribution of books. MAIC students have undertaken this project under the lifeskills project to lend their services to run this project. Gujarati School ahs provided the bus for collection of books on Sunday the 30th May .
The schedule of the Gyaandaan Tour on 30th May for collection of books and other material is as follows:
The bus will start collecting books at 8 am on Sunday. 8 am to 8.30 am near BTI Ground Shankar Nagar, 8.40 am to 9 am at Bhagat Singh Chowk, 9.10 am to 9.30 am at OCM Chowk Civil Lines, (.40 am to 10 am at Tagore Nagar Chowk, 10.20 am to 10.50 am at Kanchan Ashv Deendayal Upadhyay Nagar, 11 am to 11.30 am at Agrasen Chowk Samta Colony,and 11.40 am to 12.10 at Devendra Nagar near HDFC Bank. Parents and students are requested to get any educational material that they wish to donate at these places and submit along with the name and address of the donor.This programme is being organized across the country by Religion of youth .
