Summer camps, organised in partnership with ASPIRE, a Delhi-based NGO, under Tata Steel’s Thousand Schools Project, were launched on Tuesday at the Daitari Primary School in Keonjhar district.
Tata Steel president TQM and Steel Business Anand Sen formally launched the camps in presence of Daitari Samiti member Sunita Pradhan, Daitari Primary School prncipl Krushnapriya Ojha, General Manager, Operations, Ferro Alloys and Minerals Division RR Satpathy and CSR chief Biren Ramesh Bhuta besides other dignitaries.
The 45-day long camps are being organised simultaneously in 363 schools in six blocks namely Danagadi and Sukinda in Jajpur, Harichandanpur and Joda in Keonjhar, and Koira and Kutra in Sundargarh districts. Around 18,000 children have been enrolled for 507 such camps that will run till June 15.
The initiative aims to engage children meaningfully and inculcate the habit of going to schools and learning, enhance involvement of the community in school governance and introduce learning Enrichment Programme (lEP) - a component of Thousand Schools Project. This project is an important CSR intervention of Tata Steel in education sector of Odisha. Dignitaries also distributed study materials to the students on the occasion. Head, Education, Tata Steel Smita Agarwal, Regional Manager, OMC, Daitari Shyam Sundar Barik, secretary of ASPIRE Dayaram, parents of children, PRI members of the area and local villagers were present.