Annual Report 2010 - 11 - Purkal Youth Development Society

Secretary’s report
Birth of a new school
The year under review has been historical since it
marked the commencement of our School with the
approval of The Uttarakhand Board. Our School
commenced formally on the 2nd April 2010.
Segregation of Stree Shakti
Samiti
It was also historical for the reason that the Stree
Shakti Division of the Society separated into a different
Society known as The Purkal Stree Shakti Samiti. It
now has an identity of its own. This was necessary
to permit both the School as well as the women’s
empowerment activities to grow exponentially in the
future. The PYDS made a handsome donation of the
assets owned by that division to the new Society to
help it to prosper. The details of this donation have
been disclosed in the annual Reports of both the
Societies.
New Infrastructure
During the year the School added classes 3, 4 and 5
and thus managed 6 class rooms handling classes 3
to 8. Additional class rooms were built to make these
additional classes possible.
CCE implementation
The School also implemented with thoroughness the
Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)
scheme now being prescribed by the CBSE. This led to
the children growing up holistically with their interests
spread over learning beyond the academic. They also
appreciated the effort of the school to cultivate the
physical, emotional and the spiritual Health in addition
to the intellectual.
Acknowledgments
The support that we received from the idiscoveri
XSEED Programme (courtesy Color TV Bombay)
helped us raise the bar in our class rooms and for the
teachers. Under the guidance of the Programme the
school delivered excellent results. Not only did the
teachers excel in their work with the children but the
children enjoyed the experiential learning practices
that the XSEED model follows.
We wish to acknowledge the most generous support
that we received from (tGELF) The Global Education
and Leadership Foundation, during the year for the
programmes were delivered by them free to us.
We continued to survive and thrive due to the
donations received from a large number of individuals.
All of them have been generous and very giving. We
are grateful. Since many of them have wished that we
do not publicise their contribution, we are not listing
the names of either the large or the small individual
donors. These names and addresses are available at
our office. We applaud their sense of giving without
seeking recognition.
However we need to mention those who sponsored
a whole class and this is an innovation in the current
year. The Punj Lloyds Group and the Hans Foundation
(who sponsored two of our classes) joined M/S Martek
Morgan Finch Inc. Canada, in doing this. The last
named helped us build the physical facility for the Early
Learning Programme and also volunteered to sponsor
the on-going cost of its upkeep.
The Jaswant Modern School continued to support our
Secondary and Senior secondary school students in
their school with a scholarship. We are grateful. The
school undertook responsibility for 52 students during
the last year. The schedule of fees prescribed by the
school has a fair percentage of subsidy component
and they have been very supportive of our desire to
help poor children with competence to succeed.
Future
We are looking forward to the future. We hope to win
affiliation from the CBSE and grow into a secondary
and thereafter into a senior secondary school in due
course. We also hope to strengthen our accounting
and reporting machinery so that we become more
transparent and accountable. The world’s perception
of our integrity has to be sustained.
We shall also attempt to use technology to ensure better
service to all our stake holders. Most importantly we
would like to evolve into an excellent school capable of
creating well informed human beings worthy of serving
a world of the future.
Appeal
We have plans to add to our Schools infrastructure
and this needs support. The several schemes for
supporting our cause monetarily along with a tear –
off that can be mailed to us have been listed. We are
also looking for volunteers who can serve our cause.
I appeal to you to join the “ Family of Purkal Friends”.
PYDS ANNUAL REPORT 11