OREANDA-NEWS. April 26, 2012. Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company, has been driving education as an important part of its community development initiatives to bring pedagogical change in the educational system. In line with this endeavour, its subsidiary Coastal Gujarat Power (CGPL) has adopted an innovative methodology for adding value to education in the schools around its project catchment areas.

A one-day teacher training programme was held by the CGPL team, where 16 teachers from nearby schools, mainly from Tunda, Vandh, Mota Kandagra and Nanabhadia of Mundra and Mandvi talukas, participated. The programme aimed at enhancing the teachers’ skills by encouraging them to become leaders and helping them in promoting their schools, as well as defining primary institutions in the societal structure, and to become benchmarks in their schools, for enhancing the performance of the students.

The training involved a two-way process of interactions, practical experience and sharing of success stories. This process helped the group to understand and arrive at several insights to achieve educational goals in spite of formidable socio-economic constraints confronting them.

Speaking on the achievement, KK Sharma, chief, Mundra UMPP, said, “We believe that small steps taken in this direction will have a positive impact on the education system and will also motivate the teachers to build their capacity. The training programme has been widely appreciated by all the participants and we look forward to such interactive sessions in the near future.”
The company’s intervention in the area of education has brought tremendous change in the mindset of children living in the project vicinity. Some of the other initiatives taken up by CGPL in the education area, such as the computer learning stations under the project ‘Sujaan’, distribution of educational kits to new entrants every year, evening English speaking classes, training of teachers, supporting the ‘Kanya Kelavni’ initiative to reduce dropout, and promotion of girl education, organising bal utsav programmes in the school and various initiatives to promote extra-curricular activities among the children of the school.