THREE CIRCLE STUDENT EMPOWERMENT MODEL FOR RURAL COLLEGE STUDENTS

In the past decades, rural Indian adolescents preferred jobs after completing their secondary schooling; however, today digital natives look for college degrees rather than a job. This positive trend in turn has paved the way for an adverse situation in which increased number of unmotivated, unfocused student force entering into institutes of higher education. Added to that, the mushrooming higher education institutions have made the traditional altruistic educational sector in India into a major business arena limiting the quality of input and output. Many educational institutions limit themselves to mere lesson oriented classroom lectures and fail to focus on the outcomes based education. In view of empowering the rural students for holistic development, wellbeing and mental health, the author prepares an Empowerment Program named Three Circle Model (3-C Model). This study gives rationale for this model and evaluates the efficiency of this model.