A child with mental retardation undergoes a comprehensive evaluation to determine the nature of services required. Evaluation is done for three purposes: diagnostic, instructional & progress monitoring. After evaluation, collected data is translated into statements of special education needs. Both criterionreferenced (or teacher made tests) and standardized tools are used for this purpose. Maintaining detailed assessment and programming records of each child with mental retardation manually is a time consuming and cumbersome task. Analysis of the records of each child is highly complex. The special teachers are required to dedicate a good amount of their time for this purpose.
Media Lab Asia in collaboration with C-DAC, Trivandrum has developed “Punarjjani” - a software tool to aid teachers in progress assessment and evaluation of the children with mental retardation. In other words, “Punarjjani” is a web based integrated evaluation tool for the mentally retarded children. Teachers can do qualitative and quantitative measurement of progress. The tool is capable of generating & aggregating graphs and charts on the progress of each child. Analysis of the reports generated is very useful for the teachers as well as parents & guardians.
Pramila Devi Special School for the Challenged has applied this software tool in our system for the mental retarded children. This tool has been hosted by Media Lab Asia and can be accessed at - ‘www.punarjjani.in’. Two nos. of Special Educators from our school have been trained through Internet by Media Lab Asia at C-DAC premises, Kolkata. They have entered the data of our mental retarded children in this software as per their developed format.

Agriculture is the backbone of our economy. Unless we develop our agriculture, it is difficult to develop the living standards of community. The economy of Jajpur district in general and Binjharpur block in particular is mainly agrarian in nature. Agriculture is the major source of livelihood for community in Binjharpur block. The inhabitants of this block are mostly small & marginal farmers having small & medium size land holdings. Binjharpur block consists of 29 Gram Panchayats (GPs). Out of these GPs, 18 GPs are irrigated. The rest GPs are non-irrigated. Rice is traditionally grown in two well defined seasons, namely kharif and dalua. Of these two, kharif (rainy) is the most important rice season. The kharif rice (paddy) is a major crop, covering over 85% of the total rice area. It is sown in June and harvested in October-December, depending upon the duration of the cultivation and topography of field.
The dalua (summer) crop coincides with the dry season and depends entirely on irrigation. The source of irrigation water is tank. The dalua season stretches from December-January to April-May. Farmers grow only high-yielding varieties during this season. Apart from the rice, the farmers cultivate other crops like black gram, green gram, groundnut & varieties of vegetables throughout the year. In this way, the farmers get good harvest. Some of the farmers also undertake cultivation as share croppers.
The organization is promoting the scope of agriculture in different villages of Binjharpur block and has formed 5 nos. of Farmers’ Clubs there. Farmers’ club are such types of club where farmers get organized around exploring & sharing water resources, securing inputs and marketing of their production. The members of club also learn general knowledge & skills within nutrition, health, water & sanitation, education and community development. They always maintain sustainable agriculture practices. The aim of farmers’ club is to provide the famers with such knowledge & organization that they can respond to the needs of their families & communities today, increase their income and become integrated in the market economy.

The Govt. of India as well as Odisha are taking utmost steps to change the living standards of women and making them self-sustained. To achieve this goal, SAP has formed & strengthened 17 nos. of village level women Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in Binjharpur & Dasarathpur blocks of Jajpur district for promoting saving & credit activity among women to make them self-sustained. A SHG is an informal association to enhance the member’s financial security as primary focus and other common interest of members such as area development, awareness, motivation, leadership, training and associating in other social inter-mediation programmes for the benefit of the entire community.
Apart from that, the SHGs are organizing themselves to create massive awareness about various social issues like gender inequality, casteism, dowry, anti-liquor movement, violence against women, girl child education, child labour, illiteracy, women & child trafficking, protection of sound environment etc. Some of the SHGs have received loan from local Banks and are running Income Generating Activities like Rice processing, Diary farm, Goatry farm, Dry fish business. The Field Coordinators & Volunteers of the organization arrange regular meetings of women members and discuss about their performance through maintaining of SHG records & its management.

Cultural Meets of different villages are arranged every year for the sake of promotion of culture. Drama competition was arranged at Binjharpur block this year where people from different villages performed 4 nos. of Dramas which covered different issues of social, cultural & religious importance and promoted the impact & importance of universal brotherhood, harmony & cultural cohesion. The best declared Drama was awarded prize by the local Sarpanch.
The Special School also organizes various recreational programmes like song, dance & sports among its mentally retarded & cerebral palsy children for their all-round development. The concerned teachers are responsible to conduct such type of activity as per their monthly plan.
The intellectual disabled children of our Special School had also participated in song & dance competition at District level function on the occasion of “World Disabled Day” on 3rd December, 2017 and received awards & certificates from the Collector of Jajpur District Mr. Ranjan Kumar Das, IAS & other Government Officials like Sub-Collector, PD-DRDA, DPC-SSA, DSSO, DCPO, CDMO & DIPRO. The activities of cultural cohesion & religious tolerance have been acclaimed by the district authority & has duly recommended with Odisha Sangeet Natak Academy, Bhubaneswar as its Affiliated and Registered No. 232 vide Letter No: 1352/OSNA, dated: 17.9.2004.

The Govt. of India as well as Odisha are taking utmost steps to change the living standards of women and making them self-sustained. To achieve this goal, SAP has formed & strengthened 17 nos. of village level women Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in Binjharpur & Dasarathpur blocks of Jajpur district for promoting saving & credit activity among women to make them self-sustained. A SHG is an informal association to enhance the member's financial security as primary focus and other common interest of members such as area development, awareness, motivation, leadership, training and associating in other social inter-mediation programmes for the benefit of the entire community. Apart from that, the SHGs are organizing themselves to create massive awareness about various social issues like gender inequality, casteism, dowry, anti-liquor movement, violence against women, girl child education, child labour, illiteracy, women & child trafficking, protection of sound environment etc. Some of the SHGs have received loan from local Banks and are running Income Generating Activities like Rice processing, Diary farm, Goatry farm, Dry fish business. The Field Coordinators & Volunteers of the organization arrange regular meetings of women members and discuss about their performance through maintaining of SHG records & its management.

A child with mental retardation undergoes a comprehensive evaluation to determine the nature of services required. Evaluation is done for three purposes: diagnostic, instructional & progress monitoring. After evaluation, collected data is translated into statements of special education needs. Both criterion-referenced (or teacher made tests) and standardized tools are used for this purpose. Maintaining detailed assessment and programming records of each child with mental retardation manually is a time consuming and cumbersome task. Analysis of the records of each child is highly complex. The special teachers are required to dedicate a good amount of their time for this purpose. Media Lab Asia in collaboration with C-DAC, Trivandrum has developed Punarjjani - a software tool to aid teachers in progress assessment and evaluation of the children with mental retardation. In other words, Punarjjani is a web based integrated evaluation tool for the mentally retarded children. Teachers can do qualitative and quantitative measurement of progress. The tool is capable of generating & aggregating graphs and charts on the progress of each child. Analysis of the reports generated is very useful for the teachers as well as parents & guardians. Pramila Devi Special School for the Challenged has applied this software tool in our system for the mental retarded children. This tool has been hosted by Media Lab Asia and can be accessed at - www.punarjjani.in