Friday, November 23, 2012

Vedanta, State tie up for quality education to 2,00,000 children

The Pioneer, Nov 23, 2012

The Vedanta Foundation on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the State’s Department of ST & SC Development and Minorities & Backward Classes Welfare to help 2 lakh underprivileged children across 1,000 Government-run upper primary and secondary schools under the department under the Vedanta E-Shiksha@Schools Programme.
The 1,000 schools are spread across all the 30 districts which include predominantly tribal districts like Rayagada, Kalahandi, Koraput and Kandhamal.
The MoU was signed between Vedanta Foundation CEO Ravi Krishnan and Director of ST & SC Development and Minorities & Backward Classes Welfare Department Sushil Kumar Popli. The function was presided over by the department’s Secretary Santosh Kumar Sarangi. Departmental Minister Lalbihari Himirika was the chief guest.
Over 2,00,000 underprivileged students from 6th to 10th standard would benefit from this initiative that aims to make learning interesting and interactive through use of technology aided learning.
Vedanta would provide hardware and software solutions like LED Pico Projectors with memory and battery backup and textbook-based educational software, i.e., e-content-based on course curriculum in Odia. Training to teachers in use of the material would also be conducted.

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