BEL breathes life into Ballupet Government School
Author: BI Bureau
Bengaluru: An 87-year-old school at Ballupet, which was in a dilapidated condition with leaking roof and crumbling stone pillars, has got a new lease of life, thanks to the efforts of Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), a state-owned aerospace and defence company with about nine factories, and several regional offices in India. It primarily manufactures advanced electronic products for the Indian armed forces.
BEL has constructed a new building for the Government Higher Primary School with 10 classrooms, staff room and headmaster room, separate toilet blocks for boys and girls, kitchen and store room, facility for hand wash, the bore well and a boundary wall apart from providing furniture for the classrooms and staff room, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
The entire project was completed in nine months at a cost of Rs Rs.1.85 crore. The school houses 125 students, mostly from economically weaker families, and needed more classrooms as the student strength was on the rise. The new building, located at Ballupet in Sakleshpur block of Hassan district, was inaugurated on June 23, 2016, by M L Shanmukh, Director (HR), in the presence of H D Deve Gowda, former Prime Minister and Hassan MP.
A Manju, Minister for Sericulture and Animal Husbandry, Government of Karnataka, was the Guest of Honour. H K Kumaraswamy, Sakleshpur MLA, presided over the function. Dignitaries from BEL included Nataraj Krishnappa, Director (Other Units), and other senior officers. /BI/
