Back to Basics: How India Inc's using CSR to solve education
Corporate India is stepping up education and skilling-specific endeavours at the school level, particularly on the digital literacy front.
Companies including Larsen & Toubro, P&G India, Dell Technologies, Mphasis, Infosys and HUL are, through their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, rolling out smart classrooms and learning centres for the underprivileged; fixing learning gaps to enable improved outcomes; enhancing educational infrastructure; training teachers in techno-pedagogy; and driving digital inclusion.
L&T's STEM Education programme 'Engineering Futures', running in government and resource-poor trust-run schools, equips students with knowledge and skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The programme has reached 38,545 students from 6th-8th grades across 205 schools and 713 teachers were trained in techno-pedagogy.
Mabel Abraham, Head — CSR, L&T, says they plan to scale up by introducing the programme to schools around L&T campuses pan-India and by integrating teachers' training through government training institutes.
P&G's flagship community initiative Shiksha, which has impacted over 3.5 million children so far, aims to remedy learning gaps in children by enhancing educational infra and empowering marginalised and underserved communities through education.
«We are strengthening impact by forging newer and deeper partnerships» said Enakshee Deva, Head — CSR, P&G India.
Replicating successful models
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