Konkan Corridor model adopted by India Leadership Network

Dear Manoj ji,

It was a great happening to have met you and I am sure that history will be created when we all respond to the needs of development for all rural clusters in India .

Prof Indiresan ji will be happy to note that the cluster development concept will now start taking concrete form in the shape of active leadership from professionals to build it acre by acre .

With best regards

Ashok

2009/4/19 Manoj Acharya
Hi

I am happy to announce the Prakalp project. While I have been working on a rural model, the Konkan Corridor Project has changed the view I had and the final result is a much powerful model.

You can read the brochure at

http://prakalp.in/prakalp.pdf

I am also reaching out to people for KCP through Prakalp. Hope it brings good response.

Regards
Manoj

Farmers Training in Enterpreneurship and Growth Lab

For your information and guidance and participation ,

As discussed with Mr. Gangavane today, we need to support an oncoming program for Growth Lab centers at each cluster in Konkan corridor project for entrepreneurship based activation of various growth programs for farm based enterprise promotion .

Govt of Maharashtra , Dept of Agriculture has promised to help and associate with such entrepreneurship model to be encouraged. It seems they have ongoing farmers training program for empowerment of farmers to become capable of handling their fate in better way .

Late Prof. Shripad Dabholkar had proposed and tried out an excellent pedagogical approach of Prayog Pariwar and it had produced good results in the area of Grapes which he had said was just an example he had chosen to try out the concept of generation of knowledge through sharing of real life experiments at social level. Vasant Gangavane ji had prepared a program document with him about 11 years back and he will find and send the copy of same for our reference.

We need to organize support from DST NSTEDB side for conducting such EDP in each cluster . On administrative side, we will set up the skillnet web site to include names of all farmers in each cluster by using the data from voters list so that we can manage the large numbers of participants efficiently .
Mr Gangavane is working on identifying the local agencies to support in coordinating the ground level work for such training in each of the 17 Talukas.

For local use we will need to put up server workstation in each of these 17 taluka centers with all the GISDA and other components built in. I expect that the hardware component will cost about 15000 Rs only and the local entrepreneur will be able to raise the same if we can make it as part of the EDP profile .

I will prepare the detailed proposal and reaquire ideas and guidelines from all of you .
I would like to communicate with Mr Zope who is coordinating the farmers training and would like to get his email if someone knows.

With best regards

Ashok Saraf
5th April 2009