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Belthangady MLA Harish Poonja laid the instauration chromatic for the operation of six classrooms and a toilet artifact astatine Government Junior College (High School Section) Venur, Belthangady Taluk, sponsored by One School At A Time (OSAAT), a Bengaluru-based NGO, connected November 30.
A merchandise from the NGO present said 563 students survey successful the schoolhouse with the module and members of School Development and Monitoring Committee taking progressive involvement successful the wide improvement of the school. It said the teaching prime is commendable portion bully subject among students is maintained.
OSAAT laminitis and managing trustee Vadiraja Bhatt said though determination are respective authorities schools requiring infrastructure upgrade and different facilities, the NGO chooses the 1 wherever the section assemblage excessively actively participates. Only past the enactment extended by donors done the NGO becomes fruitful, helium said.
The NGO raised the required funds for the Venur schoolhouse from Viyaja and Vasantharam Somayaji from the U.S. and from Meera Rao. It plans to implicit the construction, estimated to outgo ₹1.25 crore successful 10 months.
Rebuilding agrarian schools
Mr. Bhatt said OSAAT is dedicated to rebuilding agrarian schools successful India and providing them with prime acquisition with an Edtech platform. It was founded successful 2003 successful the U.S. arsenic One School astatine a Time Inc., portion OSAAT Educational Charitable Trust was acceptable up successful Bengaluru successful 2011.
Bridging the urban-rural disagreement successful acquisition by providing prime and hygienic schoolhouse infrastructure, providing its Edtech inaugural ODiSI (OSAAT Digital School Infrastructure) for each clump of 10 schools etc., are OSAAT’s initiatives.. It provides network, devices similar tabs for students, laptops for teachers, astute TVs for schools and regular grooming with AI tools and gamification. As connected date, the NGO has reached 10 states and impacted implicit 1.35 lakh students.
