Vedanta care for schools

Tathya.in, Sept 27, 2010
Bhubaneswar:27/September/2010


Aluminium Major’s social initiative arm, Vedanta Foundation has extended its’ support for all round development of at least 20 schools in the Tribal Zones.

In an innovative move the Department of ST & SC Development has roped in the support of the top corporate giant to facilitate better and special education to the tribal students of Kalahandi and Rayagada.

Ashok Kumar Tripathy, Principal Secretary charted out the program and the major corporate sector has been brought in for better development of educational institutions in Tribal Zones.

So Vedanta Foundation has agreed to adopt 20 schools with 6000 students for their multiferous development.

Both Vedanta Foundation and Department of ST & SC Development are busy in taking up a “Programme of Action”.

This move will encourage the use of computer by students of Tribal Schools.

Secondly, improvement in the achievement level of children through use of computer related education & multimedia is being taken up.

The initiative is on for capacity building of teachers, who will in turn take care of the children in future.

This move will increase the presence and retention of Tribal students by creating an environment where learning will be fun, said an official.

The present collaborative effort would enable the State of Odisha to leverage the Foundation’s expertise, experience and finances in various forms of education, particularly computer aided learning and computer education, admitted the senior official.

And both the State Government and Vedanta Foundation have identified synergies in their respective objectives and are desirous of working in concert to better realize their objectives in the State of Odisha.

Accordingly a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed recently the Department of ST & SC Development and Vedanta Foundation.

Taher Vohra, Project Head-CEP, Joyram Mishra, CRE and Sanjeev Kumar Chadha, Director Tribal Affairs signed the MOU in presence of Vinod Kumar Special Secretary of the department.

Such initiative will be extended to other corporate sectors in other industrial areas for all round development of tribal schools, said an official.