Mobile Science Education 

AID - Jharkhand (Palamau Chapter)

 

Two mobile educational units are running, one in the state of Jharkhand and one in T.Nadu.

In Jharkhand the Mobile education unit is covering the different government, private and organisational schools. Sorry, your browser doesn't support Java(tm). In the school education programs, the children are given visual treats to the environmental sciences, entertainment and educational programs . It has been found that this mobile education unit attracts large number of children to the centres. On the day when this unit is in the schools the attendance of the children has been 100%. It has been assessed that this has been one of the most popular forms of education. Since the area is remote and inaccessible, and there are no communicable roads or electricity, there are no means of entertainment for the people through the electronic media. Hence this education attracts the children to a greater extent.

Among the community this media is used for bringing in the programs available through the government schemes. The field publicity unit of the ministry of information is supposed to bring in these programs to the field. Due to its absence their messages are brought to the field by AID to enable the people to understand what programs are available for them. In fact, during the National Pulse Polio campaigns this was the only way the messages could be reached to the far-flung villages about the need to compulsorily immunise their children.

The women groups are also mobilised through this media by exclusive programs for them dealing with issues on health, violence towards women, thrift and credit schemes, and generally how the adoption of income generation programs allows women to stand economically on their own feet. On the whole this mobile education unit has been a great success in Bihar. In some of the villages the villagers are
not satisfied with the 2 hours of the program and request the unit to show it once more, sometimes this request has to be satisfied.

Number of children covered 13423
Community members 27,184


Through these mobile information support initiative, the right to information on various science and health related matters were provided to the rural poor in their door steps.