| JANILE JINIBA (To know is to win)
The Voice through VRC
JANILE JINIBA (To Know is to Win) is a satellite-enabled audio-visual information exchange programme facilitated by CYSD on a wide range of development issues. The programme is part of a larger country-wide project called Village Resource Centre (VRC) Network, which promises to bring about a social revolution in our country by enabling the millions of rural people of the remote areas to access a wide range of information and use it to their benefit.
The main purpose of the information exchange programme is to:
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Enable remotely located village communities to access and share information and advisory services in areas such as -Natural resources (esp. land and water), uitable sites for potable drinking water and recharge, wastelands having reclamation potential, watershed attributes, alternate cropping pattern, and water harvesting possibilities.
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Healthcare: advice from distant specialist doctors in diagnosis and treatment of diseases with the intermediation of local doctors and paramedics, certain customized medical software and a few medical diagnostic instruments.
- Expert advisory services from knowledge centers like agricultural universities and technical institutions, on a wide range of subjects such as, alternate cropping systems, optimization of agricultural inputs including seeds, water, fertilizer, insecticides, pesticides, producer-oriented marketing opportunities, and crop insurance.
- E-Governance Services: information and guidance on government schemes on topics including agriculture, poverty alleviation, rural employment, social safety nets and other basic entitlements, animal husbandry, and livestock and micro-finance related services.
- facilitate and organise dialogues between rural communities and with other development/ technical/ resource agencies and actors at different levels on important development issues, policies and programmes.
The VRC network essentially comprises village-based communication terminals that are digitally connected amongst each other and with distant knowledge centers and expert service providers, with the help of satellites, for meaningful interaction. People located at one VRC can see and interact with people located at another VRC through video and audio links. This is made possible through the latest technology called VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal).
As part of the programme, CYSD has set up its Special Resource Node at Bhubaneswar. It has also set up nine VRCs in nine remote locations of Cuttack, Sundargarh, Koraput, Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar districts.
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The Special Resource Node of CYSD delivered several programmes including Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS: Challenges for community development, network & coalition building amongst community based organisations for livelihood promotion and learning in the classroom: language at lower primary level.
Through this medium, CYSD conducts a dynamic development communication programme on different themes such as Livelihood, Health, Education, Governance and other development issues.
Currently, the programmes can be watched by more than 25000 people across the country participating in 282 VRCs, and more than 5000 people from Orissa participating in 37 VRCs.
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The programme is a joint attempt of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) on the one hand, and on the other, CYSD and other partnering agencies from Orissa including three government medical colleges, the Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), and four leading NGOs, namely - Agragamee, Gram Vikas, PREM and Sambhav.
Forthcoming Programmes:
- NREGA: The Field Situations & Challenges
- Challenges of the on-farm extension support
- RTI: Views from the ground
- Micro Planning: Relevance for Community Development.
For further information please e-mail us at : janile_jiniba@cysd.org |
