Mumbai: Girgaum locals bring rural schools to life

Updated On: 24 April, 2023 07:53 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar

Residents work through NGO to transform 44 schools across Shahapur, Kasara, Jalgaon, Solapur, Patan and Nashik by repairing leaking roofs, sprucing up filthy loos, painting walls

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No of cycles the NGO donated to students under another initiative

In the past 2-3 years, thanks to Girgaon locals working through NGO Amhi Girgaonkar, about 24 schools in rural Maharashtra have been repaired and refurbished, and another 20 will undergo the transformation soon. The dilapidated schools have been transformed under guidelines put forth by the former Uddhav Thackeray government, under an initiative called Rang De Majhi Shala, taken ahead by the NGO. The NGO’s effort is financially backed by the Saraswat Bank chairman.

Students of the Gopal Krishna Gokhale Vidyalaya at Kotluk with the cycles donated by Amhi Girgaonkar