Ashok Leyland, flagship of the Hinduja Group, announced on Sunday, the extension of its corporate social responsibility program, ‘Road to School’, to another 102 schools in Hosur district, Tamil Nadu. After Shoolagiri, Thally, Minjur, Puzhal and Namakkal, Ashok Leyland will help improve the primary and middle school education in government schools in Hosur area by covering more schools in Thally and Shoolagiri Blocks, and new schools in Kelamangalam Blocks. The purpose of the program is to bring about social equality in the remote villages where Ashok Leyland works in.
With this addition, the program will positively impact over 25,000 students and 255 schools. Inauguration of this expansion of Ashok Leyland’s CSR initiative was done by K P Maheswari, Chief Educational Officer, Krishnagiri. ‘Road to School’ helps nurture both scholastic and co-scholastic development of children from government schools in remote locations covering health, hygiene, physical and emotional development including sports. It was started in 2015 at 36 schools in Shoolagiri and Thally, and in 2016, the program was extended to another 72 schools covering Thally, Puzhal and Minjur near the Ashok Leyland Mother Plant and Technical Research Center in Chennai.
In 2017, the success of the program encouraged the company to further extend it to 45 schools in Namakkal district, where most of the driver’s children reside. Now, with this addition of 102 schools in the year 2018, Ashok Leyland has extended the program to a total of 255 schools.
Article Source: The CSR Journal