JJM Exposure of Key Resource Centres
HIHT has been empaneled as a key resource center by the Ministry of Jal Shakti Gov. of India. KRC-HIHT represented its participation in 5 days training of trainers (ToT) for level 3 key resource center (KRC) on Rolling out Jal Jeevan Mission in the Gram Panchayat by Ministry of Jal Shakti and UNICEF, Delhi with Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration (MGSIPA) Chandigarh, Punjab from 26-30 September. Mr. Vivek Anand and Ms. Geeta Kandpal from KRC-HIHT participated in this program. Training objective was to update the knowledge and skills of the participant KRCs for empowering gram panchayat towards implementation and achieving the objectives of Jal Jeevan Mission program at the grassroot level. Major deliberations were on community participation, village action plan covering environment setting, roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders in planning and implementation, importance of community engagement and mobilization with focus on gender and equity. Field exposure was also facilitated, wherein participants were taken to Singhpura village of Mohali.
Participation in Capacity Building Program
RDI-HIHT has been empanelled by Department of Panchay-ati Raj, Government of Uttarakhand. Mrs. Neelam Panday, Mr. Sunil Khanduri and Mr. Bhanu Parsad Bhatt participated in two days training program from 30th Sept to 1st Oct on the localization of Sustainable Development Goals conducted by Dept. of Panchayati Raj, Govt. of Uttarakhand. Key deliberations of the program were rejuvenation of ponds and Chal-Khal, self-sufficient village with infrastructure, financial management and rural planning, E-panchayat application, Uttarakhand Panchayati Raj Act-2016, Jal Jeevan Mission, clean and green village, use of natural fibers in rural livelihood. The organization has been assigned to conduct the training program for elected panchayati raj members of Didihat block of district Pithoragarh.
Workshop on Learning Disability
RDI has been addressing the needs of children with learning disability since 2019. Ms. Neelam Pandey and Ms. Leela Uniyal from RDI attended a workshop for Teachers on Children with Learning Disabilities organized by Dyslexia Society of Uttarakhand in Doon Sanskriti School (ITITI) Jhajhra, Sahaspur on 17th October. The participant teachers presented the different case studies in the workshop which was attended by more than 150 participants including psychologists from medical departments and experts from Rafael organization. RDI team shared the Learning Disability Program being run in the Himalayan Hospital and presented issues, challenges and learnings.
Exposure of School Books Archive Exhibition
Dr. V. D. Semwal, Ms. Neelam Pandey and Ms. Shikha visited an exhibition at Azim Premji Foundation, Dehradun on 12 & 13 October. This was an event titled Schoolbooks Archive having an open-access digital repository of over 7,965 books and related materials, along with a few hundred print copies of archived books. The growing collection includes textbooks, anthologies, reference works such as dictionaries, glossaries, atlases, works on school management, pedagogy, psychology and health manuals, and scores of curriculum documents for school and teacher programs.
