Chandigarh Tribune: Bhatanda: Friday,
May 20, 2016.
The two-day
consultation-cum-orientation programme for government school teachers on Right
To Education Act 2009 concluded here today. The programme was organised by
‘Save The Children’ foundation. The foundation recently has also launched its
mobile video van facility for the district.
During the
two-day programme, resource persons Chandan Barman, Amit Kumar Das and Amitabh
Barik from the Non-Government Organisation and Gagandeep Kaur, a representative
from the Volunteers for Social Justice, discussed the clauses and facilities
offered under the Act for providing free and compulsory education to all
children below the age of 14 years.
The
representatives also discussed other clauses mentioned in the Act pertaining to
the study curriculum structure and school infrastructure. Representatives also
discussed about the facilities that every school has to offer to the students
including other things.
They also
elaborated that the vision of the foundation. They said the vision of the
foundation was to provide better opportunities for the most marginalised
children under its project ‘Strengthening Child Rights in the cotton farming
districts of Punjab and Haryana.
The project
had a goal to create an enabling environment which ensures the promotion of
children’s rights leading to prevention of child labour in cotton growing
district, especially Punjab and Haryana, they added.
They said the
project was currently covering 833 habitations including 550 villages of
Bathinda, Muktsar, Mansa and Fazilka and 283 villages of Hissar, Sirsa and
Fatehabad.
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