CES Skill Development and Employment Fair

Each of India’s founding fathers, may it be Mahatma Gandhi or Sardar Patel had emphasized on the importance of skill development. Even our Charotar Education Society was established in 1916 with the purpose of taking education to the rural population. Our own founding fathers had realized the importance of skill development and wholesome education as a necessity for rural population, hence many skill based programs were taught at the institution from its very beginning.

On 2nd of August, 2015 Charotar Education Society will host a Skill Development and Employment Fair organized in liaison with Gujarat Skill Development Mission, running for three consecutive days. The primary beneficiaries of this fair are the students who for one reason or the other have not been refrained from taking the advantage of opportunities in life.

The Gujarat Government under the Skill Development Mission aims to equip one lakh people with skills to generate income for themselves every year. This mission will bring plethora of skill development programs, courses and their live demonstration to the Campus ground of our very own D.N. High School, Anand. The underlining fact that for improving one’s standard of living, a source of income is necessary; for source of income, financial engagement is necessary, may it be under employment or self-employment; and for financial engagement skill is absolutely necessary. The Skill Development and Employment Fair organized by our Charotar Education Society will fulfill all of the above requirements on a single platform and provide a pathway to a better standard of living to the beneficiaries.

The fair is organized with the coordination from the Commissioner of Emploument and Training. An employment and registration for various programs will also take place at the fair. Many industries, institution, and stakeholders have taken advantage of this opportunity and represented themselves at the fair. The Skill Development and Employment Fair would host eminent speaker hailing from the field of:

• Jobs in Mechanical Trade
• Pharma Industry
• Armed Forces and Coast Guard
• Institute of Design
• Construction and Building Sector
• Banking and Industry Finances
• Information Technology
• Management
• Child Psychology and Counselling
• Entrepreneurship Development
• Health and Related Services
• Gems and Jewellery
• Media and Mass Communication

The fair will hold 100 stalls spread across 2 domes located in the CES campus in Anand. The entry to the fair will be free and open to all from 10:30 am to 8:00 pm on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of August. 

We have assigned a special day for our young students to visit the fair and gain exposure to the numerous career options that are available to them from an early age itself. It is necessary that they are aware of the countless opportunities that are open for them in lieu of adhering to the popular and conventional fields of occupation.

With more career options our students will not be burdened to unwillingly fit under conventional vocations and will have the freedom to choose something that they themselves would love to engage in as a profession. We believe that this is far better than working everyday of your life for something that you have to do instead of what you want to do. Wider scope of careers, we hope, will yield a huge variety of students getting into an even wider variety of fields.

બંક મારવાનું પડ્યું ભારે - આર.બી. પટેલ

સ્મરણો કહેવા બેસું તો રાતોની રાતો વહી જાય

ડીએન ની યાદો કહેવા બેસું તો રાતોની રાતો વહી જાય

કેટલી વાતો કરું હું અહિ દોસ્ત , આતો ડીએન છે

કહેવા બેસું તો  વાતોની વાતો વહી જાય 

1952 થી 1959 એટલે મારો વિદ્યાર્થી કાળ. પાંચમાં ધોરણમાં જોડાયો અને દસમાં ધોરણમાં ગાડી અહીંથી છોડી.. અહિયાં હું મારી જિંદગીને જીવ્યા કરતા માણી વધારે છે. વાતો કરવા બેસું તો મારા સાહસના અને મજાકના ઘણા બધા પ્રસંગો નીકળે એવા છે. પરંતુ અમુક કિસ્સાઓ તમારી સાથે શેર કરવા છે.

અમારે અગિયારથી પાંચ ભણવાનું અને ચાર વાગે અમારે પીટી નો પીરીઅડ હોય. અને મને પીટી માં રસ ઓછો. પહેલેથી જ વ્યાયામ તરફ ઉપેક્ષા ભાવ.  એટલે અમે બે-ત્રણ ટોળકીએ નક્કી કર્યું કે પીટીનાં પીરીઅડ વખતે ક્યાંક જતા રહેવું અને પાંચ વાગે એટલે દફતર લેવા આવવું.  એટલે અમે સ્કુલમાં જે ટોઇલેટ હતા એમાં ભરાઈ જઈએ અને અંદરથી સાંકળ બાંધી દઈએ. જેથી કોઈને ખબર નાં પડે. પરંતુ આવું કેટલા દિવસ ચાલે?

એટલે એક દિવસ અમારી આ વાત  વિઠ્ઠલ ભાઈ સાહેબ ને કોઈએ કહી કે  આ લાંબવેલ નાં છોકરા ક્યાંક પીટી વખતે  દેખાતા નથી એ ક્યાંક ભાગી ગયા લાગે છે. એટલે વિઠ્ઠલ ભાઈ એ કોઈક છોકરા ને અમે જ્યારે ટોઇલેટ માં જઈએ એટલે બહારથી  સાંકળ બંધ કરી દેવા કહ્યું. પહેલાતો અમે કઈ બોલ્યા નહિ પણ જ્યારે  પાંચ વાગ્યા એટલે નાં છૂટકે અમારે અંદરથી ખખડાવ્વું  પડ્યું. અમે તો હવે પકડાઈ ગયા હતા. એટલે વિઠ્ઠલ ભાઈ એ બારણું ખોલી નાખવા કહયું અને આશ્રમમાં બોલાવ્યા..

ગુનો કર્યો હતો એટલે જે ડી.એન.ની સૌથી કોમન સજા હતી એ તેમણે ગાંધીચોક વાળવાનું કહ્યું , હવે પાંચ વાગ્યા હોય અને લાંબવેલ ચાલીને જવાનું હોય એટલે રાત્રે મોડું થઇ જાય.  પહેલાતો અમે ગ્રાઉન્ડ આખું સાફ કર્યું. પરંતુ વિઠ્ઠલ ભાઈ સાહેબ નો ભાવ એતો પિતાતુલ્ય.  એમણે  કહ્યું કે તમારે રસોડે આવ્વાનું  છે, અને જમાડ્યા અને રાત્રે મોડું થઇ ગયું હતું એટલે અમને અમારી સાથે એક માણસ ને મોકલ્યો અને ઘરે મૂકી આવવા માટે કહ્યું.

એટલે વિઠ્ઠલ કાકા શિક્ષા કરે  પણ એઓ જ એમનો ભાવ, એવીજ એમની પિતૃવાત્સલ્ય ભરી દ્રષ્ટિ. બેંચ ઉપર કોઈકે  ચોકનો ભૂકો નાખ્યો હતો , એટલે વિઠ્ઠલ કાકા એ પૂછ્યું કે કોણે નાખ્યો છે , કોઈ એ જવાબ આપ્યો નહિ, એટલે બધી જ્પાત્લીઓ અમને ક્લાસૃમની ભાર કઢાવી અને સાફ કરાવી. અને અમને કહ્યું કે હવે વિદાય સમારંભ તમારો નહિ થાય. અને આજે પણ એનો રંજ છે કે અમારી બેચનો ગ્રુપ ફોટો નથી. 

The Power of One

Bhavin Patel explains the Importance of One Rupee

“Today we live in the economy of hundreds and thousands, where a rupee practically seems a trivial amount to us. In our everyday life, we consider a rupee equivalent to a chocolate and nothing more; that would be the first and possibly the only thing that we perceive to be bought with a rupee. Many a times we accept mints or chocolates instead of a rupee in our day to day purchase and some event find it too trivial a matter to consider waiting for or fussing over to obtain the change of a rupee, many a times letting it go. It is not much to us today, is it?

Students of Kasturba Kanya Vidyalay

But, consider this: if every person saves 1 rupee a day, which doesn’t seem too difficult a matter, we save 30 rupees a month. If 100 such people put together their 1 rupee a day savings it becomes 300 rupees a month. And if a 1,000 such people come together that makes 30,000 rupees a month. Now that is a significant amount; and therein lays the concept of our ‘The Power of One’.

Students from Ambalal Balshala

We have organized an Addiction Relief club. We believe that Addiction of any sort may it be as small as sweet sopari not only harms our health but also weakens us economically. We preach that the money they put into their objects of addiction they should save it for themselves and out of that donate just 1 rupee for a good cause. I have come across many young boys who have been seen with tobacco or smokes. We want to help them quit by giving them a good cause to donate to and an understanding of financial savings.

The collection gained through this campaign would be put to use for the students who need economically help of any kind. There are students who show good potential, put they sometimes fall short of resources. We want to help those students with their books or stationary or fees. There are even students who are physically challenged and have certain special requirement, in such cases we want to work towards fulfilling them.

The concept came from our Chairman Nirav Patel. The Addiction Relief club is one of the appeals that we have adopted for the campaign, in the same manner we are working with various concepts to help induce a sense of saving and financial management among the students and of that savings we ask them to just put 1 rupee aside for helping their fellow students who need help.

           --- Bhavin Patel,  A.N. Patel PG Institute

Subhash Chandra Bose inside: the actual mystery behind the death

Anuj Dhar opens the box of Mystery 

Charotar, the Land of the Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel has also given valuable contribution in the freedom struggle of India. So as the part of its centenary year celebrations, Charotar Education Society (CES) on 7^th July, 2015 organized an event of interaction with the ex-journalist and author, Anuj Dhar with the motive of creating awareness about the mystery behind the death and disappearance of the great national hero of the freedom struggle; Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

Chairman Nirav Patel facilitates Anuj Dhar 

Netaji has become a mystery since his reported death in a plane crash on 18^th August 1945 in Formosa (present day Taiwan). Till now, three commissions have investigated the matter, but no authentic judgement has come till today that whether he died or escaped. Three theories have been proposed about his disappearance and his being alive even after 1945, but no strong evidences are available to prove them true.

Anuj Dhar, a Delhi based author and former journalist has been working since last many years and is constantly researching to reveal that what happened actually to Netaji after 18^th August 1945? He presented a PowerPoint presentation about his research work in the Dhirajlal J Shah Town Hall, Anand where people in large number had gathered and listened attentively to his 3 hours long wonderful presentation.  After the completion of Dhar’s presentation, the intellectual and patriotic citizens present interacted with him on the issues related to the mystery of Netaji.

Anuj Dhar writing his CES Experience

Shri Ashok Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police; Anand District, MLA of Khambhat Shri Sanjay Kumar Ramanbhai Patel, Shri Dipak Bhai Sathi, Shri Pragnesh Bhai Patel, Chairman of CES Shri Nirav Kumar Patel and various other dignitaries of Anand were present and listened to the presentation of Anuj Dhar.

Anuj Dhar has initiated a movement to find out the actual reason behind the mystery of Netaji’s death. He urged the people to join in his cause and people also welcomed his initiative. As an academic institution, Charotar Education’s society’s initiative to remember the patriots who sacrificed themselves for nation’s cause by organizing such events is a great step towards a new beginning.  

DYUNO Says Hi!!!

Duyno is a fun loving character created to convey the messages to its student.  He is too friendly with everyone and he likes to make friends. Duyno in simple terms is a mascot which is created to invite people to attend the events of Charotar Education Society. He makes you feel that you are so familiar to him and to the entire Charotar Education Society in spite of the positive changes brought to the organization. Duyno is an inspiring character which motivates everyone to achieve great heights and make all the necessary efforts to achieve the desired goals. Duyno is a refreshing mascot as it easily connects with the students of the Charotar Education Society. Duyno makes the atmosphere very live and it make every student feel as they are revisiting their home. Duyno is an interactive mascot which comes at every event to attend you, speak to you, involve you in the event and interact with you. Duyno is the one who attends all the events at Charotar Education Society and he asks for the same to his all the students of Charotar Education Society.

Charotar Education Society-2

The institute was started as it had various goals in the minds of the founders who wanted to something more meaningful and add some developmental contribution to the society. The institute was started as it had certain plans and major amongst them were

To provide Housing, Hostel or rather Ashramshalas, schools, higher education, physical fitness point and other such needful.

To collaborate with the self finance institutes; providing the above mentioned activities or to convince them to settle down with an appropriate deal for both the parties.

To promote the students who are bright in their studies and who are willing to study but lack because of the money. Those students should be provided educational loans and even encouraged by giving them scholarships to go abroad and pursue higher education in their desired fields.

To conduct aptitude tests to make students alert and aware about the studies. To take physical educational exams to make them and train them in remaining physically fit.

The above mentioned are some basic points which were in the minds of the founders at the time of establishment of the Charotar Eduaction Society. The Charotar Education Society was divided in basic four divisions so as to maintain discipline and bring out a better body. The major four divisions were;

Council

Governing Body

Trustee Council

Volunteer’s Council

The major four bodies played an important role in establishing the Charotar Education Society. The four bodies played their roles in their own way. These four bodies can be considered as the ones who helped a lot in building up the institute in managerial ways.

Charotar Education Society is set up in huge area and so it has various campuses in it. There are various campuses comprising of different schools, colleges and hostel. Basically the campus is divided into two major parts which includes;

•          Anand Campus

•          Morgi Campus

Anand Campus comprises of various colleges into it and one of them in M.B.Patel Science College which is managed by Charotar Education Society, Anand. The college was established on 16th April 1916 by the Gem of Chaortar Shri Motibhai Amin Saheb with a perspective of providing higher education in the Charotar Pradesh, the region between the Mahi and Vatrak rivers extending from Vasad to Kheda. There are many colleges which are part of Anand Campus. The colleges include the Science, Commerce and Arts stream as well. The main aim of all the campuses is to provide educational facilities to the students so as to build up a brighter future of their own and the society as well.

There are not only colleges residing in the Anand Campus but there also number of schools and hostels that are providing education and housing facilities to the students belonging to the Charotar Education Society.

Morgi Campus includes many colleges, schools and hostels in it. The basic aim of providing all the facilities at one place to the students is to provide them with all the basic facilities so that they can study well and become capable person who keeps an aim to change the society with better ideas and better aims. Delivering education is the basic aim of Charotar Education Society but other than that it also believes in child development, personality development and various other practices and methods which can make their students a better person.

Both the campus not only provided educational facilities but it also provides sports activities, library, housing, entertainment, competitions and many other curriculum activities which indeed help the students to learn, improve and compete with the outer world. Charotar Education Society comprises of all the activities and other material which human being needs for the survival for a good life. This institute adds meaning to the life not only by providing education but by teaching the ways for living a good developed life. The students studying here would make brighter careers of their own and along with that they would even make society a better place to live for each and every human being residing in the society.

The History of Charotar Education Society-1

One of the leading education trusts that found its origin in 1916, in the land of SARDAR, to the nearest epicenter where the White Revolution or rather Milk Revolution began. The driving source behind 12 schools and 11 colleges is stretched over 4 huge campuses which provide accommodation for more than 20,000 students taking track towards their bright careers.

The institute holds Historical Values as well, the institute is along the DANDI HERITAGE MARG (NH 228) and the alumni were among those who welcomed Mahatma Gandhi during his stay at CES enroute to Dandi. The institute has played a role in bringing revolution at the time of Dandi Heritage Marg. The essence of our late Nation leaders still lies there. The two days that he spent at the campus became a source of inspiration for the next four generations and continues to draw inspiration today as well. 

The basic element which we are interested in providing is Education. Education has been our forte and the Alumni have been put to test what they assimilated at CES. They believe in themselves and so they believe to contribute in their way, small and large , to bring the change in the society. With teaching as our focus, we also look forward to impart a sense of belongingness among our students and endeavor to reach out to the society and contribute to the well being of the society in many variegated ways. Grasping things from the curriculum is not the only important thing taught here. We believe in grooming the students making them a better person, a better human being. The upbringing in the institute brings a ray of hope in life of each and every student residing in the institute. It enlightens the life of student in every aspect as it has some precious values and ethics.

Viththal Kaka hand in hand with the
First President of India. 

The establishment of Charotar Education Society, Anand, was on 16th April 1916 by the precious Gem of Charotar Shri Motibhai Amin Saheb with an aim to develop and elaborate higher education in Charotar Pradesh, the region between the Mahi and Vatrak rivers extending from Vasad to Kheda. The constitution of the society was framed by Late Shri Vithalbhai Patel or rather the elder brother of Sardar Vallobhai Patel. Sardar Vallobhai too played an active role in the preparation of the Indian Constitution.

The management of the society in the beginning included the brothers named Shri Ishwarbhai J. Patel and Late Shri Vitthalbhai J. Patel. The Vice Chancellor of International Universities and many Universities of Gujarat have a common name in the list which is Shri Ishwarbhai J. Patel. Late Shri Vitthalbhai J. Patel is in real sense, a true leader who carried out the entire journey towards the vision of an educated society working towards development. The Charotar Education Society is stretched over 41acres of land surrounded by 4 campuses in which Kinder Garden to Post Graduation education is provided to the determined and needful students. The society runs P.T.C., B.ED., Arts, Commerce and Science degree Colleges. The institute also provides self finance courses in Science and Arts.

The institute has various other people who are associated with it since years. They are considered as the people who have witnessed positive changes and are the ones who have overcome all the struggle and difficulties to establish and enhance a huge institution for the development of the society.

The 'Vehm-Andhshradha' Nirmulan Program

As a part of the centenary year celebrations, Charotar Education Society organized an event on the blind faith with the noble motive of bringing awareness in the society. The event was organized in the Bakrol village on 25^th June 2015. On the occasion, Shri Anilbhai Patel, founder member of the Nisarg Community Science Centre; Gandhinagar discussed about various beliefs prevalent in the society based on blind faith and how various fake people take wrong advantage of this ignorance of the people by practical demonstrations.

Anil Bhai said that the main reason of the blind faith prevalent in our society is the ignorance of the people due to the lack of scientific temperament. Even well educated people also still believe in such blind beliefs just like uneducated people and don’t think of thinking logically as they fear it will go again the religion and faith. Thus due to such strong and blind faith in the religion, we get daily a new religious preacher; a bhuva; tantric or a mataji; out of which majority of them just fool people on the name of religion.

Anil Bhai stated that behind every such miracle, there lies some scientific logic, like blood coming out of coconut, ‘Mataji na pagla padya’ (steps of goddess), chundadi coming out of coconut and like that much more. For instance, in the case of Mataji na pagla, a thin solution of turmeric and water with some chemical is prepared and applied on tiles before devotees start arriving. Then due to the constant passing of the people, due to their foot impressions, red footprint arises on the floor, which are propagated as Mataji’s pagla and people are fooled and money is collected from them in wrong way. Similar is the case with other such blind faith rituals. Moreover, there is no scientific logic behind beliefs like  black cat crossing your path harms you and other such beliefs.

Talking about science and religion, Anil Bhai said that there is nothing wrong in believing in God or religion. “Dharma” actually is a way to live the life. Remembering god or chanting god’s name gives peace to both heart and mind. But religion today is mostly taken in a wrong way and due to high level of blind faith wrong concepts are now deep rooted in people’s mind. Due to excessive blind faith amongst people and incomplete knowledge about the religion & logic, people are wasting more and more productive time in religious practices instead of engaging in fruitful work activities.

Today, India has around 30 lakh people who in the name of customs and religion do not work and are dependent on begging and related activities for their survival. Such people who exist in large number are like a burden on the economy of our nation and tax payers who work hard day and night. If such people engage themselves in some skill based activities, they can help in our economy.

People in our nation still lack scientific approach in their behaviour in spite of increasing rate of education. Our main motive is now to bring awareness among people, both educated and uneducated as well as urban and rural people.  People need to understand the difference between religion, spiritualism and blind faith. Real development is only possible when each and every citizen of India will develop scientific temperament and logistic approach. Because where there is science, there is development.