The ambitious scheme initiated by Jharkhand Education Project Council (JEPC) to enroll deprived children under the programme ‘Padhna Ab Nahi Kathin Hai’ (PANKH) will soon rope in few prestigious private cradles of Capital City for imparting quality education to slum children on their respective campus premises after the school hours along taking other activities to elaborate its concept. The scheme that was formally inaugurated by the Department of HRD Minister, Neera Yadav few months back from Hatia aims to admit all such underprivileged kids who by far do not have any accessibility to proper mode of academics in order to curb the dropout rate.
“The concept to involve private schools in this project will widen its approach and reach. Besides that, the project is at preliminary stage, we are yet to figure out the basic details of this project. The meeting regarding this with few private school principals has been scheduled after January 26. As soon as, we get consent, we will prepare the blueprint of course to be conducted under the project,” said JEPC Project Director Mukesh Kumar.
Beside the school principals of private schools from State Capital, the council will also conduct a meeting with the school principals of private institutions of Jamshedpur to actively engage few of them in PANKH project and elaborate its motto on a wider perspective.
“Curriculum, activities will be considered accordingly after the final discussion gets over with the school principals of Ranchi and Jamshedpur districts. As of now, we are successful in enrolling 1500 slum kids from different localities under the PANKH project in the State Capital,” added Kumar.
If all goes well, the council will boost its stakeholders in the coming days by ensuring equal participation of college goers who can assist the council in figuring out kids in slum pockets and by adopting innovative methodologies for increasing the enrollment ratio. “A meeting with the Vice-Chancellor of RU and principals of B.Ed colleges has been planned. After private school institutions participation, few colleges will be involved in the project as well,” Kumar said.
The project caters to the need of urban poor kids and dropouts. The collaboration will help in ensuring better enrollment ratio bridging the gaps and will provide a better learning environment for slum kids. Under the project, all resourceful stuffs like books, pencils, study materials are provided to kids by the State government. However, none of the private school principals has drafted out any idea certainly for commencing the project at their schools.
“Courses, activities school teacher’s involvement in the project including the timing will be declared after the meeting with the Project Director is held,” said, Principal, Surendranath Centenary School, Samita Sinha.