Bengaluru, July 11, 2023: As a part of Round Table India’s vision of ‘Freedom Through Education’, an initiative to help create quality infrastructure in schools for underprivileged children, Bangalore North Round Table 25 (BNRT 25) & Bangalore North Ladies Circle 14 inaugurated 2 classrooms & 2 toilet blocks at the Government Lower Primary School (GLPS) Hosahudya, Doddaballapur, Bengaluru. The total cost of the project is INR 27, 28, 214 ( Twenty Seven Lakhs Twenty Eight Thousand Two Hundred and Fourteen Only).
The project includes complete classroom infrastructure inclusive of benches, fans, lights and board. All the partners will continue to work together to provide several holistic and innovative educational programs, which will positively impact over 500 students in the next 5-7 years. These classrooms were built under the Freedom Through Education (FTE), a national project of the Round Table India under which a total of over 8,665 classrooms have been built so far benefiting 9.53 million children across India with a total outlay of over 437 crore.
Mrs Poornima, Headmistress of the school said, “On behalf of our students and faculty, I wish to whole-heartedly thank Round Table India, Ladies Circle India for giving my children these infrastructure facilities. The classrooms and the toilet blocks will make a whole world of difference to us as I believe a decent physical infrastructure will be the beginning of joyful learning experiences for my students. My sincere gratitude to all involved in the project.”
While there are several community service projects being implemented concurrently by Round Table India across the country, ‘Freedom Through Education’ is the ongoing National project. The project aims to provide physical infrastructure to schools aimed at supporting the education of underprivileged children. The organisation is involved in building classrooms, toilets and providing other amenities like drinking water facility, library, science lab, playgrounds, etc to schools across the country that are catering to children from lesser privileged sections of the society.
“The best way to develop the future of our country is to strengthen the education system of our country under the premise that education is truly what creates social progress”, said Tr. Amit Jain, Chairman of BNRT 25. “Round Table India has been working to provide education for the underprivileged children for over 25 years now. Since the realization of this goal, RTI has had many benefactors who have got associated with RTI to make the dream of ‘Education for All’ come true. I would like to thank all our generous donors who came forward to contribute and support us in this cause”
