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Bangalore University has made the ‘Village Adoption’ programme mandatory for each its departments. The measurement comes aft the palmy implementation of the ‘Legal Awareness and Literacy’ programme by the University Law College done colony adoption.
There are astir 42 departments successful Bangalore University, including Kannada, English, and performing arts, and the assemblage has asked each these departments to follow astatine slightest 2 villages.
In the archetypal phase, University Law College, successful relation with the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority, conducted a broad Legal Awareness and Literacy Programme astatine Biddanagere colony successful Kunigal taluk of Tumakuru district.
As portion of this initiative, final-year instrumentality students undertook an extended tract survey successful the colony to measure the ineligible and documentation-related issues faced by agrarian residents. The survey focused connected identifying concerns specified arsenic pending disputes and cases, deficiency of Aadhaar-related documentation, and difficulties successful accessing the authorities officials concerned.
“During the enactment with villagers, students observed that galore radical were unaware of the value of indispensable authorities documents specified arsenic driving licences, conveyance insurance, commencement certificates, and decease certificates. The lack of these cardinal documents has resulted successful respective families being deprived of assorted authorities payment schemes and benefits. The students provided guidance connected the procedures to get these documents and informed the nationalist astir the availability of escaped ineligible assistance done the Taluk Legal Services Committee and the District Legal Services Authority,” said Meghana Manoj, a final-year instrumentality pupil astatine the university.
In the 2nd phase, thematic radical discussions were organised connected important ineligible topics, including laws relating to unfortunate protection, prevention of kid marriage, and women’s spot rights. Awareness was besides created astir the Digital Sakhi programme, which aims to heighten integer literacy and empower women astatine the grassroots level.
“The programme saw progressive information from ASHA and anganwadi workers, isolated from representatives of Stree Shakti self-help groups of the taluk, who engaged successful meaningful discussions and clarified their doubts. Through this outreach effort, our assemblage erstwhile again reinforced its relation not lone arsenic an world instauration but besides a proactive stakeholder successful promoting ineligible literacy, entree to justice, and empowerment of agrarian communities,” Shiva Prakash, different student, added.
.Jayakara S.M., Vice-Chancellor of Bangalore University, said, “Our instrumentality assemblage has already adopted 2 villages successful Tumakuru territory and made the ineligible consciousness and assistance programme a large success. The villagers person besides expressed their happiness implicit this.”
“All departments volition follow astatine slightest 2 villages and undertake activities specified arsenic maintaining the cleanliness of the villages and going to schools to thatch English, grammar, and machine subject to students. The subject section volition supply tips connected knowing subject and mathematics successful a elemental way, and organise subject and laboratory exhibitions. The performing arts section volition make consciousness astir societal issues among agrarian radical done play and people creation performances,” helium said.
