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In the academic
year 2022-23,

the Life Skills
Equipping Development

project benefited

more than 8,500
Jammu’s Students teachers and over 2

lakh students from
with Life Skills 1,100+ Government

high and higher

head of schools and teachers to
enable students with 21st century applauded the program which secondary schools
intends to build critical life
skills. The project is being led by skills such as problem-solving, in Jammu.
the Counselling Cell with support of collaboration, managing emotions,
Bharti Foundation in collaboration harti Foundation in collaboration with Aadharshila and Cultural Innovation creative thinking, etc. in line with

with Directorate of School The Directorate of School Education Cells at DSEJ. Dedicated team National Education Policy 2020.
He said, “strengthening of healthy
from Bharti Foundation will impart
Education, Jammu extends its (DSEJ), Jammu is extending its ‘Life Skill training to resource persons to competition among students in the thanked the Directorate of School
Development among Students through
Life Skills Development Project to BHouse System’ project under its Satya Bharti help implement the project. These house system will create positive Education, Jammu, and all those
who were involved in the ambitious
Government Middle Schools in the Quality Support Program – At Scale to more than resource persons will further impact and prepare students for the project to support Bharti Foundation
support schools in developing a
real-world challenges.”
state 3,500+ Government Middle Schools of Jammu. comprehensive understanding of in creating a meaningful impact.
life skills education and building the Dr Romesh Kumar, Head Counselling
The program lays emphasis on building capacities of
skills through school activities. Cell DSEJ, who happens to be Bharti Foundation was set up in the
In August 2022, the first round of the Nodal officer for the program, year 2000 as the philanthropic arm
training was organised for more opined that this program will offer of Bharti Enterprises. It implements
than 390 resource persons who a paradigm shift in how schools and supports programs in primary,
cascaded the life skill development function. It will be very meaningful secondary and higher education.
training to 8,500+ teachers from to conduct co-scholastic activities Since 2006, the flagship, Satya
1,100+ Government High and with “life skills development” as an Bharti School Program has been
Higher Secondary Schools in end in mind. providing free quality education
Jammu, benefitting more than 2 to thousands of underprivileged
lakh students. This year, along with Speaking on the successful children in 173 schools in rural India
offline training, online trainings and extension of the project, Mamta across five states, with a focus on
webinars have also been designed to Saikia, CEO-Bharti Foundation the girl child. The impact of quality
equip resource persons to support said, “Bharti Foundation has been education has been widened by
heads of schools and teachers working in the field of education transferring the learning and good
effectively. in rural India for the past 20 years. practices of this program to more
It is our belief that life skills among than 3 lakh students studying in
Speaking on the occasion, Sh. students is an important area to 808 partnering government schools
Ashok Sharma, Director of School work on and can be best delivered across 11 States/UTs, through Satya
Education Jammu, acknowledged to the students when integrated Bharti Quality Support Program
the Bharti Foundation and with various school activities.” She (QSP), since 2013.

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