Tata Power's "Shiksha Saarthi" programme benefits over 6,800 children

AHMEDABAD: Tata Power Company, through Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd. (CGPL), on Wednesday said its Shiksha Saarthi, devised to promote education, has benefited over 6,800 students in Mundra, three years since its launch.

The programme launched in partnership with Pratham targets children from Class I to Class V, and identifies those lagging behind the desired level of learning; an impediment that disables children perennially attaining comprehension, communication and computation skills. K K Sharma, ED & CEO, CGPL, said Project Shiksha Sarathi has enhanced the educational competencies of students in Gujarat.

So far, through Shiksha Saarthi, 176 learning camps have been conducted across 45 schools in 2014-15 wherein innovative teaching methods were adopted to enhance the basic competencies in reading and recognition of numbers in the children.

In the first year, Shiksha Sarthi was implemented in 157 villages of Mandvi and Mundra blocks. However, in 2013-14 and 2014-15, the program strategy was revised to focus on improving the learning environment through the learning camps in government primary schools, working with the government at the block level, and extensive training for the newly inducted teachers through the CAMaL (Combined Activities for Maximised Learning) approach.