Gram seva Maha vidyalaya, Grambharti-Amarapur

Gram Seva Maha Vidyalaya Gram Bharati is a school located in Gandhinagar, India. The school has an emphasis on providing quality education with modern teaching methods and facilities such as computer labs, library, sports ground etc. They also have v labs, library, sports ground etc. They also have various extracurricular activities like music classes, yoga sessions and art workshops for students of all ages. The school strives to create an environment where children can learn while having fun at the same time. Grambharti Amrapur Trust had been registered on March 19th 1958, and the Basic Secondary School in that Chhatralaya of Pratapnagar started in the same year on 16th June. In this way, in North Gujarat, the Institution of Navi Talim and total village service commenced. The institution has kept the objective of expanding the Sarvoday (good of all) life through all-round education and other constructive activities. In order to fulfill that objective, the programme has been earmarked in the constitution, which included the activities like establishing and managing educational schools of various levels for life oriented education directed by Mahatma Gandhiji and supporting to Indian culture, managing the workshops of Adult Education for the people and women education as well as agriculture and animal husbandry.Thus, along with the little facility but unique zeal, the stages of education have been humming with melodious group of life. There were 32 students totally in std. 6 to 9 and 6 teachers and the same 6 gruhpatis. Pratapnagar was humming with the enthusiastic environment of beauty and education, community living for 24 hours and self-reliant life. In 1958, education commenced with "Gram Shala" the Basic Secondary School. The primary school of district panchayat started since 1960 in the compound of the institution. During 1963-64 Gramshala has been transferred into post basic school. Upto 1970 there was co-education. In 1971, an independent girls' school was started from the view point of women education. The main craft in both the schools is agriculture and cattle breeding. Over and above all the academic subjects are there. 'Social reconstruction' is in place of 'Social studies'. Std. 11-12 was started of Higher Post Basic agriculture stream in Gramshala in 1976. The vocational stream of home science was started in girls' school in 1982. Gramseva Mahavidhyalay was started of graduation level in 1986. It got the affiliation with North Gujarat University in 1998. The main craft in the gramshala and the kanya vidyalay of the institution is agriculture. The 60% of the subjects are agriculture and cattle-breeding oriented and the principal subject is agriculture in Gramseva Mahavidyalay. Half an hour to quarter and one hour period is allotted to the craft work in the daily timetable of all the three schools for the direct training and experience of agriculture craft. According to advance planning all the students reach at the assigned tasks of their team with necessary tools and instruments for the craft. During this period, they perform their works of vegetable plots and necessary tasks in agricultural crops. The teachers of the schools give the necessary guidance to them by joining the student's teams. The students participate according to the guidance of the subject-teacher in experiments, practical work, trials and demonstrations related to their curriculum over and above their daily craft work. They keep the full notes about their observations, analysis, interpretations and results. The student of the college has not to pay the tuition fee according to Government rules. In exchange to that the student has to perform the productive labour work of 250 hours during the year in the sections like agriculture, gaushala, gardening, forestry construction, etc. of the institution. This labour management is also arranged by previous planning and as far as possible from the educational point of view. Self-reliance in cloth is the basic thought of the institution. It is an easily available symbol of the unity with labour and labourers. Many processes starting from grow cotton to the sewing of clothes are included in it. The farming of cotton has been undertaken since its beginning. Various activities regarding its various types and seed productions also have been carried out. The place of rural industry is unique from the point of view of art and craft as well as cultivating life at the leisure time. The village industry in institution had provided much nourishment to the institution. The surrounding people are benefitted. Students of the institution had attained education. Village industries likeOil-mill industry, Hand-pounding industry, Fiber Industry, Clay Industry, Industry of sand-pebbles, Leather Industry, Industry of Carpentry and Blacksmiths etc over and above khadi are example of sustainability and self-reliance at campus. There is much importance of co-operative activities in society as well as in education. There is a noble competency of friendly relations of the individual and the society and democratic values in the co-operative life-style which is free from the defects of materialism and communism. Along with the basic education in the surrounding area, the institution had started the co-operative societies and it is necessary to be acquainted with it. Moreover student services co-operative society is functioned by the institution in order to give the direct-experience to the students regarding the objectives, of this activity rules, method, purchase-sell, common general meeting, executive, president secretary, agenda, etc. The idea of all these societies is given below in brief. In the field of publicity of the Gandhian Thought and activities of sarvoday mandal, the institution has an important contribution. Gandhi, Sarvoday and humanity all the three are the equivalent of one another. The goals of Grambharti and Sarvoday mandal are same and supplementary to each other. The institution has been established with the commitment of Gandhian values. It brings up the Gandhian thought through practical life, living contact and propaganda of literature. The institution worked for Gandhian thought and sarvoday before its establishment and now also it works for the same.