The SAIl-Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) has gifted the people of Antagarh in Rowghat region of Bastar in Chhattisgarh its first CBSE English Medium Public School.
Set up as a part of BSP's CSR programme in Rowghat, the DAV Rowghat Ispat Public School to be run by DAV Education Society, Delhi was inaugurated in Antagarh on September 10 by Vikram Usendi, Member of Parliament from Kanker, a BSP press release stated.
The first batch of 60 students in two sections of Pre-primary wing that has been started in the school are from among the 22 villages that fall in the buffer zone of Rowghat Mines.
Present on the dais along with Vikram Usendi, MP were Bhojraj Nag, MlA, Antagarh as Special Guest, Shammi Abidi, Collector Kanker as Guest of Honour, and P K Sinha, ED (Mines-Rowghat), Bhilai Steel Plant.
The school has been set up as per MoU signed between Bhilai Steel Plant, DAV Education Society and Steel Education Society, Bhilai, according to which all expenses for running the school would be borne and paid by BSP to DAV Society.
The students are being provided free books, copies, school bags, dresses and mid-day meals.
The school has been presently opened in an old ITI Building provided by the Chhattisgarh Government.
While the present building has been repaired and renovated by BSP, a residential school would be set up in future wherein more classes would be added and all expenses for lodging-boarding of students residing in hostel would also be borne by BSP.
Also present on the occasion were Prashant Kumar, Regional Director (DAV (MP-CG), A K Mishra, GM (Rowghat), Dayanandan, DGM (CSR-Rowghat), SDM Antagarh, District Education Officer, Chairman Nagar Panchayat, Rajesh Malviya, Mining Officer, Kanker and citizens from Antagarh.