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School onWheels Program for children of migratory workers
TCEndeavour
T
ata Consulting Engineers launched the
School on Wheels program in Pune,
partnering with NGO, Door Step School.
The program aims to provide mobile schooling
facilities, where a bus visits construction settlements
to provide basic education to the children who live
there. Children of construction and migratory workers
find it difcult to attend school as their parents often
move from site to site and they have to care for their
younger siblings while the parents are at work. The
concept of a school that goes to the site is to provide
access to basic education for these children.
The interior of the bus is remodelled into a classroom
and it also serves as a mobile library. Mr Amit Sharma,
MD, TCE along with the BU heads at Pune ofce
Mr K Ramesh, Mr Vikram Bapat & Mr Arun Prabhudesai,
inaugurated the bus in the ofce premises. The bus
went to the site, where the first class was conducted.
The kids got to interact with the MD and other senior
leaders. The employee volunteers distributed snacks
and stationery kits to the children. The bus covers 75
students everyday with 3 classes of 25 children each.
The ‘School on Wheels’ program is one of TCE’s
flagship CSR projects and was inaugurated during
the Tata Volunteering Week 6 (Sept-Oct), in the spirit
of volunteering and social responsibility. TCE Pune
volunteers’ design solutions included vinyl flooring;
cabinets for storage, open roof top for light and
ventilation, storage space in the rear, provision for a
genset in the luggage haul area, audio visual provision
for installation of LED screen, etc. This was indeed a
proud moment as volunteers happily took selfies near
the bus. The children were equally thrilled to get a
swanky new classroom right at their doorstep.
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