Venkatesh Chandrasekaran
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Schools for India, is currently engaged in the State of Bihar, India
to build the first pilot school in Jotuka village. The village
community has come together to support the project by donating 10
Acres of land. Total of 13 villagers pledged their support during the
meeting held on 30th Dec 2011. The District Collector and DM of
Darbhanga was present during the community interaction meeting.
The project will be executed in three phases with the Higher
secondarycoming up in the first Phase, the classes from kinder garten
to 10th standard will come up in phase 2 and the community center,
science center, integrated sports complex will come up in the third
phase. The school and other integrated infrastructure will be spread
over an area of 20 acres making this as the center of excellence for
50 odd villages.
The school will have the capacity of 3000 children catering to the
villages in and around Jotuka, Manigachi Block, Darbhanga District.
As a first step, the community will form a trust to manage the
project, and work closely with district administration. The classes
are expected to start from April 2013. During the period of April 2012
to March 2013, the villagers will be trained in project management,
vocational training so that they can become the resource center for
building other schools in the district.
The District Collector, R.Lakshmnanan promised support and asked the
administration to look for supporting infrastructure needed to make
the project a sucess.