The Vedanta Aluminium felicitated teachers at Jharsuguda in the presence of District Education Officer Pushpa Minz and Additional District Education Officer Pradipta Sa.
Committed to improving the educational scenario in Jharsuguda, the company has taken several initiatives including supporting more than 5,000 children’s access to early childhood education through anganwadis; infrastructure development under ‘Mo School Abhiyan’; Vidya Graha, an e-learning programme conceived to provide recorded lectures and online career counselling to students from classes 8th-10th ; Vedanta Mini Science Centres; Vedanta Computer Literacy Programme (VCLP); Vedanta-DAV Education Support Program and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education Project to impart knowledge on the basics of AI to students and build AI-based solutions for real-world problems.
Besides, in Koraput district, Vedanta Aluminium’s Mining team has been distributed bags to over 5,000 students, while career counseling sessions were held for secondary school students in the region.
Speaking about the company’s endeavours to improve literacy and education levels in the region, CEO – Vedanta Limited, Jharsuguda, Sunil Gupta said, “We are committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goal of ‘Quality Education’, for we believe it is fundamental to the equitable and inclusive development of our local communities. It heartens us to see a quite a lot of programmes being implemented by the company to boost literacy levels of Jharsuguda.”