RMTS 2008 - Day 19 – KHURDA Facts

Saturday, April 19, 2008

(RMTS stands for Rural Mathematics Talent Search. An initiative for Orissa’s secondary school students.)

It is already a 6 year old operation.

Dear Friends:
This is day 19 of campaign for AWARENESS FOR RMTS 2008, to be conducted for the 6th consecutive year.
Date of Test: 2nd November, 2008

Last date of Application: October 1, 2008

Achievements up to RMTS 2007:

RMTS 2005: Blocks covered: 58 No of centers : 81 Participation: 4678 Scholarships: 165

RMTS 2006 Blocks covered: 162 No of centers: 280 Participation: 19928 Scholarships: 201

RMTS 2007 Blocks covered: 200 No of centers: 354 Participation: 18887 Scholarships: 201

Goal for RMTS 2008
Blocks covered: 314
No of centers: 500
Participation: 125 per block(40 thou<) Scholarships: 201

Camp Plans:
6 camps for each batch. 1st batch (RMTS 2003) camps completed. The 1^st batch kids have reached 10^th grade and will be out of secondary schools, in 2008.
Math Olympiad Successes thus far:

Himalaya Niranjan Senapati of RMTS 2003 and Bhadrak district was selected for the Indian Astronomy Olympiad team. He went to Simeiz, Crimea, Ukraine in Europe and earned a silver medal. We are exited and we hope this tradition will continue

Web site: http://seedsnet.org/rmts1/RMTS/
All the help that some of you have extended, are bearing fruit.

How you can start a center at a Block of your choice? Call 509-371-1286 or e-mail, if you have questions:
KHURDA (Coastal Zone):

For this district we need lot of help as 4 blocks(BALIANTA, JATNI, KHURDA, TANGI) we held one year and lost:

Total Number of Blocks in Khurda: 10(Ten)

RMTS 2005: Blocks Covered: 3 CHANDKA, JANLA Centres: 3 No. of Students 230

RMTS 2006: Blocks Covered: 7 BALIANTA, BANAPUR, BEGUNIA, BHUBANESWAR, JATNI, KHURDA, TANGI Centres : 10 No. of Students : 560

RMTS 2007: Blocks Covered:6, BANAPUR, BEGUNIA, BHUBANESWAR, BOLAGARH, CHILIKA, , NIRAKARPUR Centres: 15 No. of Students : 518

Blocks to be covered: 4

(BALIANTA, JATNI, KHURDA, TANGI)

We lost FOUR blocks BALIANTA, JATNI, KHURDA, TANGI and gained THREE BOLAGARH, CHILIKA, NIRAKARPUR

We have to recontacts in BALIANTA, JATNI, KHURDA, TANGI for full coverage of Khurda District in 2008. Any help WELCOME.

e-address of Khurda Block Development Officers(BDO) provided. You can write to them and liaison with them, particularly for uncovered blocks.

I would appreciate if you write back to me and extend help by taking responsibility of one of 314 blocks, even if they are covered, or any way you like to contribute, so that we can run a quality RMTS 2007 truly unearthing rural talents, who otherwise will wither away.

Thanking you in advance.

Best wishes,
Sandip

19. Khurda (10) Red: To be covered this year

Block Development Officer Balianta Block ,At/Po. Balianta , Dist.Khurda. 0674-2464135(0ff.) ori-balianta@gramsat.nic.in	Block Development Officer Balipatna Block ,At/Po. Balipatna , Dist.Khurda. 0674-2462223(0ff.) ori-balipatna@gramsat.nic.in	Block Development Officer Banpur Block ,At/Po. Banpur , Dist.Khurda. 06756-223130(0ff.) ori-banpur@gramsat.nic.in
Block Development Officer Begunia Block ,At/Po. Begunia , Dist.Khurda. 06755-230125(0ff.) ori-begunia@gramsat.nic.in	Block Development Officer Bhubaneswar Block ,At/Po. Bhubaneswar , Dist.Khurda. 0674-2432185(0ff.) ori-bhubaneswar@gramsat.nic.in	Block Development Officer Bolagarh Block ,At/Po. Bolagarh, Dist.Khurda. 06755-232625(0ff.) ori-bolagarh@gramsat.nic.in
Block Development Officer Chilika Block ,At/Po. Chilika , Dist.Khurda. 06756-225026(0ff.) ori-chilika@gramsat.nic.in	Block Development Officer Jatni Block ,At/Po. Jatni , Dist.Khurda. 0674-2490858(0ff.) ori-jatni@gramsat.nic.in	Block Development Officer Khurda Block ,At/Po. Khurda , Dist.Khurda. 06755-220762(0ff.) ori-bkhurda@gramsat.nic.in
Block Development Officer Tangi Block ,At/Po. Tangi , Dist.Khurda. 06756-224249(0ff.) ori-tangi@gramsat.nic.in

E-mail list of BDOs of the district of Blocks not covered:
ori-balianta@gramsat.nic.in

ori-jatni@gramsat.nic.in

ori-bkhurda@gramsat.nic.in

ori-tangi@gramsat.nic.in

This Years winners from Khurda district: 6 selected for RMTS Scholarships:

Rank	Name	School	Category
20	Pratima Behera	Kalijai U.G.M.E.School	SC
23	Nitali sahu	Janla Nodal U.P.School
30	Jyotiprakash Jena	Ishaneswardev Nodal U.P.School
31	Arun Kumar Mahanty	Godabhanga P.U.P.School
43	Archita Sahoo	Rameswar Nodal U.P.School	Girl
54	Manaswini Satpathi	Sanahantuada U.G.M.E.School	Girl