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		<title>Happy Holi!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The GDL Team celebrated Holi or होली in Bagar this past Monday. We enjoyed visiting friends in the community, throwing colored powder or rang at each other, eating sweets, and watching Holika being burned.
Please learn more about Holi here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi
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		<link>http://gdl.org.in/2010/03/03/happy-holi/</link>
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		<title>Bagar Employment Institute and Source for Change speak to BITS Pilani students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few of us at GDL were asked to speak on development at the grassroots level at BITS Pilani on Sunday February 7th. The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership hosted an Entrepreneurship week and our panel discussion was one of the events. Fortunately we were also able to bring BEI&#8217;s Community Leadership team, a nine member [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gdl.org.in/2010/02/24/bagar-employment-institute-and-source-for-change-speak-to-bits-pilani-students/</link>
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		<title>Source for Change Completes Web Research / Data Entry Work for US-based Real Estate Firm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BAGAR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA (24 December 2009) – Source for Change (SFC), a company established through the Ajay G. Piramal Foundation, completes the 17th IT-based project in the company&#8217;s history. The most recent project was for UrboCorp, a real estate firm based in Houston, Texas, USA. The client needed comprehensive research from multiple websites regarding 1800 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gdl.org.in/2009/12/31/source-for-change-completes-web-research-data-entry-work-for-us-based-real-estate-firm/</link>
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		<title>BEI VOICE LAB</title>
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The Voice Lab has become operational at BEI center in Bagar.It is an attempt to provide platform for students in rural areas to communicate in English using technology, listen to pre recorded matter to improve their listening skills.Interact with the system in Q&#38;A format to enhance their interview preparation skills, it also has interactive grammar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gdl.org.in/2009/02/25/236/</link>
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		<title>THE BAGAR PARADOX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BEI was established with a single point focus of providing quality training to rural youth to bridge the gap between the urban and non urban students. The training would empower them to snatch a job in fighting situations. In the last year or so we have opportunities of delight when a student or two of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gdl.org.in/2009/01/12/the-bagar-paradox/</link>
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		<title>New initiative at GDL: Developing Entrepreneurship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear GDL Blog readers,
This is my first entry (4 months into my time here!) so I should introduce myself.. My name is Pulkit Agrawal and I am one of the trinity of Indicorps Aug 08 fellows that are currently at GDL. I shall leave the others to give more details about themselves, but I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gdl.org.in/2009/01/11/new-initiative-at-gdl-developing-entrepreneurship/</link>
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		<title>The Level of Elementary Education Survey was completed by the BEI Team</title>
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In collaboration with ASER (Annual State of Education Report) &#8211; 2008, facilitated by Pratham Rajasthan (Jaipur). The survey for level of elementary education was completed by the BEI team. This effort was co-ordinated by  Kaushal Rajoriya and State Head of ASER organization, Mr. Ajay Sharma. The survey was completed in thirty villages of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gdl.org.in/2009/01/01/the-level-of-elementary-education-survey-was-completed-by-the-bei-team/</link>
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		<title>BEI Use N-Computing Technology</title>
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BEI has shifted to a new building. It is situated in front of the Piramal Boy’s Sen.   Sec. School. It was inaugurated on Piramal Jayanthi Day, 18th November, 2008.
Additionally, we have installed a relatively new technology, N-Computing, in the computer lab. It is cost effective because one computer is used to power [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gdl.org.in/2009/01/01/bei-use-n-computing-technology/</link>
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		<title>NEW INITATIVES ARE BEARING FRUITS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The arrival of autumn has brought chill and numbness in the weather but the spirit at the BEI English classes is high. The English class took the initiative of imparting medical representative training to the rural youth who were science graduates and above. The curriculum for the one month course was developed at BEI. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gdl.org.in/2008/11/10/new-initatives-are-bearing-fruits/</link>
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		<title>BEI Scaling of Computer Classes with Core Batch &amp; Tally class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Festival Greetings to all&#8230;
Currently, four batches of classes for computer job training are running. One of the new batches started this week and after a long time we started a combined batch (male/female). One of the new things we have done with this batch is created a Core Batch, combining computer with English skills Training. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gdl.org.in/2008/11/07/bei-scaling-of-computer-classes-with-core-batch-tally-class/</link>
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