Diary of a Rural Manager!

20th Week- 23rd October to 29th October 23rd October:  Learned about TSCR (Trend, Seasonality, Cyclicity and Random) 24th October:   An Introduction to Livelihood Promotion : Traditionally the solution to the problems of poverty was conceived as an increase in income levels through the generation of employment. However this vision has changed in the last two decades. This publication shows how it is possible to promote livelihoods as a means for poverty reduction. One cannot feed the hungry on statistics - David Lloyd George MEARS- 85 % of savings accounts and 60 % of current accounts act as fixed deposit. RPLS- Muhammad Yunus : Poverty was not created by the poor. There is nothing wrong with these people. They are just as capable and inventive and have as much potential as others. The system simply never gave them a chance to grow. If you really want to solve poverty you should enable people to take matters into their own hands. 25th October: Didn't recall ev...

19th Week- 16th October to 22nd October 16th October : One fine day is Sunday. Still post Gramotsava, there was 2 hour session on EQ & Leadership. I learned that there is always lack in abundance. 17th October : The whole day just passed away. I did't think any productive work was done today. Still I was able to read one good article :- Ph.D. Thesis Research: Where do I Start? Notes by Don Davis, Columbia University. 18th October : FSA quiz was a disaster. Missed Kuru meeting and slept quite early at night. Since, I was roaming out in the morning, soft skill training session was also missed. Rediscovered Facebook Page of India - Rural Livelihoods.  For implementing the inclusive growth agenda, it is crucial to prop up agriculture, the soft underbelly of our economy.  The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) should take charge of dry-land farming now by Ramesh S Arunachalam . 19th October : Alumni Talk was given by Mr.Patnaik. He is a rural managem...

18th Week- 9th October to 15th October 9th October:   I returned to the hostel yesterday. This week is mostly dedicated to Gramotsava 2011. Today, I checked a newspaper article on Gramotsava 2011 today. XIMB reaches out to masses through fair - Rural management students create a marketing base in nearly 50 villages. Gramotsava-2011, a rural marketing fair, is organised every year by the Rural Managers' Association of XIMB (RMAX). Thus, rural management students who engage in on-field marketing and data collection supplement theoretical lessons with practical experience. The uniqueness of the event in the rural management course offered in any college Gramotsava 2011 fair UPDATE Venue I: Mandarbasta, Khurda, Friday,14th Oct. Venue II: Chasakhanda, Cuttack, Saturday,15th Oct 10th October: On request of Shruti Thomas, I liked " Sustainable Housing ". Suddenly, a moral dilemma arose inside me. Do I like/support the product/service/community because it was made by ...

17th Week- 2nd October to 8th October It was a week that I spent completely at home. I was on the offline mode regarding XIMB. Hence, I will put down some videos for learning purpose for rural managers. Rural Development - The Challenge of Livelihood and Poverty Although there appears to be an enduring concern with India's poor within the policy circle and in public discourse, is this debate leading to new and innovative ideas on how to pull millions of Indians out of grinding poverty? What is the way forward? Should the emphasis be on skills development, agricultural development, microfinance, market access etc? What other models of rural development do we need to examine? How to avoid the pitfalls of rural marketing? PART1 PART2 PART4 PART5 PART6 PART7

16th Week --- 25th September to 1st October 25th September : Attended the class of P T Joseph. I shared answers of personal questions in the public. I disagreed with him about the revealing of private data in public. I am gaining guts each day to face down the powerful and say what needs to be said. And I hope that it should inspire introverts and progressives. Since, I am selected for first round of summer internship for TERI, I started studying for the interview. Q&A: Clean Energy for India’s ‘Base of the Pyramid’: WRI’s new report, in collaboration with CDF-IFMR, looks at the market potential for clean and renewable energy in rural India. POWER TO THE PEOPLE : Detail Report in PDF format . TERI has undertaken an initiative of Lighting a Billion Lives (LaBL) through the use of solar lighting devices. The Campaign aims to bring light into the lives of one billion rural people by replacing the kerosene and paraffin lanterns with solar lighting devices. In terms of ph...

15th Week --- 18th September to 24th September 18th September - There is complete lack of any participation of student in decding the course structure of Rural Management. Institute like IRMA (Institute of Rural Management) should be named IRDA (Institute of Rural Development); The camouflage of campus placement does not change the mentality of the faculties who push students towards NGO sector. There is call of "bottom-up development" in every rural management programs without being implemented on their own students ! The recording, identifying and acknowledgment of “every casualty of development propaganda” in a rural management programs is an idea whose time has come. Hope, the rebel voice of mine gets a fruitful result otherwise we all know that the people who produce half a revolution, dig their own grave. 19th September - MEARS : Mischief mongers dig their own grave. Parasite, below poverty line and ungrateful are the words used with full sarcasm by Prof S P...

Sparsh: Development in a Trimester of rural management : John Stuart Mill is right here: there is no development, democratic or economic, without an educated citizenry. Hence with this statement, ...