Property dealer transforms impoverished government school
Property dealer M.K Mehra is indeed a remarkable man. I spent a morning recently watching the transformation that Mehra’s efforts have achieved. Few years ago, the state-run school at Gwalpahadi( a small village just off the Gurgaon-Faridabad road) was a run-down, 4-room structure with a few, de-motivated teachers.
What I saw last week was a transformed place. A neat, 15-room school with full quorum of teachers; an operational computer lab, and other amenities. Mehra & the teachers have also got the government to deliver. The government’s mid-day meal scheme is on, and so is a distance education program delivered via broadband.
But is this enough? The kids I spoke to come from a clutch of villages nearby, and their families are typically illiterate, unemployed, and deprived.
To get truly uplifted, the same community needs not just one nice school, but also adult education, jobs, primary healthcare, and other basic stuff.
August 16th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Kudos to Mehra and team. I sure would be keen to see if the same is sustained across a district or a state….
I am not sure if you have heard or seen the efforts of a NGO called www.akshayapatra.org, which is today despite efforts of NRIs and Corporates finding it so difficult to sustain the mid-day meal program across India.
As I last counted they were inching towards the million children a day - with a payable deficit of 50 lakhs…..but the children are not affected a bit!
August 16th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
The effort of Mehra is indeed remarkable, there is need for more such effort, for children & adults who are deprived of the basic for education facility.
Though many of us do contribute in our own ways in ensuring we help someone get educated, but we need people like Mehra, who can recreate the entire institution & provide the infra as well.
Organizations today are actively attaching itself to some social cause as well…….