Corporate Social Responsibility

As a responsible corporate citizen and educational Institution, Suryadatta Group of Institutes does not lag behind in promoting various social awareness programmes and sensitizing and educating its students to be good corporate citizens. Every year, a minimum of 3 to 4 such programmes are organised. Through its Edu Socio Connect Suryadatta has been enabling sustainable development for the benefit of society.

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Edu-Socio Connect Initiative (CSR Activity) - Part-I

Edu-Socio Connect Initiative (CSR Activity) - Part-II

Suryadatta sculpts better Human Beings through humanitarian deeds;’ through Edu-Socio-Connect program says- Mr. Dhiraj Ghate

Through his nobles actions Dr. Sanjay B. Chordiya, Founder, Presidents & Chairman of Suryadatta Group of Institutes, who is believer of “Education to All”, always shows the way to follow his footsteps and inspires to outreach the needy deserving people of the society.

This year Dr. Sanjay B. Chordiya and his daughter Dr. Kimya Chordiya’s Birthday was celebrated in a unique manner on the very opening day of the School and Junior College; 16th June 2016, by distributing school bags containing 10 Note Books & a compass box to 200 needy students from draught affected areas of Maharashtra. The generosity was executed through the students of Suryadatta National School, Bavdhan. (CBSE Affiliated). The very purpose of doing so is while extending the help, the young minds also should learn a lesson & emulate it when they are capable to do so. This indeed is a ‘Sanskar’; the Enculturation, which will be imbibed by the young generation of India.

Apparently the gesture may be monetarily evaluated as a small step but philosophically it is a step of ‘Vamna’, covering the entire universe. It is the squirrel’s help to Lord Rama in building the bridge across the ocean.

On this occasion, Shri Dhiraj Ghate, President of Sane Guruji Mandal, who was the chief guest recalled how he is associated with Dr. Chordiya’s Social work since the inception of Suryadatta Group of Institutes. He recalled that Suraydatta was pioneer in starting IT classes for the students in 1999 when the technology was new. He also said that at that time stalwarts like Mr. Nitin Gadkari and Mr. Manohar Parrikar had praised the social initiatives taken by Suryadatta Group of Institutes. Mr. Dhiraj Ghate emphasized that this is not an event but a moment which will continue in the draught situation in Maharashtra is totally eradicated.

He further elaborated that to commemorate the 125th Birth Anniversary of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the key creator of Indian Constitution it was pledged to reach and help 1,25,000 economically challenged students, belonging to farmers families from the draught affected areas of Latur, Beed, Vidarbha, Marathwada, to complete their education by providing them notebooks, school bags, stationary etc. which is their day to day requirement for the study purpose. He announced proudly that so far study material of worth Rs. 25,00,000/- has been collected and in the month of July it will be given to the above category students at the hands of honorable Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri Devendra Fadanvis.

Mr. Dhiraj Ghate cited few of his experiences of how students have stopped the celebrations of their birthdays or young generation stopped unwanted undesired expenditure of their marriage celebration and donated that part of sum for helping the draught affected students. After listening to such stories many students and teachers from Suryadatta vowed that they too will celebrate their special occasions by donating for such noble cause. Dr. Sanjay. B. Chordiya appealed that each organization and its members should extend help to best of their capacity for economically challenged and needy students. This will help to reduce the imbalance among the students belonging to different strata of the society. Dr. Kimaya Chordiya (M.D.) expressed her feelings by saying that celebrating the birthday in such manner has given her inner satisfaction and sense of belonging to the down trodden part of the society. She says that this is her art of living. Earlier in Dec 2015 Dr. S.B.Chordiya has motivated the student of Suryadatta Group of Institutes to collect food grains for the draught affected the farmer families of Maharashtra. The Collected Grains were sent to the needy, rural pockets of the Maharashtra through the Gram Panchayat members of Bavdhan. Dr. Sanjay. B. Chordiya propagates, “It is essential to build better character in students to make them better Human Beings and thus to transform our future young aspirators into efficient and effective Managers, Leaders & Entrepreneurs”.
Dr. Sanjay B. Chordiya gave oath to his students by saying to draught affected students,

“ I learn, you also should learn”“I have, u also should have”“I Deserve, u also should deserve”

For his humanitarian deeds executed through students of Suryadatta Group of Institutes, we must salute the idea & Intention of such activities and say, “Chordiya Sir your institute is right place to sculpt out perfect Human Beings who will be the bright future of this country.”

Suryadatta awarded certificates to coolie for successfully completing the course of elementary level of spoken English- conducted by Suryadatta Faculty at Railway Station

Suryadatta’s is conducting various social Initiatives for the sake of society. One of them conducted in the month of November and December 2014 is a Spoken English elementary level.

Under Suryadatta’s this Initiative, Few faculties of Suryadatta along with Students Volunteers were conducting classes at Pune Railway Station, for the porters for ‘Spoken English’ (Elementary Level). The classes were conducted for two batches, each batch of 40 porters. The purpose was to facilitate communicationbetween the coolies at Railway station and foreign passengers, passengers of North-East India, Southern India who are poor in Hindi Communicatio. At the end of the course, which was based on the input-given by Pune Railaway station Manager Shri Patil, a written exam was conducted and 18 coolies cleared the exam.

A special workshop of 4 hours of Mumbai ka Dabbawala was held for all the students of Suryadatta Group of Institutes, at its Bavdhan Campus. This workshop was attended by the porters also. Mr. Raghunath Medge, President of Dabbawala Association explained the history of the organization (nearly 150 years old), objective, working methodology, organization structure, policies, rules and regulations etc. he told the precision with which they work, the sense of discipline, touch of ‘Being Human’ during the work etc. this workshop was attended by Pune Railway Station Coolies along with the students of Suryadatta.

After the workshop was over the coolies who cleared the written exam of “Elementary Level of Spoken English’ were awarded the certificate of Merit for successful completion of the course of Elementary level Spoken English, at he hand of Mr. Raghunath Medge: President NMTSA. Mr. Medge said that he has gone to no any Educational Institutes so far for ‘Mumbai Ka Dabbawala’ Workshp but has never seen such awreness of Social Responsibility anywhere. Mr. Sandeep Khardekar, General Secretary BJP who was present in the workshop as Chief Guest applauded the work of Suraydatta Institutes. He said Suryadatta is not only producing tomorrow’s corporate leaders only but sculpting our find human beings of each & every student through its social initiative.

Mr. Babaji Khandu Dhore, the porter of Pune Railway Station (Badge no. 206) spoke on behalf of all the porters who took advantage of this course. He expressed his feelings of gratitude. He said in the morning when I say ‘Good Morning’ to my children or ask them ‘ How are your studying in the school?’ when they return from the school, the children feel proud of their father. Because of better communication and that too in English, passenger comfort level ahs gone up and they give good monetary reward also. He requested Dr. Chordiya, President of Suryadatta Group of Institute to conduct next level course in near future.

This was a unique occasion of confluence of one class of labour (Dabbawala) with another (Railway Porters). ‘Dignity the name is Labor’

Suryadatta Defining 'Women Empowerment' by orgnizing Bakery Workshop for Rural women & forming 'Self Help Group'

Suryadatta Group of Institutes in past 17 years has made a niche for itself as one of the leading organization in education sector. Its awareness towards CSR is exemplary. Suryadatta Group of Institutes has organized multiple special programs for women empowerment & thousands of women from the deprived class of society are benefitted by it, by being financially independent. Some of the programs organized by Suryadatta for women are ‘ Tailoring & Fashion Designing’, ‘Making of 36 types of Spices’, ‘ Jam & Jelly making classes’, ‘ Jewellary Designing classes, Basic IT Classes, Health Checkup Camps, for women of rural areas etc. These programs have proven as a blessing for the women as many of them have formed the self help groups or have become individual entrepreneur. Some of them have gone for an employment as a skilled worker in respective industry sector. On 29th November 2014, Suryadatta College of Hospitality Management, Travel & Tourism, SCHMTT, organized full day workshop with practicals, on Bakery for women of Bavdhan Budruk village, as the college is situated in that village. The response to the workshop was highly encouraging and 20 women got detail training on baking of cookies, bread & cakes of different types.

While inaugurating the workshop Mrs. Sushama Chordiya, Secretary of Suryadatta Group of Institutes and the brain behind CSR activities, told the participants that it is very essential for women, especially from rural areas, to be financially independent to enhance their family status in the society and their own status in family. Today is an era of equality of genders but still there is a lot of injustice with & atrocities on women especially in rural & backward areas. If the women from such areas become financially independent, they would be powerful & the society will look upon them with respect which they deserve.Certificates of completion of Bakery workshop for basic skills in Baking were awarded to all the participants by Prof. Dr. Sanjay B. Chordiya, Founder President & Chairman, Suryadatta Group of Institutes. He gave ‘Mantra of Magic’ to these participants. He told them not to underestimate the women power. They are not only mother, wife & sister but now entrepreneurs also. The step taken by womenkind to get professionally skilled has taken them to higher level than men. He said every housewife is the ‘Best Manager’ of each family, as she manages finances, social & family responsibilities which man alone can never handle.Mrs. Vandana Malhotra, Principal, Suryadatta College Of Hospitality Management, proposed vote of thanks and reaffirmed institute’s commitment by promising the participants to organize a higher level of Bakery workshop for the same participants, as requested by them in near future. Mrs. Sheetal Dagade, one of the participants told other participants that this workshop has opened ‘Trinity’ options for them. To get a job in bakery, to start self business or to make a group & take this hobby on professional level. Another participant Mrs. Deepali Sutar, quipped, “This workshop has given me the key of winning appreciation of my family members as I will feed them now with homemade cookies & cakes. Really, the way of love to heart is through stomach.”

Blood Donation Camp organized by Students of Suryadatta on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti

The students of Suryadatta, Bavdhan Campus organized Voluntary Blood Donation Camp on occasion of Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti at Suryadatta’s Bavdhan Campus on 2nd October 2011. This drive was organized keeping in mind our corporate social responsibility and tradition.

The blood donation camp was very well received with faculty members as well as students who participated in this camp. All the students were very enthusiastic about the camp. The blood was first tested for the required hemoglobin levels and then the donors were allowed to donate their blood. Trained professional from Poona Hospital were present for the camp. They first checked the vital signs of the donors and then started the blood donation drive. There were 34 bottles of blood collected. The blood was donated to Poona Hospital Blood Bank. Mr. & Mrs. Dilip Navlakkha were present as chief guests on this occasion, along with Prof. Dr. Sanjay B Chordiya, Founder President and Chairman, Suryadatta Group of Institutes and Mrs. Sushma Chordiya, Vice President, Suryadatta Group of Institutes.

The camp was held at the Bavdhan Campus on Sunday, 2nd October 2011, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Suraydatta has been holding such camps regularly from the last 7 years. Such camps are aimed at educating students on the crucial need for healthy voluntary blood donors, the absolute safety of the process of donating blood and the noble action of saving lives through voluntary blood donation.

Suryadatta plays mentor to Rickshaw Drivers and Housewives

Completes its 2nd Batch of Free English speaking & Computer awareness programme for Auto Rickshaw Drivers & Housewives

Felicitation ceremony organised on the occasion of completion of 2nd batch in English learning & computer skills at Sahitya Parishad, Tilak Road, 11 am

On the completion of course certification given to all 80 Auto Drivers and housewives.

Felicitation done at the hands of Shri Baba Adhav, President of Rickshaw Panchayat & Shri Jayant Umranikar, former Pune Police commissioner

Next batch of 80 Rickshaw Drivers to commence from Saturday, July 9, 2011 for six months

Learning is an ongoing process, which has nothing to do with age. Whether you are four or you are forty, you are always keen to learn something new. Drawing inspiration from this, Suryadatta had launched its 2nd batch of English speaking & Computer awareness programs offered voluntarily to Auto Rickshaw Drivers & Housewives free of cost.

This training programme for a batch of 80 persons, comprising 40 auto rickshaw drivers and 40 housewives started in January 2011 and completed successfully on June 24, 2011.

On this occasion, Mr Sanjay Chordiya, Chairperson, Suryadatta Group of Institutes, said, “In the 21st century, knowledge of English and to be able to converse in English is a necessity rather than the need of time. The response to the programme was tremendous from both rickshaw-drivers and housewives and we are awarding certificates to 80 candidates of this programme.”

Certificates were distributed to those who have successfully completed the programme at the hands of Shri Baba Adhav, President of Rickshaw Panchayat & Shri Jayant Umranikar, former Pune Police commissioner and Shri Deepak Shikarpur, who were present as Chief Guest and Guest of Honour respectively.

Shri Jayant Umranikar said, “Women are the backbone of family system yet their education remains neglected most of the time. Now days English has become common language for communication. Dr Sanjay Chordiya has always been ahead in undertaking such social initiatives. This initiative by an education institute will help our society go ahead and keep pace with time.”

Shri Baba Adhav said, “Rickshaw drivers always aspire to learn these skills but most of the times cannot make it either due to financial or time constraints, or even both. But by offering these courses free of charge, Suryadatta has not only provided a helping hand to them but also awakened their learning spirit. I congratulate Suryadatta for this innovative and useful activity.”

Shri Deepak Shikarpur said, “With globalization everything is becoming high tech” English speaking and Computer learning is the need of the hour. And hence Suryadatta started this initiative of offering this training to various communities of society in a row. Suryadatta is getting overwhelming response to it.

A housewife is life and blood of the family. Her role in the family is as same as the heart and brain in the human body. A learned and trained housewife can bring in health, happiness, soundness and satisfaction to the family in all the respects and facets of life. One such family into many such families will go a long way in building a developed society and nation. Suryadatta has taken one such initiative to train and impart learning to this vital element of the society.

Contents of the course were as follows,

The English Speaking course comprised of:

1. Basic Grammar
2. Words and Sentences formation for daily usage
3. Writing English with different situational examples
4. How to speak clearly so that the other person understands

While the IT/ Computer skills course comprised of:

1. Introduction to computers
2. MS office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Paint, Notepad, Calculator, Calendar
3. Basic Usage of computers for office and home

In the past, Suryadatta has trained more than 2000 school children, 120 Auto Rickshaw Drivers, 500 women and 100 senior citizens. Senior citizens started communicating with their children abroad with the help of knowledge of Computer, Internet and English language. They also started talking to their grand children’s in English, which was up till then little difficult for them.

Auto rickshaw drivers who completed the training in first batch, are now working as a guide to the passengers coming to Pune, and can communicate with them in English. Taking inspiration from them, the second batch had enrolled prior to completion of the training program of first batch itself. And on completion of first batch, second batch followed immediately.

Seminar for educating people to oppose and stop Female foeticide arranged by Suryadatta Group of Institutes

A seminar for educating people to oppose & stop Female foeticide was arranged by Suryadatta Group of Institutes in association with Dhankawadi , Maharashtra Navnirman Sena on the 25 July 2011 at Usha Palace, Dhankawadi, Teen hatti Chowk, Pune.

This event was attended by Executive Editor General Secretary, Maharashtra NavNirman Sena Shri. Anil Shidore, Actress Usha Chavhan, Founder President & Chairman of Suryadatta Group of Institutes, Prof. Dr. Sanjay B Chordiya, Prabhag Samiti President Shri Vasant More, Sandip Mohite Patil, Jyoti Konde, Sudhir Nivgune and Vishal Thopte.

The chief guest for this seminar was renowned social Worker Smt. Sindhutai Sapkal, who expressed her thoughts on this topic saying that the world is changing rapidly and the women have to face all the challenges with a brave heart. She said that father evokes fear while a mother evokes pain. She also said that girls should not expose as it does not fit into our Indian culture. A thought put forward was that a girl is more patient and can take hardships better than a boy and urged all present not to underestimate women. She also said that we cannot take our generation forward without women, so if there are no women there wont be anyone in the world.

Prof. Dr Sanjay Chordiya also spoke on this occasion. He stated that the boy:girl ratio is 1000:800 which is a very alarming scenario. He gave examples of Smt. Sindhutai Sapkal, Kalpana Chawla, women who have made us proud and said that with such examples in front of us thinking about female feticide is certainly not acceptable. He said that for the complete development of our nation it is necessary that women from our nation give birth to children and teach them to become good and responsible citizens.

Since this has been the hot topic of the day and its awareness has become the need of the hour, Suryadatta supported this initiative of MNS. Suryadatta has successfully completed programs to enable women to become financially independent like Fashion design Courses, Beauty Parlour courses. Suryadatta is currently conducted classes for women where they are taught to create 36 various spices.

This awareness program was attended by over 1000 women.

Suryadatta Group of Institutes organized Blood Donation Camp

Every year Suryadatta Group of Institutes conducts Blood Donation Camp in their all group institutes as a part of Edu -Socio Initiative. Suryadatta Group of Institutes is keen on undertaking various social and human initiatives for the betterment of the society and life in general.

The camp was conducted last week in association with Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital at Suryadatta Group of Institutes, Bavdhan Campus, Pune, in the presence of Prof. Dr. Sanjay B. Chordiya Founder President & Chairman, Suryadatta Group of Institutes, Pune who guided the volunteers and expressed his views on the “ Edu – Socio Connect”, Unique initiatives of Suryadatta Education Foundation. Such camps are aimed at educating students on the crucial need for healthy voluntary blood donors, the absolute safety of the process of donating blood and the noble action of saving lives through voluntary blood donation.

The blood donation camp was very well received with faculty members as well as students who participated in this camp. All the students were very enthusiastic about the camp. The blood was first tested for the required hemoglobin levels and then the donors were allowed to donate their blood. Trained professional from Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital were present for the camp. They first checked the vital signs of the donors and then started the blood donation drive. There were 70 bottles of blood collected. The blood was donated to Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital Blood Bank.

All the doctors, their team members appreciated the efforts taken by the institute and their students & given the certificates to each blood donor.