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magis
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february 2014
Mission education
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Knowledge Works
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LRI, which
has
always been in the
forefront of socially
relevant activities,
joined hands with the Rotary
Club of Jamshedpur and Jusco
Education Mission Foundation
to address issues concerning
RTE.
As the first step in this direc-
tion Fr Arrupe Centre for Ecol-
ogy and Sustainability of XLRI
hosted the Educating India:
Every Child in School work-
shop on December 6. Managing
Trustee of JEM Foundation
Ruchi Narendran in her keynote
address expressed hope that
the initiative would result in
taking the education agenda
forward in Jharkhand where lit-
eracy percentage was below per
national average. Other main
speakers at the workshop were
Trustee of Tarapore School
Bailey Bodhanwala, his DBMS
School counterpart B Chan-
drasekhar, initiative director
of Mount Litera Zee Schools
Lalita Sareen and chairperson
of DBMS board of trustees
B Neelankanthan.
Literacy rate of East Sing-
hbhum at 67 percent, which is
almost the same as the state’s
average, was a common con-
cern among the speakers. The
facts are unsatisfactory because
the industrial district is home
to some of the finest schools of
the state.
Chairperson of XLRI alumni
association and senior faculty
member Sharad Sarin — the
key person behind the initiative
— informed that principals of
120-odd private and state-run
schools pledged to eradicate il-
literacy from the city by 2015.
According to the action plan,
schools will prepare a list, in-
dicating the number of children
who have never been to school
or dropped out.
“The action plan will be
executed in phases. In the first
phase, the schools will identify
children, residing within 2km
of the cradle, who are not ben-
efiting from the Right to Educa-
tion Act. Once they table the
data, we will host mini work-
shops to stress the importance
of education,” said Sarin.
The workshops are to be fol-
lowed by counseling sessions
with parents of needy children,
where they will be urged to
send their wards to schools.
Managing Trustee of JEM Foundation Ruchi Narendran with schoolchildren at the event
Prof. Sharad Sarin
The organisers
of Educating
India: Every
Child in School
workshop
pledge to make
a generation
learn
