Vivekananda Gramin Tekniki Kendra

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1986 - 2009
Students Enrolled	1711
Training Completed	1413
Gainfully Employed	1413
Self-employed workshops	30

Youth & women have remained in the focus of all the nonhealth activities of SEWA Rural. Youngsters in rural India are trapped in a vicious cycle poverty, ignorance and lack of opportunity. To bring about some change in the situation and to provide opportunities to the deprived youth, a vocational training centre was started in 1986. Now every year some 100 youth are trained in Vivekananda Gramin Tekniki Kendra. The trades include Turner, Fitter - welder, Gardening, Electrician, Environment Plant Operator in which 9 months of theoretical and practical training is followed by first hand exposure & experience of 3 months in nearby Ankleshwar & Bharuch industries. During second year all students are placed in industries for on job training under the liaison of VGTK staff. Regular meetings between trainees and staff are held to find ways so as to strengthen the training. Beside technical competence various other components like group prayers, discipline, punctuality and hard work for value based life are inculcated and encouraged in students. As a result industries give preference to our trainees.</

However these youngsters naturally face some difficulties at the training centre as well as in industries as they hail from interior rural and tribal areas. In any case more and more young people are satisfactorily completing their training and are earning reasonably well, thereby contributing towards the betterment of their families.

Delhi based CAPART has provided sizable finance for this Gumandev based technical training centre. Several indigenous industries and trusts including Mumbai based Sir Ratan Tata Trust and Ur Asha Jhaveri Foundation, organizations and individuals from abroad made the training as well as economic betterment of 1000 youth & their families possible. Chandrabhai & Kumudben Shah (USA) contributed sizable fund and Tribal Development Department of Gujarat has sanctioned large fund for revitalization of VGTK including new construction of buildings. All these changes will change the face of VGTK soon.

A newly started service centre for maintenance of home appliances & two wheelers and production cum training centre to manufacture fabrication items in larger number is providing better training opportunities and more resources for the VGTK. The programme was evaluated in 2002 by an external agency which has commended most of the achievements of the VGTK.

The poor, the illiterate, the ignorant, the afflicted - let these be your God. -Swami Vivekananda