'PRAYATNA' the social responsibility club of Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, strives to sensitize the future business leaders of the institute towards social responsibilities. Team Prayatna attempts to bring about momentous changes in the society through interactions at the grassroots level with regards to different sectors including education, healthcare, and environmental care. Prayatna shares the social responsibility with IIM Udaipur community, and further invites everyone to participate actively in all of its events and activities. It works hard to empower underprivileged society and simultaneously empowering the IIM Udaipur community by involving them in the decision making.
Prayatna club has been awarded the "Outstanding Club" for the year 2013-14.
Udaan is a program which is trying to help the underprivileged bright students, who could not pursue higher education due to high fees in these colleges, to pursue their dreams and get higher education. Udaan is a CSR initiative of Terapanth community and TT Textiles. They have collaborated with IIM-U (Prayatna) to build tie-ups with the educational institutions in and around Udaipur, to help them pledge vacant seats from various institutes, for this cause. Various colleges have been identified where eligible students can pursue higher education without feeling the financial burden and get up to 100% scholarships.
It is an initiative taken up by the members of the club to provide education in an innovative and intuitive way that broadens the scope of thinking of the young minds. It encourages them to ponder over and find out the rationale instead of mugging up things from the textbook. The students study in the college classroom, interactive YouTube videos and software "Gyantantra" among other novel methods of teaching are used. The software "Gyantantra" is voice-interactive software provided to us by Literacy India (an NGO spread across India), which teaches basics of Math, English, Hindi, Shapes and Colors in Hindi language. The initiative has been started in just one school, teaching the students of class 6th, 7th and 8th, but Prayatna plans to expand this in other schools as well.
As per the initiatives under Waste Management, 2 compost pits are dug up; a Bio-gas plant is planned to be set up to transform waste generated from mess into useful energy in the form of Biogas. Apart from this, a Sewage Treatment plant is also planned to be set up near MDS hostel mess. IIMU has now adopted a new initiative wherein proper disposal of waste, especially paper, plastic and metal, is to be done by collecting them in separate bins. Paper recycling technology will be used to recycle and use paper waste generated in Academic block and printers in various hostels.
IIM Udaipur organized Inclusive India Forum in collaboration with HBS Club of India on 26th July, 2014. The objective of the Forum was to identify meaningful ways for corporate India to partner with NGOs in their specific areas of focus. The identified focus areas were healthcare, education and livelihood.
Participants in the forum included members of the HBS Club of India, many of whom are CEOs or a part of the leadership team of their respective companies, domain experts and leaders from several leading and reputed NGOs, CSR leaders from the corporate world and students of the Post Graduate Program at the IIM Udaipur. The second edition (IIF-2015) is expected to bring more stakeholders together in pursuit of identifying tangible projects that can be executed for the benefit of the society for the longer run, by bringing the NGOs and CSRs together.
The motive was to set a platform where students could connect, interact, and be part of the mentorship program. The program is unique in itself as students are in constant touch with their mentors (Students of IIM Udaipur), who motivate, guide, and help their mentees understand their liking/disliking, share information and experience which in some way or the other guides the students to achieve their short and long term goals. Four campus connect programs have been conducted successfully in which the fourth edition of Campus Connect catered to the needs of Government Senior Secondary School, Balicha, Udaipur.
Blood Donation is one of the prestigious annual events of Prayatna, which witnessed huge participation from whole IIM Udaipur community. Blood Donation Drive was organized in collaboration with Lion's Club Lake City, Udaipur on 19th Aug, 2014 at MDS Hostel, IIM Udaipur. A total of 94 people, which included IIM Udaipur's students, staff and administration, donated blood and contributed to the noble cause. Prayatna takes great pride in mentioning that out of these 94 donors, 4 students of IIM Udaipur donated blood at Geetanjali Hospital to donate blood to a patient in emergency situation.
On October 22nd, 2014, the IIM Udaipur family went to Jeevan Jyoti Child Home to share a few moments of happiness with the children. Jeevan Jyoti Child Home is a Govt. run boarding school for children belonging to poor families from in and around Udaipur. The day constituted of fun- filled events, with students from IIMU teaming up with children and conducting various activities like sports competitions and Diwali celebration.
IIM Udaipur took part in Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, launched on 2nd October, 2014 by the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narender Modi. Implementation of the program started off with a presentation by the team of Prayatna, which explained about the importance of cleanliness and hygiene, and the initiatives started on campus to set waste management in place. After the presentation, all headed out to initiate clean campus drive. Groups of people could be seen with garbage collection baskets, brooms and dustbins.
A team from Prayatna Club, IIM Udaipur visited Rajkiya Pragyachakshu Madhyamik Andh Vidyalaya, a blind school in Udaipur that has 94 visually impaired students. Here, students wait for Braille textbooks or constantly depend on other person who can read for them. Prayatna has taken up the initiative to record audio guidebooks that help students to prepare for exams anytime. Students from IIM Udaipur are volunteering for this noble cause and audio CDs would be donated to the school. Prayatna plans to expand Swar to other Blind Schools in Rajasthan.
Prayatna will organize the second edition of Jaipur Foot Camp in collaboration with Shree Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), Udaipur in the month of February, 2015. Other associated partners would be Social Justice & Empowerment Department (GOI- ADIP and Udaipur Administration) and Rabindra Nath Tagore Medical College, Udaipur. Under this event, on-stop facility center is created where physically challenged patients are measured, and their custom-made limb/caliper is/are fabricated and fitted, without making them visit again a second time.
IIM Udaipur is also working in the better policy implementation of RTE Section 12. The members from Prayatna team aspires to support the government initiative by interacting with the key stakeholders like students eligible for primary education, creating awareness among the parents and helping them comply with the policy regulations, interacting with school authorities for sharing inclusive practices and gathering relevant information from government authorities. The team is working in alliance with RTE Resource Center from Ahmedabad and trying to replicate the same in Udaipur.
