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Round Table chips in to build classrooms

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, JUNE 23. The Presidency Girls' Higher Secondary School at Egmore today got six new classrooms from funds mobilised by the Madras Mylapore Round Table 3 as part of the organisation's nationwide `Freedom Through Education' programme.

The Dutch Ambassador to India, E.F.Ch Niehe, inaugurated the two-storeyed building, constructed on a plinth area of 3,500 square feet.

The Mylapore Round Table has been involved in improving the school's infrastructure which has been struggling the last three years to meet the infrastructure needs of the 2,500 students, said the Round Table chairman, Sandeep Somani. Most of the students were from the poorer classes.

"The school is short of classrooms and had had very old buildings. The roof of one of the buildings collapsed about three months ago," Mr. Somani said. Many classes were being conducted in the open, he added.

Last year too, the organisation constructed four classrooms on a 2,500 square feet plinth area. It also contributed to the construction of a noon meal centre with a full-fledged kitchen, a well and a water pump and 20 toilets.

The new building cost the Round Table Rs. 9.75 lakhs, mobilised mostly from the members, the government and a matching grant from the Netherlands Round Table.

Mr. Niehe called on the students to study well. He offered to send across literature and information on the Netherlands.

R. Girish, president, Round Table India, said the organisation proposed to educate a million children in the country by 2008. It had already contributed to the improvement of infrastructure in 500 schools at a cost of Rs. 40 crores. The Netherlands Round Table contributed Rs. 3.6 crores for about 200 schools.

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