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BIT Sindri students admit 10 slum kids to English-medium schools
# Source: Calcutta Telegraph
Sindri, July 14: While no one disputes the fact that BITians are a brainy lot, they are proving their heart is in the right place as well.
Budding techies of BIT-Sindri are sponsoring the education of 10 slum children in reputable English-medium schools under the aegis of their students’ society, Prayaas India. This is over and above their ongoing project of teaching 150 kids in slums at Rodhabandh, Domgarh, Chasnala and others.
The society admitted eight children to Sarawati Vidya Mandir, Sindri, and two to Chasnala Academy this year.
Prayaas was started by 10 students in 2008. Today, it has 70 members, all of whom pitch in with funds. They also sell newspapers collected from BIT-Sindri hostels.
Their alumni network has also been very useful. Former students Gajendra Mahto and Deepti Jha, placed in Vedanta Group, Udaipur; Himendra Prasad, in BCCL, Dhanbad; Chaman Lal, in BALCO, Chandigarh; as well as city entrepreneur Surendra Jindal; PDIL assistant general manager S.K. Chanda and MTech student Mayank Purushottam have contributed to sponsor the education of the students in English-medium cradles.
Success stories are already pouring in. “We had been teaching Mohammed Shahid as part of our evening tuitions. This year in CBSE Class X board exam, he scored a whopping 9.4 points out of 10. Now, we’ve admitted him in Class XI at Chasnala Academy. Our student Rudal Kumar got 138th state rank in polytechnic entrance,” said Prayaas treasurer Shambhu Saran Sharma.
Recently, Prayaas got gifts — a library of 500 books, an inverter and two almirahs. Final-year electrical engineering student and Prayaas member Sita Ram said the additions greatly helped the evening classes.
“Teaching kids in candlelight was tough. The inverter was a gift from public sector giant ONGC, thanks to alumnus Rajiv Prasad,” he said.
“Prasad also helped us with an almirah. Over 500 books were donated by friends and family, while an old almirah was gifted by local shopkeeper Vishal Agarwal,” he said.
“The gifts are a big help, especially the inverter. Children love the brightly lit class now,” said another Prayas member Rahul Kumar.
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