With an aim to improve education in rural areas, an IIT Bombay professor, Dr Chetan Singh Solanki has founded an educational park for kids of Khargone district in Madhya Pradesh.
The aim of establishing this non-profit school is to provide quality of education to backward students in rural areas so as to bring them in the mainstream of educational world.
"While speaking on this initiative, Dr Solanki said, "Quality education means a person should be self-sufficient after graduation." Moreover, the professor said that the infrastructure, quality of education, and teachers will be of same standard like other schools of urban areas. While observing the basic amenities and electricity supply in rural areas, this school has been set up under fully solar powered system.
According to a recent report published in DNA, this educational park has over 1,000 kids enrolled from 40 villages.
In order to give adequate compensation and other facilities to the teachers, Solanki said that right now he is hoping to get crowdfunding to have a Teacher's Fellowship and also offer accommodation to the teaching staff.
Also, the Education Park needs funds for buying buses and building more classrooms.Being a native of this district, Solanki himself has studied in this school that earlier had just one classroom.
He said, "Rural schools are not well equipped. Schemes like Mid-day meal are good only for enrollment."
According to Solanki, if the school's infrastructure improves, many middle-income families will be willing to send their children to study in this school.
"In such a big country, one Education Park is not sufficient. Once this model is complete, we want to replicate it in other places as well," concludes Dr Solanki.
Source:-TO
0 comments:
Post a Comment