Nalia Learning Center: A Step Towards Building a Better Future

A Correspondent

DHUBRI: An educational learning centre is being run by local people, volunteers of Prayas at Nalia ME School located in a remote border village in Dhubri district at the initiative of Cluster Resource Centre Coordinator (CRCC) planned by Piramal Foundation with a view to improving the academic skill base performance of students since last month. Beside this, it also aims to improve academic and social performance of target students in Nalia cluster of Dhubri district. It aims to improve the student learning outcome of participating students in Language and Mathematics and the quality learning of students through directly improving skill-based learning, reading, writing and numeracy skill with the help of community volunteers, increase the level of conscientious involvement of parents in the educational life of their children and increasing their confidence in their child capabilities and future. In just one month, a significant achievement and effective progress have been noticed among the students in the target population.

Talking to The Sentinel, Programme Leader of Piramal Foundation Tanima Narayan opined that addressing the social problems and academic skill-based low learning of targeted students could be the easiest way to improve their children’s academic performance in school. “The programme was planned by a Piramal Fellow Punam Talukdar, and the objective is now being achieved with the help from community volunteers and with the mutual co-ordination of school teachers and school management committee as the centre was started with 80 students catering to classes 1-8; after two weeks of its inception it has crossed over 160 students, where 90 students are female and 70 male,” Tanima informed. She also informed that volunteers had identified three categories of students - A, B, and C grades according to their level of learning. This assessment was done on the basis of observation. Significantly, the centre is focusing on the learning outcome of students, testing their Basic Learning of Language and Mathematics, Reading, Writing and Numeracy, she further informed.

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