ELP

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROGRAMME (ELP)

Experiential learning is one of the components of student READY programme with business curriculum-related endeavour. It aims at developing a cadre of skilled professionals who can create their own enterprises. Therefore, the course design of experiential learning is aimed at competence development through knowledge in all aspects of enterprise management so that the agriculture graduates can have complete understanding of field problems, project development and execution of their enterprise.

Experiential Learning (EL) helps the student to develop competence and capability, capacity building, acquiring skills, expertise and confidence to start their own enterprise and turn into “Job Creators instead of Job Seekers”.It provides the students an excellent opportunity to develop analytical and entrepreneurial skills, knowledge through meaningful hands on experience and confidence in their ability to design and execute the project work. The programme has carefully calibrated activities which help the students to explore and discover their own potential.

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the experiential learning programme are:

1. To promote professional skills and knowledge through hands on
2. To promote self-employment opportunities and entrepreneurship developmental skills in the field of agricultural and allied sciences through integration of basic knowledge and conceptual
3. To build confidence and ability to work in project
4. To generate trained and skilled manpower for self-employment and entrepreneurship
5. To acquire enterprise management capabilities in commercialization of
6. To earn through value addition technologies available locally through integration of integrated farming, food safety, agriculture market and good agriculture
7. To explore wider opportunities in integration of different agricultural on-farm practices and devices for income
8. To integrate education with entrepreneurship for employment generation, so that agriculture students may become job providers rather than job

PROGRAMME  OF WORK

The experiential learning programme will be offered for one semester (180 days or 24 weeks) during the final year with a weightage of 0+20 credit hours. The students will have adequate experience in planning and managing an enterprise in totality starting from procurement of raw material to processing, production, packaging and storage of products, organizing resources and utilities, sale of products, maintain accounts and analyze profits. Finally, students will present their work along with a report of their performance.

As the programme is enterprise oriented, students and faculty (Manager of the concerned unit) are expected to attend the activities of the enterprise even on institutional holidays with total commitment, and without any time limit or restriction of working hours for ELP. The student who joins the unit has to perform the duties or functions as suggested by the Manager of the enterprise.

• A unit of E.L shall have 15 – 20 students
• Unique I.D.s will be generated for each student, which is a mandate for ELP funding and other transactions
• All ELPs must run continuously in revolving fund mode.
•  Manager of ELP should maintain the records.
•  If any unit is not running, the reasons for failure should be furnished
•  Returns / Investment should be calculated
• Skill development (Hands On Training) and Entrepreneurship Development are the objectives of ELP
• Delegation of powers (Financial powers and administrative powers) and office orders should be as per the instructions issued by the University.

v Revolving fund will be given to each unit separately. Revolving Fund may be created to EL unit with the usual procedure followed in the University.

v Separate cash books have to be maintained at each EL unit by the Managers. Whenever Unit Manager transfers or retires, the cashbook and other registers pertaining to the unit should be handed over to the successor.

• Paradigm shift is needed i.e., from “production oriented” to “Business mode”.
• Day wise activity should be recorded for total period and Daily memorandum sheet has to be maintained
• Ranking will be given to EL units both at college and University level.
• The profit sharing should be in new ICAR pattern and it must be uploaded once in six months.
• Domain Competence” for each college should be identified and developed.
• Feedback of each student towards ELP should be obtained at the end of the course and documented.
• All ELP units should be displayed in the University website.
• Execution-Documentation-Submission is mandate for each ELP unit.
• Each ELP unit should run on a single name throughout its existence. The name of EL units should not be changed.
• All the enterprises of ELPs have to be registered.
• Financial assistance from banks is permitted
• Records have to be to be maintained for all the transactions of the enterprise.
• For each E.L unit a group leader shall be identified
• The data, information etc., as given in the programme has to be collected and analysed by the student.

CREDITS

Twenty credits are recommended for EL programme of 180 days duration. The students will have adequate experience in planning and managing an enterprise in totality starting from procurement of raw material to processing, production, packaging and storage of products, organizing resources and utilities, sale of products, maintain accounts and analyze profits. Finally, students will present their work along with a report of their performance.

Distribution of credits as per the EL Activity 

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES UNDER EL PROGRAMME

The EL programme will continue for 180 days ( 24 weeks) without any break. Accordingly the number of days can be adjusted for different activities based on the academic calendar given by the university. The schedule of the work is as follows. The duration and activities of EL can be adjusted proportionately for 24 weeks.