Parag, I agree with all your points, and I also support your various proposals. I especially liked your pt. 4. We will take this up with the organizers of the future meets.
You are always welcome to join me in the field, whether you are technically a student or not. With best wishes, Krushnamegh. ________________________________ From: Parag Rangnekar <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:46:31 -0400 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Encouraging students to join us Dear All, I have the following suggestions regarding encouraging students: 1. The idea of members willing to contribute is an excellent one. During the 2007 Goa meet, during the planning stage, I had floated the idea of accepting external funding, which was rightly shot down since we did not want any company to build its "green" image at our cost. But there were students and few youth who did not fit into the definition of student who wanted to attend. Fortunately, an individual came forward and donated Rs. 10,000/- without expecting anything in return. I could invite 5 students free of cost. Since the meet, butterfly watching has picked up in Goa with the likes of Omkar, Pankaj and Ramesh doing excellent field work. I have shared this story with Dr. Amol and Yuwaraj and happy to share with all today. 2. During the Goa meet we saved around Rs. 4,500/- which was donated to the Scholarship fund via Dr. Amol. I am sure after every meet we end up saving some amount which can be deposited to an account managed by a senior member. 3. Necessarily there has to be participation of local youth at every meet. It is a huge boost to the young to meet up with experts and also network with like minded people. I tried doing that and it worked. The local organizer should take efforts to identify and invite such interested youth. What is the point of having meets in remote corners of the country if the local cannot take forward the documentations. 4. The local organizer of the previous meet should be invited to the next meet free of cost (except travel) to encourage others to be local organizers. 5. Finally, there cannot be a better way to encourage students than accompanying the likes of Krushnamegh to the field. Thanks KK for the offer. I consider myself to be a student, though I may not fit into the definition :-)) regards Parag Rangnekar http://payvata.blogspot.com/ "Man is but a small strand in the web of life, what he does to the web he does to himself....." ________________________________ From: Gaurav Agavekar <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 6:39 PM Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Encouraging students to join us wow, that's a great initiative, keep those funds coming! :) it will definitely help students like us. cheers! On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:03 AM, rhucha . <[email protected]> wrote: I am very glad to see helping hand of seniors, I wrote to group regarding discount, and also to Mr.Vijay Barve before sept 2011 meet. I also liked idea of Krushnamegh sir, I would be very happy to help someone in the field work and other related work, It has dual advantage for me in terms of learning and economy. I am Pune based, completed my masters in microbiology, and Looking forward to do PhD in ecology and evolution. It will be great if I get an opportunity to help someone in their work. Thank you Krushnamegh sir, and thank you all. On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Kishen Das <[email protected]> wrote: A thousand from me although I am not coming for this meet. Mail me the account details in a personal mail. Thanks, Kishen On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Nelson Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote: friends There was a recent letter from a student wanting to join the butterfly meet but was asking for a discount. wonder if it be possible to give students a 25 percent discount for the butterfly meet, i am sure many of us would not mind, paying a little more. after all we were students once upon a time and it was so terribly difficult for us to get funds for anything besides our college related activities or we could put it up to the group, we have 3 or x no of students wanting to join anyone willing to sponsor part of their expense. for a start i would not mind contributing one thousand rupees towards a general student discount for the next meet. any more members willing to help? Nelson Rodrigues -- Rhucha Vatturkar MSc Department of Microbiology University of Pune ~ऋचा -- Gaurav Agavekar. -- Enjoy
