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Primary Education for all --
Azim
Premji Foundation ties up with Karnataka Government
Bangalore: The Karnataka Government today signed an
MoU with the Azim Premji Foundation to ensure education for every child
in the State, universal education for all.
The Azim Premji Foundation was set up in
2000 with financial resources from the Chairman of Wipro Corporation,
Mr Azim H. Premji. The Foundation has been focusing on primary
education and aims at eliminating all forms of child labour detrimental
to a child's health, education and development.
The Karnataka Government had also
accorded top priority to primary education. The joint action plan looks
at covering the entire State in a phased manner.
The Foundation will first mobilise
communities in identified areas, and ensure that every single child is
in school and also ensure learning in every town, village and
habitation in the area. Activists and youth from the villages committed
to education will be pressed into service to do the "mobilisation".
The Government, for its part will provide the infrastructure, teachers
and implement the plan.
The programme will concentrate on
improving learning levels in schools, which is expected to both attract
out-of-school children as well as retain the existing ones.
According to Government statistics, over
59 million children in the country are deprived of basic education. In
Karnataka, over 10 lakh children in the age group of 6-14 years are out
of school.
The Foundation has begun collaborating
with the Government in 1,300 villages in Kolar and Mandya districts and
plans to expand to Raichur, Gulbarga, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur and
Koppal districts soon.
Pic.: The Chairman, Wipro, Mr. Azim
Premji, and the Karnataka Chief Minister, Mr. S.M. Krishna, exchanging
files after signing a MoU in Bangalore on Tuesday for ensuring primary
education to all children in the State.
Picture by G.R.N. Somashekar
This article
appeared in Business Line, issue dated 4 July, 2001
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