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Objectives
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The
philosophy of DEI's outreach programme which represents
a major social service initiative of the University embodies the
following broad based objectives:
º To provide
need based education: enhancing the employability of
persons who are educated but not finding employment or
who have lost employment; and also enhancing the
employability of uneducated/undereducated
youth.
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To target
geographically remote and backward areas with vocational
training programmes.
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To offer
education on a no-profit basis.
º To remain
aligned with the National Programme for upliftment of
underprivileged and backward societies and the
empowerment of women.
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To
inculcate Indian culture and values in youth through
specialized programmes to metropolitan areas in India
and abroad.
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Vocational
Training Courses |
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The
Dayalbagh Educational Institute has begun to enrich the
educational atmosphere in our country through the launch of vocational training
Certificate Courses such as Motor Vehicle Mechanic (now running at
Dayalbagh (UP), MTV Puram (TN), Ludhiana (Punjab),
Timarni (MP)); Modern Office Management and Secretarial
Practice (running at Delhi); and Textile Designing and
Printing (running at Delhi). Here the objective is to be
able to provide vocational training to persons who have
dropped out of school or discontinued education for
economic reasons or are jobless, such that they can
learn enough to get immediate employment, or to be able
to go ahead and set up small scale units at home, and
thus begin to earn their livelihood. In other words, in
this programme we will train people in vocational skills
for which there is a demand in order to mitigate
economic hardship, particularly of unemployed youth in
remote areas and tribal people in backward regions, and
to further the cause of women's empowerment.
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Academic Courses Pertaining to Indian Culture and Value
Based Education |
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The
Institute has also expanded its distance learning
programmes to cover academic teaching, especially in
value based subjects. This will help in greater
understanding and tolerance of different cultures based
on the ideal of the Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of
Man, while inculcating the willingness to serve mankind
and to work with ones own hands.
D.E.I. has
a School of
Languages where children can opt to learn more than one
language of their choice from among Telugu, Tamil,
Bengali, Urdu, Oriya, Punjabi, French, and Russian.
D.E.I. also has a well established and highly reputed
Department of Music in addition to a Music Centre that
teaches Indian music to children. In addition, "Indian
Culture" and "Comparative Study of Religion" are
integrated into the D.E.I. curriculum as core subjects.
These latter subjects are imperative to study from the
point of view of keeping students moored to a value and
tolerance based system of which Indians are proud. Such
courses are especially relevant for children of N.R.I.'s
born and brought up abroad who have no exposure to
Indian Culture and are far removed from Indian values
and religious traditions. More recently, D.E.I. has
introduced a Post Graduate Diploma in Theology in
the Department of Sanskrit and Culture, which now runs
at two remote learning Centers in the USA: New York and
Chicago. Courses on Indian Culture and Values, Indian
Music, and Spoken English are slated for All-India
launch during this Academic Year.
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Mode of
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In the
present mode of execution of the above outreach programmes from Dayalbagh, D.E.I. provides the academic
inputs and instruction for practical work. While
maintaining administrative control over the course,
local nodal agencies help organize training in their facilities or workshops, or in establishments-industrial and institutional-that have indicated their
willingness to participate in the social service venture. For
coordination at a higher level, D.E.I. has identified
various nodal agencies that are eager to function as
coordinators and work with D.E.I. to help operate the
programme through local educational institutions, units
and other larger industrial establishments. In the
present mode of operation we have directly linked up
with these registered bodies to act as our regional
linkage points.
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