IndiGo, India’s largest airline, inaugurated its school adoption programme in Dehradun on Friday. The airline has partnered with SRF Foundation to improve the quality of education in 15 government schools in the city, as per a release issued.
Through this programme, IndiGo aims to impact the lives of 20,000 students through adoption of 60 schools across four cities — Indore, Dehradun, Vadodara and Greater Noida. Summi Sharma, vice-president, ifly — Corporate learning academy, who also leads CSR initiatives for IndiGo, said, “We are proud to have started this programme from Indore and now bringing it to Dehradun.”
While flagging the GetSmart Digital Mobile Bus, Mukul Kumar Sati, ASDP — Samagra Siksha, Dehradun said, “IndiGo’s School Adoption programme and the GetSmart Digital Mobile Bus are going to add innovative value to digitalisation of schools and academic transformation in classrooms along with development of other physical facilities which are much required for Government schools.”