A visit to Botanical Garden Dhakeri

Day Four: 2076/07/02, Saturday

 1 Please write a report of educational trip Dhakeri.

     Introduction:        

      Nepal English Language Teachers’ Association (NELTA) Banke set a plan for a visit to the participants of TPD trainings from Dang, Banke and Bardiya. We discussed about venue for that visit. Some of friends were requesting to go to to Badaiya Taal, Bardiya. As per the instruction given by the chair as well as our instructor, Mr. Hom Raj Khadka, I was given the full responsibility to decide about finalizing the schedule of that visit so I requested to the friends who were requesting for Badaiya Taal . My friends Mr. Shankar Hamal and Mr. Man Bahadur Khadka played very important role in finalizing the venue and and coped with me. Finally, we decided and informed all the participants to visit the Dhakeri Botanical Park with fooding at Panas Cottage at Raptisonari-9, Dhakri Banke reached until 12:00 PM. We set to visit Panas Cottage first for fooding, Ganesh Secondary School for educational interraciton, Botanical Park for live presentation and View tower for viewing the scene of natural beauty of surrounding. The other activities about the Dhakeri Visit is mentioned as below:

 Fooding at Panas Cottage:

 As our plan was set for an outing, we took our TPD session in the morning starting from 6:30 am on that day,Most of the friends reached at training center about 7:00 am. Mr Hom Raj Khadka took his sessions until 10:45 am and instruct us to move the venue for fooding from Nepalgunj. Mr Man Bahadur Khadka heartly coped with me for setting plan and made our travel easy by managing all the bike and scooter holder. We were 25 in number but two of them were absent on that day.20 members of TPD training only became ready to go to that educational trip.

Including our instructor and a sttaf from training center,NELTA  executive members and others we were 27 persons in our trip. We reached at 12:00 pm at Panas Cottage and refreshed having  delicious food  there. Our friends took photos as per their wish with the setting outside the cottage. The hospitality and the beauty of this cottage really inspired the participants and we enjoyed a lot.

An observation of Shree Ganesh Secondary School and interaction Program: (1:00 to 3:00 pm)

We had invited to this school’s stakeholders and informed about the purpose of our visiting. The head teacher, teachers, SMC chair, teachers and parents as well for an interaction. We reached there at 1:00 PM. While we were moving to that school, all the stakeholders of that school were waiting us to welcome. The scenic beauty of that school really welcomed us. Flowers were welcoming all us. They set us for sitting in the office room. We discussed on the problem of community schools such as student discipline, teacher’s responsibility, result of grading system, Teachers training and implementation into the real classroom, problem to maintain the level of standard of students. I (Mr. Tarka Bahadur Khatri) set some questions regarding to discussion and interaction. First of all,the School SMC Chair, Mr. Ghan Bahadur Oli was asked about the problem that he faced to improve the physical components of his school, teachers role for the schooling,etc. He expressed that there are many problems in schools so duties and responsibilities that all the stakeholders should be aware over all the areas. Similarly,the head teacher, Mr. Hari Prasad Adhikari spoke on actual implementation of TPD training, use of technology to practice the  school curriculum and system maintained at his school. After that Mr. Promod Subedi, NELTA executive member as well as teacher of Bageshwory Multiple College Kohalpur focused on the tradition of giving priorities only for grade 8,9,10 in schooling. He suggested focusing on the lower grades to maintain quality in schooling. He also expressed that the level of college student are lacking their level of standard so the manpower produced by colleges is not satisfactory. Similarly, Mr. Bikash Pandy from Dang, Miss. Devi Sinjalee from Banke, Mr. Gaurab Chaudhari form Bardiya Shared their experience they had tasted during their professional carrier. Mr Gaurab Chaudhari highlighted the use of TPD with technological devices and its contribution to conserve the nature. After that, Mr Santosh Pariyar entertained us by expressing his creation based of that school and responsibility of teachers to save the image of their professional career. He amused all the participants at that moment.At that moment, the school head teacher, SMC Chair and representative of Baijanath rural municipality Miss. Naina Kumari Sharma were expressed about influence of politics to maintain the holistic standard in education and focused that teachers are the root cause to entertain politics in education because they are influenced by political parties.

At the last, Mr. Hom Raj Khadka, the instructor of English language, Teacher Training Center Rupendehi (Nepalgunj) expressed about the importance of TPD, its importance and problem of implementation it into the classroom. He also expressed that there is gap among the teachers for updating their knowledge in practice of current curriculum. He highlighted that teachers are still practicing on chalk and talk as well as paper and pencil test. It is the digital age so teacher should be digitally empowered. Similarly, he advised that school stakeholder should keep their eye on to maintain and regulate the manpower for quality education. Reading culture should be maintained by every teahers. Now a days, teachers should be more sensitive than doctors. He strongly expressed his opposed that the tradition of taking TPD only for certificate and Promotion.  He advised to the teachers to be careful to practice and update the new knowledge with being digitally sound as per the demand of time. He also expressed that managing everything at school for schooling is very critical job so the integration of ideas involved at school should collected and set a calendar to run overall activities in a school keeping the motto of quality education. He expressed his sincere gratitude to the team of school for their valuable time and hospitality on that occasion. He ensured that if school demands any kind of support it the future ,they can easily set it and call. He thanked me too for planning well for the visit. We took common photo in the school ground and enjoyed a lot.  The total number of Participants were  37 in the interaction. Mr. Kamal Gharti( Secretary of NELTA ,Banke) took active role in taking attendance. Then, we came out from the school at 3:00 PM.

 A visit to Botanical Park at Dhakeri (3:00 pm to 3:15 pm):

The beauty of Botanical garden is situated at Dhakeri along with the East-west Highway seldom escapes the view of passerby. The garden is situated 26 kilometer away from the sub-metropolitan city of Nepalgunj. We reached there on 3:10 pm, but unluckily we could not able to enter and view  the entire scenic beauty of this park because the gate of the garden was locked. Due to this result, we could not take photos and live presentation from this place. It made us unhappy. After that, we moved to the observe the view tower situated at Kohalpur Chapargaudi at 4:00PM.

A view tower of Kohalpur, Chappargaudi, is  a tower built and managed by Sirjana Community forest costumer Club. They  took entrance fee per person Rs. 25 and the total payment was done by Mr. Gaurab Chaudhari, one of the participants from Bardiya in TPD for 25 persons.We enjoyed in this place by climbing the tower and viewing the scene aroud Banke National Park. NELTA life members Mr. Hari Adhikari, Mina Adhikari, Sabitra Adhikari,Ibran Khan, Govind Sijapati and  Dr.Muna Shrestha(at Nepalgunj). Some other people were capturing picture for setting new film in the garden of tower.We enjoyed  a lot in this occasion. We departed from there at 4:45 pm.

Conclusion: 

This opportunity concluded that if we have desire to do something that we have to start from ourselves.NELTA is a such platform to teach us such innovative activities and developing skills. Thank you Hom sir for showing us in right path. The influence of politics in Education is not good so it should be detached from educational practices. It would be better if all the participants of TPD could be participated in our visit. Thanks a lot!