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Activities & Sessions

Reports from our sessions, events and field visits across every Samutkarsh centre — straight from our mentors and coordinators.

23 Nov 2025 Belagavi

LSRW Skills And Writing Skills Sessions

Namaste all,

Today, we at Belagavi started the session with Prayers at both centres North and South. The session was on LSRW Skills today. Kum. Shraddha Athani and Shri Manjunath took sessions at South and North respectively.

We also had Advanced course session on Writing skills - Blog and Content and the resource person for the same was Smt. Yogita Patil.

Also kids played some games and enjoyed the session.

Photos from November 2025

17 Nov 2025 Belagavi

Advanced Course Public Speaking Session

Namaste all,

We, Belagavi team are also happy to share that we began with Advanced course of Shraddha Medha from Last week. We had Pracheena Mattu Aadhunika Bharatada Saadhanegalu by Shri Amrut Kulkarni, a common session for all Samutkarsh kids. And this week we had a session for advanced course on Public Speaking
The session started at 10.15 am. Our resource person Smt. Lata Hiremath explained so well and involved the students with activities of Pick n speak and debate. Overall, the session has its impact on kids.

Photos from November 2025

16 Nov 2025 Belagavi

Shreshtha Bharat And Healthy Habits Sessions

Namaste all,

Today at Belagavi, Samutkarsh Shraddha and Medha both North and South started at 9.30 am with Sanghatana Mantra and Vande Mataram.

The session at South Belagavi started around 10.45 am by Dr Nagaraj Marennavar who emphasised on Shreshtha Bharat Shreshtha Nagarika and at North Dr Supriya Kulkarni explained children how to maintain their health and balance their diet in the Healthy Habits and Hobbies session.
Children enjoyed today with games.
And the sessions ended with National anthem by 1.15 pm.

Dhanywad🙏

Photos from November 2025

09 Nov 2025 Belagavi

Session On Ancient And Modern Inventions

Namaste all,

Belagavi Samutkarsha organized a session on 'Bharatada Pracheena mattu Aadhunika sadhanegalu'.

The session was started with vande Mataram and Sanghatana mantra.

Shri. Amrut Kulkarni, founder of Swa Swarjya Foundation and director at Panchkroshi Vidyalaya, Nippani, was the resource person for today's session. Addressing students He briefed about how India was one of the first nations to make remarkable contributions to the fields of science and technology, highlighting its ancient innovations and scientific heritage.

The session ended with National anthem. All the students, parents, members, and volunteers of the Samutkarsha team were present for the session.

Dhanyawadagalu 🙏

Photos from November 2025

03 Nov 2025 Belagavi

Market And Police Station Field Visit

Namaste all,

Yesterday North and South Belagavi had visits. Both the centres gathered at a Hanuman temple in the morning and made into the group of 8 to 10 along with a mentor, left for Market visit. They explored all the shops which they found interesting. some of them took pooja items, few entered branded jewellery shops collected details and few went to mall and understood retailing, also a group entered theatre to know box office details. And then all of us visited Traffic police station collected information on traffic details by Assistant Commissioner Traffic and lastly to Women's Police station had thorough understanding on POCSO act, emergency contact 1098, good touch and bad touch.. overall they had wide range of experience through these visits. And we got wonderful feedback from parents

Photos from November 2025

12 Oct 2025 Belagavi

Art And Creativity Play With Clay

Namaste all,


Todays session we enjoyed at Belagavi was Art and Creativity - Play with Clay. The day started with the prayers in both the centres and then they enjoyed making articles from clay. Resource person was Mr Mahesh C. And team from Pottery Institute. Overall it was a great experience to all

Dhanywad

Photos from October 2025

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15 Sep 2025 Belagavi

Self Introduction And SWOT Analysis Session

Namaste all,
Yesterday was the first session after the inauguration and ice-breaking at our Belagavi North and South centres. The day began at 9:30 am with the Sanghatana Mantra and Vande Mataram at both centres with Shraddha and Medha as seperate classes.

At the North centre, Shrishail Yedahalli sir conducted Swaparichaya (self-introduction), followed by a SWOT analysis session by Deepanshu and Riya.
At the South centre, we had a session on SWOT analysis, followed by a shloka, a song, and finally some games.

Both centres concluded with the National Anthem around 1:30 pm.

Dhanyawad 🙏 <This message was edited>

Photos from September 2025

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07 Sep 2025 Belagavi

Shraddha Medha Inauguration With KAS Officer

Namaste All,

We are excited to share that we successfully started Shraddha Medha course Academic year 2025 - 26 at Belagavi. The inauguration went on well with KAS officer as guest in the presence of Smt Annapurna Hampiholi. His speech was the best and made the parents to stick onto their chairs.
Then there was a session to the parents by Shri Shrishail Yadahalli and the kids were into icebreaking session which they enjoyed to the core.

The inauguration function began with Sanghatana Mantra and ended with National anthem by 12.30 pm.

Mentors Present: Sou. Pratima Joshi, Shri. Pradeep Sangam, Shri. Swapneel Bhadale, Shri Amrit Patil, Shri Shrishail Yedahalli, Sou. Madhuri Annigeri, Shri. Santosh Bulbule, Shri. Adarshganesh, Shri. Ramesh Gowda, Shri Abhishek , Kum. Viraja Kulkarni, Shri Mahadev Bapat, Shri Parashuram.

Senior Students:
Shreesh Munavalli, Shrevya Tigadi, Chinmay Kelkar, Vaibhavi Joshi

Todays session concluded around 2 pm

Dhanyawad 🙏 <This message was edited>

Photos from September 2025

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20 Jul 2025 Belagavi

Pre IAS Screening Test Completed

Namaste all,

With the great efforts of Samutkarsh team of Belagavi and supporters for the same we could complete the first stage of Samutkarsh Pre IAS that is Screening test. The number of students attended Shraddha - 116 and for Medha - 144 in total.


It was a thrilling and great experience to all of us. With the same enthu lets proceed with the next stages of Samutkarsh.

Thank you one and all ☺️🙏

Photos from July 2025

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05 Jul 2025 Belagavi

Teachers orientation programme held

Namaste All,

Today's Teachers orientation program was successful with 24 teachers present from 8 schools.

Some of them enquired about volunteering and few promised that they will send students for the upcoming Screening test.

Photos from July 2025

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11 May 2025 Belagavi

Umang camp concludes successfully

ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ 🙏. Umang 2025-26
जहां खेल और सीख दोनों संग संग
ಶ್ರೀ ವಿನೋದ್ ದೇಶಪಾಂಡೆ ಜೀ ಯವರ ನೇತೃತ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ
ಬೆಳಗಾವಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ಶಿಬಿರ ತುಂಬಾ ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾಗಿ ಮೂಡಿ ಬಂದಿದೆ ಮಕ್ಕಳಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯತೆ, ಜೀವನದ ಮೌಲ್ಯಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಚಿಂತನೆಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಬಹಳ ಪ್ರಭಾವ ಬೀರಿದೆ ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣರಾದ Umang ಕ್ಯಾಂಪ್ ತಂಡದ ಸದಸ್ಯರುಗಳಿಗೆ ಮುಖ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ
ಪ್ರಮುಖರಾದ ಶ್ರೀಮತಿ ಪ್ರತಿಭಾ ಪಾಟಿಲ್ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ಉಪ ಪ್ರಮುಖರಾದ ಶ್ರೀಮತಿ ಪ್ರತಿಮಾ ಜೋಶಿ ಯವರಿಗೆ , ಶ್ರೀಮತಿ ಉಷಾ ಪಾಟೀಲ್ ಅವರಿಗೆ , ಶ್ರೀಶೈಲ ಯಡಹಳ್ಳಿ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ಸಮಸ್ತ ಬೆಳಗಾವಿ ತಂಡದವರಿಗೆ ಅಭಿನಂದನೆಗಳು💐

Photos from May 2025

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