vidya helpline
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vidya helpline
Vidya HelpLine (1800 425-2-425) …enlightening young India Supporting a toll free tele helpline to provide CAREER GUIDANCE to STUDENTS even from REMOTE AREAS Supported by: United Care Development Services Project Phase: June 2013-August 2013 VIDYA HELPLINE Contents Abstract ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction to the Implementing Organization:........................................................................................... 3 Introduction to United Care Development Services ..................................................................................... 4 Introduction to Vidya Helpline Project: ........................................................................................................ 5 Stories of Change………………………………………………………………………………………...6 Social impact of Vidya helpline ................................................................................................................ 7 Cost Analysis of calls..……………………………………………………………………………........10 June, July & August 2013 – Impact Analysis ......................................................................................... 11 Career counseling workshops ................................................................................................................ 21 Resources for results ................................................................................................................................. 214 In Kind Donations (Vastu Daan): ........................................................................................................... 24 Financial support (Dhan Daan) ................................................................................................................... 24 Gallery: ....................................................................................................................................................... 25 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................. 26 Key Projects apart from Vidya Helpline ..................................................................................................... 27 School Adoption Program (SAP):............................................................................................................... 27 Vocational Training Center:........................................................................................................................ 28 Nirmaan Scholarship Program (NSP): ........................................................................................................ 29 2 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Abstract Vidya Helpline (VHL) project aims to provide excellent guidance and support to the students even from remote places to choose the right career of the person’s choice and appropriate means to support his/her education. VHL was started on 22nd May 2010 in Ranga Reddy district, Andhra Pradesh with the support of District Collector, Ranga Reddy district. With the huge success of the VHL project in Ranga Reddy Dist and supporting more than 50,000 students in the past two and half years, VHL scaled up the project across all the districts of Andhra Pradesh with additional 5 lines. From May 2010 to Aug 2013, 95,363 career related queries from students and dropouts have been resolved with Toll free tele counselling service. During the same period around 42,829 students have been made to dream big and exposed to various career opportunities by career counselling workshops. Introduction to the Implementing Organization: Nirmaan Organization is a Non Government and Non Profit Organization committed to work for poverty free, knowledge powered and economically empowered Nation by focusing on providing education and livelihood opportunities for underprivileged people. Nirmaan organization, erstwhile My INDIA was started by a group of BITSians in the month of Feb, 2005, got registered as NGO on July 12, 2007 at Hyderabad. At present, it is operating with around 700 members through 8 chapters in five different states. Nirmaan believes that it’s the fundamental right of every child to get educated and it is the education alone that can bring about a social change. Apart from education, a person also needs a livelihood so as to get covered at least his basic needs. So, creation of livelihood opportunities for deserved and motivated but underprivileged unemployed is also a must so as to push the growth engine of the economy. Hence, Nirmaan believes that education and a livelihood opportunity are the basic necessities that any citizen must get fulfilled so that poverty which is a recurring problem doesn’t any more harass the society and therefore Nirmaan works to provide such basic necessities of the society. Organization Information: Founded on Feb 2005 Registered on 12th July 2005 as NPO (Registration no 1119/07) Donations 80G exempted 12A certified and FCRA exemption certified Website : www.nirmaan.org www.vidyahelpline.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nirmaanorg 3 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Introduction to United Care Development Services UC's model aims to improve the scale and efficiency of financing education, health and energy & environmental services for the very poor, through a result-based and post-paid model of funding. What this means is that UC applies its own funds to provide services to beneficiaries. UC then documents the work and presents the results from these projects as Result Certificates. Interested investors and donors are then invited to post-pay for results and acquire these Result Certificates. UC’s objective is to generate greater Social Returns for philanthropic investments through this model. 4 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Introduction to Vidya Helpline Project: Vision: “Every student to obtain excellent guidance and appropriate ways to obtain monetary support to pursue the right education of their choice” Need: It is observed that a rural student faces the two major hurdles while choosing and pursuing a right career: 1. Lack of “relevant information on demand” to make a life changing decision 2. Lack of monetary and/or family support to pursue a career of his/her choice Tele counseling helpline 1800-425-2-425 Vidya Helpline tele counseling is a free service offered to students to avail information and guidance from experts on academics and careers at the golden hour. Key Objectives of the Tele counseling center are 1. 2. Provide authentic and complete information to government school students in the following categories: Careers Courses Vocational and job oriented courses Open Education Pre-metric Scholarships etc. To act as life-time academic counselor for all students and dropouts across the state. 5 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Success in statistics: Total calls received till 31st August 2013: 95,363 More than 35,000 unique callers Calls received from all 23 districts of Andhra Pradesh and 6 different states Stories of Change Each call makes a difference to the student/dropout but below are top three success stories during this period 1. Maalika getting admission to CBIT Engineering College without any fees Maalika is from a humble farming background from Nizamabad. She completed her 10+2 and got EAMCET rank (entrance exam in the state of Andhra Pradesh) of 9000. She was told by her relatives and friends that government fee waiver is applicable only till 5000 rank. She lost her faith that she wouldn’t be able to study. One call triggered the change, our counselors gave her correct information that fee waiver is applicable till 10000 ranks. Our counselors had hard time in convincing her about this and to make her apply for web counseling. Efforts of our counselors were finally rewarded when she got her admission in CBIT, one of the top 5 engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh, with complete fee waiver and scholarship. The admission to CBIT without scholarship is Rs 1,13,000 per annum. She is extremely happy on her admission 2. Praveens Naik’s story of moving from a tribal village to 6 years of free quality Education in IIIT Praveen Naik, a student hailing from a very poor family in Tandur's tribal area, 130 kms away from Hyderabad, secured 9.6 in his SSC. But lack of mentor in family, school, inhibited exposure, he did not know where, what and how of his life next, and happened to visit Vidya HelpLine. The counselors introduced him to various opportunities he had open and also furnished the details of application and admission process. Since now most of the application processes are online, and Praveen being new to digital tinge, VHL counselors applied for IIIT and corporate education that his scores and efforts were due. Fortunately, he bagged seats in both. Now he is pursuing his IIIT. 3. Mahesh choosing CEC group confidently with correct information Here is T Mahesh, from doma Madal of RR district as usual set out for cricket. From the cricket grounds, Mahesh took the shortest route to his residence via the District Library of Vkb. In the library he found VHL's career booklet which he took home and mere skimming of the book turned into a deep study. He just finished his schooling then. It was the time of admissions and he chose CEC group, owing to the interest he had in the same. But deep inside he was reeling under the feeling that CEC is opted by not so bright students, and has no big opportunities coming its way. But VHLs number flashed in his mind, and he called VHL and conveyed his problem. VHL counselors explained to him about the importance of the group of his choice and how some of the very important public figures had also opted for the same. Not just that but he was also exposed to various career opportunities that he can get into through CEC. This instilled confidence in him and he is now a happy kid at college. 6 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Social impact of Vidya helpline Apart from the expert guidance provided on demand, to measure the other tangible benefits of the tele counseling service of Vidya HelpLine, a model has been developed. Out of 95,363 calls, there are around 30,000+ unique callers. Below is the process followed to quantify the impact. A questionnaire has been prepared to record the answers of the beneficiaries A sample of 170 (0.5%) from 35000+ callers list was selected, keeping the prorate percentage on the category of the queries. (For instance, if overall % of callers with queries on “Admissions” category is 20%, the sample has 20% of the callers with questions from “Admissions” category. Volunteers call up the beneficiaries and record the answers. The data is analysed and presented as below Social Impact by VHL: Parameters With Out VHL With VHL Expert Guidance Minimal Excellent Avg. Time Spent 95 Min 3 Min 12.5 KM Nil 11,92,038 KMs travel saved Rs.46 Nil Rs 43,86,698 saved Avg. Distance travelled Avg. Cost Analysis Impact created 95,363 queries resolved 1,46,223 hours’ time saved (16.69 Years of life time saved) Below are some more findings as a part of the tele-counseling impact assessment: Other findings from the survey: 1. For 90% of our callers, Nirmaan is the only source of credible information. 2. 100% of callers prefer Nirmaan VHL as the first source of Information The study is further continued at a deeper level to understand how many students got benefitted to a much greater level of getting scholarships, admissions to colleges etc., The results of this analysis would be shared in the next result certificate. 7 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Analysis of the call volume since inception Month & Year May 2010 - June 2010 July 2010 – Sep 2010 Oct 2010 – Dec 2010 Jan 2011 – March 2011 April 2011– June 2011 July 2011- Sep 2011 Oct 2011 – Dec 2011 Jan 2012 – March 2012 April 2012– June 2012 July 2012- Sep 2012 Oct 2012 – Dec 2012 Jan 2013 – March 2013 Apr 2013- June 2013 July 2013 – August 2013 TOTAL CALLS No. of calls Avg. calls per day 1,043** 28 3,226 36 2,451 27 2,113 24 4,520 50 4,218 47 2,927 33 2,719 31 5,760 64 5,803 65 11,782 131 13,900 156 23,474 267 11,585** 207 95,363 **The number of calls during this period is for two months only ** The number of queries in the month of Aug 2013 is relatively on a lower side compared to June and July as the admission counselling for exams such as BED, TET, Group 1 etc., have been deferred due to ongoing statehood issue in Andhra Pradesh. Further there was a technical glitch from our PRI (to facilitate calls to 5 lines) vendor – BSNL, due to which all 5 lines were not operational for a few days. Above graph represents the trend in the quarterly call volumes. 8 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE *Blue graph represents the calls in with a single line in the Ranga Reddy district office and the red is a result of the expansion with 5 more lines. Above graph represents the total number of calls addressed through new toll free number and counseling time in minutes since Nov 2012 to Jul 2013. 9 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Cost Analysis of calls Below is the detailed analysis of cost per call since the expansion of the project. Month Oct 12 Nov 12 Dec 12 Jan 13 Feb 13 Mar 13 Apr 13 May 13 Jun 13 Jul 13 Aug 13 Initial Investment 8,927 8,927 8,927 8,927 8,927 8,927 8,927 8,927 8,927 8,927 8,927 Fixed Cost 1,03,500 1,00,500 1,42,987 1,60,793 1,56,769 1,41,178 1,45,022 1,29,275 1,36,035 1,22,169 1,26,974 Variable 25,117 27,735 26,171 25,337 27,639 27,639 25,377 27,057 50,453 29,517 24,672 New total cost 1,37,544 1,37,162 1,78,085 1,95,057 1,93,335 1,77,744 1,79,326 1,65,259 1,95,415 1,60,613 1,60,573 No of calls 953 3307 3327 3833 2965 3501 4968 5269 7997 5003 3675 Cost per call 144 41 54 51 65 51 36 31 24 32 44 **The initial investment (setup cost) incurred has been considered for a period of 3 years and factored on a monthly basis ** The average time per call is about 3 mins Parameters in initial investment Call center and PRI lines setup Office infrastructure setup Publicity Inverter, systems setup and others Parameters in Fixed Expenditure Salaries Rent Others (Office maintenance, internet charges etc.,) Parameters in Variable Toll free charges Out-going call charges Above graph represents the average cost per call and the number of calls on a month on month basis. **The cost per call is highest in the month of October 2012 during the pilot phase where the toll free number is not publicized. 10 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE June, July & August 2013 – Impact Analysis Below is the Snapshot of the impact in the months of June, July and August 2013 Parameter Total Answered queries Avg. no. of queries per day Total Counseling duration No. of districts reached June-13 7997 266 11,553 Min (192 Hours) 23 July-13 5003 161 12156 Min (202 Hours) 23 August’13 3675 122 7874 Minutes (131 Hours) 23 Below is the detailed analysis of the call center operations. These graphical reports are extracted from the call center software and customized according to our needs to improve the operations and for effective staffing. Detailed Call Volume analysis for the month of June 2013 1. Call volume analysis o Abandon calls are the calls missed when all the lines are busy. The missed ones are called back at the end of the day. To reduce the number of abandon calls all the lines are kept open during the peak call volume hours of the day. Call analysis trend 11 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE 2. Call duration analysis Above chart depicts the variation of total counselling time per day to that of average of the month. 3. Category wise Duration analysis: 12 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE 4. Counselor wise analysis 5. Overall Time analysis Most of the callers make call to Toll free number during 11AM and 6PM. 6. District wise analysis 13 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Detailed Call Volume analysis for the month of July 2013 1. Call volume analysis Call analysis trend 2. Call duration analysis for July 2013 the month. Above chart depicts the variation of total counselling time per day to that of average of 14 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE 3. Category wise analysis: 15 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE 4. Counselor wise analysis 5. Overall Time analysis Most of the callers make call to Toll free number during 11AM and 7PM. 16 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE 6. District wise analysis 17 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Detailed Call Volume analysis for the month of August 2013 Answered Vs Abandon Call Analysis: Duration of the call Vs Average duration Analysis: 18 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Category Wise Distribution: 19 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Counselor Wise analysis: Overall Time Analysis: District Wise Analysis; 20 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Career Counseling Workshops Career counseling workshops (CWs) are aimed at goal setting and exposing students of 9th & 10th Standard from Government schools to various career opportunities post 10th standard and the career path to achieve them. Further the students are also equipped with information on various residential colleges and scholarships to continue their education. Career workshops are done in partnership with Yuva Varadhi NGO (www.yuvavaradhi.com) with Nirmaan as Expert Organization and Yuva Varadhi as implementing organization. Model of the Goal Setting Career Counseling Workshop Objectives of the Career Counseling Workshops: 1. Goal Setting 2. Exposure to career Opportunities 3. Personalised Counselling to assist students in building their career paths. Reach so far: District Ranga Reddy Adilabad Hyderabad Karimnagar Khammam Kurnool Mahabubnagar Medak Nalgonda Nellore vizianagaram Visakhapatnam Warangal Total No of students No of schools 28837 329 1348 370 462 1337 2670 2984 2036 159 767 397 1233 42929 298 8 12 9 10 34 55 58 43 6 12 7 21 573 21 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Our publications: Below material is provided to the students Samachara Deepika: An exhaustive material on various career opportunities. Mana Bhavitha: A complete book enclosing information about various govt colleges, free residential colleges, scholarship opportunities. 22 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Career Chart: A student friendly career chart in Telugu for a quick reference. Placards: A comprehensive set of placards detailing about each career. 23 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Resources for results YouSee is the resource partner of Vidya Helpline Project. YouSee has been facilitating resources to the VHL project to scale up from Ranga Reddy dist to entire Andhra Pradesh since August 2012. For a period of one year, YouSee pledged to facilitate the salaries for the resources person to the tune of 75,000 per month, along with other in-kind donations depending on the need of the project. In Kind Donations (Vastu Daan): You See have facilitated the below infrastructure from INVESCO, Hyderabad, to setup the operations. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 Desktop computers One colour printer & scanner 5 Avaya Phones and headsets POE Switch to make Avaya phones operational Financial support (Dhan Daan) Below is the snapshot of the financial support facilitated by YouSee for this project. Date 11-Aug-12 31-Aug-12 21-Sep-12 Narration Grant Utilization for Aug 2012 Grant 30-Sep-12 31-Oct-12 28-Nov-12 Utilization for Sep 2012 Utilization for Oct2012 Grant Utilization for Nov 2012 Grant 29-Dec-12 31-Jan-13 28-Feb-13 28-Mar-13 19-Apr-13 29-May-13 28-June-13 30-July-13 01-Oct-13 Utilization for Dec 2012 Purchase of PoE Switch Grant Utilization for Jan 2013 Grant Utilization for Feb 2013 Grant Utilization for Mar 2013 Grant Utilization for Apr 2013 Grant Utilization for May 2013 Grant Utilization for June 2013 Grant Utilization for July 2013 Grant Utilization for Aug-2013 Cheque No 500993 Grant Disbursement 75,000 Utilization 70,000 500995 150,000 70,000 75,000 501004 75,000 75,000 501008 75,000 75,000 5,800 37798 75,000 61,800 37810 75,000 78,706 000007 75,000 84,500 000018 75,000 77,300 000034 75,000 77,300 000054 75,000 75,700 000072 75,000 68,529 000105 75,000 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation 77,314 Balance 75,000 5,000 155,000 85,000 10,000 85,000 10,000 85,000 10,000 4,200 79,200 17,400 92,400 13,694 88,694 4,194 79,194 1,894 76,894 (406) 74,594 (1,106) 73,894 5,365 80,365 3,051 24 VIDYA HELPLINE Below is the utilization summary for the months of June, July and August 2013. 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No Designation Qualification Work Experience June-2013 July-2013 August2013 1 ManagerVHL M.Tech IIT Bombay 2.3 Years at SAIL,Rourkela 1 Year,Assistant Professor 6 Months as Manager,VHL 25000 24194 23387 2 Senior Counselor M.Sc, B.Ed 4 Years in Teaching, 2 years in VHL 13750 6210 13750 3 Intern B.Tech 3.6 Years in Testing 11 Months in VHL 11000 11000 11000 4 Counselor B.Sc 6 Months as tele counselor at 108 11 Months in VHL 7750 7750 7750 5 Counselor B.Tech 4 Months in VHL 6600 6600 7750 6 Counselor B.Tech 6 months as a tele caller for real estate firm 4 Months in VHL 6600 6600 7750 7 Counselor B.A 6 Months in VHL 6600 6175 5927 77300 68529 77314 Total Grand total for Jun, Jul and Aug 2013 INR 2,23,143 Gallery: Vidya Helpline Counselors addressing queries 25 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Testimonial given by NGO partner Nirmaan Organization Mr. Chandra Sekhar (CEO, Vidya Helpline, Nirmaan Organization) We learnt about YouSee during Joy of giving week in 2011 and were very impressed with the innovative model of post pay donations. YouSee demonstrates excellent transparency and high standard professionalism in every aspect of their work which is highly laudable especially in development space. YouSee has been supporting the Vidya Helpline project since August as a resource partner. It is one the key contributors to scale up the Vidya helpline project from a single district to the entire Andhra Pradesh by facilitating Rs 75,000 per month for the salaries of Vidya Helpline counselors. Further YouSee has also facilitated in kind donations in the form of computers, printer and phones which saved a considerable fixed cost of the project. By providing frequent suggestions and working along at times, YouSee has been supporting in improving the call center operations, especially on impact assessment of the tele helpline. Conclusion The state wide call centre operations have started on 22nd Sep 2012. Now the operations are stabilised and publicity is currently being done extensively in rural areas of Andhra Pradesh to support maximum number of students/unemployed youth. 26 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Annexure-1 Key Projects apart from Vidya Helpline School Adoption Program (SAP): SAP aims to convert backward rural and urban Government schools into Model Schools in terms of infrastructure and academic performance. 4560 students from 12 schools across 5 states are benefitted through this program. 5000+ Students impacted 7 Govt. Schools adopted in 4 states across India. 27 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Annexure-2 Vocational Training Center: With the aim of empowering women economically, Vocational Training Centre started off on May 23rd 2010. It trains the BPL (Below Poverty Line) women in different vocations namely Tailoring, Bag making and Embroidery. A total of 240 women, entirely housewives, have been trained so far with each woman earning an average of Rs 1800 per month. Impact 5 Vocational training centres established 285 Women trained in stitching, handicrafts and embroidery 36% of these women are employed post training 11% motivated to become entrepreneurs 28 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation VIDYA HELPLINE Annexure-3 Nirmaan Scholarship Program (NSP): NSP aims to provide monetary help and mentoring support to the meritorious but financially constrained students to pursue their professional degrees. Initiated in 2008, NSP so far has been able to help 115 meritorious students to overcome the financial roadblock in pursuing higher education, which their talent rightfully deserves. 180 Scholarships awarded 90% of the students are employed out of 25 graduated 40% increase in scholarships year-on-year since last 3 years 29 We have only one passion, The rise of a great Nation