Quality Education is must for growth: Dr. Mukesh Kumar

The awareness about need of education for growth and in fighting poverty, eradicating deceases like Malaria, Sickle Cell Anemia etc is continuously on the rise in tribal belts of Kalahandi and Rayagada district. People are looking for development to live a better life which is getting reflected with the considerable improvement in attendance and reduction in drop out cases in almost all the schools.
Showing commitment for development in Kalahandi and Rayagada region, Dr. Mukesh Kumar, President and COO, Vedanta Aluminium Limited, Lanjigarh – while inaugurating the new school building of Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir at Ambodala, Rayagada – reiterated that Vedanta is concerned about improving standard of education and health care for the overall development of the region. He further stressed that, now under right to education also it is very much essential that every child must go to the school.
“Unless every child goes to school, Vedanta’s aim of improving educational standard is not fulfilled. To ensure every child get at least pre-school education and to give the children nutritious food Vedanta is supporting nearly 1000 Aganwadi Centres in association with GOO besides running nearly 45 Child Care Centres which aims for 100% enrollment in the Primary School,” said Dr. Mukesh Kumar in the sidelines of the inaugural function of the Additional Classrooms of Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir at Ambodala on January 2, 2011.
VAL constructed the classroom under its Corporate Social responsibility of the project ‘Shiksha’ which aims to ensure that each child enjoys his/her right. He also promised to bring the school under Computer Literacy Programme of VAL.
Further showing importance of the need of higher education in the area, he said, “Students of this area now can study science at degree level as Vedanta has opened a Degree level Science College at Lanjigarh which will begin its academic session from 2011 and will enroll students from Lanjigarh, Biswanathpur, Ambodala, Munigura where students give up studies after 10th or +2 due to the unavailability of any good college.”
Education being an important tool in building future, Vedanta has been trying to improve the education sector in Kalahandi and Rayagada district. A Degree Science College, +2 Science College and a DAV Vedanta International School at Lanjigarh are few of the initiatives Vedanta has taken to enhance the educational standard of the region.