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Adolescent learning centres for dropouts

Special Correspondent

JAIPUR: Janbodh Karyakram, an educational endeavour for the underprivileged children, would take up enrolment of the children of brick kiln workers here and start adolescent learning centres for the dropouts and those never enrolled.

Both the projects were proposed at the annual meeting of the programme steering committee of the Jandbodh Karyakram here.

The Rajasthan Government representatives who attended the meeting reiterated their commitment to make infrastructure provisions for the schools under Janbodh Karyakram, a collective endeavour of communities, the Government and the civil society organisations. The Government had already communicated the directives in this regard to the Jaipur Development Authority, the Municipal Corporation of Jaipur and the Forest Department, the officials pointed out.

The representatives of the Bodh Shiksha Samiti, the NGO entrusted with the implementation of Jandbodh Karyakram, said that they had submitted proposals for school buildings in 100 slum colonies in Jaipur under the initial phase of the Janbodh.

The steering committee meeting, attended by Principal Secretary, School and Sanskrit Education, representatives of the Aga Khan Foundation, American India Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and UNICEF, decided that Bodh Shiksha Samiti would also organise residential camps for children with special needs and operate mobile computer vans for children in deprived localities.

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