Vidyabhawan, a free residential school for unprivileged children in Keonjhar district, has been awarded both at the international and national levels.
Vidyabhawan founder-secretary Malay Mohapatra received the award, a memento and a certificate from educationist Matthew R Merrit in the presence of Prof MK Das and Kuldeep Sharma at the International Education Summit 2020 held at Bangkok in Thailand.
As many as 115 representatives from 20 countries including India, Singapore, Vietnam, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan, Japan, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh participated in the two-day event to discuss on “Quality Education in Contemporary World and Education for Sustainability”.
In a national event held at the Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi, the Vidyabhawan was awarded as the best school for unprivileged children with innovative co-curricular activities. This Asia Education Summit was organised by the Asia Today in collaboration with the India Today where former Union Minister Maneka Gandhi and Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale gave away the awards.
Notably, the Vidyabhawan, founded by Malay Mohapatra since 2009 at Khudaposi in Keonjhar, has been providing quality education with adequate facilities to about 300 unprivileged children in tribals-dominated Keonjhar district and has won many such national and international awards earlier too.