Darpan-1st News letter - Safal Solutions Pvt Ltd

FROM CEO’s DESK
S
afal Solutions started in 2002
and Saral Services was
launched in 2005.
One of the biggest achievement of
Safal and Saral has been converting
a large number (more than 50) of
MCA and BE graduates into experienced developers, testers and project
management leaders. All of them
joined us as fresher, gained experience and jumped like hare to more
paying companies. We also converted more than 60 rural youths who
had barely completed their graduation and trained them and deployed
them as an important bolt in ITS industry. Half of them are with us.
Hence we have added positive values in the lives of more than 150 individuals. They are happy, as some
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pan?
Darpan?
The purpose of the newsletter is to foster meaningful
dialogue among Safal and Saral employees who are
working in different states of India, as well as serve as a
crossroads of information regarding issues affecting our
organisations.
There were gains too. Small size Not
for profit organizations such as
Center for People
Forestary, Centre
for Microfinance
and Livelihood,
Pradan, Udyogini
could managed to
get
quality
software
at
affordable price.
We have worked
successfully for
large Livelihood
projects, namely
Jeevika in Bihar
and Aajeevika in
Uttranchal and
supported their
monitoring
systems
to
monitor
their
p r o g r a m
effectively
for more
than three years. We helped
Arohan when it was at the
nascent
stage
of
development; our software
has contributed in their
growth and helped them bag
Award of transparency.
Deepak Foundation bagged
e-Health 2010 award for the
MIS that we developed for
tracking health services to
pregnant women. Sheffield
Hallam University bagged
Manthan Award 2009, for eKheti
mobile
based
application, developed by us.
Last but not the least, I too
was
given
Indira
Gandhi
Sadbhawana Award 2008 for socially
concerned works.
We have been able to start some
Tortoise Dares to Dream
are with more paying companies (
they are not with us, jumped like hare)
or some who are with us, experiencing challenges, fast track learning and
calm life of a tortoise, knowing, one
day, tortoise will win.
There are pains of moving slow.
Clients complain that we are not
getting more clients and putting all
cost onto them. Some client in the
process moved to bigger size
technology providers. It becomes
hard to negotiate with outgoing staff
to retain. We do not invest sufficiently
in infrastructure so that working place
can be improved. There has been a
moment when salary was paid after
a week. With this pain still tortoise
moves on.......as we are committed
to our goal of enabling the society with
the power of Information Technology.
innovative activities that have far
reaching impact on society. Some of
them are: 1) IT enabling elementary
Quality Education in Nalanda (Bihar)
and Ranga Reddy District (AP), 2)
Training of rural youths in IT and ITS
skill, 3) Web based application for
Self Help Groups (SHG) and Village
Organization (VO) that runs on Atom
based laptop, 4) Mobile (Nokia N73)
based Agriculture Advisory systems,
5) Rural Employment Exchange, 6)
Rural Tourism, 7) Loan tracking
systems for Micro Finance
Institutions, 8) Tracking of health
services and impact on pregnant
women, 9) Tracking of plan and
achievement for organizations
engaged in livelihood promotion and
capacity building in rural area and 10)
Participatory method of software
development and deployment.
Efforts are required to deepen them
Efforts are required to deepen
innovative activities we have
started in terms of working with
more number of clients and
documentation of the knowledge
that we have acquired over a
period of 9 years
in terms of working with more number
of clients and documentation of the
knowledge that we have acquired
over a period of 9 years.
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Major Milestones
G5 & G10
Safal
♦ We have bagged project order from Centre for
People’s Forestry
♦ We have got a new client, Centre for Microfinance
and Livelihood in North-East India
♦ We have got the E-Gram project from BRLPS
♦ We have got VO MIS project from BRLPS
♦ We have been shortlisted for TRIPTI, another world
bank supported rural livelihood project in Orissa
♦ We have constituted a dedicated marketing team
for coming years
Saral
♦ We have started our project in Mission Nalanda in
Bihar, which is working with elementary schools and
providing the training in computers to improve the
quality of education
♦ We have started 10th batch of ITFTs and candidates for the next batch are under process
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or every organisation to grow responsibilities and
accountability has to be tightened and
decentralised and communication channels has to
be defined Keeping this in mind we have constituted
a body Group 5 which comprises 5 senior employees of Safal and Saral. The responsibility of this group
is prepare, review, take preventive and corrective
actions which are required to meet our annual objectives. G5 is the decision making body of both Safal
and Saral. G5 meeting is scheduled to happen once
in a week. Now the question of execution surfaces,
to address that we have constituted Group-10 which
comprises 5 more seniors apart from the existing G5
members. Their responsibilites are to implement the
strategies, streamline the communication between G5
and rest of the employees, ensure ontime delivery,
provide inputs to G5 for improving overall performance. G10 meetings are scheduled once in a month.
♦ We provided our QCAT services and ITFT for
Deepak Foundation who one the ‘e-Health award
2010’
♦ We have been shortlisted for the final round of ‘Re-
From the newsletter team
♦ One of our ITFT has given training on SafalFIN2
We also wish to include poetry, opinion pieces,
essays, columns, and any other writing pieces
that people wish to contribute. We strongly
encourage employees to submit writing pieces
to the newsletter.
source Alliance-Rockfeller Foundation’s ‘India NGO
of the Year’ in 2009.
for Child Fund India’s partner NGOs in Ranchi
♦ We were the co-organisers for the workshop on ‘ICT
and Rural Development in Bihar’, which held in
ADRI, Patna
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Yet there are some more gains. We
are collectively now feeling that we
have to move faster, we have to
believe strongly in “If a work is to
complete by tomorrow, let us do it
today and do now for works assigned
for today.” We need to deliver to the
client a day before the schedule date
and work with quality. While we are
the place of attraction for fresh
graduate, we need to hold some
experienced souls as well. Therefore
we need to be ready to pay higher
salary. We need to introduce tighter
monitoring system that is regularly
monitored. We are now prepared to
accept brighter and fast mover.
Several times we have analysed the
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reason for this slow growth. They are
a) we are not building asset (our work
not deepening), we not investing on
our software and implementation
artefacts. Therefore our return to
asset is poor. Experienced staff are
our asset and we are not able to hold
on them. Our documentation needs
lot of improvement. b) Marketing and
c) lack of liquid capital.
Hoping that Tortoise will win, should
not remain merely a hope. Tortoise
may starve and die, if mind is not
applied and therefore, steady move
in the approach is must. Slow pace
may engulf the tortoise itself. If we
really want to move faster if not jump,
changes are required. We need to
take hard decisions.
We need minimum of ten senior staff
as strong legs of the tortoise to carry
the Safal Solutions and Saral
Services forward. By 2012, we will
certainly cross 200 lakh mark from 2
lakh in 2002-03. Time has come to
set the target higher and aim to
achieve 100 crore of annual turnover
by 2022 and say like Obama “We
can”. In the line of Netaji I would like
to say, “Give me ten committed souls
and I will ensure you by achieving the
target with 100 percent guarantee.”
No magic, No one will even surprise
as tortoise does win at the end.
Subodh Gupta
MD, Safal Solutions
Looking back,
To walk forward..
I
was born in Jamshedpur of Jharkhnd state in
the year 1981.I belong to a small family
comprising of my parents and two sisters. I have
done graduation from Andhra University in
computer science and PG Diploma in Web Design
from Vizag.
My journey from there was also with crests and
troughs like any common man of our country. I
started my career as an office assistant in a small
internet cafe while I was preparing for my final year
graduation examination. I became the office in
charge after 3 months. The same internet cafe
became a web site development company with
some US clients. With their advice I had completed
a PGDWD and my graduation. It was my dream
to work for that company in website development.
From that experience I realised that more can be
done if I knew scripting languages. I came to
Hyderabad leaving my family in Vizag with the urge
to learn scripting. That journey ended at LAMP
institute.
After completing the course from LAMP, I came to
know that there is a vacancy in Safal Solutions. I
decided to try my luck and the luck was with me. I
joined with Safal on 16th March 2007. Another
phase of my life starts from that day.
I joined here as developer. The first task on the
very first day was to design the home page for
MEAL. I received appreciation from my seniors and
colleagues. Then my assignment was of creating
user manuals in flash with animation. Yes you are
right, I had some bad feelings in the beginning
when I started working on the user manual. The
question Is this the kind of work I expected from
Safal? surfaced to my mind many times. I consoled
myself saying any work is precious if I put my heart
and soul into it. The appreciation followed and I
was given the responsibility of joint anchor for
Srijan HR project along with Khanindra. That was
the most memorable moment of my life in Safal.
Till now I have worked on 12 projects in different
capacities. It was Subodh sir’s guidance and
assistance which helped me to move forward.
Till few days back I had the feeling that I am a
successful techie in solving all the challenges
which came up on my career. Bur recent feedbacks
from one of our valuable client upset me. I realised
the fact that the quality of work is being judged by
the smile of the client. Now I have prepared and
oriented myself to blossom the smiles in our client’s
face. My challenge to myself in the coming days is
to streamline and stabilise all the projects I am
handling. And I always believe financial growth will
follow the professional growth.
I dont have any huge claims about my technical
capabilities. But I have confidence in my colleagues
and I had grown significantly in leading them from
the fore front only with their support.
Suresh Sornapudi
Tech Lead
Perceptions Changed!
O
ver a decade of experience in IT industry, had taught
me that every day is going to be a new learning. When
I look back, my journey in Safal in past six months, it
is not just great learning but also changed my perception to
a great extent. Before joining Safal I was thinking software
development is all about technology specific , but the major
thing I learned from here is that it not just technology alone
that make it success, it is about participation also. I was
wondering about the percentage of failure of software’s
developed throughout the world. It iss alarming, it is about
around 70%. Developing a good software is great, but what
make it success is the acceptance of the stakeholders.
Participation makes it happen in big way. Earlier for me it
was hard to believe that a village women can design a
graphical user interface of the software, which they are
supposed to use, now it is reality.Throughout my career I
have never been in a situation where most of the people
around me speak the language which I can not understand.
Hence connecting to people in Safal was a challenge for
me. But the overwhelming support I received from colleagues
except haridas made me feel that communication happen
between hearts, language is just a medium!I always enjoyed
helping others throughout my life. Being part of SaralTA,
eventhough I did not get much time, there are couple of
moments I will always cherish in my life, which has even
pushed me to rethink, about my career ahead. It is never
easy, looking at the number of people left us in between due
to various reasons, but still the kind of support they are
extending to us increase the confidence inside to walk further.
About my mentor, is a great teacher, I am learning a lot from
him. The art of putting things in its simplest format makes
him one of the best teachers in my life. I have learned a lot
from my colleague’s also. As mentioned earlier, each and
every person is equally important for me to go ahead as a
team to achieve and set higher goals.
Sudhir Sahadevan
(Sr. Manager Technology & Communication)
Marketing Upadates
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afal, as you know, is a IT Solutions providing company.
The main objective of Safal Solutions is to develop
customized IT solutions for the NGO’s, Micro-finance
Institutions, Health, Education and Livelihood programmers.
Safal has developed about 15 applications for different users
and this can be customized to any organization based on their
requirement. Notable among the Safal programs are SafalTA,
SafalPACS, SafalJeevika, SafalMEAL, SafalKheti.
Presently, Safal is working with BRLP, Arohan, Pradan,
Udyogini. We have bagged two more projects from CPF &
CML.
Safal has also got positive response for its EOI submitted to
Madhya Pradesh District Poverty Initiative Project (MPDPIP),
Women’s Training Project, BRLP. We are also actively
pursuing a couple of other opportunities.
Mr. Atul Kumar Mishra has joined with us as a new Marketing
Executive and he will work from New Delhi. With this, the
marketing staff of Safal has become 2. Safal has also plans
to appoint 2 more staff for marketing one staff will be based at
Lucknow and another will operate from Hyderabad.
A.Anjaneyulu (Sr. Executive, Marketing)
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ICT & Rural Development
Opportunities & Challenges
What is ICT
ICTs are those technologies that can be used to interlink
information technology devices such as personal
computers with communication technologies such as
telephones and their telecommunication networks.
Michiels and Van Crowder (2001) have defined ICTs ‘as
a range of electronic technologies which when
converged in new configurations are flexible,
adaptable, enabling and capable of transforming
organisations and redefining social relations’. The
range of technologies is increasing all the time and ‘there
is a convergence between the new technologies and
conventional media’ (Michiels and Van Crowder, 2001:8).
This rapid and ongoing convergence means that devices
such as digital cameras, digital video cameras and
players, personal digital assistants, slide projectors and
mobile telephones are also compatible with more
traditional media such as radio (digital, satellite), television
(cable, digital, satellite).
What is digital divide
The diffusion of ICT has been as dramatic, rapid, and far
reaching as the agricultural revolution, the first industrial
revolution (around factory production and the steam
engine), and its sequel, based on the chemical and
electrical industries. What is remarkable about the current
‘information technology’ revolution is the extraordinary
rapidity of change it encapsulates. For example, it took at
least a century before the printing press touched 50 million
individuals. It took 38 years for radio to reach the same
number, and thirteen years for television. But the World
Wide Web, in only four years, exceeded the 50,000,000
mark. Never before has a communications revolution
spread so rapidly.
Alongside the optimism and hype surrounding the ICT
revolution, it was noted that most people, in most countries
of the world, remained completely untouched by this
revolution. To get a basic idea about the extent of digital
divide, estimates say the number of people in India with
net access were not be more than 7% of the population
in 2009. http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htm)
while the average across Asia was 20%. In terms of speed
India ranked at 115th in April 2009. While the world’s
tele-density as on December 31, 2008 stands at 78.11
per cent, India’s tele-density, as on March 31, 2010 54
per cent. The rural tele-density in the country is 18.97 per
cent.
The various parameters on which digital divide can be
measured, are poverty, inequality, literacy, e-literacy and
connectivity.
Potential of ICT
Improving economic returns
In agriculture, prompt information about market will help
the farmers, to break the information hegemony of the
intermediaries who generally take advantage by exploiting
the farmers, and hence get better returns from their
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produce. However the intermediaries’ power over the
small peasants is tied to their function of lending practices
to fulfill the needs of procuring agricultural inputs and also
sub systems.
Apart from agriculture, in areas like dairy, ICT can
intervene constructively by automating dairy cooperatives, collection process, which ensure transparency
and better returns to the farmers along with improvement
in supply chain management. The prominent example is
Amul in Gujarat.
In livestock sector ICT can be used to design and deploy
an equitable livestock marketing information system that
uses the cutting edge of the available ICT to provide
regular and sustainable livestock price/volume information
along with information on forage conditions, disease
outbreak, conflict and water supply to support livestock
producers, traders and decision making at multiple scales
Reducing Risk
ICT based knowledge/information centres set up in rural
areas can provide information to the villagers on
agricultural practices, animal husbandry, health, weather,
employment opportunities, education, government
schemes and so on. The centres can be made to run by
the villagers themselves. From the centres situated in
villages, information can be provided to the fisherfolk on
the location of schools of fish in the sea, wavesites, the
height of the waves, information on wind direction, how
far fishermen can venture into the sea on a particular day,
and their safety at sea. The timely information about the
factors which influence the livelihoods will result in
mitigating the risks.
Creating new livelihood opportunities
Apart from improving returns and reducing the risks of
the existing livelihood opportunities ICT can also create
new opportunities like micro-entrepreneurships like
information kiosks. One of the path breaking models is
Gyandoot in Madhya Pradesh where G2C services are
offered to the citizens. The other avenues where ICT can
be used to create new livelihood opportunities are
business correspondence in financial inclusion, rural
employment exchanges, rural tourism, in telemedicine and
rural BPO.
Social empowerment
National e-Governance Plan, Panchayati Raj
Strengthening project, Common Service Centres, eEducation programmes are all aimed to provide tools for
social empowerment.
What are the barriers
Infrastructure barriers:
Cost of connectivity still remains high
Inadequate power supply
Socio-economic barriers: ICT can be an enabler only if
other social development activities are carried out along
with it
JEEVIKA-BRLPS
PROSPECTS & CHALLENGES
T
he government of Bihar has
initiated a project on rural
livelihood promotion with support
from the World Bank through a
Society registered with Government
of Bihar by the name of Bihar Rural
Livelihoods Promotion Society
(BRLPS). BRLPS through the Bihar
Rural Livelihoods Project (BRLP)
aims to improve rural livelihood
options and works towards social and
economic empowerment of the rural
poor and women by promoting self
managed community institutions and
further strengthening their livelihoods.
The project has been implemented
for the period of 5 years, starting from
October 2007. It is expected to cover
around 5.9 lakh poor families spread
over 4000 village of 44 blocks in eight
districts of Bihar.
A Rural Livelihoods Management
Information System (RLMIS), with the
help of Safal Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad, was designed for proper
monitoring of the project progress and
efficient project management
decisions. The software has two main
modules – cluster level and State/
District level. While the cluster level
module is primarily a data entry
module and helps in SHG and VO
tracking systems, State/District is
consolidation and report viewing
module. The SU application and CU
application interacts through the
process of Synchronization. The
software was developed, tested and
has been implemented successfully
in 44 blocks.
At present, apart from the existing
SHG application, Safal has
developed and rolled out VO
application, HR MIS, Dashboard,
Website, module for partners
monitoring for widening the spread
and depth of Information System. As
a new technological change in MIS,
Safal has started piloting e-book
keeping at BRLPS as JEEViKA eGram which aims at empowering
community people through an
information system developed and
deployed at their level.
As a future scope Safal is expecting
some expansion at BRLPS through
MIS deployment and service for Koshi
project which will be implemented at
11 blocks of Bihar.
As a natural phenomenon,
development and expansion comes
with bigger responsibilities and
attention which get followed by issues
and constraints. Same is being
experienced at BRLPS project. At
present this project is of utmost
importance for Safal which will lead
us to higher reputation, royalty and
more business. We have to be more
concerned about quality aspect,
efficient human resources and better
monitoring and management
practices.
Samrat Kumar Ghosh
(Project Lead, BRLPS)
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fact utilize the computer to improve
their lives. Our flagship programme,
SaralTA, is a step towards this
direction
Conclusion
The effectiveness of projects
involving ICTs to bridge the digital
divide is inseparable from parallel
efforts to increase justice, legality,
transparency, and equity. ICT’s can
have a positive role in development.
But ICT’s are neither a panacea nor
necessarily the first line of attack in
combating poverty, misery, and
injustice. The power of ICT can be
leveraged by the role they can play in
meeting core human needs.
Haridas
(Sr. Manager)
Non availability of trained
resources : A survey conducted by
Saral Services in collaboration with
Sheffield Hallam University (UK) and
Oxford reveals the non availability of
IT trained human resources in rural
areas.
Hence, Saral’s relevance in the
process of bridging the digital divide
is majorly in capacity building. It is not
enough simply to ensure that a village
has electricity and telephone
connections, or a computer for the
use of the poor. Equally important are
efforts to empower the community
and users by building their capacity
to operate and use it, so they can in
Nalanda Sc
hool Pr
oject
School
Project
Nalanda District is famous for
education from long back. About 2000
B.C. it was education hub for entire
world. Now a days most of the in
heritance of Nalanda are dependent
of agriculture and among them most
of are living below poverty line . The
educational condition of the district is
almost similar to the rest of Bihar.
I got opportunity to work with Saral
Services, and I was sent to Lucknow
for training for capacity building
program for NGOs organized by
Nalanda an NGO supported by Sri
Dorabji Tata Trust. This Training
helped me a lot in developing my
capacity. Saral Services gave me an
opportunity as Associate Project Lead
to Serve the Historical Land of
Mahatma Buddha & Mahavir. While
surveying the government and non
government school. I found that
despite huge expansion of computer
literacy the condition of computer
education in the district is very poor.
Even though some government
schools have their own computers,
generators and other facilities, they
are not in position to provide
education Trained teachers are not
available in the schools. There is no
prohibition for contingency, no money
for diesel to run generator . these
computer are kept idle in schools.
In the beginning when we met D.M.
Nalanda, his view towards NGOs was
not positive He was reluctant to give
permission to start the project. But we
continued our effort and received the
permission after meeting DM and
DSE.
I had mixed experience during my
visits to private schools. Some
schools were of high quality and have
required infrastructure to facilitate
computer education . But in many of
the private schools dont have any
computer facilities, because poor
children are studying there.. The
principal of the School Mr. A.K.Verma
was impressed with our project, He
agreed to start the project in his
school. The students of the school
were not very much familiar with
computer before starting the project
but now they are studding with
enthusiasm. The student are enjoying
the computer education. the pricipal
has ensured us to give full support
time to time. The teachers are also
very happy with it.
Manish Kumar
Asst Project Lead, Saral
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Moments of Pride, Memories to Cherish
Safal Team at BRLPS
ITFT Ranjeet giving training to children of Gurukul
School, Biharsharif
CML Workshop, Guwahati
CPF Workshop, Hyderabad
Pappu Alam with Mr. Nitish Kumar, Bihar CM, during a
function at BRLPS
E-Gram Workshop, Rajgir
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Helping Neighborhood sc
hool:
school:
Eduv
entur
e of Sar
al Training
Eduventur
enture
Saral
Academy
Introduction
Every day when we came to office, we observed little
children in green uniforms trudging to a nearby school.
What struck us as odd was that most of them were without
any footwear. While children going to school barefoot are
a reality in rural India, this kind of poverty is something
not normally expected in Andhra Pradesh, one of the
prosperous states of India and that too in Hyderabad, its
capital. We resolved to help the school in whatever way
we could way. It seemed ironic to us that we run an
Information Technology training institute for rural youth
while next door to us is an urban school where we could
make a difference. It was decided to take up as a social
venture of Saral Services wherein rural youth of Saral
Training Academy would render help to this school. The
reflections....reflections....
F
irst I would like to thank Subodh sir for giving me
the reserved ticket in the Safal journey.When I
was doing my MCA I came here for an acadamic
project with the reference of my cousin.
Initially before joining here, I do not have any
knowledge or idea about the technology and the
software environment. I have done my best in the
project and after completion of my masters degree,
Subodh sir has given me an opportunity to work in
Safal as an employee and I was appointed as a VB
Developer.
Coming to the experience, am working here from the
last 3 yrs and I never feel any pressure from my
reporting persons or from the manager level. I really
like the explanation of Subodh sir’s, he gives the
explanation as he is giving to the small children’s and
he never gets irritated if he has to say multiple times.
This is the very good positive point in him. Subodh
sir’s guidance, and my seniors’ training helped me a
lot in logical and functional thinking. Even I got an
opportunity to share my knowledge and gain
knowledge with the meetings conducted in free time.
Fortunately or unfortunately I got colleagues here who
are just like the way of my friends in my childhood.
They make fun and we use to have a relationship just
like we all belongs to single family. Am lucky to say
that my colleagues are my best friends who always
care for me and do the needful.
Even with my colleagues.., I enjoyed sharing work
and birthdays and anniversary celebrations a lot.
best help from us could be in the form of ICT training as
that is what we specialize in.
Project
The Saral Services team has been working with four
government primary schools in Rangareddy district of
Andhra Pradesh since September 2009 where the
computers were provided by the Government through
Sarva Siksha Abhiyan. But the training provided to the
teachers to make use of the computers was very limited.
Saral’s intervention at this juncture became relevant. Saral
focused on the teachers by enabling them to use
computers. The entire process consumed almost 5
months with 22 sessions. The content of the training
provided to teachers broadly included basic hardware,
office applications like documents, spreadsheets,
presentations and internet. As an output of this
intervention, teachers in these four schools are using
computers to teach the students, prepare the question
papers, administrative purposes etc.
Future
From teachers, we seek to graduate to teaching students
and work towards stimulating their interest in IT and who
knows how many children will become MCAs or BTechs
from this school in future! May be one day some may
even join SaralTA and work towards reducing the digital
divide
Smita Rawat (Director, Saral)
Some people might think to work in MNCs where you
cannot raise your efforts or which takes a high time to
raise your efforts. But in safal, our efforts get easily
appreciable and we get encouragements in the form
of rewards. Never mind, its a good opportunity to work
in Safal.
Pushpa G (Sr. Developer)
F
or the success of company, The commitment of
team members to work together is a critical factor
for effectively accomplishing the goals of the team.
The relationships between team members develop
out of this commitment and are key in team building
and team success.
As a Safal’s staff, the devotion towards bettering the
lives of disadvantaged in our society makes me proud.
Helps from the team, seniors, juniors and
management make our projects successful. Keeping
in mind the company’s mission statement, each team
member should have a goal to improve the personal
and company’s performance.“ The achievement of
your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself
to it.”
Krushna Naik (Sr. Tester)
reflections....reflections....
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reflections....reflections....reflections....reflections....reflections....
I
t has been wonderful working with Safal Solutions
Pvt. Ltd. It has provided me with some excellent
learning opportunities. I have grown professionally as
well as personally over the last one and half years at
Safal. I joined here as ITFT and now working as
System Administration.
Here I got different platform to work like social
development sectors in NGOs as well as in software
development also. I got the better opportunities to
scale my skill with Saral Services. I have taken
Hardware Networking class for SaralTA Batch 10. I
am also adopted with Saral School program and given
Basic Computer Training to the students and teachers
of CFL (Centre for Learning) which is a NGO based
school in Secunderabad.
A strong team is something that really makes a
difference. My superior and seniors are the ones who
have shown me the correct path to move ahead for
my personal and official life.
Chittaranjan Mohanta(System Administrator)
I
am very happy to say that after my joining in this
company we got some new projects like VO, CPF,
CML, and eGram, In these projects I worked in two
projects, VO MIS and eGram .
We got these projects because of our employees are
working with honesty and devotion (Saral, Safal and
field people).
In this company I observed one thing that all
employees are co-operating with each other, no ego
feelings and no politics. I never thought this is saral
or safal everybody working likes one company.
I have acquired so much knowledge through facing
the raised issues from field and that is why I got more
scenarios to be tested for VO and eGram projects.
Eventhough we have colleagues from different states
I have never felt any language issues or working
issues in this company. That is the symbol of specialty
of India that is called ‘Unity in Diversity’
No other company will maintain like this, I.e. Giving a
loans to poor area’s candidate for study, giving training
to them, and giving placement. Helping the
neighbourhood school by providing computer training
is also unique
I am very happy that company is giving preference to
old employees for all occasion
By working in this company automatically we will
improve individuality.
Naveen Chandra(Testing Engineer)
6
th
July 2008,I still remember my first day, at Safal.
I was given with Asterisk user manual (an IVRS
technology) to go through, which was an entirely
different technology from my academics which I
learned, under the guidance of Mr. Bapi Raju. I have
learned the technology and got an opportunity to work
in a livelihood project (KHETI).
August 2008; this is the month, I have solved a major
issue in KHETI project and I have received appreciation
for my work in KHETI project from my managers during
my first review in Safal. I felt very happy. After a week I
was selected to deploy IVRS server at field for KHETI
project roll-out. For the first time I felt my growth in
Safal, to be selected for visiting Seronj (MP) to deploy
IVRS server.
September 2009:- One fine day when I came to office,
I heard news that my boss (Mr.Bapi Raju) has met with
and serious accident, with a kind hart all our staff helped
him financially. It god’s grace that he is out of danger
and after 6 months he is recovered fully as like before.
After then, I have got an opportunity to work in Udyogini
project as a PHP developer. As well as I have given
support to server administration department by
coordinating with our consultant Mr. Bimal Jain in fixing
server issues and implementing CVS. From there I got
good knowledge on Linux and have implemented
Bugzilla.
7th October 2009:- the day when I was assigned to
work in KSAM and lead a team. Initially, I didn’t like to
work, but Iater I felt it as a noble work to collect historic
projects of Safal and to understand about them. I should
thank Mr. Subodh for spending time and helping me
and Miss. Smita for giving this opportunity.
15th September 2010 Our Production server has been
crashed by one of our ex-employee. Mr.Chittaranjan
and myself together we have restored the server. It
took us a week to bring it back to fully functional. We
were appreciated by our management for restoring the
data.
1st August 2010 I got an opportunity to work in BRLPHR project, it is my first successful project which
brought me good name as a developer, thanks to
Mr.Suresh and our management for giving this
opportunity. From that day I enjoyed working as a
developer in couple of other projects like Udyogini and
BRLP and pradan as well as giving support to our
administration department.
In the Year 2010 Safal have lost a lot of potential staff
and as well as new young staff has joined.
I worked in many technologies like IVRS, PHP, VB,
UNIX programming and Linux servers. All this
achievement wasn’t possible without the support and
opportunity from my superiors; my achievement &
learning at Safal give me satisfaction. So, as to motivate
others.
Phani Kumar M (Sr. Developer)
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I
t has been great experience with Safal. It has
provided me with some challenging learning
opportunities. I have grown professionally and
personally over the last one and half years at Safal. I
joined here as ITFT but I got the opportunity to start
my career in software testing. During my starting
period itself, testing skills are appreciated by seniors
which excited me to do more hard work. Because of
that I rewarded by best tester as ITFT.
I got the better opportunities to scale my skill with
Saral Services. I have taken software testing and
Maths class for SaralTA. I have also worked with Saral
School program and given basic computer training to
the
students
and
teachers.
A strong thing is that really makes me faithful with
this company is the constructive support I have
received from my colleagues and superiors which is
the guiding light in both my professional and personal
life
I want to share something with all. Always desire to
learn something useful. Because a creative man is
motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire
to beat others.
Kamlesh Kumar Gurjar(Software Testing)
I came to know about Saral Services from my beloved
friend Mr.Srinivas.
After being selected in the Interview for the Saral
services .My first project work in Saral services is CPF,
after working for a month, I got an opportunity to
explain about CPF Project to client at CPF training
session. After this Training session, I felt confident in
interacting with the Clients. I thank our managers for
giving this opportunity to me.
In my First review I got good suggestions from Mr.
Subodh which has inspired me a lot.
Vijay RamaRao (Sr. Testing Engineer)
To Remeber
Anger stems out of foolishness and end in
confession
♦
For those who are lazy each task seems to be tough
and for those work hard each task will be easy
♦
When you are lazy dont be alone and when you are
alone dont be lazy
♦
Half of the sorrows of human being’s are due to the
false expectations from others
♦
Three virtues of human beings are hope, trust and
charity
Sunil Joshi
(ITFT, Software development)
Q. How I achieved some of my Objective with
working in various project in Safal Solutions
Prove that- How much I achieved in my Objective
where I want to be a well Professional in IT.
ProofI wanted to study some Technical course.
26-12-2007 to 25-04-2008 was my Training period in
SaralTA. When I was in college, I came to knew about
the SaralTA through PRADAN. I set in the exams and
qualified. It’s my first chance to did something which is
given by SaralTA.
It was a happiest moment in my life.
26-04-2 008 was my joining date in Safal Solutions.
I knew what a job responsibility is.
31-05-2008 to 30-10-2008 I worked in PACS, MP
I started exploring my knowledge.
01-11-2008 to 31-10-2009 I worked in PACS, West
Bengal for a long time.
I learned, how to takeover the obstacles which were
coming in our general life.
01-11-2009 to 31-01-2010 I worked in UPASaC,
Uttarakhand where life is in hill station.
I enjoyed my self working with the rural people in
Bihar.
01-02-2010 to 31-10-2010 I worked in BRLPS, Bihar.
I got an opportunity to share my knowledge with
others.
01-11-2010 to till date I am working in SaralTA, Andhra
Pradesh which is a training academy.
In my overall all working experience, I understood what
is a Job? How to set targets? How to gain knowledge
from different people in different places with different
projects? What’s the need of a higher study? How to
lead? Etc….
I am happy to being an IT professional. I am continuing
my higher study and I must get the aim of my life.
Thanks for being a part of Safal Solutions Pvt Ltd.
(Proved)
Umesh Chandra Mohanta,
Trainer, SaralTA
SIKSHY
A
SIKSHYA
“ Koi chataan Hathauda ki paheli chot se nahi tutti ,
Hathauda ka ek - ek var eshe kamjor karta jata hai
aur akhri chot eshe bikher deti hai,
badlao ka yahi kudrati usool hai,
Har chhota kadam, badi duriyon ko kam karte huye
manjil ko pass leta jata hai.”
Fulgense Mundu
(ITFT, Bihar)
KNOWLEDGE
No rock will break by the first hit of hammer,
Each hit by hammer make the rock weak
and in last hit it will break the rock
The natural law of change is
Each small step reduces the distance to the goal
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Safal & Saral
Lead Performers
Samrat K Ghosh
Best project lead
Naveen Chandra
Best Tester
Ramakrishna
Best Fresher
Pappu Alam
Best ITFT in Field
Umesh Mohanta
Best trainer of SaralTA
Chitaranjan Mohanta
Best System Admin
Gourav Joshi
Best ITFT testing
Ranjeet Kumar
Dedication to Safal
Sunil Joshi
Best ITFT Developer
Kiran Joshi
First Girl ITFT
Kamlesh Gurjar
Best ITFT Tester
G Pushpalata
Long term contribution
Madan Lal Yogi
Support to clients
Manoj Kumar Das
Best SaralTA trainee
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Mary
Best Support to office