Education

News Update/ Press Release INDIA, 10 March 2021 –Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF), founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, and HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, have come together to enable online education for underprivileged children in India. As part of this initiative, over 1,740 new Nokia smartphones worth over Rs. 1.65 crores would be distributed to children across rural areas and urban slums, survivors of child exploitation, as well as the first-generation learners of the Banjara community. The phones have been donated to children who are beneficiaries of two flagship social interventions of KSCF: Bal Mitra Gram (BMG) Bal Mitra Mandal (BMM) In addition, the phones will also be distributed to the residents of Bal Ashram, a

PRESS RELEASE EdIndia, the strategic CSR arm of Sterlite Power, has collaborated with Uttarakhand Education Department, in order to address the teaching-learning challenges in post-COVID class rooms. EdIndia launched a state level online orientation session for over 28,000 primary teachers of the state on 3rd November 2020. Dr. Mukul Sati, Additional Project Director Universal Education, Uttarakhand, and Ms. Seema Jaunsaari, Director- State Council of Educational Research & Training, Uttarakhand,- formally launched the post-COVID Teaching package in the session, while addressing the participants online.  The enthusiasm and active participation of the 4,000 teachers, who joined online on EdIndia’s YouTube channel, was evident from their comments in the chatbox. When schools reopen, teaching would be a challenging task due to students’ learning loss

INITIATIVE Coming from a lower middle class family, I always aspired to join IIT” said Swaraj Akhode , one of the IIT aspirants from MGL Unnati batch. As he narrated his journey from the times of struggle to cracking into an IIT Roorkee college, the journey in itself is an inspiration for all those aspirants who fight against the odd to mark success against struggling times. He recollects of how inspite of talent, financial implications were a major hindrance for many like him but determination and mentorship from CSRL and MGL changed his life. Going back into struggling times, after he cracked the entrance exams, how time challenged course of fate as he got infected with conjunctivitis and was on

PRESS RELEASE India is performing poorly on education indicators. With the Right of Children to ‘Free’ and ‘Compulsory’ Education (RTE) Act, 2009 coming in, there has been definite improvement in the enrollment of children in schools at all levels across the country. However, most of the provisions guaranteed in the Act are yet to be fulfilled like availability of trained teachers, high student pupil ratio, books/ stationary not coming in time, lack of basic infrastructural facilities like functional toilets with water facility, safe drinking water, library, laboratories etc. These gaps leads to many children, especially girls to drop out of school as they grow up. Recognizing all these challenges, Relaxo Foundation has decided to adopt Government schools and transform them

PRESS RELEASE SSIPL Foundation, a standalone non-profit company, was incorporated in the year 2012 to carry out the CSR activities of the SSIPL group. Its role is to extend regular aids to a plethora of NGO’s working in direction of the betterment & upheaval of the lesser-privileged section of our society. SSIPL as a business entity, working in a rapidly developing country, believes that education plays a vital role in the economic development and prosperity of the nation. This further simplifies into having proper infrastructural facilities at schools thus ensuring access to proper education for each pupil who aspires to achieve excellence through knowledge. With this goal in mind and a vision of a nation where everyone gets equal right

PRESS RELEASE Sarthak Educational Trust  Celebrates Annual Day SARTHAK Educational Trust recently celebrated its Annual Day. The purpose was to bring all the stakeholders like the corporate sector, government sector, NGOs, people with disability, families of people with disabilities, friends, mentors and supporters on the same platform and celebrate the end of the year by thanking the supporters and acknowledging its partners with some cultural performances by people with disability, showcasing their talents. Along with various participants and stakeholders, some of the distinguished personalities at the Annual Day were Prof M.B. Athreya – Management Guru and a guide to SARTHAK, Kiran Mehra-Kerpelman, Director, UNIC, Lt Gen Dr. S.P. Kochhar – CEO, Telecom Skill Sector Council, Avnish Awasthi – Joint Secretary,