INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE PROJECT Energy conservation is the key objective of the project.

Solar power is the conversion of solar energy into electrical energy, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CSP). Solar energy usage is important because solar energy can prove to have an immense amount of constructive and helpful impact on humans and on the environment as a whole. Contrasting to the fossil fuels that we consume and use on a daily basis, solar energy does not fabricate the excessively injurious pollutants that are liable for the greenhouse effect which is known to lead to global warming. The project is to create the awareness and provide solar lamps to the people at an subsidiary rate. ABOUT ITC Inspired by a vision to serve a larger national purpose and abide with the strong value of Trusteeship, ITC has crafted innovative business models to create larger societal capital while simultaneously delivering long term shareholder value. This overarching aspiration to create meaningful societal value is manifest in ITC's strategy to enhance the competitiveness of value chains of which it is a part. It is therefore a conscious strategy to design and implement Social Investments / CSR programmes in the context of ITC's businesses, by enriching value chains that encompass the most disadvantaged sections of society, especially those residing in rural India, through economic empowerment based on grass-roots capacity building. It is ITC's policy: 1. To pursue a corporate strategy that enables realization of the twin goals of shareholder value enhancement and societal value creation in a mutually reinforcing and synergistic manner. 2. To align and integrate Social Investments / CSR programs with the business value chains of your Company and make them outcome oriented. To support creation of on and offfarm sustainable livelihood sources thereby empowering stakeholder communities to conserve and manage their resources.

3. To implement Social Investments / CSR programs primarily in the economic vicinity of your Company's operations with a view to ensuring the long term sustainability of such interventions. 4. To contribute to sustainable development in areas of strategic interest through initiatives designed in a manner that addresses the challenges faced by the Indian society especially in rural India. 5. To collaborate with communities and institutions to contribute to the national mission of eradicating poverty and hunger, especially in rural areas, through agricultural research and knowledge sharing, superior farm and agri-extension practices, soil and moisture conservation and watershed management, conservation and development of forest resources, empowering women economically, supplementing primary education and participating in rural capacity building programs and such other initiatives. ABOUT IMAYAM: Inspired by the scope of social work in Coimbatore, Mrs. A.N. Meenakshee and N.R. Parameswari started Imayam, a service organization, after their post-graduation in Social Work, from P.S.G College of Arts and Science, a premier institution located in Coimbatore and registered it as a society in 1992. From a humble beginning in 1992, Imayam, over the years has grown in its social work to commendable proportions. Vision & Mission:

Social, Economic, Health, Environment and Political Empowerment of Vulnerable Population.

Empowerment through Community Based Development approach

Objectives:

To promote women in skill building and micro finance through SHGs To promote Women Federations (CBOs ) for leadership and collective livelihood activities

To promote health related behaviors in preventing sexually transmitted infection, reproductive tract infection, HIV and protecting from general health problems among women and children

To rehabilitate women in distress through short stay home care and life skills services To enable women leaders to participate in local governance through panchayat raj system To promote sustainable agriculture and create better environment system To establish network with state programs

Partners:

NABARD. Global Ministry. PWDS / Alliance / Abott. TAI / VHS. APAC / VHS / USAIDS. Nationalized Banks. HDFC / IASC / ICICI. NMFDC. ITC / MSK Corporate Sector Lions / Rotary Club

OUR TEAM The Project given to us was Energy Conservation and Awareness which is to be done in Karamadai block. Our team consists of 29 students then it can be divided into 3 groups to cover the villages in and around Karamadai block within 5 days. Then each group is divided into subgroups which consist of 2 members in each sub-group. Our sub-group consists of Ramkumar.K (12MBA036) and Manickaraj.S (12MBA023). Our venture started with the village of Sullipalam.

VILLAGES VISITED: Sullipalayam Kooranur Gendepalayam OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT Our project was a questionnaire based survey which focuses on the following areas: SOLAR LIGHT : ITC has focused its CSR towards the women and children who are studying. Due to frequent power cuts they are getting affected. Hence ITC has planned to provide lights which are powered by solar energy. The total cost is 4200 ITC contribution - 2000 Individuals Contribution - 2200

TOILET FACILITY : Imayam has partnered with ITC under a scheme of building Individual Hygenic Toilets. Total cost to build that toilet is 14,400. ITC contribution - 7000 Individuals Contribution - 7400

EMPLOYMENT OPPOURTUNITY : ITC has planned to setup an agarbathi unit in the villages of karamadai to power up the employment oppourtunity for women. The lower income people can meet their day to day expenditure through this income. We had an overwhelming response for this scheme by ITC

SELF-HELP GROUP : ITC has also targeted on the women interested in business. ITC have planned to start self-help groups and give them loans to start their own venture.

METHODOLOGY: Closed or Structured Questionnaires are a quantitative method of research, which was advocated by Emile Durkheim(1858 - 1917). It is a positivist research method. It includes the low level of involvement of the researcher and high number of respondents (the individuals who answer the questions).A questionnaire is a series of questions asked to individuals to obtain statistically useful information about a given topic. When properly constructed and responsibly administered, questionnaires become a vital instrument by which statements can be made about specific groups or people or entire populations. Questionnaires are frequently used in quantitative marketing research and social research. They are a valuable method of collecting a wide range of information from a large number of individuals, often referred to as respondents. Adequate questionnaire construction is critical to the success of a survey. Inappropriate questions, incorrect ordering of questions, incorrect scaling, or bad questionnaire format can make the survey valueless, as it may not accurately reflect the views and opinions of the participants. A useful method for checking a questionnaire and making sure it is accurately capturing the intended information is to pretest among a smaller subset of target respondents. Questionnaires often seem a logical and easy option as a way of collecting information from people. They are actually rather difficult to design and because of the frequency of their use in all contexts in the modern world, the response rate is nearly always going to be a problem (low) unless you have ways of making people complete them and hand them in on the spot (and this of course limits your sample, how long the questionnaire can be and the kinds of questions asked). As with interviews, you can decide to use closed or open questions, and can also offer respondents multiple choice questions from which to choose the statement which most nearly describes their response to a statement or item. Their layout is an art form in itself because in poorly laid out questionnaires respondents tend, for example, to repeat their ticking of boxes in the same pattern. If given a choice of response on a scale 1-5, they will usually opt for the middle point, and often tend to miss out subsections to questions. You need to take expert advice in setting up a questionnaire, ensure that all the information about the respondents which you need is included and filled in, and ensure that you actually get them returned. Expecting people to pay to return postal questionnaires is sheer folly, and drawing up a really lengthy questionnaire will

also inhibit response rates. You will need to ensure that questions are clear, and that you have reliable ways of collecting and managing the data. Setting up a questionnaire that can be read by an optical mark reader is an excellent idea if you wish to collect large numbers of responses and analyse them statistically rather than reading each questionnaire and entering data manually. You would find it useful to consult the range of full and excellent research books available. These will deal in much greater depth with the reasons for, processes of holding, and processes of analysing data from the variety of research methods available to you. Developing and using a questionnaire

Identify your research questions Identify your sample Draw up a list of appropriate questions and try them out with a colleague Pilot them Ensure questions are well laid out and it is clear how to 'score them' (tick, circle, delete) Ensure questions are not leading and confusing Code up the questionnaire so you can analyse it afterwards Gain permission to use questionnaires from your sample Ensure they put their names or numbers on so you can identify them but keep real names confidential

Hand them out/post them with reply paid envelopes Ensure you collect in as many as possible Follow up if you get a small return Analyse statistically if possible and / or thematically

ADVANTAGES OF A STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE: 1. The researcher is able to contact large numbers of people quickly, easily and efficiently

using a postal questionnaire. 2. Questionnaires are relatively quick and easy to create, code and interpret (especially if

closed questions are used). 3. A questionnaire is easy to standardise. For example, every respondent is asked the

same question in the same way. The researcher, therefore, can be sure that everyone in the sample answers exactly the same questions, which makes this a very reliable method of research. 4. Questionnaires can be used to explore potentially embarrassing areas (such as sexual and

criminal matters) more easily than other methods. DISADVANTAGES OF A STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE: 1. The format of questionnaire design makes it difficult for the researcher to examine

complex issues and opinions. 2. With a postal questionnaire, the researcher can never be certain the person to whom

the questionnaire is sent actually fills it in. 3. Where the researcher is not present, it's always difficult to know whether or not a respondent

has understood a question properly. 4. The researcher has to hope the questions asked mean the same to all the respondents as they

do to the researcher. 5. The response rate (that is, the number of questionnaires that are actually returned to

the researcher) tends to be very low for postal questionnaires. Questionnaire design is a long process that demands careful attention. A questionnaire is a powerful evaluation tool and should not be taken lightly. Design begins with an understanding of the capabilities of a questionnaire and how they can help your research. If it is determined that a questionnaire is to be used, the greatest care goes into the planning of the objectives. Questionnaires are like any scientific experiment. One does not collect data and then see if they

found something interesting. One forms a hypothesis and an experiment that will help prove or disprove the hypothesis. VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF QUESTIONNAIRES: Questionnaires generally have low validity because they don't explore questions in any

detail or depth. Complex issues - requiring a respondent to explain their reasons for believing something - are difficult to explore. Where closed questions are used the respondent is restricted to answers using categories

provided by the researcher - there is little opportunity to qualify the meaning of answers. Similarly, the questions asked are, by definition, those considered important by the researcher. It is easy, therefore, to miss important information because you fail to ask appropriate questions. However, the fact postal questionnaires can be anonymous means respondents may be

encouraged to answer questions truthfully in the knowledge they cannot be identified. This may increase the validity of their responses.

DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS: TOILET FACILITY: Toilet is one of the basic necessities of Human beings. Following hygienic toilet practices is very much essential. A single gram of faeces can contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 worm eggs. Faeces not disposed of properly can be carried on peoples shoes, hands and clothes and contaminate water, food and cutlery. It is estimated that people living in areas with poor sanitation ingest 10 gram of fecal matter every day. Salmonella and cholera, among many others, are considered water-related diseases because they travel from host to host in water that people use to drink or bathe in. 2.2 million people, mostly children die from an affliction that to most Westerners is the result of bad take-out food. Diarrhea is the result of faecal-contaminated water or food and it kills a child every 15 seconds. According to the UN childrens agency UNICEF, diarrhea is a bigger threat to children than AIDS, tuberculosis or

malaria. Children without a toilet have to spend many days of the year being sick, and many eventually drop out of school. In the case of a woman in the poorest parts of the country though, and dont have a toilet, it means that you have to wake up really early and do what you have to do in the darkness, risking rape and snake bites. The most disgusting situations were encountered in India because open defecation is common. Especially in rural India, people are defecating on the roadside, which is pretty disgusting and shocking. On the other hand, in the West, where we think we have the best form of sanitation, it is not working properly. It is certainly not as dramatic as in India, but with a rainstorm you can get raw sewage water being discharged in the rivers. Societies like India require a lot of effort to convince people to stop open defecation. What many campaigners and reformers found out is that it is much harder to convince people that they need a toilet than make them want to own one. Wanting it even for reasons of prestige is much more powerful that telling them that they need it to protect their health. TABLE REPRESENTATION: Total homes 25 38 48 111 Toilets Present 3 18 6 27 No Toilet Facility 22 20 42 84

Area Name Sullipalayam Kooranur Gendepalayam TOTAL

Need for toilet 15 11 21 47

We conducted survey in the above three areas. We observed that 27 families have their own toilet, a part of which is built by Imayam and ITC. 84 families dont have the toilet facilities. The reason was many were not aware about the hazards of diseases caused by unhygienic toilet practices. And also in a few homes they stayed only for temporary rentals not for permanently so they dont want the toilet. Through our project we explained about the importance of toilets and conevenced them to build one at a subsidiary rate provided by ITC Of the 84 families 47 families need the toilet facility provided by ITC and Imayam. We explained its need using Speaking Charts and the successful examples at Kooranur.
CHART REPRESENTATION:

120 100 80 Need for toilet 60 40 20 0 Sullipalayam Kooranur Gendepalayam No toilet Toilet Present Total homes

From the above pictorial representation we understood that most of the families in Karamadai block dont have the toilet facility. Many of them are in need of toilet. So Imayam and ITC must fulfill their daily needs as a part of their CSR. In certain areas the need for toilet is very less from that we can understand they didnt have the money to pay Rs 7,400. So the government take some steps to develop those areas along with Imayam and ITC. Few of the families were aware about the scheme introduced by ITC. They have seen their neighborhoods having toilets constructed by ITC. Hence the reputation of the scheme has grown drastically which kindled many of the families to go for the scheme.

CHART REPRENTATION:

NEED FOR TOILET FACILITY

27 47

Toilet present No toilet Need for toilet

84

SOLAR LIGHT: ADVANTAGES OF USING SOLAR POWER: Can Save Money If you use the electricity yourself, instead of buying it from the grid, you can save money, which is just as good as making money. Solar Energy Is Abundant The sun will be around a lot longer than oil, coal or gas will be. Some of the materials used to make solar cells to convert the solar energy into electricity, such as the more exotic composite materials may run out over time, but the basic elements used to make solar cells (e.g., silicon and aluminum) are all abundant and recyclable. As Long As There is Light It Works The amount of sunshine can vary depending on where you are or what the weather is like, but as long as there is light (even a small amount) PV cells can still produce electricity. Sunshine Is Free Solar energy is free. Sure, there is an initial capital cost to install a system that will convert the electromagnetic energy and photons sent out by the sun into electricity, but once you have made the investment and the sun keeps shining you will be producing electricity. No one will be sending you a bill for sunshine. Environmentally Friendly Solar energy powers the environment and life on the planet so there's no energy source more earth-friendly. Compared to the burning of fossil fuels, which release greenhouses gases, carcinogens and carbon dioxide, solar cells don't release anything harmful into the air as they convert the sun's energy into electricity. If you want clean air one of the important advantages of solar energy is that it will help get us there.

Solar Energy Is Cost Effective While a solar photovoltaic panel is still relatively expensive, it will pay for itself over time from the sale of electricity or from saving you money by reducing the amount of electricity you'll have to buy. The time it takes you to recover your net investment (investment less incentives) is known as the payback period. Generally, the payback period for solar installations is getting shorter and shorter.In some geographical areas producing electricity from the sun already costs less per kilowatt hour of electricity produced than producing it from fossil fuels. As coal, gas, oil and nuclear energy fuel prices continue to rise solar energy will become even more cost effective. There is a start up cost, but then it starts paying for itself. Once you break even, everything after that is profit. Compare this to paying a monthly bill and getting no return on investment. Solar Energy Is Clean Solar energy is a clean alternative to fossil fuels and nuclear power Its silent. Solar power can be captured anywhere without creating noise pollution that might otherwise up set neighbors and wildlife. Thus, no danger of damaging our already damaged environment further and you can be part of the Green initiative, lower your carbon footprint, and save our planet from harmful greenhouse gases. Greatly Reduced Contribution to Global Warming One of the greatest advantages of solar energy, of course, is that there are no carbon dioxide, methane or other emissions that warm the atmosphere. However, manufacturing, transporting and installation of solar panels are necessarily accompanied by some of those emissions. Falling Costs The financial costs of producing solar cells and solar hot water panels are falling as technology develops and economies of scale in the manufacturing, distribution and installation of solar energy projects expands. Unfortunately, incentives to adopt solar energy are falling a bit faster which provides an economic incentive to adopt sooner rather than later.

This is happening at a time when costs for nuclear plants, coal and gas plants and the fuels they require are increasing in cost. Low running costs After installation solar energy is free. You should probably insure your site, probably hire a cleaning service to make sure your panels are running at peak production plus have a maintenance contract to cover any breakdowns (e.g., corroded wires, replacing the inverters (since they generally won't last as long as the solar panels) but these costs are usually less than 5% of the annual income much lower than fossil fuel, wind, geo-thermal, waste to fuel, or hydro-electric systems. Fosters Independence You're not required to connect to the power grid. You can be completely self-sufficient and live off-the-grid. If you enjoy hiking, backpacking, boating or like to use an RV there are even solar panels you can roll up and take with you. Imagine never paying another monthly bill or hook-up charge. Local application and independence from a centrally controlled power grid and energy transport infrastructure is insurance from upheaval through political and economic turmoil, and gives you flexibility where you locate your vacation home, or set up your remote office. Reliability Solar panels are extremely reliable. There are no moving parts so you don't have to worry about replacing anything. In fact, while most crystalline solar panels come with performance guarantees for 25 years some of the early installations built in the 1970's are still producing electricity today which means you can probably count on 1,000s of hours with little or no maintenance. It Works Everywhere One of the most basic advantages of solar energy is that It works wherever the sun shines. It doesnt matter how remote, solar can generate energy where no other form of power can be

obtained. That's why it's used on space vehicles, boats, and in areas where there is no access to other forms of electricity. Solar Energy is Secure We live in uncertain times and we are increasingly relying on our fossil fuel supplies coming from areas abroad over which we have little or no control. With some or all of your electricity coming from the sun you don't have to worry so much about world events disrupting your availability of electricity. Benefits The Poor Forms of highly localized solar energy reduce dependency on power monopolies and tend to benefit poor people. The associated advantages of solar energy, those of health and safety benefits, may reduce much suffering. Local application Solar energy is suitable for remote areas that are not connected to energy grids. In some countries solar panels for domestic use in remote areas are becoming sources for local employment in manufacture and installation. Fossil-fuel poor countries can kick their dependency on this energy and spend their funds on other things through application of solar energy. Health and safety benefits In some poorer countries where people use kerosene and candles for domestic heating and lighting, respiratory diseases and impaired eyesight have resulted. Many people have been burned through accidents involving kerosene heating. Fumes from kerosene lamps in poorly ventilated houses are a serious health problem in much of the world where electric light is unavailable. The World Bank estimates that 780 million women and children breathing kerosene fumes inhale the equivalent of smoke from 2 packs of cigarettes a day.

One important advantage of solar energy from a global perspective, is that when it is combined with a battery storage system for night-time use, it helps overcomes these problems. Improves Fire-Reduction Kerosene lamps are a serious fire hazard in the developing world, killing and maiming tens of thousands of people each year. Kerosene, diesel fuel and gasoline stored for lamps and small generators are also a safety threat, whereas solar electric light is entirely safe. Saves Time Kerosene lamps and diesel generators must be filled several times per day. In rural areas, purchasing and transporting of kerosene or diesel fuel is often both difficult and expensive. Diesel generators require periodic maintenance and have a short lifespan. Car batteries, used to power TVs must often be transported miles for recharging. Solar panels, however, require no fuel, and will last for 20 years with minimal servicing. Extends the Workday Electric lighting allows families to extend their workday into the evening hours. Many villages where SELF has installed solar lights now boast home craft industries. Reduces Urban Migration Improving the quality of life through electrification at the rural household and village level helps stem migration to mega-cities. Also, studies have shown a direct correlation between the availability of electric light and lower birth rates. Improves Literacy Electric light improves literacy, because people can read after dark more easily than they can by candle or lamplight. Schoolwork improves and eyesight is safeguarded when children study by electric light. With the advent of television and radio, people previously cut off from electronic information, education, and entertainment can become part of the modern world without leaving home.

Conserves Foreign Exchange As much as 90% of the export earnings of some developing countries are used to pay for imported oil, most of it for power generation. Capital saved by not building additional large power plants can be used for investment in health, education, economic development, and industry. Expanding solar rural electrification creates jobs and business opportunities based on an appropriate technology in a decentralized marketplace. Conserves Energy Using solar electricity in rural areas of the Third World reduces the need for costly infrastructure investments and conserves costly conventional power for urban areas, town market centers, and industrial and commercial uses, leaving decentralized PV-generated power to provide the lighting and basic electrical needs of the majority of the developing world's rural populations. Quiet Solar cells make no noise while collecting energy. There are no other renewable energy sources that are completely silent. TABLE REPRESENTATION: Solar light Present 0 0 0 Needs Solar light 14 17 23 Willingness to pay 2150 8 11 23

Area Name Sullipalayam Kooranur Gendepalayam

No solar light 25 38 48

CHART REPRESENTATION:

50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Sullipalayam Kooranur Gendepalayam Solar light Present No solar light Needs Solar light Willingness to pay 2150

From the above table and graph we understood that the villages Sullipalaym, kooranur and gendepalayam dont have a single solar light. This is due to the lack of awareness about the solarpower.We clearly told about the usage of solar light and many of them agreed to buy solar light i.e. they agreed to pay 2150Rs. The observations include The awareness about the solar lamps was very much low. They are not familiarized with solar powered products since none of the villegers have ever purchased it. There is a general intension that using solar power is something luxurious and costly. All the three villages didnt know about the solar lights. We properly explain the usage of solar lights by speaking charts, then few of the family members agreed to buy solar lights.

People who have agreed to build toilets dont have the purchasing power of solar lights.

Solar Light

42 54

Ready to pay 2150 Needs of Solar lights

AGARPATHI UNIT: This Agarpathi unit helps the household women who dont have the jobs and to sustain the daily needs of human beings. Many of them were interested for the job in this agapathi unit. Due to lack of rain womens didnt have the job over the months time, they are not able to attain the basic needs such as food, clothes etc... We gave the following address for contact the Imayam officials and for clearing the doubts corresponding to that agarpathi unit such as transportation, food, working hours, shift in working etc.. 1/163 , . :9943634080 , 8870620713 , ,

Following table represent the number of women who are unemployed. TABLE REPRESENTATION: Area Name No of unemployed women Sullipalayam Kooranur Gendepalaym 25 42 48 20 39 30 Willing to join Not willing to join 5 3 18

CHART REPRESENTATION:
60

50

40 No of unemployed women 30 Willing to join Not willing to join 20

10

0 Sullipalayam Kooranur Gendepalaym

From the above chart we can understand that most of the people at sullipalayam and kooranur are eager to join the agarbakthi unit. Though we have mentioned them to call back on 7 th of February, the have called on 1st to 5th of February which represents their interest to work.

TOTAL INTERESTED TO WORK IN AGARPATHI UNIT:

Agarpathi unit
26

Number of unemployed women 115 Willing to join Not willing to join 89

SELF HELP GROUP: SHG is group of rural poor who have volunteered to organise themselves into a group for eradication of poverty of the members. They agree to save regularly and convert their savings into a Common Fund known as the Group corpus. The members of the group agree to use this common fund and such other funds that they may receive as a group through a common management. Generally a self-help group may consist of 10 to 20 persons. However, in difficult areas like deserts, hills and areas with scattered and sparse population and in case of minor irrigation and disabled persons, this number may be from 5-20. The difficult areas have to be identified by the State Level SGSY Committee and the above relaxation in membership will be permitted only in such areas.

Generally all members of the group should belong to families below the poverty lineThis will help the families of occupational groups like agricultural labourers, marginal farmers and artisans marginally above the poverty line, or who may have been excluded from the BPL list to become members of the Self Help Group. The group shall not consist of more than one member from the same family. The group should devise a code of conduct (Group management norms) to bind itself. This should be in the form of regular meetings (weekly or fortnightly), functioning in a democratic manner, allowing free exchange of views, participation by the members in the decision making process. The members should build their corpus through regular savings. The group should be able to collect the minimum voluntary saving amount from all the members regularly in the group meetings. The savings so collected will be the group corpus fund. The group corpus fund should be used to advance loans to the members. The group should develop financial management norms covering the loan sanction procedure, repayment schedule and interest rates. The members in the group meetings should take all the loaning decisions through aparticipatory decision making process. The group should be able to prioritise the loan applications, fix repayment schedules, fix appropriate rate of interest for the loans advanced and closely monitor the repayment of the loan instalments from the loanee. The group should operate a group account preferably in their service area bank branch, so as to deposit the balance amounts left with the groups after disbursing loans to its members. TABLE REPRESENTATION: Area name Total Member of any SHG Willingness to join SHG by Imayam Sullipalayam Kooranur Gendepalayam 25 38 48 5 19 16 13 9 19 7 10 13 Not Interested

CHART REPRESENTATION:

50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Sullipalayam Kooranur Gendepalayam Total Member of any SHG Willingness to join SHG by Imayam Not Interested

Interest of people to join SHG by Imayam and ITC

30 41

Interested to join SHG Not interested to join SHG

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE & LEARNING: The personal experience and learning from this NGO project activity are as follows We have learned that there are more people in the society where there dont even have the basic needs of life like proper toilets and these people must be provided with proper financial assistance in order to get their basic needs

An encouraging and positive sign that we have learned from the village is that most of the people have provided education for their childrens even though they lack financial stability and some of the basic needs of life.More than 90% of youger next generation childrens were educated and were helping their parents to understand the questions asked to them

On focusing on our project, after undertaking this project only we understood the importance of solar lights which helps in protecting our environment and saving energy needs like power

The signature campaign and chart presentation done by us got huge support and positive response from the villagers and made them understand about the importance of having clean and hygienic toilets and solar lights. This chart presentation campaign made us learn that any pictorial and dedicated representation will have a direct impact on the people, increasing their curiosity and make them understand better

Overall it is an once in life time experience for us where we learned things like whatever resource we get either in the form of money, property or energy[ power, water] we need to spend it for reasonable purpose with responsibility without wasting any resource

unwantedly because there are lot of people in this society who are living with the lack of resource and we need to understand that all the resources available is for all the people in the society

As a budding manager we understood that apart from earning more and targeting on higher profits from business the society around us which is suffering has also should be taken care- of only then we can grow collectively and our country can prosper

In general we understood the importance of various social work done by the NGOs for the people who are in need

INNOVATIONS ADDED: LOCATION CHITS: On day 1 we faced a problem in conveying the address of contact. Some homes did not have paper in which we can write the address. Some took long time to find a sheet of paper. This is because in most of the homes which we have visited people are either working nor aged people. To reduce the time consumption in individuals home by writing the address of contact, we made readymade printed chits as shown below. : 7\02\13 1/163 , . :9943634080 , 8870620713 , ,

SPEAKING CHARTS: In order to create interest among the people, we made a self explaining chart which speaks about Organizers name (KCTBS, ITC and Imayam) Importance of using solar lights Contribution for solar light and individual toilets. Address of contact Awareness about employment opportunity in agarbakthi unit SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN: To make the event more interesting, we conducted a Signature campaign in which people actively signed in the chart after knowing the importance of using Solar lamps and the infections caused by unhygienic toilet practices. CONCLUSION: We thank KCTBS for providing this excellent opportunity to integrate with the caring mothers and grandma's of the villages of Sullipalayam, Kooranur and gendepalayam. We had a good exposure about the rural community. We had a chance to study their needs, feasibility, and ground reality of providing schemes by an NGO. All these five days gave us the light, of people belonging to the same flock with different mentality. We were gifted with these villages because we were able to see the brainchild (Toilets and Farmpits) of ITC at Sullipalayam and kooranur. This gave us an inspiration of the resourcefulness of the project and we are pride to say that we contribute a feather to (KCTBS,ITC and Imayam's) Hat.