BaKhabar, May 2011, Page-7

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Why was the RAHBAR Coaching Centre, Arwal closed and disbanded?

http://arwal.biharanjuman.org/

This must serve as warning to all the other management committees running RAHBAR coaching centres and other projects. We would not allow any anarchy to prevail in any of the centres that we have established, nor shall we allow any misuse of funds. Utmost care would be maintained in proper utilization of sponsors' contributions. We are trustee of your contributions and any misuse, improper or inappropriate use, any wasteful expenses would not be permitted. We provide ample opportunity to all the centres to improve their functioning and make amends for any mistakes. When we are confident that the local committee has no intention to make required amends, we would not hesitate to take this step of withdrawing our support to them, and go for an alternative arrangement. Even if an alternative arrangement is not possible, we would not continue with those who refuse to try to meet your expectations.
We are grateful to Allah that He blessed us with benevolent members in Bangalore chapter, the sponsors, for standing by us over the last 4 months. The keenness of every member of Bangalore chapter in cooperating with us, their concern for the needy students (beneficiaries), and their support in establishing a fresh centre are REMARKABLE. May Allah bless them all with the best of this world as well as of the hereafter!
Following are the main reasons for discontinuing with the Arwal centre:
1. Hesitancy in providing the expenses report, which is supposed to provided, every month, in an Excel sheet.
2. Expenses reported were found to be dubious; investigations revealed some entries that did not reflect actual expenditure ... this amounts to misappropriation of funds. This cannot be tolerated at all. Even if we have to close all the centres, this is one act we must not allow. We seek Allah's forgiveness for whatever wrongs have already been committed, and pray for hidayah of the people who indulged in such an act. We express our apologies to all those who had contributed towards managing of this centre.
3. Irregular awards ceremonies, and neglecting repeated requests to regularize them.
4. Not inviting well-respected members of the local society to the awards ceremonies
5. Improper reporting of awards ceremonies – the intention to improve was found to be missing.
6. No interaction with parents of students - they were not invited to the awards ceremonies. Local people were kept away from these ceremonies as well.
7. Even the local committee members were not given any information by the local team-leader, so when asked, they had no idea about the happenings at the coaching centre. They are the key to local monitoring, and we cannot tolerate hiding of information; after all our key value is transparency.
We appeal to team leaders of all the projects and activity centres to ensure complete transparency, accountability, and continuous monitoring so that continuous improvement becomes our culture and our actions reflect complete adherence to Islamic values.
We thank all of you for your continuous support and assure you that we would not allow any wastage of your donations or your time and efforts.

RAHBAR-Aligarh launches its Career Counselling, Coaching and Guidance Cell, in Aligarh: [http://aligarh.biharanjuman.org/]: Career counseling and Coaching and Guidance cell of RAHBAR have been inaugurated on 23/01/2011 at Mozammil Complex,Aligarh.The Chief guest of the function who inaugrated this centre was Sahitya Academy Award Winner of Urdu language,Prof.Abul Kalam Qasmi.The function was started with the recitation of Holy Quran by Qari Abdul Khalique Sahib,a Phd student of Arabic. He briefly mentioned about the importance of charity and obligation of affluent person towards the poor and needy of the society. Welcome speech delivered by Dr Nafees Ansari.In his welcome speech Dr Nafees Ansari appreciated the work of RAHBAR.
As a Chief Guest Prof.Abul Kalam applauded the works of RAHBAR.He pledged that he will be ready to help this centre with all means. He asked the audience to raise themselves from all "ism" and work for the betterment of the society. He said that for the 25 years he was looking for the establishment of the career counseling centre and he is proud to be part of the historic moment. He asked the people associated with RAHBAR to work honestly and patiently. He cited many examples from the life of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan to motivate the students and the team of RAHBAR.
In his presidential remark Prof.Mohd Mubark Husain said that he is always ready to help the students and needy people. The project that has been started right now having multi-dimensional approaches to develop the human power. In present world the most powerful communities are those which have acquired the knowledge and created the knowledge for the betterment of the members of the community.
The programme was conducted by Dr Ghufran Sahib. He is one of the founder members of RAHBAR Aligarh.
RAHBAR Counseling CENTRE/COACHING AND GUIDANCE CELL
Office for this centre/cell has been provided by Prof.Mohd Mubarak Hussain Sahib without any rent. Even he bore the cost of furnishing of the office.

Aims And Objectives of the centre/cell:

1 To help the student to choose a career by analyzing his past academic records, interest, economic means. To sort out all the academic problems of the students who are from the far flung areas or first generation educating class. Specially to provide the guidance to children of NRI in all areas.

2 To help the students with the information about the scholarships particularly about the minority scholarships of the state and central government. To help them to access the numerous scholarships programmes.
3 To help the students with the information of fellowships awarded by the foreign institutes for post-graduate, doctorate, post-doctorate. To help them to prepare synopsis, interview, language by constituting the different expert groups of discipline.
4 To provide the employment information in different industries in India and abroad. To help them to get a job by processing their CV, references etc.Later Stage to add placement services and conduct interview on behalf of them or facilitate the conduct of interview for them.
5 To provide the information regarding schools/colleges/universities of India and the world. To help the students to get admission in desired institutions.
6 To organize career fairs, lectures, seminars, workshops on current employment opportunities by inviting the eminent person of this area.
7 To help the students with English language courses, organizing debates, group discussion, mock interview for various competition.

8 To start coaching for Diploma engineering, B. Tech (For Boys), Medical (For Girls), MCA, BCA, Charter Accountant, Company Secretary, IT etc.(right now we are beginning with Diploma engineering and aim to provide Indo_islamic culture material for class 10+2 entrance. We observe that students who are coming from interior areas they do not know about the Indo Islamic culture)
9 To help the students of various schools in developing the mathematical skills and encourage them to study science so we have a large numbers of scientists of different fields.
10 To organize different type of competitions at schools level to prepare the students for competitive exams.(The special emphasis will be given to university schools where a large numbers of the students from poor family studying.Their performance are not up to mark due to degraded teaching of university schools and the economic means).

An Appeal from RAHBAR-Aligarh: These are desired objectives of this centre/cell. If you think that we can make better then please feel free to suggest. Your suggestion and cooperation will be highly appreciated.