Prayaas

Prayaas is a student initiative that was started to educate the children of the construction workers on campus. Initially, students volunteered for the same and classes were conducted for these children every Saturday and Sunday. Since November 2014, with support from the Institute, a classroom was built and a dedicated teaching staff was arranged to conduct the classes daily. With the decrease in construction workers on campus owing to the completion of construction, classes were then discontinued from March 2017. Following are the activities conducted by the Prayaas team:

• Women Empowerment Workshop –Prayaas conducts workshops to encourage women of the nearby villages to earn their own living through making paperbags from newspapers, painting/decoration of lamps (diyas) for Diwali
• Cloth Donation drives twice a yearfor the underprivileged daily wagers in the campus and to NGOs in the city
• Provide volunteers for Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyaan (RAA) activities for the development of primary education in the nearby villages
• Conducting Science workshop for the students of these schools to give them an exposure to learning science through
• Conduct cleanliness drives to educate and spread awareness about cleanlinessin two schools in Bhauri (a nearby village) in associationwith Swacchata Ambassador Committee and ESIC 
• Fund raising for donation to “Avantika” an NGO to support educationand to support activities of Prayaas