Long before  he became Rotary International’s president, Shekhar Mehta was known for setting ambitious goals. His reputation for successfully tackling ­difficult problems is why, in 2014, former RI president Kalyan Banerjee asked him to lead an effort to make India fully

School education is under transition, with the pandemic forcing students and teachers to use smartphones for online classes. “Now classes are being conducted on smartphones, whereas

In an era where the corona pandemic has compelled the government to look for virtual/electronic mediums to ensure India’s children keep learning and stay connected to their curriculum, novel and innovative ways are constantly being explored to engage them in learning, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank

Rotary India Literacy Mission, through its Asha Kiran programme, has successfully reached out to 37,436 out-of-school children from 13 States across India through 32 partner NGOs. Of this, 93.7 per cent of the children have been put in mainstream education under the first phase of the programme.

RC Bhavnagar, RID 3060, joined hands with the Police and the municipal corporation to organise Cyclothon, an annual event to promote literacy and create awareness on cleanliness. Two rallies of 25 km

PRID and RILM Chairman ­Shekhar Mehta headed a panel discussion organised by the National Literacy Mission ­Authority (NLMA) of the HRD Ministry’s Department of School Education and Literacy, to commemorate the ­International Literacy Day at the Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra, Delhi. HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar was the chief

RILM Chair Shekhar Mehta, Dr Aapga Singh, COO, RILM and Jhilam Roy Chowdhury, Deputy Director – Programmes, met HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar to take the T-E-A-C-H ­programme forward. RILM Chair Shekhar Mehta (centre) with HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar (right) and

We now involve Rotary in every programme we do in e-learning,” says ­Anubhav Kapoor, Company Secretary and Head-Corporate Sustainability at Tata Technologies, Pune. So would you say Rotary is your trusted partner, I prompt him, during an interview in Pune. “Oh, I’d say they

When most of us complain about the traffic and how stressful it is to drive the few km to office daily, here we have three women who drove 26,800 km from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu through valleys, plains, deserts and hills, for 70 days, criss-crossing 24 countries,