RIP: Abhishek



‘To the world you may have just been somebody,
but to all of us you were the world’.

This issue of KDB is dedicated to
 Abhishek Chatterjee


Pic Blog: Sarthak Roy, Swaswatik Tripathy, Purnajyoti Khara and Sourav Chakravarty


Graphic Vision: Pragna Parinita Das


Campus Tweet: Yasaswini




                                        
Events we experienced from July 6th
July 6th is the first event in itself, as our journey in this university has started. We met our highly qualified faculty members, humble seniors and helpful PhD scholars. We explored our university campus and Divayan KVK. We are also made familiar with the rules and regulations of our university.
July 22nd, Fresher’s  Day-
“FRESHERS DAY” was the day when we were officially welcomed in this university and we were included in the RKMVU family. It was a great day of honor and prestige for all of us. It was an awesome experience as because no other college give such a traditional, peaceful and inspirational welcome. It was a great day for us; we enjoyed a lot and learned a lot.
24TH July, 2015 – Seminar on ‘Family Farming With Reference To Sustainability & Ethical Paradigm’.
                                     

By- Dr. Debabrata Das Gupta.
                   (Former Vice Chancellor of Viswabharati)
On this day we attended our first seminar in our seminar hall based on Family Farming With Reference To Sustainability & Ethical Paradigm. The seminar was given by Dr. Debabrata Das Gupta, a great learned person. He stressed on the need of sustainable Family Farming and its benefits. The seminar was really an ocean of knowledge for all of us.
 23rd April, 2015– Seminar on ‘Sharing work experiences as social entrepreneur’.
                                      By – Anil Narayan Singh
                                                          {OSD Govt. of Jharkhand}
Entrepreneurship was a new word for all of us. Through this seminar we understood all the aspects of social entrepreneurship like how to become a social entrepreneur and the sunny side of this aspect. The question answer session which followed the seminar also enlightened us a lot.
2nd May, 2015 – Seminar on ‘Financial infusion’
      By- Subrata dutta
                                                    (Director, RUDSETI, Ranchi)
Through this seminar we got an immense knowledge on the Financial Inclusion services. It is a package of practices for the delivery of financial services at low cost to disadvantageous sections of the society. We came to know that Financial Inclusion is an important dimension of Rural Development. There is also a bright job perspective for us in this type of services.
7th May, 2015 – Seminar on ‘Role of Rural Development Professionals in Executing Rural Development Program in Jharkhand’.
          By- Manoj Kumar
                                                (Deputy Commissioner Ranchi)
This is the most valuable seminar for us till now. This seminar actually defined our course. We came to know the various sphere of rural development of the state. This seminar also made us feel  the value of course that we are studying right now.
2nd July,2015 – Seminar  on ‘Tribal Development in Jharkhand’.
                                    
                            
  By – Dr. H. S. Gupta
                                          {State Programme Director JTDS, Ranchi}
This was another great seminar that we attended.  We came to know about the real condition of tribal of this state and the need for their development. The PowerPoint Presentation also vividly depicted the need of tribal development in Jharkhand.  That day the seminar hall turned into a powerhouse of knowledge.  

12th august, 2015 – Seminar on ‘Entrepreneurship A Gateway for Decent Life’.
                                                           By- Dr. Sanjay Saha  
(HOS, Department Of Business Study IBRI college of Technology, Oman)
This was an awesome seminar. The personality and powerful oration of Sanjay sir left us speechless. We came to know about different aspects of entrepreneurship. We also gathered knowledge about successful entrepreneurs of our age and our times. We also came across a fine PowerPoint presentation and a most interactive question answer session.


19th august, 2015- Seminar on ‘Cultivation & Economic Aspect Of Lac Cultivation Processing & Value Addition’.
                                       By-Dr.  R.K. Yogi
                                  (Agricultural Economist, IINRG , Ranchi)
Though Lac cultivation is from our next semester onwards but we gathered sufficient knowledge about it.  
 It was a beautifully presented seminar on Lac cultivation techniques and it’s processing. We also came to know about different value addition techniques also.

9th September, 2015- Seminar on ‘Non vegetable & vegetative propagation’.
                                                 By- Dr. Pranab Hajra
          (Dean, Department of Horticulture, BCKV)
                                       Seminar on ‘Techniques of Vegetable Planting Material’                                              
By- Dr.  Arup Chatterjee
(Assistant Professor. Dept. of Horticulture, BCKV)
Through this twin seminar of the day, we got enlightened about different methodologies that are being incorporated in the vegetable cultivation and the methods of producing vegetable seeds. This seminar was of great use in for our practical works in university plots.

Our first village visit
Another great event is our 1st village visit in 1st week of august to Obar and Getalsud farm. We learnt lot in that visit; it was a very great experience. For most of us it was a memorable encounter.
15th August
 We celebrate Independence Day in DKVK. Through all these years we had observed this event in our respective schools. But for the first time we observed it with KVK staffs and trainees.
5th September
 It was a great day for all the teachers, scholars, students of our university. The day was illuminated with numerous speeches and presentations. The teachers’ day celebration in the college was really a memorable one.
 16th, 17th, 18th September, 2015‘Our First RLLE’
These three days are the most amazing days of our lives. Our first Rural Living and Learning Experience. We interacted with the villagers and also studied the cropping patterns and practices of the farmers. The ghost stories of the village and stories of elephant attack added thrill to our experience. 
          By ARTD Batch 2015.



Open Window: Sourav Chakraborty



Role of girl students in the socio-economic surveys of any village
 Sourav Chakraborty(3rd semester)

In the context of rural development there are many common questions asked by different individuals about the involvement of girls’ students i.e. how they can work in the adverse conditions of village? How they can live in a place where there is no toilet facilities? How they can interact with unknown villagers? Well I also thought this type of questions and ultimately concluded that girls really do not have any impact on the socio economic surveys of villages. But then I met the girl students of Rama Krishna Mission Vivekananda University, and my perception changed by leaps and bounds.
Representation of the total village population
It is a quite known fact to all of us that a village population consist of more or less equal proposition of men and women. Actually when we boys approach a particular household then the male members come forward to answer our Questions. So practically the answers of the female members goes ultimately unanswered. But when girls approach any family the female members also come forward to participate in the survey thus leading to the representation of the total village population.
Effective questions
Until I got enrolled in the ARTD course I always felt proud about my knowledge in science and mathematics and hardly felt any shame for my literature marks. Whereas it is quite evident that our female counterparts timidly solved numerical but they carried a huge library of Hindi and Bengali novels in their bags. But when we visited village for the first time then I really felt the need to have a good literary background. Most of us couldn’t put forward good set of effective questions and here also the girls exceeded us by providing really functional questions which the villagers easily understood and answered.
Quick wit to change the course of discussion
Girls are known for their quick wit in their everyday works. The villagers don’t have the opportunity to pursue quality education and so it is a common phenomenon that they take up our questions of survey in a wrong way. They think that the survey which we undertake is not in the good interest for them. Here also girls rescue us through their quick wit. Through their clever questions they can easily can easily change the mind makeup of the villagers more effectively than us.
Extracting the exact information
The real needs of the girls are felt during the survey of Health Status of Women and children in a village. It is quite evident that the village women are very conservative and they do not disclose any health related problems before the young boys. But with the girls they feel free and their health status are easily recorded in the survey schedules.
                             I am not dedicating this article to any of my senior or junior sisters or my classmates. I am dedicating this article to all those living encyclopaedias, who think that women are born to look after family and kids and they can never exceed men in any respect.