The Annual Workshop is one of the most important events in the yearly calendar of Pratichi. The first of these workshops started in 2002. Almost every year thereafter – unless there was some compelling reason for this workshop not to happen – it has been conducted. This symposium organised in Santiniketan focuses on facilitating meaningful discussions regarding a specific theme relating to at least one of the main thrust areas of the Trust’s work – school education, elementary healthcare, gender equity and people’s democratic rights. This event has become a regular occasion for health workers, doctors, school-teachers, anganwadi staff from all over the state, noted academics, scholars, researchers, media persons, other members of civil society, government functionaries and development activists to congregate and deliberate on important issues pertaining to human development – often providing the appropriate direction for future projects of Pratichi.
Themes of Annual Workshops
2020: The Future of the Girl Child in India
2019: Contribution of Health and Education Workers to Progress in Healthcare
2016: Half a decade of RTE: How far are we from the goalpost?
2015: Child Health: Many Paths, Many Views, Many Goals
2014: Education and Public Health
2013: Quality of Teaching: Ideas and Reality
2012: Innovations in School-teaching
2011: Girls’ Education: Experiences and Challenges
2010: Right to Education: Legislation and Our Moral Commitments
2009: Syllabus, Teaching-Learning, and the Mid-day Meal Programme
2008: Quality of Children’s Education and Public Initiatives
2007: Child Education and Health: Public Initiatives
2006: Integrating Primary Schooling with Children’s Healthcare
2005: Primary Education, Public Health and Development
2004: Role of Parents & Teachers in the Governance of Primary Schools & Mid-day Meal Programme
2003: Role of Parents & Teachers in the Delivery of Primary Education: Dumka, Jharkhand
2002: The Role of Parents & Teachers in the Delivery of Primary Education