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KIIT is not only confined to professional activities by imparting technical education, but, it is also committed towards the welfare of the downtrodden people in the society. KIIT volunteered its services during natural disaster, providing special care and economic interest of the weaker sections of the people through relief and rehabilitation programme in both tribal and rural areas and protecting them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation through Kalinga Relief and Charitable Trust.
The trust works to meet the emerging needs and the socio-economic development of the deprived sections of the society living in the remote and inaccessible areas of the state. The activities are designed to sensitize the beneficiaries and enable them to participate in identifying and addressing their needs to sustain the progress of development, which are as per the objectives set for the trust.
One of the major objectives of the trust is to bring out positive change among the tribal people by intervening through education programme which can improve the socio-economic condition of the tribal people. Those are the following :-
- To provide overall development of poorest of the poor children from aborigine society by providing education, livelihood and create awareness among them.
- To work for the development of Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe, Women, Handicapped and other under privileged sections of the society.
- To undertake community development work, literacy projects for rural employment generation and dissemination of improved technology.
- To undertake activities pertaining to livelihood programmes, which are both in farm and non farm activities.
- To organize and sponsor conferences, exchange visits, seminars, study tours, training programmes, workshops, etc. on issues relating to social development.
- To print, publish and exhibit books, pamphlets, wallpapers, newsletters, periodicals and various kinds of reading materials relating to social development and allied issues.
- To provide relief, rehabilitation services at the time of natural and man made calamities and to institute a relief fund for this purpose.
- To develop areas of mutual cooperation with the voluntary agencies, working for the betterment of the society.
Orissa being predominantly a tribal inhabited state, the state Govt. has set up several tribal schools under the Special Tribal Development Agencies. Ironically, these residential schools have limited facilities to fulfill the aspirations of the various tribal communities. These schools are not accessible to the tribal children because of their location in the remote hilly areas and perhaps is the prime cause of failure.
Dr. Achyuta Samanta’s concern about the poor and neglected tribal children in the inaccessible parts of the state gave him the idea to open a school. Earlier in his life he had no means to afford his education. He has already realized the importance of education in the life. His conviction is that only education can improve the quality of life of the tribal children.
He wanted to help those poor tribal boys and girls who are inflicted with poverty. With this notion Dr. Samanta decided to set up a learning centre for the tribal children in the state capital in the year 1993. Initially, the KIIT Residential Tribal Schools was confined to only Primary and Secondary classes. In the year 2004, the school expanded its education programme by adding +2 Science classes in the tribal school with the name ‘Kalinga School for Socially Challenged’. In the year 2006, the residential tribal school diversified its activities by providing vocational education, livelihood education for self-sustainability of the educational programme.
The centre i.e. Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences aims:-
- To provide employment opportunities to the tribal communities.
- To give them on opportunity to upgrade their skills by providing them with exposure in and outside the state.
- To provide a combination of formal education with vocational training.
- To offer a multitude of vocational training courses.
- To provide a choice of livelihood activities for the tribal children.
Recognising the diversity in the social fabric the school has adopted the following features as its organizational culture to achieve total quality management.
- Discipline: growth oriented and effectively balanced with freedom of expression.
- Student: Teacher interaction -a right balance between formality and informality.
- Interpersonal Relations: a right balance between independence and interdependence.
- Inter- personal Relation: KISS provides an atmosphere to have a right balance between sensitivity and courage. It encourages the Diginity of labour to help the student to realise the importance of work-through social service and self-reliance.
- Group Dynamic: Right from the students of class I to the principal, of the institute there is a bond of love and respect to each other, which is reflected in the every day activity in the class room, play ground and in the work place as a whole.
- Leadership: Contributes apart from controlling the students, teachers at the primary school take care of the students and at the secondary level they act as ‘friend, philosopher and guide.’
- Competitiveness: apart from extending cooperation and support to their peers, students are encouraged to compete with teams of other schools.
- Religious tolerance: unity is the essence of all religion is the experience of the students by visiting different religious institutions.
One of the main objectives of the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences is to provide free education to the unattended and neglected tribal and underprivileged children. Since its inception, the school has been rendering commendable service in the field of education. It imparts value education in a stress free and child friendly, healthy environment. The school is a home for 7000 tribal children. The children are getting formal education with residential facilities up to Graduation level, they are also provided with vocational training for sustainable economic security. The school is recognized by the Board of Secondary Education Orissa, Council of Higher Secondary Education of Orissa and affiliated to Utkal University, Orissa, India. Presently the school has tribal children from almost all the districts of Orissa from Class-I to Graduation level. KISS aims to give a right direction to the life of the child. Among the children there is a growing commitment towards perfection.
The adopted motto – “Perfection through practice”, is largely to achieve the following objectives.
- To impart all-round education which can make students physically fit, mentally alert, intellectually capable, emotionally balanced, socially responsible and morally forthright.
- To inspire creativity among students, along with a sense of ‘determination’ and ‘purpose’ towards the action they undertake - so that they acquire knowledge and skills to weigh and consider outcomes with reason, empathy and intuitive judgment.
- To train students to be self – reliant, resourceful and able to effectively manage the challenges of life while harmoniously adopting to constant changes in the environment with self – confidence, general awareness, self-control and mature symbiotic relationships.
- To instill human values among the students and mould them to become men and women of character – to act as agents of positive change in the society for creating a better future and improving the standard of life.
- To enable the children to earn a decent livelihood by practicing both farm and non-farm activities after leaving the campus.
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