BALCO Brings Quality Education To Korba

With the support of BALCO’s management, Bharat Aluminium Employees Education Society (INTUC) is providing education free of cost to students at Bal Sadan Higher Secondary School.

 

BALCO is also running ‘Project Connect’ under its community development programme to support students from marginal communities who cannot afford expensive tuition. Nearly 200 students avail special classes at the Vedanta Study Centre, education being funded by employees of the company. The project is helping many students secure seats in premiere engineering institutions, besides improving the performance of students in matriculation and higher secondary exams.

 

Besides that, the company is running childcare centers in its operational area, supported by the Vedanta Foundation. The BALCO Vedanta Therapy and Rehabilitation Centre, managed by Inner Wheel Education Society, is working to improve the lives of differently abled children in the periphery by making physiotherapy, speech therapy, work therapy and behavior therapy available to them.

 

The company started Chhattisgarh’s first skill training center for the blind and deaf youth at Divya Jyoti Hostel premises in Korba. This center provides training in beautician courses, hospitality, basic computer skills as well as tailoring. Vedanta College and Rehabilitation Centre for Deaf and Blind, is also playing an important role in making differently abled youths financially independent.