Village Mentoring Project launched

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21 Jun 2015, 12:00 am

Haryana Government on Saturday launched a Village Mentoring Project (VMP) to improve healthcare and education of the villagers with a special emphasis on girl child. The project would create awareness among the villagers about various issues including educating girl child, health, financial matters etc, Deputy Commissioner of Panchkula Vivek Atray said after launching the project from Rajjipur village.

He said the project has been commenced in the State from Panchkula district in association with Indian School of Business (ISB), Mohali whose faculty and students would visit the village. The students and the staff of ISB presented a street play on the theme of ‘Continuing girl education, sanitation, hygiene and nutrition’ and conducted a counseling session with village residents. The Village Mentoring Project (VMP) is the first of its kind in Haryana under which villages in the State would be mentored by leading corporate houses, educational institutions and other organisations. Each of the 22 districts in the state would be launching the project in a phased manner in around five villages each, an official spokesman said.