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“There’s a village distant from the place I at the moment work referred to as “Chaurasi”. The identify all the time intrigued me and I later discovered that it was as a result of the place was as soon as adorned with 84 temples. The temples now stand dilapidated, with scattered stones showcasing advantageous craftsmanship and a few engraved with intricate statues. Coming right here [SPJIMR], I noticed every participant because the stone of that temple, and this programme as shaping an edifice out of them.” In his farewell speech, Maulik Sisodia, the Govt Director of Tarun Bharat Sangh and son of Mr Rajendra Singh, the Waterman of India, shared these poignant phrases.
After dedicating 14 years to a company based by his father almost 5 a long time in the past, targeted on water conservation, Maulik Sisodia recognised that he and his group wanted to construct the capability to take the group to the subsequent stage and determined to hitch the Submit Graduate Programme in Growth Administration (PGPDM) at SPJIMR, Mumbai.
SPJIMR stands out for the socially accountable administration training and their PGPDM launched in 2011 isn’t any completely different. The overarching purpose of the programme is to develop value-based leaders who can innovate and rework social sector organizations to make a bigger impression on society. Via a novel mannequin that allows working professionals to attend lessons while persevering with their jobs, the programme is a testomony to ‘studying by doing’. The programme is ideally suited to professionals working in or desiring to work for the social sector. The distinctive design and pedagogy of the programme are a results of an understanding that whereas the event sector wants to attract upon the administration rules to get impression at scale, the traditional company administration rules are insufficient for the complicated social sector. The programme uniquely blends the realms of improvement and administration, harmonizing principle and follow seamlessly.
It was this distinctive mannequin of the programme that drew Satendra Singh Lilhare, Co-founder and CEO of a social enterprise, in the direction of it. Within the distant corners of Chhattisgarh, stands tall Satendra’s organisation heartingly referred to as Bastar Se Bazaar Tak. It was born out of a deep understanding of the challenges confronted by tribal farmers to entry the marketplace for their produce and is now on a mission to uplift their lives. The journey from Bastar to the Bazaar is certainly a tough one and Satendra explains how the PGPDM at SPJIMR makes strolling the trail somewhat simpler.
In a single assertion summarizing his expertise, he proudly expresses, “The programme made me a believer.” Initially, he had an understanding that the core values, imaginative and prescient, missions and goals of a company are outlined within the web site only for the sake of it; the core thought drifts too steadily to be etched as strong statements and which is why many organisations outsource the duty of creating these concepts to exterior businesses. Finally, his learnings from the PGPDM gave him a lot confidence and perception that he has not solely developed an unshakeable perception within the core values that his group will carry but in addition charted them out into full-blown implementation methods. No shock, throughout this system, Bastar se Bazaar Tak received the Tata Social Enterprise Problem (2020-21).
One other alumnus Bhushan Kamble who graduated in 2023, realized his management potential in the course of the programme and went on to construct his personal artisanal model ‘Vhaan’ which retails the best handcrafted leather-based merchandise by conventional leather-based craftsmen unfold throughout a number of villages of Western Maharashtra. Rising up within the chawls of Mumbai, Bhushan believes that these artisans from the countryside join us to the historical past of the world they arrive from by way of the tales they weave into every sew and design. The objective of Vhaan is to revive this artwork kind’s authenticity whereas ensuring that the true storytellers take again the highlight and are handled with dignity.
“The course taught me every thing I wanted to learn about changing into a social entrepreneur. I realized how you can assume clearly, handle accounting & finance, undertake surveys, construct a group, design a challenge, gauge the place we’re headed as a group, and most significantly, how you can incorporate earlier learnings into new assignments,” he provides.
The assignments throughout PGPDM which necessitate drawing from varied programs all through the programme starting from Idea of Change to Program Design, Fundraising to program Analysis and Influence Evaluation, from Public Coverage to Advocacy & Networking and the sequence of administration programs ready Bhushan and different college students to adapt to an ever-changing social sector and apply the learnings in actual time eventualities.
Equally, Maulik doesn’t have one massive however many small takeaways from the course. He shares how the course supplied useful insights into aligning his grassroots work with SDGs and staying related within the evolving improvement sector. Having all the time labored on the bottom, he thought programs like Advertising and marketing & Branding Administration had been just for corporates. In the present day, he has created the model pointers for Tarun Bharat Sangh. New ideas just like the Idea of Change and Design Pondering had been applied in his work leading to enhancements, together with a refined web site with a transparent imaginative and prescient and mission.
Maulik concluded his farewell speech accepting the shift within the social views: “My home within the village has a window with iron bars. Our Bibi’s Suti Saree was used to cowl the window, identical to within the olden days. When it was sunny, the room would mild up and when it showered, slight rain would enter the room. However no matter was occurring was occurring exterior. The curtain was so excessive that we may solely see individuals’s shadows past it. However throughout this programme final 12 months, one thing modified, or perhaps you all made it occur. The string of the curtain loosened up, and it got here down somewhat. Now, I can look eye to eye into the society past. Now, as I am going again, I’ve to see these faces with a brand new perspective and apply what I’ve realized right here.”
Nearly each pupil and graduate of PGPDM has the same story to inform; a narrative of private transformation for the transformation of the society.
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