This is a major milestone to the education sector since a number of the rich and famous Chandigarhians have volunteered to adopt government schools within the city. This influential project, which is catching the news headline now, seeks to tutorial and counsel more than 1 lakh students by offering them superior learning and learning resources and career counseling. The transfer is considered as a strong action towards making the difference between public and private levels in education. These celebrities who are business heads, ex-bureaucrats and educationists will not only provide active support to these schools on a regular basis but would also mentor them, improve their infrastructure and also would be actively involved in extracurricular activities.
This report is an indication of a collective initiative between the local government and city elites in order to promote the quality of government schooling and enable students who are disadvantaged. The embraced schools will not only be assisted academically but they will also be exposed to life skills and personal development programs. Officials feel that this move will bring in a more lasting change pertaining to the education system and encourage more people around the nation to lend a hand to the social cause. The governing body of the city has hailed this initiative as a success story of success of public-private joint initiative that might be a precursor in the rest of the nation.