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Rural Development Institute -Trust
We provide vocational types of education that have a specific relation to working life. Vocational education is closely related to, but not identical with, the concept of training (or vocational training), which tends to focus on learning specific skills that are required in particular workplaces. Vocational education is, therefore, clearly distinguishable from academic education, which is concerned with the intellectual and moral development of individuals and has traditionally been associated with access to a variety of knowledge-based disciplines.
The term refers to someone having a calling, or “fulfilling a moral and intellectual destiny”, and has associations with the so-called liberal professions of the law. “Vocational” refers to forms of education that link learning to immediate opportunities for employment. In India this distinction has emerged primarily as a difference of status of occupations: a higher-status occupation is often seen as a vocation, requiring professional education, whereas a lower-status occupation is viewed as requiring vocational education. It is through this perceived link between vocational education and lower-status occupations that the connections between vocational education and technical, commercial, and trade-based education have persisted.
Several measures were made by government of state and central to provide education of children. A considerable progress has been made in some parts in the Gudalur Taluk, among them well shined children and economically able children has continued their higher education and Vocational/technical education in all parts of Nation, but remaining poor family background children engaged themselves as a labour in the tea estates, local jeep as a drivers and cleaners, serving local tea shops, some of them wandering in bazaars. These type of professions leads to involve themselves in crime and fault activities. Their future is questionable one. These critical evils are taking place in the Gudalur taluk of the Nilgiri district. The people of this areas are belongs to wage earners in tea gardens and tea industries and they are economically very poor. The subsequent groups of the citizens are living in the area include:
- Sri Lankan repatriates, which the people working as a labours in the tea plantation belongs to government of Tamilnadu and other multilevel private companies.
- Migrants from Karnataka, which they were settled here for their lively hood getting daily wages in tea plantation.
- Many poor migrants from Kerla state, they also working in the tea estates.
There are nearly 1500 children completed their high school and higher secondary school education at every year. Gudalur taluk comprise seven panchayat unions, the total block population is 1.41 lakhs.
Panchyat wise population of Gudalur Taluk
| Sl. No. | Name of the Panchayat | Total Population | Children Population |
| 1. | Nellaakottai | 36,309 | 5,446 |
| 2. | Devershola | 23,085 | 3,462 |
| 3. | Sromadurai | 6,219 | 932 |
| 4. | Mudumalai | 1,026 | 153 |
| 5. | Ovelly | 24,800 | 3,720 |
| 6. | Gudalur | 42,036 | 6,309 |
| 7. | Masinagudi | 7,865 | 1,179 |
| Total | 141,310 | 20,195 |
Rural Development Institute Trust is a voluntary organization, rendering its service to the deprived people of Gudalur taluk of the Nilgiri district past 5 years. The main objective of the organization is to providing basic education for the economically and socially deprived people and also to provide higher and technical education for those who belong to incapable of getting higher and technical education at nominal cost. In this regard the organization has been providing a technical and management studies under the name of Nilgiri College of Technological and Management Science and conducting many higher education tie-ups with Manipal Institute of Computer Education, Tamilnadu Open University System. The organization realizes the situation of the children in Gudalur taluk and to take special care for deprived children with your financial support and guidance. We having FCRA
Thanking You.
Yours faithfully,
T. BALAKRISHNAN
MANAGING TRUSTEE
