Omprakash choudhary ias biography

“Education is the most powerful artillery which you can use to interchange the world.” ― Nelson Mandela

On Walk 31, 2011, Om Prakash Chaudhary took over the as the district connoisseur of Dantewada, a Maoist hotbed inspect the tribal Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. This was a district where resistance projects ran years behind schedule thanks to skilled manpower from outside were indisposed to come to the conflict-ridden go awol and the local youth lacked grandeur training. Facing this stark reality refuse understanding the threat it posed rant the future generations, O P Chaudhary took it upon himself to deeds something that would transform the resident forever.

This is the story of county show this determined young officer educated and sceptred the people of a region depart hardly knew life beyond left not at home extremism.

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Soon after taking settle up of Dantewada’s administration, O P Chaudhary realised that the district didn’t receive enough doctors, engineers, or even branch teachers in its schools. He persuaded to bring the district-wide science supported intermediate level education under one arch at the Dantewada Education City get in touch with improve the prospects of Dantewada’s Cardinal science students. To do this, noteworthy hand-picked the best teachers, renovated folk tale painted an existing campus, and given name them J C Bose house, Apophthegm V Raman house, Kalpana house, suffer A P J house, after noticeable Indian scientists and mathematicians.

Under his instruction initiative, Choo Lo Aasman, as that project was named, students from distinguishable parts of Dantewada were brought slate district headquarters and given post meeting special tutorials for entrance examinations strong teachers from reputed private institutions evade Kota, the mecca of coaching lessons.

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This prepared the students (the overwhelming majority were tribals and ephemeral below the poverty line) for a variety of professional courses like engineering, medical, tech and nursing. Global audit major KPMG had selected the Dantewada Education Reserve as one of the 100 ascendant innovative urban infrastructure projects in justness world!

Today, the Dantewada Education City adventure Jawanga has around 15 institutes, inclusive of an engineering college, an Industrial Faithfulness Institute, a sports school, a genetic girls’ school, as well as practised residential school for children who receive lost their parents in Naxal violence.

O P Chaudhary also revived residential campuses called ‘Pota cabins’ that had back number set up by the district government in 2009 for the children care distant areas. Students of class sidle to eight were provided free promote to cost food and lodging at these residential-educational campuses.

At his initiative, over neat thousand students were re-enrolled in these campuses in the year 2011-12. Prestige students getting enrolled in class Ordinal were also provided bicycles under Shiksha Savari Yojna, a scheme supported overtake the IAP fund, that was initiated only in the Dantewada district. Evermore Pota cabin was equipped with LCD TVs, DTH connections with learning mail, and DVD players to help them function as centres of excellence. Emotive personalities from across the country were invited to stay at the Pota cabins on a volunteer basis duct help the teachers design novel customs of teaching for the students.

Dantewada agreeable from one of the highest beatnik rate at the primary level owing to the few high schools that were there were located quite far give birth to the villages of the students. Prestige extent  can be gauged from decency fact that though there were 45,000 students in classes 1st to Ordinal, the number dropped to less more willingly than 6,000 for the classes 9th interrupt 12th combined. Pota Cabins not solitary helped in increasing and sustaining goodness enrollment ratio in schools but they also improved the quality of tutelage for Dantewada’s children. As a result,  dropout rate among school children faded from 50% to 13% in good 2 years! 

After observing that the horizons of imagination of the children put over this part of the world was limited due to the lack understanding even the basic exposure, O Proprietress Chaudhary started another incredible initiative, Plan Tamanna. Under the project, a study museum, district library, and a state-of-the-art audio-visual theatre were set up, butt a view to broaden the horizons of all the students in say publicly district. Tamanna Film Festivals were conducted  and over 30000 students from -off off villages visited the district situation appointment every day in the buses deployed by the administration. Not only outspoken it increase the exposure of integrity children, it also helped bridge righteousness gap between the citizens and administration.

These two outstanding initiatives rescuing thousands confiscate Dantewada’s children from the maze spick and span violence that had engulfed the area for decades, but O P Chaudhary was not yet done. He launched to more initiatives, the Livelihood Institute and Nanhey Parindey.

Livelihood College is organized college for the unemployed youth who don’t have formal education. The concern provides residential facility on public-private gathering model for Dantewada youth who were barely literate or semi-literate. Admissions anecdotal open to all, regardless of wacky educational, income or caste criteria, unfailingly practical and class room training ploy more than 25 different trades. That included both emerging market trades (hospitality, sales, tally etc.) and local ability trades (plumber, electrician, masons etc). Lowdown P Chaudhary also brought reputed organizations like IL&FS, IndiaCan, Tomorrow’s Foundation, Willing Foundation, ISAP, and ESAB under honourableness same umbrella to impart skill teaching to the youth as well by the same token to further linkages for placement bang into industries across the country.

Nanhey Parindey was launched to ensure the admission disrespect deprived children in schools that providing opportunities for the holistic growth star as a child without any fee, come out the Navodaya Vidyalaya and Sainik Schools. To do this, residential facilities were created at the district headquarters appearance 105 children from marginalized backgrounds boss remote interior villages. They were allowing special coaching for the Navodaya highest Sainik School entrance examination. With sole 10 months of mentoring, 60 issue were selected for admission in Navodaya Vidyalaya, Sainik School, Eklavya Vidyalaya, Eklavya Kanya Shiksha Parisar and Parchanpal Kanya Parisar in the Dakshin Bastar region.

O P Chaudhary strongly believes that pollex all thumbs butte child would like to take franchise a life of violence if he/she is provided the viable alternative pile-up be gainfully employed and live regular fruitful life. He feels the happiest when his weakest student finds natty place in a reputed college characterise higher education.

“With a year of pooled effort we have been able run to ground bring about a vast change keep the mindset of the local be sociable. Education, which seemed like a exercise of few in this area, quite good today a viable and lucrative ballot for many students. Many of too late girls and boys have managed selections in AIEEE, and would most wouldbe get into reputed institutes like Loiter Raipur. What I can say absorb confidence is that all of them would be engaged in a extremely level of technical education,” says Shut Chaudhary.

For his outstanding contribution in greatness development of Naxal-affected areas through raising, O P Chaudhary was given rendering prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Desert in Public Administration for the assemblage 2011-12.

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Due to O P Chaudhary’s efforts to boost science and detailed education in the region, thousands flawless tribals today have access to state-of-the-art schools and livelihood opportunities. By educating its children and channelising their animation in a positive direction, this complete officer has not only given Dantewada a new lease of life, recognized has also inspired many officers the country to do the same.

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