Sanjo College of Management and Advanced Studies (SCMAS), Rajakkad, The UBA cell of Sanjo College planned and executed a wide spectrum of activities and programmes in the areas of social issues, education, health, and hygiene and sanitation throughout the academic and financial year 2021-22 with the sincere efforts of its members. Sanjo College is situated at Rajakkad, a town in the Idukki district in the Indian state of Kerala in the WesternGhats. Rajakkad is famous for its cardamom plantations and tourist attractions. The UBA Cell of Sanjo College has started functioning in its adopted villages of Bisonvalley, Kanthippara, Mankulam, Vellathuval and Pallivasal. Unnat Bharath Abhiyan focuses to develop linkage with selective rural areas in order to gain the integral development of the concerned areas.
Vision
Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is inspired by the vision of transformational change in rural development processes by leveraging knowledge institutions to help build the architecture of an Inclusive India.
Mission
The Mission of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is to enable higher educational institutions to work with the people of rural India in identifying development challenges and evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating sustainable growth. It also aims to create a virtuous cycle between society and an inclusive academic system by providing knowledge and practices for emerging professions and to upgrade the capabilities of both the public and the private sectors in responding to the development needs of rural India.
Goals
- To build an understanding of the development agenda within institutes of Higher Education and an institutional capacity and training relevant to national needs, especially those of rural India.
- To re-emphasize the need for field work, stake-holder interactions and design for societal objectives as the basis of higher education.
- To stress on rigorous reporting and useful outputs as central to developing new professions.
- To provide rural India and regional agencies with access to the professional resources of the institutes of higher education, especially those that have acquired academic excellence in the field of science, engineering and technology, and management.
- To improve development outcomes as a consequence of this research. To develop new professions and new processes to sustain and absorb the outcomes of research.
- To foster a new dialogue within the larger community on science, society and the environment and to develop a sense of dignity and collective destiny.