The SChand Group, one of India’s largest educational service providers, launched its CSR initiative Read India in association with Round Table India. The launch was done by Padmashree Milkha Singh who distributed books to the library of Rao Saraswati Meharchand Vidya Mandir, a Government school in Bhalasawa, Delhi.
Under this initiative, the group will be setting up libraries with around 300 to 400 books per school school in approximately 700 Government schools. This will enable students to access books of almost all subjects including Science, Maths, General Studies, G.K. etc without any fees or remuneration. Students from Kindergarten (KG) to Class VIII can have these books and study them for a better understanding.
While adressing the audience, Milkha Singh said that it will be the great honor if these types of social activities would be continued and more peoples will add themselves from these activities which provide a platform to the children who want to ignite their minds in field of education by learning new facts of discoveries as well as the need of education for their bright future. With education it is necessary to curve the mindset of the society towards the importance of games so that my dream to conquer gold medal in coming Olympics by my nation’s youth could be completed till my last breath.
Himanshu Gupta, MD, SChand Group said: “SChand Group is committed in improving the lives of millions of underprivileged children across India, by giving them quality education and developing better reading and learning habits thereby accelerating the growth in the education sector. Read India campaign is once such initiative which will help close to 3,50,000 underprivileged students in 700 schools all across 120 cities in India by donating 500 books in each of the school libraries in these schools.”