Education

News Update/ Press Release Bangalore, 31 May 2021: IBM (NYSE: IBM) is recognizing three teams from India in its annual Volunteer Excellence Awards for their innovative work in making education more accessible during the pandemic being innovative in their community volunteering during 2020. The initiatives and people being recognized include a 10-person team providing remote mentoring for girl students, a 43-member team that recorded audiobooks for visually challenged learners, and a 12-person team conducting webinars for technology students to sustain education projects during Covid lockdowns. The IBM teams recognized from India are part of 15 IBM volunteers or winning teams from 25 countries who were selected worldwide. The organizations associated with each winner will each receive a grant from IBM of USD

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