Because of the prevailing practice of gender discrimination in the adivasi society, girl children are required to help their parents in the household works, for which the dropout rate from schools is very high and spread of education is very poor.
The Tata Steel in collaboration with New Delhi-based NGO ASPIRE has started a project named ‘Residential Bridge Course (RBC). Unprivileged children including school dropouts, single parent children, orphans and others are put up in the RBC centre.
As many as 59 girl students of RBC centre of Joda block will take admission in different residential schools, it was declared in a graduation ceremony organised by the TSRDS held on Wednesday. Inaugurating the programme Tata Steel GM (OMQ) Pankaj Satija said the RBC is the bridge which would help unprivileged children connect with education. Others who spoke included Tata Steel Joda chief Mukesh Jaina.