Vigyan Ashram organize open house exhibition every year on death anniversary of our founder Dr. S. S. Kalbag. This year we have organized it in our newly constructed Finishing School building. More than 1200 people including representatives from network organizations, old DBRT students, volunteers, students of IBT schools and villagers visited this year.
Students of Shree Bhairavnath Mahavidyalaya organized a rally in the morning. Program started at 9:30pm, anchoring done by Mr. Mukesh Bhavsar. Initially an obituary was given to Dr. Shreenath Kalbag then Miss. Amruta Jangam gifted sketch of Kalbag sir to Amma. ‘Young Entrepreneur Award 2011’ was given to Mr. Sukhdev Gaikwad who is running fabrication workshop at Chakan. Shrimati Kausabai Deshmukh (Kausa aaji) of VA Kitchen also got honoured for her long service to Vigyan Ashram. Mr. Anandrao Patil, Dr. Yogesh Kulkarni and villagers shared their memory about Dr. Kalbag. and some school children also gave a wonderful speech summarising journey of Vigyan Ashram.
Exhibition was open for all whole day. Many projects made by Vigyan Ashram students and staff were centre of attraction this year. People were happy to see Pedal power generator, papercrete technology, egg incubator, aquaponics, FabLab, mechbull tractor. Many of food products made by students of food lab were also for sale. We have shown live streaming of program on internet using stremgo. Vigyan Ashram received Rs. 12500 due to community service done by various departments. We thank all our supporters for visiting us and motivating our students as well as staff.
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-Mukesh Bhavsar