Amreli, Gir Somnath and Rajkot Research, Policy Dialogue & Knowledge Sharing
Thirty-eight students spent placements with us this year
A field placement is not free labour for the organisation hosting it. It costs staff time, and the student is often asking the question a karyakarta stopped asking years ago — which is most of its value.
Thirty-eight students spent placements with us during 2025-26. Twenty-three came from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand — IRMA, now Tribhuvan Sahkari University. The others came from:
- S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai
- IMSR, Malad-Kandivali
- Nandkuvarba Mahila Arts College, Bhavnagar
- Ukabhai Dodiya BRS College, Kidivav
- V. D. Kanakiya Arts College, Savarkundla
They came to study farming, gender and child rights at field level — in villages, with the households the programmes actually work with, rather than from a report. At Nariyeli Moli they sat with a farmer seven years into natural farming, walked his cotton, and met the Anganwadi workers and helpers in the same village.
The same visit. Seven years of a farmer’s own record is not a thing you get from a dataset.
The team also took part in 23 external trainings, workshops and consultations through the year, from a Better Cotton regenerative agriculture workshop in Bengaluru to a gender-based violence consultation with SNEHA in Mumbai. Learning is supposed to run in both directions.