Why Study tours?
EKK regularly organises study tours to the places of the Medha scholars. These tours are meant to meet the beneficiary students of EKK in their own world and assess their socio-economic conditions as well as understand the exact neediness surrounding their days and nights. This helps the learning process of the members and volunteers of EKK and on the other hand helps the students to gain more and more confidence on EKK.
Study Tour –2009
Bankura
 On 24 August 2009, an EKK team went on a tour to Bankura to meet beneficiaries Lakhsmikanta Das Modok, Somnath Banerjee, Prosanta Garai, Paban Das, Amit Kr. Hensh and Tumpa Das Modok (Medha 2008-10 scholars).
Tumpa lost her father when she was in primary standards. Tumpa now stays in a decent slum in Bishnupur with her mother. Visibly a victim of hypertension and malnutrition, she often suffers from severe headaches too. Apart from undergoing treatment at Bankura Medical College, she is studying hard to come out with flying colours in the Higher Secondary examination, 2010. Team members: Nilarya Talukdar, Madhumita Datta, Sayantan Laha, Kaushik Mukherjee, Arnab Ray, Suman Kumar Ghosh and Tania Dey. Study Tour - 2009
Ashokenagar  On 18 May 2009, team EKK visited Ashokenagar with an objective to evaluate the progress of our student Aliva Roy (Medha 2008-10 scholar) and assess her socio-economic background. Aliva lives with her parents in a very old one-storied building beside an old temple. Her father had lost both of his eyes and her mother, who also had lost one of her eyes, is the sole earning member of the family. Aliva has keen interest in Nutrition as a subject. She wants to become a teacher. On the return, our team visited her school where almost 60% of the girls were first generation learners. Overall this experience was a very enriching one.
Team members: Kinjal Ghosh, Arnab Ray and Kaushik Mukherjee
Study Tour - 2009
Singur
 On 16 May 2009, a team visited Subho Das and Sanjit Das (Medha 2008-10 scholars) at Madhubati village in Singur. Shubho’s father is a vegetable vendor and they live in a small mud-walled hut. Sanjit’s father is a washman (dhopa) and they live in their own small house. Subho and Sanjit are very close friends, who go to the same school, share the same classroom. They are always very supportive to each other in preparing day-to-day class assignments and both of them even cherish a same dream in their minds – to become engineers in the future.
Team members: Debal Ranjan Jana, Kaushik Mukherjee and Suman Kumar Ghosh.
Study Tour - 2009
Dashnagar
 On 26 April 2009, EKK decided to visit Prakash Karmakar (Medha 2008-10 scholar). He stays at a rail-colony in Jagachha, Howrah. His father used to be a carpenter but he became partly paralyzed due to a cerebral stroke two years back leaving him unable to work. Prakash’s mother and elder sister earn their livelihood by working at other people’s houses. Prakash has a strong passion for becoming a school teacher in future.
Team members: Saikat Ghosh and Nilarya Talukdar
Study Tour – 2008
Bongaon
On 30 November 2008, EKK members visited 5 Medha 2008-10 scholars in Bongaon. They met Uma Sarkar and family of Bakshipalli. Their hut remains water-logged and the entrance was either by a bamboo bridge or through a slippery path made of sand bags. They are devoid of electric connections. Uma is confident to be a doctor by profession. The next stop was at Biswajit Tarafdar’s place Angrail, Gaighata Thana which is almost on the border of India and Bangladesh. Biswajit has to deal the BSF on a daily basis even on his way home from tuition at night. A few acres of land owned by his father is the main source of their sustenance. Biswajit wants to become a teacher. The team paid the next visit to Laki Das who lives in Mediabazar, Chakdaho area. Laki’s father is a carpenter. She dreams of becoming a doctor. Rinku Dhali is another EKK sponsored student, whose ambition is to be an Engineer. Rinku dreams to earn enough money so that she could provide financial assistance to other needy people in the neighbourhood.The final destination was Krishnachandrapur, the residence of Subhrakanti Baul. He envisions himself being a computer engineer in a few years time. Team members: Abira Ghosh, Kaushik Mukherjee, Sourav Das, Tania Dey, Onkar Prosad Ghosh and Gayatri Pal (accompanied by Shibu Tudu, an EKK Sopan scholar) Study Tour - 2008
Purulia On 3 May 2008, five EKK volunteers stepped in Purulia to meet 3 students of Medha 2007-09 batch and hand them over books and other essentials they require for their study in class XII. They met Baburam  Mahato from Baghakanali village of Ranibandh area who stays in a hostel in Purulia town for studying whereas his mother, five brothers and two sisters stay back in their native village. He had lost his father at a very early age. Their only source of earning comes from a small piece of agricultural land. Baburam wants to be an Engineer. The second student met was Bapi Gorai who stays with parents, one sister and one brother at Raghabpur village. His family income comes from selling milk. He wants to become a doctor.The team’s final destination was Samir Pramanik of Kustaur. Samir lives with his mother and elder brother in a very small typical one room hut. He unlike others is a student of arts stream and wants to study English Hons. after Higher Secondary examination. He aims to become a teacher. Team members: Tilak Gupta, Aveek Choudhury, Debal Ranjan Jana, Gautam Banik and Kaushik Mukherjee
Study Tour – 2007
Sonamukhi
On 8 September 2007, a 10 member team of EKK visited Sonamukhi B. J. High School in Bankura. This school is well known in the area for its academic brilliance. Medha scholar of 2007-09, Nandadulal Das was  a student of that school at that time. The team met him at the school and later visited his home too. His father earns the bread for his family by selling candy in buses. Nandadulal was selected for total sponsorship and community development under the Medha Project. EKK members present that day made them understood different aspects of community development.
Team members: Abira Ghosh, Ananda Banerjee, Moloy Kundu, Sreya sen, Onkar Prosad Ghosh, Subhrangshu Chakraborty, Tania Dey, Suman Kumar Ghosh, Nilaya talukdar and Kaushik Mukherjee
Study Tour - 2007
Ukhura The 60th Independence Day on 15 August 2007 is memorable in EKK’s calendar because the first ever study tour took place on that day. An EKK team was off to Belerhat, Ukhura to visit Tridib Ray (Medha  scholar 2007-09) and his surroundings. Tridib was selected for total sponsorship and community development under the Medha Project. The team went to his former school & then to his home. It came to know that Tridib is the first student of his village to study Science subjects for Higher Secondary examination and he has to go to another school in another district just because there is non-availability of Science stream in his former school. Apart from all these day-long journeys on a daily basis, he would teach students of lower classes from economically challenged families in his leisure time as per the community development plan of EKK. It was a great first-hand experience for all the EKK teammates present on that day.
Team members: Abira Ghosh, Moloy Kundu, Sayantan Laha, Onkar Prosad Ghosh, Tania Dey, Nilaya Talukdar, Saikat Ghosh and Kaushik Mukherjee
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