Changed role of Dnyandeep Foundation

Dnyandeep Foundation, when established in 2005, had two main objectives

1. To propmote social and educational websites

2. To develop learning material in Marathi medium in different subjects

3. To conduct seminars and conference in Solar Energy, Green Building and Green Technology

Over the years, foundation carried out many activities to fulfill the objectives and also expanded its scope to include mobile app development, Book and CD publications and promotion to innovation and entrepreneurship, Walchand Heritage Project, Work from Home and Free lance working. .

After the seminar on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli, Dnyandeep Foundation came in contact with many innovators, professionals and organisations, who had different ideas about the scope of this movement and it was difficult to follow and fulfill everybody's intentions.

There was also necessity to plan for financial stability of Dnyandeep Foundation, as the web hosting, seminars and travels burdened Dnyandeep Infotech Pvt. Ltd. financially and also the voluntary work by its staff. Hence decision was taken to separate these two organizations, and develop self sustained model for Dnyandeep Foundation activities.

Instead of trying to get grants or financial support from industries, it was decided to build the funds by individual contributions in form of annual and life member subscriptions. The annual subscription was kept sufficiently high to keep casual participants away and to make the foundation a collective enterprise with equal contribution, authority and responsibility.

Very few people joined the foundation and some started new setup to promote only innovation concept. Dnyandeep Foundation supported their move and offered all assistance on no loss no profit basis to newly formed CISTED Foundation..

Dnyandeep Foundation then thought of creating a open platform for Indian professionals and organisations, with the aim of creating a group without any specific category of expertise or experience.  Thus people from Arts, Commerce, Engineering and Medical fields can join this platform and are free to for groups and work either with banner of Dnyandeep Foundation or completely separate organisation.

Paid membership of Dnyandeep Foundation was kept optional and for those, who wish to take active participation of foundation activities.

With the change in nature of open platform, Dnyandeep Foundation shall be only providing facility for linking of professionals, the only restriction of entry to Indian professionals.

Dnyandeep Infotech Pvt. Ltd. has specific plans of IT and Environmental consultancy and would associate Dnyandeep Foundation in a similar capacity like other member organisations.

Many of my relatives, friends and students are advising me to concentrate on few specific fields so that concrete progress can be done with limited manpower and financial resources.

However, in my opinion, there is a need to promote Indian  entrepreneurs and experts in all fields and bring small business units to come together on common platform to fight domination by MNCs.

Therefore, Dnyandeep Foundation has changed its role from active organisation pursuing planned agenda to passive support system for networking such diverse, dispersed and weak groups and experts for better prospects of collaboration and working for Atmanirbhar Bharat.

Dnyandeep Foundation also hopes that its work from home and Free Lance work groups will get support from associates and they will join as active members in future. Moreover,  many organisations may start  development work in fields of their interest with associates registered in open forum and may become   Dnyandeep foundationmembers.

I feel that this new role will give inspiration to some such well established large  social organisations to take lead in such cooperative working setup.

माजी विद्यार्थी संघटना - उद्दिष्टे आणि कार्य

 शाळा व कॉलेजमध्ये शिकून विद्यार्थी बाहेर पडले तरी त्यांना या शिक्षणसंस्थांबद्दल आपलेपणा व प्रेम असते. संस्कारमय वयात या शाळा कॉलेजात बराच काळ घालविल्यामुळे तेथील शिक्षकवर्ग, एकंदरित वातावरण, मित्रपरिवार आणि अनेक कार्यक्रमातील सहभाग यामुळे या स्मृती सर्वांनाच जिव्हाळ्याच्या व आनंददायी वाटतात.

शाळा सोडून कॉलेजमध्ये गेल्यावर किंवा कॉलेजमधून बाहेरच्या जगात नोकरी वा व्यवसायानिमित्त बाहेर पडल्यावर या मित्रपरिवाराची ताटातूट होते. तरीदेखील केव्हाही आपल्या शाळेतील वा कॉलेजातील कोणीही भेटले तरी आपल्याला त्यांचा अभिमान व आपलेपणा वाटतो. माजी विद्यार्थी म्हणून आपले एक नवे नाते तयार होते. या नात्यातूनच एकमेकांना मदत करण्याची प्रेरणा मिळते. माजी विद्यार्थी संघटनेचे कार्य असे नाते वृद्धींगत करणे हे असते. याचा फायदा शिक्षणसंस्थेला निश्चितच होतो. पण यासाठी माजी विद्यार्थ्यांच्या हितासाठी असे संघटन माजी विद्यार्थ्यांनीच चालविले तर ते अधिक प्रभावी आणि सर्वांनाच लाभदायी ठरते.

शाळा कॉलेजला नदीची उपमा दिली तर माजी विद्यार्थी संघटनेला जीवनसागरातील  या नदीचा विखुरलेला पण एकमेकांना आधार देणारा प्रवाह समजता येईल. माजी विद्यार्थ्यांना जीवनात अनेक समस्यांना एकाकीपणे तोंड द्यावे लागते. त्यांच्या मदतीसाठी अशी सशक्त व सक्रीय संघटना असली तर त्यांना त्याचा फायदा होईल.

शाळाकॉलेजातून बाहेर पडणा-या विद्यार्थ्यांना मार्गदर्शन करणे, त्यांच्या समस्या सोडविणे, त्यांचे यश सुनिश्चित करणे ही कामे अशी संघटनेतर्फे झाली तर सर्व माजी विद्यार्थी आपणहून अशा संस्थेचे सदस्य बनतील आणि संस्थेसाठी आपलेपणाने कार्य करतील. शिक्षणसंस्थेला आपल्या सर्व माजी विद्यार्थ्यांशी संपर्क साधण्यासाठी, संस्थेच्या प्रगतीची माहिती व मदतीची अपेक्षा वा विद्यार्थ्यांना मार्गदर्शनासाठी विनासायास एक स्रोत तयार होईल.

 शिक्षणसंस्थेच्या माजी विद्यार्थी संघटनेस स्वायत्तता असेल तरच या सर्व गोष्टी घडू शकतील. अन्यथा केवळ मदत मागण्यासाठी शिक्षणसंस्थेने माजी विद्यार्थ्यांशी संपर्क साधला तर फारसा प्रतिसाद मिळत नाही. यासाठी माजी विद्यार्थ्यांचे हित सांभाळण्याची जबाबदारी आपली आहे हे शिक्षणसंस्थेने मानले पाहिजे व अशी वेगळी संस्था करण्यास प्रोत्साहन दिले पाहिजे. अशी संस्था माजी शिक्षक, माजी प्राध्यापक व शिक्षकेतर कर्मचारी सर्वांचेच हित सांभाळेल व  शिक्षण संस्थेच्या उन्नतीसाठी कार्यरत राहील.

ज्ञानदीप फौंडेशनने याच दृष्टीकोनातून वालचंद कॉलेजच्या माजी विद्यार्थी संघटनेचे कार्य आपल्या हाती घेतले आहे. कॉलेजला आपल्या अशा संस्थेकडून जे कार्य करणे शक्य होणार नाही ते सर्व कार्य करण्याचे स्वातंत्र्य वालचंद हेरिटेज प्रकल्पात माजी विद्यार्थ्यांना मिळणार असून त्याचा फायदा वालचंद कॉलेजलाच होणार आहे.

Small consultancy units and Freelancers should unite rather than compete

The present domination of MNCs in getting the maximum share of big projects in India can become a threat for survival of small independent consultancy units and free lance workers, as the MNCs have power to attract customers and have plenty of financial resources for employing experts, spend on  advertisement and well managed administrative setup. They also create fear about legal and security problems in the minds of customers who are using local services.

IT industry is the first target of such MNCs as majority of services can be provided by global support with very low cost or even free, high quality and with lot of tempting offers and discounts, which are not affordable for  small players to offer. As these MNCs have similar service centers at multiple locations they can balance the demand supply disparity by reallocating the resources. They also attract expert manpower from small units by offering lucrative salary packages and perks.

Big projects require large manpower, research and development and multi level and distributed planning of activities.  Govt. at Center and State and other semi-government agencies who are proponents of big projects generally rely on such MNCs for successful implementation of projects. Even Dnyandeep Infotech lost a good client Kolhapur Corporation where the company had secured 2nd prize in Maharashtra state in Web Design .due to entry of HCL Indian big player.

This has resulted in closure of small units not only in India but the world over. Even in USA, majority of small units are on the way to close or declare bankruptcy due to such unfair competition.

Cooperation and consortium of small units is the only option to fight back and provide a sustainable and indigenous alternative to these MNCs.

India and particularly Maharashtra state has shown power of cooperatives in successful growth of industries and business. As the cooperatives have deep roots in society and the benifits go to all, they have sustainability and high acceptability from society.

Unfortunately IT industry has not yet adopted this course leading to precarious conditions of existing units, which are competing for small projects within themselves and trying to become subcontractors of dealers of MNCs with very low profit and dependency.

Dnyandeep Foundation has decided to create such a business model to provide equal opportunity of success to all small units.

Dnyandeep Infotech Pvt. Ltd. aslo will be considered as a separate small unit in this setup and has to compete for project allocation with other partners of Dnyandeep Foundation.

This is a dream for digital self reliant India and I hope such experiments should start at othe places also by relatively big and strong players having political or social backing.

आपल्या शिक्षणसंस्थेची गौरवगाथा

आपल्या  जीवनात शाळा कॉलेजमधील काळ हा नेहमी जिव्हाळ्याच्या आठवणींचा आनंददायी खजिना असतो.
 
शिक्षणसंस्था या समाजाच्या मानबिंदू असतात. प्रत्येक लहान मोठ्या शहरात अशा अनेक ध्येयवादी संस्था  आपल्या निरलस कार्याने नावारुपास आलेल्या आहेत. परिस्थितीतील बदलांमुळे यापैकी काही संस्थांचा इतिहास गौरवशाली असला तरी सध्याची स्थिती आर्थिक अडचणीमुळे बिकट बनलेली असून संस्था पुढे चालविणेही त्यांना अवघड जात  आहे.

याउलट यापैकीच काही संस्थांनी आपल्या कुशल व्यवस्थापनाच्या जोरावर संस्थेयी वाढ सर्वांगाने करून बालवाडीपासून उच्चमहाविद्यालयीन शिक्षणाच्या सोयी अनेक ठिकाणी निर्माण करून आपल्या संस्थेचे जाळे सर्वदूर पसरवले आहे. तरीदेखील या संस्थांना आपल्या सुविधा वाढविण्यासाठी निधीची गरज आहे.

या दोन्ही संस्थांसाठी स्थापनेपासूनचा इतिहास हा एक महत्वाचा ठेवा असतो. या संस्थांतून शिकून गेलेले व उद्योग, व्यवसायात यशस्वी झालेले माजी विद्यार्थी हे शिक्षणसंस्थेला पुन्हा तिच्या भावी कार्यासाठी भरीव अर्थसाहाय्य करू शकतात.  असते.  मात्र त्यांच्यापर्यंत पोहोचण्याची व   त्यांना संस्थेने घडविल्याची जाणीव करून देण्यासाठी संस्थेचा इतिहास, संस्थापकांचे योगदान, विद्येबरोबरच संस्कार दिलेल्या गुरुजनांची माहिती, संस्थेच्या प्रगतीतील विविध प्रसंग आणि यशस्वी माजी विद्यार्थ्यांची माहिती इंटरनेटवरून मिळावी यासाठी एक गौरवगाथा वा स्मरणिकारुपी वेबसाईट तयार केली तर ती संस्थेसाठी एक महत्वाचे साधन ठरेल

सध्या प्रत्येक संस्थेची वेबसाईट असतेच पण त्यात चालू शैक्षणिक कार्याची आणि सुविधांची माहिती द्यावी लागत असल्याने अशा ऐतिहासिक माहिती कोशासाठी जागा नसते शिवाय माजी विद्यार्थांशी संपर्क साधण्यास त्याचा फारसा उपयोग होत नाही. यामुळे अशी वेगळी वेबसाईट माजी विद्यार्थ्यांच्या सहकार्यातून केल्यास  प्रत्येक  शिक्षणसंस्थेला नवसंजीवनी मिळेल.

वालचंद इंजिनिअरिंग कॉलेज, सांगली या संस्थेसाठी ज्ञानदीप फौंडेशनने वालचंद हेरिटेज या नावाचा प्रकल्प httP://walchandalumni.com  या माजी विद्यार्थ्यांच्या वेबसाईटवर यशस्वीरीत्या सुरू केला. यासाठी माजी प्राध्यापक संस्था, माजी विद्यार्थी संस्था आणि कॉलेजमधील सर्व शिक्षक, शिक्षकेतर कर्मचा-यांनी स्वयंस्फूर्त मदत केली.

आता या बेबसाईटवर कोणालाही घरबसल्या कॉलेजचा सर्व इतिहास, प्रगतीचे टप्पे, माजी शिक्षकांचा परिचय, माजी विद्यार्थी मेळावे आणि त्यांच्या जुन्या काळातील आठवणी सचित्र पहावयास मिळतात. अजून यात बरीच माहिती घालावयाची असून माजी प्राध्यापक संस्था, माजी विद्यार्थी संस्था आणि कॉलेजमधील सर्व शिक्षक, शिक्षकेतर कर्मचा-यांनी स्वयंस्फूर्त मदत करावी आणि वेबसाईटसोबत प्रत्यक्षही असे इतिहासाच्या पाऊलखुणा दाखविणारे दालन उभे करावे यासाठी ज्ञानदीप प्रयत्नशील आहे.

वालचंद हेरिटेज प्रकल्पाद्वारे ज्ञानदीपने इतर सर्व शिक्षणसंस्थांना एक पथदर्शी प्रकल्प सादर केला आहे.

ज्ञानदीप इन्फोटेक या गेली वीस वर्षे वेबडिझाईन क्षेत्रात कार्य करीत असणा-या संस्थेने शिक्षणसंस्थेतील विद्यमान  प्राध्यापकांच्या सहयोगातून  असे हेरिटेज प्रकल्प करण्याचे ठरविले असून शिक्षणसंस्थांनी यात सहभागी व्हावे आणि आपली चिरंतन स्मृती नव्या सायबर विश्वात निर्माण करावी असे मला वाटते.
 याबाबतीत info@dnyandeep.com किंवा info@dnyandeep.net येथे संपर्क साधावा

Let us come together for 2020 Web Technology

Dnyandeep Infotech Pvt. Ltd. is the oldest webdesign company in Sangli established in 2000. The company has designed above 150 websites for industries, businesses, social organisations and educational institute. However, these websites were designed by using the web technology which was latest at that time.

 The times have changed and web technology also has changed at mind-blowing speed. With the entry and popularity of mobile devices, responsive, mobile friendly websites became the need of the day.

On technology front, static websites, asp based websites, Dynamic websites with PHP- MySql data support, Flash and Flex appliacations, CodeIgniter, PyroCMS framework based websites and Fully CMS based Wordpress and Joomla web portals and Single Page Applications were used by Dnyandeep to give advantage of latest designs to clients. Dnyandeep Infotech also developed many web applications like marriage beaurow, digital library, Online appointment, Online examination, e-commerce and membership related software at backend.

However, due to lack of awareness about necssity of updation and adding new features, many clients just kept the websites as showpieces. Naturally, the visitors declined and the very purpose of having website was lost. Many clients chose cheaper options of competitors who were having financial backup for marketing and used ready made templates for lowering cost..

Currently Dnyandeep is developing websites using variety of technologies like React, Angular and Vue, NodeJS and Python based Flask and Django frameworks. It  has also developed many Android and iOS apps  in educational sector for  Sanskrit learning  and literature.

However, our expert workforce has diminished due to lucrative job offers from MNCs and we have to change our strategy to remain in the market.

Now we have realised our mistake of neglecting   marketing and advertisements as we thought clients will remain with us based on quality of service. Similarly retaining top notch technicians and software specialists is not possible unless we get large projects and foreign assignments.

Hence,  we have decided to collaborate with our competitors and share and exchange  knowledge and development tools  we use in latest technologies so that  together, we can build a large workforce to undertake large projects and expand our activities with mutual benefit.

Dnyandeep Foundation has launched an open platform for such collaborative working with professionals and organisations who can form groups of their choice and grow their business as Dnyandeep Associates. Please enroll your name as individual or organisation member and join this "Together We win" cooperative movenent in IT sector. ( Visit membership section of http://dnyandeep.net website)

I appeal to eninerring colleges and small IT units to join hands for providing a sustainable, multferrous business consortium model.

Heritage Projects for Educational Institutes

Dnyandeep  has launched Walchand Heritage Project to record history of Walchand Coolege of Engineering, Sangli which was established in 1947 by founder Late Shri. Dhondumama Sathe. The project is hosted on website of Association of Past Students of college ie http://www.walchandheritage.com.

The website contains year-wise progress reports of infrastructural development, Department News, Biodata of Retired Teachers, Photographs of various important events and activities done by college, articles of students and teachers in college magazine and past student meets.

It was a huge task of getting old photographs, magazines and biodata of all teachers. However, with contribution of all retired teachers, college staff and past students, it has taken a good shape. Still we wish to add information of Non teaching staff and fill in the gaps. This has become a good image building exercise for the Walchand College. Dnyandeep announced this project by conducting a seminar on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at college..

This has created a memorable treasure for past students to create and maintain affection with college and has become a main asset for the institute.

With this experience at hand and 20 years of track record in Web Design, Dnyandeep is ready to launch such Heritage projects for educational institutes and colleges, which are proud of their glorious history and wish to build a showcase of their progress, values and achievements of their past Students.

Interested institutes should contact Dnyandeep (info@dnyandeep.com) . The heritage website shall be built with latest CMS and shall be responsive and mobile friendly. The college or institute should form a cell to gather all necessary data.

For more info you may contact me personally at drsvranade@gmail.com.

गुगल मीट का गुगल मिठी ?

 कोरोनाच्या जगावरील अचानक आक्रमणामुळे सर्व देशांची अर्थव्यवस्था मोडकळीस आली. भारतातही लॉकडाऊनमुळे सर्व व्यवहार ठप्प झाले. याचा जबर फटका इतर क्षेत्रांप्रमाणे शिक्षणक्षेत्रालाही बसला. ऑनलाईन शिक्षण व परिक्षा  हाच पर्याय राहिल्याने सर्व शिक्षणसंस्थांची मोठी अडचण झाली. गुगल हॅंगआऊट, स्काईपसारख्या सुविधा वापरण्यात मर्यादा येत होत्या. अशावेळी झूम या चिनी कंपनीच्या सुविधेचा वापर करण्यवाचून भारत व अमेरिकेलाही गत्यंतर उरले नाही. 

गुगलने झूमपेक्षाही सरस आणि अनेक सुविधा असलेले गुगल मीट सुरू केले आणि आपल्याला हायसे वाटले.  गुगलने  क्लासरूम, जामबोर्ड, स्लाईड शेअर व अशाच अनेक ऑनलाईन सुविधांचा वापर गुगल मीटमध्ये करण्याची सोय केली आहे व त्याचा वापर कसा करायचा याचे व्हिडिओ यूट्यूबवर प्रसिद्ध केले आहेत. . 

भारतात फार मोठी गंतवणूक करून सध्याच्या पारंपरिक शिक्षण पद्धतीला एक सशक्त ऑनलाईन शिक्षणाचा पर्याय गुगलने सर्वांना देऊ केला आहे खरे पण गुगलच्या हातात शिक्षणाची  सारी सूत्रे जाणार आहेत. याचा परिणाम काय होईल हे अभ्यासले पाहिजे.   येथील शिक्षणसंस्थांना आपल्या भवितव्याविषयी गांभिर्याने विचार करण्यास  भाग पाडले आहे.

गुगलची ही प्रेमाची भेट म्हणजे सा-या शिक्षणव्यवस्थेलाच बसणारी मगरमिठी ठरू शकेल. गुगलप्रमाणेच मायक्रोसॉफ्ट, अडोब, इंटेल, आयबीएम आणि इतर अनेक बलाढ्य आयटी कंपन्या भारतातील विद्यार्थ्यांची बाजारपेठ काबीज करण्यासाठी पुढे सरसावल्या असून थोड्याच काळात आपले विद्यार्थी परदेशी विद्यापीठांतून व परदेशी शिक्षकांकडून शिकू लागतील.

 जी स्थिती शिक्षण संस्थांची तीच स्थिती भारतातील सर्व उद्योगांची आणि व्यवसायांची होण्याची शक्यता नाकारता येत नाही. आत्मनिर्भर भारत ही फक्त घोषणाच राहील पण वर्चस्व बहुराष्च्रीय कंपन्यांचे राहील अशी भीती वाटते.

भारताने आयटी क्षेत्राकडे अक्षम्य दुर्लक्ष केले आहे. आयटी क्षेत्रातील लोकांनी परदेशी कंपन्यांना मोठे केले पण भारतातील जनतेला अज्ञानाच्या अंधकारात ठेवले. अजूनही कोणत्याही मोठ्या शहराची देखील स्थानिक भाषेत संपूर्ण माहिती देणारी वेबसाईट नाही. छोटी गावे आणि खेडेगावांची तर बातच सोडा. गेली वीस वर्षे भारतीय भाषांचा आग्रह धरणा-या ज्ञानदीपची स्थिती शाळा किंवा रेल्वेच्या प्लॅटफॉर्म सारखी राहिली व विद्यार्थी शिकून परदेशात वा बहुराष्ट्रीय कंपन्यांत जात राहिले.

आज सर्व व्यवहार ऑनलाईन करण्याची आपल्यावर वेळ आली आहे पण आपल्या जनतेला हे तंत्रज्ञान शिकविण्याची जबाबदारी येथील शिक्षणसंस्थांनी प्रामुख्याने हाती घ्यावयास  हवी. स्थानिक भाषेचा आग्रह धरला तरच  आंतरराष्ट्रीय कंपन्यांना भविष्यात तरी आपण यशस्वीपणे तोंड देऊ शकू.

 ज्ञानदीपचा स्थानिक भाषेचा आग्रह यासाठीच आहे. आपल्याला आपल्या भाषेबद्दलच कमीपणाची भावना आहे. त्यामुळे आमच्या वेबसाईट वा सॉफ्टवेअरच्या कामाकडे केवळ कुतुहल व होस या दृष्टीकोनातून पाहिले गेले. इंग्रजी हीच आपली भाग्यविधाता भाषा राहिली. आता ही स्थानिक भाषाच आपल्याला नवे बळ देऊ शकेल कारण ती वापरण्यात आंतरराष्ट्रीय कंपन्या आपल्यापेक्षा पुढे जाऊ शकत नाहीत. चीन कोरिया, रशिया यांनी शिक्षणात आपली भाषा सक्तीची करून बहुराष्ट्रीय कंपन्यांना अटकाव केला आहे. तीच रणनीती आपण आखली पाहिजे.

Enroll as trainer and build a startup

Dnyandeep Foundation shall be providing an open platform for trainers  who are in service but dream of becoming entrereneur some day.  This will be online work from home program for learners who will choose trainers. In this novel scheme  the learners will decide the type of skill development or topic of study and  shall pay requisite fees to Dnyandeep Foundation and 50% of the receipts shall be paid to the trainer after satisfactory internship, which will be decided by learner and not trainer. Thus there shall not be any formal examination.

If you are a talented professional with some experience and are thinking of starting your own business, but can't find enough time to work on it,  you can join Dnyandeep Internship program as a trainer. You can build your own  startup by training fresh graduates while getting paid for the training.

Many fresh graduates are in need of practical experience and knowledge about the working of professional organisation. They will be ready to work full time by paying training fees to get required practical experience and knowledge with certificate of internship, which will help them to get job placement or become entrepreneur.

While training the students, you can try out your ideas and ask them to work on them as assignments and through such trainings build your own portfolio and plan for startup. Even the students who have got training from you may join you as assistants. You can start a new business with their help.

As you are in service, it is easy for you to get loan and provide the seed capital. Instead of investing money in other company's shares and wait for their good perfomance, you can take a limited risk and get returns on your investment by managing your own business.

Web Master – Emerging New Post for every Business and organisation

The Corona effect has blasted off the importance of  huge costly infrastructure and workplace amenities which were used by big corporates and wealthy organisations to lure the IT engineers to join their workforce. Even the pleasure and comfort of living in mega cities, posh locations and costly places in foreign countries have lost their glamour.

Work from home may become a preferred way to employ talented software engineers located any where. Thus the people living in remote villages also can do job in big corp orates.Recently I read a news that a big IT company in San Fransisco shifted its main office at remote place in Tamilnadu. This change has opened up plenty of opportunities for educated IT personnel in India to work from their hometown comfortably either as a freelance worker or webmaster in any industry or organization.

Website represents presence of industry or organization in cyber world. We are conversant with Microsoft, Google, Yahoo companies through their websites. Their geographical location, infrastructure, workforce do not carry any significance and remain mostly unknown to  users and customers. Hence, small and newly established companies also can compete with these big international business giants through their web presentation skills and attract customers.

Traditionally, the businesses were spending huge amounts on infrastructure like offices, shops and showrooms to create public image and status for enhancing customer base. But now the times are changing.  Advertisement and  Communication through internet  has crossed all hurdles of location and time and accessibility constraints. It has become far more effective, convenient , economical and customer centric. Naturally, marketing strategy has undergone sea change, where website has to play the key role in running the business and its growth.  

In India, government has taken a major policy decision to  promote e-governance in all sectors and  use of internet also is growing rapidly. Government offices, Railways, Banks, Educational Institutes have already adopted internet as the main channel of communication and information dissemination. Industries and other organizations have started to gear up for adoption of net based  activities.

However,  there is no serious attempt to streamline the process of using website as main marketing tool. It is observed that most of the websites in India are not maintained and updated properly leading to unreliability of information displayed. Naturally websites remain only as informative brochures or showpiece.

Establishment of web management department under the leadership of properly trained webmaster is the need of the day. For big organizations, web office should have web developers, content writers, web designers, graphic designers, multimedia technicians, data entry operators and system analysts. In small organizations, such a separate web office is not affordable and the job of design and updating is generally done from outside parties. 

Still there is a need of specific post of web master, who will be acting as liaison officer with a responsibility of keeping website up to date, free from any errors or broken links. He should also have basic knowledge of webdesign, modifying or adding contents, uploading of webpages and  images, and multimedia resources. Web master should be able use remote server  control panel of website and  update the website without help from outside webdesign company  at any time as per requirements of organization.

Naturally webmaster should be jack of all necessary trades even if not a master of any specific  field. The online webmaster course launched by Dnyandeep Foundation is designed to address these specific requirements of webmaster for small organization, industry or business. 

 For more information and clarification, please contact info@dnyandeep.net

Formal and Informal Education

In our life, we are learning new things every moment  in the form of visuals, audio and through other senses and the information gets stored in the brain either for temporary or for longer time. Some of the  information  seeps through the top conscious memory to deep permanant memory getting converted into experience. This process of acquisition of knowledge is natural and hence we respect elders with experience higher than us.

We had old gurukul system of education, where students used to stay with their teacher and learn in a natural environment without other life attractions. The traditional skills and occupations were family based and sustainable to meet the needs of society.

With increase of population and need of speedy but effective education to masses, formal education system was evolved which has now expanded globally in the form of educational institutes and its working has become like an industry producing degree and diploma holders with specific qualifications.

Major part of our life is occupied with formal education which is well planned and has specific purpose and monitored by outside agencies like schools and colleges. School education teaches us about history, nature, society and gives us general information about the major faculties of knowledge necessary for doing service or business. The college education is required to  acquire skills and expertise in particular branch of knowledge. Degree or diploma certificate becomes the proof of our qualification.

Industries and business organisations select suitable candidates based on educational qualifications for further choice through personal interviews. Naturally formal education and success in the examination becomes a crucial factor in job placement.

Though formal education has a major role in career development, we find that religion, social service, pursuing art, music and in liturature, people seem to be following the old gurukul system of learning from guru. It is observed that people do life long studies to acquire knowlege or skills and get pleasure and satisfaction in life.   

We also find many  people in society, who have failed to acquire necessary qualification in formal education, but succeeded in business or industry. They could succeed mainly due to actual working with established businesses and learning through failures and setbacks.  

At present, there are many graduates in search of job having necessary qualifications but industry and business requirements are shrinking  drastically. Moreover, fresh graduates lack necessary skills or experience required  for starting new business or meeting industry requirements. The only way out is  to get expertise and skill development throgh gurukul type system of learning from successful people from industries and businesses by actual internship under their guidance.

Dnyandeep Foundation's online internship is mainly focussed on promoting such full time experience under the guidance of professionals.

However, considering the need of such facility to students pursuing academic course of people engaged in full time job, flexible part time training option also is provided.

We feel that one to one interaction between expert and student and actual  learning-working combination will create new opportunities of employment through confidence building and can promote entrepreneurship also. New startups can emerge through such groups of  people from business and learners who are dedicated to work with purpose.

Indian Digital Service Forum

Due to role of  Corona spread, China  has lost status of favorite destination for investment by global IT companies.

Recently  Microsoft, Google and many other companies have announced their plans of huge investments in India and this will  definitely give a boost to employment and development projects in IT infrastructure and communication media.  Ofcourse, it should be realised that its impact on business and industry will be  twofold i.e. generation of new opportunities and threat of worldwide competition with mighty international firms

In India, due to increased dependency on financial resources, there are more threats than opportunities due to these developments. The  foreign investments will open up new acquisitions, throttle local business growth and create channels for import of foreign goods and services causing damage to small industries and local business units.

However, we have huge skilled human resource available at low cost and its mobilization can transform the situation into quality improvement , capacity increase and new opportunities in export of products and services world over.The spirit of nationality and love of regional languages are main strong points for protection and growth of small indigenous units.

Educational institutes and in particular, Engineering colleges can play a significant role in protecting the  local business and industry and empower them to grow in spite of competition by foreign companies.

Indian Digital  Service Forum

Dnyandeep Infotech Pvt. Ltd. is a small web design and software development company, with close liaison to many educational institutes through its Dnyandeep Education & Research Foundation. The company has established good rapport with social media in Sangli and Kolhapur districts and has trained many students to acquire and utilise latest technical tool sets in Web Technology and apply them for developing websites and apps in Marathi media.

Dnyandeep Foundation has conducted many seminars in Solar and Green technology and Dnyandeep Infotech has recently started Environmental Consultancy division to mobilise its resources through contacts in this field with long track record of consultancy over three decades.

The educational institutes have ample skilled human resource in the form of students and faculty expert in various fields of science and technology and infrastructural facilities like laboratories, workshops and library. They have good linkages with local community, industries and business organizations.

A very innovative India specific Joint Venture Projects can be undertaken by the two for providing digital education services in regional languages,  IOT and Environmental  consultancy for nearby community as well as business and industrial sectors..

Scope of IDS Forum .

• Survey and data collection from local community  about  social and academic and  business development needs and opportunities in applications of digital and green technologies.
• Establishing professional relationships with organisations for undertaking joint research and development projects
  
• Development of website portals  in regional languages for exchange of information and development prospects for entrepreneurship of graduating students. .
  
• Development of Professional Experts and past students  database and  create a bridge for professional training through internship opportunities.
  
• To act as consultant and guide for design and monitoring govt and semi-government development projects.
  
• To provide liaison between MNCs, National organisations and local community for getting finance for development projects and providing digital education services.  .
  

 Role of Dnyandeep

Dnyandeep has  both company and public trust portfolios and can act as cross platform communication forum between various institutes, industries and businesses at national level. Dnyandeep Foundation has already started an open free platform for Indian Professionals and Organisations and has devised Free Lance, Work from home and full time internship programs for entrepreneurship and job placements. It doesn't have enough skilled manpower or financial resources but has an experience of working in education and consultancy fields for five decades. It also has good linkages to professionals, academic experts and people  in India and  advanced countries through  links to  past student associations.

Role of Educational Institutes

Educational institutes can  become main agents for digital  transformation and development of society and region in their area,  if they take initiative in such joint projects and provide necessary finance and infra-structural facilities.

This will help the institutes to develop strong bonds with local community and implement sustainable business model  with generation of self employment opportunities for students.

Online training by Professionals

Dnyandeep Foundation is devising a flexible but effective system of knowledge transfer and skill development, which is very different than present educational system based on fixed curricula, contact hours, attendence and elaborate monitoring and examination system.

Dnyandeep Foundation will launch an open platform for professionals and skill experts  ( hereafter called as Trainers) who are ready to give training and persons who are interested in getting such training ( hereafter called as learners). Thus there is no pre-qualification for trainers as their expertise or capability be judged by learner and no other statutory authority. Even students can become trainers if they can convince their expertise to learners. The learners will have a choice to choose trainer, decide course content and can get quote for fee of training charges from trainer.

Full time Internship

The trainers shall display their portfolio and scope of their training. It  should have duration not less than one month with 40 hours work by learner per week to get internship status. Trainer can give guidelines, provide resource material and give assignments necessary for assimilating the knowledge or new skill set. He can decide contact hours per week  after discussing with learner and his requirements. and online meets shall be flexible as per convenience of trainer and learner. The total training shall be one to one basis with specific outcome goal decided by learner.

Part time flexible courses
 Considering the need of students pursuing academic course or people doing full time job, training on part time with flexible working schedule can be decided by mutual understanding between trainer and learner. The certificate of training will mention the total workload  and topic of study but would not have internship status.

 Trainer shall give in clear terms the capabilities the learner will achieve after getting the exact requirement from learner based on his prior knowledge level. It is preferrable if trainer helps the learner to develop some application to create confidence in the learner. The learner and not trainer should provide satisfactory certificate.

The fees shall be decided by trainer. 50% amount shall be paid in Dnyandeep Foundation account by the learner while registering for the course. Remaining 50% shall have to be paid after half the course period.

The trainer shall get 50% of the receipt after satisfactory completion of course ie approved both by learner and trainer. The certificate shall be issued indicating the course topica nd duration of course by Dnyandeep Founadtion with signature of trustee and trainer.

Considering the professional experience  and contribution of learner in actual projects,  Dnyandeep Infotech Pvt. Ltd. can give internship  practical experience certificate if the course duration is 3 or more months.

Dr. B. Subba Rao - My Business Guru

Dr. B. Subba Rao, my guide for M. E. and leader of our consultancy group in Walchand College, is the main inspiration for me to change my temperament from teacher to businessman. I have worked for a long time with him acting as an obedient assistant and following every word he had uttered and instructions he has given. The days of consultancy and research in environmental engineering, I have spent with him, have become a precious memorable treasure of information and advice to me in my post retirement career.

While pondering over the reasons of success he has achieved in consultancy, I have realised his many qualities, which helped him to rise so fast to a national level. He was friendly to everybody, always ready to help, developed a strong friendship with Prof. Santpur and Jogalekar who were master minds in administration and management. 

He  learned Marathi fast, wrote answers to letters immediately after receipt, very pleasant and assuring conversation while talking on phone. He  made friendship with students and used to go to their hostel rooms and meet them. He also visited many industries, studied their problems assured managing directors and chairman of industries for assisting them in solution.

He started  Post Graduate Research facility under Shivaji University and worked for development of college in true sense by establishing linkages with industry and political leaders. He started annual consultancy plan for industries through  Walchand College to provide continuous service and trouble shooting which was the need of industries. After giving 50% share of consultancy to college, he always divided staff remuneration equally between three of us ie Dr. Subba Rao, myself and Prof. J. M. Gadgil. The students were also given to and fro expenses and lodging facilities in the industries for monitoring work.

He applied to many research grants from state and central government agencies and built the environmental engineering laboratory to become the best laboratory in the state. He established cordial contacts with pollution control board officials from Maharashtra, Karnataka and Central boards. HE used to call many experts from IITs and field to give lectures in the college.

Under his leadership, we conducted many training programmes for treatment plant operators and even management staff. We purchased a mobile van to facilitate travel of our student team for monitoring.

He had good relations with city public health dept and we conducted some research projects with well known doctors in preventive medicine.

He travelled extensively in India and abroad, got consutancy assignments fro UP, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and we had unique experience to visit industries there.

We also published many research papers, conducted seminars and  public awareness campaigns for pollution control.

As our work expanded, he thought of establishing separate organisation to establish laboratory and outside staff only for research and development. Thus came the idea of Environmental Protection Research Foundation. Prof. M. V. Jogalekar, Dr. Vijaykumar Shah, Dr. Vora, Shri. Rajabhau Shirgaonkar, Chief Minister Shri. Vasantraodada Patil, nearby industries and many individual members raised good capital to build the laboratory.

 Now our work started at two places. Through college during college timings and from EPRf during weekly holidays, morning and evening upto late hours in night.

Unfortunately, I was struck with brain tumour and could not work with him since 1990. My interest in IT also diverted my attention from Environment to IT. Never-the- less we were associated with EPRF through weekly meetings and helped him in his projects.

Dr. Subbarao became principal in  1996 and he could not concentrate on the work as he had to manage civil dept also. Hence he took retirement in 1999 and started full time work in consutancy.  He also suffered a setback due to heart problem, he changed his lifestyle and recivered fast.
 He established Water & Wastewater Research Centre in his house in Pune and started testing and consultancy. Later he closed it as it was difficult to manage at both places. You can see his entire profile here

After visiting many countries on study tour for learning advance techniques in Wastewater technology, he thought that such development can be possible only if we establish some practical training based learning system. He started International Environmental Management Studies as a research organisation. We prepared syllabi for online courses studying various international university course contents. He visited USA and Canada for getting first hand knowledge from universities there. We started a separate web portal enviroschool.org as a joint venture for giving online training. However, we could not proceed much,as we three were busy in diverse activities and could not concentrate on this task.

In absence of our availability ( Myself was busy in Dnyandeep and Prof. Gadgil was pursuing his work in religios studies), he took the  entire responsibility of managing the consultancy and keep it running. Fortunately his daughter-in-law Mrs. Nagajyoti, who was chemical engineer got post graduate degree in Env. Engg. and managed the environmental laboratory successfully. His son Sharat handled field visits and overall management. He had great expectations from me and Prof. Gadgil and he often used to tell friends in meetings that he wants to see that we two become leaders of the field in future. However, we could not meet to his expectations and changed our tracks. This discouraged him. But he continued to struggle on his own to keep the activities running.

He could get desired recognition to laboratory by NABET,. He arranged many field experts from various fields to become area or field expetts as per the statutary requirements of scrutiny committee. He kept a high standard of service to industries and was not happy with the way his own students were handling consultancy activities in hotch pothch manner. He tried to remain always away from such consultants. However, he always welcomed us for participation in his projects.

Since that day, I find him always at the office desk in his laboratory at 10 am in the morning. He attends to calls, writes letters, does frequent visits to industries and keeps the wheels moving. He is very methodical in his working style. He is always busy, thinks of his business, his client's needs and welfare of subordinate staff. Dr. Suhsa Khambe, owner of Nikhil Lab. or Shri. Sunil Bhate Environmental Consultant were trained by him to become independent entrepreneurs.   

My decision to  start Environmental Consultancy through Dnyandeep Infotech was mainly prompted due to his example and confidence he had created in me to do consultancy in the changed environment.

I have been in IT business for 20 years, but could not establish my company  even to  level of sustainability. I have to learn a lot from Dr. B. Subba Rao, regarding resilience and flexibility in approach, taking tactful decisions, efficient management of subordinates, financial accountability and satisfaction of clients.

I have decided to work with him and fulfill his dream of buiding International   Indian firm for education research and consultation in Environmental Engineering. Fortunately for me Dr. N. S. Raman, Retd. Dy. Director from NEERI, Nagpur has joined Dnyandeep Infotech as director and has the same vision like me. Dr. Subba Rao has not yet given consent or Go Ahead signal, but I hope that we can come to some business understanding.

I am sure all students of Dr. B. Subba Rao and Walchand College of Engineering can help us in this endevor.

IITs - Islands of high learning

Government of India established IITs in various parts of country with huge investments and gave autonomy for framing the academic plans and research fields. The idea behind forming such centres of excellence in knowledge and research was its intended diffusion in surrounding area.

Instead of funding all colleges and universities, which will require huge funds, government had planned to invest at IIT focal points with sizable funds so that they can become centers of knowledge dissemination.

I was fortunate to get PhD at IIT Kanpur, which changed my life and capability to do research. My selection for PhD by my guide was  due to our work in Sangli with sugar industries which he wanted to take to UP. I was attracted by his research in Water filtration and Dr. Subba Rao also advised me to become expert in Water treatment which was lacking in our consultancy.

I could convince my guide and got the topic of my choice. As my guide was very much concerned with development of local area, he gave me field project of augmenting Kanpur Water Works. The interaction with people working there and my stay as a family for three years in IIT gave me full knowledge of IIT culture,  which I would not have learned while doing service in Sangli.

If we take stock of the situation since my time ie from 1975, I found that majority of  graduates from IITs joined MNCs and Govt administrative jobs and very few started their own businesses. The local community  where these IITs are located remained devoid of getting the fruits of research and development facilities, except getting some low level labor employment.

IITs have really achieved great heights in research and innovation of products and processes, but by and far they remained aloof from the neighborhood community and the students passing out from these IITs preferred to go to advanced countries for their future career.  The faculty also confined there work generally to academic research fields.

The industries and businesses in those regions also depended on local colleges and universities for their research and development needs. The reason for such lack of communication was language barrier as major research in IITs was in English medium and local community was using regional native language for all communications. Moreover, the students and faculty were not from that community creating a sense of aloofness and separation.

The students in colleges and universities came from local community and could solve problems of industry and society. As a result, the students from colleges and universities could become entrepreneurs in the region they knew thoroughly and contributed to growth and development of India. But these colleges always remained devoid of suitable financial assistance from government.

In an effort to have overall improvement of education sector, it is high time that the IITs are made main effective focal centers in true and effective sense. Dnyandeep Foundation wishes to encourage knowledge transmission through regional languages  through development of internet and multimedia resources and building a strong network of Indian professionals who could get high quality education from IITs  and organizations who are committed  to work for growth and welfare of local social and business sectors.

Myth of Faculty Development Programs

Now a days, all educational institutes are carrying out faculty development programmes by inviting many experts from industries, IITs and other professional bodies specially formed for such services.

Due to tremendous growth of  various sectors of knowledge and fast dissemination of information about research and developments occurring over the entire world, very few can remain active in the actual development or research. They rightfully choose to share their knowledge with college faculty which is primarily engaged and too busy in academic work.

I myself, have conducted many seminars and training programs on Environment, Green Technology and Web Design under student and faculty development schemes, Though such programs were useful to students,  I found that they do not yield desired results for faculty due to various reasons.

1. Faculty members are generally well educated and it becomes just a repetition of what they know already.

2. Speakers try to give overview information rather than in depth study with critical personal input as the time allocated is too short and they do not know background of faculty expertise.

3. Not everybody is interested in the topic and it becomes just past time get together function.

4. The faculty who is keen to study that topic does not get what he is lacking in.

After experience and feedback, I have come to conclusion that real faculty development can be done if following measures are taken

1. Faculty expert interaction should be  one to one basis and over a long period of association.

2. Each faculty has to choose the topic for advancement and expert can be identified who will be able to give guidance.

3. There should be definite objective of training like changed syllabus requirement, research or development need or consultation and revenue generation opportunities. Thus the outcome should be measurable.

4. The management of the institute should be able to provide resources and flexibility in teaching load to pursue advancement.

5. Expert providing organisation should get remuneration and faculty doing development must be rewarded by cash or kind ( Certification, promotion etc) .

6. The faculty development program should be beneficial to institute as regards student training and research projects or for serving the needs of society and business.

Such programs create interest about the topic and give publicity to institute, but add very little in permanent change in work culture of faculty. Long term association of senior retired experts and faculty having resource of young energetic students can yield good combination for stable and sustainable faculty development and contribution to research and development by institute.

The industries and businesses will be happy and willing to enter in such collaborations with institute with equal financial inputs. This will help institute to become financially self supported and would not have to worry about student admissions..

In particular my Dnyandeep Infotech Company will be ready to have such collaboration with joint working and responsibility in IT and Green Technology sectors with educational institutes.

सुटाबुटाची कार्पोरेट संस्कृती

आपल्याकडे सध्या कार्पोरेट क्षेत्राला फार मान दिला जातो. कार्पोरेट संस्कृतीतील सुटाबुटाची पद्धत इंग्रजी माध्यमाच्या शाळा कॉलेजेस मध्ये कसोशीने पाळली जाते. ब्रिटीशांकडून मिळालेली ही शिकवण त्यांच्याकडून आपण अंधपणाने घेतली आहे असे मला वाटते. इंग्लंडमध्ये असणा-या कडाक्याच्या थंडीसाठी सूटबुटाचा पेहराव त्यांना कायम वापरावा लागतो. कारण ती तेथली गरज असते. मात्र आपण स्वतः साहेब दिसण्यासाठी तो ड्रेस करणे कितपत योग्य आहे. याचा विचार फारसा केला जात नाही.

आमच्या वेळी शाळा  कॉलेजमध्ये गणवेशाची पद्धत नव्हती. नंतर प्राथमिक शाळांमध्ये गणवेश सुरू झाला तो गरीब श्रीमंतात भेद दिसू नये या उद्देशाने. पण आजकाल सर्व सभासमारंभात सुटाबुटांत लोक वावरताना पाहिले की आपण भारतात आहोत की परदेशात असा संभ्रम पडतो.

सुदैवाने मला कधी कॉलेजमध्ये सूट बूट घालावा लागला नाही. नाही म्हणायला लग्नात सूट शिवला होता पण तो लग्नानंतर तसाच कपाटात झुरत राहिला. आमच्या वालचंद कॉलेजमध्ये विद्यार्थी आणि शिक्षक दोघांनाही पोशाखाबद्दल पूर्ण स्वातंत्र्य होते. मी कानपूरला पीएचडीसाठी गेलो असताना देखील तेथे क्वचितच कोणी सुटाबुटात असायचा. माझे गाईड डॉ. जी. डी. आगरवाल तर बर्कले विद्यापिठातही लेहेंगा शर्ट वापरत. आयआयटीमध्ये डायरेक्टर झाल्यानंतरही त्यांच्या वेषभूषेत काही फरक पडला नव्हता.  माझा विद्यार्थी आणि नंतर कानपूरमध्ये एमईसाठी आलेला दामोदर कुत्ते सांगलीतील एका प्रसिद्ध सिव्हील कॉंट्रॅक्टरचा मुलगा असूनही नेहमी शर्ट लेहेंगा वापरत असे. त्यांच्या घरातील सर्वच साधेपणाने रहात.  आजही त्याचा तोच पेहेराव असतो.

किर्लोस्कर कन्सल्टंट्स मार्फत मी एका मिटींगला चंदीगडला गेलो होतो. किर्लोस्कर कन्सल्टंटचे अधिकारी यांनी मला टाय घालायला सांगितला. माझ्याकडे तो नसल्याने त्यांनी तो माझ्या गळ्यात नीट बांधून दिला नंतर त्यांच्या लक्षात आले की माझ्याकडे बूट नसून चप्पल आहे. त्यांना माजी कीव आली. मग त्यांनी टायशिवाय मला  मिटींगला नेले.

पुढे बॅंकॉकला ट्रिपवर गेलो असताना दोन दिवसात सूट शिवून मिळत असल्याने मित्रांच्या आग्रहाखातर मी सूट शिवला खरा. पण नंतर वापरलाच नाही.

सध्या इंग्रजी माध्यमातील शाळा आणि नव्या हायफाय कॉलेजातील मुले कडक उन्हातही टाय, कोट, बूट वापरून शिकत असल्याचे पाहून आपले काहीतरी चुकते आहे असे वाटते. मोठ्या कॉन्फरन्समध्येतर परदेशी तज्ज्ञ आणि आयआयटीमधील प्राध्यापक टीशर्ट किंवा साधा ड्रेस केलेले तर विद्यार्थी आणि प्राध्यापक सुटाबुटात असे विचित्र दृष्य पहायला मिळते.

अमेरिकेत मी कित्येक दिवस आहे. येथेही लोक साध्या पोशाखातच वावरतात ऑफिसमध्ये जातात. भारतातील कार्पोरेट क्षेत्र आणि नवशिक्षणसंस्था यांनी मात्र ब्रिटीशांचा हा वारसा मोठ्या अभिमानाने व मोठेपणाचे प्रतीक म्हणून  जपला आहे.

महात्मा गांधी आणि इतर नेत्यांनी यांनी भारतीय पोशाखाचा आग्रह धरला होता. आता सर्वांनाच कार्पोरेट क्षेत्राचे अनुकरण करावेसे वाटत आहे. मान पोशाखामुळे मिळतो असे त्याना वाटत असावे.- सु. वि. रानडे, ज्ञानदीप, सांगली. 

शिक्षणसंस्थांच्या विद्यार्थीप्रेमाला आभासी (?) भरती

दरवर्षी जून जुलैमध्ये शाळा, कॉलेजच्या आकर्षक जाहिराती वृत्तपत्रात, रस्त्यावरील मोठ्या बॅनरवर पहायला मिळायच्या.  अभ्यासक्रम कोणता निवडावा याचो मोफत मार्गदर्शन करणारे मेळावे, क्लासेसच्या गुणवंत विद्यार्थ्यांच्या सत्काराचे कार्यक्रम यांना पालक व विद्यार्थीही मोठ्या प्रमाणात हजर रहात. एकंदरीत हा काळ विद्यार्थी, पालक आणि शिक्षणसंस्था यांना धामधुमीचा आणि उत्साहवर्धक असायचा. पुस्तक वह्यांची आणि इतर स्टेशनरीची दुकानेही ग्राहकांच्या स्वागतास सज्ज असत.


या वर्षी मात्र  कोरोना लॉकडाऊनमुळे या सर्व उत्साहावर पाणी पडले आहे. विद्यार्थी आणि पालक घरांत दडून बसल्याने आणि शिक्षणसंस्थांचा शिक्षकवृंद व इतर फौजफाटा हाताशी नसल्याले या संस्थांची मोठी कोंडी झाली आहे.
 
 विद्यार्था आणि पालकांपर्यंत पोचायला इंटरनेट हा एकच आभासी मार्ग उपलब्ध असल्याने ऑनलाईन कार्यक्रमांचा धमाका काही संस्थांनी लावला आहे. देश परदेशातील तज्ज्ञ व्यक्तींना बोलावून त्यांच्यामार्फत विद्यार्थी व पालकांवर आपल्या संस्थेविषयी विशेष आस्था निर्माण करण्याचा आटापिटा चालू आहे. मात्र किती पालक हा कार्यक्रम ऐकतात वा त्यांचे मत काय बनते याचा थांगपत्ता न लागल्याने या शिक्षणसंस्थांमध्ये कमालीचे चिंतेचे वातावरण पसरले आहे.

काही मान्यवर संस्था याबाबतीत नेहमीप्रमाणे अगदी उदास आहेत. त्यांचे असे कार्यक्रमही क्वचितच जाहीर होताना दिसतात. जातीच्या सौंदर्याला आभूषणांची गरज नसते ही म्हण येथे योग्य ठरते.

आभासी मार्गदर्शन करण्यास सध्या तरी काही पर्याय दिसत नाही. मात्र या संस्थांनी विद्यार्थ्यांविषयी वाटणारे आपले प्रेमही आभासी ठेवू नये असे वाटते. माजी विद्यार्थी हा अशा शिक्षणसंस्थांचा समाजासाठी मोठा आरसा असतो. त्यामुळे आपल्या माजी विद्यार्थ्यांचे हित जी शिक्षणसंस्था जपते. त्यांच्या सुखदुःखांशी समरस होऊन त्यांच्या पाठीशी उभी रहाते तिला विद्यार्थी मिळण्यासाठी वेगळे प्रयत्न करण्याची गरज नाही.

 

ज्ञानदीप फौंडेशनने वालचंद हेरिटेज प्रकल्प सुरू करून सर्व शिक्षमसंस्थांना याबाबतीत मार्गदर्शन केले आहे. आपल्या संस्थेचे यश हे माजी विद्यार्थ्यांच्या यशावर अवलंबून असते. त्यांच्या संस्थेत असतानाच्या आठवणी जपणे, त्यावेळच्या शिक्षकांचा मान राखणे, त्यांची माहिती माजी विद्यार्थ्यांना मिळण्याची सोय करणे या गोष्टी प्रत्येक शिक्षणसंस्थेने अगत्याने करावयास हव्यात.

आमच्या वालचंद कॉलेजने दरवर्षी एक माजी विद्यार्थी मेळावा घेण्याचे नियोजन केले आहे हे स्वागतार्ह आहे. मात्र याबरोबर संस्थेने वालचंद हेरिटेजच्या प्रकल्पात सहभागी होऊन वालचंदच्या इतिहासाचे एक दालन संस्थेच्या आवारात उभारावे असे आवाहन मी व्यवस्थापनाला करीत आहे.

इतर शिक्षणसंस्थांसाठीही असा प्रकल्प करण्यास ज्ञानदीप फौंडेशन तयार आहे. संबंधित संस्थांनी यासाठी ज्ञानदीपशी संपर्क साधावा.

Sharing old memories of Dnyandeep - 1

Dnyandeep Infotech Pvt. Ltd. established in Nov. 2000  pioneered the Web Technology in Sangli. After development of many websites like mysangli.com, mymarathi.com and sanskritdeepika.org in Marathi medium, the company conducted its first one month web design course in 2003.

Prof. D. B. Kulkarni, Prof. Dharmadhikari, Prof. Surve also participated in giving lectures. The inauguration was done at the hands of Director Dr. Madnaik. and concluding function was chaired by Prof. Yardi.

It was the first course conducted with equal sharing between college and Dnyandeep Infotech. All the team of Dnyandeep which was there at that time are now well placed in big IT companies in Pune and in USA.

See the snapshots of the course.

After a long journey of company, now we are entering in a new system pf Online training with latest new technologies in Web and Mobile app development with same zeal and enthusiasm. We are rewaching out to students at school level also and wish to build sustainable freelance workforce with benifit to all.

Keep time distance between Stimulus and Response

While following keeping distance rule to avoid Corona spread, I thought that this can be useful if we follow this principle to avoid crises due to verbal arguments also.

In Sanskrit, we have such advice in a verse

सहसा विदधीत न क्रियामविवेकः परमापदां पदम् |

It is generally observed that people react immediately to any provocative news, abuse or criticism either in personal communication or in media channels. This is natural and shows that Newton's third law "Any action creates equal and opposite reaction" is applicable in human behavior also.

However, this aggravates the crisis, invites tightened rebound and sometimes damages our reputation or good relations.

Many family disputes, social discord and political turmoil has roots in spontaneous reactions. Even the physical attack, or wars at international level are triggered by such insane and thoughtless responses.

Man can think. Then why not think before giving  reaction, response or passing remark. If we follow the principle of keeping time distance between stimulus and response,  we get enough time to comprehend the pravocating action and can fully understand the consequences of reaction. This helps us to compose our response to suit the situation in our favor.

ज्ञानदीप फौंडेशनचा वालचंद हेरिटेज प्रकल्प

शिक्षणसंस्था आणि माजी विद्यार्थी

प्रत्येक शिक्षणसंस्थेसाठी माजी विद्यार्थी हा एक हक्काचा मदतनीस व निधीसंकलनासाठी योग्य दाता वाटतो. मात्र माजी विद्यार्थ्यांचे संस्थेवर असणारे प्रेम हे तेथे मिळालेल्या शिक्षणामुळे, शिक्षकांमुळे आणि मित्रपरिवारामुळे असतो. हे संस्थेने लक्षात घेतले पाहिजे.

विद्यार्थी शिक्षणसंस्थेतून बाहेर पडला की आपला संबंध संपला असे न मानता आईवडिलांप्रमाणे जी संस्था त्यांच्या पुढील प्रगतीविषयी जागरूक असते, त्यांना मदत करते त्यांच्याशी सतत संबंध ठेवते त्या संस्थेला न मागताही विद्यार्थी मदत करण्यास तयार होतात व संस्थेची भरभराट होते.

सशक्त, समृद्ध आणि स्वायत्त माजी विद्यार्थी संघटना करण्यात शिक्षणसंस्थेने पुढाकार घेणे यासाठीच आवश्यक आहे.

वालचंद कॉलेज माजी विद्यार्थी संघटना

आमच्या वालचंद कॉलेजच्या माजी विद्यार्थी संघटनेचे कार्य गेली कित्येक वर्षे अत्यंत सुव्वस्थित आणि जोमाने चालू होते. मात्र काही कारणाने त्यात खंड पडला. वालचंद कॉलेज स्वायत्त झाल्यामुळे असेल कदाचित, पण कॉलेजने माजी विद्यार्थ्यांसाठी संस्थेतर्फे एक स्वतंत्र  वेबसाईट तयार केली. स्वाभाविकच पूर्वीच्या माजी विद्यार्थी संघटनेच्या वेबसाईटचे काहीच प्रयोजन उरले नाही.

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वालचंदच्या प्रगतीचा सर्व इतिहास आणि जुन्या शिक्षकांबद्दलचा माहिती संकलित करण्याचे कार्य वालचंद हेरिटेज या प्रकल्पात केले आहे. इतर शिक्षणसंस्थांसाठी हा एक पथदर्शी प्रकल्प ठरावा अशी आशा आहे.

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सौ. माझी पत्नी कै. सौ. शुभांगी रानडे हिच्या सय या कवितासंग्रहाचे प्रकाशन २० डिसेंबर २०१३ रोजी सांगली येथे डॉ. सौ. स्मिता धारप हिच्या हस्ते आणि मुलगी सौ. सुमेधा गोगटे हिच्या उपस्थितीत करण्यात आले. त्यावेळचा व्हिडीओ.

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ग्राहक वा नोकर न बनता निर्माते वा मालक व्हा

कोरोना प्रादुर्भावामुले भारताच्या अर्थव्यवस्थेला प्रचंड हादरा बसला असून आंतरराष्ट्रीय तणावाच्या स्थितीमुळे यासमस्यात दिवसेंदिवस अधिकच वाढ होत आहे. भारताच्या प्रचंड लोकसंख्येमुळे आधीच सतावणा-या  गरिबी, बेरोजगारी, पर्यावरण –हास, सत्तेसाठी चालणारे राजकारण अशा अनेक समस्यांनी शासनाला बेजार केले आहे. त्यातच आता या नव्या आणि आवघड परिस्थितीने  शासनाच्या विकास योजना ठप्प झाल्या असून समाजाच्या दैनंदिन गरजा भागविण्यातही अडचणी येत आहेत.

अशावेळी नोकरी मिळेल की नाही, असली तरी टिकेल की नाही, आपल्या भावी पिढीचे काय होणार  हे प्रश्न आज प्रत्येकाला भेडसावत आहेत. यावेळी सुस्थितीत  असणा-या लोकांवर फार मोठी जबाबदारी पडली असून त्यांनी धाडस दाखवून समाजाला नवे नेतृत्व देण्याची व त्यातून देशसेवा करण्याची आवश्यकता आहे.

भारताला प्रचंड लोकसंख्या हे संकट वाटत असले तरी अमेरिका आणि इतर प्रगत राष्ट्रांना फार मोठी ग्राहक पेठ म्हणून भारताविषयी आकर्षण वाटते. अनेक आंतरराष्ट्रीय कंपन्या आपल्या मालाची व सेवासुविधांची विक्री करण्यासाठी भारतातील कानाकोप-यात आपले जेळे पसरवीत आहेत. तसेच खर्चिक, आकर्षक जाहिरातींनी जनतेला भुरळ पाडत आहेत. बेरोजगार युवकांना लठ्ठ पगाराच्या नोकरीचे आमिष दाखवून त्यांना या वस्तू व सेवांच्या विक्रीसाठी आपल्या जाळ्यात ओढत आहेत.

प्रत्यक्षात स्थानिक पातळीवरील कोणत्याही समस्या सोडविण्यास आवश्यक असणा-या तज्ज्ञांची व शारिरीक श्रमाची कामे करणा-या लोकांची वानवा आहे. परिणामी याच सेवा परदेशी कंपनीकडून करवून घेण्याकडे शासकीय निमशासकीय संस्थांची मनोवृत्ती बनली आहे.मोठ्या शहरातील अनेक समस्यांनी ग्रस्त व खर्चिक जीवनशैलीतील दिखावू सुखाकडे आजचा युवकवर्ग आकर्षित होत आहे. गुणवत्तेच्या आवाजवी आग्रहामुळे स्वदेशी उत्पादनापेक्षा परदेशी वस्तूंना लोक पसंती देत आहेत. इंटरनेटवरून व्यापार सुरू झाल्याने स्थानिक दुकानदारीवर संकट आले आहे.

या सर्वांवर मात करून भारत स्वयंपूर्ण व सामर्थ्यवान बनवायचा असेल तर आपली मानसिकता बदलण्याची नितांत आवश्यकता आहे. मी नोकरीच्या मागे न लागता स्वतः उद्योजक बनेन, निवृत्त असलो तर शेअर मार्केटच्या मागे लागून पऐसे इतरांना वापरायला देण्यापेक्षा स्वतः मालक होऊन दोन चार नवयुवकांना उद्योजक बनविण्यास मदत करेन. शक्यतो स्थनिक उत्पादनांचा वापर करेन.

सध्याच्या शैक्षणिक संस्थांनी नोकरदार बनविण्याच्या उद्दीष्टात बदल करून स्वयंउद्योजक बनविण्याचे व पदवीधरांना वा-यावर न सोडता त्यांना स्वतःचा उद्योग सुरू करण्यास  सर्वतोपरी साहाय्य करण्याचे  उद्दीष्ट अंगिकारले तर भारताला प्रचंड लोकसंख्या हे संकट न वाटता ते एक सामर्थ्याचे लक्षण ठरेल. ज्ञानदीप फौंडेशन या कार्यासाठी सर्व शैक्षणिक संस्थांत प्रबोधन प्रकल्प राबमिणार आहे. आपणा सर्वांचे या उपक्रमास सक्रीय सहकार्य मिळेल असा मला विश्वास वाटतो. – डॉ. सु. वि. रानडे, ज्ञानदीप फौंडेशन, सांगली.