Student Ready Programme
Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE)
The Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE) provides exposure to agricultural students to the natural setting of the village situations, work with the farm families, identify their problems and make use of various extension tools for transferring the latest agricultural technologies. The students also get opportunity to study the various on-going schemes related to agriculture and rural development and participate in their implementation. The students would be given rigorous orientation and familiarization on various issues and problems expected on farmers’ field and hence would gain competence and confidence for solving problems related to agriculture and allied sciences. It would be implemented in adopted villages under the supervision of scientists. Activities designed are mainly focused on intensive observations/analysis of socio-economic and technological profile of the farm families in rural areas, participatory extension approach and acquaintance with farming situations, farm practices and interaction with progressive farmers. Soil testing has become the integral part of RAWE. This will help orient our agricultural graduates for participation in various rural developmental programme. The students will also gain first hand information on industries during attachment with identified agro based industries. The Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE) will help the students primarily to understand the rural situations, status of agricultural technologies adopted by farmers, prioritize the farmers’ problems, prepare farm and village development plans and to develop skills and attitude of working with farm families for overall development in rural area. The timings for RAWE proposed coincide with the main cropping season. The main objectives of this component are:
- To provide an opportunity to the students to understand the rural setting in relation to agriculture and allied activities.
- To make the students familiar with socio-economic conditions of the farmers and their problems.
- To impart diagnostic and remedial knowledge to the students relevant to real field situations through practical training.
- To develop communication skills in students using extension teaching methods in transfer of technology.
- To develop confidence and competence to solve agricultural problems.
- To acquaint students with on-going extension and rural development programmes.
Experiential Learning with business mode
Experiential Learning (EL) with business mode helps the student to develop competence, capability, capacity building, acquiring skills, expertise, and confidence to start their own enterprise and turn job creators instead of job seekers. This is a step forward for “Earn while Learn” concept. Experiential Learning is an important module for high quality professional competence and practical work experience in real life situation to Graduates. The module with entrepreneurial orientation of production and production to consumption pattern is expected to facilitate producing Job Providers rather than Job Seekers. The EL provides the students an excellent opportunity to develop analytical and entrepreneurial skills, and knowledge through meaningful hands on experience, confidence in their ability to design and execute project work. The main objectives of EL are:
- To promote professional skills and knowledge through meaningful hands on experience.
- To build confidence and to work in project mode.
- To acquire enterprise management capabilities.
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