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Nearly 600 children given study material

BANGALORE: LSI Corporation, an electronic chip manufacturing company in the city, distributed free bags, notebooks, pen, pencils, erasers and geometry boxes to around 600 children here on Tuesday.

The programme was organised at the Government Model Primary School, Kadugodi, as part of LSI’s CSR. LSI managing director Pravin Desale said this “backpack programme” was initiated by focussing on 143 children a few years ago. In 2008-09, the aim was to cover 7,100 students spread across 65 schools in the city. “Over these five years, this programme has supported over 14,000 children studying in primary and secondary schools,” Mr. Desale said.

The programme aimed at encouraging education among the rural children, reduce the number of dropouts and to better the lives of children in government schools in suburban Bangalore.

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