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KOLAR: Several children in villages of Gowribidnur taluk in Chickballapur district are happy. The reason: they have the notebooks they need to study, thanks to the initiative of India Sudar.

India Sudar was set up in 2004 with the aim of promoting primary education in rural areas. Within a span of four years, the organisation spread its activities in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Puducherry.

According to one of its trustees Shivanarayanan, India Sudar wants to spread primary education in rural areas of the State.

Led by M. Udaykumar, a handful of likeminded professionals who wanted to contribute their mite in the form of helping the underprivileged children of society, launched the India Sudar Educational and Charitable Trust.

Today, the organisation has over 460 members and is still growing.

With “Educate and elevate” as its main theme, the organisation is concentrating on providing books and other stationery to the students of government schools. It has distributed materials in several villages of Chickballapur district. About 1,400 students of Chikkakurugodu, Kudurebalya, Ramachandrapura, Kadirenahalli, Gedire, Halaganahalli and Kurubarahalli in Gowribidnur taluk have benefited from the project.

Reaching out to more rural children who cannot afford basic education is the aim of the organisation.

The organisation also deploys teachers to orphanage homes and other NGOs, and deputes teachers to government schools with less staff. Helping poor students with their school fee to prevent dropouts, setting up of computer centres to provide free computer knowledge are other contributions of the association.

“The members, most of whom are professionals, work part-time to run the organisation. It saves the money involved in managerial works. Hence, we can spend a lot of money collected through donations on the targeted group,” Mr. Shivnarayanan told The Hindu.

More than 10,000 children have benefited from the notebook drive project alone. “We carry out surveys on the needs of the children in selected villages. It gives us an insight into the ground realities of rural areas,” he said.

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