Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility is the commitment made by an organization towards economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce as well as of the community and society at large. Striving for social responsibility helps individuals, organizations and governments to have a positive impact on all the integral parts of society. As an educational body, the Asoka Vidyalaya is performing Social responsibility under three main dimensions.
● Social Responsibility Towards Students
● Social Responsibility Towards Employees
● Social Responsibility Towards Society and Environment
Social Responsibility Towards Students
Students are the prominent stakeholder group in a school. At the Asoka Vidyalaya, we strive to prepare our children to be productive members of society. Each student with his unique set of talents has the ability to contribute to society in many ways. Identifying the value of this social responsibility, the College authorities have implemented the following.
● Career guidance programs to identify hidden skills of students and help them to select their appropriate future career path. Lectures and workshops were conducted by the school with the help of resource personnel of the Asoka Vidyalaya Union. Professionally qualified career guides helped students to identify their own passion and to select their own future career path according to the new trends and prevailing opportunities.
● Increasing the nutritional level of the students. Consuming fast food has become a new trend among students for the last two decades. This habit has caused a lot of health problems in both physical and mental aspects. In order to overcome this issue, the College has introduced a medicinal porridge which is prepared by using traditional varieties of rice and spices with medicinal value. The speciality of this porridge is that all the ingredients used are free from poisonous ingredients, and are grown in organic farms.
● Creating socially responsible and peaceful mindsets in students. The college encourages the students to get involved in community service projects through their clubs and societies activities. This involvement gives an opportunity for students to understand the less fortunate sectors of society and to extend their assistance according to their abilities.
● Counselling. In the year 2013, the Counseling Unit of the Asoka Vidyalaya carried out its functions as an organized body. Children who come to seek support routinely have 3 sessions and the children who seek additional guidance receive monthly counselling.
● The 5S committee of the Asoka Vidyalaya Prefects’ Council also sees unbelievable value in the avenue of Mental Health, especially with the growth of mental health-related issues among the youth of today. As such we have planned 4 projects under this avenue.
○ 1.Mental Health Workshop ( Back to school orientation)
○ 2.Project for O/L and A/L students
○ 3. Prefects’ hotline.
○ 4. Prefects’ counseling.
● Quality Circle
○ The Quality circle project involves training the young juniors of our college to learn specific values across a period of time. These lessons may vary but they will always be essential to the growth of youth.
Social Responsibility Towards Employees
Happy employees bring success through high performance. Employees expect a fair, respectful, healthy and democratic workplace that values their perception. With this understanding, the College provides the following for the well-being of its employees.
● Conducting skills development programmes
● Teacher personality development programmes
● Professional workshop on effective teaching
● ICT knowledge improvement programme and induction programme for newly recruited teachers
● Annual academic staff trip
● Annual non-academic staff trip
● Donating dry rations for a segment of the non-academic staff.
Social Responsibility Towards Society and Environment
Society and its environment is a collection of all the animate and inanimate objects and the relationship among these components. Interdependence of all the parts of the environment is important for a balanced world. The Asoka Vidyalaya has paved a path to address its concerns about society and the environment in the following aspects.
Green Practices
● Tree naming and survey of trees in College to preserve Biodiversity
● Waste segregation and collection from all grades
● Waste separation centre
● Rainwater Harvesting units
● Compost units
● Green House garden
● Coast conservation projects
● Monthly sanitization and cleaning
● Quadran
● Wiring and Drainage infrastructure development
● Updating Main Hall Boards
● Beach cleanup projects
● Dengue prevention program
● Herbal Garden
● Agriculture plots
● Urban forests