ग्रामीण परिवेश में सबसे अधिक समस्या छात्रों को विद्यालय तक ले जाने की है. अभियान चलाकर यदि छात्रों का विद्यालय में नामांकन भी करा दिया जाता है, तब भी विद्यालय में छात्रों के गैरहाजिर रहने की समस्या बनी रहती है. इसके अतिरिक्त आमतौर पर अशिक्षित या कम पढ़े-लिखे माता-पिता विद्यालय तक आने में संकोच करते हैं. इस समस्या को सामुदायिक सहभागिता और सामुदायिक जागरूकता के जरिये सुलझाया जा सकता है. इसके लिये यदि विद्यालय में समय-समय पर जागरूकता कार्यक्रमों का आयोजन, अभिभावकों का सम्मान, सामाजिक उत्थान के लिये सरकारी कार्यक्रमों की जानकारी देने जैसे प्रयास किये जायें तो स्थानीय लोगो और विद्यालय के बीच एक रिशता कायम होता है, जिससे बहुत सी समस्याएं दूर हो जाती हैं और परस्पर लाभ मिलता है. प्रस्तुत नवाचार इसी दिशा में एक कदम है.
Zero-Investment Innovations for Education Initiatives
ZIIEI is an initiative of Sri Aurobindo Society. Working for over 55 years to transform Education, Sri Aurobindo Society has identified that the Zero Investment Innovations at grassroots in India can be one of the most game-changing accelerators in improving the quality of education.
ZIIEI has been facilitating wide-spread adoption of the most promising “zero-investment” innovations in Education, and helping the State to solve the toughest challenges of making education more effective and meaningful. Presently, it is proving to be a significant step in implementation of the vision of the State Government to establish UP as a role model state of Educational Transformation.
The ZIIEI platform brings together the scattered, isolated and yet-to-be–recognised individual innovations, and is making these collective and inclusive. Each school, educator, and student is intended to be part of a mutually-sustained ecosystem to address the gaps in education—with simple tools—and will earn recognition by the Education Community and the State Government for their successful ideas.
ZIIEI is inclusive innovation at its best also because of the fact that it brings together the government, the schools, and educators, non-governmental and corporate players. While ZIIEI, evolved in response to critical educational needs, has been designed under the guidance of the UP State Government, it is funded by HDFC Bank— a collaboration model that goes beyond even public-private partnership (PPP) to facilitate the best of ideas, research, knowledge-sharing and cross-sector collaborations.