Sampark Foundation kicks off Sampark Smart Shala Traning Program

NEW DELHI: Sampark Foundation, an initiative by Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies Limited and his wife Anupama Nayar has kicked off the implementation of Sampark Smart Shala Traning Program for government primary school teachers in Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand.

The 100-day training program commencing in Chhattisgarh on Monday will see 30 training teams spread across different districts of Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand in the coming months, according to a release. The teams will be training over 1 lakh government primary school teachers in these states from April to July.

With an investment of Rs 60 crores in Chhattisgarh and Rs 40 crores in Uttarakhand from Sampark Foundation, the Sampark Smart Shala Program has been implemented in more than 50,000 primary government schools with 30 lakh children. After a year of implementation, the Program ensures over 80 per cent of children are able to do basic Maths operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and use 500 new words to speak and write in English, according to a release.

Vineet Nayar, Founder Chairman, Sampark Foundation said, “We started off solving the problem of how to improve learning outcomes in our public schools by overcoming teachers’ discomfort in teaching English and Math. Today, this thought has become a movement, with Sampark Smart Shala being readily accepted in Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh. ”