Proposed Activities

Proposed courses and activities at the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Youth Centre are broadly structured under three groups as follows.

1. Behavioural Excellence and Life Skills:

1. Mind Management (Concentration, Handling failures & difficulties, overcoming stress, etc),

2. Dealing with functional aspects of the mind – intelligence, will, emotion and memory,

3. Managing inter-personal and social relationships,

4. Karmayogi – Developing a superior work culture,

5. Safe engagement with the Digital world,

6. Lessons in cultivating virtues,

7. Developing leadership and team skills,

8. Approaches to social service,

9. Studying the life practices of great men and women,

10. Restrained engagement with entertainment,

11. Yogasanas, Pranayama, Meditation, Diet control and health.

 

2. Vocational Skills:

1. Spoken English communication,

2. Drafting skills in Kannada,

3. Creative writing in Kannada and English,

4. Public presentation skills,

5. Basic computer knowledge,

6. Study Centre focusing on Competitive examinations for Higher Education and Jobs: Library of books, computers for accessing online content and preliminary classes/coaching,

7. Career counselling.

3. Cultural Knowledge:

1. Overview of Indian history through its culture,

2. Understanding the universal spiritual ethos of India,

3. Universal prayers,

4. Training in vocal music and selected traditional instruments,

5. Traditional home remedies for health.

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Work Model

We intend to cover about 25,000 participants per year. This will be in four groups as follows.

A. Inbound – Course Participants:

1. Short-term and medium-term courses will be offered to enrolled students, parents, and teachers.
2. This will address the community of more than one lakh students in the Mysore area, and parents and teachers.
3. Course offerings will be advertised on social media and communicated to schools and colleges.
4. Estimate of beneficiaries (cumulative for all inbound activities) : 20,000 a year

B. Outbound Initiatives:

1. At least 7- 8 outbound initiatives in a year, approximately one every two months, will be conducted,
2. These initiatives will reach out to rural areas and slum areas,
3. These will be structured programmes focused on livelihood, etc,
4. Estimates of beneficiaries: Approximately 3000 participants a year.

C. Immersion programmes – Visitors:

1. Students from various schools and colleges in and around Mysore will be invited to visit the Youth Centre and National Heritage Site,
2. Added to this will be the tourists visiting Mysuru (the Youth Centre is a 2-minute drive from Mysuru Palace and Art Museum),
3. Visitors will be given a half-day immersion experience of curated content on youth power and higher ideals,
4. This will ensure utilisation of the National heritage site,
5. Estimates of beneficiaries: 5000 – 8000 visitors a year.

D. Cultural events in the amphitheatre

1. Musical programmes, talks by eminent personalities from different fields, and plays, etc., centred on value-based topics will be conducted.
2. The goal is to draw the community of parents, teachers, and youth, and thereby become an integral part of the cultural and social life of people in and around Mysuru.
3. Estimated no. of beneficiaries: 5000 people a year.

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Impact Assessment

1) We plan to offer two kinds of courses:

a. Skill-building and Livelihood-related development courses

b. Values Education courses

 

2) For Skill Building courses, we will measure capacities/ skills learnt through a competence-certification method (i.e., do the students reach the minimum benchmark of competence at Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels).

 

3) For Values Education courses, we will measure

a. Learning outcomes after the course.

b. Real-world outcomes after a reasonable time period.

 

4) For community-wide initiatives that we carry out – e.g., for a group of rural youth from a village or a set of villages – we will measure impact on end-outcome parameters. For example, tangible categories like:

a.  Preparation for Competitive exams: Impact will be assessed based on the percentage of candidates who successfully qualify for civil services or any other competitive examinations.

b.  Career Counselling: Percentage of unemployed youth who successfully land in any employment.

c.   Industry Readiness & Entrepreneurship: The number of youths taking these courses who successfully land in impactful jobs or start any kind of entrepreneurial ventures.

 

5) This data will be audited and published on our website periodically for transparency.