my opinion is based on times of india and its readers comments. Most of the readers comments are highly biased.
Also please see how shiv sena reacted to Shahrukh khan's program for flood affectees in Pakistan.
Also please see how shiv sena reacted to Shahrukh khan's program for flood affectees in Pakistan.
MUMBAI/ BANGALORE: After chipping in for the country's educational system for a decade, the Azim Premji Foundation (APF), run by the third richest Indian on his own money, is all set for a generous initiative. The foundation plans to start 1,300 schools across the country- two per district - which will be free, impart education in the local language and be affiliated to the state board.
If the idea succeeds, it could shame India's dysfunctional public education system - and perhaps inspire other wealthy tycoons to look beyond their personal status-building.
The APF schools, from preschool to class 12, will be on the lines of government ones. The difference will be in quality. "Quality education is fundamental to our becoming a developed nation. And the final crucible of learning is the classroom," says Azim Premji.
Wipro's idea of starting 1,300 schools came after the Azim Premji Foundation recently reviewed its work from 2001, the year in which it was set up. "We felt the need to graduate from programme interventions to institution-building," says Dileep Ranjekar, APF's CEO. "One of our ideas was to set up a separate educational board like the ICSE/ CBSE. But most of us...felt that change would be better felt and seen by actually setting up schools."
Those associated with the planning of this Rs 9,000-crore project say that the schools will focus on the overall development of their students, including their health and nutrition. "The attempt is also to establish schools in corners that are currently educationally under-served and not to compete with existing schools, whether public or private," says Ranjekar, adding that seven schools will start within a year-and-a-half in Karnataka, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh. If things go as forecast, all the 1,300 schools should be up and running by 2025.
The aim behind the schools is two-pronged. "One is to build social pressure for other schools to follow suit and provide quality education. Two, we want to test ourselves, understand what it takes to deliver quality teaching and learning. One cannot tell the world to improve unless one actually leads by example," says Ranjekar.
A focal aim of the foundation is to get each school to evolve, over time, as a development centre integrated with the community. Thus, the schools will be staffed with teachers from the rural areas, but appointed after written tests and an interview.
"Emphasis will be placed on their expertise in the subject, their understanding of pedagogy and their social orientation. Parents of the children will be important partners in the process of development," says Ranjekar.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ls-in-every-district/articleshow/10536039.cms
Its a great deed, and something that is rare of people of his wealth.
However, I'd like to think we would all do that, being his age, and with his money......right?
, there are lots of private schools in India but poor people cant afford..
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BANGALORE: IT major Wipro's chairman Azim Premji today said "complete absence of decision making" in the government is the biggest concern for the country and warned that growth would suffer if prompt corrective action is not taken.
"I think the biggest concerns are governance issues... complete absence of decision-making among leaders in the government...", he said when asked what he thought was the "biggest concern for the country today".
If prompt corrective action is not taken, there is going to be a setback to economic growth, he added.
"You must appreciate how serious it is", he said. Apparently referring to scams in media spotlight, he pointed out the "governance issues which are hitting headlines, hitting a little less today than they were hitting a month back".
A group of prominent personalities, including Premji, Keshub Mahindra and HDFC's Deepak Parekh, had in a letter to the national leaders earlier this month had expressed concerns over a series of scams leading to 'governance deficit', but had said that national challenges like fighting corruption cannot be solved by urban protests and posturing.
In their second 'open letter', they had endorsed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that economic progress must not be hijacked by internal dissensions.
On the government's response to this, Premji said: "So far as the open letter is concerned, the reaction of the Prime Minister has been positive to it in terms of taking it on record".
Have you done all these things? If no then stop lecturing, if yes then do more
All that money given away to those undeserving parasites would be so helpful to the needy people.
