Reaching out to the Scholars- An initiative from WBADMIP to generate aspirations among the young talents towards Sustainable Development!

             West Bengal Accelerated Development of Minor Irrigation Project(WBADMIP) is soon to complete its 7th year. Since its inception in March 2012, Project has been able to create a roadmap in multiplying farmer's income in a sustainable manner. However, the journey associated with the project's accomplishments has never been easy. It is surrounded with lots of complexities that needs smart decisions for their timely redressal. Besides posing challenges from time to time, these complexities also has given opportunities for the project officials to understand the dynamics of development activities at the grassroots and come up with working model from the lessons learnt. 

             With the objective to acquaint the scholars with the projects narratives on the lessons learnt as well as to inculcate the essence of becoming a development practitioner, project launched its "Internship Program" in the year 2018 where four international and three domestic students successfully completed their internship. Out of the four international students, 3 were from Harvard University, US and one was from RMIT, Australia whereas, among the domestic students, two were from IIT and one from Delhi University. There are always room for improvements in any development project. The tacit and explicit information captured by the interns from their field visit is helping the project officials to refine the project interventions more farmer specific. The learning will also help the students to gain insight to the real world challenges and solutions through active exploration.

             In Dec 2019, Project also facilitated a study tour comprising of 47 BSc Horticulture Science students from Dr. Y.S Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Solan, Himachal Pradesh.

           

Interns Joao from Harvard University, US and Somveer from IIT Kgp with Bankura DPMU team, June 2018

                             

Rhia from RMIT, Australia in Canning Block, 24 Paraganas South, Aug 2018

                                 

Interns Sujoy and Sophie from Harvard University, US in Darjeeling District, Aug 2019

Intern Aryaman from Delhi University visiting Birbhum, July 2018

BSc students from Dr. Y S Parmar UHF, Himachal Pradesh in 24 Paraganas South, Dec 2019