Eight (8) Students and one faculty from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), North-Eastern Regional Center, Guwahati has done their Rural Practicum for the Diploma in Community Organisation and Development Practice (CODP) under Future Generations Arunachal (FGA) from 23rd March 2011 to 30th March 2011 in the areas where FGA is working with the rural communities for equitable and sustainable development since 1997. The objective of the Rural Practicum in the field is one of the many field contact experience imparted throughout the course for the Students to gain an on hand experience of working in the Social and Developmental sectors as a part of their course. They work in the areas the Organization is working and be a part of the activities being carried out by the Organization especially in the rural areas. The FGA has placed the students in a rural areas for experiential learning of different communities and its dynamics. Community development programs are designed to facilitate a locally sustainable process of community change and to build local capacity in order to extend the process of change throughout the state through empowering them. The CODP program in TISS upholds a paradigm of field based experiential learning. In the past also the students from different institution has done their rural practicum work under Future Generations Arunachal.
