Azim Premji Foundation in Uttarakhand

Can you tell me in detail about the Azim Premji Foundation in Uttarakhand as I want to be a part of the Foundation? Give me the contact detail of the Foundation?

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Azim Premji Foundation is a not-for profit association which is working for towards making deep, large scale and institutionalized impact on the quality and equity of education in India, along with related development areas.

Key aspects of its work are as follows:

Partnering with Government:
It works in collaboration with State Governments and engages with teachers, teacher educators, head teachers, block and cluster level education officials, senior government functionaries and policy makers at the state and national level both.

State and District Institutes:
It has State Institutes in the capitals of selected Indian states. They work at the grass root level, closely engaging with the government education system. The range of work they do extent capacity building of teachers, head teachers and other functionaries at the district and state level both. It also involves work on curriculum, assessment, educational leadership and management, policy issues and advocacy at the state level.

It has institutes that are located at Karnataka (Bangalore, Yadgir, Mandya and Gulbarga), Rajasthan (Jaipur, Sirohi, Tonk, Barmer and Rajsamand), Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Uttarkashi, Udham Singh Nagar and Almora), Bihar (Patna), Chhattisgarh (Raipur and Dhamtari), Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal) and Puducherry.

At many of the District Institutes, schools are established for the specific purpose of demonstration. They provide quality free education to the local community, at costs and constraints similar to that of rural government schools.

Research: In many of the states, it is engaged in large scale educational research work that will create new knowledge and also support evidence based policy making.

Scale and Reach: Over the next few years, it plans to have about 50 District Institutes, 30 schools and over 4000 employees.

Key Programs

The work is currently focused along three main dimensions:

Resource Support and Material Development: Material Development and resource support to various agencies of the State, NGOs and Private Schools in various subjects.

Communication and Engagement: Networking with State, NGOs, Youth and Teachers and development of active youth and teachers’ forums

Information and Research Centre: Development of Activity Center and Library

Contact Detail:
Azim Premji Foundation institute USN
In front of gurudwara,, Gurudwara Road, Dineshpur, Uttarakhand 263160 ‎

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