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Haryana govt to encourage corporates and NGOs to fund govt school education.
The Haryana government has come up with a novel way to bridge the funding gap in implementing government school projects. As part of the state government’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities private companies will be encouraged to fund government school projects in Haryana.
The Haryana government has come up with a novel way to bridge the funding gap in implementing government school projects. As part of the state government's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities private companies will be encouraged to fund government school projects in Haryana.
Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma said the state was working towards the upliftment of Education Development Indicators and a co-ordination committee has been formed to aid in filling the funding gap in the sector and improving the overall quality of education.
"Fortunately, Haryana has a large number of reputed corporate houses and the government is keen to attract Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds direct or indirect apart from the state budget allocated for education so as to inject quality in education system," Sharma said.
The minister added that a state-level CSR Co-ordination Committee had been framed in education with an aim to fill funding gaps in the government school projects and to avoid the duplication in ongoing projects.
The committee would be tasked with identifying and attending to priority areas, supplementing government activities without replacing them and forming action plans, Sharma said.
"It would co-ordinate and channelise the efforts to achieve goals and facilitate CSR works through implementing agencies like the NGOs and Corporates, monitor and review CSR activities implemented by various agencies, handhold, co- ordinate, facilitate and monitor the impact on Education Development Index (EDI) of the state or district and share best practices in CSR among corporates," he said.
To streamline the work and to delegate activities, 3 separate committees will be formed in the execution of CSR activities. These are State Level Steering Committee in Education, Core Committee which would be Sub-Committee of State Level Steering Committee and District Level Steering Committee in Education, Sharma said.
Elaborating on the core areas of education under CSR, Sharma enumerated gap filling, capacity building, improving quality of education, inclusive education for disabled, motivating and bringing the school dropouts to the schools and strengthening of schools running for out of children.
He also said if all round education was to be encouraged in the state, Art & Craft or Music Labs need to be established and developed.
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